The Singapore Free Press, 3 September 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA NO. 18,487. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENT>
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    SECRET SOCIETY MENACE
    327 1 Gang rivalry may be behind mob fight Free Press Staff Reporter aUNDREDS of secret societies are still operating m Singapore. Their activities consist mainly of extorting protection money from prostitutes and traders, a C.I.D. spokesman told the Free Press this morning. Of the Chinese societies the most
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    Ring-and-see 'phone
    123 1 TELEVISION'S terror of tomorrow was given its first public showing m Britain recently. A ring-and-see telephone was the surprise exhibit of the radio show at Earl's Court. London. You dial a number, your correspondent answers and you see each other on screens m front of you. By pressing
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    U.K. jets show speed after ban is lifted
    207 1 U.K. jets show speed after ban is lifted FARNBOROUGH. Wed. DHAVILLAND test pilot. John Derry, flying a DH--110 night jet fighter, rocketed through the sound ba: here yesterday miles above a crowd of thousands attendae second day of the rough air show. The first public demonstration of supersonic flight took
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    HULL 'CRITICAL'
    27 1 Former U.S. Secretary of Ir. Coxdell Hull conto show "slight improvement." but his condition remained critical, a spokesman at Bethesda naval -i'al said yesterday. U.P.
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    NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL
    106 1 ROY \L a^r.n.i. of the appointment of Field Marshal Sir William Slim, HI year-old Chief of the Imperial General Staff, as Governor of Australia, was announced from Buckingham Palace last night. He succeeds Sir William McKell. Commenting; on his appointment. Field Marshal Slim said that he considered
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    TRUMAN ACCUSES IKE OF WAR TALK
    136 1 TRUMAN ACCUSES IKE OF WAR TALK NEW YORK, Wed. PRESIDENT Truman ixst night said that Mr. Eisenhower m his election command was increasing the risk oi atomic war by "talking loosely about liberating the enslaved peoples of Eastern Europe." In a speech at Parkersbun; ra. a> station, West Virginia, he
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    Ike hits out at 'small men'
    80 1 NEW YORK, Wed. MR. Elsenhower yesterday called the Truman administration 'a top-to-bottom mess created by men who are too small for their jobs, too big for their breeches and too long m power." He said the only cure Is "a wholesale cleanout of political
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    Red papers found
    79 1 Free Press Staff iteporter COMMUNIST literature was found when four Singapore Chinese two men and two women were arrested by the Police a few days ago, a Special Branch spokesman said this morning. The documents, he said, indicated that some of those detained were closely connected with
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    RACE LAW FINE ON LEADER
    60 1 Dr. G. M. Naiclcer, President of the Natal Indian Congress, was yesterday sentenced at Durban to a fine of 7.105. or c month's imprisonment for violating railway apart'aeid (race segregation) regulations. He was one of 21 Indians i id Africans four of them vjmen who
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    ILLEGAL GOLD
    27 1 Gold worth over HK115.--000,000 (nearly £1,000,000) has been smuggled into Burma by Chinese ships m this financial year, official sources said m Rangoon yesterday.— Reuter
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    SHIPS WARNED OF HURRICANE
    38 1 A severe tropical hurricane, with winds up to 135 miles an hour, swept northwestward yesterday m the Atlantic about 1,100 miles east southeast of Miami. The Weather Bureau warned shipping to 'exercise cautidn: Reuter
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    Determined to die
    62 1 VERSAILLES, Wed. MRS. Camille Rouget attempted to drown herself m a washtub yesterday but was dragged to safety by a neighbour— her fourth unsuccessful suicide bid m as marry days. Since Saturday *he has hanged herself m her dining off a chair (a neighbour cut the rope
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    RIVER FLOWS THROUGH CITY
    38 1 Shops m EUicott city, a smalt town near Baltimore, lay m ruins yesterday after a river swollen by 'ou r inches of rain overflowed and turned the main stree. into a raging torrent. Reuter
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    SABOTAGED CANAL
    28 1 Five men were sente.icei to death at Poarta ACba, Rumania, yesterday, by a military tribunal on charges of sabotaging work on the Danube-Black Sea canal.— U.P.
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    ACCUSED MAN GOES IN FEAR FOR LIFE
    197 1 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN'S biggest mail robbery— £2so,ooo m used £1 bills— moved a little closer to solution yesterday as two car dealers went on trial for receiving i part of the loot. After evidence identifying! 1 some of the bills oassed by the
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    'BLIND' SCHOOL
    23 1 ,The first training school m Java for teachers of the blind and the deaf was opened m Jakarta on Monday. U.P.
