The Singapore Free Press, 18 April 1950

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA v, 17.758 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950. PRICE TEN (KN IS.
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  • 604 1 Tank is still blazing today (Free Press Staff Reporter JHE villagers of little Pulau Blakans Padang were able to read their books and newspapers by fire-light last night. The light came from the million-gallon petrol blaze on Pulau Samboe, half-a-mile away. The Dre puffed and
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  • 42 1 \NBKKR\ Tups urjje dev*«»nme exh.iw i *<» viid th»» \i^Minister, > >!r-r.i iv 1 .t letler from t\ Nf>r\ icrman iiid his mate •f the disturMalftyi and they ■r\r m a volun--1 ted m \usFnu > >t id my :ir letters Mould ronsideration.
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  • 121 1 TAIPEH, Tuesday. A NUMBER of Communist troops got ashore on Hainan island, yesterday after losing more than half their force m a night battle at sea, said official Chinese Nationalist dispatches. Fighting was still In progress late last night west of Hoihow, the island capital,
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  • 77 1 LONDON, Tues. T3RITISH production, measured by value, rose eight percent last year— by £828,--000 000 to a record figure oi £*****,000,000 the Goveernment disclosed last night. A little leas than half the increase was accounted for by higm-r prices. Just over a quarter of the additional resources
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  • 283 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Xl ALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. FROM May 1 all rice to be issued In the Federation on the public ration will be sold m three grades and members of the public may purchase from their retailers within th»>ir ration entitlement whichever
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  • 18 1 The British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin. continues to -show improvement following Tin:: minor operation.- A.P.
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  • 23 1 South Africa will end the financial year with an estimated surplus of 1,500,000 instead of an anticipated deficit of £750.000. Reuter
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  • 23 1 H«shemite Jordan, Indonesia and Korea are expected soon to become members of the U.N Educational. Scientific and Cultural organization. A.P.
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  • 15 1 SMOKING bomb was removed from a United were among the passenger!.- Reuter
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  • 100 1 EDINBURGH. Tues. A STONE cannon ball tlsiied from the sea bed yesterday raised hopes that naval diver* at the Isle <>f Mull may at any moment wrest from the Atlantic the 352--year-old secrets of a fabulous Spanish treasure galleon. The cannon ball, of the type
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  • 22 1 A new South African measure to tighten up the export or diamonds to nondollar buyers was forecast m Johannesburg. Reuter
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  • 35 1 Free mart The British pound yesterday reached its highest quotation on Belgium's free mar- I ket this year, the rate was 128 Belgian francs, compared with the official rate of 140 to the pound.- A.P.
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  • 52 1 'TWO Royal Air Forc<» planes exploded over the ocean off Japan when a fighter rammed a pursuit piano. An undetermined number of crewmen are missing. The pilot of one of the planes was picked up by a Japanese coast guard vessel He suffered an injured leg and
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  • 33 1 Friends and the family of Miss Gertrude "Gorgeous" Moran are m the dark about her romantic interludes but they Insist on one point. Gertrude's nickname is soell«d Gussy, not Gusgle.- A.P.
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  • 34 1 A group of visiting mayors m red scarlet robes and gold and silver chains of office wero guests of honour yesterday at p reception by the Paris City Council.- A.P.
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  • 161 1 LONDON, Tuesday. BUCKINGHAM Palace confirmed last night that I'rincess Elizabeth is expecting another baby this summer. This followed rumours on both sides of the Atlantic for several weeks The Palace simply said that Princess Elizabeth is cancelling all further public engagements. This is the Palace's
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  • 20 1 The World Bank will send a mission to Iran to survey the country's penpal economic situation. A.P.
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  • 159 1 Keep calm -US tells U.S.S.R. WASHINGTON, Tues. TiHE UNITED STATES reproved Russia la^t night for "lack of calmness and restraint" m dealing with the recent alleged clash of American Soviet planes. The criticism was made In a formal announcement that the United States will delay its reply to Moscow's noT<?
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  • 70 1 U .S. SHIPS DIE HERE FOUR Ameilcan nay;;; It from the U B B Fleet, headed by the 27 ton aircraft carrier I will visit Singapore I April 27 to May I the Assistant Naval Attache nounced this morning The destroyers Floyd B John R oiler Guadelupe .he Boxer The
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  • 42 1 Major General Kftujiro Iketant, former Chief of B of the Japanese Kw I Third Arir.y. said on hfi patriation from Siberia teiday. "I am happy to be 'buck In Japan before the starts betveen the ■States and Russia."- A.P.
