The Singapore Free Press, 21 August 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I I SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    STALIN MAY STEP DOWN
    724 1 First Congress m 13 years Chott calls o n Stalin PRESIDIUM WILL RULE RUSSIA LONDON, Thursday. RE-ORGANISATION of the Russian Communist Party at the top level was announced yesterday m Moscow as the party was i S o£i m T 0n ed to its first national
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    Japs crash; Union Jack market
    95 1 Japs crash; Union Jack market LONDON, Thurs. JAPAN is selling more Union Jaeka m the British EmBritain. B: m cannot offer them as cht^ Japan. This odd trade problem i> being mdd by the British Manufacturers Asn. case that caused be was the caii- of an order from for the
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    2 killed in clash with 30 bandits
    49 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO members of a 12-man patrol cf the 1/2 Gurkhas were killed and eight wounded, some of them seriously, m an encounter with a gang of 30 terrorists m the Kota Tinggi area of Johore this morn ins.
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    HE'LL STUDY JET PLANES
    58 1 HE'LL STUDY JET PLANES Mr. Donald Lcwe, Commissioner of the Port of New York Authority, has gone to Britain to make a study of British jet planes so that New York airports will be ready for them next spring. He will attend the Farnborough Air Show on September I—s1 5
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    PUBLIC ENQUIRY INTO VOTE CLAIMS
    45 1 Free Press Staff Reporter pEGISTERING Officers will hold a public enquiry m the cases of claims and objections raised about new names m the Singapore electoral register, it was announced this morning. The Registering Officer may, however, allow any claim
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    SCHUMACHER DEAD
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    INTO CAVE OF DEATH
    75 1 picture. MARCEL LOIBENS, pictured here as he prepared to descend into Gouf fre Lepineux, one of the world's greatest pot-holes, as a member of a Belgian team investigating caves under the Pierre St. Martin Peak m the Pyrenees. Subsequently Loubens was killed when the steel rope
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    Margaret hissed 'go away'
    288 1 ROY/ OVER US BODYGUARDS STOCKHOLM, Thursday. THE PRESS yesterday tried to make its peace with the two bodyguards of Miss Margaret Truman whom it had accused of manhandling Swedish citizens and the Swedish Foreign Ministry called the whole affair a "storm m a tea cup." The
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    ROUTINE TOUR
    14 1 Air Marshal A.C. Sanderson, Commander-in-ChieJ of the Royal Air Force m the
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    Attests will start soon
    13 1 MELBOURNE, Thurs. BRITAIN'S atomic weapon test m Australia may
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    'Down with Mossadeq' Reds shout
    281 1 'Down with Mossadeq Reds shout TEHERAN, Thursday. THE Persian government yesterday imposed martial law m Teheran for one week to combat mounting unrest and rioting which included Communist attacks on two American military men m 24 hours. As Premier Mossadeq called his ministers to a meeting, Communist mobs demonstrated m
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    FOUR LOST IN 'HELL'S HOLE'
    39 1 Rescue workers penetrated nearly a mile under the Alps yesterday through a maze of damp tunnels and dark caverns known as "Hell's Hole" without finding a trace of four missing Swiss underground explorers.- A.P.
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    U.S. CASUALTIES
    18 1 The U.S. battle casualties m Korea have reached 115--373. 688 more than last week, says A.P.
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    S'pore firemen fight hornet nest blaze
    70 1 S'pore firemen fight hornet nest blaze Free Press Staff Reporter CJNGAPORE firemen turned out shortly before midnight last night to put out a hornets' nest blaze m Killiney Road. The blaze started when a resident set fire to the nest, which was on a tree, to destroy it. The tree
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    ALY SEES RITA SEVERAL TIMES
    48 1 Prince Aly Khan was scheduled to fly last night to Chicago, after spending several days m Hollywood visiting his estranged wife, the actress Rita Hayworth. There was no word of a reconciliation. They have been seen m public numerous times m recent days.
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    Special counsel for tax cases
    126 1 Special counsel for tax cases Free Tress Staff Reporter A SPECIAL prosecutor wife shortly appear m Court against tax aefau.ters on behalf of the Singapore Income Tax Department. His t.ue will be Crown Counsel. Mr. D. H. Tudor, Comptroller of Income Tax, Uld the Free Press th.s morning that a
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    Germans hail film 'Rommel'
    62 1 ANKFUST. Thurs. GERMAN critics hailed "Rommel Desert Fox", the Hollywood film about the leader of the German Afrika Corps, as a "great and honest film" after a private showing here yesterday. The film, which will have its premiere m German theatres tomorrow, sympathetic treatment to the
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    BOYS STEAL WATCHES
    41 1 Two Chinese boys who visited a Singapore watchdealer shop m North Bridge Road yesterday each ran away with a watch when the dealer produced the two watches for inspection. One watch was worth $42 and the other $87.
