The Singapore Free Press, 3 February 1950

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press. LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA HJ YI SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1950. PRICF 10 CENTS
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    BIG BATTLE ON F.I.C. BORDER
    320 1 Chinese claim Red attack PARIS, Friday. STERN new French warning to Russia over her recognition of insurgent Ho Chi-minh's Vietminh regime m Indo~( hina coincided with reports from Formosa officially charging that Communist Chinese forces have invaded IndoChina and from Bangkok that heavy fighting is
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    S'PORE RED TIN BUYING IS DENIED
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    35 1 pirtlirr. mMi ii- ltd th*> I hf td ol > rrr:ah i-\ thfin^'lvfs all over \ffriah w i> MM port ll!iidu> who i .md did laj -it the >f TJH\- > W!tI i .>f nearly Free Press
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    LESS RESTRICTIONS
    22 1 tuctioo rei" riC ions on Japanese factories on the re--1 par list will be lift it was reported m Tokio.
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    LEADERS PRAY
    82 1 LONDON Kri. Ii IDOLS of Ite three j bituest political parties who will be fighting the British general election m three weeks' time lasfl night knelt side by side at a special pre-election service m SI Paul's Cathedral m the centre of London. Mr Clement Attlee. Prime Minister
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    HOUSE SEARCH
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    U.S. URGED TO BUY 'PEACE'
    120 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. Brien McMahon, Chairman of the IS. Joint Senate-House Atomic Committee, yesterday proposed that the I'nited States offer a i 5550.000 million global Marshall Plan m return for a "true" world control of atomic and other weapons. Hinting that a hydrogen bomb attack might
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    POLICE PREVENT GANG CLASH
    137 1 Press Press Staff Reporter STRPRISE appearance of a Singapore police party m Silat Road late la>? night foiled what is believed to be "preparations for a clash between two well-known Colony secret societies." Police arrested 15 Chinese. between the ages of 20 and 30. all alleged
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    Mr. BEVIN TO DISCUSS F.I.C.
    59 1 LONDON, Fri. OUSSIAN recognition of the Indo-China revolutionaries and rising German nationalism will be discussed by the British and French Foreign Ministers m Paris today. It is learnt here that Mr B* yin is seeking full information about the Franco-Sovif' dispute over Russian recognition of
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    U.K. tea talks
    30 1 A British Food Ministry mission is shortly leaving for discussions wth the governments of India. Ceyjon and Pakistan on the supply of tea to Britain from 1951.
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    PENANG ROBBERY
    26 1 Four masked Chinese, armed with knives, robbed a house m the centre of Penang town yesterday and escaped with cash worth approximately $9,000. A.P.
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    EMPLOYERS SAY 'NO'
    27 1 British engineering employers have turned down flat a demand by 37 trades in. ions for wage rises of up to £1 a week- Reuter
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    LONDON BANS ALL POUTICAL PROCESSIONS
    102 1 LONDON BANS ALL POUTICAL PROCESSIONS LONDON. Fri. J^ONDONS ban on public political procession* was re-imposed for three months last night eve of the opening of the fullscale general election campaign The order announced by Scotland Yard was understood to have nothing 10 do with the election campaign, but to have
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    MEDAN SMALLPOX
    14 1 New cases of smui-pox been reported m *Mi capita! of East Sumatra.
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    God's jewels go back to Vault
    75 1 God's jewels go back to Vault Free Press Staff Reporter THAIPUSAM ended for the Tamil and Chettiar communities of Singapore at 10 o'clock last night, when the effigy of Lord Subramaniam was curtained off from hundreds of worshippers at the Tank Road temple. In a special brilliantly decorated shrine thousands
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    Peking treasures back
    82 1 IMIE Peking: Radio said yesterday that 1.500 boxes of China's historic cultural treasures have been return I to Paking from Na. iking although almost 3.000 addilional boxes had been '.aken to Formosa by the fleeing Nationalists. The treasures inclu led ancient BuddhLst manuscripts, paintings porcelain and bronze
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    ARMY LORRIES IN NEW SHIP
    47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter r pHE Ben Line's neweb 1 1 freighter, the Benaldcr. dorked this morning at Singapore on ncr maiden voyage from the United Kingdom. As part of her general cargo, the 7.800-ton .ship brought 71 three-top A^i i<-.r>v Singapore
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    NEGOTIATIONS FAO;
    25 1 Negotiations between tfv U.S. Coal-mine Workers Union and the coal-mine owners trying to arrange a settlement of the coal strikes collapsed yesterday. A.P.
