The Singapore Free Press, 19 August 1952

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IK MALAYA v 8 474 krUiCE h- I SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1952.
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    RICE SUBSIDY IS OPPOSED
    558 1 But don 't raise price this year, Govt told Free Press Staff Reporter rrHERE should be no direct subsidisation of v prices by the Singapore Government, tw i of the three members of the Select Comm »i\ Retail Price of Rationed Rice recomr l m a
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    The only way, By Mr. Raj
    40 1 T.) pr vent further increase m of rationed rice is by the SinI I says rv.tha Raj, a S tct Ccrnil Price of I ned Rice, m a minorirt tibled m the uncil this
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    S'pore rice eaters too finicky
    88 1 S' pore rice eaters too finicky m Press Staff Reporter SO long as rice is freely m Singapore. ha substi--heat flour ul. re- Select *cc Refc Price of lUrr.r.lttee s. We the difficulties of :bstitutes m a com~.:h is 'so const rva- and selective m that it has even rice
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    Girl tricked out of gold
    82 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ASINGAPOR E Chinese woman yesterday cheated an 11-year-old girl by exchanging the child's gold 'ocket and chain, worth $150, fcr her own. The girl was walking towards a market m Havelock Road, when she met the woman. The woman asked the
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    'THERE IS HOPE,' BLYTHE
    98 1 'THERE IS HOPE, BL YTHE Free Press Staff Reporter rE Singapore Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. L. Blythe. told the Legislative Council this morning; "There is an atmosphere of expectation m the air. and possibly we may not have to continue the Emergency much longer. That at least is our hope."
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    Poisoned food kills 7
    26 1 Seven children died from food poisoning and 270 are ill after eating bad sausages m East Berlin hcfiiday camps on Saturday.- Reuter
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    BACK WITH THE CATCH
    43 1 uioture. vLERS, ov.n i b> a Hong Kong; fishing company, yesterday brought m 14 tans of fish mostly Ikan Merah for the Singapore market. The trawlers spent 10-days on the seas 180 miles off the Malayin coist Free Press
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    S'PORE GOVT. SPENDS $8 M. TO BUY LUND
    167 1 S'PORE GOVT. SPENDS $8 M. TO BUY LUND iVo Crown reserves Free Press Staff Report ?r THE Finance Committe3 or the Singapore Legislative Council has approved the expenditure of nearly $8,000,000 to cover two purchases of land by the Government. Of tfvs amount, $7,000,000 is required to cover the acquisi-
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    JEWS RIOT IN A GERMAN CEMETERY
    197 1 A RIOT BROKE OUT m the Jewhh cme.ery yesterday at the burial of the former Jewish leader Dr. Philipp Auerbach, who ccmm tt:d su id 3 on Saturday following a conviction for m shandling Jewish restitution funds. A police official tried to take away
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    TRADE TALKS OFF
    38 1 East-West trade talks, planned for September 9, will not take place because the Soviet Union and her satellites have not responded to the proposal, the Economic Commission for Europe announced m Geneva yester- Reuter day.-
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    $500 girls in witch hunt
    171 1 NEW YORK. Mon. THE defence raised the cry 1 of "witch hunt" yesterday, as the prosecution sent pretty girls before a grand jury to testify m New York's cafe society vice probe involving a young heir to millions and a wealthy gown manufacturer. John F.
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    Govt. aid for keen fishermen
    258 1 INDUSTRY HAS IMPROVED Free Press Staff Reporter MR. T. W. BURDON, Singapore's Deputy Director of Fisheries, told the Free Press yesterday that his department wa s willing to assist any fishing concern wishing to increase its output. He said the biggest developments m Singapore's fishing
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    Income tax: no extra relief
    89 1 Income tax: no extra relief Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Government does not intend to change the present scale of personal allowances for people liable to income tax. In the Legislative Council this morning, the Government said that despite the increase m the cost of living, the present scale
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    GOVT. AND ADDICTS
    54 1 Free Press Staff Reporter FEE Singapore Government has considered the desirability of establishing a Government clinic for the treatment of opium addicts. But, says an official state* ment m the Legislative Council this morning, it does not appear that such a measure would materially help m reducing
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    Officer robbed of $84
    91 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A SUM of $84 was stolen from a wallet at the < home of an R.A.F. officer living iji Paya Lebar Crescent, Singapore. He found the wallet and a handbag discarded outside his bathroom. A typewriter worth $150 was taken from the
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    Lightning cuts plane in two
    48 1 Thunderstorms and violent winds lashed Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma early yesterday, killing a *jet pilot. A F-80 Shooting Star was struck by lightning and feCl apart m the air. A B-25 was reported missing, then made an emergency landinsr at Carthage. Missouri.- U.P.
