The Singapore Free Press, 23 August 1952

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN (EMS
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    FIVE OIL COMPANIES CHARGED
    244 1 $67 mil. by Govt. US ILXGTON, Saturday. M i :L\T yesterday sued four p; n.es md some of to recover $67,000,000 m torney General, Mr. James Mco *c overtharfefl on oil for >ecial repoit 11 cor s of heaping 4 *an Unerican taxpayer 9 tostandard Oil
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    STRIKE THREAT DEFIED
    71 1 STRIKE THREAT DEFIED p y refused a for a despite threat of strike Hrn for the Lnree weeks. s tolci negotia- 2.500,000 had no alterto make at this it would let them iter. were rokl ihelr a:--smuch as any Increase mas: increase costs" whic v m raise the coat c
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    BAGPIPES LAMENT LYN DEAD
    188 1 BAGPIPES LAMENT LYN DEAD picture. LYNTON. Sat. A MOURNFUL lament on the bagpipes skirled across the Valley of Rocks here yesterday as 13 victims of last week's flash-flood at nearby Lynmouth were buried. Silent knots of visitors who went to Lynmouth. the ravaged honeymoon fishing village, for a holiday and
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    Hungary on rubber quest
    39 1 JAKARTA, Sat. A SEVEN-MAN delegation from Hungary arrived yesterday to negotiate a trade agreement with Indonesia. Indonesia expects to exchange rubber, tin, coffee and other locally-produced commodities for Hungarian textiles medicines and machin- cry. A.P.
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    EGYPT HOLDS FRENCH RED
    52 1 CAIRO, Sat. rE French Embassy here has asked the Egyptian authorities to "be kept informed" regarding the investigation of the French Communist writer Roger Villand. Vailland and 15 Egyptians were arrested on Wednesday at a northern Egyptian village while attending what police called a Communist meet-
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    2,300 members back Mr. Lim
    186 1 LABOUR PARTY ROW Free Press Staff Reporter THE nine-man committee representing nearly 2,300 members of the Singapore Labour Party last night decided to support Mr. Lim Yew Hock, the president of the party, m his effort to call a general meeting of the party. The
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    A doll for City Council
    99 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Council has received a message of goodwill and friendship from the Governor of Hyogo Prefecture and the Mayor of Kobe. Japan, on the occasion of the first Japanese vessel, Hei a n Maru, saiiing on the JapanLondon sea route
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    Party chief's son arrested
    63 1 PARIS. Sat. MAURICE THOREZ Jr., son of the French Communist party leader, Maurice Thorez, was yesterday charged with plotting against the security bf the state and was confined m the Sante Prison here. Thorez. Jr., had been missing from his home since May 31. when the
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    SHIPS COLLIDE
    29 1 The Swedish motorship Stratus and the American steamship Coos Bay collided m fog off the southern California coast early yesterday, but both reported no casual- ties.- A.P.
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    Hopes rise in 'Hell's Hole'
    144 1 Hopes rise in 'Hell's Hole MUOTATHAL, Sat, FUR Swiss explorers sorted their second week m an underground prison known as Hell's Hole here yesterday, still trapped by pools of water which cut off their escape. The four men, led by Dr. week ago to make some measurements. They intended to
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    GROWERS WANT GOVT. TO HANDLE RUBBER
    121 1 COLOMBO, Saturday. THE Country Products Association, the most influential rubber growers' organisation m Ceylon, wants the Government to handle shipments of rubber to China through the Rubber Commissioner's Department. Local growers, who say these Chinese shipments are the main reason why Ceylon prices are
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    A disappointed lover kills 9
    524 1 A disapp ointed lover kills 9 OLD FOLKS DIE IN FLAMES STOCKHOLM, Satardi JORE HEDIN, 25, "nice and kindly" Swedish policeman butchered the girl who rejected him and birned to d H\ h> pa and five others m an orgy of murder and ar^on on Thursday night, police revealed m
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    Investors must get profit
    61 1 JAKARTA. Sat. THE Indonesian Communications Minister, Dr. Djuanda, said yesterday that Indonesia should not nationalise foreign enterprise/s in the first ten years m order to guarantee and attract foreign capital to the country. In an interview with the Indonesian daily, Pedomm. Dr. Djuanda said reasonable profits
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    NEW COMET
    17 1 A faint new Comet without a tail has been discovered m the Constellation Cepheus.- Reuter
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    MOSCOW TALKS
    16 1 Soviet President Nicolai Shvernik yesterday received Mr. Chou En-lai, Chinese Premier and Foreign Minis-
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    Heavy K.L. going
    30 1 THE GOING a* Koala I mour tod*? w? b< heav> BEST B Hairs, Seal ir nve Worry says AH n Lev TRESPASS r Jids Constellation and Dinar.
