The Singapore Free Press, 6 June 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE JN MALAYA cvbcvb SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    MacA. OUTLAWS TOP JAP REDS
    356 1 Party calls for general strike TOKJO, Tuesday. DISREGARDING the Japanese Communist Party's call for a general strike "to fight to the last ditch" the Government's plan to ban the party, Gen. Mac Arthur last night outlawed all 24 members of the Red Central Committee and
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    24 1 ILa President o pore Teachers I\s'N i m "iNoria Ibc t iirnhil -rdav I the (.overI inklhi GteMH I Mr. J. D i.- picture
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    U.S. ANXIETY OVER RUBBER SITUATION
    35 1 U.S. ANXIETY OVER RUBBER SITUATION "hat the reduced output :iger >fl that 3 add-d "But .;mption tnan it v md naar tl peacev^ici on > be '■> inre to >:■. y. „'rneral :-.ow r for dtett ;>. ints :nto
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    CHINA & U.S.I.
    6 1 CHINA U.S.I. t yesInformed I re-
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    Students given wrong papers
    236 1  - Students given wrong papers TAN TOCK SAIK By I \\DKR(iR\DI ATES sitting for the first B.A. Final Examinations to be field m the Faculty of Arts. University of Malaya, were "shocked" when they twice received examination papers on the wrong subjects. A few girls cried. Many told the Free Press
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    THE BIG FIGHT
    44 1 IN London tonight. Bruii* Woodcock of Britain will fight Lee Savold of America m what is now recognised as a world's heavyweight championship bout. The result, and a round-by-round blow-by-blow report, will appear m tomorrows FRKK PRKSS. Order your copy now.
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    'WE STAY IN MALAYA' PAMPHLETS
    130 1 'WE STAY IN MALAYA' PAMPHLETS THE Singapore Puoiic Relations Office has printed 10.000 pamphlets on "we stay m Malaya" statements by the British Primp Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, m the House of Commons. The pamphlet entitled "No Premature Withdrawal From Malaya" covers two statements on Malaya, one as far back
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    43 1 picture. Members of the Royal Pakistan Air Force, who arrived m Singapore by Q.E.A.-8.0.A.C. Constellation from Karachi yesterday Headed by Cpl. Md. Ahkram. (third from left m front row), they are flying to Australia to study Wireless Fitting, a one-year course Free Press
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    ...SO OUT WALKED VLADMIR
    137 1 GENEVA, Tuesday. THE dispute over the Chinese representation m the I'nited Nations led to yet another Russian walk-out In Geneva yesterday. The Soviet delegate, Mr. Vladmir M. Koretsky, walked out of the opening meeting of the United Nations Internal Law Commission after the Commission refused to
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    Operation on Begum
    73 1 BOSTON. Tues. AN operation was successfully performed here yesterday on Begum I iaquai Ali Khan, wife of the Pakistan Prime Minister. The operation was for the removal of her appendix atid a stone m the Kail bladder, and was performed by Dr. Frank Lahey at the New
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    Minister shot
    28 1 nnHE Vietnamese Education Minister, Vuon Gwang Nhwong, who was shot by terrorists m Saigon yesterday, is m a "serious but not hopeless" condition, Agencc Prcsse reported
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    SMUTS 'QUIET'
    23 1 Qenerm] Smuts' recov was bein<4 steadily maintained but he was being kept quiet to aid his recovery, his »rs announced yesterday.
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    Trade delegation
    17 1 A from the Hon^ g or era! Chamber rte arrived m Hankow i tl. .ud.—
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    RED JAILED
    47 1 Makan Singh, Communist general secretary of the East Africa Trade Union Congress, whose arrest recently was a Signal for an attempt by Nairobi Africans to stage a general strike, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for swearing a false affidavit twc years ago. A.P.
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    'REARM WORLD' URGES ACHESON
    245 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. "THE U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson, and the Defence Secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, asked Congress yesterday for $1,222,500,000 to help to rearm the free world against Russia. Mr. Johnson said Western Europe must be defended m the 'dread event of war" by
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    Germans not to make rubber
    68 1 BONN. Tues. FE Allied High Commission yesterday re-affirmed that syntheic rubber and heavy water (for atomic energy i should not be produced m western Germany. The Three-Power Allied Authority issued the new regulation listing all banned chemical materials. The ban appiied to the production of
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    DEFENCE TALKS
    31 1 Field-Marshal Sir William Slim. Chief of the British General Staff, started his talks yesterday with Egyptian officials on the defence of the strategic Seuz Canal area and neighbouring zone?
