The Singapore Free Press, 24 February 1950

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I !l SINGAPORE, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    LABOUR TAKES EARLY LEAD
    455 1 Record poll expected Latest figures: Labour 60 seats; Conservatives 29 LONDON, Friday. JTIRST results in the British general election showed Labour in the lead. As returns came in from the industrial areas of the north, it was obvious that the people there had stayed solidly behind
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    Chifley hits Govt plan to ban Reds
    51 1 Chi fley hits Govt plan to ban Reds CANBERRA. Friday. %t*>tt*rday attacked Conservative itlav thr Australian Communist Party, leader, Mr. Joseph B. Chifley. telling i Dmmunism cannot be destroyed by neasarct wat frequently denounced as 3 i .ing that "Communism If just sophy said his party would Conservative Anti-Red bill.
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    40 1 j kHIRNK* Mr. Walter Fletcher U onmms returned for Bur> and RadclifT*. (LancM O f 780. RUht: Dr. Kdith Snmmerskill. irv Seireurv to the Ministry of Food. u Kulham West Her majoriW dropped from T \l\ in 1'»45 to !MA.
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    Churchill & Cromwell: 10,000-1
    99 1 Churchill Cromwell: 10,000-1 A.P. LONDON Fri 4 I L STOMER got 10 000 to 1 odds on a £1 bei with bnakef Douglas Stuart yes'erday To collect, all of those things have to happen: Conservatives to win he election, Churchill to be the next Prime Minister; Cl mweil to win
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    Election flashes
    203 1 Here are some elev'ion sidelights reported by A P.: One mischievous "pen unknown" chalked a notice ng To Let from the 23rd" on the door of (Vnservat Winston Church i home in London. A lefl the Wind! i\An\ v. pulling station I and i rendering ol the v
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    Hungary says 'quit' to U.S., Britain
    173 1 BID YPEST, Friday. HUNGARY yesterday demanded reduction of British and American diplomatic staffs In Budapest and withdrawal of American officials mentioned in the Voejfeler-Sanders espionage trial. I n new notes delivered verbally to the British and American legations, the Hungarian Government said the two
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    BROMB TESTS IN CANADA
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    Quirino's offer
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    Wheat for Britain
    19 1 Britain h > *?t US $45,000,000 -ith of ILmerltMi ind GftfMriUan j vheat under the M*rihall riati.
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    Big explosions in the sun
    27 1 Big explosions in the sun Japanese astronomers report that sunspots observed on the face of the sun are moving westward to the accompaniment of tremendous explosions. Reuter
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    YUGOSLAVIA LOAN
    27 1 Diplomatic officials said yesterday that they expected the Export -Import Bank to grant credit to Yugoslavia of about $10,000,000 in two or three days.— U.P.
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    BERLIN BLOCKADE
    18 1 The Russians resumed their "slow check" of traflk on the West Germany Berlin highway yesterday.- U.P.
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    39 1 picture. Mao Tse-tung makes a farewell broadcast at Moscow's Yaroslavl Station before boarding his train for China. Russian officials V. M. Molotov. N. A. Bulganin, A. I. Millayan and Andrei Vishinsky (Foreign Minister > are seen on the Hunt A.P.
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    Results at a glance
    303 1 VICTORS HtLIKNHAM W. W H.cks Beach (Coiim Mai. c.er Lao. 4.982 SAM-ORb (LAST;: t. A. H.udy »Lab'. Maj. over Con* SALtOKD (WEST): C Royle iLab>. Maj. over Cons. SUyJ KA.LTEK: J. C. Maude iCOOS). \l.ij. over Lab. 3 JO4. BIKM.n W. Burice »Lau». Maj. over COO*.
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    $2,400,000 robbery
    108 1 CLEVELAND, Fri. SIX hooded bandits burst inio spacious home of multi millionaire William Mather early yesterday, struck his wile and fled with jewellery valued at beteen US$2OO,OOO and US$BOO,OOO (Malayan $2,400,000 > The robbers v ere armed with sub-mae.hineguns. Mather. 93-year-old honoi uy chairman of the Cleveland CliffIron
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    'Big tragedy in Bengal'-Nehru
    88 1 NEW DELHI, Friday. MAJOR tragedy had occurred in the Paki province of East Bengal, Prune Minister Pandit Nehru told the Indian Parliament yesterday in a statement on the recent communal noting in that province and the adjoining Indian province of West Bengal. The Hindu minority In
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    $11,446 LOSS WRITTEN OFF
    45 1 T'Hi: Singapore Governmenij lias been recommended to write off as a loss the $11,446 taken by robbers from 'he Medical College In January last year. The recommendation is made by the Finance Committee in a paper laid be! the Legislative Council.