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    JEWELS IN CAB
    29 1 A taxi driver yesterday returned to Countess Bianca della Noc jewels valued at US $10,000 which she absentmindedly left m his cab, says A.P. from Rome.
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    East- West Reds plan to meet tougher U.S.
    318 1 LONDON, Tuesd^ RUSSO-CHINESE ta ks i:ow taki rg place at Moscow may result m th? laying down of a specific programme to combat a rossible tough D S. policy toward China f How ng tie preside! t.al elections. Coi.rvers here believe that
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    RENT CONTROL
    41 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Singapore Legislative Council this morning passed a mction by the AttorneyGeneral. Mr. E. J. Davies. that the present rent control law, due to expire on Sept. 7 this year, be extended for another year.
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    MORE RAIN FALLS IN LYNMOUTH
    114 1 MORE RAIN FALLS IN LYNMOUTH Li 111. Tu* RAIN BEATING DOWN on the flood devastated villages of Lvnmouth deluged parts of Devon and Somerset yesterday hampering work of rescue workers probing the mud-covered debiis m which 13 bodies so have b?en found and 29 peop'e are massing. Some of those
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    35 leave for Christian camp
    64 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rE Archdeacon of Singapore, the Yen. Robin Woods, and 34 representatives of Anglican Youth Fellowships m the Colony left this morning for Seremban to attend a six-day Malayan Fellowship Ccimp. All the Anglican Youth Fellowships of the dioceses cf Singapore will
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    A Fashion Girl
    256 2 BRIDE-TO-BE, 22-year-old blonde, greeneyed Jan* McNeHU daughter of a Hong Kong lawyer, who is to marry the Earl of Dalkeith, talked to me m London about her trousseau ideas. She interested m the latest news from the Paris fashion shows, as she was once a fashion model
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    Found: a 'child-adult'
    139 2 AFTER searching New; York m vain for a grown-up actress who could play a girl of 14 j m his new play, Moss Hart, part-author of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and "You Can't Take it wth You," turned to London. There he found 25-year-old Pamela
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    THE LITTLE HUT
    974 2  - THE LITTLE HUT GEORGE CAMPEY An explorer's wife is off to a place where it costs $36 to build a home. Address By A POLICEMAN would say of the Kins-don-Wards that they are of "no fixed abode" and he wouM be right. Their most settled addresses are usually difficult to
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    AFTER-SKI SUIT
    29 2 This electric blue wool after-ski suit, worn with a top coat trimmed with natural lynx, was presented, recently at the fashion house of Parisian dress designer Revillon.
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    Hair Stylists Have Length Difficulties
    303 2  - Hair Stylists Have Length Difficulties Jean Macaulay By FASHION dictators can lower hemlines as easily as a woman can change her mind. Continental hair stylists. however, have a greater problem at the beginning of a season because the material with which they work cannot be lengthened at will. Desiring a
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    She Buys the Dresses
    139 2 She Buys the Dresses RINGER ROGERS is a wo- man who represents that dwindling band the private client rich enough to buy dresses for herself from a Paris house. The client they would all like to haye not only because she has a big name, but because they would so
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    Schiaparelli on an Insect Theme
    526 2 Fashion party meets hat of an amorous grasshopper, says Iris Ashley from Paris IF you have ever seen the "hat of an amorous grasshooper" you are one ud on me, but only running even with Mme. Elsa Schiaparelli. For she uses that phrase to describe
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      144 2 New Crossword No. 744 CLUES ACROSS -,v!- G uf id t0 make a summar y (6>- 4- This continent is neither black nor white, on the whole (4). 7. Setting for sashes (0. 5, 9. You can make hay of this association of youmr holi-day-makers (3). 10. Class of liner
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      264 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you ar* s rongly literary anc poetic and should develop this talent. Intuitive and emotional, yon are highly sensitive to your environment. You have a great deal of nervous energy and often do t«o much and pet tired out on a job before it is
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    Pilgrims bathe in 'the lap of the gods'
    218 3 Pilgrims bathe in 'the lap of the gods' I mi, Indo-Tibetan border, Tues. |G1 D Hindus by the j\ tiiou-sands l""rht their b Hima OKI > dip before at th» the holiest place alonjf the .as here that the le*X liha^irathi it. i ted lor 1.000 years, m>pirin; the fods
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    U.K. PAPERS TO BE BIGGER
    36 3 U.K. PAPERS TO BE BIGGER -4 the maxlprint a In Britain can a foir-month oe doubled from lb. urn that Bttttst) can increase their Gei will be up to c. ith complete of o rnilafirtn U.P.
