The Singapore Free Press, 26 August 1952

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 1 SINGAPORE TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1952 PRICE FIFTEEN CEN l
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  • 471 1 Guerillas land 250 miles from Shanghai nmvror JAIPEH, Formosa, Tuesday. Nationalist guerillas have made a successful seaborne raid on the Chinese tiainland. tye Nationalist Government's Defence Department announced yesterday. But the Ministry said the raid did not violate president Truman's policy of neutralising Formosa because no
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  • 32 1 This playsuit with a Pan effect comes from Vanna of Milan. Italy. The breeches are m red straw, while the slanting black wool .top leaves one shoulder hare.
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  • 22 1 pie were killed and when Iraqi police fire on Basrah port ho .'tempted tc water a:... Icttj A.P.
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  • 38 1 BERLIN. Tues. MORE than 500 of the 60,000 East German Catholics who flocked here for the All-German Catholic Congress have applied for political asylum m West Berlin, the city's refugee officials said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 19 1 Korean Government officials will begin moving back into the war-torn capital of Seoul next week.- U.P.
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  • 16 1 Japan's first postwar ambassador to Belgium Mr. Shosi Arakawa, arrived m Brussels, yesterday.- U.P.
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  • 93 1 PLANE FLIES TO RESUE OF BURNING SHIP BONA VISTA. Newfoundland. Tues. A U.S. AIR FORCE plane yesterday raced to the aid "of a stricken freighter reported to be a mass of flames 50 miles eastnorthwest of Cape Bona Vista on Newfoundland s rugged east coast. Early reports indicated that there
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  • 134 1 Friend, said the Yard man LONDON, Tuesday. A BUCKINGHAM PALACE sentry did not know A his password early yesterday, so he arrested a Scotland Yard detective at bajronet^oint ,he darkened Palace grounds, jave the correct password but 'he sentry refused to accept it and marched
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  • 53 1 American authorities m Berlin said yesterday that the three members of the American Military Mission to the Soviet zone whom the boviets accused of espionage "probably" would be replaced. The Soviets detained them for 36 hours, took away their passes to enter East Germany and
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  • 14 1 Hon^ Kong spenc £145.000 on a now sports sta dium accommodating 30,000
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  • 234 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Progressive Party has attacked the Government for what it calls Hs "masterly inactivity with regard to the introduction of new residential qualifications for would -bj Cit> Counicillo.s. It says that nearly six months ago th e City Council passed
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  • 55 1 The results of exhaustive chemical tests m Tunisia have revealed that an attempt was made last summer to poison the Bey of Tunis— with bi-carbonate of soda The Bey opened the formal investigation when a mysterious man was caught dumping white powder into a cocking pot
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  • 132 1 A haunted castle for the Queen Mother LONDON. Tues. Bl t KIN (.HAM Palace hu> confirmed week-end rethat the Queen bef had bought remote primitive Barregill m the far north of land. The Queen Mother will use the 400-year-old. 40-room-ed castle as her summer rience now that Balmoral Castle, about
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  • 42 1 Reporter wo fire Ii irrying down pore to a riich was never kindled. pir.g through ear the A;, ri ran Tobacco i a mechthe alarm be Centra. •ered this d the box sed around for I none.
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  • 138 1 CROWDS HAIL KING HUSSEIN AMMAN, Tues. QUN salutes, victory arches and cheering crowds greeted Jordan's new schoolboy King, Hussein, when he flew m from Switzerland yesterday with his mother. Queen Zain. Seventeen-year-old King Hussein suceeds his ailing father Talal, who has been certified insane and unfit to rule his 36,000
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  • 53 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. A DIPLOMATIC official saici yesterday that the State Department has expressed complete agreement with :he British Embassy here that Britain and other United Nations countries, whose force are fighting m Korea, should have the same rights m Japan as those accorded to Uniter
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  • 67 1 NEW YORK. Tues. THE Federal Grand Jury indicted yesterday 65 persons m the Government crack-down on a huge gold smuggling ring. Those indicted were mostly connected with the jewellery manufacturing trade, the Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Louis Kaplan, said. He said the smugglers bought gold from
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  • 73 1 LONDON, Tues. rE Duchess of Kent took her three children to Scotland yesterday on a pilgrimage to the scene of the air crash m which her husband was* killed on August 25. 194'!. The family spent about two hours at Braemore. m th c Dunbeath
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  • 130 1 Talks on a gift they don 't want Free Press Staff Reporter MR. AHMAD IBRAHIM, a Singapore Malay leader, told the Free Press this morning that the offer of a $500,--000 gift to the Malays by the Malayan Chinese Association, which the M.C.A. has now withdrawn, would be discussed by
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  • 28 1 Mr Takin Tin. the Burmese Minister for Land Nationalisation, is going to Russia. China and Israel soon to study land nationalisation methods and collective farm- ing.-
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  • 19 1 Burglars entered a store In McPherson Road, Singapore, last night and removed electric cables worth $300. A.P.
