The Singapore Free Press, 4 September 1952

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 18,488. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 222 1 Retrenchment of 70 army workers Free Press Staff Reporter J^IGHT thousand Army employees m Singapore will discuss strike action if dismissal notices served on 70 of them on the grounds o f re trenchment are not withdrawn before tomorrow. The Army Civil Service Union will
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  • 93 1 ENVOY FAMILY SWIM CHANNEL THE U.S. Ambassador m Turkey, Mr. George McGhee. and Senator Russell B. Lori? swam across the Bosphorus yesterday. The crossing is a little more than half a mile with swift and treacherous currents, up to six knots an hour. Mrs. Me Ghee, the two V Ghee
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  • 20 1 Mi&s Carole Can, singing radio star, left London yesterday for a concert tour of Malaya and Korea.
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  • 15 1 Five hundred thousand :ims made the Dilerimaee to Mecca this year. A.P.
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  • 162 1 LONDON. Th BN will bfl K. J.i; r member:ions. a Office spokesman pport fo r Japanese P of the United -■P t in the f the preamble to the fare position, it is under- Is not affect^ by \nglo-Japanese ove r
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  • 49 1 rpWENTY Africans armed i> with long knives, attack- j ed a government 'headman of the Kikuyu location at Fort ..es from Nairobi, and burned down his house. The headman is now m hosprai m a critical condiFivp mpn h.v* been ar- I rested Reuter
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  • 44 1 NO B AN ON BE AUI TY The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office denied m Vatican City yesterday a report by an unofficial news agency specialising m church reports that Roman Catholic girls may be forbidden to participate m beauty cont- j U.P.
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  • 54 1 SIX Russians, three of them m uniform yesterday kidnapped Walter Bittner, a Vienna municipal housing official who has been dealing with claims over furniture confiscated by the Russians after the war. A police statement said Bittner was bundled into a black limousine at gunpoint while he was
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  • 254 1 WEST WILL GET PEEP BEHIND CURTAIN FRANKFURT, Thurs. T»HE Iron Curtain will part just enough next week to give Western buyers what is intended to be a tantalizing glimpse of the best products the Soviet Union and its satellites can muster. The Communists have labelled this year's International Industrial Fair
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  • 39 1 JOHANNESBURG. Thurs. DR. James Moroka, president general of the African National Congress, was yesterday committed for trial at the end of a preparatory examination of a charge of furthering and promoting the object of communism.
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  • 186 1 LONDON. Thursday. pOLJCE searched the vaults of the House of Commons by torchlight m the early hours yesterday and arrested a prowler who was seen carrying bottles from the Speaker's wine cellar. The Speaker. Mr. W. S. Morrison, was away on holiday. His house
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  • 52 1 A shudder riPP Ie d through the courtroom at Glasgow, yesterday when a prosecutor to.d what Joseph McNeUis had been selling as "pure Scotch." The recipe: One part real Highland dew. two parts French brandy, three parts Danish whisky. TJie ju'i^e fined the errant liquor dealer
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  • 28 1 A Korean organisation has sued the Australian Government for 2,000,000 yen (Malayan $16,500) as compensation for the death of a child hit by a jeep. U.P.
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  • 83 1 One slap: 4 years gaol MANILA, Thnrs. A SLAP has landed a physician m gaol for four years. Dr. Benigno Manabat was found guilty of slapping Mrs. Clara de la Fuente, a schoolteacher. The court sentenced him to four years' imprisonment, ordered him to indemnify the offended party and pay
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  • 28 1 An Army officer yesterday lost property, worth $900, when a door of his locker car, parked m front of the Singapore Swimming Club, was forced o>3n.
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  • 259 1 BELFAST, Thurs T>ROF£SSOR Archibald ViI vian Hill one of Mr. Churchill's chief wartime scientists, said fcere last night it was possible that new defensive weapons, based on nuclear fission, could be developed, which would makt armed aggression intolerably costly. The 65-year -old professor, a
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  • 88 1 MAIN PROP of Dr. Mossadeq, the Persian Prime Minister. is 80-year-old Ayatollah Kashani, frail, little, fanatical politician, who has a bitter hatred of Britain. When the American Ambassador. Mr. Henderson, asked Kashani recently to use his influence to keep Persia m the Western bloc by
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  • 332 1 LOITOON, Thursday. HHHE British Cabinet will discuss the Anglo-Persian oil question today but the Government is not expected to take any new steps until it has received the Persian parliament's reply to the Truman-Churchill joint proposals sent to Dr. Mossadeq, Persian Prime
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  • 33 1 Three prisoners held up their armed escort with a dummy pistol In Rangoon and escaped m a stolen car, but were recaptured after a chase through the city, says A.P.