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  • 850 2  - Women ParsonsWhy Not? George Tansey By HTHE Church of Eng- land has adjusted its outlook a little. A vicar may preach m a public house with official approval. A woman inaji give an address m a church. Rot a. modest-sound-\tu resolution which would have removed sex disqualification from minor post
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  • 206 2  - U.S. WOMAN'S DIARY Kay Murray By 'pHE US -a omens arm; haa a Bern look. v. hich I .ed v. iih inter* of the heart-search-att accompanied the F 5 search for a new gr ■ciiir ih ich included ra jshion uuihori* >rs of Vogue and s B--.za~r and the one
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  • 412 2  -  CANON WARNER By Church Of England Marriage Adviser 1. The case of the cheated wife AFTER a good deal of vnhappiness dye tn viy husband associating wtth another woman, I have heard that he has left a will signed on his d< ath-bed with
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  • 463 2 S' pore Shop hounds on the Trail npHE Shop Hounds were nosing around High Street again this week and found, as usutl. bizarre and fascinating novelties m women's and men's accessories and clothes m the small shops which line the street. In Wassiamuli s Department Store, the Shophounds spotted some
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 65 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR |>ORN today, your intuition* are exceptionally keen, almost prophetic. Yo« have extremely high attritions and the stars have given >ou the capabilities to realize them. If you fail to reach your objective, do not blame •then. Look inward and see where you have failed! Music and the
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    • 145 2 lop it will depend to a degree, upon your parents. If they do not discover your gift during your childhood, the chances are that your life work mill be in Nome other field and vour artistic ability reserved for a hobby or rotation. Then, later on in life, you might
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    • 298 2 Solution ro Crossword Mo. Z£ sol I IIOV Arr«M. I Bsond T, P f. Don 9 Pf.r. 1 4 Qrtenad :.•> r »p«. l* Ifciwn I. ltlp ap 2 6po:' in*. 11 Paper. 13.1 4 New Crossword No. 24 ill ES \< i;hn> 3. Bread bak >d !>r small lio
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  • 283 3 Russia building many ships AMERICAN naval nt «H 8 HINGTON> T «esday. A building v? abL U t ?>„ RuSslans are seize S anThoW 31 t anV natto n that wan lest it become a<Sn VSiV' 1 mUSt con^ uer Britain «n forces^S t^Se"^^^
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  • 41 3 ROMF Mon. made appearbuby boy was i Rome .Ittns for •rrd round. She i biv*k door 1 when she ie babys rather. R )b^rt Rosseli crash, •i turned four ><>ppt*d «'i 150 ft up her x ratholic.
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  • 45 3 U.P. rOYPT bi relaxing its ct:i £J ■or«hip. the Interior Din Pasha said Censorship will become an exception and not a rule he told a press conference and will apply to news dealIn? with military secrets Communism an d th, Roya
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    35 3 photo. i mm .»f the White Thais, a monntain people ronkia and one of the minority groups m i wh« have been caught up and are suffering ruiinu b-tween the French and Communist Ciierrillas- A.P.
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  • 31 3 GLENN FORD FOR E UROPE en- m the QJxn vVatched the tdaptpd from s Simmon. n will produce th«* a Ui Amster Paris and ibout Aug. ianr^r and Powell, will A.P.
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  • 9 3 ;>any ice to viich war- A.P.
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  • 120 3 Soldier spy (19) sobs in court GARMISCH, (Germany). Monday. W \rmy Corporal. GusUv Mueller, ftfea :i\uted of attempted espionage and liv- years gaol hv a court martial yesadmitted that hs had offered to act as igent for the Russians, and even save ::?nts to two American counterlits, who po^prf n<
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  • 66 3 CEYLON Is consuming more arrack, despite all ttie efforts of prohibitionists to close taverns. It is believed that the demand would exceed 600.000 gallons, which S oye m ce h nl hoped would suffice for thU year. As a result the Govern ment distillery may be
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    129 3 PLEASE comment on Im bidding of his hand, i- Diaains cincinn.v.. TSorm had opened the b,dplaved at three notrump. could have been made^ ••As it happened. West led tm king of diamonds, and Bourn mm laer lost, and +g*£LZ%i We think that the biddum *j ZSFL lT£on™no» g
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  • 109 3 LONDON. Mon pORTY-NINE eggs In the drawer of the incubator lay peacefully on their sides. E«u No 50 *tood up smartly on its small end IncubatorOWner Charles Blyth. of South Street. Whltstable, Kent, shut the drawer, then reopened it. The e-4^ stood on end again,
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  • 18 3 Brit nin went on summer time early until October 22, Clocks were advanced one hour.- A.P.