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    ILO aid from Australia
    85 1 Free Press Staff Reporter r |MIE International Labour 1 Organisation conference h»'ld in Singapore in September last year is bearing good fruit, said Mr. Frank Jones,. chief translator at the talks when he arrived in Singapore from Sydney on his return to Geneva. He had seen
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    U.S. loan to India
    41 1 TH E International Bank (US.) will 'about March) 1" announce a loan to India j approximately $20,000,000 for the construction of the Bokaro thermal power plant, parr of part of the Damodar Vallev project in Eastern India
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    Arab death threat
    90 1 MR. Roffer Garreau of France. Chairman of the I nite d Nation Trusteeship Council has* announced the receipt of a letter from an Arab terrorist organisation (hreatening to "shoot you like a dog" for his efforts at a compromise in the proposed internationalization of Jerusalem. Mr. Garreau
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    REDS MAY GET 90 PLANES FROM H.K.
    180 1 HONG KONG. Friday. PRO-COMMUNIST employees of two Chinese airlines hope to fly the 90 C.N.A.C. and C.A.T.C. civil planes to Red China within the next few days. These planes had been impounded here since November, when the employees went over to the Reds.
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    A SPECIAL EDITION
    19 1 a SPECIAL edition of the Free Press this afternoon will carry more election results and reports.
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    Move to oust Li
    120 1 HONG KONG. I THE Kuomimang Btanriint Commit :ee in Taipeh 'erday invited Gen. Chiang Kai-shek to resume the preside paved tne way for ousting Acting President L: Tming-ien, who America. The Prime Minuter. M 'Veji Hsi-sh.* rdftf warned ;nat the Reds were masking troops ana landuiK
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    U.S. wants self-rule for Asia
    206 1 WASHINGTON. Fn. AMERICA seeks selfrule for all nations in South-East Asia and will back with dollar aid any Joint economic, political and social programme of those countries This South-East policy **> outlined yesterday by U.S. am-bassador-at-large. Dr. Philip Jessup. and the U.S. Secretary of State.
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    SWISS SPY TRIAL
    36 1 w.. Ocrber. 47. mechanic of the Sv Corps of Engineers, pleaded guilty before a military cmgi \n Bt-rne jresterday a I stenia'lc espio'i >ge fd Britain. France, and Ameri- ra since 1937 A.P.
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    White Australia policy to stay
    19 1 White Australia policy to stay The Austj rv Mi Percy s government would act b'it v blundering I U.P.
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    Juliana for Paris
    15 1 Queen Juliana anc I Bfinhard vfl sidoat V.ncent Aurtol I I A.P.
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    'Shophound's' on the Trail
    352 2 THE Shophounds were out and about the shopping district of Singapore last week and discovered some rare game in out of the way spots as well as the larger shops D who nave grimly d buyine hats in Sinre might do well to reconsider and look
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    Women in the U.S. Congress
    1043 2 Women in the U.S. Congress THERE are ten women in the Eighty-first Congress of the United Statesone in the Semite and nine in the House of Representatives. The Senate is the smaller body of the national legislature, in which each of the 48 States Ikis equal representation. There are 96
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    Marriage on False Pretences
    405 2  - Marriage on False Pretences Canon H. Warner By "M Y HUSBAND cant stand children. He says he likes them when they have become interesting and can be companions. I don't know what to do. We are only 23 years old, and it seems such a shame not to have our
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      154 2 Csli VOOU who derides I Daby who decides about the milk. Steady growth, lots Pontcnted day^ and peaceful nights they tell a in the happiest of ways the milk baby prefers. And uprising how many babies choose Ostermilk. The luia of ONtcrmilk is such that it is most suitable at
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      514 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, artistic You are a fine friend and talents combine *ith your loyalties are life lonjf. an otherwise practical na- You *»H *>e happiest if you ture to make you some- live in the countr> surthing of a contradiction to rounded by your own even your
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    NEW THEORY TO RAISE STORM
    324 3 Interpolations in the Koran? .AMMAN, Friday. A Nt theory about the Koran, from which about 400.000,000 Muslims derive their faith in Allah and the Prophet Mohammed, may raise a storm in the Muslim world. The theory put forward In Arabic by a 44-year-old Palestine-born Arab.
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    TITO RECEIVES
    19 3 Marshal Tito has receivec Ahmed Fathi El Akkari Bey new Egyptian Minis ;?t tc Yugoslavia- A .P.