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    FAKE DOLLARS
    25 1 The Ethiopian police yesterday claimed to have smashed a ring believed to have distributed about 2,000 000 counterfeit U.S. dollars In Ethiopia.- A.P.
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    UK to seek aid for C'wealth
    230 1 UK to seek aid for C 'wealth SYDNEY, Tuesday. "THE recent British Commonwealth conference agreed to recommend that the seven t>overnm:nts involved let Britain decide when and how the Commonwealth should formally seik United States barking, it was stated here yesterday. It was also icurned that the conference agreed to
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    STRACHEY OFF TO H.K.
    48 1 Mr. John Strachey, the Wai Minister, left Singapore this 1 morning m a special K.A.F. i plane. He was accompanied by Gen. Sir John Harding. Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, MajorGeneral Redman, Director of Military Opera -ions, War Office, and his private secreI tanr.
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    OIL TANKER AGROUND
    84 1 Fttt Press Shipping Reporter 'FUGS .sent lrom the Asia--1 tic Petroleum refinery at Pladjoe, Sumatra, were attempting last night to free the 6,256-ton oil tanker Ovula, which is aground on a sandbank up the Palembang River. The Ovula, registered at Iht Hague and flying the Dutch Bag,
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    GIRLS' SCHOOL MEETING
    40 1 Free Press Shipping: Reporter THE management committee of the Nanyang Girls High School, Singapore, will meet tomorrow to discuss anofficial notice calling on the supervisor to show cause why the school should not be de clared unlawful.
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    Successor to Thivy?
    54 1 NEW DELHI, Tues. pOVINDA MENON, Education Minister of the TravancoreCochin princely union, will succeed Mr. John A. Thivy as India's Representative to Malaya, when the latter goes on transfer to Mauritius as India's Commissioner, it was stated m New Delhi yesterday. Official sources wouid neither confirm nor
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    HARD WORDS TO MONTY FROM NEPHEW
    108 1 HARD WORDS TO MONTY FROM NEPHEW GREAT YARMOUTH. Tues. FIELD-MARSHAL Viscount Montgomery was told what to do with the Army yesterday by a lowly British lieutenant. Lieutenant Garry Gardner Montgomery, his nephew, dropped his military career for an actors job after 18 months' army service. and I hated every minute
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    Gentlemen soldiers
    106 1 LONDON, Tues. fENERAL K. M. CARIAPPA, C.-in-C. of the Indian Army, said m London yesterday that whatever shape any future war might take, it would always be the ordinary infantryman the man with the rifle and bayonet who would decide the day. Describing the Indian army as "one
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    STOP PRESS
    85 1 luo Barapeaai a (#u: soldier, a<lin >r ?.»d t Walabar M| uti Hounded »n < mi: ?it> on the Kuala Lj..v>u: Singapore .w.ht mail i between Lahi, .xnt! k« Johore at tiMut '«vr tr>.^ morning. The ObUii auv K> Ammah. the Malabar Human, were seriou>ly wounded and taken
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    A Friend Of The Strays
    545 2 A Friend Of The Strays SINGAPORE WOMEN— 4 RUTH LANGDON talks to Mrs. R.S. CLEMOXS who works to relieve the suffering of animals m Singapore* IHINK my tamily, 1 has always had a k!ik on animals", saysi blue -eyed, attractive R. S. Clemons. SinS.P.C.A. worker, cat breeder and pasate lover
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    New Bloomers For Gussy
    419 2 PARIS: Gussy f Moran has ordered In Paris a pair of pU\:Ud chiffon "bloom-er-effect" panties (price: £80 sterling) to wear when she plays at Wimbledon this month. They will be a little shorter than the usual panties, and Gussy will wear them under a pleated chiffon
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    A Good Neighbour Survey
    342 2 A Good Neighbour Survey NEW YORK: A HARVARD professor has figured out that middle-aged women from country districts are likeliest to do you a good turn. Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin m a book, "Altruistic Love 1 published here tells of a survey he made of 612 "good neighbours." He defines
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    THREAT TO US.