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    Panikkar for Cairo
    20 1 Mr. Sardar K. M. Panikkar, recently India's Ambassador to China, has been appointed Ambassador to Egypt.- U.P.
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    Taxi driver beaten, robbed
    115 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE Hokfcien taxi driver reported last night at Nee Soon that he was chased, assaulted and robbed by two Europeans at the 7th Milestone Upper Thomson Road. They took $10 and a pen. The Europeans hired the taxi at Stamford Road,
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    JAPS IN COLOMBO
    20 1 Thirtepn Japanese divers have arrived m Colombo on a 20-month contract to work be new Customs auav
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    Police seek drug ring men
    210 1 DEAD NURSE MYSTERY BOULOGNE, Wednesday. AN officer of the International Criminal Police (Internol) has arrived m Boulgne from Paris to take part m inquiries into the mysterious death of a London nurse, Miss Sybil J'hnsan on France's lonely Wimereux beach. French newspapers yesterday speculated whether
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    Britain, US will not use force in Persia issue
    227 1 Britain, US will not use force in Persia issue WASHINGTON, Wednesday. pHE United States State Department said yesterday it knew of "no basis whatsoever" for a recent press report that America, and Britain were expected to discuss the use of force m Persia m certain circumstances. The report, from London,
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    Sicilian vengeance
    58 1 PALERMO, Wed. rpOMASSO Matrangolo, 70, X who recently returned from the United States a weatthy man. was mowed down by machine-gun bulets last night at his lonely villa near here. Police said they knew of no motive unless it was an act of Sicilian vengeance growing out of
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    BETTORS COULDN'T LOSE
    166 1 BETTORS COULDN'T LOSE B. Wed. A SHORT-WAVE radio and k a signal ijUnui proved a ?ood thing fo r a throe-man hen x! ea 'hey visited country towns and laid bets 3n inte with starting price bookmakers. One set up the radio about a quarter of a m:'e from the
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    TIN EXPORTS
    20 1 The total export B to all countries from Singapore and the Federation amounted lo 5.552 tons during August.
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    What Tricks Your Mind Plays With a New Pain
    1140 2 What Tricks Your Mind Plays With a New Pain Aftfc YOU SCABEO TO SEE YOUR DOCTOR? A doctor gives a straight-from-the-shoulder lecture on the folly of treating the human body less kindly than a radio. DEPARTMENT OF DEBUNKING wives' me I l ale* relate to women expeetin; ba.nes. All are
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    POCKET CARTOON
    19 2  -  ERT LANCASTER by OSB and this, Lady Littlehampton, is our eldest who's majoring m economics at Vassar."
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    YOU & YOUR HEART
    733 2 YOU YOUR HEART ..brings a message of hope with an article that points to the great developments m combatting heart ailments MEWS of exciting gains m the fig^t against the most insidious complaint of modern times sudden heart attack is streamins m from hospital^ and laboratorie throughout the we rid.
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    Vaccination: Jenner Started It All
    716 2 js/WCAPOBf DOCTOR But the Chinese had a safeguard against smallpox before him "AS soon as the right method was found, discoveries came as easily as apples from a tree," said Robert Koch, discoverer of the tuberculosis germ. Epidemic diseases, coming suddenly, killing their victims and
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    Japan puts curb on rising population by abortion
    384 3 Japan puts curb on rising population by abortion TOKYO, Wednesday. 'pHE Japanese will continue to resort to abortion until some better way is found for curbing the population increase, the vice-president of the Japan Birth Control League has declared. Mrs. Fumiko Yamaguchi Aniano, expressing j her views m the current
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    SEA SNAKES, SHARKS INFEST A-TEST SITE
    236 3 MELBOURNE, Wed. AWAL survey of t: nte Bello Islands, s Brtt \in's first aton does little to ars of naturalists that wild life will be wiped out -c when the explos. ace. Royal Australian Navy frigate. Warrego. commanded Captain O. D. Fancred. .eyed the
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    Electric wire guards nudity
    59 3 AN electric wiring system round a h'gh. iron fence kept prying eyes from a nudist club annual rally at Fiiuhampstead. Berkshire. Behind the fence it is m dense woodlands the nudists took part m sports and swam m a swimming pool they have built themselves. Flags
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    GIRL DECLINED £2,000-A-WEEK
    51 3 Jeanette Altwegg, who won an Olympic gold medal 'or Britain at Oslo last winter, is starting a £2 lOs.-a-week job with an international eh: dren's re.ugee camp m Sw tzerland Sne refused an offer of £2.000 a week to turn proona] skater m favour of d welfare
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    Wins lottery, looks forward to spree, bride
    128 3 LONDON, WecL 'PHERE was a gleam m rhv> eye and a bulging wallet m the pocket of portly, j grey-haired Mr. Alec Rich- mond when he landed from an airliner at London Air- port recently. Mr. Richmond, 65-year-old railway guard from Queensland Australia,
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    Doctors get warning on cough drug
    213 3 LONDON, Wed T*HREE children have die after doses of the new drug chloramphenicol. ParKo Davi.s and Co. Ltd., the drug manufacturers, have issued o warning m every pack^;e leaving their Middlesex factory urging doctors and hospitals to use extreme care when administering the drug.