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  • 49 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. PRESIDENT TRUMAN yes- terday ordered into immediate effect a long-range programme aimed at giving the United States more and better airfields. One recommendation is that, helicopters and other forms of air taxi service should be set up between airports and cities.- Reuter
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  • 36 1 U.S. relaxes passport rule The U.S. State Department overhauled its passi?ort regulations yesterday and granted appeal to people denied passports because of suspected subversive activity. The new regulations, followed criticism by some members of Congress. A.P.
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  • 261 1 T. U. C. Leftists defeat Council LONDON, Thurs. THE British 8,000.000 member Trade s Union Confess at Marp; Kent, yesterday approved against the advice of its policy chiefs a Lefty demand for more s f control of the nations industries. It was a revolt m favour of the policy of
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  • 29 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore police, investigating yesterday a reported thef t of 42 tyres, have recovered 37 of them, worth $2,043. An arrest has been made.
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  • 68 2 K. Gollan* Graphic account of mar.ne life hi America's Chesapeake Bay. Recommended to all admirers of "The Sea Around. Vs. tchose authoress. Rachel Carson, contributes an enthusiastic foreicord. Men Like Shadows, by Dorothy Charques. »Murra. Sound, though rather heavily written, historical no about Richard Coeur de
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  • 581 2  - Giant Author of Huge Books GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON hy SELECTIONS FROM THOMAS WOLFE. By Maxwell Geismar. Heinemann. ryO squeeze an intel- liable section of the vast, sprawling work of Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, into the space of 712 pages is a feat of compression rough: comparable with engraving the
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  • 202 2 C.B.S. refused a cheque BERNARD SHAW whose refusal of the Order of Merit has just -been revealed by his former secretary was a Great Refuser. One majestic GBS refusal concerns "Arms and the Man.' 1 now being presented at the Little Theatre. This deCightiul comedy m which
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  • 327 2 Anti-papist turned Catholic pOR many years be--1 fore his death Car--lin lining had visions of a magnificent -hurch as the centre of Roman Catholicism m Westminster. In 1867 he founded thp pro-cathedral m Kensington, and m the follow: -j year secured the site of th c disused Tothill Fields Prison.
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  • 807 2 Death stalks the Hunters Peter Quennell REVIEWS NEW BOOKS IN U.K. UNDER REVIEW PEOPLE OF THE DEER, by rley Mowat. (Michal Joseph,) GODDESS ISLAND, by Georges .ond. (Seeker and Warburg). YEARS ago, as a boy of 15 Farley Mowat, author of PEOPLE OF THE DEER, watched for the first time
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  • 582 2 PROOF-READING was the subject of a recent 8.8.C. talk by Mrs. M. Hatt, journalist and author. She has read the proofs of 3,000 books m the last 18 years. She explained that proolreading consisted of spotting inconsistencies, inaccuracies, Libellous passages, occasional indecencies, repetition and incomprehensibility. She
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 161 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR JJORN today, you have a cond-rate. Don't make it a powerful and at time* habit to cut off your nose to tempestuous nature. Qcirk spite your face. After aIL to anicer. you are a* quick to you are (he only one who fortivr. Your emotions are suffers.
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    • 139 2 New Crossword No. 758 I CLUES ACROSS 1. Just the kind for the printer (4). 3. Such islands are the Moluccas (5). 8. Rome's a change from this (5). 9. Mollusc that would make an M.O. err (5). 10. For fashioning plant (7, 4) 11 One could never corner anyone
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    • 46 2 Solution to Crossword No. 757 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: l, Cam. 3, Shot-gun 7 Morning coat. 8, United 9 Smee! ii Tidy. 12. Detail. 14. Bannockburn. 15. Element. 16. Ems D©wn 1, Combustible. 2, Morris dance 3, Swivel. 4, Orgy. 5. Good measure. 6, Netherlands. 10, Becket
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  • 412 3 mm*™ LONDON, Thursday. T „.\M, men wer e alleged at Wealdstone, Middlesex, to have kept a young woman m a car for two hours before letting her out, giving her half a crown and directing her to the nearest station.