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      2 1 PLATIII^ elevenses...
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    Argentina has had 'Perons' before
    901 2  -  PAT MURPHY 100 years ago a Colonel-turned-Dictator ruled with the help of a brilliant and powerful wife, says an American authoress m a book reviewed by Bkx*T Prtrttfen': ike Feron br Flew trwtes (FredeMullm. THE sudden and sad death of Eva Peron, the remarkable wife
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    He wrote of knights and fair ladies
    519 2 TEFFEHY FARNCL. creator of a new order of chivalry, whos? shining heroes might hive stepped down the centuries, descendants o f King Arthur's K^i^hts of the Pound ?le, died recently. a -not, of "The i»:oad fcway." -The Amateur Gentleman." and -Belts ro the
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    Diving to Adventure
    380 2  -  Peter Quennell reviews a book on underwater fishing VOT long ago I was 11 looking out across a luminous Mediterranean bay. its surface scattered with slow deliberate forms which m the distance suggested water-beetles and, when they approached the rocks and came crawling ashore, gigantically overdeveloped frogs,
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    'Prince' of his own isle
    649 2 'Prince' of his own isle A CORONATION chair M hewn from solid rock and weighing four tons has been taken from the fishing village of Kilmorequay to the 400--acre Great baltic island, five miles off the South Wexford coast, Eire, m a specially constructed raft. It is to be set
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    BOOKS in the SHOPS
    47 2 BOOKS in the SHOPS j (Gollancz A short novr Cr short mended U. th earlier wo No Crren Pasture v. Roi 0 < ra- > A co 'IOSe pr, TCfc >> tdned a vosure of I King ife and Re i i stabli •< Ciipbr U'« Kingdom >) Hammond Ini
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      45 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR OORN today, vy. have p- iw.Liu, y«. are «cick to act. sitive personality that is slßre temptation ftocrMmtin%bt doesn't iin- quick t. make a»r SK? 3 Mwe-ful one. ate tAtcrmiaaMv Ttmrr "*ppmess comes when haT» +r -f jiMi'— L-l JJ* aad faarily
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      147 2 New Crossword No. 746 CLUES ACROSS 1 Space for the cloak* (5) 4. Get ready for harvest (5). 7. Constitutes many a link between hook and ship (6. 5). 8 You couldn't say his wife te no lady (6). 9. Light aircraft attracted by light (4). 11. Gory sort of
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    PRINCES GOES ON TRIAL FOR MURDER
    710 3 PRINCES GOES ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Blackmail hint to court T^rk» KARACHI, Thimdav o t e hp c f n m 50 > Te f ars old, is accused of killing rr% n servants, a girl O f 13, named Bano > alleged that the Besum beat the girl to
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    Submarine 'lost' two swimmers in the dark
    64 3 CAIJ üby. Is b by on I > E iyotian army ro. n?? for \h him m the N .is orerh wind and p i cara] i pad Ie Mm c 1 13 -rain d ■n hour h' m ad the d ncnv
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    Education below par
    50 3 HAM. Thurs. SJ per cent of national ser- re educationally b ar.d 18 per cent < illiterate, 4 v staff educai A oflLer said yester\rthur Jones, m or' education m and five Midland 1 almost one •4 Britain's young ■y conscripts were below an averate reading It..
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    Strange stink haunts Naples
    49 3 NAPLES. V- S are cla. .r beloved cfty Lainta to police and the ::ort author. strong garlic-like :ed from the city and from could not trace Then Neopolitans -.--ing suspicious eyes mous old Mr. Vesuseveral officials I the odour may be of tc ori A.P.
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    FIRES LEAVE 100 HOMELESS
    26 3 U rain the first months— has fallen Si on the French quelling forest fires -".ad destroyed 12 and Jeft 100 persons A.P.
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    "NO" TO GREECE
    30 3 A French grand jury has refused to grant Greece's request for the extradition of two Greek Communists wanted for trial on charges of assassination and espionage. A.P.
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    TOO MANY DOCKERS
    61 3 Longslioremen m Tunis have re: used to work m protest against the hiring of 60 new deckers by the harbour management. The deckers' uniens claim that 1.300 existing dockers are al- ready too many.- U.P. MR. ASD MRS. m real life, Dick Powell and June A Hyson
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    gensusS FINDING
    15 3 is Bureau at n has reported found one cow rp.an beings m J.P
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    WHEAT LOAN
    17 3 W HEAT LOAN last of 243 ships carryD 5.52.000.000 AmeriI loan to India has Bombay, says AP.