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    Hair wants park in Changi
    89 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. M. P. D. Nair will move a resolution at the next Singapore City Council meeting on Aug. 29 about the proposed conversion of a trade fair m Changi into an amusement park. A Council committee has agreed to reject the
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    SEVEN KHAMA MEN GAOLED
    36 1 LOBATSI, .Bechuanaland, Sat— Seven men of ex-Chief Seretse Khama's Bamangwato tribe were sentenced to seven years' hard labour here yesterday. They were accused of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm
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    SEARCH FOR NAKED WOMAN MURDERER
    74 1 SEARCH FOR NAKED WOMAN MURDERER Tr r I! I/. \es mini, d I drove ie v and r nio p iiu iur ie \v kpt. Mrs. Abbott c -pp< from her honn ars Reports th.v tirmen I big U.S. bases neti 'iad been paraded so that d^tect;ves could exam ne
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    DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE
    53 1 The Finnish Medical Association urged the Gov ment to rtopen wage talks yesterday as a strike of doctors staffing itate hospitals entered its second day. The doctors are still carrying out emergency work. As strikes by state employees are illegal m Finland they say "formally we
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    FREEDOM SWIM
    26 1 A fisherman from East Germany yesterday jumped overboard miles from shore and swam to Sweden rather than return to his Commun- Ist homeland. Reuter
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  • Saturday CHILDREN'S PAGE
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      Did Spanking Ever Do You Any Good?
      545 2  -  WENDY THE other day, m Tanjong Pagar Road, 1 saw a woman walking along with a small boy. Actually, only the woman was walking; the little fellow was Deing tugged along. He was so small that his arm couldn't reach up to his
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      Trouble in the Zoo
      181 2 THERE is trouble among the London Zoo's paxa- keets. And trouble, it i> said, which looks su i piciously like jealousy en the part of one moUier. It happened like this: Two "nurseries were set up at the same time m the parakeet aviary. In one
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      KING SAW THE 'DUTCHMAN'
      242 2 THERE'S more m the sea than salt and whenever you get old sailors together they will yarn about the reports of monsters and phantom ships that have gone into ships' log books. Imagine a whale -like creature 80ft. long and with a seven-foot mouth filled with
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      The Cameroons is NOT a Scottish Regiment
      497 2 The Cameroons is NOT a Scottish Regiment CITIES o£ the WORLD— II 4 SCKOOL-BOY OIICC told bis teacher that the Cameroon^ were a 8 ttisn regiment! As a matter of fact, the name belongs U l province or district on the coast of West Africa. tag tin 1 Gulf of
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      Hyena Tamed
      130 2 KEEPERS at the London Zoo have achieved "the impossible" they have tamed a hyena. It is the Indian striped i hyena Debik. only one of its kind m the Zoo and believed to b e the only tame hyem tfl Britain Headkeeper Jack Parsons j said "Debik came
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      Onward the "Onslaught"
      607 2  - Onward the "Onslaught" SEAFARER 87/X^Bj LOOKING FOR TREASURE JIM MANDERLY, the hero of this tale, left his home m 'Plymouth, went to London and joined the "Onslaught" as a cabin boy. The "Onslaught,'' on a voyage of discovery to the Eastern Seas, called at Sierra Leone on the West rpHE
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      67 2 j Junior Contest 2 vZ 4. -> O >w, Cq a W PROM f.aesc letters, this week, boys and girls, you can make up two wards the name of a district of Malaya. Write you solution on a postcard, add your name, address and age. and post it to Auntie
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      129 2 NOTHING The Best is good for you THE BEST GOLD DIAMOND JEWELLED with THE BEST WORKMANSHIP are alw a bie hConvince yourself with a look around We welcome your Inspection rfffctgf any obligation. Tr\ -"Ski t~* STjdj^S^ PHILIPS t^z-z-tyy?ytti radio players I^T^^^^^^^^^f Less 10 Discount iV f t M+&F. Nathan
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      120 2 Rupert's Spring Adventure s"perr. "Hai;e you seen it?" The farmer l£k s 'startled h ?rZ h J lim T^ holes to small f° r m e to Q° m a f^r -There are no such things as dragons" hesavsaVciS -n W€re goin(J to get him out 7 cant imagine." ly
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      42 2 CROSSWORD SOLUTION Aerots: l. Rome. 5. Bacon 6. Burrow. 7. Beo. 8. William. 9. Pan. I I). Peeler. 12. Weser. 13. Ryde. Dcwn: 1. Ribs. 2. Martin. 3. Paw. 4. Totem. 5. Boulder. 7. Bailey. 8. Water. 10. Erie. 11. 1 Pen.
