The Singapore Free Press, 28 December 1950

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    25 1 The Singapore Free Press i^ SEST AF TERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 1".»«» SINGAPORE, THI RSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1950. I'KH h IKS t t\ is.
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    U.N. CANHANDLE KOREA ATTACKS
    472 1  -  Selkirk Panton New wave of confidence by special to lhe Free Press TOKYO, Thursday. BRITISH and other United Nations tones are to remain m Korea even if it means a last ditch stand m the original Pusan beachhead m the south-eastern corner nearest Japan. General Mac
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    Only two Thomas Cup challenges
    94 1 LONDON. Thu j IA and .ia are n phr. challt red lot the Paciri ne of :he ;> 1951-1952 eomion. f^ The secretarjKt the I Badminton Fecit Mr. HA E. iVheele. hat he expected other challenges tor Pacific zone would arrive re the r t,
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    Smuggled uranium ore to Reds
    39 1 Smuggled uranium ore to Reds \GUE. Thurs. 1 <3-y< -oW Prenctaznan, i I »tte, formerly French Embtssv m Pr labour hei; i smu h urani unto Fran^ «h the French I i from the atui was ba later. Reuter
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    PEKING REPLY IS DISCUSSED
    160 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. THE I nited Nations Korean Ceasefire Committee of three met yesterday at the residence of Sir Senegal Rau to consider the Peking Government's reply to the I'nited Nation^ appeal. The Committee was due to be»in drafting its final report yesterday "barring developments"' Mr
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    PRINCES UNHAPPY
    41 1 In an address m Bombay to the Council of Rulers a new organisation claiming allegiance from 80 Princes the Gaekwar of Baroda i.aid ihat India has broken solemn promises and undertakings" an the grounds o! expediency. A. P. i
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    Tito spends more for defence
    92 1 Tito spends more for defence BELGRADE, Thur.,. Marshal Titos government yesterday presented to the Yugoslav Parliament a budget for 1951 demanding record appropriations for defence. The additional spending was necessary, the government said, not only to strengthen the nations borders against the hostility of Us Cominform neighbours, but also because
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    24-HOUR AIR GUARD IN U.S.
    69 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. r [HE United Slates, Air Force announced last night that ita firs; operalional unit of all-weather jet fighters la now standing a 24-hour guard over New York and the adjacent critical target areas of the industrial east. The watch is being maintained by
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    CHANGED VIEW
    34 1 Mi Henry A. Wallace, former vice-President of (he United Slates, said last night America desperately needed a friendly China because Russia and China m complete accord can eventually dominate the world." Reuter
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    PARTNERSHIP
    30 1 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said yesterday the tionship between West Germany and the free nations of the West is "on T lir» way to developing Into a real partnership." A.P.
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    One-way only
    60 1 TIIK flit w;i«» nearly conipl< Twelve glass brirk-. wt-ir required s<> Inswiiii builder H, I i Idams •riered them from a I'rm »l lil "> St Edmunds, V» miles away Krit ivh Road Senrlees took one month lr> (Jcliver them! ifi i i oni^iiliy there Is no load
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    FRENCH APPROVE ARMS BUDGET
    109 1 PARIS, Thursday. THE French National Assembly last night rejected A a Communist motion to have the rearmament budget turned down. Earlier, the Finance Minister. M. Maurice Petsche. defending the budget of 355 milliard francs, urged France to -choose the path of effort and sacrifice." He told
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    Red danger to Japan
    79 1 TOKYO. Thurs. JAPAN was faced with the imminent danger of Communist aggression and should not .sit Idly by while United Nations forces were fighting a life or death battle around this country, a former Japanese Prime Minister told General Mac Arthur's headquarters on December 7. A
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    L.S. HAS COLD WAVE
    56 1 Ail parts of America east of the Rockies— except Florida hud a cold wave yesterday. In the Mid-west the weather was the coldest of the season. The tempermturt was below freezing" as far south W central Texas. Northern Alabama and Virginia. m the far west temperatures
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    RUBBER FUTURES
    18 1 Crude rubber No. 1. Futi dosed 325 to 500 points higher m New York yesterdaj A.P.
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    30 1 BABRS OF HONOUR The prams of her patients met Miss K. F. L. Pluyjjers, a maternity nurse of Hilversum, Holland, as she arrived at the Town Hall for her marriage.
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    All-night swoops by Vietminh
    245 1 DAPHUC, Tonking, Thursday. A FTER the biggest all-night hit and run attack yet made against the Tonking delta defences by seven battalions of Vietminh troops, French mobile reserves were yesterday digging m around the smouldering ruins of Daphuc fort. When reports of the attack' covering a
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    Queen is 'displaced'
    48 1 AN Egyptian court m Alex- andria yesterday ruled tiiat the former Queen Gtovanna <>f Bulgaria is "a displaced person." Quern Glovanna and her two children, 15-year-old ex-Kin? Simeon and 17--year-old Maria Luisa. went into exile m Effypt after a Communist-backed revolution overthrew the monarchy. A.P.
