The Singapore Free Press, 10 February 1950

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAY SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1950. PRICE 10 CfcNTS
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    U.S. VOTES HELP FOR FORMOSA
    364 1 U.S. VOTES HELP FOR FORMOSA Meeting Red challenge WASHINGTON, Friday. JJAVINCi accepted Moscow's challenge m Asia by tacitly undertaking to preserve InioChina from Communist domination, the United States now appears to be revising her entire Far East policy and holding out hope of renewed aid to Nationalist China. The I.S.
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    Master burned in accident
    17 1 >: i:T Reporter IN, 37--:eache r. Kirn tool al- with to Iht ex■lped put
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    Chief export
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    WOMAN, 117. DIES
    18 1 D Harroula, m m North lay m Caof 117. ingest of her three A. P.
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    SANTIAGO JARRED
    8 1 larred by two s yesterday A.P.
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    TALKS TO END STRIKE FAIL
    40 1 MEGOTIATIONS between Mr John L. Lewis, President of the American United Mine Workers Federation, and the soft coal mine owners, on the wage dispute Involving 370.000 American miners who are now on strike, collapsed yesterday
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    MINERS KILLED
    20 1 Twelve miners sleeping m a workers' dormitory were killed In Genoble. France, by an avalanche of snow. A.P.
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    NOTES ON SECRET ATOM TALKS BURN
    141 1 LONDON, Friday. piSSIAN atomic explosion was high on the agenda when British. American and Canadian scientists started discussions on atom secrets behind barbed wire at Harwell. British atomic research station, \esterday. The four-day discussions are considered so important that memo pads and blotting paper
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    S'pore Chinese jailed in H.K.
    101 1 HONG KONG. Fri. "IT beems to me that you are 1 an unmitigated scoundrel," remarked the judge m sentencing a Singapore -born Chinese, Joseph Chan, alias Jim Jack Tan, to 20 months' hard labour on five charges of obtaining money by false pretences. Pleading guilty
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    INGRID TAKES FIRST WALK
    59 1 INGRID Bergman left her Rome hospital bed briefly yesterday for the first time since her son was born when her doctor permitted her to walk around her suite m the luxurious Villa Margherlta Clinic. Her week-old baby is progressing normally, "and there l s no cause
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    H.K. court ends airline hearing
    56 1 THE Hong Kong Supreme Court yesterday, reserved decision on retired U.S. Major-General Claire Chennault's petition that he be recognised as sole owner of the entire assets In Hong Kong of two former Nationalist Chi-nese-controlled airlines. The assets, consisting of both planes and equipment, are estimated
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    FLED LN PYJAMAS
    18 1 Undergraduates escaped In their pyjamas when flre damaged rooms at Jesus College. Cambridge, yesterday. Reuter
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    FRENCH STRIKE
    18 1 Almost 220,000 French automobile factory workers m Paris and three other cities went on strike yesterday.
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    H.K. dispute ends
    33 1 The acting Manager of the Hong Kong Tramways Company said yesterday morning that unless serious snags occur the Colony's tram servicf will be resumed this mornin after a 43-day strike.
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    Talk was sabotage
    49 1 FORTY-SIX Rumanian offic ials were arrested last mouth and charged with sabota ging their country's econouy, says Belgrade Radio. Reason was that they went around saying they wtire hungry because "large quan tities" of fats and meats were being exported to Russia, said the Radio. Reuter
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    MARCH ON W. BERLIN CALLED OFF
    117 1 MARCH ON W. BERLIN CALLED OFF BERLIN, Fri. VVESTERN Allied intelligence officers said last night that they had received reports that the sians had ordered East German Communist youth leaders not to storm Berlin on May 28. The intelligence officers said that "usually very reliable" sources had reported that the
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    BURMA RICE EXPORTS
    46 1 BURMA will export 800.000 of the 3.000.000 tons of rice she has harvested, the Minister of Agriculture. Khin Maun* Gale, told Parliament yesterday. The Minister said that Burma this year has already exported 214.647 tons, of which 119.000 tons went to Japan.— A.P.
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    To help son
    35 1 Professor Emil Fuchs. of Frankfurt, wants to travel to London to testify on behalf of his son, Dr. Klaus Fuchs, Britain's atomic scientist, who is accused of giving away atomic secrets. A.P.
