The Singapore Free Press, 17 January 1950

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SI SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1950. PRICE l« 1 KMS
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  • 269 1 U.S. warns of Red war plan WASHINGTON, Tuesday. AMERICAN rubber scientists have warned the U.S. Government that, m the event of war, Russian planes would wipe out rubber plantations m Malaya and Indonesia by spreading the South American leaf disease. The president of the
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  • 33 1 SUGAR RAMP: 15 HELD St^fl Keporter retail siiop- been aripore Food :ors up to morning since tuok achoarding of jar. I his, In.^pecbv mdd ieka ranging X he told >>n I pirul x-
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  • 18 1 Chinese go to Mauritius Ing to I ship took their r school- A P Mem nd at- P
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  • 20 1 Chmtterjee. Am at a ov Pandit Minister of r.rpfl y. j'^d murder ->f arms to -'orous soectivelv
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  • 6 1 Vodj has ae:tire recoanition to
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  • 572 1 "handsprings and the next thins I knew I was m the drink." Free Press Staff Reporter 4 X Englishman, Clive Manners of Heaton Moor, k Cheshire, is the luckiest man m the world according: to Capt. G. K. Cheetham of the Blue Funnel Ship. M. V.
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  • 23 1 Greta Carbo is coming out of retirement to play m 'Lover and Friend" to be filmed m England and France.
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  • 161 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A WOUNDED Scots Guard sergeant nrcd 11 shots at bandits before he crawled up to get the rifle from one of his comrades who had been shot dead. This episode happened m jungle between Batu Arang and Rawang m
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  • 58 1 Free Press Staff Reporter HEADQUARTERS, Far Easi Air Force, Singapore, this morning released the names of the airmen killed In the Mosquito mid-air collision over British North Borneo last Friday. They were: Fit. -Lieut. J. A Carpenter, Flying Officer D. A. Barker, Navigator II G.
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  • 24 1 Two armed bandits yesterday held up a railway worker gang at Tenang, m' the s#»gamat area, and took away their tools.
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  • 21 1 King Pumipol of Siam will embark for his homeland on February 27 m Marseilles on the Danish motor-vessel Selaridia.—UP
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  • 231 1 LONDON, Tuesday. \|R. Douglas Jay, Economic Secretary to the British i?1 Treasury, told a Trade Tnion meeting m South London yesterday that for a time *'n 0 doubt we have come near to the limit of redistribution of wealth by way of taxes on income."
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  • 89 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Tues. THE Soviet Union and its supporters continued their I boycott of the United Nations Little Assembly when it met yesterday. Dr. Joho Carlos Munlz of Brazil was elected new president of the "Little Assembly" or Interim committee m succession to Mr. Selim Sarperof
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  • 19 1 Rear-Admiral Sir William Gladstone Agnew, 52. has retired from the Royal Navy at his own request. A.P.
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  • 24 1 Yon.* Peng Estate m Johore. was screened yesterday by security forces. Seven Chinese were arrested on suspicion of having helped bandits.
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    50 1 picture Mrs. K. C. Balhatchet, principal of McNair Koad School, teaching six-year-old Lily Chew, a victim of TB m the spine, few sums m Singapore's only class for disabled children at McNair Koad. Lily Chew is encased m plaster from her hips to her Story m Page 5. Free Press
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  • 107 1 BRITAIN WILL HELP ASIAN WORKERS NUWAR A ELIYA < Ceylon*. Tues. MR. PHILIP NOEL-BAKER. Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, last night pledget Britain's all-out assistance to the Internat.ir. il Labour Organisation m its eflorts to improve the lot Qf Asian workers. He said. "Economic expansion by Joint action of East and
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  • 16 1 Storms and blizzards killed at least 52 people m North America yesterday. Renter
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  • 65 1 MORE British women are deserting the kitchen for the factory or shop judging by figures issued by the Ministry of Labour yesterday. Of 60,000 new workers m industry m November. 44,000 were women. Unemoloyment at the same time rose from 323,600 to 330.300. Part of the rise
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  • 165 1 LONDON, Tuesday. MR. JOHN STRACHEY, Minister of Food, said m London last night that the crisis m world food shortage and dollar shortage had passed. He added that official assessment over the last six months showed broadly that for the iirst time since the war the
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  • 69 1 T'HK plainer, shorter ami more old-fashioned the name, the more fashionable for British babies this \ear. Birth notices show that John is the favourite boy's name and Susan tops the I girU' list. Nursery school teachers say that the modern child's name is not shortened ihe^e
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  • 83 1 Thais jail 3 Chinese BANGKOK. Tues THREE Chinese schoolteachers m Thailand were held as suspects m aiding Communist terrorists d.toss the border m Malaya, a pease Maintenance Corps spokesman. Colonel Thakssoniuongse, announced yesterday. The three- lannam Somnia, Lao Lan and Chong Cuas Saekow are all instructors In the Hangnarayuchai School
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  • 99 1 Free Press Staff Reporter INDIA'S 60-year-old amDassador to the United States of Indonesia, Dr. Pftramasiva JSubbarayan, arrived In Singapore from Jakarta this morning with the Republic's Minister for Economic Affairs, 39-year-old Dr. Djuanda. Dr. Subbarayan is returning to New Delhi to attend his country's inauguration as
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  • 28 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The unidentified body of a Chinese woman was found m a bandit camp located yesterday m the Segamat-Jemen-tah area of Johore.