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  • 32 3 India h:*s deported rvurly 400 foreign nationals during the four years end m? 1949. including 223 Chinese. 80 Tibetans. 16 Arabs. In Iranins. 14 Tribal Pathana and 23 Goans A.P.
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  • 22 3 King Abdullah of Jordan has dissolved the Jordan senate by royal decree. A r.eu Senate is expected to be appointed shortly. A.P.
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    63 3 photo "Census taking is all wet." cried Miss Rose Mallory. Miami Daily News reporter, after she feJl into the Atlantic Ocean while stepping from a boat to a lighthouse off Miami. Miss Mallory was accompanying a U.S. census taker and a photographer to the lighthouse when the wave hit her.
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    30 3 This man of thr 4th Battalion, Malay Regiment. improve*, his marksmanship on the shooting range at Port Dickson. Soon he will join his battalion to hunt bandits m the jungle.
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  • 169 3 HONG KONG, Tuesday. AT least 400,000 Buddhist monks m Communist China have shed their religious garments to become laymen again, according to a Buddhist priest who has arrived m Hong Kong. The information further revealed thai of the 400,000. more than 200,000 youn^ monks
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  • 55 3 Alexandra C. Dimitru, said to be a former Fascist sympathiser, was sentenced to death last week at Constanza, Rumania, for the murder of the President of a local village ctuncil. An official announcement said that his action was caused by his "hate towards the regime— the
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  • 33 3 Tile Italian ilim director, Mr. K«>berto Rosselini, described as "a new one on me'" a report, that n.'s wedding to Ingrid Bergman will take place m London m two weeks.
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  • 30 3 Several hundred banks m Shanghai, most of them small Chinese banks, have closed down due to insolvency since the Reds took over last M*y. A.P.
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  • 196 3 VICTORIA, Canada, Tuesday. /CANADIANS are using a secret poison, which the Germans perfected during the war but feared to launch, to kill insects m their orchards The poison, one of the military secrets which Germany turned over to the United States after the armistice, is
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  • 49 3 TEHERAN, Mon Persian court has •excommunicated" Princess Fatmeh Pahlevi, sister of the Shah, for marrying abroad without her brothers permission. The Princess on Thursday married an American sturient, 25-year-old Vincent Lee Hillyer. In the Municipal offices of the little Roman seaport of Civitaver-chia, Italy.- Reuter
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  • 56 3 JAPS DESERVE PEACE— JESSUP "J.S. ambassador-at-la. Dr. Philip Jessup. -aid recently that the United States felt the Japanese people had progressed to a pom' where they deserved a peace treaty giving them responsibility for managing their own affairs with certain safeguards. He was broadcasting on his recent three-months fact finding
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  • 219 3 SITTNEY, Tuesday. A BIG meeting of representatives of South Pacific 4 islanders will begin at Suva Fiji on April 25. Sixty delegates and advisers will represent 2,500,000 people living on hundreds of islands scattered over the South Pacific This South Pacific conference will be
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  • 28 3 Chinese Nationalist warplanes have attacked Communist forces massing on the Luichow peninsula for the Invasion of Hainan island and reportedly inflicted heavy casualties. A. P.
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  • 146 3 U.K. HAS PASSION PLAY LISS. ENGLAND. Tues THIS pretty Hampshire village li creating a >.ttr with an impressive 'a^ion Play on the artistic lines of Germany's famed Oberam~ mergau performance People have travelled 150 miles from Wales »o see it and London newspapers columns of praise. The 300--seat village hall
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  • 63 3 GUSSIE IS ENGAGED AGAIN pUSSIE M< rt is .1 \J another di'heY. the orous Califoi revealed m Mon She 16 thinking of married to Pat Di I of Hollywood, former husban; of Gloria Vanderbilt Mr Di Cicco coniirmed tha they were thinking married, but said nothinp v a official yet
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  • 43 3 ARGENTINA produce percent of all the rubber products its needs, and nvoy expand production m 1950 A U.S. Commerce Dr ment report says foui factories operated m Argev tina last year and another is scheduled lor completioM early this year A.P.