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    'Save Asia' U.N.O. armed forces urged
    177 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. SENATOR Paul Douglas (Democrat, Illinois) yesk torday urg:ed the formation of a I'nitod Nations police forte as a step to help save 1.000,000.000 Asian people from being "drawn behind the Iron Curtain". He asked a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee to approve
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    NEW ANTIT.B. DRUG
    67 1 LONDON. Fit r pHE discovery In Japan of a X neiT anti tuberculosis drug which is claimed to have cured over 40 per cent ot specially treated cases is reported In the current issue ot the British Medical Journal. The Journal quotes Japanese claims that the drug.
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    DEPUTY C-G. DUE ON SUNDAY
    53 1 Free Tress Stall Reporter MR. J. C. Sterndale Benm-t. Director of the Imperial Defence College, who has succeeded Mr. P. Scrivener as Deputy Commissioner-Gener-al (Foreign Affairs' to Mr. Malcolm MarDcnald. is expected to arrive m Singapore from London on Sunday. Mr. Scrivener is now Minister
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    U.S. AID DUTCH
    15 1 rlandfi celve first Ins! U. 5.520.000 000 worth of hi Hid.- A.P
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    'ARM ASIA WITH A. & H. BOMBS' —AGA KHAN
    100 1 'ARM ASIA WITH A. H. BOMBS' AGA KHAN NEW DELHI, I riday. r FHE formation of an 'Asian I'atiT League' armed witli the atony. and hydrogen bombs was propu yesterday b\ the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the lsmaeli Muslims In a letter to the magazine. I Statesman, the Aga
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    41 1 picture. Women competitor* taking part m the shoot at the new Johore Bahru Rifle Association range, opened >esterda> by the Tungku Mahkota. were (from right): Mr* Powell-Evans. Miss R. Paglar (the winner*. Mrs M Kakirh and Mrs. Ci. (owe. Free Press
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    39 1 pi( lure. Japan n Prime Minister >1i Shueru Voshid.i. ttmw*n his r» sidenrr for a session of the DM dressed m Bii«tnre «»f Eastern and Ue^tein sl>les. The Ifdora hat with fne Oriental kimono and setas (w«oden sh< A.P.
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    ADVICE TO MOTHERS
    140 2 a N American doctor has j\ t<>id mothcri thai tin worry Too much about the thumb-sucking habit m babies In fact, tie thumb-sucking In some rery young children "may beir lrabl" act indi--1 .j, contentment." It is oniy when it p ild b»- looked on n Indie
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    Marriage Failed Through Sex Fear
    661 2  -  CANON HUGH WARNER Q GJ YT THE FAILURE of my marriage I have no shadow of doubt was due to ignorance, deliberately conduced to by parents, school, and Church at the time of my youth", writes Mrs. A. At 12 I was brutally assaulted by
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      299 2 I I \l I. 13 14 I 15 16 17 I Tl_! P l 9 20 f S 22 23 Z~s^^" W w IT 3b 36"' p" CLUU \i K(»>s 4 .Saiiuv > 8 Dupe 10 Duet '3>: ii Simian iop r (3»; 12 Spoke 15 PrrtiliM i«>. 17 Pcrnii.