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  • 30 1 Two unf.\pl.)dt'd hand?rt j nades wei>> found m the garden o| Government House, rrsidenc^ of Mr Orerflle i Drew. British Chiel Administrator m Eritrea, «>n Bunday -R,
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  • 195 1 S 'pore ship escapes high seas Free Press Staff Reporter WAVE and wind battered the 44-ton trawler Sai Fong, overhauled and fitted out m Singapore last year viheti she was bought by the local agents for an Australian firm, went into Roebuck Bay yesterday after a periloir 23-day 2,000-mile voyage
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  • 47 1 LONDON. Tu -s. AIR IHllli lll S.r Hugli P. i\ Lloyd A:r Commandw'-jn-Chiel Far EaM Command arrived a: Nuriholt airpirt here yest^rdav Lady Lloyd. Th*| D I Sinc< i Rsy transport. l] has unpointed Bomti reeding Air Sir AuI v oori. A P
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  • 26 1 Free Pr«-*> St.tfl X- ;>i»: I R A F attacki: i: Kluartg area Jofaore entally hi| v Chini i house Fur slightly ihji;
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    • 67 1 iOftATTtRY ROAD SI.NGAfOUK i^ n attracave glass will be given R' i\ free with every four dozen F N Drinks purchased \jfl between January 20th and m February 10th. Chinese New Year will Mm be a happy one with drinki II that are Famous for Flavour. M PLACE YOUR ORDERS
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  • 418 2  - Bad Women Who Talk of Loyalty CANON HUGH WARNER advises husbands Mid wivts A HUSBAND writes "I was the co-res-pondent. We had three children. My wife ran op bills, lied to me. and derided me fo r ten years. She was terrible with the children. I fell madly m love
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  • 146 2 Australia's Happy Wife No. 1 DROBABLY one of the happiest women m Australia just now I* M I R G. Mer.zits wife ol the new Prime Minister. Although thrilled by ler husband's success, Mrs. Ment "mains a quiet, noine1. ring woman who hr. s always preferred family and j public
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  • 7 2 Colurs For 1950 d»T b launc 1
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    • 170 2 _V^al '->■•■•' -?_l_J_} 2 __p_tfyS______^___P JK||3k_ih^^ |jssnSß GAILY COL>OLJ R i_ D _jH9B__R__y__t^_9r I S TARTANS AND PATTERNS 532.50 TO 5C5.00 jj i__l^^_UWv JhUaL I _H^^_a_M_9E___AKJHL_. Ist abb B B NGAPORE -KUALA LUMPUR PENANGI A:* I Designed For Giving j j|t^| j \^_P i < k I v^ 'f P.
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    • 376 2 I 1 Topics unmentionable 50 years _^sfct^_SPm^^ X XLvZ? /0 f ;e normal today as the I »-£_«jffv_J»_|| Pursuit of Love i^B^ s 1900 1950 S Low necked, high backed Low backed, topless bo- < < H«r Frock boned bodice, short sleeves. dice <mX s _i r t. bare <
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    • 102 2 Is Your Home Leave Approach-ng* Hniutiful imported v Aim Tailored i-> metis />' titi M tind yuur until Depart* UJ lnxo?t 18L. Battery Road, Singapore. Tel. For the Beach-' BATHING SHOES FOR LADIES Rubber Edth ng Sizes 2 a 3 s: S c PAl c S Xl rA FOR CHILDREN
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 90 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today, you have tremendous capabilities, provided you develop all the latent talents which ihe stars have given you. No matter how humble your beginning. rou are ambitious for fame and fortune and will make tremendous sacrifices to get nhead. When you work, you work very hard.
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    • 204 2 Solution To Crossword No. 892 S 4 JHH||v\ JHJgVvv'A X E N r enjoy activity and change .mi much to stay m one environment for very long if it bores you. Make sure that each move is a mo\e upward and you will find success continues to be yours. A
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  • 297 3 Some clues to missing-link ciCIFXTi*™ WASHINGTON, Tuesday. Si J and cx P lorers are probing the ocean depths, th c limitless space of the heavens and roaming every continent of the globe to push back the frontiers of knowledge m 1950 A survey carried out by the
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  • 48 3 DON. Tues. uj rtrmb m life, dm years been m Fleet Street, paper beehive. stone are oJ England of Scots. \t ova an is now to be years »f Soots er«d of the :>d." many I >ked. eckted ta years re-.rr.-<\eaninc toe.