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    NEW YOUTH CORPS
    28 3 Lt.-Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo. the elder s^n of President •ng Kai-shek, is to be named head of a new "Youths' Anti-Communist and National Sal Tat A.P.
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    IKE LOSES VOTE
    36 3 Eisenhower has lost one presidential vote. His son. Major John Eisenhower now m Korea, is ineligible to cast an absentee voter's ballot. He has moved too often to establish a legal voting residence
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    BUCKLEY
    7 3 "YA'GiTTINT- WARMER, MISTER!" vnrJ<«.« 7- /g
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    ATOM LESSONS FOR STUDENTS
    43 3 Nuclear engineering will form part ot the undergraduate training at London University when the new term begins m October. It wiP.l be the first time that nuclear c igineering has been included m the training for the BSc degree.
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    BURMA MISSION
    30 3 A Burmese special mission which has been studying military and administrative problems and rehabilitation m western Europe for the past two months has arrived London by air. Reuter
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    COIN GANG MINT MONEY ABROAD
    310 3 LONDON. Wednesday. THE counterfeiting of gold sovereigns on the Continent is causing anxiety to the Treasury. The value of the sovereign la £2 18s but these counterfeit sovereigns are fetching up to £6 each on the black markets abroad. Treasury experts are considering a ruling
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    SCIENCE PROBES BIBLICAL QUESTION
    209 3 SCIENCE PROBES BIBLICAL QUESTION LEEDS, Wed. SIX baby octopuses from the Mediterranean have been given a decent burial by the Department of Colour Chemistry and Dyeing of Leeds University. They had been sent to Professor William Bradley, head of the department, by Dr. Isaac Herzog. Chief Rabbi of Israel, m
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    Film classic is revived
    138 3 THE fabulous three hour silent film "Birth of a i Nation," made 37 years ago Iby the pioneer director. D. W. Griffith, will be shown m London's West End this autumn. A London film company has s: cured the rights to distribute 'his picture, whi^h tells
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    BETTER HELMETS
    38 3 A group of American war veterans has urged improvement of army helmets !so as to save soldiers 1 lives and also asked that the Army 1 provide body armour for all I troops m Korea. A.P.
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    Bridge Hand
    291 3 Both sides vulnerable. North-South 4 0 on score. South dealer. TpHERE lj, a Dridge axiom that you don't dcuble the opponents for a one-trick set. However, this is true cnly when your double is intended to increxse your side's pron s; a double may also be used to
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    1,000 peaches picked daily
    37 3 Five years ago. Ralph Ped!ey. a fruit grower of Cambridgeshire, read a book on i peaci -growing. Today ne picks 1.000 peaches a day I trom the peach grove on his 18-acre farm.
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Sept, 3, 1952. Judgment reserved
    663 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Sept, 3, 1952. Judgment reserved IT is lucky that the oodwill existing been the United St ii\d the other estern Powers does not depend on the observations and ports of peripatetic senators and supreme, court judges. re.ationship is od on a common interest; m the
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    It Needn't Be Tails Next Time....