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  • 46 1 -\HREE men will represent Singapore at the Coronation 1 celebrations m London m June, next year. The- are:' Sir Han Hoe Lim, Mr. R Jumabhoy and Mr. John Laycock. They were chosen at a meeting at Government House y esterday.
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  • 397 1 'Unselfish U.S. oil man in Teheran TEHERAN, Tuesday. \IR. ALTON JONES, Director of the Cities Service Corporation of America, has arrived m Teheran, to study what assistance his cempany can give to Persia to restart her oil industry, the National Persian Oil Company said yesterday. Mr. Jones, whose arrival on
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  • 21 1 Free Press Staff Reporter BURGLARS entered three Road. and three watch' h WW The occupai/ at the ti.ne.
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  • 36 1 Wedding date for peer LONDON. Til' MIM Jan e McNeilC 21. English society girl, last night announced that she would wed the Earl of Dalkeith, 28-year-old heir to a Scottish dukedom, m Scotland early next January.
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  • 232 1 U.S. and back in 1 2 hours: first try LONDON. Tw THE world may shrink appreciably again today wtien three Britons try to be the first men to cross the Atlantic both ways m half a i They will see the sun over Europe as they hui west-wards towards a
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  • 802 2 Green stones ate said to be unlucky but emeralds mean "success and happiness m marriage" says Eileen Ashcrcf nnHE new Mrs. Ed* o .ormerly Miss C Churchill, nlco the Pi Minister, hai sapersUUooa abou* emermidfl oemg un-iu .j has given her a Ka square
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  • 731 2 OLD CLOTHES ARE 'IT'— ON THE RIVIERA FJOWN .unong th^ forests of pernod glasses on the Rivier roast you can still hear the girh declarp He must be a mil lionaire". But thi* chances arc it if you follow the prices, the millionaire, this year, wiil look more like a
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  • 184 2 Russian Women Have Sense of Style OUSSIAN women have a sense of style, but only a small se.ection of fashions, says 24-year-old Miss Rachel Nor- j man, who has just returned home to Britain after nine months m j Moscow. She was governess to the family of an^official at the
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  • 823 2  - Girls: Frenchmen Notice Eyes First, Americans the Face MURRAY J ...lIHIIII.IMIMMIIIMIIIMIIHIIimiIM.ItHM I U.S. DIARY 1 by The girl American men would most like to date is blonde, hatiess, gay and non-existent IN tune with the general midsummer slackening of tension here Look Magazine offers its reader^ some statistics on What
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    • 151 2 M^e have always it Stock WATCHES and CLOCKS oi popular makes designs at reasonable prices KHALIK JEWELLERS, 11. THE ARCADE. SINGAPORE 1 PHONE <:* 476 POLITICS Decline of the V, o; Sp» i Federal G Vheare D at I Pcrtra.i of Europe by Madariaga The World m March' 1939 The
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 258 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR HORN toJav. yoj most tarij learn to overcome a tendency to mcroid pessimism Perhaps it is because Nfl are much tlu- perfetti <ui^t that you berom^ di«illu lened by your impei V-tubii ty. Learn to find fee «;<> that exists m everyone an j everything. It I
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    • 112 2 Hew Crossword No. 75© CLlfcS ACROSS 1 Sappers' team (6>. 4. Doe-, provide poetry (4). 8. The rascal will do his .>«prkcarelessly (5). 9. Any R.A. is of this race (5). 10. Seen m the fcird lunar quarter (6, 4). 13. Enables one to create a shine^onf foot (4. 6>.
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  • 80 3 MEXICO CITY, Tues. .can Public Health has asked Dr •trto Trencavei to make a .t:on of the die" m patent a quan- to Houston. treat the at. Docit the patsuffering n of I of the U S said ng to do with young mans
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  • 251 3 Hanged men reveal clues in killer's make-up LONDON, Tuesday. QOCTORS are now being allowed to examine the brains of people hanged fo r murder to check a theory that some people who seem normal may kill on sudden impulse because of a hidden brain defect. Special attention is being paid
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  • 163 3 EDINBURGH, Tues. AFTER watching 400 infra red camera shots of the reactions of 10 typical chila cinema audiences, a special board of experts' will decide which films to show to children during the Edinburgh Festival. Two special performances of children's films will be
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  • 54 3 The freighter Phassa (7.235--tons) of Panamanian registry which has been agrourd off the Wakefield shoals m the Central Philippines since August 18 was refloated by two tugs after unloading part of her cargo The Phassa was enroute to Singapore with 10.000 tons of wheat for Indii when
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  • 44 3 Harofld J. Massingham, 64 the British author, who >^&s died at Long Crerdon, England, Massingha-n. wr° *>0 books, pays and pamphlets, many of them on archaeology. He once s id that he preferred the Store Az,e to modern times.- A.P.