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      117 2 I YOUR LUCKY 3TAR DOKN toda>. yuu have quitk uils, huh ambitions and persistence But >ou are sometimes inflm mcd b> each new assttnation and change >our mind a dozen times before you make a final decision and then >ou change it again This tendency must be watched, for unless,
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    PRESS FREEDOM DIES IN CHINA
    224 3 Papers follow party line HONG KONG, Thursday. pREEDOM o f the press, which vanished overnight with the 'liberation" of Shanghai last May, remains a memory m that city, according to recent foreign an-i Chinese arrivals here. What exists m Shanghai today is a "controlled press",
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    SEPARATE LIVES, NOT ROOFS
    83 3 SEPARATE LIVES, NOT ROOFS Washington couple •i* m 1941 the wife. -om tiie husband had over iheir house, ag•eed io H him occupy a spare ton next :o hers aKer he d failed to find aooommoion. il years later, the wife cc. The ColumW ci U Disl 'itrt Court rehe:
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    PREPARED HIS OWN FUNERAL
    43 3 PREPARED HIS OWN FUNERAL 'JWHEN ;he funeral con. :-old Col H Woodcock, formerly c j Lord Lieutenant, ol Bristol, left his home for the church, i' followed a route planned by him b his death Hymns of his own choice were also rang.
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    HALL REBUILT
    19 3 Fl Trad* 1 Hall, destroyed m an air raid In 1940 -built itimated cosi (^f 1 i>oo.
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    Japs slash steel costs
    84 3 Japs slash steel costs LONDON. Thurs. f EADERS of Japan s iron Ld and steel industry were "slashing" costs on an unprecedented scale, the Financial Times Tokio correspondent said yesterday. "Although manifesting the calculated and conventional pessimism of all Japanese industrialists since the defeat, the iron and steel manufacturers now
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    GOOD OLD DAYS?
    29 3 Hundred year old Bcvin Holmes, of Hambio. Hants.. recalls th<> days of his youth] when his wages were fifty I shillings a year and his food.
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    Bridge Hands
    327 3 WHAT do you bid' who p-omptly ."art think;.i. If par bid is correct, his hand :is only six winners, df he With a«ltii«r tide vulnerable. you arc North witb me follow:uc hand NORTH 48 7 4 DAIM 0 ft J II I $AII Th« bidding South Wtit North
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    'Polar ice cap' ten miles up
    171 3 NEW YORK, Friday. A X obstacle to flying 10 miles up, that looks like a 4 polar ice cap but is merely dazzling air, has been discovered by the department of meteorology of the University of Chicago. Tii" visual obstacle was discovered with a
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    45 3 Admiral of the Fleet. Lord Fraser. the First Sea Lord, talking with Ordinary Seaman James Green outside Rochester Cathedral where a memorial service wa s held for the 64 men who lost their lives m the submarine Truculent. Seaman Green was one of the survivors.
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      127 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. PAVILION: John Loves Maiy KEX: Beautiful Blonde irom Bashful End. ODEON: Mald\a. COLISEUM: Outpost m Morocco. CENTRAL: Inbavalli. MADRAS: Task Force. CATHAY: Mangayar kara&l (Tamil). BOXINC. At 8.8. PARK .Tan .Owat vs Kid Cabanella. PBNAffG CATHAY: Home of ihe Brave ODEON: Rope of Sand. HK\ The
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    The Singapore Free Press. FRIDAY, Feb. 3, 1950. THE PLACE OF WOMEN
    591 4 The Singapore Free Press. FRIDAY, Feb. 3, 1950. THE PLACE OF WOMEN S r oti r a year ago, M I :r. Ula Eu. the first woman be elected to the MtmiciC<M >n. said after tor] The future of ;ore depends as much on \la women as on Itl men.