    725 4 It Needn't Be Tails Next Time.... It's a fifty-tiity chance, so don't let them fool you, says Dr. Levinson HAVE you ever tossed a coin, called •heads" and lost— and then thought: "It must be tails next time"? Have you ever looked at a hand dealt to you at bridge
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    Climbed Fujisan For 110th Time
    555 4 Climbed Fujisan For 110th Time Round Tokio with Richard Hughes 4 SPIRIT CJALMINDED 60-year-old plumber, forao Kawakami, of Yokohama, has climbed Mount Fuji for the 110 th time. H e first scaled the 12,000 ft mountain over 30 years ago and has since been making th e stiff climb from
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    'Show Business' Showed Our Talent
    388 4  - 'Show Business Showed Our Talent FELIX SWING TOPICS by T*HE 1,000 people who A attended S h o v Business last week wil! "igvee with me when I say there is plenty of new talent m Singapore. I say new talent, because the majority of those who captured the hearts
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    ENTER DR. THORNTON LOFTHOUSE
    357 4  -  PRESTO Music topics by THE arrival m the colony of Dr. Thornton Lofthouse, the great authority on Bach, is the great event of this month. He has com c as examiner to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music of England. In the Federation
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    Heltons wanted in land of potential plenty
    345 4 ACROSS the Make, on the eastern coast Canada, lies a land bet the n»e latitudes $0 -60 N. Its name is Labrador. A wild, bleak country tru* yowcwci no railway* «*<j r oadt. Labrador comes mtder tie jurisdiction of New ■owndiand The terrair
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    MUSIC SCORE IS IN FIGURES
    604 4  - MUSIC SCORE IS IN FIGURES ru Hsr by 2HEET MUSIC, as known m the West, is a recent innovation m China. Chinese musicians learnt their pieces by memorization and the compositions were handed down aurally from master to apprentice. This is still so today with traditional music. There is no
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    LATEST RECORDS
    172 4 B*-rii«r— kje* Francs Jup^- Juuijc i played by thr Phil-, r-i (KlHzki. Ccl. LJt. SM6-T. Por tahnical brllliar. sheer exhilaration this tanding. The piece \uth a 'hrlllingiy a passage, at once a rem.' the Fantaftlc" svmpho: continues at except for a lovely, me] id: Berlioz's beet The >::
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    INDECENT FILMS? 'I HAVE NOT PASSED ANY'
    285 5 says Mr. Evans, the Censor SINGAPORE'S film censor, Mr. Jack Evans, told the Free Press yesterday that his department had not passed any "indecent" films. Mr. Evans was commenting on a proposal by the Catholic Diocese to ask all Colony Cathalics to stay
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    KAMPONG PEOPLE PAYING TOO MUCH
    150 5 PENANG, Wed. ALTHOUGH pawnshops m Georgetown have been told by the Chief Police Officer, Penang, to draw up a iist of charges on various articles for the information of their customers, hundreds of kampong folk are still being overcharged. "Most oi th? pawnshops m town
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    New site for centre plan
    69 5 SINGAPORE Urban Health Centre, originally to be sited m River Valley Road, may be built m Outram Road near Tiong Bahru. This site was at first offered to fhe City Council for a swimming pcol. Government has now withdrawn he off:r and asked the Public
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    MEETING WILL COST $12,000
    28 5 Province Wellesley Division of the UMNO will spend $12,000 for the UMNO general assembly to be held at Butteqvorth on Sept. 14 and 15.
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    SPECIAL MUTTON FOR MUSLIMS
    105 5 SINGAPORE Cold Storage has asked the City Council to allocate stalls m markets to sell Australian frozen meat to Muslims. The Muslim Advisory Boarc* has strongly supported the application. These stalls will sell only frozen mutton of animals killed m Australia according to Muslim rites. The
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    OPENING IS POSTPONED
    97 5 The official opening of the new $300,000 extension to St. Andrew's School, Singapore, which was to take place on Monday, has been postponed. Canon R. K. S. Adams, principal of the School, told the Free Press yesterday that work on the extension has not been completed. The
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    COMPLAINT OVER RIGHTS FOR TUC
    156 5 COMPLAINT OVER RIGHTS FOR TUC KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Selansor Committee of the Malayan Trades Union Council will ask the council to approach the Government with a complaint about restriction of trade union rights. The Se:angor committee decided on Monday to make the complaint of Mr. Lee Moke Sang, secretary
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    ANTI-TB TESTS AT HOSPITAL
    55 5 ALOR STAR. Wed.— BCG vaccinations and tests for the public will be available at the Alor Star General Hospital this week from 9 a.m. .o 10 p.m. Those who wish to be tested should call at the hospital on Friday and Saturday. Those desiring vaccinations should