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    Formosa needs American aid
    38 3 Formosa needs American aid -or K. C. Wu of TaiFormosa can be '.cient m three years Tican financial aid s at least at the pre- cut us down, now." will take us five years or even longer."— A.P.
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    Father still faints
    81 3 SYDNEY, Tues. N drugs and hods have done won towards helping hers, but expectant; rs still take it fairly said Matron E. M. Enaw who retired after $4 it Crown Street Woital. -They still faint when they hear the news; so many of them that we have
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    RED INFLUENCE IN SCHOOLS
    49 3 RED INFLUENCE IN SCHOOLS Communist influence Is widespread m the schools of nearly all countries m the South Pacific area, according to Dr. Walter Elles. former adviser on higher education with Allied Occupation Headquarters m Tokyo. Dr. Elles has spent the last year travelling In the Far East.- Reuter
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    'WALK TO NOWHERE' LED DOCTOR TO COURT
    341 3 'WALK TO NOWHERE' LED DOCTOR TO COURT 4 Ftfr li LONDON, Tues. Leahy pleaded not guilty He submitted whatever occurred took place with the girl s consent. "Its not indecent to make love to a girl." said Mr T Mayo, defending "Rememiber we are dealing with a >r and a
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    The chair for girl's killer
    58 3 NEW YORK. Tues. STONY-FACED middle- asjed nurse was sentencec to die m the electric chair at We^umpka. Alabama, for the poison murder of her two-year-old niece. ICES. Earlie Dennison. 54, was charged with administering arsenic to the little gir'. .o collect $5,500 m insurance on
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    LIVE-APART WIFE STOLE FOR LOVER, IS ABANDONED
    250 3 LONDON, Tuesday. rpHE housing shortage kept pretty Pamela May Bailey apart from her husband. The 20-year-old wife had a baby of 11 months, and to provide for the child as well as get money to pay for a home she went out to
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    HELICOPTER DROPS FOOD
    54 3 A helicopter dropped food to 40 flood-bound families who have been maroon?d m the Mac Donald River district of New South Wales for three weeks. Seme families have been without food fcr several days. The floodwaters which washed away all the bridges m the area were reported
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    TWO SENTENCED
    32 3 A military court In Tunis has sentenced one Tunisian to 20 and another to 10 years' hard labour for setting ftre to a train m the Kalar Shina region Reuter
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    Airlift to newly found Arctic Lake
    168 3 Airlift to newly found Arc tic Lake NORTHERN GREENLAND. Tues. A SUNDERLAND flying-boat -f* alighted recently m the newly discovered Britainnia Lake, Queen Louise Land, which the British North Greenland Expedition is to use as its base. It was a hazardous descent The lake offers only one approach through the
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    Visit the zoo, 'Voice' said
    77 3 i PERTH, Tues. A MAN whose mauled body was found m a lien's cage said to his wife the night before, The Lord has told me to go to the zoo." In a newspaper letter, the 37-year-old clerk, Alexander j Lindsay Edmeados said he would
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    Tea: foreign exchange earner
    63 3 Tea: foreign exchange earner NEW DELHI, Tues. INDIA consumes only onethird of her total tea production and earns foreign exchange with the rest, official sources said here. In 1951, India produced 622,730,000 pounds of tea, consumed only 150,000,000 pounds and exported the remainder. The main importers of India tea are
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    FROM CAMPUS TO CELLULOID
    48 3 FROM CAMPUS TO CELLULOID A BACHELOR girl who enjoys her independence is Hollywood star, Jean Peters, icho stepped directly into films from the Ohio State University campus. Starred m a number of important 20th Century-Fox films this year, she is currently appearing apposite Marlon Brando m Viva Zapatar
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    Grandpa gilds himself with glamour
    288 3 Grandpa gilds himself with glamour NEW YORK, Tues. GRANDPA is going to be a glamour boy, now that television has convinced him it's no sin to look young. The men's beauty business is booming, says Albert of Fifth Avenue, whose men's grooming saloon is booked solid from 9 to 5
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    Bridge Hand
    208 3 North opened with one dial prepared to bid cne no-trump II South mentioned hearts or spades. But when East mentioned the spades and South bid the at the two (SfCt, North was caught with no good rebid; nevertheless, he was obliged to respond, and he chose th? heart
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    Goats create big havoc
    53 3 MELBOURNE. Tues. Herds of up to 700 wild goats are stripping pasture m the far southwest of New South Wales. Graziers say the goats, descended from domestic goats which went wild 00 years ago. are difficult to hunt dov n. They frequently travel 50 miles a
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    Roadblock stops bank thief