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    • 109 3 LEADS AGAIN! News Item dated Friday 17th Mar. 1950 NEW YORK, Friday. APPLE-FLAVOURED ice-cream drew a 90 per cent favourable reaction m a consumer test, a local firm reports. The firm sold 700 pints made with a formula developed at the State Agricultural Experiment Station here. A. P. Golden Apple
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 122 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. REX: Beyond The Fore-.'. PAVILION: Son* Of Arizona and West Of Cimarron (double feature'. ODEON: Train Of Events. COLISEUM: Frontier Marshal. MADRAS: Fatimah vMalay). (\THAY: Ponnuruvi (Tamil* HINDUSTAN: Dillagi. CENTRAL: Life (Tamil). VENTS: Siau Chieh Teh Pee Mee (Mandarin). PENANG ODEON: The Rats Of Tobruk. REX:
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    • 340 3 CTUraPHPF (BBC; 4.55 "Composer of the o SINCaAhUKt Week'-Saint-Saens; 5.15 Colo- C A ee Hour Favourites; 11. Star (BLUE NETWORK) nial Commentary" (BBC); 530 Jj**! y^e^BuUeUn- 400 484 and 41.7 metres. Years After"-8 "The Mulic For Teatime 4 30News toe«n C n.w.JfnM- X.L Sto'y; 6.0 Indone g FjJ 10 News
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  • 477 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Apr, 18, 1950. HELP FROM WITHIN MENLRAL 3ir Harold Brigs* Malaya Direct Operations Supremo, c .i \or —call him w: now on pub vaiisned that I •a ers are sufficient for b Trus does not mean we i ill back and wait foi problem la
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  • 1116 4  - Soviet Rule Is Hell On Earth MAJOR V. V. MIKHAILOV (SAYS A REFUGEE FROM RUSSIA) k\/ Before he escaped to Western Germany from the Russian Zone, MAJOR MIKHAIL O V was a leading official of the Soviet Economic Administration Department for Foreign Trade m Karlshorst, the Russian headquarters m Eastern
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  • 661 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR I HAVE not yet read Science is a Sacred Uore but I gather from t no article m Thursdays »cc Press that it is a rather unhappy book, and I am surprised to hid so much space given to its criticism m
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    15 4 i suppose ong is bound to feel the i.-eight oj passing ycarg sooner or later.
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  • 745 4 DON IDDON'S DIARY NEW YORK: AM I a menace to Anglo-America n relations? Mr Herb Caen, the Ban Francisco columnist, describes me as "anti-American." Mr. Chully Knickerbocker, society editor of the New York Journal American, calls on me to sajf a kind word for the United States for a change.
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    140 4  -  HAROLD HEFFERNAN By NO metropolitan centre trc m the world pernaps has ever been bogged down by such consistent unsavory publicity as Los Angeles— •Mid" now, to cap the climax, come frightenin? statements from doctors gathered for the annual convention of the American Academy of Allergists. mulisLs I
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 67 4 COLD STORAGE BREAD IS NOW ONLY 20 cts a Ib SELF-RAISING FLOUR -75 cts 2 Ib bag BREAD BUNS -4 eH each COLD STORAGE BAKERY SINGAPORE ONLY DAY 4FTEHNOOB! DRESSES Latent M#4eli 82-1. Bras Basah Road Near Raffi*- Hotel^ DO YOU KNOW THAI WE CAN, WITHOUT ANY EXTRA COST TO
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  • 290 5 Thaipusam day reforms their temple m order before turning their Si£Vp I £S i^ ther H^du temples' \dl Uorv Jah VI^ rt sident Of Hi dv AdNLsorv Board, yesterday commenting on the proposal of trustees of the Chettiars Tempk to refo I m Thaipusam
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    33 5 picture. /GRIPER, the Singapore Harbour Board rescue and salvage VJ tug. returning from Pulau Samboe yesterday after righting the fire on the Dutch island with foamite and the latest fire-fighting equipment.- Free Press
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  • 108 5 I rre Press Staff Reporter id m Malaya fto raise £4*o to assist i s mer. who risked torture and death .!sh prisoners of war held by the > »m. has now ieached SI 321 •v.a y •*or md iave ■Ih >cted Federa- > of
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  • 48 5 HE MOVED BIOS DURING 'MONTH' JOHORE BAHKU. Mon During Anti-Bandit month P. C Joseet. chief derk of Hock Lim Estates. Masai. moved by lorry 8 baes of rice from Johore Bahru to Masai, without a permit. For doing so he was today fined $15 m the Police Court.
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  • 40 5 Surface mail b expected m Singapore today from Java. Hong Kong, China, Japan. Sibu Siam knd the Federation. Latest times for pasting surface mail today at the G.P.O. are: noon for Djambl: 5.45 p.m. for Slam and tiie Federation.