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  • 169 3 LONDON, Tuesday. rj.AILY-CLAD gipsies were cleared out of the court when a 14-year-old school-girl gave evidence ml Dun mow. Essex. A >>v. Ronald .gea j3. or no fixed address, was sent :al Chelmsford charged with abducting her and with an offence Inst her.
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  • 31 3 Shahzada Saheb. organiser o' the Pakhtoonishtan moverreit m the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan has escaped tc Pakistan and surrendered to the Paki- stan Government.- A.P.
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  • 137 3 HE CHARMS SNAKES IN OILFIELDS DURBAN. Tues. MAMBAS. puff-adders and other deadly reptiles have so harassed technicians and labourers workins en the new U5517,000.--000 Standard Vacuum Oil Refinery here that the company has hired a snake catcher to prevent walkouts. Site workers hacking their way through virgin bush complained of
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  • 37 3 The United States Government said it wouid shortly nay more than $35,000,000 to South Korea for currency advanced to American forces for local expenses. The United States paid South Korea $35,000,000 last May. -Reuter.
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  • 82 3 Atom attack on cancer is planned onn r KAN CISCO. Tues. The Atomic Energy Commission is planning to use a 17-ton atom-smashing device m new research designed to determine f he effectiveness of powerful Xray beams on cancer deep within the body. At the University of California med cal centre.
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  • 25 3 Sabo curs on bicycles were reported to be terrorising: villages m Western Pers a If setting fire to much needed crops. A.P.
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  • 37 3 The American Congress of Industrial Communications Workers, representing 300.000 employees m the telephone industry. have demanced changes m the companyfinanced pension plans to provide a minimum $100 a month retirement benefit, says Reuter from Washington.
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  • 34 3 Th* Japanese Foreign Office has announced that Mr. Misaji Hattori will be Consul -General In Rangoon. Mr Hatt f is a former chief nf tbP Japanese Overseas A.P. Aqencv m Rangoon
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  • 29 3 Tne P Government has decided to cal. m the army to assist the civil administration m putting down the smuggling of raw jute Vx India. A.P.
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  • 67 3 T\HREE-YEAR-OLD goose, JKWtt «W dalr?/. zr^ere sfce rounds up an.^ reads m ffte co^s /or miJfcin g. Her owner, Les Irwin said Elizabeth began^ner taste about two years ago. She waddles down to the paddocks and squawks and hisses until the cows fall into line, then either
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  • 148 3 NIGHT CLUBS LOOK TO 1953 FOR A BOOM LONDON, Tues. LONDON'S night clubs and restaurants are hoping the coronation will bring them a boom to lift them out of their present difficulties. Last year the Festival was a disappointment to them. One leading restaurateur said: "The Festival never produced the
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  • 30 3 The 5,149-ton Japanese cargo vessel Terushima Maru which ran aground m the Hoogly River, about 12 miles from Calcutta last week has been declared a total wreck. Reuter
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  • 33 3 An International Labour Office Convention on minimum standards of crew accommodation m -merchant ships, so far ratified by only eight countries will come into forca on January 29, 1953.— Reuter.
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    37 3 LONG-UMBEL Jun e McCall is only 17, but already she is a successful model and is breaking into Hollywood films. She is studying drama on the 20th Cen-tury-Fox lot where she plays walk-on parts.
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  • 21 3 Six people died m a fire which devastated an aged people's camp near Munich. Germany, says A.P.
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  • 20 3 Ten Japanese divers will leave Tokyo for Ceylon to work on part improvements at Co.ombo. says Reuter
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  • 39 3 Mr. Lan Stephens, former I editor of the Statesman of Calcutta, has suggested a name for the whole of the j Indian sub-continent Delkaria, a composite of the i two capital cities. New Delhi ana Karachi. R euter
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  • 23 3 Communist Yugoslav iroops may join m small scale -nilitary manoeuvres with Greece and Turkey this autumn— possibly m October.- A.P.