    251 3 U.S. navy chief gives views TOKIO, Tuesday JNITED States Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, told a press conference that if Russia held Formosa she could build it up into a st-nous threat to American bases m this part of the world. He said if the
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    MORE SNAKES JOIN FAKIR IN COFFIN
    40 3 FRANUS, Mon. g the Intntered a M v 4 to I for 45 the »i pyw pythons. \n)uld not >ide th*' were roftm at One hunwnh i ikei iced txy A .IS I > Qu
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    H.K. clamps on £ deposits
    81 3 H.K. clamps on deposits HONG KONG. Mon I HE Hong Kong Gwvrrnment tve limited local residents 1 withdrawals from stern England to t5O p-r person per week up to a maximum of £150 p*>r family during visits to the i Kingdom. rmaem announcement ilations are introduced to "tighten" the present
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    34 3 l»; II S Ililin Ckiel of p 'iit.in Polirr i. ;i I ihor.lin I»r G. K. -t ti> ielerwtec I c h.iN hern i petroj" v Metropolitan *i< I thorat«>ry n >< .»tl.irid H»!id'»ii Police
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    Stability on Formosa
    50 3 Stability on Formosa HONG KONG. Mon. QIIISESE reports B( the lonalist .van of policy, a:. ng i-ui-i n the island A rerj stable ra irket obs on the Is] I -.id tin'aiicia] measures and keeping low me note issue, which i.> maintamed below i despite dem for an increase.- U.P.
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    Bridge Hands
    245 3 >-,nh 3oaU Til 4A 5 4 illll 4 10 7 3 2 .05 5 4 4KQIDIT rii |KQ|| VKQJItI $A| The M44l as Soucb West 2<? Pas. N T P&m NT Pa*. All Pam of i Month" 1 thr I '.lie CQUaon nth thi ■lamonds and one kin?.
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    Thanked for S.-E Asia survey work
    164 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday 'pilK is. Secretary of state. Mr. Dean Aeheson, has ijiven his congratulations and thanks to iMr. Allen Griffin, California publisher, for "the careful and thorough job you did" m surveying the economic nreds of South-East Asia. Mr. Griffin, publisher ot the Moat
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    Party re-named
    28 3 The I* ami fti Party, winch has I ►rein il: State ore, has announced It will be known the Marxi>-I Party accepting guidance from the A.P.
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    JAPSEAT MORE AND BETTER
    9 3 are the ed urbunites ea
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    'MASK RIPPED FROM FACE OF SOVIET'
    150 3 BELGRADE, Mon. THE prosecutor m the treason and desertion trial of two high-ranking Yugoslav army officers has demanded "heavy" sentences for ths accused after delivering of the sharpest public attacks against Russia beard m Yugoslavia. L f -Colonel Irija rCo.s t o!.t a three-officer
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    40 3 The British ship Ethel Moller escorted into Hong Kong after being; recovered from Nationalist hands by the British Navy. On board the Ethel Moller were 150 Chinese soldiers, including two generals, a number of wounded and some women and children.
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    Monty tours D-day areas
    58 3 CAEN. Mull. piKLD MARSHAL Vi »unt Montgomery cheered by thousands went on foot, through the bomb-shattered streets of Caen yesterday Ukcoramemorate tiie sixth anniversary of the D-ciay landings. Hundred! broke through th« police cordon-, and jewral times Monty stopped to shake hands ha) Montgoa nr, now
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    'NOW IT'S UP TO THE REDS'
    93 3 'NOW IT'S UP TO THE REDS' "THE weekly Fur Eastern Economic Review of Hong Kong says it is now up to the Chinese Communist* to c'u Itcrmiiip the future <>f trade relations with Hong Kong. The trade magazine said the departure within Ihe past week of two ships for Shan-
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    DIRTY LINEN IN FLAGSHIP
    196 3 NEW DELHI, Monday. rpHE crew of India's flagship, the Delhi, who sailed x on Saturday for Indonesia with the Indian Premier, Pandit Nehru, aboard, left with all their uniforms and clothes soiled. This was mentioned m a Sunday news article which said that the soiled linen
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    CHINA REDS DETAIN U.S. SKIPPER
    105 3 CHINA REDS DETAIN U.S. SKIPPER SAN FRANCISCO. Mon. THE freighter, California Bear, has arrived here from China, without her master. Captain William Murray, who is held m Taku Bar by the Chinese Communists. The Pacific Far East Lines. Ltd.. owners of the vessel, said 48-year-old Murray was required to remain