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  • 204 5 Pilgrims must not pawn F. P. Malay Correspondent MUSLIMS who are unable to fulfil certain conditions to be laid down by the Kedah Government m respect of pilgrims to Mecca, will be refused permission to go on the annual pilgrimage to the Holy City, the Utusan Malayu reports. This move,
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  • 86 5 The chamber music rtcitoi wni:-h was to have been given at the British Council this evening has been indefinitely postponed because Mr. Derek Allan, cello member of the quartet has been delayed m Hong Kong on business. Mr. Allen is the representativt of the Ministry of Transport
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    34 5 PUPILS of the Aitfflo-Mala y Evening School. Singapore, held a concert at the New World last Saturday. The school has about 1.200 pupils and over 30 volunteer teachers. Picture shows the concert m progress.
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  • 240 5 'End self -torture' call to Hindus Free Press Staff Reporter 'PHE time has come when Singapore Hindus must seriously think about the abolition of sacrifices and of inflicting pain 'n kavadi-carrying on Thaipusam day, said Mr. A. P. Rajah, vice-president of the Hindu Advisory Board, yesterday. Mr. Rajah said that
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  • 411 5 Free Press Staff Reporter \ik. fl. A. Mallal (Municipality South- West) pro- poses to ask the Singapore Government to take steps to safeguard the meat supply of this country m the event of any possible interference with this supply "by reason of political disturbances or other
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  • 127 5 Free Fress Staff Reporter Jl POLICE constable at the junction of Buona Vista Road and Pasir Panjang Road would cut down accidenus and help to control the flow ol traffic at "this dangerous junction," said Mr. H. J. C. Kuiasingha, chairman of Uie Pasir Panjang Rural
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  • 117 5 Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE'S 8.000 trisha owners are petitioning the Municipal Commissioners for additional riders' arm badges to enable two riders to operate each vehicle. The petition, drafted by the Singapore Trisha Owners' Association, pointed out that there were at present only 10.000 arm badges
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  • 62 5 MUAR, Mon— Hassan bin Mohd Jin was charged at Muar with attempting to commit suicide by stabbing himself with a tapping knife and with resistance and jttemptin^^o escape fro mpol'ce custody at the Government Hospital. He was bound over m $50 for two months on the
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  • 156 5 ST. Andrew's Cathedral is on the threshold of "a great move forward" as the parish church of Singapore, the acting Vicar of the Cathedral the Rev. Kinross Nicholson, said yesterday. He was addressing the annual parochial mtvMngof the Cathedral, held at V.M.C.A. To be effective
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  • 385 5 Free Press StaiT Reporter VI ALAYAN canned pineapples have been sold to the United Kingdom one JGM? ahead ending March next, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, chairman of the Ontral Board of Pineapple Packers. Malaya, tol<j the Free Press yesterday. He said that
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  • 55 5 MADE SA MSU AS MEDICINE TAIPING. Mon. Customs officers surprised Ng Ah Lai at Ayer Kuiimg while he was distilling sam.su without licence He had about or** gallon. Ng said he had a big family and he manulacrured samsu for medicine. The Taiping Magistrate Inche Abdul Azir. fined Nit SlOO
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  • 490 6 TROOPS: PRIORITY FOR MALAYA CAMPAIGN Free hand for Gen. Briggs Free Press Staff K^nnrter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ANTI-BANDIT operatiM* m the federation are being: given priority by the War Office over other military requirements, the Director of Operations, Lieut.-Gencral Sir Harold Briggs, told newspaper correspondents today. He also announced that
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    28 6 (^ROI'P photograph taken I at JJohore Bahru on the occasion of the first annual assembly of Johorr Malay officers. Datin Onn is srated m front m the centre.
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  • 99 6 pONTiNTiNCi their unrelen- ting attacks the M tlayan bandi's formations •of Lincoln*, Brigands. Temits and Spitfires, flew total of 97 sorties during the lays During this period, •ircnft >f the RAF haw .rtacked D ngtn banditi jm hiduu?. kno*n to bt» dispersed m the jungle
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  • 54 6 ixx) Koh Leong. a Subr [nspector In the ImmiBrmtion Department, pleaded guilty m the Singapore Fourth Police Court to charge of criminal breach of 'rust of 63 landing permits between March and December of last year. Bail of $500 was allow. -d until Apr 24. when
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  • 144 6 618 ROAD ACCIDENTS IN MARCH STREET accidents caused by; motorist*' carelessness and errors of judgment and pedestrians negligently cross- j Ing the road, continue to be major problems of the Singapore police. During March thert* were 618 accidents, and seven people were killed— two pedestrians, and two falling from an
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  • 72 6 TRAINING AS NURSES HPEN nine <>i tl 1 Chinese and the 1 I Indian. :rv being traiivri ;n' the St. Andrew'j Mission Hospital under the 81ngap ire Q rernment's endorsed nurses training plan. After two years* training In the Mission Hospital they will have to sit for a Oovernn examination.