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  • 297 3  - HOW TO INFLUENCE YOUR WIFE Hal Boyle By NEW YORK, Thurs. A WISE man can exercise .some influence over a woman if he cunningly learns to channel her flre in the right direction. In- stead of coaxing her to do something he wants, he i might nnd it better to
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  • 106 3 LONDON, Thurs. tjLTHLX a father of eight children asked at Lambeth. London, to be -sent to prison, the magistrate Mr. Geoffrey Rose, remanded him on bail. John Henry Hooper, aged man. admitted owing V!B3 under a maintenance order to his wife. I
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  • Article, Illustration
    315 3 Neither tide vulnerable. E&3' dealer. J I bidding: South West North Is? 14 Pass 44 Pass Pass Dbl All Pass 'J'HIS celebrated Hand oX a couple of years ago might 3e enuUed. The Mystery of the Disappearing Tricks." Perhaps North should have chosen a two no-trump bid m
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  • 61 3 WORDS ROLLED MUCH TOO FAST When General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the American Legion at Madison Square Garden, New York, recently, he left out whole phrases and sentences. Reason: The telemeter was running too fast. This is a device on the speaker's desk which unrolls the text before a speaker's eyes.
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  • 56 3 Boston's old North Church belfry, where two lanterns were hung In 1775, starting Paul Revere on his midnight ride to warn Lexington of the approach of the British, Is now fitted with an automatic fire alarm. It will detect smoke or flames m the church and
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  • 166 3 Archangelsky does not mourn Russia as Paradise Lost COLOMBO, Thurs. ALEXANDER Alipyevich Archangelsky is a Rus- sian who never wants to go to Russia again. In Colombo, travelling with his wife to England m the Carthage, Mr. Archangelsky i said that Russia was doomed i to destruction unless a change
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  • 24 3 I Israeli cabinet is exd to approve the GerIsrael agreement for re:on payments at an i ordinary meeting In alem today. A.P.
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  • 59 3 BKIPPY CAN BE forgiven if he feels a little .apprehensive and places a paw over the shoulder of his young mistress Sandra Bailey. For he was on his way to a big occasion the British Boxer Club's championships at the Royal Horticultural Society's Old Hall, Vincent
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  • 165 3 WOMAN 'DIED' TWICE IN SEVEN HOURS LONDON, Thurs. A THIRTY-S EVEN- YEAR-OLD woman "died twice within seven hours during childbirth, it was stated at the St. Pancras. London, inquest into the death of Mrs. Doris Pickford, of Hackney, at Hackney Hospital. Mr. Mark Manion, senior house surgeon, told the coroner
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  • 31 3 U.S. cotton milLs are humming again after months of dullness. Reason retailers have sold the immense stocks built up for Korean war buying spree? that did not happen.
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  • 102 3 House to let in H' wood A HOLLYWOOD mansionservants included is to let at $2,500 (£890) a month. Landlord Alan Ladd is letting his house m San Fernando Valley for the period of his picture-making m England. He sails on Friday with his wife, Sue Carol. Years ago she was
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  • 23 3 A four-man goodwill mission from the Chinese Nationalist Government has flown to Tokyo, beginning a tour of o6outh-East Asian capitals. Reuter
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  • 208 3 DAYTON, OHIO, Thursday. SIAMESE twins Ronnie and Donnie Galyon are finding out early m life that living together has its complications. A peppy eleven months o d. they seem to be having a little trouble coordinating their moVes. Their mother, Mrs. Wesley Galyon, said recently
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  • 10 3 Despite Soviet objections the United Nations, Security
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  • 229 3 Rush wedding, so relatives were hauled from bed LONDON, Thursday. WHILE most people were still abed enjoying their f T Sunday morning rest, Miss Sylvia Godsall, 22, Camberwell, S.E., set out for her wedding for the second time m 24 hours. Through deserted streets she walked, dressed m her wedding
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  • 169 3 Bride weeps while vicar takes walk LONDON, Thurs fHE Rev. Montague Holmes, 57-year-old vicar of Mosborough, Derbyshire, forgot about a wedding. And so Miss Sheila Wilson, 22, waited near to tears at St. Cyprian's Church, Frechevillc, Sheffield, with her fiance, Mr. Arnold Brammah, a 25--year-old cashier, for nearly two hours
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  • 48 3 FEW of her fans will recognise m this schoolgirl' like pose the actress of their choice Janet Leigh of Metro-Goldwyn -Mayer. Possibly the changed hair style accounts for the changed expression. Janet is said to possess one of the loveliest complexions m Hollywood.