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    Wave of good feeling sweeps over Britain
    331 3 Wave of good feeling sweeps over Britain LONDON. Tuesday. A MEASURE of prosperity has come to Britain's people this spring. Th c hated word "austerity" is hardly ever seen m print ftaj more, even m the Tory papers which live to beat th P Government over the head with the
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    Nehru tells of Cabinet dispute
    168 3 Nehru tells of Cabinet dispute TRIVANDRUM. Mon. pANDIT NEHRU said her* that differences between him and Dr. John Matthal, former Indian Finance Minister arose on the question of the appointment and purposes of a national planning commission." Speaking at a mam: public meeting here— about 150 miles from Dr llfctth
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    IS SECURITY TALKS
    24 3 Top U.S. Atomic Energy Commission officials have been called to a three-day conference m New York lo discusi security problems. i
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      262 3 m 111 .l iiiiiiytiliiiiaiiaiiiiiiiii >ti iiiini^Jl'ii' 11 1 f 'MiWl'Hil I HlMtFtt>M t lliiili] iannn^B^^^BBHSBMSHH^BW^JMBMRB^BRHHR SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore] > 1 445 pm Programme summary; I^4 md 11 7 m°* 4. 47 Trom the London Editorials" »k* ana •■•< m iBBCl; 455 -composer of the aiergencv news fro-" I Week"'— Richard
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 6. 1950 'Ignorant' Singapore
    490 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, June 6. 1950 'Ignorant' Singapore rrHE Sunday Pictorial, a I journal which hardly caters for the British intelligentsia, has fol—lowed up its inaccurate (to put it mildly) version of an interview v.:th Miss Josephine 1 088, with an equally ant effort about ;n wicked SingaOC-
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    1212 4 Don Iddo n's Diary NEW YORK: WHAT is the South American Sentine! waiting for? If British footballers can command fortunes south of the border, British sportswriters should be able to reap riches I await an offer. My fee If £1 sterling per word, two limousines, a yacht. and half of
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    41 4 Thii is the Western Union Cultural Identity card which gives certain fadhtie? to nationals of each of the five Brussels treaty countries The cards can be issued to teachers research workers, artists and scientists and to University students on research work.
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    What Makes a Boy Become Bad
    991 4 What Makes a Boy Become Bad Montague Smith report m on the results of a four-year inquiry into juvenile delinquency VTHAT is It that makes a bad boy bad. The influence of the cinema? An inherited "black streak?" To these last two questions Mr. D. H. Stott, the psychologist, has
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    'Newfies' like to be Canadians
    86 4  - 'Newfies' like to be Canadians PATRICK NICHOLSON B> THE Q 1 berjac. ol N T ew: brating birthti.: tt ib |ust since Br. o t col"n> Ind^oendei part n t Canada In th hardy hit by an which h t? the j dianism i that p. advavanta_ tion. "T 1
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      68 4 ALL UNDER ONE ROOF m the new COLD STORAGE ARCADE It's so easy to shop when you CM one place' No fatigue, no Ira even the Tea Lounge is on the Here are our shoplets and i Claires Dresses; Salon M Dispensary; American Express. r Tooke's Bookshop and Liband Free
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    'COMPLACENT' SINGAPORE HITS BACK
    330 5 'COMPLACENT' SINGAPORE HITS BACK London report denounced Free Press Staff Reporter JHE president of the Singapore Association. Dr. C. H. Withers-Payne, this morning denounced as "utterly untrue" a London report that "the British citizens of Singapore do not seem to give a damn about the fight which our young troops
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    Helicopter to land on Padang
    363 5 KIN CS BIRTHDAY PARADE Press Man tteponer i* \I\KSH M F. J. W. Mellersh. Ai r Officer Com- Malaya, will arrhe at the King's Birthi irsfla\ morning: m one of the two i( optetl (if one h available) that have thi> count ry to rescue
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    New teachers in Johore
    103 5 Kr-<- Twtm Shipping Reporter FN probationer teachers of English -A'ho recently passed their final examinations have been posted to Malay schools m Johort wt they will teach English to puu.ls m Standard Three. This is the first posting of teachers under the new scheme to teach
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    POLICE BAND
    18 5 The Singapore Police Band will perform at Farrer Park from 5.45 p.m. to 6.45 p.m. today.