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    TALKS DELAY ROMULO
    65 1 The expected rot urn to Manila today of BrigadierGeneral Carlos P. Romulo. Philippine Foreign Secretary and chief delega'p to 'he United Nations. has been delayed by secret talks he is having with United S a'es officials, according to unofficial reports received m Manila yesterday. He is now
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    'S' CARDS FOR L.S. DOCKMEN
    66 1 By a n US. Coast Guard all maritime worker* terday became subject to a security clearance system desl I ird US. and ai bours from sa- spying. very American en on ships nr dorks will fof» required to have a security card, which the Coast
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    BOMB THROWN IN PENANG
    64 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. EARLY this morning a haiu' grenade was thrown at ?i police vehicle m Jelutong Road. Penang. The urenade missed the vehicle and no one was injured In the same roarl. four hours later two Chinese bandits eot into a
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    S.KOREAN GOVT STAY IN SEOUL
    43 1 S.KOREAN GOVT STAY IN SEOUL The South Korean Home Minister, Mr. Ghough Pyungok, said yesterday that *ne government would continue to operate from Seoul. Referring to Pr^M'-n' Syn&man Rhee's statement earlier this week he said only non-essential Government departments would evacuate the Reuter
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    MORE U.S. STEEL
    23 1 The US ■<•!•.' permission the Steel erect a U.S. 1351 414.(1 believed to be the I mansion Tt ill hi <: A.P.
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    FRONTIER SHOOTING
    21 1 A P in soldier wts i. it d^ad ,-erda? by »:,iav frontier ?iard ln« f h^ frontier. A. P.
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    NEW GUINEA TALKS END IN FAILURE
    278 1 THK HAGUE, Thur-dav. A YEAR of tension ;ind a fortnight <»t bar.uaining on the future status of Western New <iuiiu i a. Dutch and Indonesian delegate* yesterda> left the conference room with the solution still deadlocked. In a final statement 10 the press, the
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    Snow halts Chinese in Tibet
    102 1 SHILLONG. A I THE Chinese offensive Tibet bad been baited cause of the h«-u\ an ofllcisJ spokesman of nortJ n< y which is administered by the Indian Government said night. But the propaganda was still on, I. neat leaflets rearhing R a Tibetan township 20
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    TO STAY IN U.S.
    40 1 TO STAY IN U .S. Dr. Hidrki V v k a Japan<\s" scientist who won he 1949 Nobel Pr.ze m Physics, has decided to n"nain m the United State* md has been appointed Processor of Physics at Columbia University.- Reuter
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    BOMB FOUND IN U.S. LIBRARY
    45 1 A home-made time-bom!] hidden in.side thp United S 1 Information BuvkAl library m Belgrade Tho crudely-fashi bomb was found by a Yiii»oslav girl employee b»-hiJ row m b(K>ks The library hastily cleared atvi th< handed over to U police A.P.
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    FIBRE FOR BONN
    30 1 The Economic Co-oi/ Adminii y e s t c r d a y authorised West Dermal!) purchase US$l5O 000 wo of abara fibre from the Philiunmes U.P.
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    Frustrated Love is The Theme
    452 2  -  C. P. SNOW Reviews new books m U.K. AIR ERNEST FKOS i iM second novel, -THE i ii.iihi) ITIES", ea tabii&hes him aa one ot out mos? promising i a story ol Raintncert ritgl) class, is Id, his ringers too .n >n- on his m
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    SOME ARE BORN GREAT....