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    Uganda riots were 'planned rebellion'
    126 1 LONDON, Friday. THE Colonial Office said yesterday that the disturbances m the British East African protectorate of Uganda last April were a "planned rebellion" instigated by individuals m London. The major findings of a Commission of Enquiry were that the disturbances were organized by leaders
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    BEER TOO HOT TO DRINK
    47 1 RESIDENTS of Marvel Loch m West Australia declared a beer strike because the beer was too hot. For nearly a week, they boycotted the local pup and flocked to soft drink shops. The landlord installed a new cold storage room. A.P. U.P.
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    CYCLONE HITS VILLAGE
    41 1 FIVE hundred people were made homeless by a freak cyclone on Thursday night which devastated the fishing village of Ginoto, m the Oalle district, Southern Ceylon. Police and social service squads rushed tor the relief of the village.
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    MINE WARNING
    18 1 Ships In Japanese coastal waters were warned yesterday to watch out for floating mines Reuter Reuter
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    2 die, 40 hurt in Calcutta riots
    56 1 CALCUTTA, Friday. COMMUNAL rioting, reminiscent of the "great Calcutta killing" of 1946 and 1947, broke out here yesterday after several stray incidents, m which at least two persons, including a policeman, were killed and 40 injured. Police opened fire to disperse looters alter
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    Red tape goes
    45 1 Red tape goes NEW DELHI, Fri. 'pHERL will be no more 1 red tape m the government of India. Red tape is being replaced by white red is the imperial colour, and India is now a republic, officials explained. Besides white tape is cheaper. A.P.
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    ELECTION BIG GUNS IN ACTION
    231 1 ELECTION BIG GUNS IN ACTION LONDON, Fri. WITH four more days to complete nominations filing at the the rate of about 200 a day and two weeks before the election date, the big guns of all British parties are slowly swinging into action. Closely following their election manifestos, all parties
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    Big welcome for 'Kenya'
    63 1 /CHEERING crowds and \j ship's sirens greeted the British cruiser Kenya when she arrived m Rangoon yesterday carrying sacred Buddha relics on loan to Burma from the Temple of the Sacred Tooth m Ceylon. The Kenya was accompanied by the Tir, of the Indian Navy, which
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    No race bias in Tanganyika
    67 1 GENEVA, Fri. BRITAIN intends to end racial discrimination m Tanganyika, Mr. John Lamb, political liaison officer for the territory, told the United Nations Trusteeship Council yesterday. Mr. Lamb, replying to questions and views of delegates on Britain's report on the territory, said every effort would
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    FRANKS TO RETURN
    23 1 Sir Oliver Franks, now m London, will return to his post at British Ambassador m Washington on Feb. 14. A.P.
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    Hidden meaning?
    38 1 Hong Kong and Macao authorities are pondering the hidden meaning m the announcement by the Communist postal authorities at Shanghai that mails to both places will be charged rates similar to those for domestic mail. A.P.
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    Planter asks more U.K. aid
    190 1 Free Press Staff Reporter K. LUMPUR. Fri. WE should appeal to His Majesty's Government to send us more assistance that we may rid ourselves quickly of these bandits," said Mr. G. D Treble chairman of the PahanK Planters Association, yesterday Mr Treble, addressing annual meeting
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    SOVIETS LEASE KOREAN PORTS?