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  • 52 3 Mr. C. sells cigarette lighters NEW YORK. Thurs WINSTON CHURCHILI is helping the Pennsylvania Drug Company to >HI British cigarette lighters at their West 33rd -street store. His picture adorr window placard advertising the lighter*. It says: "Help Winnie get out of the dollar doldrums The store manager reports a
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 31 3 THE: GyAMSOLg J^ /baAA* Aee&At— C< "V^~ ==<> |i^tOa6C. WUAT OO VOO THINK 7 NOW •Tlf'tilAT WC^TCUtO STOQt MLtGt I ALWAVC 7^^ liCAll THAT POWNgtqiT Dt^UONe^TM II 14 *40L0»N6» T^ 4UMM6<? 4ALt^
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    • 223 3 RADIO SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News; 10.05 Music While You Work; 10.45 Corao Show; 11-11.30 Studio Melodies; 1 p.m. Melachrino Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45-2 Guy Lcmbardo Orch.; 5.02 Calling all Hospitals; 6 David Ng Julia Tan; 6.15 News; 6.35 Radio Scientist; 6.45 Halls of Ivy; 7.15 Maisie Ballard, 7.30 Radio Orch.;
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  • 530 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, sept, 4, 1952. Hawker control \o i ERDA Y S mo: nin.a per displayed the picture at a happy man. one who hud reason to thin* that alls right with Sm^apo: ;Q the worm, imiiing Haji back at his busineso after a court .vii that
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  • 1250 4 I ALWAYS try to respect religious opinion. For 38 years I have given practical proof of my respect for "Christian marriage" During the long battle for the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937, I did all I could to treat Church opinion tenderly; and that is why
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  • 425 4 mHERE were over 2,000 A convictions m Britain for driving while under the influence of drink during both 1951 and 1950. Roughly five per cent, of those convicted got jail sentences. The remainder were fined, but almost all were forbidden to drive again for periods ranging up to 40
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  • 713 4  -  DONALD McCORMICK by In the heart of Robin Hood land are the men who help to put a roof on Europe VUMBER 30 Air MaterIMal1 Mal Base is the unassuming title of a small strip of Canadian terri tory that has just made
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  • 305 4 With the steady increase m motor traffic m most countries over the past 10 years, the problem of the driver who has had too much drink has become more acute tion A so-called texnneter or "breath analysis" i^> used, as are walking t (placing foot before foot,
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    • 11 4 OWK ¥4 OF A JB PHONE: 33«4 U-21. HIGH >1 VPORE-6
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    • 85 4 THt BULLDOG ANT A^^ Suspended by its feet an SCT Australian Bulldog Ant can hold m its jaws a glove more than a thousand time* its own weight. Comparatively, for a human feat, a trapexe artist would have to grip an 80 ton steam *AT4- rollet with his teeth while
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 127 5 Education is to be cut by one year SINGAPORE Education Department is planning to reduce primary school education by a year. The cut will apply to all Government and aided English schools m the Colony and is expected to be enforced next year. This will reduce
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  • 172 5 26 MALAYS JOIN BRITISH ARMY SEREMBAN, Thurs. THE first batch of youn recru: from the Federation to join the British army as tradesmen will leave Seremban train tomorrow for Singapore. are 26 Malay boys r r*en the ages of 15 V 2 and from Malay schools throughout Negri Sembilan have
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  • 28 5 KLUANG. Thurs. For being found with four unused exercLse books axid five sheets of blank paper. Lai Meng Song was fined $25 or five days' gaol.
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  • 85 5 MCA TO BUILD 200 HOMES Free Press Staff Reporter MALAYAN Chinese Association, Singapore branch, wants t 0 acquire 150 acres of land m the colony to reset: le dehoused people, an M.C.A. official told the Free Press yes erday. Two hundred houses will be built there m the first phase
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  • 20 5 Total exports of tin to all countries from Singapore and the Federation amounted to 4.552 tons during August.
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  • 25 5 A sum of $5,000 has been i given to the Buddhist Union of Singapore by a person who wishes to remain anonymous.