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  • 42 3 U.S. rears new milch COWS >KINGTQN, Tiies. .tr.ci BX- id, farm Slndhl I :r. :lking strair. India SX4I and SX :hat carry i Red Sindn: centlj nning of rhe longrlment •at tic for I ill llder and Red SinJ thp Jersrv AP
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  • 66 3 SYDNEY. Tues. BREAD baked a year ago, was quite edible when <Mten here recently. A test to see how the bread would stand up to time was made by Sydney housewife. Mrs. E. C Tuckwell. She said she kept the bread m a cupboard, but soaked
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  • 47 3 QOME German generals have submitted plans for a West German army to Dr. Konrad Adenauer, the Wesi German Chancellor. The plans were submitted without Allied authority, but the German government is at liberty to make any proposals it decides. US. oftV said a.p.
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  • 32 3 The US Army is reported üboui ready to assign a few Negro troops to white units II step toward gradual elimination of rare sc m its rank AP —Router
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  • 25 3 Several hundred memben of the maintenance staff at the British-owned oil refineries in Haifa will stage a 24hour "warning strike" on Wednesday -Reuter.
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    284 3 THE power of the spadf sun was d monstrated by this biddun. The opponents rould have macie three or four <*id at diamonds, bui the suit was never mentioned. South had his work cut out to irP-ke two spades and only a delicate timing play enabled him to
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    24 3 photo. Villagers from a hamlet on Cyprus island set out to search for missing; relatives after heavy floods swept over the Famagu.sta area. A.P.
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  • 68 3 MYSORE. Tues. Problems relating to the migration of European manpower to oversea* countries are to be considered at a preliminary labour migration conference to be held In Geneva m April this year. A provisional agenda for thr conference was drawn up here by a joint session of
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  • 68 3 /'OMMUNIST newspapers In Shanghai have laid out a blue print for the control of foreign newsmen m Red areas when foreign newsmen are permitted to work there again. All news concerning the Red Government Issued to foreign reporters will go through an International news bureau
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  • 167 3 Pro-Red police chief vanishes BERLIN, Tuesday. r rHF man who was an expert at making post-war A Berliners disappear seems to have disappeared himself. Tough, loud-voiced Paul Markgraf. Soviet sector police chief, has been mysteriously out of circulation since last October Reports persist m the West i that the ambitious.
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  • 16 3 Syria is opening talks for r\ U556,000,000 loan from Saudi I Arabia Renter
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  • 84 3 It runs in the family BRISBANE. Wed. A MAN who lay helpless for 27 hours on a lonely busn. track between Brisbane and Toowoomba. summoned help by flashing a shaving mirror In that time he had neither food nor water. He was hiking along a deserted road when he fell
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  • 74 3 A 33-YEAR-OLD rock miner m Australia, who was 'tired of life." leapt from a train moving at 40 miles an hour. He landed unhurt m a thick patch of blackberry bush. Because of hi> size he is ft ft. tall and weigh* more than 15
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  • 235 3 ENUG'J, Nigeria, Tuesday. A NEW African Nationalist political party favouring closer co-operation with Nigeria's thinly scattered white population is reported to be emerging from the wave of racial feeling and genuine distress which has swept Nigeria since the African labour incidents at Enugu colliery. The Nigerian
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  • 44 3 Monaco. Europe's smallest democracy. Monday com- pleted voting for its 18-man National Council, giving the right wing National Monegasque coalition ail but two seats. There were 700 voters at the polls of the 922 registered. No Commui isU were elected AP
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  • 124 3 NEW I.L.O. MEETING IN CEYLON Nuwera-Eliya. Ceylon, lues. THIS quiet little MM .station m th rt heart of t\ylon Stirred with unpre activity yesterday is 2SQ delegates gathered for the Brst full scale Asian rsoonaJ feren.ee of the International Labour Organisation op today. The major task c! ?tv r<»-»-ference is
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  • 62 3 Union rejects Communism THE Philippines Government Workers Unior. have signed a declaration renouncing Communism and abjuring the r^ht of go* men! employees to ttrike .or Manuel I> la Fu^nte. of Manila, promptly lilted hi* suspension order and r< ed them to jobs m tin i v :-r I easlier announced
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    • 125 3 ford's ou t f ron t 111 1 l oil FICIJII A completely new car, the finest with the front and rear seats, 57 and Ford you ever saw! It's massed 60 inches wide deep and comfort with front rank features that take able as your sofa. New fittings, it