    62 3 Roadblock stops bank thief A US. a r ~orps v terar, Cnarle^ Nesbit .Tnith, 24, ftrccse^ c f *n*uen\\rx .to re th n u^oioi'-H.. ♦!^i:i a Detroit lt ank. was (jpturrd at a road'. r iCK w&h .*>3 3"3 cash U\ h's j.-«v«cr.«ion. He also h%d a .33 calibre revolver
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      128 3 SINGAPORE ARTS THEATRI presents THIS WAS A A Drama by WOMAN JOAN MORGAN at the Victoria Theatre at 9p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 19th and 20th August, 1952. Stats at $5. Bookings at |3. and $1. Robinson's THE BEST TIP 0 O For Tomorrow jm A GOWN FROM Bk
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      17 3 -~T] iXttuxf! Moat rtk ?J 1 n r T^ y ftg>N6 a packet of rerAf^^ F=ri ~~H
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      267 3 diNGAPOKb' Fr»m the Editorials; 7 Forces' 10 a.m. News; 10.5 Tunes from 11 5 0 Uh Os ler (s the Shows; 10.45 Rendezvous with 0 0) 45^ ric f Jet-England v the Stars; 1 p.m. Radio Orch.; India-Th e Fourth Test Match at 130 News; 1.45-2 Bob Chester we O
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    The Singapore FRee Press TUESDAY. Aug. 19, 1952. Kremlin crawl
    532 4 The Singapore FRee Press TUESDAY. Aug. 19, 1952. Kremlin crawl the MR. Chou En-lai. Pro mier and Foreign Minister of Communist China, has gone to Moscow, the spiritual home of his kind. V, know whether it was a >' undertaken In ;ov or sadness. To pred to understand its inner
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    Tito Now West Defence Pivot
    850 4  -  FRED MANOR By rIE island of Brloni has been known as the jewel, of the Adriatic. Small, close to the delightful Istrian shore, it is covered with a luxuriant vegetation, and is the home of 200 Indian deer and a thougand pheasants. It is also
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    FRENCH PREFER HORSE MEAT
    447 4  - FRENCH PREFER HORSE MEAT GAULT MCGOWAN UORSE-MEAT steaks and Joints France's popular meat item on family menus that also may include frog's legs and snails are under attack because of the needless cruelty and avoidable suffering that is said to be involved m the annual import of more than 35,000
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    Death, Gloryat Dieppe
    509 4 Death, Gloryat Dieppe TEN YEARS AGO TODAY £%N a beautiful sum- met evening exactly ten years ago, a small armada of eight destroyers, six French chasseurs, 16 steam and motor gunboats, ten minesweeping flotillas, and a number of special service craft 252 vessels m aSI slipped out unobserved from Spithead
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    I NEARLY WENT TO RUSSIA—
    602 4 I NEARLY WENT TO R USSIA— -says EX OFFICER A journey that could have jed jsast the Iron Curtain as described to Sydney Smith T*HE ordinary cross- Channel ticket obtainable at Dover can get you through the Iron Curtain. Ail you need is a few shillings m your pocket and
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    Students are feeling the pinch...
    415 4  - Students are feeling the pinch... ROBERT KINGSLEY says 4 BOY from the Gold Coast, a girl from Edgware, two Pakistanis and a bearded Londoner waited at a counter. Behind it stood Miss Margaret Marsh, from Birmingham, ready to answer their inquiries. And the answer she had to give was. m
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    Celebration at temple
    41 5 Celebration at temple PORT DICK3ON. Tucs. The fifth anniversary of Indian Independence was celebrated by Port Dickson Indians at the Hindu Temple at 5.30 p.m. Speeches were made by Mr. C. James and Mr. M Karuppiah m English and Tamil, respectively.
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    LABOUR SHORTAGE HITS PWD
    244 5 Govt. studies report that may solve problem SINGAPORE Government is now examining! a report of the committee appointed to study and formulate ways and means of securing, if possible, an immediate increas? m skilled and semi-skilled labour, says Mr. E. A. Gardiner, former Director of Pub
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    BUILDING NEEDS WILL BE LISTED
    502 5 BUILDING NEEDS WILL BE LISTED SINGAPORE Public Works Department has a plan to assess i the total demand for engineering and architecturml effort over the next decade, says Mr E. A. Gardiner, termer Director of Public Works, m his annual report tabled m the Legislative Council this morning. Under the
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    Civil Service man wins study gift
    93 5 Civil Service man wins study gift MR. Geoffrey Leembmggen. a cadet efficer m the Singapore Civil Service, has-; oeea »«fccd9d a Go-3rnment jnolarr^ study Public i Administratirn m Briton for a year. Mr Le?mbraggen. who will study at Cambr i d g c U n i v erslty. aril] leave
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    DEPT. HAS DONE MUCH WORK
    186 5 DEPT. HAS DONE MUCH WORK Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Public Works Department has done a great deal of preliminary work on Government building projects, the full value of which will net be realised until this year and later, says Mr. E A. Gardiner, former Director of Public Works, m
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    He will study in Britain
    48 5 He will study in Britain SEREMBAN. Tues. Wong Meng Yau, 19, a former student of St. Paul's Institution. Sereoiban, ielt yesterday for Britain to join the University of London for a four-year course m civil engineering. He is the son of Mr. Wong Tai Hoon, of Serein ban.