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      103 2 Junior Crossword CM) B ACitOSS 1. Sometimes called the "Stern*] City". 5 it c mes lrom the 6. A rabbit's underground home. 7. Stinging insect with four <vings. 8. King of England who was also Duke of Normandy. 9. '•Peter is a famous Barrie Character. 11. Organ of tcuch of
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    A FILIPINO SIR GALAHAD
    168 3 •pRINSIPE AMANTE," 1 —the first Filipino film to be photographed m Ansco colour and to be dubbed with Malay: dialogue will be shown at the Garrick cinema next week. It is a two-and-a-half-hour adventure serial about the bloody feud of two half-brothers Am ante (the Virtuous)
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    Film-land is now a 'closed shop'
    699 3  -  HERBERT WILCOX says yOUNG people would nnd it extremely frustrating if they chose the British film industry as "the job they wanted to do most of all.'' Despite the fact that it needs constant transtusions of new blood it is impossible for newcomers to
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    Ingrid films 'for fun'
    104 3 Betty Hutton is the girl on the flying trapeze m "The Greatest Show on Earth". Cornel Wilde (below) is her partner. No stand-ins were used for the trapeze shots. ROBERTO ROSSELLIM reporting m London on the home life of the Rossellinis: "I dont wish to be
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    Granger in the Frozen North
    364 3  - Granger in the Frozen North Douglas Lackersteen By OTORIES of the Frozen North, where men are men and the redcoated Mountie always gets his man, invariably leave me cold. Inevitably there is the howling blizzard m which none but Hollywood actors can survive, interminable miles of snow through which the
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    BIGGEST SHOW ON EARTH
    392 3  - BIGGEST SHOW ON EAR TH IAN GRANT By "rpHE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH* is of course nothing of the sort if by "great" we mean "important, elevated, distinguished" (Oxford English Dictionary). On the other hand it certainly is "great" if what is implied is "massive, bulky, big.'' (Oxford ditto). Everything
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    Problem child
    288 3  -  IAN GRANT previews "noom For One More" ROOM FOR ONE MORE" [Cap! features Mr. and Mrs. Cary Grant (B Drake) and sev children. It is furth* r proof of apparent An. rican incompetence m the matter of child guidance. Mrs. Grant has a weakness for adopting child] so
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, August 23, 1952 Dearer rice
    468 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, August 23, 1952 Dearer rice "EXCEPTING these wn-j are deep m the Government's conn* den everyone m Singapore must have been a :nded when th read the news ye t day that the price of ratio:. would bi raised by another t\ cents a k.
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    Royal Rivalry in the Desert
    803 4 JMM M ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦j X Two young men wi!l rule desert kingdoms next year. Both were at Harrow school. Both are grandsons of chiefs who fought with < Lawrence of Arabia. Both, says L. Hays, would be contenders for < the right to rule a united
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    TOKYO'S CHIEF BEGGAR SPEAKS...
    162 4 TO X Y OS Metropolitan j Government has run into unexpected opposition m a campaign to remove all beggars from the city streets to profitable work or charitable support. The beggars themselves say they can make more money sitting idly on the pavements than they could
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    It Seems To Me...