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    DOCTOR HURT IN ACCIDENT
    66 5 IPOH, Wed. Dr. G A. Venkatesan, eye specialist m the District Hospital, Ipoh. sustained injuries to his head and arms m a motor accident on Monday while he was returning to Ipoh from Taiping. The accident occurred near Sungei Siput when the car is said to
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    INCONSIDERATE
    21 5 SEGAMAT, Wed. For driving a lorry m an inconsiderate manner, Mehat bin Kunjot, aged 39. was fined $15 at Segamat
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    INDIAN ASSOCIATION RESUSCITATED
    136 5 PENANG, Wed. rPHE MALAYAN Indian A Association has been resusciated. Membership is resticted to any person of Indian descent who is 16 years or over and was born m the Federation or Singapore The annual subscription Is $1. Those who wish to I Join should write to
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    NINE PEOPLE WERE HURT IN THIS CRASH
    57 5 NINE PEOPLE WERE HURT IN THIS CRASH INSPECTOR Othman bin Abdui Samat of the Singapore Traffic Police seen examining a lorry which crashed on its side at the corner of Killincy Road and River Valley Road. Nine of the 21 civilian employees of the War Department who were travelling m
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    $1 million office building plan
    180 5 rpHE Singapore Government has approved plans to build an eleven-storey building m Cecil Street. The building, will be the tallest m that street and will cost nearly $1,000,000. Part f it will be air-con-ditioned. Mr Hardial Singh, a textile merchant m Raffles Place, who is
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    HARI RAYA COST HIM $100
    112 5 HARI RAYA COST HIM $100 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. HARI RAYA Haji this year was an expensive one for a young Malay. He was having an evening out m the Lake Gardens Kuala Lumpur, on his motor cycle when he was stopped by traffic police They asked him for his driving
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    EXPERT REPORTS ON BLIND
    117 5 EXPERT REPORTS ON BLIND ,2JIR Clutha Mackenzie, the IO blind expert has submitted a draft report on blind welfare m Singapore to the Social Welfare Department. The report, according to a Social Welfare spokesman, is still m the "confidential stage." Sir Clutha, who speni the last two weeks m the
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    FOUND DRINK
    22 5 SEUAMAT, Wed. A 51--yesr-oid Sikh, Haran Sin^h, was fined $10 at Segamat >r being drui.k and incapab! Batu Anani village.
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    MALAY SOCIETY OFFICIALS
    72 5 SEREMBAN. Wed.—Officebearers of the Negri Sembi:an Malay Literary and Cultural Society are: President, Ir.che Ibrahim U«H din; vice-pre idem. Inche Abdui Samad bin Idris; secretary, Incbe Abdul Majid bin Abdul Rahniai. treasurer. Inch Sharif jin Pskeh committee. Inches Hashim Nn Ismail, Hashim Amir Hairirth Idris bin Mat,
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    4-DAY TRAINING FOR 30
    43 5 IPOH. Wed. Thirty officers of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Perak branch, yesterday started a four-day training m preparation for the second annual inspection next month by the Commissioner of the Brigade m the Federation Dr H. M. O. Lester
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    Appeal Court
    40 5 IPOH, Wed.— The Federation Court of Civil Appeal, presided over by Mr. Justice Mathew Chief Justice of the Federation; Sit Charles Murray-Aynstey Chief Justice or Singapore, and Mr Juitice Pretheroe, began its session In the Supreme Court yesterday.
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    PNEUMONIA KILLED 21 IN A MONTH
    125 5 PNEUMONIA KILLED 21 IN A MONTH KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. PNEUMONIA kilted 21 of the I 51 people who caught durng the second w< t August, according to figures Issued yesetrday. Perak ha<i 23 cases of pneumonia with nine deaths, Selangor seven cases four deaths. Pahang lour cases with four deaths.
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    TO STUDY IN BRITAIN
    46 5 SEREJvIBAN. Wed Inche Lokman bin Yusof. Acting State Secretary. Negri St-mbl-lan. will leave for Britain soon to attend the Devonshire course at Oxford Unlvei and will be away for about a year. be Ghazali Shi Assistant State Secretary act as Stale Secretary.
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    COINCIL MEETING
    27 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wrd. A meeting of the Council of State. Trengganu. will be held at the Lstana Maziah. Kuala Trengganu. on T day. Sept. 30.
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    LIGHT FOR VILLAGE
    24 5 SEGAMAT. Wed. Buloh Kasap new village five miles north of Segamat. will soon be supplied with electricity through a private concern
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    BLACKOUT SCHEDULE
    190 5 St'BSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: B.A.T. MtUyan Kefrig. <o. Tra falgar St.. An>on R«*d li«nf B*hm. Ramih St.. People's Park, Nanson Road Lam S\>om Oil Mill* Oaan H.n I.E. Xetworn I K. tactorv River Vallrv Kd.. Kiilinr; Kd Orchard Rd. NAAFI Armenian St. Slatir Adelphi Capitol.