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    GOING ON LEAVE
    25 5 SITIAWAN, Tues Mr. M. A. Kidner. Assistant District Officer. Dindings, will go on leave to Britain with his wife and children socn.
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    CO-OP SOCIETY BID TO GATHER QUORUM
    114 5 SINGAPORE Co-operative Stores Society is reminding all members who go to their three stores to buy goods of the special general meeting tomorrow The society wants a quorum at the meeting which will decide whether the stores should wind up business. Hundred members are
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    GOLDEN JUBILEE
    50 5 SITIAWAN. Tues. The Methodist Pioneei Cnu.cn, Kampong Koh, Sitiawan, wU celebrate its Golden Jubilee on Thursday at 10 a.m. In comir.eiroration the church will build a tower, a tablet and will publish a magazine. The Rev. M. Dodsworth, of Penang. will deliver a opening address at the celebration.
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    TWO FOUGHT
    19 5 KUANTAN. Tues.— Lee Boon Stan* and Fasnim bin Salleh were fined SlO each for fighting m public
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    HAWKER FINED
    18 5 KUANTAN. Tues.— For hawking ice cream without a licence, Yip Yoke was fined $10 at Kuntan.
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    BACK FROM EUROPE
    49 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Mr. Aristide J. G. Papiueau, managing-proprietor of the Singapore advertising firm of Papineau Studios, returned to the Colony yesterday by plane after a seven -week business trip to Britain and the Continent. Mr. Papineau visited France, Belgium, the Netherlands. Switzerland and Italy.
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    Youth accused
    44 5 MUAR. Tues A youth I m Lian Seng, was charged Muar with assaulting a girl, Rasinah binte Abdul Rahim. with intent to outrage her modesty at Parit Bakar Darat. Bail of $200 was allowed and the case was postponed to Aug. 28.
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    Blackout schedule
    129 5 OUBSTATIONS liable to load 0 shedding tonight are: Hume Pipe, Rheem. Ford, Bin Seng, Wire Mesh, P.W.D. Quarir. Nanyang Mf;., Bukit Panjanjj National Carbon, Princess Elizabeth Est., Dairy Farm. Liv Pandan. Jurong 1, 2 A 3, Bukit Timah Village, United Chinese R. Wks., Lam Soon Cannery, Lam Choon
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    Vickers is sceptical about new polio drug
    131 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, said yesterday that many new drugs did not come up to expectations when properly tested. He was commenting on a report that a Belgian scientist had cured 180 "hopeless" polio
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    $65,000 Govt. gift to city.
    97 5 $65,000 Govt. gift to city. THE Finance Committee reported to the Singapore Legislative Council today that the Singapore Government has contributed $65,000 to the City Council's $318,000 scheme for the development of Marine Parade as a public seaside resort. The committee, which has approved this contribution, Says that the work
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    Prison industries are 'flourishing'
    160 5 Prison industries are 'flourish ing OEPATRIATION of Japanes? war criminals from Singapore's Pearl's Hill prison m August, last year, has had an effect on the prison's industry, says the 1951 Prisons annual report But the report, which was tabled at this morning's Legislative Council meeting, says "all prison Industries continued
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    ABSENTEE FINED
    21 5 MUAR Tues. For falling to attend court at Muar on a summons charge. Soh Peng Choon was fined $5.
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    FEWER CRIMINALS IN THE GAOLS
    128 5 rpHERE were fewer criminals m Singapore's pri- sons Changi and Pean's Hill at the end of 1951 than thsre were at the end of 1950, says the Prisons annual report tabled at the Legislative Council meeting today. Pearl's Hill which had 372 criminals at the
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    $20,000 for granite search
    121 5 THE Finance Cjmniittee of ihe Singapore Legislative Council has approved $20,000 Ito1 to meet tiie cost or bc;:ng operations m the proposed i granite quarrying area s-r of Mandai Road. The*e operations are ncr sary. says the report, to termi; p the exact area to be
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    Meteorological research plan
    52 5 A three-year experimental upper air research programme will be started and a regional meteorological store established socn m Singapore. This scheme is being financed entirely from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund, with the exception of recurrent expenditure on telecommunications services. The grant from the Fund is
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    Cecilia, aged 9, will do a hula at a recital
    38 5 Cecilia, aged 9, will do a hula at a recital CECILIA LEE. aged 9. who will appear m a dance recital at the Victoria Theatre on Aug 29. She will do the "Queen's Dane*" and a Hula Hula.