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    44 3 photo I \\!'U» Duke make> a last minute ,r>e on the bonnet of a car at Blackii' hfforp taking off t«» set a new inter(l i«»r the flight between London and He flf» th*- .MK3 miles in 64 hourv avermiles per hour A .P.
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    ATTEMPT ON JULIANA?
    26 3 rZERLAND, Thirsci ned ;n ad>f Queen :ands. •rent attht Na- <:frday by ening four re- p.ight i it«era :ia on i A .P.
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    MISSED TRAIN, GOT FREE RIDE
    130 3 MISSED TRAIN, GOT FREE RIDE BULL, Friday. got a free 10-mile automobile ride publiclv owned British Railways hh train left ahead of time and he missed it. im Rye Hill, near where he lives, -;s. He sot it because he bf-lieved in his watch Brown 40. an accountant fill about
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    36 SPAIN ARRESTS
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    Friend took the money
    80 3 HONOLULU. Fri IiiTSLI Takahashi and his m wife saved US$lO,OOO and borrowed US$l4,OOO more to build a house A Japanese friend promised to arrange the building job. On Tuesday the same friend railed with a white man, pretended he wanted to change some USSIOO bills When
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    PADRE'S MILK PROTEST
    125 3 LONDON. Than \fAST stocks of drivel milk are wasting in America while there are undernourishment an j deficiency diseases among people in the African territories Rev. Michael BcoCI viho re« e ristted the tI.N. Genera: Assemblv to represent the claims of the Hereio tribe- make^ this protest
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    JAP OIL OUTPUT
    24 3 in'fl January crude oil tlon totalled 154.105 bt-rels. the highest In any one month since the end of the war.— A.P.
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    45 3 photo. Kgyptian Premier Mou>tapha Kl Nahas Pasha praises King Karouk's leadership in a speech delivered at a royal birthday tea in the ZafTran Palate in Cairo. At ri«ht is one of the birthday cakes prepared for the event, topped with a crown and crescent. A.P.
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    'PINGPONG AND U.S. SPIES'
    70 3 'PINGPONG AND U.S. SPIES' T'HE Hungarian press said yesterday that the U S. could have spared itself a "clash" with Hungary by sending ping pong olayers to Budapest, instead of spies and saboteurs. The comment was made by Szabad Nep. organ of Hungarian workers Communist party, in a report <n
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    2 Mono Lisa originals
    89 3 A SECOND painting of the NtM Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci valued at I S 51.000.000. ha s been discovered in America! Dr. Thomas M. JudLson. a Vatican art ™pert. said in New York recently. He said he had authenticated the painting by many laboratory tests.
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    JAP PREMIER FLAYS RUSSIA
    68 3 JAP PREMIER FLAYS RUSSIA THE Japanese Premier. Mr Shig e r u Yoj»hida. has d Russia a treaty breaker j >aid he doubted the So- actually will carry out the concessions promised to j a in the new Sino-Soviet treaty. The Conservative Japaneseleader broke his self-imposeu silence on the treaty
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    FIRST BED IN H.K.
    30 3 The first representative of the Peking Government is expected to arrive in Hong Kong on Mar. 1 to take over the Chinese Maritime Customs] om< Reuter
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    RED MISSING AT H.K. DENIED
    63 3 RED M ISSING AT H.K. DENIED *FHE Acting Commissioner i 1 ol Police, in Hoiik Kong, j Mr W L. B Sparrow, has announced his Department had no evidence to substantiate reports that 25.000 Com- 1 :.:st troops were massed j on the colony's border. U.S Government observer! in the
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    Mustard will come in a siphon now
    160 3 LONDON, Friday. 4 IK just plain air— puts the big push behind two 4 nrw products on world markets. They include Ethyl -P Nitrophenyi Thionobenzenephosphonate and mustard. You've heard of English mustard, of course. Well, a British firm in London named Stone and
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    New danger faces Berlin
    207 3 New danger faces Berlin BERLIN. Friday. 4 HALF million young Communists have an appointment in Berlin this Whitsuntide. The West views it as one of the most potent powderkegs ever dreamed up by the Communists in their neverending putsch to expand. The question now being pondered bv the West Berlin
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    Bridge Hands
    299 3 Wnat do you bin Ihis hand i* a corollary o ".he problem ;n sacrifice bidding presented here last week. In this rase, however the problem in'ist be met turner In order to avoid a dilemma which will occur later Unless North act-s at once. The correct bid is
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    SUN UPSETS RADIO
    21 3 Smnipot activity has almc-t w^nej out radio links between NVw Zealand and the rest of trie world- Reuter
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    WHY SCIENTISTS REVEAL SECRETS
    268 3 NEW YORK. Friday tyHAT are scientific secrets, and why should West- ern scientists, of all people, give them to Russia? The answer is that some scientists have an emotional weakness. These scientists are not queer, not "lonfc haired", not traitors in the ordinary sense Usually they
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    ENVOY TO VATICAN
    19 3 Mr. Joseth Harfu-ru ?hf» ne\v Lebanese Minister to Holy See. has arrived Id Vatican City.- A.P.