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    Square dancing, tonic for marriage
    87 3 Square dancing, tonic for marriage OMAHA, Thursday. A SELF-STYLED "evangelist of square dancing is Big Jack Hoheisal. of Alhambra, California. Hoheisal, here for a dance festival, said a lot of this nations ills would be cured if people spent more time square dancing. He said the old-time dance has saved
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    Jap textiles flood S. Africa
    48 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. ACCORDING to the Daily <£* News Record, textile manufacturers m Johannesburg. South Africa, are appealing to the Government for better protection against imported Japanese goods. In a dispatch from Johannesburg, It said that cheap Japanese textiles were "flooding" South Africa.— U.P.
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    POLICE LAUNCH PROBE INTO MILLIONS
    206 3 POLICE LAUNCH PROBE INTO MILLIONS RIO DE JANEIRO, Thursday. I3OLICE have begun an official investigation into the get-rich-quick opsrat'ons of Felipe de Alburquerque Melo, a fabulous financier who has left hundreds of creditors holding the bag at least temporarily. Newspapers estimated the Air Force Reserve lieutenant has from four to
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    Two drinks and he was all at sea
    207 3 PLYMOUTH, Thurs A FAIR -HAIRED man ia a cream silk shirt and welltailored suit came ashcre at Plymouth after a nothing-tO-pay trip to New York and back— and said: "I've always been a roamer." Fraak Davies, 36-year-old former ship's steward, remembered naving
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    MICA EXPORTS FROM INDIA
    31 3 India earned foreign exchange totalling Rs. 245,000.--000 m 1951-52 by exporting mica and shellac, Commerce Ministry sources said. Mica contributed Rs. 132,--000,000 and shellac. Rs. 113.--000,000 A.P.
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    BUCKLEY
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    'Stop Sunday motor traffic'
    48 3 The Association of the Swiss Evangelical Churches :n Laussanne has called for the Introduction of "a motorless Sunday' t eh month. The Association propcsed that on one Sunday each month all motor vehicle traffic should be forbidden with the exception of emergency services.- U.P.
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    AWARD FOR TRUMAN
    31 3 Presidert Truman has been chosen to receive the first international award of the National conference of Christians and Jews Inc. for his moral and spiritual lead- ership.- A.P.
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    INDIAN DELEGATION
    21 3 Two Indian parliamentary delegations will leave India next week to attend International parliamentary conferences m Ottawa and Berne Reuter
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    Whisky sales fall off in Glasgow
    193 3 WINE IS FAVOURITE GLASGOW, Thursday. MORE Glasgow people a... v urn m Wh.j ,^.-ad of the "half and a hali-j: nt." And whisky sales are falling. Many are finding whisky at 2s. a nip beyond their pocket. Wine is going into the cellars of
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    Bridge Hand
    214 3 HpIIHRE are n.uny women at the A top at the list of life NMkn (top tournament winners of tht American Contract Bridere League i and among them is Mrs. W. L. Terry, of Memphis, Term. But when Mrs. Terry was a-sked about her favourite hand, instead ot submitting
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    5 DIE IN TWO AIR CRASHES
    56 3 5 DIE IN TWO AIR CRASHES A Valetta I era h--■oon after taking off 1 sen airfielo I en a night training flight. All three aboard were killed. Two Meteor collided and crashed m over Stanhope. County I ham. during night trai; manoeuvres. Two men dice one Meteor. The two
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    Planters murdered
    31 3 Two planters, J. U n and Mohammed Nui were murdered by an estimated 20-man gang at the rubber estate of Pakajong, south-east of Jakarta this week.- UP. m v/a
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      16 3 Trtd CAiCt-' «Mt"lLj PVIOU^E- MOT TO uf-iP tPUgsn/-^ ■,v jy^- QtOOOCr I PUT A MOUSfc- TgAPJt
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      218 3 Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News; 10.05 Music While You Work; 10.45 Perry Como Show 11 London Studio Melodies; iliepeat of last Wednesday, Prog.}; 1 p.m. Claude Sweeten Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45 Billy May Orch.; fi.l3 Signature Tune; 6.15 News; 6.35 Radio Scientist; 6.45 Calling All Hospitals; 7.30 Radio Orch.; BWe
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. August 21. 1952 Stolen rights
    496 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. August 21. 1952 Stolen rights MR C. C. Tans speech m the Legislating council abo; the Singapore electoral rearouses tht :u*ern. Ti •or. h< Si :s. is It contains ml number' of names which should not be there. Names of 10 cannot possibly vote unless
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    A SECRET IS SPLITTING SOUTH AFRICA
    997 4  - A SECRET IS SPLITTING SOUTH AFRICA G. WARD PRICE by u.:\ ...tSBURG. /\NE can look down from the galleries of South Africa's House of Assembly m Capetown and feel at home. The Spea&er m his robes occupies his chair, with bewigged Clerks of the House and a gold mace before
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    HOW SOON will the jaws close?