    777 4  -  POLITICO By r[E fiim "The Great est Show on Earth" is almost certain to be B Singapore 'draw. Why? because there is nearly 15,000 feet of it But Singaporeans are not alone m preferring quantity to quality when they go to the cinema. It is an
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    U.S. has 'Tin Can' Complex
    690 4 SHORT STORIES AMERICA has become so tin-can minded that unless she can get her food m cans, the American housewife is at a loss to know how to provide a meal. In California alone more than six biKion tin-cans are made every year to hold
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    FOCUS on the FUTURE
    175 4  - FOCUS on th e FUTURE JOHN ASHWIN LOQKS_AHE FASTEN Your and you re n I aeroplane. I then? I The a normal. I which ha I fitted v. safety b I m Jersey. The b« the v I shoul I the sa! I turer. I protect pas* r I den
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    GOVT. TO BUY 13½ ACRES OF LAND
    198 5 —But has not decided want to do with it Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Government has approved $800,000 to buy 13} acres of land, but has not decided for what purpose it should be used. The land which is at Orchard Road, was,
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    CITY MAY REFUSE FAIR REQUEST
    249 5 SINGAPORE City Council has received a report 4u V 0 I 6 PoMcc that ten persons have alleged that what purported to be their signatures m a petition to the Council are forgeries The petition urged the Council to grant permission for the conversion of
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    Volunteer camp will now cost more
    132 5 Volunteer camp will now cost more SINGAPORE Government will spend near'y $100,000 to build the first stage of the new Volunteer camp at Tanah Merah Besar, Chan'g., this year. i Originally only $75,000 was (approved. Sup- lementary j provision of $***** was agreed to by the Finance Committee. The additional
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    FED. GOVT. CLERKS WANT 'FAMILY PAY'
    173 5 FED. GOVT. CLERKS WANT 'FAMILY PAY' \LA LUMPUR. Sat ERNMENT should give i vances. as ite off. to all states a ib'.ed at the conference f Governtrative and Unions Aug. 30. m, submitted by Government Union also rnment to set a joint body on this. *es are reof "the lnrdships
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    He didn't renew licence
    17 5 •.HAT. Sat.-' r.ed $1C licence. that he had just md the trans- complete.
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    School seeks advice
    127 5 ALL the people who gave $100 and more to the Yock Eng School m Tanjong Katong Road. Singapore, are being asked by the school to attend a meeting where the resignation of the school board will be discussed. The meeting will be held on Aug. 30 at
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    Blackout
    79 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: A.exandra South 5.1.T.. Alexandra BriekWOTka, Pa«»r Panjan*. Packing Reformatory Kd.. Oxygen Fcty Cressonit^. St. lames. Miri Kd Uat Rd Base Medic*! Store. Bt. ,h. B.A.T. Malayan K' frl Trafaear "t Anson Rd.. Tione lUbra, Sa K o St. R»m»l> .fbl T»eoDles Pk.
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    HE DECLINES SCHOLARSHIP OFFER
    69 5 MR. Chang Mm ii.cc. until recently secretary of the Adult Education Association m Penang, has declined a British Council scholarship offered to him. The scholarship would have enabled him to study adult education m Britain. Mr Chang told the Free Pressy: "I am very sorry that
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    Entertained to a farewell swim
    45 5 TAIPING. Sat. Mr. Foo Fatr Yeow. 25. an old boy of St. George's Institution, Taiping, will leave for Britain nex: week 10 read law. He was entertained by his friends te a farewell swimming party at Lim Huan Lye's pool
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    Six Negri Scouts for Jamboree
    117 5 Six Negri Scouts for Jamboree SEREMBAN. Sat OIK Negri Sembilan Boy U Scouts have been selected to represent the State at the Pan-Pacific Jamboree, to be held m Sydney, Australia, m December. They are; Chew Ming Swee Anton Ponniah and Kat Yew Kong, all three of the Third Seremban Troop.