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    No 'Business As Usual' With Mao
    1025 4  -  I AN LANG TYU fh gfh T YERfg f PERSONAL flash back to 1043 may Hi row some light on the question of what Britain can expect from recognition of the Communist regime m China. One night m the clammy heat of Chungking's summer
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    THE ROUND TOWER 'GHOSTS'
    150 4 THE ROUND TOWER 'GHOSTS' 1»HIS story begins With ghostly "noises off" heard near Copenhagen's Round Tower, immortalised m Hans Aidersen's 'Tinder Box First noticed when the local council began laying heating pipes m the district the noises, accompanied by mysterious lights and fleet-, ing apparitions, grew more I frequent as
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    51 4 Sir Aly Tewfik Shousha Pasha (second from left) Direc- V l r he S? s m Mediterranean Regional Office of th< World Health Organisation, watches two native* s the: remove th e venom from a cobra's pouch during his visi to Vie Bureau of Laboratories and the Malarial Institutr of
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    German Press is Fanning Hitlerism
    934 4  - German Press is Fanning Hi tlerism Anthony Terry By THE 170 th news paper lo appear for the first time m the British Zone of Germany since the Allies relaxed the anti-Nazi Press laws has just been publish ed m a Huhr town. It is called "Midday Special", and apart
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    30 4 Princess Margaret, lifting her long velvet gown to keep it from dragging, leaves the Lyric Theatre. Hamv. smith, London, after the performana of Let's Make an Opera' by Benjamin Britten.
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    'TITLERISM' SPREADING
    195 4 OPPOSITION to the official line laid down by the Russian Bolshevik Party is known m Europe as •Titierism", and there is every indication that the germs of this "disease" have spread from Yugoslavia to Hungary, France and even Germany. There is another important word m Cominform terminology, "Tschistka"
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    No 'Bronchos'
    18 4 THERE are b» anj i Mr T su ftl p Who a.-k- d 1.600 ;> H« j
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
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      9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, Feb. 3, 1950.
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      21 1 picture. Horses being: given walking exercise at Jack Spencer's new training establishment at Bukit Timah. Story on page four. Free Press
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      Van Breukelen and Donnelly combine
      1667 1 Van Breukelen and Donnelly combine Allan Lezvis tells of n übination <>i Breukekn »nncll> as train.>i countis on the i m t Ikis besl a houj !,l throughout IVninsula. .i:ion dates :ust 1932, f of the s join;kelen as J. F. .is followed later by :.:.elly. who -::iown as :s
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      Starting stalls for Malayan courses?
      765 1 \yiTH the instal lation of the photo-finish camera and the electric timing device to be used ai Singapore Turf Club's Spring meeting, there remains one more modern aid to racing to be installed on Malayan racecourses to bring them into line with the world's best.
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        19 1 /no t\ EUI yi Lo%iQl 0 There's always II m C FDR A TIGER m pi r<+s Grid n*ttrf9
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      Form guide for Singapore Spring meet
      8750 2  -  ALLAN LEWIS Compiled by RELOW is the form of all horses entered for the Singapore Turf °Club Spring Meeting opening at Bukit Timah tomorrow^ The 164 entries for the meeting include 21 horses which have not yet raced m Malaya. I NORSES CLASS 1.