    17 4 HOW SOON will t he jaws close? "Ytm'ix got to support me I'm a barrier against Communism
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    DANCE OF THE MOON OPENS TALKS ON TIE-UP
    465 4  - DANCE OF THE MOON OPENS TALKS ON TIE-UP Unknown MONGU, Barotseland: JRIBESMEN m leopard skins swirled into their Dance of the Moon to welcome Mr. Henry Hopkinson to this oil-lamp and fly-whisk capital on his "Federate now" mission recently. Mr. Hopkinson, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, is on tour
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    When Will Mossadeq Fall?
    464 4 ITOW soon can the n Communists strike m Persia? How soon can they launch ttteir great coup to wrest power from Mossadeq? Once, the question would have been phrased differently. It would not so long ago —have read: Will the Communists try a coup? Note the
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    Jerusalem's Arabs Ara Divtcad
    237 4  - Jerusalem's Arabs Ara Divtcad J.L. HAYS s THERE has been fierce, bitter talk these last few days m the deep p v r d 1 c shadows under the ancient, lemon-coloured walls of the Old City of Jerusalem s harply castellated rnder the hard, blue sky. Voices have been raised,
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    CITY MAY LEASE THIS LAND IF...
    112 5 CITY MAY LEASE THIS LAND IF... S AFORE City Counwill accept Govnt's offer for the of two pieces of j m Shenton Way r mission is granted ild, or if rent is from the date •h permission is ited been agreed to by Utilities Committee Council. c annual rent of
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    Had no permit
    22 5 \TAN. Thurs— Chan X d $15 at extending a permit. ordered to demolish unless he sot B permit within
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    NOT ON DUTY
    19 5 RE BAHRU, Thur ssim, a Spe >ned at X unlawfully absentee duty was senPolice days' imprison-
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    BUSES AT THE DOORSTEP FOR 2,000
    281 5 I I \JtffV Jr V l l mile B. Timah to Queen St. pLANS have been submitted to the Singapore City Council by a private bus company to operate a new five-cent-a-mile bus service m the Colony. The project will cost nearly $200,000 and
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    CITY MAY SEEK ARBITRATION
    107 5 Dispute over water to ships 4 DISPUTE between the Singapore City Council and W. Hammer and Co., water suppliers to ships, ever the rates at which the water should be sold may be submitted to arbitration. c company, which gets its water from the City Coun-
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    Nine will talk wage settlement
    74 5 ffctc Press Staff Reporter NINE members of the Singapore Brewery Workers' Uaicn will meet the management of Fraser and Neave Limited on Saturday to settle a wage dispute. The workers want a minimum wage of $4 a day with 1 a:i increase of ten cents
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    New Social Welfare chief
    67 5 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs. HONG Kong's Sockil Welfare Officer, Mr. J. C. McDoull, is to be the Malayan Federation's Chief Social Welfare? Officer. Mr. McDcull, 40. is due m the Federation m mid-Octo-ber. Hs was educated at Monaton Combe School, Jesus College. Cambridge and Birmingham University Achieving
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    SOLDIER NAMED
    38 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs Headquarters, Malaya, announced yesterday that the soldier of the Ist Battalion. King's African Rifles, who was ktfled m a battle m the Jawi ManchU area of Pahang on Sinday. was Private Sailos \riigwai'ma.
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    GOATS STRAYED
    32 5 KXJANTAN, Thurs —Abas bin Tbrahlm Moliamed Diah. and Mohamed All bin Tahar. i fined $15 each for alInwiM their goats and sheep to stray m the poHce comnound at Besaran.
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    Office staff immunised
    46 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ALMOST the entire staff of the Colonial Secretariat. Singapore, was vaccinated against smallpox yesterday The vaccination is part of an island-wide campaign. The last time such a largescale vaccination was done was m 1946/47 when 300.000 people were immunised.
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    Three salesmen plead guilty
    43 5 KUANTAN. Thurs Siew Seng, Cheng Men. Yew, and Yun Heng, three Kuala Lumpur travelling salesmen, pleaded guilty to carrying foodstuff along the Gam-bang-Maran road m contravention of a Government order. The case was postponed to Sept. 8 for sentence.