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  • 74 5 Present to Cheng-lock from clan Free Press Staff Reporter THREE members of the Chang Chow Association. Singapore, will leave for Malacca tomorrow to present an artistic Chinese woodwork to Sir Cheng-lock Tan. The present is being given to honour him for receiving the knighthood on New Year's Day. The woodwork
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  • 68 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. DEEP ploughing by tractors of dry padi land m Kelantan would increase the crop by about 2J million gantangs. the Federation Government said yesterday. RIDA provided two trac--1 tors for the 1951-52, season, but only between 300 and 400 the 29.000 acres were
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  • 106 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PRIVATE markets will now be allowed to use smaller weighing machines than those installed by the Singapore City Council m public markets. The use of such machines will be compulsory from January, mxt jltf. rhese scales must have a rang- cf one-quarter
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  • 63 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. Teo Chiong Chuan. nanaglhg director of Guan Soon Transport, Singapore, yesterday reduced his expenses on the firm's annual celebration of the Chinese festival. Feast of Hungry Ghosts, and gave the money to charity. He gave $1,000 to the building fund of
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  • 24 5 MUAR, Thurs. The Victoria English School, Muar, will hold its annual athletic sports on Sept. 26 on the Bandar Malay School ground.
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  • 107 5 CITY TO SPEED UP PARK DEVELOPMENT 7TIHE development of parks A and open spaces m Singapore is expected to be stepped up considerably within the next two to three ycar^, said the City Architect, Mr. W. I. Watson, yesterday. The City Council, he said. Is now going ahead with two
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  • 23 5 SEGAMAT, Thurs. Tse Chian aged 56 of Labis, was fined $15 at Segamat for erecting an unauthorised partition m his building.
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  • 69 5 She is new Raffles librarian SINGAPORE Raffles Library has appointed a new librarian Mrs. Joan Green. Mrs. Green, whose job is temporary, succeeds Miss Louise Bridges, who resigned last month. Mrs. Green, who was selected from about 20 local men and women, has had six years' experience as a librarian
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  • 98 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SIX more women welfare workers are being sent by London headquarters of the St. John Ambulance Association to serve m resettlement areas m the Federation. They will arrive m Singapore next Thursday. Mrs. D. W. G. Faris, an that
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  • 94 5 MEMBERS of the C.V.M.A. (Church of the Sacred Heart) will hold a variety concert m aid of the Redemptorist Fathers Building Fund at the Victoria Theatre, tomorrow night. Among those taking part are Miss Hwang Li-Er, from the Ballet Circle, Miss Lim Li, Miss Lim Tee
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  • 47 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Thurs. A woman, Tarn Siew, was charged a Parit Buntar with having destroyed the contents of a jar and four pots alleged to have contained 40 gallons of fermented mash, to prevent seizure by Customs officers. Tarn rlaimed trial and the
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  • 146 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A ID from RIDA is now giving better opportunities to the kampong folk of Kelantan. With RIDA money for the materials, the kampong people have themselves built bridges, roads, drains and culverts. Many kampong roads are now fit for motor traffic. Before
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  • 154 5 Malays to build welfare home SINGAPORE is to have a welfare home for the Malays. It will look after destitutes, orphans and the blind. Che Zahara binte Noor Mohamed, the president of the Malay Women's Welfare Association, said yesterday i hat the Government had agreed to lease a piece of
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  • 114 5 SINGAPORE Marine Parade is being repaired. The City Architect, Mr. W. I. Watson, said yesterday: "Repairs to the sea wall are well under way. We have to work very slowly and only during low tides." "At other times we lay concrete paving on the promenade,
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  • 24 5 KUANTAN, Thurs. Foo Teck Fatt was fined $15 at Kuantan for alterations to the roof of his garage without a permit.
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  • 55 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. HARDSHIP and distress is being caused to the people of Klang Town by the unsatisfactory water supply, the Klang Town Board was told yesterday. Mr. J. Hamer, Chairman of the Board, said that there would be no improvement till the filtration plant at North.
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  • 34 5 MUAR, Thurs. Pail of $1,500 was allowed Teo Hoe who was charged at Muar with stealing two fishing nets belonging to a woman, Tay Low. The case was postponed to Sept. 20.
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  • 165 5 JAPAN BUYS LESS RUBBER FROM MALA YA JAPAN has cut her imports of Malayan rubber by 20 per cent during the last two months and increased purchases from Indonesia, Mr. K. C. Tan, a Colony rubber dealer, told the Free Pres; yesterday. He said it was easier now to get
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  • 240 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding: tonight are: NIGHT Jalan Pekan Jalan Sultan. Sumbawa Rd Beach Road Odeon Cinema, \lbambra. Rattles Hotel Boon Tat St.. Aljtinid KU Sim's Avenue. Paya Lebar Pomps Sennett Lstate. McPher>on Rd. Kirn Chaan Rd. Dun nun Rd.. Joo Chiat Pla«e. Jalan Yasin. Jalan Eunos.