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    45 3 photo Austrian university student. Minn Dayman Rom l\. from Innshrueek. lands on one s ki after taking thr road jump in the Women's Giant Safom event at A\p<r» Colorado. I g Mi> Koni won the international «omhined event at Sal/bur«r AuMria. la>t car. A .P.
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    JAPAN WINS BID FOR SHIPS
    61 3 ITOE [shikawa-jtma yards in Toftdo have r> ed an order from Imerira for the construction of six tagboats of 70 tons, and Lhr*e all-steel Ughvrs of 280 tons. Lshikawa-.iima vua .i OOA* tract lor 'href small Uu for the A:- n i.'ic Gomem la.s? ypai
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    TAX COLLECTOR
    25 3 Waller Berry d Honolulu :ax colle. been senienced to 90 d*j jai! for collecUnf "hunu I f r<j:i. i Filipino. Basilio Ba_ A.P.
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    Sofia Radio has anti-climax
    56 3 gOFIA Radio told ers Wednesday night to stand by for an import an; communique at 10 p.m. An announcer th<n said that the communique had been delayed ten minutes. At 10 10 it was announced there would be another minutes' delay At l°-20 the radio said
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      139 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. RtX Jol.-on riui.,- Again ODtON: Neptune's Daughter. PAVILION: Sai See (Cantones-i. COI ISEVM: Ghost nl Zero. MADRAS: TLt Lost Tribe. CATHAY. Strafe Brothers I Tamil CENTRAL: Kanniym Katnali Tamil'. IllNmsriN: Ham Hal (Hindi FENAfiO RLX: ralk Fur^e. UOEON: Panther Lsland CATMAT: Neptun'« Daugtatei UOO: Who* Guilty.
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      333 3 c TNrA pORE -suit,: 4.55 •Composer of the Week- Bulletin: 4 p.m. Queens Hall OlNKjArUllts M.zarf; 3.15 Speci-'l Dispatch" Li hl Orchestra; 430 News lil.l I-. NETWORK) j <BBO; SJO "London Studio Con- Bulletin: 4.40 Words and Music, 484 and 41.7 metres certs"; 6.00 Indonesian; News 4.40 Services Concert Hall
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Feb. 24. 1950. THE OLD AND THE NEW
    581 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Feb. 24. 1950. THE OLD AND THE NEW HlSi^vi. says an old old saying, repeals itself. This has selaotn been proved so ily as by recent Qts *:i Berlin, still the main riash-poim of tne East- West cold war. r m 1933 to 1945. .he
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    'Topsy-turvy Colony' Is Restless
    775 4  - 'Topsy-turvy Colony' Is Restless Richard Creenough By BELIZE, British Honduras: little 8,800--square-mile "Patch of Britain", where they seem to prefer the Stars and Stripes to the Union Jack and their own pale blue and white "baymcn" settlers' fla^ to either, is a topsy-turvy Colony. First of all there is its
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    ROYALHERE DISPERSED
    84 4 ROYAL HERE DISPERSED THE King is dispersing he royal deer herd in Windsor Great Park. The land will be used for farming. But a few of the deer will be kept there in a paddock, so that the old custom of giving venison to local people can be continued. The
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    3 4 GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR,'
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    QUEEN MARY SAID "NO"
    236 4 A WORLD copyright has been taken out to prevent reproduction of the magnificent carpet Queen Mary has made fo r Britain's dollar drive. A suggestion that unlimited copies should be made commercially to earn more dollars has been turned down by Queen Mary. The Dowager Marchioness
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    76 4 Designed for Dutch skater, Jossy Rexis, of Amsterdam, this 'net is a sample of the specially made elastic mesh stockings which she wears f Or her comedy performance in the ice show. "Cinderella on Ice," at the Eruprcss Hall, London In her act. Jossy found ordinary stockings laddered too easily,
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    MacArthur Has Fans, no Friends
    913 4 RAY FALK GIVES A PEN PICTURE OF THE SOLDIER. DIPLOMAT, PHILOSOPHER WHO RECENTLY CELEBRATED HIS 70th BIRTHDAY. TOR 10: QENERAL of the Army Douglas MacArthur who recently celebrated his 70th birthday receives an average of IXOOO fan letters a month. But despite his power and
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    HOPE FOR WOMEN OF INDIA
    638 4  - HOPE FOR WOMEN OF INDIA Alwyn Tebbitt By NEW DELHI: WOMEN outnumber men in every civilised country of the world except India and Pakistan, but their scarcity value here is not considered enough to gain them favoured treatment. The Indian man strongly believes in the "f.oods and Chattels" theory when
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    KEENER WATCH ON S'PORE COAST