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        175 3 Jlu pete* U U tks ytcfau Ko/alt ot*mSJ* [Jiff* Jret ycul ]>ntut*4 j RCDAR I To Have Better Enjoyable Evening Come to CRITERION BAR 185 Orchard Road Listen to Popular Music By ALFONSO SOLIANO His Band Nightly from 6 to midnight Offering most exciting Swing Session by star Musicians on
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      Jack Spencer starts training centre
      884 4  -  ALLAN LEWIS By TAKING shape un the high ground overlooking the stables at Bukit Timah is Jack Spencer's hi test project a private training establishment. The location is ideal for this trainer's progressive idea. Thirty acres of land, accessible from Dunearn Road, have been acquired,
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        138 4 I tNGCO 622. •ARTLf V ROAO. e^4* SINGAPORE. €VERY SATURDAY Ri jstaff el from 1 2 noon to 3 p m m Special Dinner and Dance i From 8.30 p.m. EVERY SUNDAY Penang Curry Tiffin from 12 noon PAIL I Full Course Dinner and Ala Carte served on the ia«
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      'EASY WEALTH'-SO THEY STOWED AWAY
      499 5 'EASY WEALTH '-SO THEY STOWED AWAY sw? glamour is wearing thin Free Press Staff Reporter I URED by stories of wealth and easy jobs m Singapore, hundreds of people most of them Chinese from China have tried unsuccessfully to get into the Colony since the liberation by stowing away m
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      32 5 picture. MR. Stanley Andrews and Mr. Robert West, the two senior members of a Tnited States Government f"<»d study mission which arrived m Singapore yesterday by X.L.M. Constellation from Jakarta. Free Press
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      U.S. food mission in Singapore
      177 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AMNE-Man mission of United States Government officials arrived In Singapore yesterday on a t°ur of South East Asia to survey food problems that are likely to occur over the next two or three years. Mr. Stanley Andrews, senior member of the
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      $763,000 REW ARDS PAID OUT
      42 5 Free P^s Staff Reporter Tht Federation Police paid out 5763.000 m rewards to people who gave information on bandits and arms last year, it was officially announced yesterday. Police and troops do not qualify for reward money.
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      METHODISTS ELECT BISHOP
      61 5 Vrec Pr«-sv Staff Reporter DR. Raymond L. Archer. Associate Secretary of the Division ol Foreign Missions for Europe, Africa and Malaysia became the first Methodist Bishop for South-East Asia by popular election yesterday He was chosen at the Methodist Centra! Conference of South-East Asia at Wesley Church
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      STOWING AWAYIN 3 ACTS
      17 5 Act 1: It looks like luggage. Act 2: It doesn't look like it
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      PRIZE-GIVING IN JOHORE
      128 5 Free Pr»*v> Stuff Krporter JOHORE BAHRU Thurs. REPORTING on the work of the Sultan Ibrahim Girls" School for 1949. Mrs. F. M. Smith the headmistress. stated at the annual prizegiving today that out of the' 268 pupils on the register, almost 50 per cent were free scholars.
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      NEW YEAR BANG FOR CHINESE
      110 5 Free Press Staff Reporter I^HE Singapore Government has approved a request by firecracker dealers to permit Chinese to let off irecrackers to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Feb 17. Dealers said yesterday that another request that firing of crackers be allowed on the Heaven
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      AIR STRIKES
      51 5 A RECORD number of 58 air strikes, involving 328 offensive sorties were flown by Spitfires Tempests. HarvarUs, Beaufigliters and Suncterlands of the Royal Air Force based In the Federation and Singapore inst month. Royal Naval Srattres and Fireflies from carrier H.M.S. Triumph took part m three of the
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      UNION PARTY
      27 5 The Singapore Teachers' Union will hold Its annual social and d«ance at the Adelphl Roof Garden on Feb. 18. from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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      41 5 picture. VG. Donough (centre) secretary of the Johore Bahru Rifle Association, who won the open tie at the openin«* of the association's new rifle range yesterday. Osman bin Jabbar (left) was second and If -san bin Osman (right) third. Free Press
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      Malays eager to learn English
      205 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent Singapore Malays are so anxious to learn jEfifMfh that they are content to squeeze m behind alroeirahs and listen t o the teachers voice without seeing him. They are among many would-be students whose ap- plications to join the AngloMalay Evening
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      TO BE FLOGGED
      41 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KOTA BAIIRU. Thurs— Five Malays were sentenced to terms of imprisonment and floggings after being found guilty at the Kelar'an Assizes before Mr Justice Brlggs of robbery last September at Kamnons Hutan J:imbu Turn
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      Airborne threat to rubber
      232 5 THE enormously increased speed and volume of aif traffic has magnified tht threat of the South American Leaf Blight to the rubber industry, according to Mr. C. E. T. Mann, Director of the Rubber Research Institute ol Malaya. Mr. Mann said m Kuala Lumpur yesterday that
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      MORE MONEY FOR TRAVEL
      103 5 Kr**r P". >> Stiff IIMHR JOHORE BAHRU Tin. SUPPLEMENTARY pro to the extent Of $6 850 has been made b\ Johore State Govern me; i pay for transport and tn ling allowances m addition to what was allocated at the beginning of 1949 for three 'Town
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      3 GOOD BETS FOR B. TIMAH TOMORROW
      1431 7  - 3 GOOD BETS FOR B. TIMAH TOMORROW ALLAN LEWIS Maiden win for Gold Meridian By SINGAPORE Turf Club's Spring meeting will open the racing year m the Colony tomorrow when the first day's programme is decided at Bukit Timah. The eight-event card includes races over six, seven and nine furlongs,
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      7 7 **These are his colours he's a Scotsman
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      INNINGS WIN
      19 7 THE Australians yesterday beat North Eastern Transvaal Country Districts by an innings and 170 runs at Witbank.