    56 1 4 SOUTH KORLAN loverr A ment spokesman terday that Russia had least* .i port areas on the east coast of Communist North Korea and that large scale harbour construction is m progress a. Wonsan. Chungjin and SjngJin. He said. "Many Soviet naval officers and soldiers am
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    APPEAL ABOLISHED
    31 1 The South African House of Assembly yesterday ga> a third and last reading to a bill to abolish the right of appeal to the Privy Council m London. Reuter
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    WOMEN hate MEN who say
    117 2 AT BREAKFAST: "Can I help it darling if the lads at the office EXPECT ma to preside over the annual Stag Party?" AT A DRESS SHOP: "They all look the same to me dear." TO A FAST AGEING BACHELOR GIRL: Marriage as you and I
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    MEN hate WOMEN who say
    86 2 AT THE END OF THE MONTH: "Lets po\ to tomewheri WILDLY expensive and order i the best of everything." AFTER THE FIRST KISS: "You men are ull alike!" TO A NOVELIST: "Don't tell me you think up all those wonderful things yourself." AT EVERY POSSIBLE
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    WANTED-'GOSSIP-PROOF' HOMES
    269 2 WANTED- 'GOSSIP-PROOF' HOMES ]lIODEF?N h o m c 8 should b e soundproofed, says the Very Rev. H. C. L. Hey wood. Provost of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, because "it is essential that couples may quarrel without being overheard.'" This would save many marriages. Mr. Heywood declared. "Neighbours' chitchat and Blip," he
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    FASTEST SHORTHAND
    62 2 Marion Johnson, tr-o'.d London girl. who is possibly the world's st shorthand rep was engaged for the Scottish Council of Industrial D i;k In Glasgow. She took a verbatim reof the iirifis on her Palentyp* an nlous Instrument hand. Miss Johnson, who claims m attain 3f>o words per
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    A U.S. Woman's Diary
    299 2  - A U.S. Woman's Diary Kay Murray By FASHION experts finally seem to have reached the conclusion that bare top dresses and curves will stay with us for a while. It all depends on a biological urge, fashion editors m New York were told recently. Perhaps you thought Paris or New
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      250 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today, If If ItßllW hope and confidence m v is the tr tit you need to others You women are cultivate most of all admirable wives and Theoretically, you are an mothers You make exadventurer, a cavalier, an cellent mates for ambitious idealist. Kut you are
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      244 2 F.P. Crossword No. 916 !q SRB &±1 CUJBB ACROSS 1 Tlie COM of employing diver.' (11); 7 A of the naked truth 8 Pearl's mother! (s>; 9 H. w odd to find it vi Metioneth c hire <3>: 12 It sounds a* If the due might be: Go to .Ma"
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    CARRIAGES FOR U.K. ELECTIONS
    243 3 LONDON, Friday. OKITAIVS General Election Day on February 23 is likely to be more colourful than any Election Day since the early part of the century. Because of what many people regard as a loophole m the new electoral laws, gaily decorated horse-drawn carriages will for
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    41 AFRICANS JAILED
    20 3 Forty-one Africans have been sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment on chargei :1 assembly m Dar es A.P.
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    INDIA, U.S. PACT
    20 3 India and the United States here signed an agreement to exchange students, specialists and technical ex- A.P.
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    PACIFIC ALLIANCE NEARER
    329 3 PACIFIC ALLIANCE NEARER Australia shows interest TOKIO, Friday. AUSTRALIA'S expressed interest m a Pacific pact may revive efforts of other Far East Nations to create an anti-Communist organization m the Western f acific. diplomatic observers here believe. President Syngman Rhee °f Korea has often expressed his desire to see a
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    Yale Varsity in danger
    55 3 VALE University, one of Ame- ricas two leading universities, needs more money to prevent "its excellence slipping into mediocrity," its president, Mr. Charles Seymour, says m his last annual report He retires next June. •'The quality of the teaching and scholarship is uneven and departments are
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    PROTEST ACTION
    19 3 The Spanish Consulate m New York was now picketed m protest against any American aid to Spain.
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    Tsiang holds fort for China in U.N.
    285 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. > T ATIONALIST China's fight for life m the United 11 Nations is almost entirely m the hands of a Chinese professor-diplomat who knows the Russians well. Dr. Tsiang Ting-fu, 55 years old, got his first glimpse of the Russians
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    AUSTRALIAN TYRE SURPLUS
    72 3 AUSTRALIAN TYRE SURPLUS AUSTRALIA is expected to have a surplus of rubber tyres and tubes by the end of the year for export, says Mr. H. H. Simp^ai, assistant* general manager of Dunlop Rubber Australia Ltd., Melbourne. Last exports were m 1939. Potential martots are said to be all the
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    WOMEN ASK BAN ON BERGMAN
    91 3 MANILA, Friday. THE Women's Club has proposed a resolution to ban all Ingrid Bergman movies from Philippine cinema houses. Irked bj the much-publicis-ed affair between the Swedish actress and her Italian director, the club women indicated they would bring up their proposal before the proper
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    BOMBED SAAR IS NEW CITY
    42 3 CAARBRLJECKEN, which was heavily bombed m Allied raids, started 1950 with around 30.000 of Its 36,500 houses reconstructed and In use again The city had fewer than 1 20,000 houses habitable when I the war ended A.P.