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    SHELTER FOR BUS QUEUES
    193 5 SHELTER FOR BUS QUEUES KUALA LUMPUR. S%« rE Municipal Traffic Advisory Committee has decided to recom-.nend the building of 35-foot long bus shelters on both sides of Foch Avenue. Mr. Douglas K. K. Lee. I whose plan for the bus shelters was approved, said the present queue rails were not
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    They'll bore for granite
    79 5 TJORING operations m the proposed granite quarrying area south of Mandai Road, Singapore, will begin soon, Mr. J. A. Harvey, the Commissioner of Lands, said yesterday. The area is known to contain granite. But it is necessary to dispose of the overburden before actual! quarrying starts,
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    2 Americans to study in S'pore
    88 5 TWO American graduates will attend the University of Malaya when the next academic session opens m October. Both are scholarship winners. One Is a botanist, the other :*n educationist. Gordon de Wolf, graduate assistant at Tulane University's Department of Botany, New Orleans, will study
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    'Resign' call to Mrs. Menon
    269 5 'Resign' call to Mrs. Menon A GROUP of voters from Seletar District ha, written to Mrs. Vilasini Menon asking her to resign from the Singapore Legislative Council. They may send a petition to the Governor to declare her seat vacant if she does not. Mrs. Menon, who represents Seletar m
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    PAY TALKS: CLERKS NOT SATISFIED
    85 5 PAY TALKS: CLERKS NOT SATISFIED t KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. 'pHE aftermath of tne re A cent salary negotiation with the Government was "disillusionment." says the annual report of the Federation of Government Administrative and Clerical Unions. This was especially so with clerks who had reached the maximum of $280 on
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    GETS DIPLOMA
    33 5 TAIPING Sat. Mr. David Singh, who went /to England last year on a Kedah Government scholarship has returned to Taiping after obtaining a diploma m education at i London University 'i
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    Parking ban is urged
    73 5 KUALA Lumpur. Sat. The Traffic A ommittee of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council has derided to recomrr.end troduction of .he parking ban on Batu Road, the town's busiest highvv; Except where house. 1 are set back from the road no vehicles will be allowed to park
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    SCHOOLS HELPING TO BUILD NATION
    244 5  - SCHOOLS HELPING TO BUILD NATION Blythe BOYB Free Press Staff Reporter GOVERNMENT'S educa- tional policy is designed to stimulate tbe growth of a Malayan nation which would be .-.apable of self-govern-ment, the Colonial Secit tary, Mr. W. L. Blythr, told a meeting of the Chinese Schools Co-or-dinating Committee held at
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    SURREY WIN COUNTY TITLE
    554 6  -  JIM CHAMBERS 'Reward for team work' By CURREY yesterday won the Comfy eric! et championship by defeating Derbyshire a! Kennington Oval by 212 runs. Superb bowling and fie ding, the str:ng poi of the Kennington Oval team this year, sh t ou* Derbyshire for 95 runs
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    OLD VICS XI
    56 6 Following will represent Old Victorians against S: Andrew* Boys for thfir Evan Wong [d cricket match at Ceylon S C. grcund tomorrow: S. Yogorajah tCapt.), R. Sitharam. Dr. X.. S. Retnam, 8. -ingaxn. A C. Shagaran, E. X Thamby. S. Balakrishaan. Ismail Jaboax. S. M. Ally. Rudh
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    Indians lose by 6 wkts
    351 6 Indians lose by 6 wkts SUSSEX soundly whipped j^ 1 the Indians by six wickets at Hove yesterday, and be- came the second county to defeat the tourists. Surrey did the trick on the Indians at Kennington Oval early m May. The last two Indian wickets fell for 19 runs
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    Gardner sets 21 records
    78 6 lEUTENANT C ionrl A. T. (G(^die) Gardner. 61-year-r!d British racing n.oto ict. has set 21 Ameri an and inte-naUpn-•l spe d reccrds for light cars since Si'urday In time trials on 3onnev.ll- Salt Flats. Uiah. On the last day of his t laJs l ip catablished
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    BOOK BIDS
    581 6 "P*OR years, Ely Culbertson has pooh-poohed point counts and clung to honour tricks as the only bidding methed the public would learn. Scfie two years ago, however, Charles Goren introduced some modifications of the old Milton C. Work point cou^t 4 for ace, 3 for king, 2 for
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      475 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you have a keen and practical mind. Your enthusiasm is high, too .md it can carry you on to success when others fail m similar project*. You have a Croat deal of determination and once you haw »et your mind to a task, there is
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      121 6 New Crossword No. *y 1 Pulls U transposed (5, 2). 5. A seat on the lawn, pcrhapc d>. 7. It, orders the turns (4). 8. "I fled Him down the of the years" (P. Thompson* »6>. 10. Exact vicarious retribution (6). 11. Got up as a flower girl. (4) 13.
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      56 6 Solution to Crossword No. 747 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 1. Monday. 7, Morning. 8, Lamour 9. Sky sign. 10. Redeem. 12, Sidings 17, Nagpur. 18, Highest. 19. Tubing. 20. Lighter. 21. Repton, Down: 1. Molars. 2, Nomads. 3 Amused 4. York Minister 5, Ant's egft 6. Snags 11. Eighths 13. Nature.