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  • 27 3 The U.S. Air Force has announced plans to train :ts own chapains m colleges through the air force reserve officers' training corps pro- gramme. Reuter
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  • 309 3 TOKYO, Tuesday. rjID an American soldier really ride Emperor Hirohito's white horse? The general imprrssion among many Japanese and Americans has be^n that he did. But now Shgeru Ozu, a Japanese lawyer who was head of the Government's "Horse Administration Bureau" when
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  • 47 3 Tests have no ulterior move n««rman nostaJ rocket experiments are exclusive^ uses. Herr 4^bert Puelleberg. Chairman of the German Rocket Research j Society said at Bremen. He was countering protests made m the British House of Commons against German attempts to fly models of postal rockets. Reuter
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  • 25 3 Dr. Rebecca Parrish. 82. retired Methodist medical missionary and founder of the Mark Johnston Hospital m the Philippines, has died m Indianapolis. A.P.
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    318 3 JJOUI'H bad v.c:v L tncki to back, and while Eas and West congratulated themselves on their lucky escape, declarer and his partner accused each* other he guilt, m missing the boat. Said North. "How come you rebid your four-card spade sun? It would be just as cheap to
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  • 25 3 Th e former Japanese premier, Kichiro Hiranuma, a war criminal sentenced to life-imprisonment, has died m a Tokyo hospital. He was 85 U.P.
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  • 28 3 Mr. Trygve Lie. SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, said that economic questions and international trade occupy European minds rather than the thought of war- A.P.
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    • 9 3 •L (3AM6OLS f i kill i rf m "r
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    • 235 3 RADIO LISTENING j. ifcff-* H unDV H. 30 The News News Talk; SLNl<3t\f<Jt\lL t; 45 interlude; 6.50 From The om Kanc m n<; tuhpc from Editorials; 7.00 Forces' Favourites--10 a.m. News. 10.05 Tunes from ?3Q Bryan (barlto^ 745 rhe Shows: 10.45 Rendezvous with Cricket Middlesex v. India the Star; l'p.m
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  • 44 4 AT nine o'clock yesterda r\_ morning 6« of Permatanc rafgn population of 7p w^re taken away from th^" v^as?e to detention camps what they clearly knew XiJ niurder of n In the'r 7^ was a punN^.^r ILA eh J^?.™* harder tba«
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  • 267 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, August 26, 1952. Let them play isfor I h a a x i struck h Fr I c Ri\\d Boya Club o: S Barely a their ow bey no loi eru *lub troi re- I to afresh to need of tens of thousa of other
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  • 1113 4 Fortunes Buried in the Atomic Arc The men 'back of beyond 9 may be millionaires tomorrow JRANIUM CITY. North Saskatchewan QNE of the earth :> 'cellar doors, reaching down almoi f to the centre of th. xlobv and covering tw thirds of ConadaV lane* surface, is the reasor iv this
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  • 42 4 Richard Creenough flew to Canada's Northern belt for this first on the spot' story of the Uranium Rush. He tells of the men and women m search of the new gold and of the conditions under which they live.
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  • 628 4 And down they go for fun! A man died m an underground cave last week. He was a potholer. 1 George Scott describes this hazardous sport. 4 THIRTY-Two-Year- Old French industrialist. Marcel Loubens, has died on n stretcher 1.656 ft. underground, and everyone wants to know: What was he do:
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  • 415 4 Britain and the U.S. a Contrast THE most important thing about going to America is the chance you get to look at England without blinkers when you get home. Ever since I saw London Airport again, J have been totting up England's score. FOR l—"No orchids for...' You can see
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  • 8 4 AGRIC labour with tO!.
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  • 140 5 Work to start within month m S hen ton Way kJS^. u jssr rti on his i<Mo -> I Under oiie clause In the c, failure to notify Government m certain circumstances within a month and tne payment of a $10 fee can render a $1,500,000 tenstorey
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  • 16 5 -.NO. Tvies. ue and pro\ P draft 133 presented At |1 to nt
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  • 66 5 IPOH, Ti! veu>:mary officers and A from Penang, Keiantan, Prov. i Semoiian and Johore arc fan Ipoh during the next lew weeks to oteerrt the anti-rabies drive Groups will accompany the* mobile n teanvs of the Perak ny De: 1 mer.t operating m the
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  • 158 5 T hey don't ask for proof of age on card FT is not compulsory for A anyone applying fo- an identity card m Singapore to produce a birth certificate to prove his age, the Commissioner for Registration Mr i Cheng Kirn Whatt, told the Free Press yesterday. Mr. CiKng was
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  • 47 5 Cigar men to strike JOHORE BAHRU. Tries. The Johore Bahru branch of ihe Johore State Cigar Workers' Union will strike today because negotiations for increased wages have failed. They asked m May to be paid the increased rates granted to members of branches elsewhere m the State
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  • 76 5 PENANG Tues.— The Penang Government trade school was doing excellent work but it was not well enough known to the public, Dr. N. K. Menon (Indian Unofficial > said at yesterday s meeting of the Settlement Council. He supported a motion by Mr. J. A. T.