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 618 3 Crossword No. 895 H r j?6 f?9 """"""""^fi! p> \ffi T Throttle j.. S» Prepurer ot liquids »6>; 19 Separate i 6-: 18 Companion i4>; 17 Cbairman j, l>: 23 BBaat <j i 28 Owunt 91 Severe ■>•. 13 Tallied (111. t LI Eh DOWN .fully «10> I Pun .5.:
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  • 438 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Jan. 17. 1950. SIGNS OF A RICE STORM 0- etaila remain be settled before Siam to let the Phillip- j I 100 000 tons 6"f r rubber manufactured hemp products. A repreOf the Siamese i vernment buying agency is ready to fly to Japan to
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  • 1242 4  -  G. WARD PRICE reports on the world's most breathtaking project. BIGGEST and most breath hiking task m the world today is Australia's Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme Thai £200.000,000 20-year plan aims at improving on Creation. It will change Ihe geography of South-Eastern Australia Throughout the Australian Alps,
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  • 300 4  -  F^ROM the window ot the Ship Tyger Studio overlooking the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour the marine artist lieutenant-Colonel Harold Wyllie paints his model the frigate Foudroyant. When the old Implacable passed under this window to her death south of th«Owejra Light the Foudroyant became the
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    14 4 Ingrid Bergman ai i Jos< »/i CctieTTm rico Which opens at the Capitol today.
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    11 4 The famous Good quadruplets of St. Neots. Bedfordshire with Father Christmas
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  • 988 4  - Most Go- Ahead University RICHARD GREENOUGH 'By ANN AHHOK, Michigan. YOUNG man with a shock of red hair, white winter's coal over his checked lumberjack shirt, and club tie deftly removed my empty coffee cup, cutlery, water l;Liss, swept the table, and asked: '•Will there be anything more, sir? I
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  • 136 4 <TUE x tenor voi Pauls Ca f sang folk are pin hour I lease." a pulpit preach' He wo: i cassock 01 a dark i< too-sma:. hancir: pock« Th« and Sir c Chancellor placed hi and said the I Gho>* A. The am. was to be
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    • 16 4 ♦v.v.sv.%vwv.%*v.ww. <BEST SHEFFIELD < CUTLERY j ks.deSiLVAii Jncellen I: 1 06 Orchard Rd. Tel: 2466 \l SwVVVWVVVtnMVWVUUUV*
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    • 116 4 New supplies of BIRDSEYE QUICK FROZEN FOODS just arrived Mackber rii r Whole Strawberries Blackcurrants. 10 oz Fruit Salad. 16 cz Loganbernes. 14 oz Damsons 16 oz Green Peas. 12 cz Cauliflower. 12 cz IMPORTANT. It is most important th*l ackets for detu and cook-, followed carefully It .s also
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  • 4 5 DISABLED CHILDREN GET SCHOOLING
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    475 5 picture. Special class m Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter j{ BRIGHT-EYED Singapore Chinese girl of six years, encased m plaster from hips to shoulders, sits at her desk m a classroom of McNair Road School every afternoon repeating and noting down everything her teacher says. She is little Lily Chew
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  • 90 5 Free Press Staff Reporter t PROPOSAL to give a 5330-a-month Municipal job to a candidate whose qualifications do not iude i School Certificate is due to come up for tirmation by Singapore Municipal Conimisrs at their meeting at the end of this month. confirmation of which
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  • 73 5 Frer Pr^Ns Staff Krporter THE I N A. S ing reverted to ihe conrol ol the Royal Navy having been on loan to the R.A F. for the It "its from Sembawane I number of strikes on targets m southern Malaya been made by the r.a.f
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  • 77 5 FAIRFIELD YOUTH The following <re tl MBCI oearers of the Fahfv.d Methodist Touth Follow ship: PwJ Michael Wee; llci PTWklinr. Mr. V. Y. Leone. MCTCtai7, Mr Yov: Chang Mang: treasurer. Miss Lav Slew Har; worship >'.d ev.\i<qelisni. Mr Billy Liin world friendship. Miss Chiu Sock Chin*': community ser\lce. Miss Tour
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  • 205 5 LOWER CEILINGS LIKELY Free Press Staff K**p«>ri«T PROPOSAL which will enable Singapore landlords to build residential h v ith a reduced ceiling ol eight feet six inches for the \S ia likely to b«- p by the Municipal Com sionera this month. The proposal, which Is to the building bylaws
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  • 180 5 MORE GIRLS TAKE TO READING Free Press Staff Reporter THERE were more girls than boys joining the A Singapore Raffles Junior Library last year. Mrs. \i <sliplh'Y the librarian told the Free Press yesterday Of atom 1.500 children subscribers whose ages range from five to 16. more than 800 were
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  • 44 5 Undei the auspices ol tii Alli:inc<' Francalse, a French detectlvr film. Jeannj Lamour will bt« screened at the Victoria Theatn 1 tonight at 9 15 Th» j show is open to mem\\n rs »)1 the Alii »nee IVancalse j •and their fHen