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    CAROL REED AND THE 8 GIRLS
    390 5 Another girl X/ ked perplexed but not unhappy: "He says I speak English too well and that I would almost have to unlearn what I know." By 11.30. the six uirls had left the reception room. At noon, two new girls trickled into the
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    45 5 picture. THIS pair of queer-Jookin? birds left Singapore by Qantas-BOAC constellation this morning on their way to the Miami Zoo. They are not pelicans, although they somewhat resemble them, but arc known as "Fish Eating Birds", because they live on fresh fish. 1 Free Press
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    7-year-old boy lost
    104 5 7 -year-old boy lost Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Soda! Welfare i 5 authorities are trying to trace the relatives of a seven- ear-old Chinese boy who was found wandering m the grounds of St. Andrews Cathedral at 11 p.m. on May 3. A passer-by took the boy. whose name
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    U.N. official in Singapore
    103 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. S Pollack, an official Ol the United Nations Emergency Fund, has arrived m Singapore from Bangkok to complete arrangements for the visit of the Danish BCG team from the World Health Organisation m September this ear. The team has still to
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    IN SEARCH OF A STAR
    35 5 picture. MRS. TONI MISSO (24) was one of those who turned up for an audition with Mr. Carol Reed (left )and his associate producer, Mr. Guy Hamilton yesterday. Free Press
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    80 5 MR. lee Kong Chian (above) chairman of the management committee of the Singapore ChiMSC li»Rh School, who returned to Singapore yesterday afternoon by air after a month's visit to Europe and the I'nited States, said he would "look into the matter regarding the notice served on the Hi?h School Supervisor
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    COMMISSIONER MEETS VOTERS
    199 5 Free i'ress Stall Reporter COMPLAINTS ranging from born-sounding In the night to high rents have reached Mr. S. AM C hishtv Labour Municipal Commissioner for Kochore Ward, who is settins aside four hours a week for voters who want to speak to him about their problems. Mr
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    DISCUSSION
    22 5 The Singapore Ttoecsuphlcal Society will hold a public discussion on "Theosophical Fundamentals" at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday at 8, Cairnhill Road.
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    O.R.A. DINNER
    29 5 The Old Rafflesians Association will hold its annual dinner and dance at the Capitol Blue Room tonight. The school will celebrate its founder's day m the morning.
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    FiSH TRADERS DON'T WANT UNITY
    150 5 Free Press Staff Reporter the present five associations 4 N amalgamated assocte- into one could not be overin* 'ISte&U "to* "singLpo*: chief reason is that re?enUy suggested by Mr T. business interests have itlll w Biirdon the Fisheries Offl- to be conducted along com- i.
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    18 Singapore schools face closure
    157 5 18 Singapore schools face closure rree tress Man rceporier I^IGHTEEN unregistered Singapore Chinese schools with a total enrolment of 3,570 students are facing the prospect of closure. Sixteen of these schools with a total of 3,500 students are m the Municipal area. The other two are m the rural area.
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    French sloop in Singapore
    93 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A FRESH contingent of "matelots," or French naval ratings, came ashore at Clifford Pier during: yesterday, following the arrival of the twin-funnelled. 2 600--ton sloop La Grandiere Singapore. La Grandiere is returning to the French Navy's SouthEast A.sia station after refitting at
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    APPEAL BY LEPERS
    62 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO Hundred and-sevt nteen Malay inmates of the Sungei Buloh Leper Colony have appealed to the Selangor Religious Affafrs Department for help financial or otherwise to "keep us happy" during the Puasa and on Hari Ray a. The appeal is also directed to
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    MAILS
    44 5 Surface mail is expected m re today from the USA.. Hong Kong, China. Jan- 1 and the Federation est times for posting a«i. lace at the GP.O today are: noon for Trengganu 'parcels r and Djambi. 5.45 pjn. (or Sara and the Federation.
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    Jagir-Gwat Tek fight prospects
    346 6 FRIDAYS fight between Ja B ir Singh, and Tan r (iwat Tek for the featherweight title cannot be regarded as "just another contest", for it is the start of a big step forward *o raise the standard of boxing m this country and to provide us
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    ANTI-BANDIT WAR ON ALL
    279 6 Griffiths on schools 9 part Free Press Staff Reporter rHE battles of the emergency must be fought and won not only m the jungle but everywhere and not least m the schools, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Jame* Griffiths, said m Singapore yesterday.