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    HOWERS HEAVY
    621 7 Short Hairs is tipped for 5. 00 From ALLAN LEWIS rr!IKKE was a steady shower of rain all last 1 niiiht, m Kuala Lumpur. The going this :itti rnoon will be heavy, so that the changed conditions will make it necessary to revise selection*. Kuda is a very
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    REFEREE FAILS TO TURN UP
    65 7 rhe B. H FA Ltague Ar Cup fixture between Sime Darby I and O.TJ.C scheduled for yesurday. was off. because the referte did not turn up m the o'her League Cup match at Bakstier Ro«d yesterday Chartered Bank lost to Pulo Bufcom 3-0 FRANCE oeat
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    Amateur races on Aug. 30
    333 7 Amateur races on Aug. 30 THE Malayan Amateur Racing Association will hold their first sponsored race meeting on the Kuala Lumpur racecourse on Saturday, Aug. 30. Ownersv of polo ponies, hacks and deleted racehorses have given the meeting their fullest support. The first race will start at 2 p.m. and
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    Today's acceptors
    641 7 Race 1-2.30: Cl. 4, Div. 4— 6 F. 1 388 Flying Spirit Ellery 9.00 2 176 Vuillaume Lansdown 8.12 3 538 Screen Percival 8.10 4 335 Mandalay McCloud 8.10 5 462 At Last Tulloh 8.09 6 154 Petitioner 8.08 7 576.Ashok Smith 8.07 8 280 Gilded Dome Flannery
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    TEN-MAN RAJA TEAM DO WELL
    273 7 Kota Raja 0; PuJau Brani United 0. THE Singapore Amateur F.A. Senior league tie between Kota Raja Club and Pulau Brani United ended m a scoreless draw yesterday, at Jalac Besar Stadium. It was a keenly contested game, but all credit must go to the
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    MATCHES OFF
    21 7 Rain and irate >';•'' ntt-hes affected yesterday's United Services League programme m wmen both senior and Junior matches a/pro DOStDOnfd.
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    Centre-half ordered off
    59 7 In a SAFA Div. 2 league soccer match played at the Geylang Stadium yesterday Star Soccerltes trounced Singapore Medical Services Union by four goals to nil. Fifteen minutes after the interval Muniandy, SMSU centre-half, was sent off by the referee Chong Liang Sin. Scorers for Star Soccerites:
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    M.U. WIN LEAGUE
    168 7 A FIGHTING display by R.A.F. Changi saw them hold Plying Boat Wing to a draw and thus enable 390 Maintenance Unit tc win the United Services P-A, Junior League. The game, played before 1800 spectators at Seletar on Monday, was packed with thrills and ended m a
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    ERIC STURGESS BEATS PATTY
    42 7 I^RIC Sturgess of South Africa won the North of England lawn tennis championship yesterday, defeating Budge Patty, of Los Angeles, by three sets to two m the final. The scores were Siurgess 6-3, 3-6. 4-6. 6-1 6-3— AP.
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    BARNES WINS LIBEL ACTION
    223 7 BARNES WINS LIBEL ACTION AUSTRALIAN Test cricketer t Sidney G. Barnes, whose libel action against the writer of a letter to a newspaper was settled yesterdrv said last night he wa s "going all out for inclusion m the Australian team to tour England next year." He made this comment
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    THE MAXIM INQUIRY
    120 7  -  Kearns No contract—says JACK KEARNS, manager of Joey Maxim, light-heavy-weight champion, appeared before the New York State Athletic Commission on Thursday, to answer allegations that he was violating an agreement for Maxim to defend his title m London next month. Jack Solomons, London promoter. had contended that
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    BIRTH
    14 8 JUNK wife of Major Peter Heal 5 1st Highland Division. Scotland, a son.
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    FUNERAL
    37 8 THE FUNERAL OF MRS CHEONG CHIN NAM who passed! peacefully on 17 8.1952 will take place on Monday 25.8 1952. .ortege will leave 24 Upper i Street for the Peck Shan 1 Cemetery at 9.00 ajn.
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    DEATH
    17 8 DRE NOUAILHETAS late layan Rubber Trading Co.. Ltd.. as the result of an acci- m Europe.