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  • 122 5 SINGAPORE Naval Base Labour Union t asked Legislative Councillors to help settle their wage dispute with the Admiralty. The union has told the Councillors m a memoran- dum that all attempts to settle the dispute had failed The memorandum said that It was the duty of
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  • 42 5 MUAR, Thurs. Bail was opposed when Ong Tan, 46, was charged m the Muar Sessions Court with possession of five 1 katis of uncooked rice allegedly intended for use of terrorists at Padang Lalang, Tangkak. Ong was remanded pending triaL
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  • 721 6 The World Veterans' Federation, formed eighteen months ago, is today the world's biggest non-governmental organisation, says Henry Thody ISTANBUL. "^IEN who fight wars are even keener than others to prevent They know its Ex '.men chiefs from fourteen different countries— representing 15 million former fightinsj
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  • 15 6 The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
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  • 710 6 ASKS THE REV. FRANK MARTIN HOPE we m Britain 1 shall soon be given some forcelul and imaginative guidance by those m high authority m the matter of the Coronation? So far, we have had details of the .Royal list of social
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  • 726 6  -  F.K. GARDINER By I ARRIVED m Arizona with a raincoat over my arm— and the folk of thft great open spaces m the West just smiled at this further example of the eccentricities of the English. My wish had been to see a ten-gallon
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  • 174 6 EGYPTIANS are turning to gliding as a means of relaxation. GCiding, m fact, is fast becoming one of the most popular sports m Egypt -and it costs young Egyptians practically nothing. Atl they have to do is to join the Government-sub-sidised Gliding Institute. The membership fee is
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 159 6 MSndrdKß Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya V^ I THEY LOOK LIKE iIF THEY ARE, PINE. I I CLEOPATRA'S MAP I DAD,I WON'tI IDOAS 1 SAY. IF I GIVE TME Sj6NAI, --POLICEMEN. BUT THEY MAYBE IS IN THIS BELT. PUT LEAVE YOU-- TWO SHOTS, DRIVE TO THE MAINTHINK
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  • 693 7 Did a smart gallop today v B>- ALLAN LEWIS ()NK of the best prospects at Bukit Timah on tJtJwL' °A n J ng n day f the Si "g«Pore Turf Uubs (,old Cup meeting, should be Snort Hairs. He was the most impressive worker
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  • 437 7 (^OLD Cup favourite. GamI bar Melayu < Knuckey > one of the <ers at Headrning, when d for BirthJagby Jr.) over a rim half a mil e m 52. iS. iyu Is holding '^rrn remarkably well and though he will be a I welter weight rivals gallop
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  • 371 7 TWO CUP HOPES IMPRESS CUP candidates, Red Carnation (Woods) and Treasure Ship (Poshni) attracted attention, when sent over half a mile which they covered m 53 15, the last three m 38 1 5. Red Carnation, on the inside, finished about a length m fiont. well on the bit. Skryiie
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  • 71 7 I^HERE were 19 final acceptors JL ye«terday for the St. Leger. last of the season's English classics for three-year-olds, to be run over one mile six furlongs, 132 yards at Doncaster en Sept. 13. They are: Alclnus. Bob Major. Bold Buccaneer, Castle'cn. Caledonian. Childe Harolde.
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  • 57 7 4 DVANCE bookings for It. Singapore Turf Club cash sweeps will be on Races 1 to 8. Tickets for Races 9 and 10 will be sold at the race course. Through numbers m the event of i 10-race programme will he on Rices 3 to 10: for a
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  • 185 7 2IXTH seeded Gardnar Mulloy pulled his game together yesterday after trailing two sets to cne, to beat Mexico's champion Gustaxo Pala'ox m thf third round of the U.S. national tennis championships at Forest Hills. New York, 6—2, 5—7, 3—6, 6—3, 6—4. Mulloy 's next opponent
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  • 35 7 "C'GYPTIAN swimmers Mustapha Dawoud and Mahmoud Hassam returned to England by boat yesterday after heavy seas forced them to give up their attempt on the France to England Channel swim.