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  • 42 5 The Eastern Bank has declared interim dividend at 25.. 6d. per share less income tax at 9s. 6d. per pound. Dividend is payable oji Sept. 18. Transfer books will be closed from Sept. 4 to Sept. 17, both days inclusive.
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  • 108 5 PENANG, Tues. A TRIBUTE to the Christian Brothers for providing an English school m rural Balik Pulau was paid at yesterday's Settlement Council meeting by Mr. Chee Swee Ec (Chinese Unofficial) Mr. Chee asked the Government to consider establishing an English school at Bayan Lepas
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  • 58 5 foaiA vvor irom Singapore, the Federation and Bangkok are helping to build a church and youth centre at the new village of Pendamaran. near Port Swettenham. Some of the campers are at work on tbc building site. In the background is the temporary shed which
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  • 132 5 F.P.A. seeks help from a club Family Plans' ning Association has I fd the Kamala Club for Indian women with a knowledge of Urdu and Tamil to work as interpreters at its clinics. Mrs. M. J. Namajie. president of the club, said: "We have asked the association for the number
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  • 45 5 MUAR Tues. A woman. Goh Sim. was charged at ICuai with attempting to cause grievious hurt by threa tening Lim Pen Low with a dangerous weapon at Simpang Lima Estate. Bail of $300 was allowed when the case was postponed.
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  • 206 5 SINGAPORE City Council will be asked to consider shortly whether owners of property m private roads should not pay the cost of widening such roads to 36 feet after they have received compensation for the land acquired by the Council for the purpose. The Council's
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  • 154 5 Malayans happy in Britain Halliday THE British Council and the Victoria League are helping Malayan students to enjoy their stay m Britain, Mr. A. Halliday, former Examinations Secretary, Singapore, said yesterday. f Mr. Halliday returned to the Colony last week after a five-month vacation m Bri:ain. "The orgainsations help the
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  • 82 5 BATU PAHAT, Tues. At the Batu Pahat Police Headquarters yesterday, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, Federation High Commissioner, presented the Colonial Police MedaJ to a police corporal and Letters of Commendation to fl\ne Kampong Guards. The recipients were Police Corporal Abdul Rahman bin Othman, Haji Salleh bin
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  • 12 5 IPOH. Tues The Perak library will hold a social and
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  • 96 5 Clerks will get quarters next year SEREMBAN. Tues. THE Commissioner of Police had assured him that (jUaitcio for polioo oiorb-c w 11 be included m next year i police building programme Mr. R. S Maniam. president of the Federation Police Administrative and .Clerical Services Union, said on Sunday. He was
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  • 92 5 Professional status for estate men KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. rE Federation of All Malayan Estates Staff Unions is to set up a technical examination bt;ard to confer professional status The Department of Agriculture the Rubber Research Institute and the Incorpnrat--1 ed Society of Planters will be a^keti to join the Board
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  • 117 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. MR. S. C. E. SINGAM will ■••ovo at Thiircrloj-'c rm»ptI ing of the Municipal Council that no games such as football, golf and hockey, should be played m the Lake Gardens. Mr. K. L. Devaser. (BupfMT IMP) will move thu the Selan-
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  • 158 5 SINGAPORE Government is considering a request from dealers that the profit allowed on th? sale of rationed sugar be increased. A delegation of the Singapore G vornmeit Licensed Rice Dealers' Association who approach* -J the Food Control Department recently for bi profits
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  • 90 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight an Aljunird Ed. Sim s Aw an* Pay* L«lmt Pum^ s««mu fc-tatr McPtarsaa Ka kimi </huaa ltd Dunman Rd.. Juu hiai Plarr. J*Ua VtfAia. JaJaa tWr afc bride* Rd Rai:»Mrt *d.. luoirf Kd.. <*•!-»•*«•«»■ Rd. lolui Av«t -ire Rd.. I pprt vrancoon.
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  • 21 5 Ex-students plan dinner Ex s of S pore will hold their 43rd dinner on Oct. 31 it the Capitol Blue Room.