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    $2m. more for new air port
    145 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rE Finance Comnr the Singapore Legusira^e Council has apnr ,\cl a $2,000,000 sapp:< for building the r.cw i airport at Paya Lebar. A Finance Committee r no-t tabled In the Council Oil*; n ing says that the $3,0C0 000 ▼ided
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    ROUTINE VISIT
    28 5 The Commander-ln-C! Far East Air Force. Air Mart shal A. C Sanderson, left Changi by air yesterday morning for a two-day routine visit to Hong Kong.
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      69 5 J SILVERWARE GIFTS tor the BRIDE and BRIDEGROOM TOAji KAvA) TEA STRAINERS <g£SSSk M^— B^gS^PQ On stand. Several designs to ckooM from. Alt b«*t quality E.P.N.S. A1 q«ality mttß^ f">m $15.50 to $19.50 ••<* SJ^^-~~*migmSf SAUCE BOATS ¥^3^^ $14.00 to $47.50 each OVENPROOF CASSEROLE In keavy q«ali*y EPN.S. Stand. Saw-c«t
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      61 5 Church to hold Feast of Mary The Church cf Our Lady of Lcurdes will hold the Feast, of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from today to Friday. Mass will be at 6.30 a.m and sermon 5.30 p.m. from today to Thursday. On Friday, Low Mass will be at 6.15 a.m..
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    TAKE ALADDIN IN THE TOP SPRINT
    506 6  - TAKE ALADDIN IN THE TOP SPRINT ALLAN LEWIS By Second day of S 'gor races j^JAIN interest at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, second day of the Selangor Turf Club's August meeting, will be the clash of Aladdin and Kind Regards, m Cl. 3, Div. 2, 6 F., principal race of the
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    Horses not accepting
    503 6 YTtOLLOWING horses will F not start at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. Flame of the Forest, Glamorous. Hurry Up. Devil Diver, Beech Pool Rigoletto, Guilty. Kong Ming. Bottletop, Box Office, Lianda, Roy Valiant. Scot's Grey, Giltedged, Shahpere. Roman Warrior, Pride of Burma, Sailorbird. Auld Reekie, Foire, Rosy Morn, Padi
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    Best bet of the day -Demonic
    263 6 Best bet of the day -Demonic TjEMONICS Ipoh form should make him one of the best bets of the day m Cl. 4, Div. 3, 5£F. At Ipoh he won his first start beating At Last, then finished second to Starain. He drops a division here with only 4 lb.
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    CORRICHARD IS AN IMPROVED HORSE
    241 6 £ORRICHARD has made enough i Improvement since his last t start at Sin^.p^re to win the Cl b 4 Div 3 7P race. I t His three m 37 on Saturday was I enough to prove he Is back to his 0 best. He is
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    Kaiserine can win this—but watch 'Connie'
    1263 6 Kaiserine can win this but watch 'Connie' THE Cl. 4, Div. 2 race over 5| F. is another problem race with Constellation, Show Girl, Jeannette, Liberty Flag:, Kaiserine, Binnton and Brilliant Marc all having strong claims. Constellation is jumping out of his skin after a short let-up. He has won
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    Tipped to score double
    24 6 Aladdin (Charles), winner of the first race at Kuala I u pur on Saturday being led through the winners g*£
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    Strong finish saw 'Flag" win
    1050 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS Saturdays race review By PLAG OF PEACE, ridden behind by Flannerv, finished too strongly for Observation, whtm he beat by length m the main race at Kua'a Lumpur on Saturday, opening day of Selango- Turf Club's August meeting. Flag of Peace, evidently api
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    TRUEMAN AND BEDSER ROUT INDIANS
    209 7 Rain delays follow-on D \IN restricted play to only 65 minutes on the arih day of the final Test between England and India at the Oval yesterday hat time India lost their remaining five :o r 49 runs and were all out for 98 m
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    TENGAH WIN
    13 7 al of I RA? Johore CC. by 68 ri Bahru yesterday.