    235 2 HOW TO BE A CELEBRITY. By Milton Shu man. Caricatures by Vicky. Keinhardt and Evaa*. '15 pages. NO. Sh'i'nian does not tell you how to achieve fame. What he does is conduct a lightninz tour of the great or once-great— for, sad reflection on human glory,
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    Picking the Big Twelve
    500 2 ROBERT 3TTJWY 0» 800K5 OF the lt\ooo books published m 1950 I have read 29.J That is a confession not. a boast. It makes, however, quite a lot of book. From all this mass of hopeful verbiage I propose to select twelve as my books of
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    Dracula is still popular
    267 2 Dracula is still popular LIVING In Soutn I Kensington is a man who draws several j hundred pounds a year m royalties from a book j written by nis father m i the nineties. The man 70-year-old accountant Noel Stoker The bock that chilly thriller Dracula. Bram Stoker, author of
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      192 2 ff^ Vfc& "«S W& V&& W& W&Y^AIR'A AN IDEAL NEW YEAR GIFT THE STRAITS TIMES THIS is the first time since Ml Pagss the Liberation that we +20 Full Colour have been able to produce a illustrations m- STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL on eluding 3 Full > |jnes of the $uccessfu
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      366 2 FSDFSAF DOKN today, you have D what might be called a scientific mind. You like to take facts and arrange them carefully to prove some hypothesis or solve a difficult problem. Once you have settled upon any certain procedure, you will follow it through to completion. You are an excellent
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      122 2 DFSDAFSA SOLUTION Aeru s. 1* 6 pings. i>. Winning post. 8. X 9. Stairs, 11, Scirab. 12. Ague. 14. Politicians. 15, By-passing. Down: 2, Tin Pan Alley. 3. Prim. 4. Ango s 5. Growing pain. 6. Winds up. 7. Tuskers, 10. Martha. 13. I see their good points, also and,
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    'EAT, DRINK & B'E SLIM'
    307 3 'EAT, DRINK B'E SLIM' Book tells Danes how COPENHAGEN, Thursday. {jUF/n.Y. almost secretly, a book entitled "Eat Drink and Be Slim", written by Dr. Knud Umber* ?nd a journalist, Mr. Edwlrd < laosen, has become a best seller m Denmark. Portly Danes— there are more porllv people m Benin head
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    Automatic pilot for jets
    31 3 Automatic pilot for jets washin rtiurs. P, has with tbc 3 J 2 I t l Aler y t t I I I s i n es i even m Reuter
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    5 3 I I stablished j. Reuter
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    P.I.POPULATIOIN 20 MILLION
    41 3 P.I.POPULATIOIN 20 MILLION I p n oj the i to 1 million mark by Jan I 61, accord.'. the b;;--o! cena nd si i\ \a\ Ics In month the tk>-n the ition rer 8:-su or an annual r two Der c
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    BUCKLEY
    7 3 'Ht OEMANDS TO SEE THE MENU
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    P.I. HELP NEEDED
    36 3 ueneraj i> "us Mac\rthur, Unite as Com-nander-in-Chiel tias assured Philippines Senator Macario Peralta. Jnr.. that the Philippines has a definite role he United States defence <>: ho Pacific, it was disclosed n Manila.- Reuter
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    REDS HOLD PRIESTS
    33 3 nmunist soldi m China have arrested two Maryknol] priests and two Mary knoll s v separate missions, a cablegram from Hongkong to the Maryknol] headauarters m New York said.- A.P.
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    27 3 photo track decorated with tapestries and bearing slogans passes through Tripoli sheets with people celebrating the anniversary Of the United Nations decision to grant Libya Independence.- A.P.
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    Attempt to beat world glider record
    164 3 Attempt to beat world glider record LONDON. Thurs. FLIGHT -Lieutenant R. C. Forbes. 32-year-old leader of the RAF. Gliding Instructors 1 School, at Detling, Kent. has sailed for America to exploit an air stream m an attempt to beat the present world glider altitude record of 33.5000 ft. Tins mysterious
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    LIBYAN KING IS PRO-WEST
    221 3 CAIRO, Thursday. T4IE world's newest king Mohammed Idriss el Senussi of Libya may be expected to play an important role m Western defence preparations m a key Mediterranean area. Ei Senussi earlier this month (December j joined the ranks of Arab Middle East desert kings. His
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    RE-ARM BILL PUT OFF IN FRANCE
    86 3 PARIS. Thurs. r PHE French, National Assembiy has postponed its debate on the rearmament budget by a vote of 302 to 289. The Assembly decided on postponement despite an appeal by the Prime Minister, Mr. Rene Plevan, not to dethe debate and to get
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    Bridge Hand
    223 3 Bridge Hand nip: ing when > have opened th* bidding. Why." "should the weak hand take control ncr may oe strong enough f" determine the < r)1 t!1( Bui 11 you hh" thi of h md that calls f<»: pre bid because It is utterly valueless except with yourlloirm r
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    Perry know U.S. & Russia would clash
    210 3 Perry know U.S. Russia would clash WASHINGTON, Mania?. OOMMODORE Matthew in-. m. tfce auin wUm ap rd the* -lost'd ilonr nf Asia, kmlk n.i nr.irh a cciiturv aga I Clash Jif tin •^i-tiits' -llic lin I States and Russia aver thr issues al wo- w Iririliiiii. And I pinpointed the
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    9,000-MILE MOTOR CAR CONTEST
    55 3 9,000-MILE MOTOR CAR CONTEST CVhii test through A < town Another <!?> m \h(> ncx' different North A* T: "thr M town n that er dark and bm is op< n to Tho trip is Is no object, U of the contest emohaiUe <i> m p li il have lei
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    Lost pen finds owner
    78 3 T!IK shipmate who found the loiim! |.i-n lii-vl < .»\mi^ton lu>t irhllc Knriag ufi DJS. ftuti m MM South Paciisc nve \<ars ai;o pre i«i Ui hMk too far. T/>is ircck the pen. uhii h::;l >vmi;toM\ n it, uiived at the imltc icpartfl oi i pi
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      103 3 >:■- v. SiNGAPORe i !\\oi:k» j M H 1 f 2 I i: P I H t nor. c Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya R- DAHKCNE kfcT Me 60/ I.^AVE I I WANT TO 1 WELL/ SO YOU ARE l^. '^^■■n /.ANT/ jm| jhbJJ^mm m Bft_^slHP"Kra6^^^Ey JANE
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      46 3 BFZBS |Sin*-pore 1 4 4', 4.55 i 3 30 t Ur; 6.0© 1 uoio M< 30 Engllsli H.U8. 15 .84 > D o oo Kuoyu: N< I r»n>prammes: 9.30 Burmese: Summary and I Reel; 19. 1"> I'TW I 1.45 Boolu to I li.o<: 11.45 Brenini 'fie: down.