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  • 147 5 PERTH PLAN TO HELP MALAYAN STUDENTS EADINO :x>re ritizen.s hi asked tx> help build em Kiternatiora.l Qoa 1 I'trth, Australia, to h overseas students. There are more than 50 Malayan itudente m Ferth. Most of these are living m two large hos'els on the way to Premantle. They art a
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  • 464 6 Keen play at the Oval INDIA with seven second innings wickets to fall have ah overall lead of 143 runs against Middlesex at Lords and an interesting finish should be seen today. In reply to the India score of 2^9 Middlesex hit 255 and
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  • 128 6 CORD Konno, an Ohio state swimmer, who clinched the official Olympic team title for the United States by winning the 1.500-metre freestyle on August 2, begins the defence of his national 1.500-metre title today m H:iydes Park. East Pool Besides Kor.no. Olympic champions Yokshmobu Oyakwa. of
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  • 75 6 \fORE than 160 cyclists— amat ur and professional —from 26 :-a'tons will compete m ♦he world cycling track championships which be^in m Paris to The RB and pr road Vto already been held m Luxembourg, whose federation -hips. bu*. are to take the P.irc Des
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  • 60 6 HPHE Australian Rugby League party of 28 players and two managers arrived at Tilbury. I yesterday by sea for their tour of Britain and France. They open their tour with i match atrains; Keisjhley on September 6 After breakfast on board :heir ship the party left
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  • 387 6 By GEOFFREY SIMPSON THE most applause pampered player oi Britain's national games is the County cricketer. That is why he gets upset when crowds criticise him for slow play, why there is alarm on County grounds at the growing activities ol the barracker. That,
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  • 36 6 .tack Gardner, former Britisu heavyweight champion, i» now coach to his two brothers, Bob and Rodney, who have turned professional. Picture shows Jack watching his brother Bob throw a right. A future champion, perhaps?
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  • 348 6 rpHE 1952 championships m both junior and senior divisions have been decided m the Singapore I'nited Services Football Association League. The senior division title has gone to Royal Air Force Lodger Units, while R.A.F. Maintenance Unit have won the junior league. R E.M.E. are safe In
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  • 109 6 A 61 -year-old London doctor filled yesterday for tlie 15th time to swim the English Channel. Dr. George Brewster abandoned his latest attempt after swimming for four and a half hours from Cap Gris Net. "I chose the wrong tide." he said when he reached Dover
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  • 978 6 By CHARLES BARNKir TNCREDIBLE though it may seem, Jj mim tt once received weight m t match Sn rt France had heard stories oi his pro rfl^ of felt that a little fellow from thei < Wn th was fast enough and clever
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  • 359 6 "YJEN who have been around the fight game for a long time and whose words carry some authority are being quoted as saying that Rocky Marciano hits as hard, or harder than either Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis did m his prime and that he
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    • 147 6 M3ndr3KP Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya Sf— j^^/ GOOD I HE^SYOUPI* HEADLESS TH!£F' t V^J MANORAKE/ THAT TOOK TEN YEARS I MANOPAKE IS WEREJ |«uA? ImJ I A//CW7/ CHl£F 'NFACT f TWQJ)PTHEM.^[-- QPPMY LIPE^PON'T YOU EVER 00 JANE Exclusir to* Singapore free Press m Malaya roeuGuTEQ, janel-i
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  • 578 7 England XI not so marvellous after all By JIM CHAMBERS £EN HUTTON'S first season as captain of (he England cricket team has been more successful than probably the Yorkshireman, or anyone else, hoped. But, I am afraid Hutton is sticking his chin out a hit
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  • 124 7 THE 'GOOSE MADE 10,000 LAUGH crowd roared—with laughter at the Happy rid Stadium last night, and the man who lused the stir was Recce "Goose" 1 »turn of the m Globe Trotters, the all-Negro basketball team. :adium was packed -:ty and the crowd of were reated to some' basketball. go
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  • 216 7 (?apor« Badminton Aaso:a'Jon's junior men's singles iriKr-achool championships a i the Guiliemard Road hall i »ekend. *.:^f are the ties: H'k DAY. Am* U—*.l% p.m. 3 s A Bakar v Chua on; Hassan Buang r S 3enn> Kee Pang K:a Harold Decker 1 Omar YahM Yusof Daud
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  • 51 7 R was a warm 6--> te at fast nights o n the Saint Leger ikes place at Don■n SejH 13 vere: 6-4 Tulyar. 5-1 8-1 Childe Harold n 11. 100-8 M3gr 18-1 Bob Maior. 20-1 II 3 >tleton Bur^aneer. Kar Arden -ond VTI. 40-1 M)n 50-1
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    136 7 HPHE flnaJ chess Olympic tournax ment was continued with th« hanging games of the fourth round at Helsinki. L. Evans of the United State* drew with P. Trifunovlc of Yugoslavia m group A and R Byrne of the United States beat V. Blrc of Yugoslavia one-nil. Alter four
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  • 577 7 rr\HE Malayan Lawn Tennis Association champion 1 ships will start on Thursday Aug 28 with six men's singles and two mixed doubles ties on the Penang Sports Club courts at 5.15 pm On Friday Aug. zy. eign: more lies will be played off at 5.15
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  • 130 7 Upset in U.S. tennis tourney VIC SEIXAS. the United States No. 1 and Mervyn Rose, a member of Australia's Davis Cup team, brought off one of the major surprises of the American lawn tennis season by defeating Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor of Australia at Brookllne, Massachusetts on Sunday to
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  • 29 7 PARIS, Mon— World champion Albert Ascari of Italy won the Grand Prix de Prance motor race yesterday. Luigi Villoresl (Italy) was second and Louis Rosier (Prance) third.