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    R.A.F. TO TRAIN GERMANS
    348 8 Ex-Nazis will fly latest jet plans WASHINGTON, Saturday. PERMAN pilots for the projected European Army will be trained m America and England, especially m handling the latest type jet fighters, officials m the U.S. Federal Defence Commission said yesterday. The British and Americans are also expected
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    Eden to get Tito into W. defence
    181 8 Eden to get Tito into W. defence LONDON, Sat. r[E FOREIGN SECRETARY, Mr. Anthony Eden's planned visit to Yugoslavia is intended to help bring tha* Communist country into the Western defence set-up. informed sources said yesterday. Mr. Eden Is due to spend about one week from September 17 with Marsha]
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    OIL CHARGE
    194 8 (Continued from Page 1> cases, impose exorbitant prices on Europeans which the American taxpayers unwittingly helped to foot. The concerns are the Sta'. Oil Company of New Jersey, the Standard Oil of California' the Texas Company. Seoony Vacuum Oil Company and the Gulf Oil Company all American the
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    KILLED IN TAXI
    26 8 Five men and two women, all Tunisians, were killed yesterday m a taxi which plunged oft* a high bridge near Fash, Tunisia A.P.
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    Egypt Premier urged: 'Close bars, cabarets'
    307 8 CAIRO, Saturday. IT ASS AN Ilodeiby Murshid, Supreme guide' of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, yesterday urged the Prime Minister, Aly Maher, to close bars cabarets and dance-halls and to restrict ci :ema shows. In a formil note he said "cvi: influence'" on Egyptian youth
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    Loudspeaker annoyed Reds
    62 8 SEOUL. Sat. CHINESE Communists turned searchlights on United Nations troops yesterday, the first time they have been used against ground targets. They were searching for loudspeakers broadcasting to their troops on the central front the text of i letter from a Chinese woman asking her husband to
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    ONLY THREE OF QUINS LEFT
    55 8 ONLY THREE OF QUINS LEFT On! v three of Brazil's three-day-old quintuplets were alive yesterday. Maria Torosa died on Thursday night and Maria Angela died earlier. The quins, born m a hovel and taken to hospital wrapped m rags, are the children of Joao Albano. an odd job man earning
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    ACTRESS DIES IN RED GAOL
    82 8 ACTRESS DIES IN RED GAOL VIENNA. Sat. THE popular Czech actress, A Jirina Stepnickova. has died mysteriously m a prison at Karlovy Vary. One report yesterday sa:d the actress had committed suicide. Another said she had been beaten to death by Red Czech agents during a questioning session. Radio Free
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    QUADS MAKE FAMILY 19
    49 8 Quadruplets born to an African woman m Maritzburg hospital three boys and a girl— have brought their father's family to 19, two wives and 17 children. The father, John Dude, is a farm labourer m Natal. An appeal to help him has been launched. A.P.
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    FIRST CONGRESS
    26 8 The Yugoslav Communist Party will hold its first congress m four years on October 19. two weeks after the So- viet Party meeting. U.P.
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    U.S. MAY GUARANTEE SECURITY OF SPAIN
    208 8 SAN SEBASTIAN. Spain. Saturday. 4 STATEMENT attributed to a high American government official that Spain can expect guarantees against aggression from the U.S. m return for military bases, was prominently reported m the nations press yesterday Such guarantees will speed lup Spanish-American talks now
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    Aly Khan looks at some horses
    39 8 Aly Khan looks at some horses Prince Aly Khan arrived at Lexington. Kentucky, for a brief tour of the Kentucky horse farms. He would not say anything about a possible reconciliation with his wife film star. Rita Hayworth.- A.P.
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    Rough Riders colonel
    30 8 The Queen has approved appointment of the Wuee Mother as the Rough Rider" Regiment's honorary Colonel-in-Chief. The Rough! Riders are a city of London reserve regiment.— A.P.
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    New Allied HQ may be set up
    193 8 PARIS. Sat. FIELD-MARSHAL Sir Wil- \i Ciam Slim. Chief of Bri- I tain's Imperial General Staff. < yesterday discussed with i General Matthew Ridgway 1 the possible formation of an I Allied headquarters covering j the Middle East to replace < the British
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    Ship strikes mine off Dutch coast
    184 8 THE HAGUE, Jr rpHE crew of a ship sint after it struck a mine and mattresses on deck tc signals were not seen for Then the blaze was seen by TerschelLing lighthouse and Vie lifeboat Brandaris and the tug Holland I sped to the
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    Ex-Premier in U.K.
    12 8 The l Nuri E> Said ho d. v A.P.
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      Masthead
      8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, Aug. 23. 1952.