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Dec, 28, 1950.
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      Close up the chink
      108 4 i IDLJNE loi a so which year brrn and 1 he rlands, was Nether- md That d and a S tar I J is clear and t I E J >' G I l J j a j nit h i Guinea, j i p is
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      All are cencerned
      173 4 1; i a maftr r between two ion would j h. Bu; reoer- argu- j :he whole vei cie i: dc Inrion New i hich neighbours I Papua l N (i tinea* J tliere is the icion ol of; arenai t a opportunitj for j old j
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    A year of trials for Britain
    1482 4 A year of trials for Britain CLOSE SMUTS BLACK YEAR TRAGIC AIR ELECTION DEATH OF FOR MINING ACCIDENTS A review of By RECORDER WHOSE commentators who Led the ening of 1950 as the ah of the second half of the I tieth Century, were guilty, m athletic v 11 of
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    AN AIRMAN'S VIEW...
    30 4 Ol thr Rm.tl lesti\.*l Hall. p.*ri <.| th»Festival <.f Bril, south Bank fcxhibition on th* Km-r I■.» f s i «,nd(Mi would look someUUnc lik,. this a model.
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    It Seems To Me..
    922 4  - It Seems To Me POLITICO By /^OOD NEWS travels f fast, but not so fast as bad. At least when it has anything to do with the Treasury and money. Slll2 vpore si ill awaits. oiTcially. the good news that British travellers ir* Europe may now spend twice as much,
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    Glacier and desert are on the move
    681 4  -  Allan Rands "By LI AD you been In 11 Britain, you might have been teeling cold this morning— -but Britain is. m tact, becoming a warrru r place m which to live The change m the whole of the Northern Hemisphere- -has been
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    NEW LAW FOR INJURED
    412 5 Clerks may also benefit Free Press Staff Reporter NK>\ Workmen's Compensation Ordinance is being drafted m Singapore which it is understood, will cover not only manual hut nonMnual workers whose monthly earnings do not exceed MM. But it is proposed thai among thoa who will not
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    99 5 OFFICEES and senior VI O.s of the Ktnui Sigrails prepare to ser\. dinner the men at a Christmas party at T\er»ali (amp, Singapore. 'i Wo t ..v lro*<«ial iiou>*w^ Lonmus-Siun deMgiics, »»r. K. Gardaer-Medwia ch:ef architect of tlu- department of Health, Scotland (extreme right) and Mr. A. C Kayanan. Chief
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    32 5 picture C v I \.il!r »f the \rt:llrr\ an. l Lt l>aphiw Paul of Ihr Qacm jipxaniir R>\ al Army Itanißf l n wfc* were r am*.: i »pore yestrrOay Free Press
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    COUNCIL TO MEET
    20 5 The Singapore Legisla Council v.ill meet at 10 air. on Jan IS m the Victoria rial Hall.
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    23 new schools next year
    233 5 Vtw l'rcss St.UT Kr porter r'HK Sinuap;>rt' Kducatiun Department will build five region al schoo's under the Ten-Year Plan z id 1H untlr the livt-->ear Supplement.vr\ Plan m ]**'A. t!r I r«f Press was officially tefaißHJ restern. S >rovemenl lvu<> has been; Education Department rep:ardin^
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    JOB FOR WOMAN WHO LOST FAMILY
    90 5 Pres> Staff Rrp«rt«*r •\MK Tan Lian Trr. lost her husband. UMm and her father storrhousc fire m X arh Road. Singapore, six weeks a*o, has been offered a job as a domestic servant nith the Socal Welfare Department. Officials of the department had been
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    VOLUNTEER POLICE DEMOBILISED
    103 5 VOLUNTEER POLICE DEMOBILISED Free Pre*s Stall Reporter oingapores Volunteer SpeO sial Constabulary, which served m the recent riots, was demobilised yesterday on ihe order of the governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. In issuing the order, Sir .kin praised the unit for its work a..d congratu ed the members on their discipline
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    MEDALS FOR MEN OF M.R.N.V.R.