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  • 287 7 pNGLISH soccer champions Manchester United, XJ whose football has a lot of last season's sharpness, were held to a scoreless draw yesterday, on their own ground by Arsenal, who still have a number of first class players on the side list. Another
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  • 58 7 piELDING only ten men, O.T.E.C. beat Sime Derby 3-1 m a Singapore B.H.F.A. League Cup fixture at CYMA ground yesterday. Centre forward Salahuddin scorrd Sime Darby, but after the changeover O.T.E.C. pressed back and after 15 minutes Salim scored two quick goals. Then, m the closing
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  • 46 7 J OHN Cobb streaked across the water at 100 miles an hour at Lock Ness. Scotland yesterday m the first trial of a new jet i speedboat. Crusader", m which he hopes to set a new world speed record.
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  • 501 7 A FINE spell of bowling by Fred Ridgway, Kent's fast bowler helped to dismiss India fo r 222 on the first day of their three-day festival match against an England XI at Hastings. With County cri cket finished for the season the festival programme opened m
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  • 247 7 HUTTON IN FESTIVAL MOOD LEN Hutton. m a real festival mood, punished the M.C.C. bowling for 103 runs i on the opening of the Scarborough Festival yesterday. Len. m making his tenth century of the 1952 season. gav c a fluent stroke display m which he used the cover drive,
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  • 71 7 Yesterday's U.K rugby results: RLGBY LEAGUE Lancashire (up first round second leg Leigh 43 Whithaven 2; St. Helens 23, Barrow 5; Swinton 18, Oldham 19; Warrington 30, Salford 8: Wigan 38. Widnes 5. Yorkshire cup first round second leg: Bramley 12, Halifax 20; Castleford 8, Keightley 6;
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  • 39 7 HPHE Australian Cricket. Board of Control yesterday gave permission for an Australian team to visit Hong Kcng next month to play matches as part of the centenary celebrations of the Hong Kong Cricket Club.
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  • 186 7 ROCKY MARCIANO yesterday promised that if he wins the world heavyweight title from Jersey Joe Walcott, he will take on all comers. "If I win I intend to be a fighting champion. I do not believe m winning the title and then putting it away
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  • 176 7  -  I A GOAL scored m the 54th I minute by Singapore's ace centreforward, Awang Bakar, saved Tigers from defeat at Jalan Bes a r Stadium yesterday. Their mateh a Senior Cup tie against Rovers. SAFA league champions, was a thriller and I one of the
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  • 915 7  -  CHARLES BARNETT The Jimmy Wilde Story By IT was 1919, World War 1 had ended and milli<. is *of British and American troops were co ning back from France, filling London a, never before. Jim Driscoll. Jimmy Wilde and the others on the
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 181 7 THE HAPPY WORLD CABARET Unfolds its big attraction of the season. THE ELECTION OF THE 1952 HAPPY'S QUEEN imunencing from TONIGHT to the 14th September, 1952. PROGRAMME —Thursday *f 9.9.s2— Tuesday ink ratlin love song* the snake charmer" A special dance number by The Rose J By Miss Myra. Paradise
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    • 115 7 Only Pan American offers you the benefit of all this experience! First U.S. airline across the Pacific, the North Atlantic; to the Orient; to all 6 continents, around the world First airline to fly double-decked "Strato" Clippers*, the world's largest, fastest, most luxurious airliners! Regularly flies more passengers overseas than
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  • 14 8 Tax ci up to 10 > if the nent 1 drafted by the
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  • 82 8 and Arthur. at K.I both well. LES To Ohve. wife of Jane X Hospital, on 2 9 B. \K OMMODATION VAC \\T IXDUBLE accommodation, own nt m quiet guest house. Tel. 3045 mum ST. TERESAS School Of Commerce. 480. Kampong Bahru Rd.. -4 Sessions daily 6 9 Typwitinf. S'hand.
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  • 447 8 NIGGARDLY PAY COSTS BRITAIN KEY MEN Vital defence research held up LONDON. Thurs. VITAL defence research m the fields of atomic power, electronics, aircraft, and guided missiles is bring held up by shortage of scientists. Niggardly pay and the reluctance of the Treasury to authorise bigger staffs are blamed. Heads
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  • 30 8 Sixteen nations, with forces m Korea, are expected soon to begin drafting a resolution reaffirming United Nations General Assembly support of their policies m that war-torn country. A.P.
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  • 50 8 Notice Is hereby given that EE YONG LEE. of 144. Tembeling Road. Singapore. 1* applying tc the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows Hny reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary. Singapore.