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    Bridge Hands
    303 3 WHAT do you lead* East's bidding has clearly shown a strong two-suiter, probably with at least five diamorais and five hearts. Your singleton spade suggests that your partner has two spades and only a single club, and that the opponents' strong bidding is also based on ft two-suiter-
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    Austria fears new war
    222 3 Austria fears new war VIENNA, Friday. If ERE, m Central Europe, as it were astride the iron curtain, the danger of a third World War appears today increasingly acute. Austrians, with the bomb ruins of the last war still standing stark and ugly m their capital and the hunger of
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    Canberra agrees
    32 3 THE Federal Cabinet has approved Australian participation m the British Commonwealth Consultative Committee of Economic Aid for South-East Asia, recommended by the Colombo Commonwealth Foreign Ministers" Conference last month. Reuter
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      120 3 WHAT'S ON IN K. L. REX: Mr Eelved-re QOM To PAVILION: Bride For ODEON: Rope Of Sand. MJSI l M: The Street With No Name \TH\V: Face To Fa c MADRAS: Who s Guilty? (15 HINDUSTAN: Rama Rajvam iTarr.;: CENTBAL: !>L"han BOX IN (i: Mok See PEN \SG REX: The
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      354 3 blNVjArL>»nt <BBC 6.30 News m by Norma Paikin: 5.15 Talk: tmmnm vrrmißK) Cantonese (BBC); 6.45 'All the -Behind the Mew«"; 5.30. Music of •1.1.1 r. atinunm Latest"; 7.15 News m French the Masters Schubert Symphony 484 and 41.7 metres. (BBC>; 7.30 English Half no. 4 m C Minor: 5.50 Talk
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Feb. 10, 1950. EVIL OVER SINGAPORE
    581 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Feb. 10, 1950. EVIL OVER SINGAPORE i crept into the Bin| Ij i Pn ii office this ng. It was m i r the arm oJ I prddi.: -coloured n titles Taboo" Flirt" r and Eyeful r covers, ah I I picture of parIj dressed
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    Berlin, 'Shop Window Of The Red Empire
    1355 4  - Berlin, 'Shop Window Of The Red Empire R. H. C. STEED BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN.... By THE DISTINGUISHED DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT WHO IS ON A VISIT TO BERLIN AND WESTERN GERMANY. BERLIN: TO the visitor from A the West the Soviet sector of Berlin is the gateway to a different world.
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    WAR IN THE ARCTIC
    537 4  -  Patrick Nicholson By tyiUTE men are f? going to light amid the Arctic snows again. Two hundred years ago it was against Redskin attacks. Now it is mock warfare m Alaska and the Yukon. For 10 days this month Canadians and Americans, m Exercise Sweet briar,
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    A Proud Race is in Disgrace
    708 4 A Proud Race is in Disgrace NOEL MONKS prohev the Basutoland ritual murder mystery which has baffled British officials. MASERN BASUTOLAND: WHATEVER it is 1 1 in t causes a reasonably civilised Basulo to skin alive his mother, brother, <>r his host friend lomake "medicine" for Ins Chief is still
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    SAME JOB-70 YEARS
    81 4 Einh;y-three years old Peter Pitman, of Sydney lias been m the same fob lor TO years. Only 4ft Tin tall, and weighing 8 stone he has just finished his 70th Mar with Tooths Brewery. He started as a 13-year-old ■ffice boy and has worked on s a
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    MEDICINE MURDERS
    31 4 Mr Jones calls the* Bo Jon* abo: I I I I I beir. I chk! I lion. U) t! A ped must c the n his i. killed Thtmad'
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    SEX MAGAZINES ON OPEN SALE IN SPORE
    287 5 SEX MAGAZINES ON OPEN SALE IN SPORE Education chief says: 'should be withdrawn 9 Free Press Staff Reporter gEX magazines, vividly illustrated, are being openly displayed for sale m Singa pore. Big booksellers and newsagents do not stock them, but there are shops and stalls m many parts of the
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    Council query on Mac Donald's HQ
    116 5 Freo Prt*s> Staff Reporter ill ESTIONS on Phoenix Park, headquarters of the l| Commissioner-Geiierari Office, and on Singa- wheat Hour purchases will be tabled by Mr. A. Han m the Legislative Council on Feb. 21. 11l isk the 1 acquisition I k by the
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    'DISTINCT DANGER TO CHILDREN'
    295 5 Free Press Staff Reporter (JHOWN copies of sex magazines on open sale m Singapore yesterday, the Director of Education, Mr. A. \V. Frisby, said that they were "distinctly dangerous and should be withdrawn at once." "They are shocking", he said to the Free Press. 'I had
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    MAILS
    46 5 Surface mail is expected In Singapore tocay irom Hoa^ Kong. China and the Federation Latest times for posting twflfl mail today at the Ci.P.O. *:e: noon for Sa awalc <t\cppt Miri. Siam parcels onlyt. and Pa>;r.bdn^ 5.45 pm. for the Pbdrration; 6 p.m. for Sibu.