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      SEVEN-A-SIDE RUGGER RESULTS
      142 7 THE Saints, a team drawn up from St. Andrew's School and the St. Andew's OB.A. were most unlucky not to have won their tie against the Singapore Harbour Board m the seven-a-side rugger tournament yesterday, goins down by a solitary try. The Saints put up a. terrific
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      Hull City out of F.A. Cup
      575 7 111 LL CITY, second m the Div. Z table of the English Football League, were eliminated from the F.A. Cup yesterday. Stockport County, a Div. 3 side, beat Hull 2 o m a fourth-round replay. Hull's player-manager, Raich Carter, sprang a surprise by leaving
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      Sino-Malays draw
      31 7 r PHL Malayan Chinese fa. Bum M.il..\ team and All Filipino tMUM drew three-all la one of tht most spectucuhir seen D'-fore 10.000 fans a; the Rixal Football Stadium.
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      University badminton results
      205 7 University badminton results THE first round of the University of Malaya's first badminton tournament was played at the Raffles Institution hall yesterday. Results were: Women's Singles: Miss Milly Eapen bt. Patricia Wong 11-4, 11-4; Miss Zaharah bt. Miss Tan Boon Inn 2-11. 11-10. 11-8: Miss Wong Pal Mooi bt. Miss
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      HITS CENTURY BEFORE LUNCH
      56 7 CCORING 112 m two hours fea--0 terday morning. Livingston became the nrst Commonwealth player to score a century before lunch. The match, at Bombay, was against an Indian Schools XI and was drawn. Scores: Schools 218 and 109 for six tUpmaykar 61 1; Commonwealth 404 for
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      SCHOOLBOYS' CHESS
      16 7 Tiif Singapore schoolboys' chfss championship will start tomorrow at 3 pm. at the V.M.C.A.
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      6 horses not accepting
      75 7 THK following lii>r«;e^ will not start tomorrow: Piraeus. Mandalay. adzow Glen. Kattle>hip. Koyal Link and drand Day. The two training lra.< k.s were open this morning, but horses Hfie gi\»-n only slow work. The tracks are still heavy. Mr. I) Brown. Assistant Seen lar% .tnd Clerk
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      ALLIES MAY HIT BACK IN BERLIN
      246 8 West studies blockade WASHINGTON, Friday. BRITAIN, France and the United States are m consultation about the imposition of counter measures against Russia as the Soviets yesterday intensified their threats to extend their "baby blockade" of Berlin into a fullblown land and rail blockade. Mr.
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      Stronger U.S. fleet in Pacific
      166 8 TOKIO, Friday. ANNOUNCEMENT here yesterday that the U.S. Far Eastern fleet would be kept a* maximum strength In the [ace of expanding Soviet submarine power was followed by news that the U.S. Pacific would be strengthened by the 11. 000-ton escort carrier Sicily, and possibly
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      NEW 'BLOW' AT TITO
      61 8 MOSCOW. Pri. Eighty -two prominent Sovhu writer*. D and other recipients Of various as have written a Joint letter to Pravda Informing the public of their decision :o return the awards. denounced the i "headed by loreign agents and spies who openly entered the serof Anglo-American
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      WALL STREET RALLIES
      56 8 IN the Htm York Siook Xxi yesterday price changes *ere fractional either wav it. early trading The market rallied m the afternoon, and gains of one dollar m more werp general m expanded activity. The marke' dosed firm at the best levels, industrial and Utility averages entering
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      LONDON TIN
      38 8 The London tin market was quiet yesterday with a turnover of 70 tons at 599 10s. bid and i. i I asked, while 90-day future* rose 2s. 6d. to £582 bid and £582 5s asked A.P.