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  • 133 8 U.K. HAS 200 MPH ROBOT FARNBOROUGH. Thurs. A RADIO-CONTROLLED pilotless target plane, capable of over 200 miles an hour, was shown to the public for the first t me yesterday at the indoor exhibition at Britain's flying display here. Every movement can be controlled from the ground by radio including
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  • 167 8 CAIRO. Thursday. OHEIK Abdel Meguid Selim, rector of Al Azhar, the Muslim world's central theo ogical institute, has decided to resign following popular demands for a purge of officials of the 1,000-year-old institution, it was announced yesterday. Sheikh Abdel was exempted from the order, which
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  • 152 8 Continued from page 1. that they are going to give bark. not sell back, to the magnates th* s\'el Industry all that we have t'onestly paid for. 'The steel Industry Is a prize *hich the Tory party won at the last general election because the people of this
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  • 39 8 The French Council of Ministers yesterday instructed the Public Health Minister. Paul Ribeyre, to draw up new measures against drug traffic, with more severe punishments, especially for those si lling drugs to the young. Reuter
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  • 244 8 TOKYO, Thursday. BRITISH sources m Tokyo yesterday rejected Japanese contentions that lack of liaison between the authorities concerned helped to make an international issue of the gaoling of two British sailors last July. The Kyodo news agency said the row may have been
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  • 114 8 LONDON, Thurs. EIGHT masked bandits, including an attractive looking girl, rammed a car taking money from a shop to a bank and after a fight escaped with more than £1.000 at Harrow, West London yesterday. It was one of the most daring
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  • 33 8 The North Atlantic Pact Council decided In Paris yesterday that a meeting of the Ministers of the 14 treaty nations shall be held m Paris on or about December 15. Reuter
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  • 23 8 A world food reserve to offset food shortage m emergencies Is being planned by a five-nation committee at Rome. Reuter
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  • 18 8 Mr. Kioyoshe Yamaguta. Japanese ambassador to Pakistan, left Tokyo last I night for Karachi by air.—
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  • 25 8 The State Ministry of Agriculture claimed m Hanover yesterday that British troops seriously damaged the Wester River dykes while on manoeuvres recently A.P.
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  • 160 8 COPENHAGEN. Thurs. A DANISH landowner rtcently refused a mctor- j car worth U.S. $10,000 for a| crop from one ear of wheat i The newspaper, "Randers Pagtiad," said that the unique wheat was grown at "Skjern Hovedgaard" near Randers. The wheat, which did not yiet'd the
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  • 234 8 'No scarce goods for Reds 9 HONG KONG, Thursday. THE Government reacted with indignation yesterday to charges by a United States Congressman, Mr. Carroll Kearns, that "United States materials are gom* through Hong Kong t o be used against American boys m Korea" and there
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  • 53 8 Four persons were killed and six injured yesterday when a World War II torpedo exploded m a former Japanese naval dockyard near Kure. South Japan. Sixteen houses were a!so destroyed. The blast was caused when a workman tried jto brc j ak ud the torpedo for
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  • 20 8 Mr, Clement Attiee and I his wife renamed to London yesterday from a vacation I m Rhodesia. U.P.
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  • 28 8 Mr Clement Attlee and tary-General of the League of Nations from 1933 to 1940. died m Switzerland yesterday. I He was 73 years old. A.P.
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  • 52 8 Police opened fire to dis- perse a demonst rating crowd at Hyderabad yesterday One person was killed and 10 were injured m the demonstraliOßS. Police used tear gas and made six charges with clubs on students demonstrating against the retention of nondomiciled workers m State Government
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  • 43 8 Spokesmen for 818 Japanese war criminals m Sugamo Prison m Tokyo yesterday told foreign newspapermen m an unprecedented news conference that they considered their sentences unreasonable, uncalled for, and illegal and they thought they should be released 2t once. A.P.
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  • 32 8 Britain's First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor, will leave London for Korea at the end of September to visit British naval ships and establishments m the East. Reuter
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  • 67 8 PARIS, Thurs. WORKING m relays, police grilled Gustave Dominici for rive hours and 20 minutes at Lurs yesterday, m connection with the murder of Sir Jack Drummond, his wife, and daughter. Dominici, 32 year old, farmer, has previously told police he heard shots on the night
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 99 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris f^*^^ r AND AS YOUR ATTORNEY 1 r WELL, I SAY I'M GOING TO TAKE THESE ag*> 7^sS^~ FERGUS.TtO TRACE THE DESCENDANTS OF 1 HAV£ T0 ADVISE YOU YOUNG PEOPLE TO THAT HIDDEN CANYON JkK^S^^ I HIRED YOUR FORMER PARTNERS YOU THA > AT GOLO
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