    48 5 REAR-Admiral H. W. Faulkner. Flag Officer. Malaya, will pr< sent Long Service and Good Conduct Medals to members <>f tne Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at a ceremonial parade on board the training ship. H.M.S. Laburnum, at Telok Ayer Basin. Singapore. tomorrow evening
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    DINNER PARTY
    24 5 Lian Li Benevolent Association will hold its third anniversary dinner at 4 Borneo Road. Singapore, on Sunday and Monday at 7.30 p.m.
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    NEW REGISTRAR
    15 5 .i p. Bidriulph has Inted t 0 be trmr or Bt-' i Singapore.
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    MALAYA SEEKS FILM DIRECTOR
    212 5 MALA YA SEEKS FILM DIRECTOR Free Press Stall Reporter Xl ALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A FILM director with all-round knowledge of the industry and wide experience of directing documentary films, scripting and editing is b**ing sought by the Malayan Governments. This announcement has been made m London newspapers. Salary offered is
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    WAGE INCREASE
    34 5 A 50 per cvr.t. wage increase for ail rubber workers m Singapore has been obtained by the Union of Singapore Rubber Workers under a new agreement with the Singapore Rubber Millers" Association.
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    34 5 jygLMBER* of tbt? e*sl m \hi NV.ivi*? Ik "A Cometh*' m their f.nu! r pcrfor; nrr toni«!it at tfc- B s t! The i!.. prfsmtei fc/ «e»^w r tM#J :>!ct; ist Chnr< h. Singapore.
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    Not tool of Sultans, says party leader
    203 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent THE president of the Peninsular Malay Association, Inche Hashim Gani, speaking at the opening of the Johore Bahru branch this week, refuted charges by certain sections of the Malay community that hie association was a tool of the Sultans.
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    MR. TEO GETS READY HIS $13,000 A.R.P. SHELTER
    355 5 MR. TEO GETS READY HIS $13,000 A.R.P. SHELTER Free Press Stall Report it lI'HILF the Singapore Government b tak nu Measures foi the civil defence of the Cctony, Mr. Teo Kirn Eng, a businessman, is rleaatag his 11 -year-old $13,000 undersround reinfori- d fncrctl air raid shelter In his home
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    60 5 J)i: \v I lUlhrtchrt, M t« iin ndenl of I Krihau |J Singapore who mi his Miirtimnt r'"centJ\ I n«-M a- «(I t«. Chief Medical <»'v r «>f the Dr. H:-'{i<; oeive.i Ihr <» HI for h v r\ te duriti" l?;e fiptHf if O( rupati w Ikii he v.
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    SURGEONS DUE
    53 5 ALTHOUGH I are arriving In c at the end of Jar. shortage of .surgeons will nd The two arrivals. Dr Charles D. Falconer and Dr Roland H. Foster, both Pel lows of the Royal Colic Surgeons. will take up ap pointmentl U lecturers a ;he University of Ifaltsra
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    HOSPITALS BOARD
    51 5 [JR S H. Aljunied tnd MiTan Chin Tuan have been elected by the UnofTirial Members of the FniillllH Council to be members of the Hospitals Board. Members appointed by the Governor are: Mr Kwa Siew Tee. Mr A P Rajah. Dr L E. C. Davies, and Dr Mary
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    NEW COLONY J.P.
    22 5 Mr. William Rupert Monkman Haxworth. Assistant Superintendent of Police, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for Singapore.