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  • 169 6 COMMISSION ON HAWKERS APPOINTED Free Press Staff Reporter Dr. T. H. Silcock. Professor «»I Economics m th^ University ol Malaya, has been 'appointed by the Governor or Singapore to head the Haw-k'-rs Inquiry Commission The Commission will Inquire Into "all aspects of hawking uith particular emphai the social, *v mlc
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  • 25 6 A special programme is planned by the Singapore Y.W.C.A on Wednesday. April 26. to celebrate the Y.W.c A v.~>rld-wl<l<' membership ob--1 servance day.
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  • 409 6 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Tuesday. |)K\/ll.l\\ bond prices rocketed on the London "stock exchange yesterday on news that the Brazilian Government intends to redeem certain issues. Five per ccni Funding 1914 gained 24 point 100 which is the redemption price. Others being redtemed pained nt po:
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  • 111 6 BRITAIN cond round ui ilie M na; Ci K i (i I A J. M B Ci. I I MM Oih« we. i I A I und m vert 1m ■>' G. Alstai fi-2. 6-4 6-1; A. Huber b' E. Donnell .U.S.! 6-4 8-t>. B. StomquUt
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  • 63 6 BILLY Talbert and 1 of the United Statr> won the doubles title at the M e international tennis Tournament, defeating Adrian Qulst of Australia and Jaroslav Drobm of Egypt 6-2. 2-6. 6-3. 6-2 Qulst and Drobnv entered the final in a semi-final match earlier in the day
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  • 43 6 SINGAPORE R*»creatlon Cluo defeated a Combined Schools team by four goals to two a. ao.i»*r on the Padang yesterday Prout, Mosbergen A ftozano and D. Rozario scored for the Recs while Andrew Lim and Kok Ppow scored for the Schools.
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    • 109 6 Ifl3ndrdk6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya \c^iw\^A^~ Ml^ WKP* 1^ "^B |niVA.I.T-ANOWE'LLBEj I MOW'S THE l n OKAY, ht NEEDS REST.I jHiS HERE H^ A n'AHIN'FOa THiSj SHERIFrOOIN! CACTUS, RIDE THIS LETTER-- f>~^<^X x\l AMAZIN'fELLER/ MSS JANET fII LETTER IN TO .TOWN. V >> U _Z---\^ JANE
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  • 43 7  -  CRUSADER IU Igyi r :i tve picked 13 players for their cci match against Singapore at lium on Saturday. From these the i shortly before the game. Grant back. Cpl. AC ::erd Lee AC Duck- le-left: Seoag.
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  • 67 7 'THE English League aooeer team 1 to play w .e Irish League at Be-i&st oc April 26 will be Merriclc B.r:v.:ngham> Sam Muburn Chesterfield. Withers "Tottenham Hotspur Harvey I Ifc castle United Whitaker I Middlesbrou<h». Mudson 'Derby Cour.tr> Harris (Po.-^mou:h > Steeke Derby County). J. Milbum
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  • 80 7 Junior champion beats Cup star JOHN HORN. 17-fear-oli British junior tennis *hampion. put up the best show of his farmer m eliminiting Egyptian DaTis Cup player. Stev Nimr. In the men's singles of the Cumberland Club London) lawn tennis tourney yesterday Horn, one of the 16 specially selected players to
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  • 213 7 PIE American-bred colt, Prince Simon, impressive winner of his one and onl.v race at Newmarket last week, became clear 7—l fa\ourite for the Derby at the Victoria Clvb (Londan) callover last night. He displaced the Yorkshire- however> re trained Masked Lisht and m^^ laV ounte for
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  • 542 7  - PRINCESS BEAU DOES BEST TRYOUT ALLAN LEWIS This morning's K.L. gallops By |{*ia yesterday afternoon an<? early this morninr on^J th S N 2 ffrass track 4 dcad when it was ?Turnt.t Or faS L W this mor "m«. ™ncess Beau furtnnl? I worker whe she ran three PrinrJE iT
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    23 7 p itture. I Rovers' centre-forward, takes a shot s Ibe > < coiUwper. hratrn in yestrr- ucfr matrh on the Padan?. Rnvpr* nil Free Press
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  • 134 7 EMBERS of the Sussex County Cricket Club at a specially convened meeting last night decided that veteran circketer James Langridge should be temporary captain of the County XI until the "caretaker" committee meets again m a month's time. This was the sequel to