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      Life flows quietly here
      531 1  -  MARIAN WELLS by Out at the "kelong", it was another world where time seemed endless and there was no need for hurry or bustle rrfl lie room v II swept. It had sitting on a ncr, two II v. and swingstri ire of a sel pasted
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      THE DEATH MASK OF LO CHU
      1383 1  - THE DEATH MASK OF LO CHU F. CANNING A Free Press Saturday short story by AH SENG'S house is a museum of curios and relics of old China but his collection is unusual m that it consists only of pieces that have story attached to them. It is Ah Seng's
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      FATHER TRIES HIS MAGIC ON THE CHILDREN
      532 1  -  SUSAN WISE Card tricks are seldom as easy as they seem when by jyfY CHILDREN have developed a sudden passion for magic. It began when "Uncle who is a very clever conjuror made a lighted cigarette disappear into a handkerchief, then proceeded to
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      Lighten your darkness
      918 2 Lighten your darkness >The articles m this; [page are sugges-j >lions by adverjtisers on what is [available m [Singapore to help ;you combat city power cuts. JJO LONGER need machines be idle m factories; no longer need fans, refrigerators and cookers give part time service only. With a Morrison plant,
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      The need is for economy, service
      624 2 INSURANCE com panics base their rat c s on mortality tables sml accurate studies of occupation ;il hazards. They know the life expectancy of a man m any given business or calling. They've got to know this m order to compete and survive as
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      BLACK OUT AT A FUN FAIR
      196 3 4 POWER failure blacked •A oat Margate on the South -Fast coast of England last week, and then this happened m the town's Dreamland fun-fair. Courting couples were trapped m the River Cave; tment> people were stranded high above the ground on the Big
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      A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
      48 3 A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE KONG. Fri.— Mr. v H it rison. B" commissioner m is predicted a il future for I Kong can comil advantages the most modern Is of production, can any p:ace m the can compete Harrison an address to the ..amber of Com- Reuter
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      All eyes are on this
      23 3 i picture. The number one turbo-alternator m course of construction at the Pasir Panjang Power Station, Free Press
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      Electricity through co-operatives—the farmers' way
      550 3  - Electricity through co-operatives the farmers' way CAL VIN CALDWELL by yyiTII Singapore and the Federation m the midst of a great electricity expansion programme, it may be of interest to see howother people have worked out this problem. In 1932 only ten percent of farms m the United States had
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      Biggest clown of them all
      443 4 Special to the Free Press REECE ("Goose) Tatum of the Harlem Globetrotters is called the Pagliacci of basketball. Tatum, say his teammates, "dies every afternoon and clowns every night The Negro basketball star conceded to be showman m me, but off the court id broods
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      WATCHING THE 'SPURS LOOSEN UP
      41 4 Tottenham Hotspurs Football Team have been putting m some preliminary practice m Epping Forest for theforthcoming soccer Salon. Picture shows a™w of youngsters watching to collect a few hints as the team loosens up.- Foz picture.
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      FA expected to sanction night league
      168 4 FA expected to sanction night league By THE SPORTSMAN rvNE of these days, "maybe and maybe not— the big clubs of I the Football League, Arsenal, Spurs and the others, will play competitive floodlit soccer. Today I hear that some of the smaller clubs are about to pioneer such a
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      THE SAINTS ARE FIGHTING FIT
      404 4  - THE SAINTS ARE FIGHTING FIT ROGER YUE By rTHE only English A school m Singapore today to take an active part m encouraging and coaching its pupils to take up boxing as an art of self-defence is St. Andrew's School. Recently the Saints held their fifteenth annual school boxing tournament
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      HUTTON IS POPULAR IN THE LONG ROOM
      752 4  - HUTTON IS POPULAR IN THE LONG ROOM GERALD PAWLE By THE government of cricket is popularly supposed to be m the hands of a body of grey bearded elders whose spiritual home is the Long Room at Lord's. There, rumour has it, they drowse through the long summer days exchanging
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      SPORTS BEAT
      990 4  -  CHARLES j^^~ W."«V9V.V. THE film "The Harlem Globetrotters" will be shown next Tuesday for one day only at the Capitol cinema. It will then be transferred to the Globe Theatre where it will ran with Chinese subtitles. (COINCIDENCE will bring consolation to hundreds of sports fans this weekend.
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      This is the film hero
      127 4 This is the film hero :am "Rookie' alias Billy Towns* film, "The Harlem C trotte* hostile group oi children. Papa the the opposite *h- I watched bing head was Just a the midst of a par.se and the Causes to Johore to wi tuagena:. no: ha'» Fifteen and then I
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