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    AID FOR JAP VICTIMS URGED
    83 5 F P Chinese Correspondent 'J'HE Singapore Chinese General Goods and Textile Dealers' Association has urged its members importing Japanese goods to give generously to a fund set aside for the welfare of dependants of Japanese-massacred victims early m 1942 This resolution which was adopted at
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    GREETINGS SENT TO CEYLON
    75 5 SINHALESE m Singapore have cabled Independencn Day greetings to the Prime Minister of Ceylon Mr D S Senanayake In the telegram the Vice President of the Singapore Sinhalese Association. Mr. H. JC. Kulasingha. said: "On this mi mormble day we send you 'hit warmest good wishes.
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    Arnhem leader for Malaya
    96 5 Kree Press Staff Reporter AJO R GENERAL H. E Urquhart, command:-! of the Ist Airborne Division m the famous Arnhem battle, is to command Malaya Dis'iict m succession to Major-Gene-ral Sir Charles Boucher, uho is returning to the United Kingdom shortly. This was announced by the
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    TAXI-DRIVER FINED $50
    79 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.H(i Chai Khum. a Singapore taxi driver who was charged with carrying two passeii߻T* m till taxi without n licence, wu.s fined $30 m the Johore Bahru Police Court today. He claimed that be wai arrested before entering Johore territory but
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    Anti-corruption bill goes through
    190 5 Free Fress Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. Ittt new Prevention of Corruption Bill was passed unanimously today by the Federal Legislative Council to the applause of Councillors It was Introduced by the acting Attorney-General, Mr. T A. Brown, who said that b ibery m the Federation
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    S'PORE ROADS
    26 5 S 'PORE ROADS Tiie Singapore Muunlcip...ity provides $400,000 m this year's estimates for the reconstruction of roads, the first phase of which Is already m hand.
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    HOLIDAY BILL
    81 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs The bill to give shop, restaurant and theatre workers m the Federation a weekly holiday and a weekly half holiday was referred to a select committee by the Federal I Ittive Council today I TNIT Commander Doreen \J Penned, of Birmingham, winner of the British
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    HARD-HIT ISLAND
    154 5 Free Press StalT Reporter I^HE people of Hainan are harassed by eel 1 guerillas and are heavily taxed by the Formosan Government, say Malayan Chinese traders who returned to Singapore yesterday by the Van I Heutsz. The food situation, thry assert, has become very critical. One of them
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    Ex-criminals and the Govt. service
    382 5 Ex-crimi nal s and the Govt. service Free Press Staff Reporter IN questions he will table at the next meeting 1 of the Singapore Legislative Council on Feb. 21, Inche Sardon bin Jubir (Rural East) will ask the Government for a statement of policy m relation to the employment m
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    BETTER RICE FOR NEW YEAR PLEA
    176 5 BETTER RICE FOR NEW YEAR PLEA Free Press Chinev Correspondent 'THE Singapore Rice Retailers' and Sundry stuff Merchants' Association has decided to appeal to Government to give better quality ration rice m view of the steady drop m the price of "free" rice, and the approaching Chinese New Veir. a
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    PENSIONS PLEA IN COUNCIL
    54 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.A plea for the adjustment of widows' and orphans" pensions to "free tnem from constant rare and anxiety." was made m the Legislative Council today by Mr. Jules Martin of Penang Mr Martin hoped that Government would make an early decision on the formula
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    ALIEN CHARGED
    43 5 A Hungarian. Jules Retka pleaded not uuii y In \ht Singapore Fourth V Court yesterday to a I of having resisted laulul arrest under the Aliens I nance at the Immigration Depot on Wednesday last. He was remanded 10 Feb. 22
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    Anti-bandit pledge