    248 5 KEENER WATCH ON S'PORE COAST Special glasses for Police Free Press Staff Reporter 'J'HE watch ,on Singapore's coastline is to be intensified by Police and Customs authorities. Money has been approved by the Legislative Council for the purchase of 11 pairs of powerful binoculars and the building of five Customs
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    Gift of $4,000 to mission hospital
    43 5 Gift of $4,000 to mission hospital f ,tT Reporter l of T. Commnended ;>r 1950 or monetary -A.ards h ~p:tal ises com- ;m from i i out Its iture, felt r.:r:butM urgent daIt r .and •able to :al is Des subj< G »Tern
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    Money lending law proposal
    408 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SELECT Committee of the Singapore Legislative Council has recommended that the Governor-in-Council should have powers to exempt from the provisions of the Moneylenders Ordinance certain corporate bodies whose businesses consist of lending money but who are not of the type of moneylenders
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    28 5 picture. One of the items in the concert staged by the Singapore Children's Aid Society this week was the "Dutch girls' dance." The concert realised $500. Free Press
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    ART AUCTION
    38 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A hundred Italian modern paintings brought to Singapore by Rofenoc C. Ragusa of Florence will be auctioned on Saturday at Citv Realty Ltd.. Prince Street. The sale will at 2.30 p m
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    DRIVER FINED
    36 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MUAR, Thurs.— For caA'yjng four extra passengers in his taxi *at Sagil village a driver. Wong Pak Cheng, was fined $15 or 10 days' hard labour, by the Muar Magistrate.
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    DAUGHTER OF G.O.C. WEDS
    174 5 Free Press Stafl Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Tnurs MISS Helen Boucher, daugh- ter of the G.0.C.. Malaya; District, Major-General Sir! Charles Boucner. and Lady Boucher, was married in St. Mary's Church in Kuala Lumpur today to Major Kenneth M Hutchinson 2 6th Gurkha Rifles After the wedding
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    42 5 MR. tfG TSENG SIANO. Singapore architect, who has left by Pan-American Airways for London, New York. Lo s Angeles. Hawaii, and Japan. He will be a guest of the U.S. Steel Corporation and will visit all important building projects in the States.
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    TO GIVE BLOOD
    61 5 In celebrating the birthday of the Founder of the Boy Scouts Movement. Lord Baden Powell, a group of Rovers In Singapore will give blood today to the Blood Bank in response to the blood transfusion campaign. They will also visit the Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the
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    Traffic in girls to be stamped out
    192 5 Traffic in girls to be stamped out Frer Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs THE Department of Social Welfare in the Federation j Is to concentrate on stamping out trafficking in young girls, the Chief Social Welfare Offl- cer. Dr. C. P Rawson said to- day He s:i'.d though trafficking
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    LEPERS HAVE OWN BAND
    87 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PENANO l/iiurs. A FEW old instruments from the Municipal Band may be given to -hr lepers band in Pulau Jere]*fc The Municipal Commissioners at their meeting today confirmed a decision in committee to accept the present bandmaster Mr. C. C Scott's offer
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    LABOUR POST
    21 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Mr Un Hon Kun Labour Officer, is to act as Assistant Commissioner for Labour, Singapore.
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    NEW PENANG HOUSING SCHEME
    199 5 Free Press StaiT Reporter PENANG Thursday. a S part of their housing de1^ velopment scheme. Penang Municipal Commissioners have signed an agreement to buy 13 acres of land at Green Lah-? with a six months' option to take up a further 20 acres. Announcing this today,
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    WAR VICTIMS GET 40-ACRE FARM
    245 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r PHE Commissioner of Lands, Mr. J. A. Harvey, has 1 offered the Far Eastern Relief Fund Committee 40 acres of fertile ground in Kranji to build a poultry and vegetable farm for the rehabilitation of Singapore war victims' families. The
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    $484,000 FOR S'PORE RADIO H.Q.