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    He paid $5 case compounded
    49 5 He paid $5 case compounded KUANTAN Thurs. Abdul Mai id bin Mat, a trlsha rider, threw a piece of iron at his brother during a quarrel. It missed and hit Mohamed Lozin bin Abdullah instead. In the Kuantan Court, when Majid paid $5 to Mohamed, the case was compounded.
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    Mr. W. L. Harvey
    21 5 SITIAWAN, Thurs.— Mr. W. L Harvey, manager of the Sungei Wsngi Group, Sitiawan, has returned from Britain.
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    She praises teachers' course
    78 5 She praises teachers' course Free Press Staff Reporter FROEBAL training course for teachers is very popular m England, Miss Jessie Proctor a Singapore schoolteacher who returned to the Colony yesterday after a year's training m that country, told the Free Press today. Miss Proctor, who attended the Froebal Institute of
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    MALACCA TO BUILD PUBLIC GARDEN
    120 5 MALACCA, Thurs. PLANS to build a public garden m Malacca La to be speeded up so that it wih b<» completed before the Queen's Coronation. This was agreed at a meeting of Municipal Councillors y«terday. The park will be named Coronation Par*. A fatal of
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    MINIATURE FILMS GETTING POPULAR
    128 5 Free Press Staff Reporter NINE hundred and ninety-three miniature films have been passed for exhibition during the last seven months, Mr. Jack Evans, the Malayan Film Censor, told the Free Press yertentay.^ of the "unforeseen increase" m the import of these films a supplementary provision of
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    FAILED TO TELL
    26 5 SEGAMAT. Thurs.— AHd bin Ipmail, a police supervisee, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment In Sesamat for failing to report to the police.
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    He tells co-op: I'll consider your proposals'
    89 5 Ttflß- T. F. Carey, Commissioner for Co-operative Development, Singapore, tells about 100 members of the Co-operative Stores Society, who attended a general meeting last night: "I am quite prepared to consider any concrete proposals which should be put to me m writing. ?If
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    'Dissolve Labour council' 2,300 tell Mr. Lim
    159 5 YEARLY 2,300 members of the Singapore Labour Party have asked Mr. Lim Yew Hock, the president, to dissolve the pressent General Council and call a special general meeting of the party within 14 days "to straighten out against party interests. Disclosures made by
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    NEGLIGENT
    49 5 KUANTAN, Thurs.— Soo Tw Yen. a photographer, whose motor cycle crashed into a ravine at Beserah Road, was fined $15 at Kuantan (or negligence. matters." In a memorandum drawn up by a nine-man committee on their behalf, they said that the General Council was "biased" and had acted
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    GRADUATES DISCUSS AN INTERVIEW
    80 5 THE Pan-Malayan Council of the Stamford Club is holding an extraordinary meeting m Kuala Lumpur today to discuss an interview with the Federation Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. D. C. MacGillivray. on proposals for improved salary schemes and better service prospects for pass graduates. Mr. Chang Mm
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    Big rush for show tickets
    98 5 Big rush for show tickets rpHERE has been an ex:epJL tionally heavy demand for tickets for the Girls' Sporls Clubs production. Show Business. 1952 the Club"s president. Mrs. Z. Tessensobn. told the Free Press yesterday. She advised those who had booked seats at Robinson U> collect, their ticket* by noon
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    SOCIETY ASKS FOR ANOTHER CHANCE
    224 5 A BOUT 100 members of A the Singapore Cooperative Stores Soc. last night appealed the Commissioner for Cooperative Development to allow the society another chance to "pull up its stocks." The appeal was ma^e st a special general meetr at the British Council consider against
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    Toddy charges
    46 5 SBGAMAT. Thurs.— K. Retnam, 21, faced a triple ci arpe m the Segamat Court. He was charted *'th unlawful possession of toddy, tapping toddy without a licence and with destroying toddy about to be seized by Government officials. Bail of $500 was allowed. Z&
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    WHY ALL THESE RECORDS?
    647 6  -  CHAPMAN PINCHER By And when will they cease? MORE than 60 athletes broke Olympic records at this year's Games m Helsinki, Never before have so many astonishing performances of skill speed, and endurance been packed into one athletic meetin The first eight men m the 1,500
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    RULERS' SHIELD
    14 6 Jch:re firs: round opr the t, tomorrow and lay at Jchore Bahru.
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    SOLOMONS SEEKS SMALLER FRY
    336 6  -  GEOFFREY SIMPSON (By Sugar Ray Robinson asking £65,000, and Joey Maxim wanting practically the White City freehold, for fights m London, promoter Jack Solomons, just returned from New York, is trying for smaller same. One of the boxers for whom he is angling U Mexican -born
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    2 OLD CHAMPS
    35 6 Dh.iinutive Terry Allen form cr flyweight champion of the world, ties on hugre "pillow" gloves for ex-world lightheavyweight titleholder, Freddy Mills, before a workout Freddy recently gave an exhibition for Dartmoor prisoners.