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    24 6 ture -pill for olmbu- dntlilht id nun Singapore's H.drriv With hiti ■•wriior. Sir I (•itiiNoa and th» It Ihf (iardrn> Mi H«yid«*rs.»n Free Press
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    222 ALIENS DEPORTED IN MONTH
    155 6 Free Press St;iH" Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. IN MAY, approval was given to deport 222 aliens and eight British subjects under the Emergency Regulations. This brings the total number of deportations to 6.639 aliens and 135 British subjects. The total number of deportations last year
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    SHIPPING
    64 6 SHIPS In Outer and In. Roads *nd Id Ha: bOUT B Outer KoaU>: Hal Hsu&n, An I) La C i Chit >• :n. Inner Itnads: Bin Uengsftdc < .ikl«>\* ns: Pund ■.i Bakke :*8 JO. B 15 36, penor Ifandeville A eh. 4 Steel Age I J<-da\'s Bxpwtodl Departure:
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    Belfast engineer wins junior T.T.
    59 6 \HIIK H. won the Junior Tourist ii n lt-i.irri Hi I .S his 3 m n?^ H»; 31 milrs an oou b«';il S v Woods 85 3 !i ;<n I. In 19J3 Nor •<■::• Wl Ln 3 hrs 4 rums S3 85.727 mllet an hour.
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    Death of former Test cricketer
    7 6 Death of former Test cricketer JAM and
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    DAVIS CUP TENNIS
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    Little trading as account ends
    313 6 cvbcbcvb LONDON, Tu«'sdax I^HKRE was little inclination \rsterdav to «*ntrr into fresh Stock EEChaagC commitmenis with the current trading account ending t<»da\. sayi Renter*! financial correspondent Business was small but brought slight is to many industrial issues. Bn tobaccos, irons and steels moved slightly higher
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    N.Y. STOCKS DECLINE
    83 6 N.Y. STOCKS DECLINE r PHE New York Stock L lust ground yesterday cautious and refund utend their commitments. The bears took advantage of this apathy and increased then pressure, causing la Ml ranging to one point or more. The close heavy at the day's worst it Operators noted that the
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    LONDON TIN INACTIVE
    59 6 HPHE London tin market *as inactive yesterday with turnover of only 70 tons lor the day. Spot improved 12s. 6d. and three months 15s. Closing prices were: Spot, £602 15s. buyers and £603 sellers, with business at £603; three months £603 IBs. buyers and £604 stllers. viia
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    ZINC PRICE UP
    7 6 HPHE London price i
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    Lancashire all out 103 v. W. Indies
    107 7 Lancashire all out 1 03 v. W. Indies Lancasmre I) v first bail of v erday In ..i at the tour- the first v.ursday. again ■n over the I c I ManWtst In- relay 4 10 454 for ime. when I ancashire total of Lancashire the first i called made
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    EAST TIMES CLOCKED AT K.L. TRACK
    318 7 EAST TIMES CLOCKED AT K.L. TRACK Hohbs' pair do best gallop Free Press Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUK, Tuesday. gMILING THROUGH pulled up slightly lame after putting up a splendid effort on the Kuala Lumpur training track this morning. With Ellery up, the Ronsard mare had galloped three furlongs m 37
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    T.B.A. v KATONG SWALLOWS
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    22 7 p«c* ire Lim Bung Soo, looking grim, sends n\er a fierce forehand drive m his match against M. X San. Free Press
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    M.S.A. TENNIS RESULTS
    192 7 "DESULTS of Malay Sports Association's tennis ties are: •A* CfcMi Handicap Singles: Said Sulaiman («CT.) bt. Se-th All (-15) 6-3, 6-0; Hamid X l5) bf S- A. Dauood w.o. H. Jamil (—3o* br. Ismail i,scr.) 6-4. 6-4; Mahmood V soft 15) bt.' S. Bamahadi 15) 6-1. 6-4:
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    Woodcock gains more support
    450 7 FINAL SUMMING-UP From VERNON MORGAN 'THE odds against Bruce Woodcock winning: the world heavyweight title for Britain against Lee Savold at the White City Stadium tonight are gradually tightening. It is now no more than even money against the Yorkshireman taking the crown, while layers are
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    Derby lead Yorks on 1st. innings
    252 7 vshire leg-brtak bowler, took two successive balls against Yorkshire Derby snatched first-innings lead ■t the joint county cricket champions. s 83 saved Yorkshire from comind Edrich did likewise for Middlehe championship with Yorkshire. their last ftvv wickets for 25 runs -low bowler, having a
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    Line-up for today's soccer
    89 7 THE line-up for today s soccer match at Jalan B^^ar stadium between Singapore "A" team and Sins Tno will be: Singapore 'A': BehrentH; >lurton. Haji Garhan: Va^v Davids (capt.). Ismail Buj.in*; Tian Wah. Intlis. handra. Chonß Kum, A wane Gabos. Reserves: Yew Chan*. Param, Hin Won?