    59 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THK determination of Mala an trade unionist t<» "crwfe and crush quickly* the bandits had been strengthened by the Simpang Tiga outragp. said Mr. P.P. Narayanan, trade union leader, m the Federal Legislative Council m Kuala Lumpur yesterday. He was speaking on behalf of
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    No priority for S.I.T. workers
    103 5 Frer Pr«*>* Staff K« pai THERE v. iil bt the Trusts rules I mit the families ol dec I emp:< 1 S Improvem* n* I I n In S.IT houo This m an <»ffic::tl stated Th*' Siat«m<nt >;r.d unior emptoypet hnd re<j ed such a
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    FUN FAIR
    26 5 A fun !a;r In aid of M. Hildas School Building F m<J will be held today at th Happy World at 5 p m.
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    GOING STILL HEAVY
    172 6 By ALLAN LEWIS lexpeci the going for tomorrow's races to be, at the best, soft, as the second track was still heavy this morning when used for fast work. No horses were out to make time, the only one to work fast over three was Cadzow Glen
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    THREE GIRL CHAMPIONS
    94 6 XTANCY LIM. who broke the women* 100 metres free-style record at the Singapore Chimse Swimming Club championships, L« a daughter of Mr. Lim Seng Hooi. manager of the Oven-ea Chinese Bank, nut of Mr. lim Chuan Oeok, as reported yesterday. Nancy is 13 years of age. Eleven-year-old
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    T. BAHRU RANGERS
    32 6 THE Tiong Bahru Rangers Will play Ist XI and 2nd XI soccer matches against St. Andiev. t School at Woodsvllle tomorrow. Transport leaves Tiong Bahru at 3 15 pm.
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    PENG SOON FOR SURREY TOURNEY
    364 6 Warming up for A 11-England bid WONG Peng Soon, champion of Malaya, will take part m the Surrey tournament at Wimbledon as a "warming up" for his bid for the All-England badminton title. He leaves Singapore Sunday, arriving there Wednesday. by plane for London on
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    SINO-MALAYS WIN
    30 6 THE Sino-Malay football team defeated a Hong Kong XI by three goals to one ypsterday. Only a few people turned out to watch the I match.— A P
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    Fight unlikely to go full distance
    283 6 TONIGHT'S BOXING ONE thing is almost certain about tonights main fight at the Happy World arena between Alfie Sands and Som Pong— the bout will not go the distance and H is indeed hard to say who will be on his feet at the
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    'Game needs Louis'
    126 6 JOE Louis, retired world heavyweight champion. will stage a "comeback" according to Jake Mintz. manager of Ezzard Charles, the present champion according to the VJL National Boxing Association "Louis should be ready for his comebark this summer," said Mintz. I'm sure of this The game has been
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    Breweries are unsettled
    317 6 ■■■■■■■■liU 1 UM) °V fridar WITH the exception of brewery ri whi unsettled, the London Slock I h another quiet day yesterday und» i c s^ut the approaching general election tv< t He J enc *«f Reduction m Watney Con. JWa dividend of five per cent.. compar<
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    15 6 I v 1 1 or j bull ope: the n promos lar. Reuter
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    ASTIVEL TIPPED FOR SPRING CUP
    835 7 ASTIVEL TIPPED FOR SPRING CUP Park a good outsider By ALLAN LEWIS r £HE Spring Cup will be the main attraction at Bukit Timah tomorrow, the concluding day of Singapore Turf dub's Spring meeting. A well balanced field of 14 has been handicapped for this race over a mile and
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    Valberg fails to qualify again
    255 7 f l.OYI) Oscar Valberg of Malaya yesterday failed lj to qualify for the final of the men's 121 yards hurdles at the Empire Games, when he came fourth. He also failed m the high jump event. The other Malayan athlete. Ng Liang Chiang was last
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    Nothing to stop Toboggan, Hector
    434 7  - Nothing to stop Toboggan Hector ALLAN LEWIS By 'rilE lour topweights In the Class 1. Div. 2 race over mile iUi(J 27 yards are well treated after their first-start form. However. I think the winner will come from lower down the list, and look to Toboggan to fill the bill.