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    Malaya Cup victory again evades Fed. Services
    629 6  - Malaya Cup victory again evades Fed. Services ASTRA By ONCE again the Services failed to gain that elusive Malaya Cup victory at Alor Star last week, when Kedah State upset with a two-one win. Unlucky not to draw was the verdict of most spectators, who agreed that bad luck dogged
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    Two points decide RAF Malaya gala
    82 6 Ao-poi:. Com! ta r j and 1 B yard of li In a cl LAC E G H the yds fn iSel (Chi i LA' F O C < 390 3 x 50 m< LAC Po. or r, 3 39r rv-. v r\ (no
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    SERVICES LEAGUE PLACINGS
    233 6 SERVICES LEAGUE PL AC INGS r ATEST positions m the Singa- Lj pore United Services Football Association League are: SENIOR DIVISION P W D L P APts RAP (L) 22 17 4 1 64 12 38 REME 20 14 2 4 54 22 30 RAF (C) 21 10 5 6
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    JAPS TOLD TO BEHAVE
    86 6 pMPEROR Hirohito's brother. Prince Chichibu. has appealed vo rowdy Japanese rugby fans *o act the gentlemen dur.n? an Oxford University team's visit next month. Prince Chichibu made his f.ppeal to a meeting of the Japan Rugby Uunion Club, of wMch he is Honorary President. He urged
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    JOHORE C.C. DANCE
    41 6 The Johore Bahru Cricket Club will hold its annual dance this r at the Johore Civil Service Ciub on Saturday, Sept. 20. The band of the 13 18 Royal Hussars will be present from p.m. till 1 a.m.
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      55 6 Today's sport SOCCE3 FA. CIP TIE: Royal Navy v4ts.CC. at Jalan Brsar. DIV 2: Tamil B.A. t Chinese Athletic 'A' at tieylang; Rocklites v K.N. Kranji at C.V.M.A. BUSINESS HOUSES: Fraser Neave v MPH. at F N ground: Jacks v Malayan Airways at Farnrr Park. TABLE TENNIS J'.Tiior inter-club tourru'v,
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    BRITISH FILM AND 16 MM IMPRESS
    382 7 BRITISH FILM AND 16 MM IMPRESS Spencer horses go fastest From ALLAN LEWIS AFTER }t-terdays rain, the second track was v n excellent condition at Kuala Lumpur this Spencer-trained horses returned the i tmes, when Saturday's runners did their iiish Him (Padek) and 16 HH (Tulloh) were st attractive workers
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    PENANG BA RESULTS
    159 7 PENANG BA RESULTS IS of Tuesday nigtf s s in the Ftnang open tartm cimnpioiftsliip>>'s Tfc^ln Tteh Ktoeng L:rn ffcff^ Qo 15-4. Ooi Te:k Hock wn- Y«ap Yean: Lee Hoo Chye bt. Young 15-3, 15-«. Choong Leoog bL Taob Cbooa Cliooi IX^Mrs: Choong Bwe Qnf Bme Hock bt. occ Check
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    SURREY HAD TO FIGHT FOR RUNS
    365 7 gtRREY, who need 12 points from four games to make certain of the County erieket championship, yesterday had to struggle hard for runs against Derbyshire, one of the best bowling teams m the country. The saturated Kennington Oval wicket, on which Derbyshire pace bowlers
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    Malayan sets Lift record
    86 7 A MALAYAN University last night brok the 20-year-old Victorian bantamweight right hand snatch weight- lifting re cord by one lb. after enlj two years training. He is T. X Lai. 22. pre Ent Victorian junior ban mweight champion. Last night m Melbourne he snatch-d 103-1 i
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    Ebor Handicap
    45 7 ]Lf R. Alec Birus Significa ion won the Bbar Handicap over one mile six funonfcs a: York jrs- terday. Mr. R. Nell's Whinsure wa v second and Mr. J. WestolT> Lf Tellier third. Fifteen ran. Betting: I<*-1 Signification. 160--8 Whinsaire. 100-» Le Tellier
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    FANS WILL HAVE 'POOL FEVER'
    674 7 U.K. SOCCER SEASON OPENS SATURDAY AND./ T*HE English soccer season opens on Saturday and once again half the nations adult population will fall under the money-for-nothing spell of one of the world's biggest and best organised gambling industries. This Saturday and every Saturday until next
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    Bankers romp to easy win
    278 7 DLAYING an the offensive for most of the game. Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Sports Club found little difficulty m beating Stanvac Sports Club two-nil m the Business Houses League. Group "A encounter at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Early m the first half •Eeins started the
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    6.3 WIN FOR REX B.P.