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    AUSTRALIAMALAYA TRADE UP
    126 5 I! f Ii i w stall Repot :< i PI SINVE an Aiis"ral.;iP. I? n .ir I Malax a tni nual trad* r i s v inrp ibout $1< worth Mr. .la Trad« CommlsKioner I laya. U day T: i said, to i Ktem m Maiava m
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    PEOPLE in Singapore
    216 6 singapore lag hn Km>t oft«-r> Ins H.iddv R.Q.M.S. O. <• Boast, »ned m Mii^.tpMi-- .t l>'u.i>i» on hi» arrival .it Vilurport with hiN inotii r Mrs. E. Bon>t h\ BOAC >n tut irom Britain. Th^j u»-r e among II families <>f 1 ■-■>.} ir lifted Ironi Bit
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    ROUSING GALLOP BY ECLIPTIC
    739 7  - ROUSING GALLOP BY ECLIPTIC ALLAN LEWIS From Good trial for C.-G. Cup im D un- PENANG, Thursday. A; ILK a brilliant trial this morning, Ecliptic has gained favour for the Commissionerden eral a Cup U> be run on New Year's Day, final day of the current Penang Turf Cliib I
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    CHARLES 'WORTHY CHAMPION'
    65 7 CHARLES 'WORTHY CHAMPION' UATIONAL Boxing iMOCtI(T -ion reiea-ed its final 1950 JJJlSuia, heavyweight king *L 1937 ».> 1949. only as an -ootstamii:--' box- while j^SSine Ezzard Charles, his icessor. a worthy f nampion XheNß4 quarterly rmtlngi ibere Is no logical con2tr for the rrovMi won by J^Vifs "»hu proved his
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    Last 12 in SHA tourney
    77 7 Last 12 in S HA tourney Tm men( £c cay .en the ta« wU 19k pa BJI.C Of the 2' a rs en e-fd for thi fgggn ft n a In p* runn nc. C Kh.ilsa A«s 3CC v RN PW D SRC P* I ..:>« J.» II l'r.:\rr- <
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    S.H.A. v. Rajput
    62 7 a igupore Botfee] A^ociation til plrv a ir. MD3I nn:'m ai;r.insi a \t« i I v.de. »h« Ivf»>fu». on '■<- P..dan« tomor.om--SH-A will be represented by the Ir onflow Her? Her: R Barth. W Cmdr Prortor; P Penr cVellupiHai (i Clark?; X Sundrarr Chai Hon Y«m. i
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    DON TULLEY FAVOURITE
    228 7 JID Fletcher This year's "dark horse of Singapore boxing, who flattened Jimmy Welch of the R.A.F. .n seven rounds on Dec, 1, will come up against on old rival at the Happy World tomorrow niffht, m Don Tulley, another Australian. Tulley ar»:i Fletcher have fought each other
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    QUEENSLAND'S FIRST WIN
    71 7 QUEENSLAND'S FIRST WIN QUEENSL *ND recorded their first win m five S-iTics this season when they defeated South Australia by right wicketa m a Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide yesterday. Needing 78 runs m th«Mr secord nnings 10 win Queensland carried ?heir overnight ?c('re of 12 for one o 79
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    COLONY SCHOOLS RUGBY XV
    81 7 COMBINED *.nyapore S 'V team io meet Combimd .'chore Schools Utdmj at 5 pin at johort> E:- 4 glish Collefr* ground. Jchore Bahru. Is: MD Daud <St. Andrews Fi.idp Thomson <Ri>. Kik Peow iRI i. Ainin Victoria!. Ross iSt. Andrtus Pak Minu tRI>. Rahman »R I
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    56 7 photo. YOU'VE heard ol batsmen seeing; the ball like a football. I It-res a goalkeeper, Irish international. Pal Kelly (Barr.sley) who looks as though he's seeing a football like a medicine, bail. The ball beat him, but went outside. This happened when Southampton met Barn ley at Southampton on Dec.
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    DORFMANN AND DROBNY WIN
    52 7 DORF MANN AND DROBNY WIN IN the quarter-finals of the Indian national laun Iconfl championsliips at Calcutta terday the American, [nring 1 1 mam. suamped India ".v Sumant Ifim 6-4. 6-3. 6-1. J.'.rcAlav Drobny also movrd into the semi-finaK elimmatin? India s Narandra Nath 6-2. 7-5. Dorfmann meets Drobny today
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    FIRST DEFEAT
    23 7 New York University spoiled Stanford University's unbeaten basketball record on Tuesday, winning 84 to 70. Stanford had won five straight.- A.P.
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    England lost, but not disgraced
    1035 7  -  BILL BOWES GRIM STRUGGLE IN TEST From Special to the Free Press MELBOURNE, Thursday. ENGLAND lost the second Test here yesterday by 28 runs, but were not disgraced. Once again the batsmen had failed to support the excellent work of the bowlers seven batsmen failed
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    County side would have done it
    324 7 County side would have done it From REGINALD HAYTER ENGLAND'S batsmen allowed the importance of the occasion to overawe them m the second Test yesterday. They faced a first-class attack on a hard pitch from which the slow bowlers could make the ball turn and all the bowlers were occasionally
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    28 7 DOWUNG, Singapo? Cficket Club scrum-half, manages to get m a hi.iiie<l kick to touch m yestord.»\ Rugby match on the Padang between fhe Clnb and G.H.Q. FAR ELF.