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    May make amends
    432 7 EXPECT Baba io jnake amends m the Class 2. Div. 3 race over .six furlonj and 19 yards tomorrow. Sir Galahad and Sailing arc tiie best of the others. Baba was second to Pam Green m his first start and is penalised 3 lbs. Sailing. who finished
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    523 horses in S.R.A. list
    44 7 'PIIE latest (lassification i list issued by the Straits Racing Association show> total of S2S horses registered. They comprise: Class one 4<W: Class two— lss; Class three— lo7; (lass four— Bb: Class five— 7K. The list was published yesterday.
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    K.O. HOCKEY CHAMPIONS
    83 7 Free Press picture. The Singapore Recreation Club "Reds," who won the Hockey Association knockout tourney to become the first holders of the Oehlers Challenge Cup. The team completed the competition with the fine record of 25 goals, against only one scored against them, m five matches. Standing
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    Programme for March meeting
    106 7 (''LASS two and three horses will run at the Singapore Turf Club March meeting on Mar. 18. 22 and 25. The distances and Stakes will be: Class 2: lirst run. 6f. or one mile; second run 6f. or 9f. Div 1. $2,200. other d:vs.. $2,000. Class
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    TOMORROWS BEST BETS
    84 7 \l I si bet> m a dirtieult iard for tomorrow's Hukit Tinuih races are \Ntivtl Dance Flail and 1 ohojjtjan. Thf following liwaea will not neefl their ♦•nua^ r «'i)icnt> .it Bukit Timah tomoi rou DARK BKOCADfc LONGCHAMPS II BRIGHT STAR I I I ILK NED, CONTR
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    Spowari hack in tin- saddle
    61 7 Spowari hack in tin- saddle OILL Spowart is ajiain rid- ing track work at Bukit Timah. Spowart expects to resume race ridint: at Kuala Lumpur. He was injured m an accident at Penan g when Red Dragon jumped the fence <■: the mounting yard, sustaining injuries which marie it i.
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    AUSTRALIA AGAIN TOP THE LIST
    349 7 AUSTRALIA again topped the medal winning list for yesterday's events fan the Empire Games. She won six of the seven athletic events and m the evening gained her seventh gold medal of the day by winning the 1.000 metres time trial cycling event. Other winners
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    BIRTHS
    44 8 V INTHROP: At Bungsar Hospiul, on Btr. Feb.. 1950. to Peggy »nd Richard. a brother for v. YLIE: On 31st Jan., 1950, Bt Aldershot, to Diana (nee I wife of Major C. G. V 10th Gurkha Rifles, The ie, Ash, Aldershot, a ;er.
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    BETTING LAW OUT OF DATE
    145 8 LONDON. Fri. r ING HENRY VIIIS legisL lation on card playing which, with amendments, is still the law of England WM denounced yesterday before the commission inquiring into lotteries, betting and gambling. The demand for its abolition came from Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, X.C.. who said
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    He felt 'urge', killed father
    98 8 GARY, INDIANA. Fri JOHN PUREVICH. a st* 11--workers 29-year-old son. shot and killed his father. 64 wi:h a single blast from a double barreled shotgun Wednesday night after warning him as they sat together m his living room. I got to shoot you. pa." John's
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    ENVOY VISITS
    20 8 The first British Ambassador to Indonesia Mr. D. W. Kermode, yesterday presented his credentials to President Soekarno. U.P.
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    RED TEST HAINAN RAIDS SMASHED
    304 8 Navy blockade is extended HONG KONG, Friday. DEPORTS that Nationalist planes had driven off 50 Communist troop-filled junks heading for Hainan, sinking 20, and that wounded Red troops arriving m Canton had said they were casualties of "invasion tests on Hainan" coincided with announcement of
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    Truculent chief is found guilty
    217 8 CHATHAM, (Kent), Friday. lEI'T. Charles Bowers, 28-year-old Commander of the British submarine Truculent, sunk with the loss of 64 lives after a collision with the Swedish ship Divina last month, was yesterday found guilty by a court-martial here of hazarding his ship by negligence or
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    U.S. won't have Mao in U.N.