    265 5 $484,000 FOR S'PORE RADIO H.Q. Free Press Staff Reporter T*HE new broadcasting building in Thomson Road for Radio Malaya, Singapore will cost $484,000, or $48,000 more than the original estimate of $436,000. The increased cost, says the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council which approved the supp.ementary vole, is due
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    Undergrads to teach in P.E.A. classes
    115 5 Undergrads to teach in P.E.A. classes Free Press Staff Reporter CTUDENTS of the University of Malaya have formed a branch of the People's Education Association. Singapore. Twenty-six students have joined the new association, j and are prepared to assist not only in organising new classes, but in teaching in the
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    Entertainment and sale
    35 5 Free Press Start Reporter UNDER the patronage Lady McKtrron the St. Andrew's Hospital Lin^n Guild will hold a sale and pntertainment at the Y.W.C.A. Raftks Quay, at 10 a.m. on March 4.
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    2 gambling wives
    91 5 DOES a woman who gambles her husband's salary away de«»erve a thrashing? Two Singapore Chines* women with a couple of black eyes apiece went to the Social Welfare Department's Women and Children's Section recently to find out the answer. The husbands were in the right Mr. T.
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    43 5 picture. MR. Sandy Pillay and his twin daughters. Joan and Terry, photographed on the deck of Dr Tan Soo Hock's yacht Swanee during a week-end cruise in Singapore waters. Mr. Pillay plans to send his daughters to Britain for studies. Free Free Press
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    The Television 'Also-rans'
    741 6 "+i f t Britain installed a new television transmitter near Birmingham t December and now sup- plies a daily programme for 10 million viewers. How far ahead of the rest t of Europe Britain now is can be seen from the I following reports from correspondents. DENMARK
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    Inside Information
    403 6  -  Mercury liy I>RITISH atom scicnt"*Uta are du\ibtful whether a hydrogen bomb can be prodn< •♦•ri without exploding spontaneously. The U.S. aim bomb stockpile haS now reached a size that would allow it to be used tactically against troop concentrations. The V S Navy i.s e.v ting with, a
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    Spotlight on the Universities
    479 6 Spotlight on the Universities AMERICA'S universities are still very much as the average British cinema-goer imagines them—reckless, rowdy, and with apparently little attention being paid to study. Some of the latest, university escapades have included "rags' in which students hall -strangle each other in order to enjoy the peculiar sensation
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    CHINA REDS FAIL TO WIN OVER PEOPLE
    300 7 New rule is no better HOxNG KONG, Friday. £HE Chinese Communists, after over six months* rule, have so far failed to win the support of the average citizen, according to Chinese arriving here from Red China, Chinese ?ress reports and diplomatic observers. The
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    STILL 'A MAN'S WORLD
    19 7 STILL 'A MAN'S WORLD D Fri. 'he I :r.ovie I Us:ed ..ey- of a >n Ist of F nnd
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    Migration to Canada hit by restrictions
    108 7 Migration to Canada hit by restrictions OTTAWA. Fri. PANADA, which in the past five years obtained 362,451 immigrants, has noted that it is becoming difficult to get emigrants from Britain and Western Europe because of currency restrictions. British stock predominated among the 362,451 new citizens arriving in Canada .since the
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    BULK-BUYING BY BRITAIN CRITICISED
    100 7 BULK-BUYING BY BRITAIN CRITICISED JINJA i Uganda), Fri. pOTTON. *ea, and coffee gro.vers In a first Joint meeting demanded that all s produce be freed .1 bulk-buyh..: coni oosed under pressure ill." Bf rab!cd to the Coloiiial Creech Jones, thai controls were a j of native unrest Ing. They a!so
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    ENVOY SHIFT
    19 7 Mr Hfriuo Avriel. at present Israeli Minister to Czerhoslovakia and Hungary haa been appointed en\ \inia.- A.P.
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    SYRIANS HOLD JEWS
    27 7 rHREE Ishael Fishery Department officials have n arrested by the Syrians the east shore of Lake lee and firearms found in their boat. A.P.
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    The customers just laughed
    367 7 The customers just laughed I \CK DOYLE, variously employed as guardsman, boxer, and singer, turned his attention to wrestling, and 9.500 people attended at Harringay to see him knock out, in the third round, a rival briefly identified as Butch, whose address was given as Kohila, Estonia. Most of the
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    Hired train and boat to move
    50 7 FARMER E. R. Andrews hired a 20-car train and a boat to move everything he owned 366 miles from Derbyshire to Glen Macrie, Inner Hebrides. The load included four tons of furniture, tractors, farm implements, seeds, fertilisers, poultry, 18 cattle and 15 sheep. A.P.