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    FINE WIN BY DUTCH SCULLER
    535 7 R.S.Y.C. regatta FmS^o™^* 0^ Ci P tot Seni Sculls at It would have been Interesting t) s^ a ra-e ™r,f !K?.sx star" ab Other p vontf, of the day in,cudod Op? n Pairs and the J3a?.j "Protessioa Fours' rac? for the Abbotiford Cup. ETimir.af.ng hcata
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    LAW BEATEN IN PENANG B.A. MEET
    296 7 LAW TeJs Hock. ex-Malayan Tnomas Cup piayer. prisingiy beaten L Hoo Chye mi n the fir^ round of the Penang op m o^dminchampxnsh.p- t'te Penang Hig.i hall on Sunday nigat. It was surprising ror orte I that was La* let at 15-10. came within
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    REME gala results
    269 7 ROYAL Electric and Mechanical Engineers held their annual swimming 'gala at Gil'man Pool over the weekend. Results were: 66 2 3 yards breast stroke: L Cpl Gardner ("A" Co 2. Sg Messenger (REME Trg Centre). S$ 2 3 yards freestyle: Cpl Warling CA U Co), 2 L,
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    HARD TRACKS MAKE HORSES GO SLOW
    152 7  - HARD TRACKS MAKE HORSES GO SLOW ALLAN LEWIS From WHERE was very little fast work this morning. The tracks at Kuala Lumpu are too hard for galloping and trainers are not prepared ti take any risks with their horses. BINNTON (Tulloh) went over three m 39*. well on the bit.
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    'Houses soccer' results
    63 7 OESULTS or Singapore Business Houses F.A. league and cup ma lies yesterday were: Handlesbanx 2. Borneo Co. 0. (Scorers for Bank: Mahyuni and Ismail). O.T.E.C 2, M.P.H. I. (Scorers for O.T.E.C: Yusof and Ismail; for M.P.H.: Osman). Guthrie S.C. 4, Co!d Storage "B" 2. (Scorers for Guthries:
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    ASIAN RUGBY
    27 7 The S ngapore Asiatic Rugby Union will hold its seventh postwar annual general meeting at th-» Singapora Chinese Recreation Cab on Friday at 5.30 p.m
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    Alfie seeks brother's title
    133 7 ALFIE S.V.sDS, brother of Dave Sands who was kill- j ed m a lorry accident las^, j week, said m Sydney yester- day, that he would try to win the Australian middleweight boxing title his bro her he:d. Alfie. w^o received minor, injuries In the accident
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    Tuiyar is favourite
    193 7 HHHE Aga K.:.;n"s crac:: colt, Tulymr, winner of the Epsom Derby and his rive other faces this year. was made a 7-4 favourite for I be Doncaster St. Le-er to be run on Sep. ember 13 at the first callo.er ca the race held at the Viclorin
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    G. Duke laid up for season
    96 7 r«EOFFREY Duke. Britain's lj double world cnampion motor cyclist who received injuries m Germany a few weeks ago will not be able to race again this season, it was officially announced m London yesterday Dukes doctors h --''e told him that it will take
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    BASKETBALL
    24 7 The Harlem Globetrotters basketball will play four games m Singapore betwen Aug. 23 and 26. Tickets arp now on m1« at the World
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    OLD JOE
    132 7 Marciano gets crack at title WORLD heavyweight champion. Jersey Joe Walcott, will defend his title m a 15-round bout against Rocky Marciano on. Sept 23, m Philadelphia's Municipal! Stadium, co-promoter Herman Taylor announced yesterday. Taylor, who is putting on the show boxing's biggest prize— with the Interna- tional
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    TEN-MAN ARMY TEAM HOLDS OUT
    345 7 Army 1; Eurasians L A TEN-MAN Singapore Base District team can count themselves a trifib lucky m holding a nippy Eurasians XI to a one all draw m yesterday's Singapore Amateur F. A. Community league match, at Jalan Besar Stadium. This was Eurasians last game.
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    COSMOS LOSE
    38 7 In a SAFA Div. 3B league soccer match played at Gcylang Stadium yesterday, Young Men's Muslim Association trounced Cosmos Sports Club by 9-0. Scorers were: Samry (3), Wan Din (2), Sahil, Harun. Bujang and Said Sidck.