    158 8 U.S. won't have Mao in U.N. WASHINGTON, Fri. THE United States would vote against any resolution aimed at unseating Nationalist China m the United Nations, the State Department said last night. This announcement came just before the United Nations Security Councils committee of experts decided at private meeting that the
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    U.K. OFFER ON PETROL
    85 8 WASHINGTON. Fri. BRITAIN has proposed to the State Department that the cut on U.S. rained petroleum imports into the sterling art'a should be limited to four million tons a year j until the end of Marshall aid This would leave American companies a market for about
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    Court rejects Italy's claim
    62 8 LONDON. Fri.^ THE Republic of Italy yesterday lost its court action to recover cash and investments, worth about £1.500.000. belonging to ex-King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. Italy sued a London bank holding the money and the British custodian for the property by reason of a financial
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    SCHOLARSHIPS
    15 8 Czechoslovakia will grant more scholarships to African and other colonial and foreign students. Reuter
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    INDIAN ATOM PLAN
    17 8 India plans to set up "a small atomic pile within a few years." Reuter
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    GUSSIE STILL ENGAGED
    51 8 "pORGLOUS" Gussie Moran \J and Mr. Anthony Devenport have Issued a Joint statement m Calcutta, saying: For the record finally, we are still engaged but no date for the marriage has been settled due to Mr. Davenport Senior's advice to wait a bit and Gussie's tennis tour."—
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    OIL FOR JAPAN
    19 8 The sterling area has sold Japan 1.080.000 barrels of crude oil for delivery by September. Reuter
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    Anti-Red 'miracles' excite the Czechs
    234 8 Anti-Red 'miracles' excite the Czechs PRAGI'E. Friday. I\ESPITE Communist press charges of "stunts" and "fraud", people throughout Czechoslovakia are discussing reported miracles m which a cross "bowed" toward a Catholic congregation and "leaned toward the west," and the Virgin Mary appeared m the sky waving an American flag and leading
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    Jail for coin hoarders
    38 8 RANGOON, Fri. BURMA'S caretaker parliament yesterday provided legislation whereby hoarding: of coins and banknote becomes a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment. There is a large black market here for small silver coins A. P.
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    $*****0 haul in diamonds
    96 8 LOS ANGELES. Fri. DIAMONDS valued at retail m excess of US$2OO,OOO were taken on Wednesday night by two bandits who held up a jewellery salesman m his home here. Milton Cohen, 35, told (Xitel that oi.e of tne men posed us a messenger, then pulled a
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    Flying ice-cream cone
    62 8 RECALLING the mass hysteria m the United States over the "flyin? saucer," six persons, including a navy officer, claim to have s?en a peculiar cone-shaped craft lying over the AlameO naval-air station m California on Tuesday. Irritable U.S Army intelligence officers, queried about the mysterious aircraft, replied
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    ALL-DAY TALKS IN CAPE TOWN
    37 8 THE tripartite talks at Cape Town between India, Pakistan and South Africa were continued yesterday, lasting practically all day. No communique was issued. Today Is the fifth day of the talks. Reuter
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    INSANITY WORSE THAN A-BOMB
    116 8 NEW YORK, Friday. /GENERAL Carlos P. Romulo, President of the I'nited Nations General Assembly, said yesterday that mental disease is a scourge of mankind "comparable to the weapons of mass destruction." Speaking at the dedication of Creedmore Institute for Psychobiologic Studies. Gen. Romulo said. "Year m
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      71 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 3.26 a.m. 4.2 ft p.m. Tomorrow: 4.13 a.m. 6.13 p.m. THE SAiNT by Leslie Charteris HI ■> /n WOULD BE WORTH iT'i I IF YOU CHARGED ME WITH If LONG BEFORE T^AT KM S>> !L^"T rCMCOO ,.,vI TO ME TO sA\^ SOME ROftBERY. t SHOULD BS OUT
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