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    933 6  -  PHILIP NEVILLE WEDNESDAY SHORT STORY by AS I entered the dentist's waitingroom a hearty voice greeted me. "Hallo" it said. "Who are von for? The dentist or the psycho analyst?" "What does this look like?" I murmured grumpily, pointing to my swollen cheek. "Toffee." exclaimed the other man,
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    Barrymore for the ballet
    62 6 SHIP police rescued Jon* Barrymore, jun, from 201 girl autograph-seekers as hf boarded the liner He de France at New York for Paris where he is to study dramatics and ballet The 20-year-old son of tht late actor said his aunt, Miss Ethel Barrymore, "would shoot
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    BISHOP NEEDS NEW SHIP
    63 6 £80.000 is needed to provide a new ship for carrying out the work of one of thr Church of England's missions All bishops are being asked to help replace the 300-ton ship, the Southern Cross, which serves the South-West Pacific diocese of Melanesia. Since 1849 a
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    Ancient ceremony
    64 6 picture. r ,*> u/^/ok vntinnai Fisfprififod thp annual jamboree of Welsh culture, was held re the villaae school of lAanegryn, Merioneth, who had written a poem called Hand s < o was inaml r 'The Bard" The poem describes the hands of Samson pulling down the marTZthePhmTne temple,
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    Eric meets Felix
    52 6 photo. anc Roy Hills, 2\, meets Felix, the penguin, aboard the Falkland Islands Dependencies survey ship, "John Biscoe,' r at Southampton. The introduction was performed by Eric's father. Petty Officer, R. C. Hill, of Rayleigh, Essex. The bird vxis caught on Deception Island, eaten and the skin
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    'Winged menace' hits Pakistan, big battle is on
    723 6  - 'Winged menace' hits Pakistan, big battle is on PETER JACKSON by A LARGE-SCALE m A vasion, possibly the biggest m the history of the Indo-Pak tan subcontinent, is taking place m Wesl Pakistan The desert locust is on the wing From the deserts of Persia, the invading hordes have swept
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    FIFTY GRAND GOES BEST AT B. TIMAH
    340 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS By Few horses out against clock JHERE were no attempts to make time at Hukit Timah this morning, when only a few horses were worked on the No. 2 grass track. Fifty Grand (Charles) drew attention to his nces_at this meeting
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    MICKMAN BEATS THE CHANNEL A SECOND TIME
    75 7 MICKMAN BEATS THE CHANNEL A SECOND TIME TWENTY -ONE year-old Philip Mickman ywam the Channel overnight m 18 hours 44 minutes, it was learned yesterday. Mickman. who is now m the Royal Air Force, swam the Channel m 1949. Mickman swam from England to Franc* He had previously conquered the
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    TIGER KAYOED
    25 7 Harry Kid Matthews got a fast start on his comeback trail on Monday night with a fifth round knockout over Tiger Ted Lowry.
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    GIRLS' HOCKEY
    23 7 BjC members are rtquesteo to turn up for hockey practice.! at the SRC every Tuesday and Thursday, commencing Thursday. Sept. 4.
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    POSTPONED
    28 7 The Singapore B.H.F.*. Lecgue Cup fix i ure between Hongkong Bank "A" and Chart- red Bank, scheduled to be pliyed at the padang yesterday, was called off.
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    WALKOVERS
    32 7 rh*re were mree walkover* *i\en iv Singapore soccfr matches yestcntnv. P.V.S.C. wo Seletar F.C <Div. SAFAf. P^.r* Brigade wo Jollilads D..' 3B SAPA). Ford wo. Malayan .tvs (SBHFA League aud Cup)
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    KING WILLOW HAD A GOOD SEASON IN U.K.