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    42 5 picture. THONG CHONG Lam (7) and Lee Cheung Oeuk (8) two of the disabled children who arc studying in In* special clasv <or disabled children in McXair Road Schaal, Singapore. With them i^ .>Irs. E <". B^lhetchei. nrincfpal uf the school.- Free Fress
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    25 5 picture. MR. Justice Gordon-Smith entering St. Andrew's Cathedral to attend the service before ihe ceremonial opening yesterday of the Singapore Assizes for 1950. Free Press
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  • 284 5 mmmmm Free Press Stalt Ke P<>rter OMiMIMST bandit activities, Malaya's progress, and American economic and political influence m South-East Asia will form the basis of observations for Dr. Alfred Crofts, well-known American radio news analyst, who has arrived m Singapore from Hong Kong m the
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  • 117 5 NO ROOM IN CHINESE SCHOOLS F. P. Chinese C#ri*sp©ii4ent MOST Singapore Chinese Schools, particularly pilmary schools and Icindergarhave \i:u\ heavy applications for enrolment this I Mr Lin Yao Chiang, principal of the Yong Cheng Chinese School, one of the larg- j est primary schools m the Colony, said yesterday that
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  • 107 5 J.BAHRU TOWN BOARD Free Prtss Stall Keporler JOHORE BAHRU, IfOll. Members of the Johore Bahni Town Board for 1950 are. the Officer In charge Town Boards. Johore 'presi--1 dent I Inche Abdul Karim bin Hitam "deputy president i. the Deputy Commissioner for Labour, Johore. the District Officei. Johore Bahru. the
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  • 247 5 The committee of the Boon Yew Association for 19.')((. is: Patrons. Messrs Goh Ly»- Or. Cll a Y» w Chiang. Siik Siak Hvee, Sim Ah Kow. Lev Swee Tin. Bob Beng Sam, Urn Boon Kiong. Chua Tai Tian. Tan Sin Peng. l Thian Tong. Lim TtoOf Hork.
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  • 107 5 Hanged with own saree JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— his return from work, Munusamy, a tapper on Layang Estate. Kluang district, found his room locked from ihe inside. As there was no response to his knocking, he went to window which he opened and saw his wife, Kamachee, hanging by hei saree
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  • 255 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r PHE Singapore Government is prepared to issue to licensed retailers as much as 1,500 ton s of suuar this month to defeat the black market which I is been created over the past week m anticipation of abnormal
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  • 90 5 FEDERATION DAY PLANS JOHORE BAHRU Mon FEDERATION Day, M I, will be cf'ebratfd U.M.N.O. with a thankf service at U.M.N.O. m Jalan Ibrahim. In the afternoon thei < be sport s for members children at Jalan Nghee Beßf. In the evening there w:.l b a meeting of members vtM n
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    • 85 5 fti a dream its SLITS Ml iHlcnialth -mart I Hi Colour* a ai I I Wl ahlr. (.n\. Urou it, I iur ami Nii\<«l I oloiir«'«l I »rrtla. I I |j| I PRICES FROM 5142.50 ROBINSONS RAFFLES PLACE SPORE P GIFTS I offer a most acceptable rmg* of fts You
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 29 5 MAILS Surface mail '> i m Singapore ioc:iv hmn Burma. Indi:. 1 Kong. Ch:r I Latest tinie"- !ii*:l tr>d:iy tIH Ox> O noon for Ir.< Tl Burn^.a I A. < Philippines
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  • 494 6 LONDON. Tuesday. OMALL selling of British funds m a market devoid |^of support created losses of up to 3 Bths per cent, yesterday. Long-dated and nationalisation issues were the chief sufferers, while short-dateds remained quietly steady. Other sections of the London Stock Exchange were under the
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  • 35 6 'THE London tin ifkarfcet wa dull yesterday with tiirnoVer of 65 tons. Spot dowd unehangc J a; £599 155.. while three m< impioved £1 12s fc J To I >>2 6d.- w t
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  • 273 6 Proxy system m U.K. polls A LARGE number of Servicemen and their wives m Malaya will be voting by proxy m the General Election m the United Kingdom next month. All branches of the Armed Forces have made arrangements for this The arrangements also provide
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  • 85 6 PENANG. Mon. Because ol jealousy over a waitress, three trishamen assaulted an R.A S.C. driver and were convicted m the Sessions Court today. Ooi Ah Pee. Chew Joo Chool and Cheah Bah Chee were fined $50 each, but chose instead to go to prison for two
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  • 167 6 SHIPS al >ngside the S por»- Harbour Board nrhanrej yesterday (godowns m bracket vn Kant Wharf: M It i 44 >heers W hai I llaxtml Hi.indei Main Wharf: M BtlverclOUd ■42 3.. Tun« Bong nd later sibe:oet 40 i Man Kran Tjipanas (33 6>. Clytoneui 13 4) Cymbula
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  • 60 6 wing Commander G T Wynne Powell has been appointed station commander u{ the RAF at Kuala Lumpur m place of Wing Commander J. M. N Pike, who is returning to tile United Kingdom on expiration of his overseas tour, it was announced yesterday. Before coming to