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    MAN EATS 72 EGGS IN 6½ MINS.
    138 7 MAN EATS 72 EGGS IN 6½ MINS. TORONTO, Friday. Egg-eat-ing is the craze now that Canada has lost her 43,000,--000 riozen-a-year murket in Britain. George Wilson, a Government poultry Inspector, started it in Vancouver by eating 36 eggs In 37 minutes. The ze moved i ast to Yorkton. Saskatchewan, where
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    DOUBLE-PLAY HOLD-UP
    78 7 DOUBLE-PLA Y HOLD-UP PLOIS GREEN was the victim of a double-play hold-up in Washington. A pedestrian .stopped him to ask street directions. A car drew up to the curb, and the driver asked the directions, too. As Green was talking to the driver, another man in the car drew a
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    Polio victims' big enemy
    95 7 LOS ANGELES. Fri. BOREDOM is one of the major hindrances to recovery of polio patients in iron lungs. The victim lies prone in a respirator, a single narrow mirror affording the only view of the outside world. Thanks to William Smith, patients in the Rancho Los
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    Seek 'honest criticism'
    60 7 IN order to get more "honest criticism the Czech naI H mil Corporati^B of Manufacturers of Readymade Clothing is staging fashion shows in factories the place of t^j"--mannequins during the fashion s r how m a M B ,S, t the I 2 aS c«ech ceremonies is
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    U.S. HAS 92,000 CIVIL PLANES
    157 7 WASHINGTON, Friday. THE U S Civil Aeronautic* Administration (CAA) forecast in 1945 that, in ten years, America would be flying 400.000 civil planes. Now. after five s, 92.000 civil aircraft are registered with the CCA. Production of private i was a spectacular 35,000 in 1946
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    RED GENERAL DIES
    30 7 Lt. -General Ivan Fedorovlch Fedinukin, who entered the Red Army as a private and rose to become one of Russia's most brilliant field commanders, has died U.P.
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    SHOWMAN DOYLE
    52 7 piioio. Jaik Doyle (wearinjr white trunks), singing boxer who has turned to professional wrestling. Doyle about to throw his opponent to the floor JACK DOYLE Ten persons were hurt when a tornado swept the little sawmill community of Gill. Texas. This house was one of manv was completely
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    U.S. gratitude to a Japanese
    88 7 'THE U.S. Congress is working on special legislation to permit Chinese and Japanese to be reunited with relatives in America The House of Representatives has passed and sent to the Senate five such bills. One bill would allow the entry of the Japanese wife of
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    Tyrone off again
    42 7 Tyrone Power, a, Marco Polo among movie stars, v,ill continue hns travelling ways. He leaves H-Oiv^'oo'l .i^ T m>nth to make a film in the Philippines. He has made films In Mexico, Italy. Nortb Africa and Ens land.- A.P.
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    Man makes fortune on worries
    279 7 Man makes fortune on worries NEW YORK, Friday. ONE of America's busiest businessmen is Mr. Walter W. Weismann. He started without a penny and is today a multi-millionaire. His business is buying other people's businesses, and things have never been brisker than they are just now. A surprising number of
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    Foiling foul play by fowl thieves
    83 7 Foiling foul play by fowl thieves LONDON. Fi^ BRITISH poultry are i to wear tattoo tnarki The onal Farmers" Union working on the marking plan to enable poultry -keepers to identify their birds and foul play by fowl thu The Ministries of Foe. •ii-ulture and the T 1 •iave given
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      50 7 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris I "S^VJH f WSJ. 6fisc YTweߣ'& NO PVCTJ K-BUT THERE IS A WANTED MAN WHO I (BACTERIAL "^fagg) IJ^JS 7 u^E TWAT ON AArt WAS TOO SMAQT £VK TO L£T MMttl A WARFARE.'J P: ex- '-s^lg -r^vrr^V' w^ts?- u'ST.-J ?e p-^^oraphed. an: t-at photon 7w
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    BIRTHS
    51 8 -HACKLETON: On Frbruan 18 to MaUfe wife of H. F. Shackle'on. Bertam Estate. P.W. a son ARAJAH To Thaivalnavife of Nadarajah. A.C.S., Klane. a son. on 22nd February, at F-nann Hospital. TO ELLEN, wife of Dr Derek J. Price, of the University ot m 23rd February, a ds!gh'«r. Linda
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    BALLROOM GAINING SUPPORT