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      30 DIE IN BUS CRASH
      41 8 30 DIE IN BUS CRASH (THIRTY persona were burned to death m Colombia 1 terclay when a motor bus struck, a bridgehead and burst into flame.> Of the 43 passengers aboard only seven escaped injury by jumping through 'he windows. U.P.
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      49 8 A vast area of mountainside on South Africa's Table Mountain at Cape Town has been completely burned 0O& m a fire which i* believed to have been caused by arson. Picture .shows smoke from the huge bush fire shrouding Table Mountain and the Cape Town suburbs. A. P. photo.
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      26 SHIPS BEAT CHINA BLOCKADE
      93 8 26 SHIPS BEAT CHINA BLOCKADE HONG KONG. Frl. DURING the past six months 26 merchant ships. to ailing 104,069 tons, have successfully evaded Nationalist warships guarding the Yangtse estuary, and unloaded > m Shanghai. saya Ing Ta X Pa'o. ships which reached Shanghai brought out of the City approximate. y
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      Baby boy for Ingrid
      94 8 IV. KID RKKCiMAN. 8w« ,>!P movie star who filed :i suit for a Mexican divorce from her Swedish husband. Dr. Peter Linstrom. last week, gave birth to a baby boy m Komi,, last night. Miss Bergman, who earlier thi.s week denied as crazy report* that she
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      Cheerful tone in quiet marts
      223 8 Cheerful tone in quiet marts I ONDON, Friday DESPITE lack of business, price movements on [he London Stock Exchange \t>stcrday were usu lly to higher levels and the undertone remained t rm and cheerfal. Rubbers advanced while tins declined fractionally. [racUonal advances lata Oovernmenl long-dated stoit.s and uk. tock, "huii
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      YOUTH IN STOLEN ART HOARD CASE
      141 8 BERLIN. Friday. 4 25-YEAR-OLD CJornmn student sought by police rt on suspicion of stealing nearly 2.000 works of art by famous masters gave himself up yesterday at Kiel, m the British zone. I Described as the most sen- sational art theft of the sen
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      REMOVED
      57 8 /CHINESE students m Berlin V yesterday demanded that a German police guard outside the Chines*- mi!itar\ mission building m the American sector be withdrawn :m--mediately. Col. Georg" Sin lieow-hi, acting head of the mission, said: "The students are led by Communists and may try to take over the mission
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      Honour easily satisfied
      53 8 ASUNCION (P.u ;tyua> I rl JUSTICE Miateter <>uilleraM Km Uo VelleM and former President .hi m Minuel FmtM set nut It Hffhl a duel >e>t«rday. Their seconds, howevr. Aecided i«> declare the matter settled after reporting iii.it th«\ were not aM» to find a brace of reratetiAn
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      'Help us or we go under'
      222 8 FORMOSA S PLEA TO U.S. WASHINGTON, Friday. THE Nationalist Government has made a desperate last-minute appeal to the I \S. Government for aid and urging America to join a Pacific union "to save Asia and the world from Communism." The appeal, made by the
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      Woodcock-Savold bout on June 6
      47 8 pHOMoiEK Jack Solomon* an--1 nounced June 6 as the date for Britain's world" heav ..,4 championship boui be;\»ern Bruce Woodcock and Lee Savoid o' ■v. uod. New Jersey lfoo#- 11 E/zarc: nal Box :i m *hf US as world champion.- A. P.
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