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    45 6 picture A SECTION of the brilliant gathering m the Throne Room of the Istana Iskandariah on thr occasion of the Sultan of Perak's 60th birthday and the presentation to him of the insignia of K.C.M.G. by the Federation High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney Free Press
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  • 129 6 TNFORCEMENT of Singat pore's new 30-miles-per-bour traffic law affecting nine built-up areas m rural districts has been deferred pending erection of speedlimil posts. Municipal and Kural Board engineers have been told go ahead' 1 with the job of about 60 sign po.sts. This work will involve
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  • 37 6 SEREMBAN. Mull. Mr Kho Eng Thong, Nepn\ weiKhtlifter. who U participating In the Empire Gamei at New Zealand *as ei^tertained last night by th* Adonis Body Building Club of Seremban of which he was the founder.
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  • 198 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday I^HE Federation Government is considering a proposal for financing the large-scale planting of oil palms on obsolete rubber areas, it was officially stated today. In his statement at the annual meeting of the Bukit Selangor Rubber Estates
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  • 46 6 TAIPING, Men Mr M Samuel secretary «>f the I Town Board, Tup has been appointed n> m .r.ember of the rommtttrc 'f the Talping Co-opera* lye Store m place of Mr X R NavaIratnam vho lias been trajhvl I 1 erred to Kuala I.umpu:
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  • 20 6 \I*AI.I. Street was pnc<»* oniy either va i reduced volume of rar. The market c .-^d simdv :»i
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  • 85 6 BEN A GANG o: Malay bfti 15 Malay v described b poor shape truck and a tut-Kuarr;. and stole from the ti valuables ti sengers The bandits I 'condition, th< ing ragged They first truck, v.}.; bound and The load Incl oil. fre^h and tinned Thf
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  • 4 6 KUALA fix
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    • 100 6 MdndrdkC Exclusive In the Singapore tree Press m Malaya JHS^ g\ out 0 y K fc E B^!,^, L wra^i J SS^q JANE Exclusive to //if Singapore Free Press m Malaya »6LIEVE W6 COULD \AMI To /NOW DOhT 'SCUSE ME. Slß— i^. -ah- get Through regard (misunderstand J r— >-
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  • 392 7  - POWER CHIEF IMPRESSES ON TRACK ALLAN LEWIS Did fastest run this morning Hy IPOH, Tuesday. JHE x\o. 2. track at the Perak Turf Club was opened this morning and the going was good. Best time of the morning was made by Power Chief (McPherson), who went better than Fenton (Turner)
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    51 7 pitture. THE RHOUESIAN CYCLING TEAM to compete m the British Empire (iames m New Zealand next month, about to set out on a 10--miie workout m Singapore yesterday. From left to ri^ht: Earnest Branfiield. Kenneth Bennet and Edwin Evans. All three are members of the Bulawavo Harriers' Cycling Club. Free
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  • 366 7 IK riding on the Bukit Timah Road, the three KluJritiß f.u lists wlio will be taking part m the (..unes told the Free Pres s yesterday, that Malayan roads were exceptionally fast and md added that the possibility of covering: miles under the hour would
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    55 7 picture. WEIGHT LIFTING platelayer A. Oxden-Willows. who is taptain of the Rhodeaian contingent to the British Empire Game* in Auckland, limbering up at the York Body Building Club in Singapore last evening. He is watched by Singapore weightlifters Bee? Chee Choon left) and Thong Saw Pak. Malaya's lightweight representative for
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  • 576 7 1 THINK the Government I is levying too heavy a tax < on sport." said Mr. Kok Chong Fook, chairman of the eiecutive committee of the Malayan Chinese Football Associa- tion m a speech at the fare- well dinner given last night f m nonour of
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  • 143 7 POLiCE CUP GOLF THE Police Cup golf competition at tiie Island Ciub was won by D. S. Cartv. lijjiu- Terry With a score of 84 plus 83—167—36: 131. Next best returns were: L Newbould 72 plus 82 154-20: 134 (runner-up), R. Wall 79 plus 82 161-22: 139; E Carroll 89
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  • 36 7 rpHE Island Clubs January mixed foursomes golf competition played on Sunday, resulted m a tie between Mrs. J. Reeves and M J Evans 92—16: 76' and Miss C Lee snd S.I. Ibrahim -90—14 76'
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  • 233 7 4 BRILLIANT lighting ceni\ turv by Mustaq Ali helpvd India to finish the third days play m their five-day unofficial Test with the Common- j wealth side at Cawnpore With 274 runs for five wickets m reply to the Commonwealth's 448. The overnight unbroken Brit- wicket partnership
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  • 27 7 T*HE Nngapora Recieation Club beat the Singapore Teachers m a friendly game of hockey by ihree ijoals to one on the S R.C padantf yesterday.