    538 7 KING WILLOW HAD A GOOD SEASON IN U.K. /BOUNTY matches for 1952 ended yesterday on a note as bright as anything seen daring a season which was to make or break first class cricket. And the verdict of the fans who have been brought back to the grounds is that
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    FULL TIME VET FOR B. TIMAH
    163 7  - FULL TIME VET FOR B. TIMAH ALLAN LEWIS By rjiHE Singapore Turf Ciub A has retainer the services of veterinary surgeon, Mr. J Dobinson. Mr. Dobinson. who is veterinary surgeon to Malayan Farms, held a similar position m Nigeria. His job with the Singapore Turf Club is to be m
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    FATHULS WON AS THEY PLEASED
    250 7 Fathul Karib 2; Amicables 0 YESTERDAY'S Singapore Amateur Fj*. Senior league tie between Fathul Karib and the Amicable Athletic Association wa s a clean, hard-fought game. Fathuls were good va'ue for their two-nil victory. They were well on top from the start and with average
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    BORNEOS WIN TABLE TENNIS
    53 7 gORNEO Motors Sports Ciub won the Singapore Table Tennis Association's 1952 Busine c s Houses Leaeu? championship by beating Pras«?r Neave S C. s—o at the S.B.A Hall on Monday nißht. Runners-up will be decided m a replay between Mansfield S.C. and City Bank Club at
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    2 MANX CYCLISTS KILLED
    90 7 2 MANX CYCLISTS KILLED TWO British riders were killed at Douglas, Isle of Man yesterday while practising for next week's Manx Grand Prix international motor cycle races. Ivor K. Arber, 35-year-old engineer, one of the British hopes m the forthcoming tests, crashed at 90 miles an hour while taking a
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    Indians' victory bid fails
    252 7 Indians' victory bid fails T.. set to 106 :o win m 55 made a bald bid for lr match hire but failed d after j d gone for the runs had los: eight wtcktta for 100 m their second m They had scored 357 red m their ftr^.. who had
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    1955 THOMAS CLP TOURNEY
    56 7 via: A\ have to defend the Thomas Cup In 1955 on foreign soil it a change m the rules proposed by r he Exe^u'ivp Committee jf f he International Federation is adopted. According to the standing regulations. ;he holders of the trophy .have to continue to
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    DOWN, THEN WINS
    28 7 Rocky Castellan!, highranking U.S. middleweight, recovered from a first-roun-' knockdown to win a unanimous 12-round decision Johnny Lombardo m New York on Monday night. A.P.
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    WALCOTTSTARTS HEAVY TRAINING
    107 7 WALCOTT STARTS HE A VY TRAINING HEAVY-WEIGHT champion Jersey Joe Walcott pitched camp yesterday and wi.l begin workouts today for the defence of his world title at Philadelphia against "Rocky" M ircian 0 on September 23. The champion from Camden. New Jersey, moved to Baderfield from a farm at Hawkinsville,
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    SEDGMAN EXTENDED
    150 7 F)ORIS HART or the United States overwhelmed Doric Herbs, Britain, m the secoiiu round of the Nations U.S. women's tennis championships at Forest Hills. New York yesterday. Scores lu-re 6-0, 6-1. In another second round match Angela Hortim^r 01 Britain defeated Carol Fageros of the U.S. 6-4, 6-!
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    SOCCER RESULTS
    39 7 YESTERDAYS U.K. soccer resuits: English League Div. 11l (South) Southend United 3, Swindon Town 0. Eng. League Div. 11l (North): Rochdale I, Bradford 0; Tranmere Rovers 1. Port Vale 1. ULSTER CUP: Crusaders 3 Ballymena l. Reuter
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    U.K. RUGBY
    30 7 YESTERDAY'S U.K. Rugby rex suits:— RUGBY LEAGUE Yorkshire Cup Ist round second \fg: Hunalet 2. Huddersfieid 18. RUGBY UNION Paignton 8, Wel e h Ac I 3- Reuter
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    IP BEATS CHEW SEE IN STRAIGHT SETS
    156 7 KH. IP. Hongkong's tennis champion yesterday won the Malayan singles; men's doubles and mixed doubles titles m Pecang for the serond year running. Ip beat Ong Chew Bee. the Singapore champion, m the c-v.-y'^Q final fi-9 fi-3 HOW- Ip wa.s given his hardest
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    Leach for Singapore
    132 7 RICHARD Bergmann and Johnny Leach worldfamous table tennis stars, will play m Singapore next week. These two former world champions are at present touring the Far East. They arrive m Singapore by air from Bangkok next Tuesday. Accompanying the two British stars will be the Hong Kong
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    Delayed fight for a shave
    815 7  -  CHARLES BARNETT The Jimmy Wilde Story By fFHERE was still one London boxer fight fans were itching to see pitted against Jimmy Wilde. He was Sid Smith, of Bermondsey, who possessed the distinction of having won th° ftr«t flyw vght belt, that which is now
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    BEVAN TAKES A CRUSHING DEFEAT
    444 8 BEVAN TAKES A CRUSHING DEFEAT T. U. C. supports rearm policy MARGATE, Wednesday. A COMPOSITE RESOLUTION blaming Britain s A economic difficulties on "a™^ 6 J^^ 1 for a Big Five peace treaty, stopping German and Japanese rearmament and freedom oppressed people was heavily defeated at the Trades Union Congress