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  • 26 7 Yesterday'h U.K. Rugby League results: Club matches: Huddersfleld 11 Hull 7, Hunslet 21 Wftk«~ field Trinity 7, Working ton Town 28 Swlnton 0.- Reuter
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  • 187 7 001 BECOMES TRIPLE CHAMP OF PENANG 001 TEIK HC)CK. Malaya's Thomas Cup hero of 1949. on Sunday night won outright the Dunlopx Challenge Cup for the men's singles. Ooi won three events m the Penang badminton championships which ended Sunday at the Han Chiang High Schocl hall With Queenie Cheah
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  • 41 7 Results of the S.T.T.A.'s 1952 Business Houses League Ch-im-pionship played at the S.B.A. Hall last night were: Lee Onn Goldsmiths t>t Breweries SC 5-3; Borneo Motors S.C. bt Mansfield S.C. 5-2; S.T.C. Sports Club bt 1.C.1. Recreation Club 5-2.
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  • 130 7 rST cricketer Sid Barnes has demanded from *Dr. Allen Robertson of the Australian Cricket Board of Control an explanation of a published statement that only half .the Barnes story" had been told. The Board has been mder j dt-ocs criticism over of a defamation suit brought by
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  • 407 7 S.R.C 2; 8.0.D.CA. 1. > O.D.C.A. have booked themselves for relegation to the Singapore Amateur F.A. Junior Division next season. They bowed down to a nippy Singapore Recreation Club XI after a dour struggle at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. SJt.C, fielding a set ol forwards
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  • 29 7 Marques Haynes, skipper of the Harlem Globe Trotters, who dazzled the crowd last night at the Happy World stadium with his wizardry at dribbling Free Press
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  • 150 7 yrOLVERHAMPTON Wanderers gained their se- cond successive win m the new English football season yesterday, as they whipped Bolton Wanderers 3 l. Blackpool, on their own ground, were held to a I—l1 1 draw by Preston North End. In the second division, Fulham. who at the
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  • 132 7 He refused to play with Drobny JAROSLAV Drobny (Egypt) won the Riccione International Tennis tournament yesterday by default of his opponent, Fausto Gardini (Italy) who refused to play. Gardini argued with the referee last night when his match with Drobny was suspended. Gardini maintained that U was not raining hard
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  • 132 7 AID FLOOD VICTIMS Solomons PROMOTER Jack Solomons saia yesterday he was prepared to give his share of the profits of ttie Randolph Turpin-Joey Maxim fight to the fund for the River Lyn flood victims. Solomons. leaving for the United States to discuss tht Turpin-Maxim contract with Jack Kearns, Maxim's manager,
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  • 525 7 May delights crowds with unfinished 123 DETER MAY, the England and Surrey hall nz star, played a sparkling innings o 123 no. out against Hampshire at Southampton yesteida Surrey, the new County champions made t r of four points at least by topping Hampshire's first innings total of 303 and
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  • 107 7 The R.S.GC. Captain's £rtse (Stroke) Competition played on Saturday afternoon resulted In a win fcr J. W. Brand (80-10 70) on a tie with F. H. F Swayne (90-20 70) over the first *ix holes. Othfr cards returned were:H. L. Halgh (75-4 71), J L.