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  • 167 7 Australians won as they pleased JTOE Australian touring crick" team yesterday beat Border XI by an Innings and 293 runs at Fast London. South Africa. Declaring their iirst Innings closed at the Saturday score of 425 for four, they then dismissed Border for 72 and 60. McCool right-arm slow bowler,
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  • 34 7 jyjIDDLESBROUGH beat Aston Villa 3—o m an F.A. Cup third-round replay at Leeds yesterday. It was their second replay. Middlesbrough will next meet Chesterfield m the fourth round at Chesterfield. Reutrr.
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  • 55 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. THE North hockey team to meet South at Seremban on Jan. 28 will be: T. Nadarajah OBcl.), Mat Noor 'Pk.i cap!., F. Vias (Sel.i, P. Sankey 'Pk.», Mohincler Bingh 'Pur. p. G. Tofi <Sei.\ Lim Heng Beet fSeU. Tajuddln flSel.), LrrAh Lpke P s.K
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  • 234 7 Njoo and Sands forgot how to smilp fj^REE Press photographer A. C Kok had to "Smile please' twice t* fore he took this pft< (on the- left) ot Aide Sands and Bobby NJoo at Njoo's trainiim camp at Goodman Road yesterday and V° u (>an spe suit. Njoo's Lips br
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  • 269 7 SOCCER m Canada is assured of a decided fillip by the inclusion of Stanley Matthews, outstanding British international for some years, m the Football Association team to tour Canada next May and June. Matthews is said to be quite a legend in Canadian football,
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  • 205 7 Australians Ist Inns. 4^5 for 4 dccl. HOKIII X IST INNS. White h W.-.lker 16 I. any Iliw Walker 1 Fenner b Nublet IMiillips b Mctool N I. union b Noblet Wakeford b Noblet X Hicks b MK'ool Thorne b Noblet Treadway t Morris b >!*•( 00l 0 Woods
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  • 84 7 MAXIM HAS A DAY OFF JOEY MAXIM of Cleveland who fights Freddie Mills for ihe world light -heavy* eight ini<- m London next Tuesday. skipped his usual wgrkout yesterday. 'He got down to the 175 lb Lmu last week." explained manage lack Kiarns, and may oe a litt!*- <oon. I
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  • 45 7 ALEC BROWN and F^red I holtin MR Ip\« 1 six frames nil at in their world snooker ship qua: Lancashire, v* Sidaley Smith led Doualdscn by se\en frames to m m their hen; :n the New- of 'h«* i World £15(iO nnirnameni.— Re
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  • 38 8 v.'ARFJELD. Ctreaoaster. C oucestersr.ire. to Denise (xiee N.xon>. wile of Gr<«up Captain Jal WarAeM, a dau?nter. SILVER WEDIHNCi OE SILVA-GABUr^u. .7-1-25 at S:. Johns Church. Bukit Nanas. Kuala Lumpur. H. A. De Sil^a to Dtisv Madeline OaiwieL
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  • 29 8 THOMAS 16 h January. Eli/abKh. daughter of Catherine and ■is Thomas of St. Andrews 8 hcH. rued 4 months. Funeral Bidadari 10 30 ».m Tuesday 171K .1 ni:arv
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  • 15 8 M\RV MOGER wishes to think her friends for many kindnesses re .-rived while m
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  • 336 8 Bid to cripple junk armada HONG KONG, Tuesday. INDICATING the imminence of the Red invasion of Hainan, more than 100 Nationalist bombers yesterday pounded the thousands of craft massed across the narrow strait along the Liuchow Peninsula. This was the heaviest air strike m
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  • 184 8 HOLY CITY HAS WAR JITTERS JERUSALEM, Tuesday. pOSTERS calling for 'total mobilisation" m Jerusalem have started rumouts tha r war is imminent and resulting hoarding has caused shortages, particularly of salt The mobilisation order calls for registration of all men 1 aged 18 to 49. and childless women from 18
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  • 118 8 WASHINGTON. Tues. UADIO commentator Drew Pearson said on Sunday that the United States Atomic I. Commission was I sharply divided on whether the country .should undertake to build a hydrogen super-bomb that would be 1.000 time* destructive as (he present atom bomb. Mr. Prirson said that
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  • 48 8 SUN GODDESS CULT BANNED JAPAN has ordered the dissolution of five "religious organisations" and two feudal bodies which the AttorneyGeneral's office described as "ultra-nationalistic and terroristic." The "religious" agencies were said to stem from an organisation founded m 899 A.D. worshipping Japan's Sur Goddess and fostering militarism. Reuter.