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    EASY VICTORY FOR DISTRICT
    84 7 IN a Junior B Group 1 soccer match played at Geylang yesterday. H.Q. Singapore District defeated 61 Coy. RASC by six goals to one. Herbert, District's centreforward, scored two early goals and midway through th e first half, Cunningham got the third. RASC got their only
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    Narrow win for Goldies
    110 7 AFTER being down by ten points at the start of the fourth quarter, a Singapore Combined team staged a splendid rally m the last two minutes of the game to go down by 55 points to 53 points to the Glowing Goldies basketball team of the
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    After Sing Tao..... it was shocking
    454 7 After Sing Tao..... it was shocking VlfE went back into the doldrums yesterday. It was a heart-breaking experience to watch another S.A.F.A. Senior League mateh especially with Indonesians and Rovers In action after Sing Tao's performances. But an eye cannot always be shut to our standard m th e Senior
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    Veterans show how it's done
    365 7 Free Press Tennis Reporter HPWO old-stagers Lim Bong Soo and T. HolloA way played the best tennis m the opening matches of the Singapore lawn tennis championships on the S.C.C. courts last evening. Fifty-year-old Bong Soo, tormer Singapore and Malayan champion, who is making a
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    Island Club menvwomen golf meet
    233 7 Island Club menvwomen golf meet rpHE Island Club* men v wj n maich will take plac* on Thurbday from 3 pjn. The match will be singles over 18 holes. The ladies will recei i difference m handicap and a t of one hole. The draw, with starting times, are: First
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    1,000 Airmen entertained
    118 7 4 BOUT 1.000 people turned for last night* boxine and wre^tlim.- )ns at uhirh leatured .some of be^t professional talent m S;; pore. ■my Wdch who will be A^htinf Georee Sands at the >y Wor: rounds of applause l< neat boxir.e aeainst Jagir Sinph, who meet.s Tan
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    RSGC WOMEN WIN
    27 7 The won eh oeiv n Royal Singapore c; ihe I Timah fMterday aftt-rn-suited m close van for RJ&.tiC. by 11 poteti to 10 I*.1
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    Race for 1,000 runs
    138 7 CNGLAND'S leading ama- teur batsmen. Bill Edrich and Reginald Simpson, are disputing the race for the honour of securing the first thousand runs of the season. Edrich scored 111, his fourth century of the season, against Kent yesterday and carried his aggregate to 943 m 18
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      39 7 Today's sport SOCCER: Sine Tao v. Singapore Civilians at Jalan Besar: Jnr. Bl: Fathul Karib v. C.V.M.A. at Gevlang; Jnr. B I: Spore Di <. Signals v. Social A P. at C.V.M.A. TENNIS: Singapore championships at S.C.C. from 5 p.m.
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    INVASION FLEET BOMBED AT AMOY
    268 8 INVASION FLEET BOMBED AT AMOY New attack imminent HONG KONG, Tuesday. TN a desperate bid to forestall a fresh Communist amphibious onslaught on Quemoy, island off Amoy and situated opposite Formosa, Nationalist aircraft yesterday took off from Formosa despite unfavourable weather and heavily bombed Communist positions and invasion ship concentrations
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    27 8 The King's Regimental Colours of the Royal Marines, Chatham Division, were paraded for the last time at Chatham recently. Picture shows a general view durinng the ceremony.
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    'P.I. next on Stalin's list
    193 8 MONTREAL, Tuesday. \|K. Louis Budenz said here yesterday that the iTI conquest of the Philippines is next on Stalin's time-table and that Mr. Trygvc Lie's recent activities would slowly bring about a second Munich if acted upon. The former managing editor of the Communist Daily
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    India must have birth control
    39 8 LONDON, Tues. WO matter what the obn stacles, India and Pakistan must have a network of birth control clinics, Sripati Chandrasekhar. head of the Economics Department of Annamalii I Diversity, said here yestrrd.iy. Reuter
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    U.S.I. ready for Nehru
    106 8 JAKARTA. Taes. T-HE Indian Premu-r. Pandii Nehru, who will arrivehere tomorrow, will be whisked through a packed 10 -jay i programme. The Indonesian Presidential spokesman, Mr. A. K. Pnnggodingdo, said 'Mr. Nehru's visit to Indonesia Is strictly •jourtesy call to show the brotherhood between the Indonesian
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    Tories will win' ex-M.P.