    653 8 BALLROOM GAINING SUPPORT But Toboggan is still best bet From ALJ.AN LEWIS JJAYDEE and Park will not meet their engagements in the Selangor (lold Cup race tomorrow, leaving 12 horses to face the starter. On their first-run form and track work during the week, I am confining the finish to
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    Civilians played below form
    418 8 YESfERDAY'S SOCCER iI.THOICiH Singapore Civilians defeated the Burmese team by five goals to one at soccer yesterday, their victory cannot be called a great one, for the Singapore side played well below form and had they met a team with a better defence and with a
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    EMPIRE TEAM WIN IN CEYLOIS
    256 8 'pHE Commonwealth crieket learn b Qtral Pmrincei by 139 rani on a firstinnings decision in thtir oneday match at Kanriy day This wus the open: ig of iht-ir Ceylon lour. C l kneel put In to h, begai. losing three wtcteta tat 11 A breezy
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    TRADERS MARK TIME
    145 8 London slocks LONDON. Pri. pi.ECTION DAY brougnl quiet conditions to the idon Stock Exchange, with Urmden m&rkini time while ting rne nation's decision. A' tendance was small and the 'radiiik? volume down to a bare minimum Mltg Tiuifi .f DfiCM sei'fi<U, a& supplied to the FfcM n{>»
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    3 safest wagers
    30 8 SAFTBST bets in a difficult programme for tomorrow's races at Kuala Lumpur should be Arctic Lord, Colony and Beauchamps. The going is likely to be ▼erv good.
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    BOXER DIES AFTER BOUT
    64 8 AVERNE ROACH. 24-year-old middleweight boxer from Plainview, Texas, died yesterday of head Injuries received the previous night in a ten-round fight against George Small of Brooklyn, New York. Ro>ch retire! f j oin the ring lor 1€ months after being beaten b% late Ifarod Cerdan. of
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    Class 2 sprints are very open
    899 8 Class 2 sprints are very open rilF. handic apper. Mr. K. Notion, has not made the (lass I sprint races easy to pick. 1 think they will be the hardest events of the dav in which to find the winners. Thr races aro all over 5^ furlonys, th^ie being five
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    33 8 Caution pre\ ailed In sluggish mixed trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday with numeious operators awaiting developments in the coal strike and 3ntlBh elections. The market closed irregular Reuter
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    Services XI v. Burmese
    44 8 DINGATOU oinliined O S<*rvic«*s team aKainst the Burmese sorter tourists at Jalan Besar Stadium tomorrow will he: Mutton (Royal Navy): Tydesley (Army), Snelson (Army): Robinson (R.A.1.). Whitehorn (Army). Butler (Army). Bellenger (RAF), Todd (Army). Lee (RAF). Day (R.N). McCiurk (Artm
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    ARCTIC LORD, BEAUCHAMPS TO WIN
    357 8 AJAIN interest in the class 2 races tomorrow will be in the trophy event tor Div. I horse* over 9f. Five of the II candidates should figure in the finish. Race Fan vvu.> second to Jack's Darling in ner first Kt irt and is penalised
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    THIRD REPLAY DECIDES
    67 8 IJNIVERSITY College Hosi pital beat St. Georges Hospital by ten points to nil in their third replay in the 1 Hospitals Cup rugby union competition at Richmond yesterday. This was the fourth meeting between the two side* and the ti» took a to'al o; five horns 20
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    Natal beaten
    31 8 'pHE Australian cricket tour!st s beat Natal try Districts by 129 runs m their two-day match at Ladysmith yesterday Scores: Australians 74 and 195; District! 81 and 59 Reuter
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    WILLIE PEP WINS
    39 8 Y\ T ORI.D figh' lum- V> p. >n WllUe Pep. Vli 3 4 lbs.. (scored a fen-round decuion o\er Brooklvn lightweight Jimmy War|ien. 131 3 4 Wednesday m a Don-title fight held in Florida U .P.
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    Ewe Leong may spring surprise on Peng Soon
    289 8 Ewe Leong may spring surprise on Peng Soon VL'OSli Peng Soon, the Malaya,, t lamili fT generally expected to win the All F nkl k minton singles championship next month t British experts are prepared fo, a suro Dut *>nn This, they think, may b Malaya's unofficial represent a 1
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    W. INDIES TOURING TEAM picked
    14 8 Indi< lour fann C B K and I < Reuter
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    SOCCER DRAWN
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