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  • 47 8 MISS Jennie Leo, Labour M.P. who is seeking: re-elec-tion m the Cannock bye -election, says m the Labour Gazette. "Knowing how bitingly cold it can be there, I have made personal preparations m the form of two new pairs of woollen bloomers." A.P.
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    51 8 picture. H/fli. Chua Kee Chomj and Miss Cheng Yin Yoke who were married at the Church of the Sacred Heart m Singapore this morning. .Mr. Chua is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Chua Kon? Tet and Miss Chen* is a d ujihter of Madam Tan Wai Vong. Free
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  • 194 8 HONG KONG, Thfcsday. URIVATi: commercial enterprise m China, both foreign and Chinese, face s extinction as developments m Manchuria are expected to be applied to the rest of the country, according to an arrival from Shanghai. Manchuria today is a miniature Russia ctefffbmically, he
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  • 71 8 State controls China exports I^HE Chinese Red radio an- nounced yesterday that pij? bristles and vrgetab.p oils. China's two principal exports, Will b«> bmugtot und<»r control The bri^tlci are used :n 'nakinf paint brushes and the oil m maKlng paint. China furnishes 70 per rent of th»- v orld supply
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  • 40 8 Netherlands has arrived m San Juan. Puerto Rico. He ■aid his tuur of South and Central America will give him B chance to Investigate the present economic situation m the Dutch possessions of thf Western Hemisphere A P.
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  • 35 8 A RECORD win diviJoiul was paid out yesterday oni the second day of Hong Kon£ l anr.u il r:\ce meeting. Lucky backers of the pony Aeroplane received $2,922 for a $5 bet.— Ileuter.
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  • 21 8 One thousand five hundrer Dutch ex-servicemen from Indonesia are being sought as immigrants by the Australian Government. Rf uter
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  • 48 8 PEKING' S BIG DEFICIT HON(J KONG, Tues. Till Communist Peking Government's budget for the current year will show a deficit of 18.7 per cent.. Chinese financial rircles m Hone Konjj predict. The Red (iovernment plans to overcome the deficit by issuing "Victory" bonds and more currency. }{t titer.
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  • 115 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. IjRGINQ enactment of President Truman's civil rights programme as a powerful weapon m the Struggle with Communism, Senator H. Humphreys (Dem.) said. "We must realise the democratic ideals of human equality at home to win respect and friendship abroad. Mr Humphreys added. 'The under-privileged
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  • 58 8 P.I. PRESIDENT HAS OPERATION PRESIDENT Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines emerged from an hour-long kidney stone operation on Monday m "excellent condition" and with a merry word of cheer for his family. 'I feel like a fighting cock," the President muttered, as he roused from sleep less than an hour
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  • 31 8 The tirst post-war shipment of crude oil to Japan consigned to the Showa Petroleum Company by the Dutch Shell Company has arrived m Tokio from Borneo. UP. l
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  • 189 8 Egypt to oust U.K. troops CAIRO, Tues. KING FAROUK said yesterday m the speech from the throne that Egypt would press for the evacuation of British troops from Egypt and the Sudan. The speech, read by the Wafdist Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, at the opening of the new Egyptian Parliament,
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  • 90 8 MANILA. Tut-6. HIGH Philippine and Ameri- can military and diplomatic officials held a closed door conference yesterday m the office of the Acting Foreign Secretary, Mr Felino Nerl. Mr. Neri declined to common. the discussion* or disclose any details beyond admitting 'hat th* conferees took up
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  • 99 8 HOLLYWOOD, Tues. (''HILD actress Lora Iflcheff foster mother yesterday denied that she beat the 9-year-old girl too much. "Lies, all lies." Mrs. Lorraine Michel. 55. said. I know she Is crying her little heart out for me. She knows these things are not true." Deputy Sheriff Bess
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  • 53 8 A MERICAN officials estimat- ed that it would be at least a month or six weeks before United States Consular staffs could withdraw from China. The withdrawal was ordered by the State Department on Saturday after Chinese Communist, authorities took over the American Consulate property m
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