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  • 74 7 YESTERDAY'S U.K. League results were: Knilbh League Div. 2 Cardiff C. 1 Southampton 1 Scottish League -Div. "A" I Dundee 0 Rarigers l Heart? 3 Patrick ThL«=tle 3 Motherwcll 3 Ea^t Fife 4 Queen of the 6. 1 St Mlrren 1 Sr»itish othfr matches: Aber- J D
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  • 70 7 IN a Business Houses knockout competition soccer match I re-play at Geylang suadium yesterday. Maiayan Airways defeated eht Chartered Bank S.C. by thiee goals to two. LaM week, the Bank held the Airways to a draw. Russel and Morely and NorrU red for tne winners. Hen* See
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  • 405 7 /ORIENT triple champion, Boy Brooks, who was to have been introduced to Empire middleweight champion, Dave Sands at the Happy World arena yesterday, skinned the issue. Brooks, who started his training at 2.30 p.m. finished his workout around 3.30 p.m. and told promoter Razak
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  • 191 7 i^BDEL BARI, the sturdy professional champion of India, was beaten m the I final of the open squash rac- kets championships of the i British Isles at the LansI downe Club, London, last .night. He lost to Mahmoiul El Karim. the tall Egyptian, who left few doubts that
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  • 134 7 rTR lradin«r Sydn*r Jockeys issued >»preme Court writ* yesterday m undisclosed artion against tbe pubJisheiN of tlir Sydney Daily Telegraph, the Consolidated Prese Ltd. CeOTge Morrp. William Cook. N>iille SHlwood and Arthur Ward are each claiming 10,000 damage. They all ,-oda In the Al!-Ajred Stakes »t IJandwlrk
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  • 52 7 ASTRAKHAN IN ACTION picture. A fine action picture of Astrakhan. Princess Elizabeth's wedding gift from the Aga Khan. Astrakhan won her first race on Saturday, when she was successful in the Merry Maidens Stakes over one mile »t Hurst. This three-year-old filly is by Turkhan out of the Hyperion mare
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  • 378 7 T»HOUGH a keenly contested affair, the S.A.F.A. Senior League fixture played between Singapore Cricket Club and Rovers Sports Club on the Pariang yesterday was one of missed chances for which both sides were equally to blame. Rovers won three- nil. A steady
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  • 72 7 'pHE president of the Singapore Amateur Football Association. Mr. W. McGregor Watt, announced yesterday that the Government s entertainment duty on football will be reduced by 50 per cent retrospective from January this year Mr. Wat: said that the decision by the Government wa«
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  • 87 7 INDONESIAN Xl 's£ll showed greenness when they lost four-nil to RE ME. m then S.A.F-A. Senior League engagement at Jaian Besmr Stadium last evening. R.E.M.E. did a^ ihey pleased and with better finishing would have piled up a t\*< figure score. Mawso:,. REM.E.s outsid* left, fumbled many opening
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  • 40 7 YESTERDAY S Rugby DMt suits were Ebbw Vale 14. Exeter N»> tance and Newlyn 5, Cardul o Coven '.ry 6, Rugby J. Rugby League result* were. Leeds t. Huddersfield 22; H^. Kingston Rovers 8. Bradford hithem 5- A.P.
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    • 94 7 rE EXAHiNATiCHS tUS-lORY d by WM CHOWC CO., &fkWq HBMjTION ON A WORLD WIDE SCALE BRITISH H^ J Ml-IKE WIDDI.E <* WT (lI\MIMON. WORLD RWKINO Hi.nnu i Fri.llst April 1950 m H M WtBMMKM W .4 B Minnie. iRi SER «^^s fl^^ U r HXMI'IOV «^B lI\PPV WOULD 9 P
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    • 14 7 KUAlfiUMPgR lljl/l lh''lIJ(flW \VJ fllTSl feb,, MALACCA i! *wij|^^. .>...., <*;::■; Vv > x r^ ,-fevg I
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  • 30 8 DE SOUZA: To Enid, wife of De Souxa. on 17th, April. A .>on. (HILD: At the 8.M.H.. Alexandra, on 13th April, to Biddie ani Denis, a brother for Clare.
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  • 34 8 MISS CHUA HWEI CHUAN, daughter of Mr. Mrs Leng Bee. of Singapore. Is Mr. Choong Kui Sen. rnh s n of Mr. ft Mrs. Choong v I.in. of Singapore, on the April. 1950.