    141 7 6.3 WIN FOR REX B.P. In a Inendly badminton match at the Clerical Union Hall on Saturday. Rex BP. beat Jacques B.P. by six games to three. Results (Rex players first): Singles: Lim Seng Kok bt J. P. Morris 15-12. 8-15. 15-12. Harold Desker lost to Chua Pob Khoon 4-15.
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    GIMCRACK STAKES
    66 7 TWELVE probables and jockeys for the Gimcrack Stakes running over s ix furlongs at York today are: Whistler (Edgar Britt), four Commando (E. For<fyce>, Good Brandy (Doug Smith), Blackshore (P. Barlow), Empire Honey (W. Rickaby), Marefce MiUtalre (unfixed), Stan (C. Spare*), Blue Lamp (E. P. H. Smith). Bebe
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    U.K. SOCCER
    20 7 U.K. football respite: Glasgow cup (first round) Partick 2 Clyd« 0, Ulster cup— Colerain* l Crusader* 1.- Reuter
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    INDIA IN TROUBLE v. SUSSEX
    348 7 INDIA IN TROUBLE v. SUSSEX A FINE fifth wicket stand of 82 m 90 minutes by D. K. Gaekwad and OopinaUi yesterday saved IndJoi from complete collapse on the opening day of their match against Sussex at Hove. India, mainly thanks to these two, reached a total of 18* by
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    CAPTAIN'S PRIZE GOLF DRAW
    161 7 CAPTAIN 'S PRIZE GOLF DRAW <T*HE Ladies Captain's Prize at the Royal Singapore Golf Crab will be played for over 18 holes om. Monday The draw and umes are as follows: 2.i5, Mrs. McMuUan (11) ffr^ McMillan (36) v Mrs. Pater«en ill) Mrs Comisn t.34). 230 Mrs. Pickering (12) Mrs.
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    INDIA v. ITALY
    59 7 TTALY, winner of the Davis Cup European zone and India, only entry m the Asian zone, are U> matt m Melbourne starting December J4. Th# winaeri will cppose United States. American aone winners to the interzone final for the right of challenging Australia In Adelaide on December
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    SOFTBALL LEAGUE
    29 7 TNDIA'S first softball leag* A tournament begins m Madras oa Saturday. The Indian aw Force and the American Consulate m Madra* art each fielding a team.- A.P.
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    K.L. WEIGHTS for SATURDAY
    345 7 K.L. WEIGHTS for SA TURD AY HANDICAPS for Saturday. last day of Selangor Turf Club's August meetsCL. 3— l*i BOLE Quicksilver 9ct3 Red Wolf 9.02 British Film 8.12 IB atM. 8.19 Payenr 5.07 Whiter Scene ».6G Emrrecn B.H TrmuJln 8.f3 Misty Line 8.t3 CaTaller B*l Seal Prince '.09 Lundy Isle
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    Seven Eleven won -with no jockey
    1366 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS HOW THEY RAN AT X.L By Seven Eleven lost his rider/ Mickey Donnelly, early m race two at the Kuala Lumpur races yesterday, he continued m the race alone, and ran the best race of his career. He kept on the rails
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    RUSSIANS CHEER THE INDIANS
    87 7 RUSSIANS CHEER THE INDIANS "TiRANCE defeated India by F three rounds to nil m the men's national volieybail at the world championship xeet m Moscow on Tuesday night. The scores were 15-M. 15-3 and 15-7. The game war played under floodlights before an i mate* 20.000 who warmly cheered the
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    14 RECORDS BY GOLDIE GARDNER
    50 7 THE American Automobile Association has officially ce v ified 14 Clasft E motor-car speed records »ct, by Britain's Lieu: Col. Goldie Gartfner on Boim°ville Salt Plats on Aug. 16. Colonel Gardner iniends to try to smash some mor.» records m his MG sport- MV A.P.
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    BREWERIES WIN
    39 7 A GOAL scored m fading light enabled Breweries S.C. to edge luckless ten -men Imperial Chemical Industries S.C. by fear goals to three m a Singapore Business Houses FA. League and Cup match at Thomson Road yesterr!
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    25,000 saw the MAAA meet
    40 7 AN estimated crowd of about 25,0*0 wstched the 31st Annual Malay m Athletic Championships m Ipoh last weekend. About $8,000 was collected from the sale of seat- m the covered grandstand and the open tiers.
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    BIRTH
    17 8 RAFFE IX) ICartaret wife of I rd Raflp cUnj X rbau oc August 21st. a son.