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  • 298 7 T.M.O.B.A. WIN 3-1 v. SELETAR Tuan Mitvng Old Boys 3; Seletar Vilie 1. MADASAMY, goalkeeper <>f the Seleta r Vllte InSports Club, saved his cCub from heavy de:cat at the hands of Tuang Muang Old Boys- Association at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Seetar lost by three goals to one m the
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  • 129 7 Muslims net six goals CCORINO six goals and conceding two. Young Men's Muslim Association had an easy victory In their Singapore Amateur P A Dlv. 3B league match against Harbour Board Police at C.V.M A. ground yesterday Muslim's centre-forward Ismail Yusof played a great game, claiming two of hi? side's
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  • 288 8 Jap. Govt. faces censure vote IOKtfO, Tuesday. fHE BRITISH-JAPANESE DISPUTE over the irrest of two British sailors at Kobe prumise> to develop into one of the most heated discussions affecting Japan's newly regained sovereignty m the new Diet which will be convoked today. The three
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  • 53 8 men who will make nd bid this year > the unconqu -9.0: M r-est th*> d>s W«h< will leave Geneva by air Bomb iy on Au?. 28. I attempt alp nist. Raymond Lamoert and I a Tensjng a 3herr. clirrbed Ithln 900 f*et cf the summit, but
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  • 29 8 Wolfgang Hedier. AnnSemitic deputy m the German Parliament, mu^ 0 to gaol tomorrow for montlia ror Pandering German political leaders an'i inciting class hatred A.P.
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  • 30 8 It may take as long as ten s before Libya, the world's newest sovereign nation, be- f supporting. i »na expert said m York yesterday. U.P.
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  • 277 8 3, trapped in cave 20 hours, rescued alive ABERDARE, Wales, Tuesday. T»\VO boy scouts and their injured scoutmaster, trapped m a mountain limestone cave, were draueed alive to safety yesterday b> rescuers who hacked their way through a nine-foot wall of boulders. The hard-bitten Weflsh coal, miners worked through the
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  • 70 8 WASHINT.TON. Tues. 'THE Food and Drug Ad- ministration yesterday reported a new kind of inflation pumping: water into turkeys so that they will weigh more when frozt n. The Administration said ibout 50,000 pounds of turkey wer c seixed during June and July m Cincinnati and
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  • 49 8 LONDON. Tues. BRITAIN'S Shell oil organisation yesterday denied charges by the U.S.* Federal Trade Commission thai Sheli parr of an international oil cartel. At The Huxue. the general manager and director of the B Dutch Petroleum Company denied "that an international oil cartel FSDFSDFSF Reuter A.P.
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  • 45 8 picture. GIANT Pan American W orld Airways Stratoclipper dwarfs cars pissing below as it taxies from its hangar to the runway for th* transAtlantic flight to Europe. This is the only runway m the world that parses over a road Reuter
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  • 237 8 na, Irr CAPETOWN. Tuesday. |>()LICE aiim-d »it;, tommvguns and rh.i. The demons. ration was the -atesc m a series of -pa resistance' moves against Pr.me Mm:s:er Daniel F Ma.ans racial segregation 9(S& Mcrt than 2.000 Africans have been arrested since June m the rising
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  • 102 8 i The British Commonwealth Relations Office announced m London yesterday the appointment of Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert George as Governor of South Australia. Sir Robert was senior Air Staff Officer, Singapore, from 1933 to 1937, and subsequently Air Attache m Ankara and Athens. He was
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  • 124 8 31 BRITONS TO VISIT PEKING LONDON, Tues. THHE biggest British delegation ever to visit Communist China, including four members of Parliament, six scientists, three housewives and members of the legal profession, left here by air lor Peking yesterday. Thirty-one members of tlie Britain China Friendship Association, which is a proCommunist
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  • 136 8 WASHINGTON, Tues 4 ROCKET-FIRING Sabre- jet fighter with radar gunsight accidentally shot down a B-17 wil _:ht men aboard over the Gulf of V co yesterday, the Air Force announced. The Air Force sai^ four panchu to open from the B-17. Rescue planes found
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  • 35 8 Seventeen-year-old Richard R. Wilson of Lockport. New York, has broken the Russianheld international speed record for flying wing model airplanes at Detroit, with a speed of 72.536 miles per hour. Reuter
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  • 20 8 Nine foreign nations will take part m West Berlin's cultural festival from August 31 to September 30- U.P.
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  • 229 8 Palace secrets revealed CAIRO, Tuesday. THE Egyptian public was given an intimotr glimpse of former King Farouk's life yesterday when newspapers printed photographs taken from a vast collection discovered m three of his palaces. The army threw open the doors o^ ,he /iodin and Kubbesh
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  • 96 8 THE Jelke. guilty yest- ment chargn i compulsory He entered short time afi jury had retur ment which ai> of inducing v mn prostitutions off their ea His bail of 17.000) wa c >^0.(,y. Pending his TAL no date R.y Russe. v former pre.^
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  • 15 8 Twenty-two c: Agriculture omcia.s b two-month ftu< can farm policies yesterdawith Fed?r; U.P.
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