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  • 193 8 Farouk 'sbride, say papers DAMASCUS, Tuesday. 'THE Cairo newspaper, Al Misri, copies of which reached Syria yesterday, carried a prominent front page portrait of Narriman Sadek, whose name has been linked romantically with King Farouk of Egypt. The publication of the picture m the leading newspaper
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    32 8 STEPPINC. OUT PROUDLY is the pony driven by Mr and Mrs. Bert Matthews, Pearly King and Queen of tlampstead (North London) m the annual Van Horse Parade m Regents Park— Reuter photo.
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  • 129 8 BRUNSWICK _Y PENNILESS German duke. K eery b.. He is Duke En of k», >n of the HanoveKl m-law of German] Kaiser and father of Queen Friederika of Gre On Thursday, rellci of his family s splendour will so uncier the hammer. More than 400
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  • 50 8 RED DEAN: 'WAIT SEE' Tne Lord Mayor of Melbourne will not commit himself on his official altitude toward the coming visit of the Dean of Canterbury, the Right Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson. "I wll deal with the mattei when it arises," said the Lord Mayor. Mr. D. R. Disney.— A.P.
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  • 38 8 Belgian police used batons yesterday to disperse 50 Communist students shouting "Not a penny for war" outside the Palais Des Academies m Brussels, where ministers of the five Brussels Treaty powers were discussing defence finance.- Reuter
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  • 86 8 LONDON. Tuev WHOLESALE Qsh merchants !u-.tv: relay In a bin price gamble which forced the pne h sky high few (lavs after the G<>vi lifted all trad controls m the indu W b the r*mora] ol prtc« lU, rost of cod .vi ted «h>!l BiHi'K
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  • 160 8 'SE Asia lacks fish experts SYDNEY, Tuesday DR. O. D. F. Hardenberg, of Indonesia, chairman of the Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council, yesterday deplored the absence of fishing specialists m Southeast Asia and the Pacific when he opened the second annual conference »f the Council here. •The major difficult personnel imp upon
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  • 55 8 New York likes U .K. cars how JMIK British Car and Motor fde Show m New York j inued to be a huge buc bird (iiy yesterday. An Average of 15,000 rlsltora tasting through the Grand tral Palace daily and sales are mounting to a level whrh leading exhibitors said
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  • 173 8 Kidnap leader vanishes VIENNA, Tues. vt /VX Bair, alleged for- mci ringleader of a Soviet-directed kidnapping ring m the American Occupation zone, has jumped bail and fled the city of Salzburg, it was reliably reported last night. Bair has been free on bail on 75,000 schillings since April 7. When
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  • 58 8 WASH. -rm. us BUte 1 denit'i charges that 27 tiich returned have been nan Japanese navy The Borlet as-sert;u:i m ?.>.• M i >vda and r d on a LMVI y dispatch from Sh.. Department spokes- «;ald ':om ible to check Tokyo u!d have
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  • 26 8 13 DIE WHEN HOUSE FALLS 'THIRTEEN people were killed and 30 others injured when a four-storey building collapsed Tel Aviv. Twenty-five persons are still missing.- A.P.
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  • 24 8 Tho Pakistan Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, will leavp for London on his way to Washington on April 29 Reuter
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  • 76 8 DINERS at a Wellington (N.S.) restaurant saw a pretty girl eat her meal, rail for a cup of water and then vigorously brush her teeth. The girl was one of 170 dental trainees who are carrying out an experiment. Half of the 170 will brush •their
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  • 191 8 SOFIA, Tuesday. I>l LGARIA has accused Yugoslavia of conducting *^"big new crimes, conspiracies and acts of gross interference" m Bulgarian internal affairs. It declared m a note that these alleged activities were aimed at the forcible overthrow of Bulgaria's Communist-led regime and the assassination of
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  • 45 8 \N Altrlnn reporter* long-dMam c tall f«>r information on the flood conditions m S r.inton North Dakota, w.is interrupted by M open tor who .s;iid: "You Hill hive to leave the line soon, please. The creek has just started flowing through the room."
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  • 20 8 The morals and good taste of Hollywood films fell off In 1949. according to American censors.- Reuter
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  • 29 8 The Tndi^n President Mr. Rajendra Prasad. Is lending a pair of gold brorad* 1 bed- j spreads as a pnsent to the Kln K of Slam.- A.P.
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  • 35 8 Sixty-seven i >mmunists have been shot dead since the beginning ol the year by Madras Stat< Police In about a dozen clashet, most of them m Hyderabad and adjoining districts- A. P.
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  • 176 8 Smuts on 'politics in the Army' CAPE TOWN, Tuesday. FMELD Marshal Smuts, until a few months ago 1 Commander-in-Chief of the South African Defence Force, issued a statement yesterday saying that he had received information that the Minister of Defence, F. Erasmus, was Introducing politics into the Army. Commenting o
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