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    Scoreboard
    108 7 AUSTRALIA— Ist Inns.: 194 ENGLAND— Ist Inns.: 197 AUSTRALIA— 2nd Inns.: 181 ENGLAND— 2nd Inns.: Simpson b Lindwall Washbrook b Iverson Bailey b I. Johnson Hutton c Lindwall b Johnston 40 Dewes c Harvey b Iverson Parkhnuse Ibw Johnston Close Ibw Johnston Brown b Lindwall I Evans b Lindwall
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    WEAK TACKLING BY G.H.Q. DEFENCE
    275 7 VTESTERDAVS rugbf enX counter between Singapore Cricket Club and G.H.Q. FARELF (<n the Padang. which ended m a win for the Club by 14 points <a goal. try. and two penalty goals' to nil. was a mediocre game. It showed only glimpses of the thrills
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    NORWICH DRAW
    20 7 J^ORWICH City drew with Brighton and Hove m a Third Division Leasue fixture yesterday Each .side scored one.?.
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    Wint wins 400 metres final
    53 7 ARTHUR Wn.t. J tnpic the 4Ud CanU •ies at < and. i of Air.t W H 'd !<> b- I m A'"s:>a la .-nd !'>i tho distam-f Tl. i > i. Britain, third Marjor,r liftwou of Eknpirc Qumi I "o-!d reco'ri hoMor, w the TS
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    28 7 YESTERDAY'S Union result! i Bristol K. Old M< lors I; <..f! M W Ok) I i .\> r>; A I 6; Lift Northampton 17. B:: Swansc:.
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      193 7 Enjoy Your New Year's Festivities at I KATONG REST HOUSE X A Health Resort by the Sea Good Meals catered for by our neu Che X The Best of DfMJkl DANCING TO THE MUSIC OF BOO?! SYKCOP T£',S j; Dec. 30th Extension till midnight j; Dec. 3 1st from 6
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      101 7 WEIGHTS FOR LAST DAY lI'LIGHTS for New Year's Day. last day of the Penang Turf Club tneeing. are: COMMISSIONER* GENERAL'S CUP CI. 1-1 Mile 3 F. Kour (VClock II 10 02 Rev- De Gloire 9.0) klectroplate 8.04 (l\nor God .Meridian 7.09 KelipUc Natural 7.«7 (iame Lav 1 liirs Last 7
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      122 7 Trigger 8.13 Billy Carol 8.12 Brarohall Flyer 8.12 Sir Tristram Mil Tudor Fride 8.11 Contract -OH Kopewalk 8.06 King Arthur 8.05 Vasco Da Gama 8.05 Empire Rose 8.04 Ballroom 8.#3 Tantalus 8.02 .Vlworth 801 H.t>dee "*2 Cl. 1, Day. 3— 7 F. Happy Quadrant 9.00 Hector 8.12 Double Aries 8.11
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      124 7 C 1.3, Div. <,~6F. Bow Legi ft 00 High Descent 8.13 So KU-k 8.12 Brunice 8.12 Ficture Goer 8.11 Opera 8.10 Brevity 8.09 Trousers 8.09 Broadway Hill 8.08 Moor Show 8.07 Pegasus 8.07 Itcman Warrior 8.06 Zalovi* 801 Cl. 3, Div. J-6F. Ballyinun II 9.00 Kind Regards 8.13 Kgyptian Queen
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    OTHER CORONATION STONE GUARDED
    182 8 OTHER CORONATION STONE GUARDED Police seek stolen lorry LONDON, Thursday. UOLICE mounted guard over the Coronation Stone at Kingston-on-Thames. Surrey, yesterday, following the disappearance of the Scone Coronation Stone from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day. Lust March the Kingston Stone, on which seven Saxon Kings are believed to have been
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    28 8 BACK WITH THE KILL— A pack of hounds returns with its late quarry after a chase against a background of snow-capped hills m the Lake District of England.
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    Rearming puts up U.S. taxes
    73 8 Rearming puts up U.S. taxes WASHINGTON. Thins LJEAVIER taxes to meet the cost of the American rearmament drive were forecast yesterday by Mr. Joseph Short. President Truman's press secretary. It was positively certain." he said. President Truman was working yesterday on the texts ol the three messages he will deliver
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    U.S. stand on Hoover plan
    71 8 WASHINGTON. Thurs. MR. John Foster Dulles, Republican adviser to the US Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson. is to reply to former President Herbert Hoover's plea that the U.S. pull back its defences to the Western Hemisphere. The Stale Department said yesterday that Mr. Dulles
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    BIRTH
    14 8 Ll vrence ani Wales. a daughter Lev. on 2h h Doc. 1950 Husuistal.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    29 8 PUHU PAGE: The engageI innounced between Rober* >on of th( Jiiluu 5. Fisher, and Fi-her. of Spore, and toe Pi youngest daush- and the ci UndM] of S'r^re.
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    MARRIAGE
    20 8 \RRIAC.E will rAk,- place a- ne Shanghai Hotel on Jan. ween Mr. Yap Chons ia| Ma Ooh Chooi Gim.