    85 8 PARIS, T'; KONNI ZILLIACUS, former British Member of Parliament expelled from the Labour Parly for Communist sympathies last year, predicted on Sunday that the Conservatives would regain power m Britain at the next Genera Election. Ziiiiucus, now an "Independent Socialist", said m Paris that "the next
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    CUSTOMS USED DYNAMITE
    65 8 Sailors from three ships were m a Colombo hospital yesterday after ;i running fight between two Customs cutters and a third vessel m the narrow straits between Ceylon > and India. >Ms men had to fight their x>ard the inspect with firearms and sticks of dynamite. They
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    FOR THE STATE
    17 8 Bulgaria's Communist rovernment yesterday took over full control of that ecu: wholesale trade.- A.P.
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    NORTH CHINA SHIPPING IS RESUMED
    58 8 NORTH CHINA SHIPPING IS RESUMED HONG KONG. Tu.s ('OMMUNIST reports say that regular shipping between North China ports has resumed bui admit that ships are only half Ailed with cargoes :in d passengers as a result of the business standstill. It says that tiie regular service has been reopened between
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    ST. PETER'S GRAVE
    37 8 In a strictly private ceremony, Pope Pius xii yesterday toils- crated the central altar dedicated to St. Peter m the Vatican Grotto and said to be the burial place of the the apostle.— A.P.
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    Defence to 'stone-wall' Jap trials
    196 8 SYDNEY. Tues. (COUNCIL defending the 95 j Japanese accused in Australia's last series of big Wu; Crimes Trials may try "stonewalling" tactics, a correspondent of the Sydney IfornJ Herald says. The first of the trials began yesterday on the tropic island of Los Negros in
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    Death for listening in Red territory
    95 8 RANGOON, Tuesday. pIE Burmese Communists yesterday lowered "the A bamboo curtain" of silenc c upon the large South Burma area under their control by forbidding residents to listen to government and other news broadcasts upon pain of death. The Communists how con- fiscated radios,
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    16 KILLED IN BUS MISHAP
    30 8 S^IXTLLN personi were killed and 15 seriously injured when a 13-passonger Pakistan government transport bus rolled down a steep Incline In the Kohat pass.— U.P.
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    Senator may be impeached
    75 8 WASHINGTON, Tucs. IMPEACHMENT of Sen Joseph R. McCarthy v "unfit for office" and guilt' if moral turpitude demanded by the American veterans Committee's National Planning Committee. The group drew up an 800- v« rd denunciation against the Wisconsin Republican, asserting that McCarthy ua> guilty of degrading
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    NEW AIR SERVICE
    24 8 The Shah of Persia yesterday inspected a new British Canadian airliner which today opens a service between Teheran and London.— Reuter
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    TRAGIC IRONY OF MANKIND
    165 8 S T peter, (Minnesota), Tuesday. piE fundamental cause of th- deep crisis m world .17 a l lain |S not the (>ol d war- the conflict between West and East -or the destructive threat of A. and H. bombs, but the problem of human relations according
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    PLANE SERVICE
    29 8 A Northwest airlines skymaster has arrived m Taipei from Seattle to complete inauguration of a plane service between the Nationalist Chinese capital and the United States.— A.P.
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    Grateful immigrant
    53 8 PEORGES ARNAI'TOGLI'. wealthy sisal planter and ron ,Iin n rary Greek consul at Dar Es Salaam has given £.0.000 to e*press his gratitude to the Tanganyika people and Government under which he has prospered. The money will build a social centre with an evening school attached m Dar
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    NEGRO WINS FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
    139 8 NEGRO WINS FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WASHINGTON. Tu<THE Supreme Court ruled 8-0 yesterday that segregation of Negroes m railroad dining cars violates the InierState Commerce Act, which prohibits any undue or unreasonable prejudice" to any person using the railways The dining car decision was the result of an appeal by
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    OIL STRUCK
    28 8 Prospectors of the Britishowned Burma Oil Company have struck oil at a test well at Barsilla. 100 miles from Digboi, Assam, it was stated yesterday.— Reuter
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