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    Programme for visit of Duke and Duchess
    125 8 Programme for visit of Duke and Duchess rrilE Duchess of Kent and ncr son, the Duke ol who are scheduled to In Singapore on Sept 30. will leave Britain on Sept ey will spend a night nbo on their way to Singapore, as the guests of lilt Governor General, Lo.xj
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    DUTCH CABINET IS SWORN IN
    42 8 DUTCH CABINET IS SWORN IN i en Juliana ye m the 11 new memb of I i new coalition The Premier. Dr. William Drees, leader of th<° Labour .ormed the new cabinet after the country had "hout an adrr." nine week Reuter
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    Conference on Nepal
    24 8 Conf erence on Nepal >huvana. of Nepal. to Delhi tomorrow Uion with Mr n the re'enjt poli* •1 the strat buffer Himalay i Kingdom
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    ARMS FOR REBELS
    29 8 A t ol the Burmese Government said m Parliament m Rangoon yesterday had Karen rebels m He did not spe rce of the arms s Reuter
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    KASHMIR TALKS ARE RESUMED
    29 8 A joint conference between representatives of India and Pakistan on the demilitarisation of Kashmir resumed m Geneva yesterday after a creak of four days.— Reuter
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    YAMASHITA'S No. 2 TO STAND FOR THE DIET
    218 8 c™^™^ TOKYO, Wednesday. A FORMER Japanese army colonel, who was the mastermind' of the Japanese blitz through Malaya ten years ago, yesterday announced that he would seek a Diet seat m the general election Political sources here predicted that ex-Colonel Mansanobu Tsuji.
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    Egypt told: 'stop scandal talk'
    335 8 CAIRO, Wednesday. THE Egyptian High Command appealed to the Cairo Press yesterday to cease digging up scandals about the former King Farouk and previous administrations and concentrate instead on buildin? a new and sound country. The appeal followed a wave of Press accounts of Farouk's
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    HE 'SACRIFICED' BABY DAUGHTER
    131 8 KARACHI. Wed. A MUSLIM washerman, Ahmed, slit the throat of his only daughter, aped 18 months, m sacrifice during Monday, ld-l'z-Zuha festivities at Nawabshah near Hyderabad (Sind). On this day Muslims slaughter goats to commemorate Abraham's sacrifice on the mountain. The man when arrested last night,
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    FRIENDSHIP PACT
    16 8 The Philippines and Cuba will conclude a treaty of friendship m Washington today— U.P.
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    SOVIETS OPPOSE JAP ENTRY
    102 8 SOVIETS OPPOSE JAP ENTRY NEW YORK. Wed. HTKE Soviet Union announced yesterday its opposition to consideration by the Security Council of membership applications by Japan, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Russia's delegate, Mr. Jacob Malik insisted that the Council concentrate on his proposal that the 11 -nation body recommend to the
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    in W. Europe
    53 8 U.S. tightens up WASHINGTON, Wed. rE United yesterday tlghte? 1 its controls over the re-ex cort of strategic goods from West Europe. The Commerce Department announced that from October 20 a European importer must certify to the Government that American strategic y:cods will not be re-exported without
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    FELL ASLEEP, IS GAOLED
    48 8 Singer Jonnny Ray was locked up on a drunkenness charge m Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday after police said he fell into a deep sleep on a chair at Logan airport. Mr. Ray was released four hours later m the custody of his manager.- U.P.
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    NEW COMMAND
    27 8 Major-General M. ALson-Roberts-West arrived m Tokyo yesterday and began a two-day round of briefings preparatory to assuming command of the British Commonwpalth nivici^n <« Korea- U.P.
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    'Great promise' in W. Germany
    157 8 'Great promis e' in W. Germany BONN, Wedl. r^ENERAL Matthew B. Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander m Europe, said last night he believed West Germany could make a "decisive contribution" to the Allied effort to preserve peace General Rldgway flew here from Paris yesterday on his nrst official visit to Bonn
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    FAROUK'S SECRETS
    66 8 picture. THIS IS pirt of the collection of statues and paintings of nude women m different poses, which was found m a safe m the secret treasury at Kubbeh Palace after King Farouk abdicated. The secret treasury, built between the second and third floors of the palace, had
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    New oil deal with sheik
    79 8 LONDON, Wed. AN oil company representing American, British, Dutch and French interests has agreed to split 50-50 with the ruler of the little Middle East Sheikdom of Qatar. The new arrangement, taking the place of a fixed royalty, was announced here yesterday by the Petroleum
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