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    County cricket matches hit by rain
    297 7 rpHE British climate came out on top m most of yesterday's cricket matches. At Dover, the Kent v. Northants meeting was long enough for Kent to bring their score up from 44 for four to 176 for seven wickets, and Sussex and Essex managed
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    LITTLE MO FOR AUSTRALIA
    86 7 MAUREEN Connolly, 17-year-old United States and Wimbledon tennis singles champion has been invited to tour Australia next season. "She is all set to visit Australia and nothing will stop her*', according to a letter from Australia's Davis Cup team manager Harry Hopman. which was read at
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    HAXWORTH JUNIOR BOWLS 'EM OVER
    405 7 HAXWORTH JUNIOR BOWLS 'EM OVER A TEAM of English and Australian schoolboys spending their holidays m Singapore beat St. Joseph's Institution by one run m a cricket game played at Raffles Institution ground yesterday. Batting first the local schoolboys put up 84 runs ail out. P. Marten was the highest
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    Britain may offer Persia lump sum in oil deal
    283 8 Britain may offer Persia lump sum in oil deal LONDON, Tuesday. ORITAIN has decided tentatively to accept the Persian Prime Minister, Dr. Mohamed Mossadeq's offer to negotiate an oil settlement but not on the terms suggested by the Persian leader. Informed officials said yesterday that a British note has been
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    Marriage ban brings U.S. bank into court
    158 8 MANILA, Tues. Fp../. anti- marriage ban on .> iun employees of the Manila bnnch of the t ml it> Bnui of Mm »-k has resulted m a 08 91,111 damage suit against t c bank's manager. V mi Simmons was named riant m
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    Shah's brother leaves Teheran
    52 8 Prince Hamid Reza Pahlevi. the brother of the Shah of Per.- left Teheran for Europe on Sunday accompanied by his wife and newborn ch;!d No reason was given for the trip. The Shahs twin sister and several other members of the royal family art- a. ready
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    NEW INDIAN ARMY CHIEF
    54 8 Lt.-Gen. Maharaj Rajendre Sinhji wi£l succeed Gen. K. M. Cariappa as Chief of the Army Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army on Jan. 15. Gen. Rajenare Sinhji is the first Indian to win the DSO m World War Two for bravery m the North Africa::
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    KING HUSSEIN SHARES A JOKE
    45 8 Fhc'o. KING HUSSEIN cf Jordan, shares a jok e with Al Burnett, the comedian, m London the night before he left for Switzerland. Hussein was proclaimed King m Amman on Aug. 11 after his father jibdicatrd m his favo A.P.
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    Lowest death rate
    35 8 Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh, the U.S. Navy Sur- geon-Oeneral. said m Hong Kong yesterday that the I death rate among wounded troops m Korea was the lowest ever recorded m war Rruter.
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    CAVE ORDEAL TURNED MAN'S HAIR WHITE
    273 8 T France, Tuesday. A TERRIFYi.,^ ten-day ordeal, which cost the life of a young exp.orer and turned another m M s hair white, ended yesterday with the rescue of Dr. Andre Mairet from the world's deepes Assure. Dr. Mairet was the last oi four
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    Asia pact must be 'spontaneous'
    248 8 Asia pact must be 'spontaneous WASHINGTON, Tuesday. 4 IS. STATE DEPARTMENT official said yesterday that the Department is *'v?ry receptive" to Filipino "feelers" about wider reference to an arrangement among; the free nations of the Pacific. The official said that the United States has consistently favoured such security arrangement provided
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    US RUBBER MEN CALL STRIKE
    47 8 r T he CIO United Rubber Workers 1 Union at Cincinnati. Ohio, called 18.000 worker? out on strike early yesterday m nine plants across the nation. The strike calll climaxed ten weeks of negotiations over wages and certain 1 "fringe items."- U.P.
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    Report on U.S. cartels
    63 8 Report on U.S. cartels WASHINGTON, Tues rpHE White House agreed Monday to remove the "secret" label from the longsuppressed Federal Trade Commission report on the alleged monopoly of international cartels. Suppression of the report on the orders of the U.S State Department caused a dispute at a recent session of
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    FOR FAR EAST
    32 8 The Brazilian navy training schocner Almirante Saldanha (4,000 tons) sailed from Aden yesterday after a three-day visit on her way to Bombay. Goa, Colombo and the Far East.- Reuter
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    Learned donors go on list
    42 8 Learned donors go on list Japanese hospitals are keeping lists of men who are "not only handsome and healthy but have good scholastic records" as donors for artificial insemination. It said there was an Increasing demand from child- AAP. less couples Reuter
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    Pope may name 24 cardinals
    141 8 VATICAN CITY. Tues. THE POPE is nearing a decision on renewing the membership of th: 1 Roman Catholic Church's badly depleted College of Cardinals. The newspaper, II Tempo, said that the Pontiff, now at h's summer palac? m Castsl Gandolfo. "is carrying to completion his
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    EGYPTIAN RIOT MAN SENTENCED TO DIE BY HANGING
    213 8 EGYPTIAN RIOT MAN SENTENCED TO DIE BY HANGING niRO, Tuesday MUSTAFA UHAMIS. a y—n t derk, was W iU to death by hanging by a milit day for leading last week's riots which wrecinM Misr textile mills at Kafr d I)a ar (l lflf Alexandria. iri «t The first of
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    HOLY CITY STATUS
    10 8 Rt yesterda r Roman C-lPit&l 01 A.P.
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