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    MEN 'DIED LIKE FLIES'
    451 8 Conditions m Red prisons BERLIN, Thurs. A NATURALISED American, imprisoned by the Russians for seven years, said yesterday that he was held m Soviet zone concentration camps under inhuman conditions m which men "died like flies." Chartes Noble, 60. of Detroit, told a press con- ference
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    Military talks in Tokyo
    49 8 Military talks in Tokyo jor General Stephen Newton Shoosmith. who n appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to General Mark rk, United Nations Supe Commander m Korea, leave London airport today. He will go to Tckyo by way of Canada, where he will hftft talks with Canadian Government officials- Reuter
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    BANKER DEAD
    21 8 Lawrence Mario Gian- President of the Bank \merica. has died m San Francisco at the age of 57. Reuter
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    RICE FROM BURMA
    22 8 India will import 115,000 r no 0 "cc from Burma during the remaining five months of -this year- A.P
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    BAMBOO ONLY
    20 8 press reports say China toothbrush manuirers are using bamboo for handles because they t obtain cattle bom A.P.
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    A-bomb shelter for Congress
    45 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. SHOULD atom bombs fail on the next Congress, members will at least know which way to run. Shelter signs are goij^g up around the Capitol -Buildand the architect, David Lynn, said they all should hp done by January.- U.P.
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    MILD WEATHER GIVES THEM GLAMOUR
    193 8 LONDON, Thars. VINE Cockney busmen came home yesterday from xl a 12,000-mile tour of the United States and Canada and told of a continent crowded with mountains of food, well-dressed women and looney blokes who drink tea with ice m it. The Cockneys took their
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    TAX FOR AIR
    74 8 The French Government is to raise a further £17.000.000 m taxes to prevent work slowing down m avia.ion factories for lack of materials, says A.P. picture. HMir autograph hunted become the b=?rtrrs when film stars Joan Collins and Jajnes Kenney waylay soccer star Roy Bentlev at Riverside
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    He predicts Tunisia revolt
    40 8 NEW YORK. Thurs. rpHE Tunisian leader, Abed A Bouhafa, predicted widespread violence wild break Out m Algeria this autumn "that wifll make the Tunisian unrest seem like nothing" unless United Nations acts on political issues.— A.P.
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    Jap application vetoed by U.K.
    302 8 LONDON, Thursday. JAPAN'S APPLICATION for membership m the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has been rejected by postal ballot among the 26 member governments. The Financial Times said it was understood that Britain and two other Commonwealth countries voted against Japan's membership and three
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    DUTCH VESSEL IN DISTRESS
    41 8 An amphibious aircraft took off from Ciacton yesterday to try to pinpoint the Dutch coaster, Michel Swendon. 500 tons, of Rotterdam. m distress.. Both at Ciacton and Wal-ton-on-the Naze Eifeboats are out searching for the vessel. Reuter
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    Fairy princess is 'spinster'
    223 8 LONDON. Thurs. PRINCESS Margaret celebrates her 22nd birthday today at Balmoral Castle and for once there was no Mayfair gossip about an engagement m the offing. One by one. the leading suitors for the diminutive Princess' hand have dropped off and Margaret herself is no longer
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    CAUTIOUS INGRID
    29 8 Fear of whooping cough is preventing film star Ingrid Bergman from touching or playing with her two-month-old twin daughters these days, says a Rome report. A. P.
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    Neguib tells how young men ousted king
    645 8 Neguib tells how young men ousted king CAIRO, Thursday. pX-KING Farouk is pictured as a tyrant whose sycophants sold "themselves, their countrymen, and even their own sons to the devil" m a special interview with Gen. Neguib leader of last month's coup published m the magazine, Life, yesterday. Telling the
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    COURT PUTS OFF DECISION ON SAILORS
    86 8 COURT PUTS OFF DECISION ON SAILORS T«* O SA K T A K 1 yesterday i a week its dec; th er the two b- convicted m a J should be released tion. The postpor^- made a i the- i two defence t Isaid it "bee; r.! j find a
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    Farouk has paid up
    141 8 CAPRI, Isly. Thurs EX-KING FAROtK of Egypt yesterday paid about half of his two- week overdue bill for his 30-room top floor suite m the Paradiso Hotel on Isle of Capri, the manager, Signor Micola Farace. said. The exact sum paid by the "no longer rich"
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    China prtests to Malan
    66 8 China prtests to Malan ot T, C :eS u eC&nSU; G at Johannesburg, Shao-ting. has proie the South Af: Dr. Malan. aga nation against loc. under the South A liquor laws. Mr. Ting said: "We nese were, according U Jtory. the first race fe liquor— as long ago a 'years.
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