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    DEATH
    17 8 lUIIMI II WINTERS, sudi Yomffaw 4 Hospital 1 -al BidaMjrl. 3 p m.. 28'h I' -raver.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    39 8 MRS E CORDEIRO: an thOM who attended and on the occasion of the 26th -nber. 1^ \:r m warn, lee ah chong. all friends A: litollf for jn\ce Sc attend- j dkMMt party on D ber, 1950. at
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    PEKING NEEDS COTTON BADLY
    48 8 Communist China is buying all :he Pakistan cotton oa which 1: can lay its hands. A Chinese delegation m Karachi has already bough; 27,000 bales and another 15.000 await shipment. Last week 12.000 bales were ship- ped m a specially chartered 1 vessel.- A.P.
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    BRITISH FOR WEST ARMY
    73 8 LONDON. Thurs. BRITISH troops would be transferred to the Atlantic Pact army immediately General Dwight Eisenhower sets up his command, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday m London. He added that the British forces to be placed at General Eisenhower's disposal would include contingents In
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    They took 'Sunshine'
    47 8 rrilllfcVES. who might as well have been film critics. 1 climbed on to the roof of a theatre m Bristol yesterday and stole the scheduled attraction. "Day of Sunshine." The matinee showing was cancelled. The film had been unanimously criticised by London critics.- A.P.
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    RKCOGNITION SOON
    18 8 Britain is expected to join the United States shortly m naming an ambassador to Spain.- U.P.
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    Menzies wants joint defence
    125 8 KARACHI, Thursday. T4IE Australian Premier, Mr. Robert G. Menzies, en route to the London Commonwealth Conference accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived at Karachi yesterday m the Governor-General's special Viking plane from India. The party was met by the Pakistan Premier, Liaquat Ali Khan, his
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    N.Y. market recovers
    57 8 NEW YORK. Thurs. THE NY. stock market rebounded with vigour yesterday from Tuesday's set-back, and key stocks rose by five dollars per share. Most advances, however, were limited to two dollars per share. Scoring the biggest gains were rails, oils, airlines, steels, motors and aircraft manufacturing stocks
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    KOREAN WAR 'LIKE RED INDIAN DAYS'
    95 8 KOREAN WAR 'LIKE RED INDIAN DAYS' WASHINGTON, Thurs. AMERICAN war experience m Korea must not deter the United Sta.es from developing the use of at )m)c weapons by army troops, said General Lawtoti Collins. U.S. Army Chief oi Staff, yesterday m Washington. Writing for the "Coronet" magazine he said progress
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    SECOND SUIT
    29 8 The fllm actress. Betty Huttun. for the second time this .year, filed a suit of divorce m Santa Monica. California, against camera manufacturer. Mr. Theodore Briskin. A.P.
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    EX-WIFE TELLS ON HUSBAND
    63 8 A divorced wife testified yesterday that her husband gave a Russian spy-ring a top secret formula for making explosives. Mrs. Ann Remington was testifying m the perjury trial of her divorced husband, Mr. William Remington, a former U.S. Commerce Department economist, who denied before a Federal
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    Waterless rice
    51 8 MOSCOW radio said yesterday that Soviet experiments have resulted m a new variety of rice which grows without watering. The new type of ric* "yields as rich a harvest as the watered varieties." The new strain will be widely tested m the South Ukraine during the coming year.
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    SPY TRIAL IN ALBANIA
    58 8 The Soviet news agency. Tuss. m a dispatch from Albania, said last night that a trial has been opened In Korga against a "group Of spies and other persons." '"The accused carried out sabotage and attacks, as well as espionage on the orders of the Greek
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    H.K. MONEY
    26 8 Yesterdays prices an ihe Hong Kong Money Exchange were: HK$5.9B/5.98V 2 per U.S. dollar. HK515.50 per pound sterling. HK$3O5 per tael of gold.— U.P.
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    Flood control talks to open
    179 8 NEW DELHI, Thursday. IMPROVEMENT of Asian flood control methods Is the aim of the ECAFE flood control conference to be held m New Delhi from January 7 l. More than 25 papers prepared by experts from ECAFE member states will be discussed at the meeting
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    EXCHANGE QUIET AFTER CHRISTMAS
    154 8 LONDON, Thursday. FOLLOWING the Christmas holiday, trading m the Stock Exchange yesterday was small but produced some features, states Reuter's financial correspondent. British Government funds were fraction! lly lower where changed on small routine sales but there was firmness m textiles, irons and steels m the
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    P.I. PREPARE
    34 8 P.I. PREP ARE Malacanan Palace announced yesterday that smooth progress Is being made m the conversion of the Philippines' armed forces into a tourservice tgroup to make it a more effectlv fighting machine. Reuter
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