The Singapore Free Press, 7 April 1951

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951. PRICK TKN VENTS
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  • 436 1 TALK-OR FIGHT REDS TOLD U.N. restates Korea aims LAKE SUCCESS, Saturday. RAYING down a "negotiate or fight" challenge to the Chinese Communists, the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie, said yesterday that there was no sign Communist forces m Korea are willing to negotiate and "unless and until
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    29 1 picture. C APT. S CfV .ON, commanding officer of HM8 Glory, a Colossus class carrier of the First Aircraft i irrier Squadron which arrived in Sin.^^pore yesterdav. Free Press
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  • 82 1 Gifts for paralysed woman ifl Reporter and J Mason- iard M d < pitiful he Free oJ several which ofi: i y»iy, cxv. a Teocliew lived lor leaking, fl the 5 Serangoon from her bed X lin cor. Ing roof Pre re..c hut he s and morn- Aid like -old
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  • 16 1 West Ge::many and Spain yesterday applied for admission to the World Health Organisation. A.P.
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  • 145 1 TOKYO, Saturday. PIOMMUNIST defenders fought back stubbornly yesterday against I'nited Nations forces who have made the deepest penetrations into North Korea alon? the central front. Details of the fighting were sketchy as the Allied troops i continued making gains m and central fronts But the Bth
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  • 118 1 CANBERRA. Sat. IT WAS possible that human beings may fly around the moon and back m a rocket ship within the lifetime of living people, an Australian scientist said yesterday m Canberra. He said it might also be possible to project and maintain indefinitely
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  • 64 1 WASHINGTON, Sat. QSCAR Collazo, Puerto Rican assassin, was sentenced to death m the electric chair yesterday for the murder of a White house guard during the attempts on President. Truman's life on November 1. As Federal Judge T. Alan Go'.dsborough pronounced sentence, the 37-year-old revolutionary shouted:
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  • 158 1 TURNED SPY GETS 15 YEARS NEW YORK. Sat. THE man. who lifted the essentials of the atomic bjmb secret out of the Lcs Alamos atomic laboratories, was let off with his life m the Federal Court. New York, yesterday, as a reward for testimony that got his sister and brother-in-law
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  • 21 1 General Sir Harold Briggs, Chief of Operations m Malaya, has arrived m Cyprus on three weeks' leave. Reuter
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  • 23 1 Rear-Admiral A. Bruke, Deputy Chi-i-of-Staff. United States Naval Forces m the Far East, has arrived m Manila from Tokyo. Reuter
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    14 1 •'McCloud. MrClcfid wi c.-c have I heard that nsm« h 'fore?"
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    37 1 THAMES GALLAMHX Princess Elizabeth is gallantly handed from the launch Enchantress by Bert Barry, resplendent m his red coat and badge regalia after she had started the Head of the River race on the Thames.
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  • 141 1 PRAGUE, Saturday. CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S Ambassadors to Washington, London and Paris, appointed during Dr. Vlado Clementis' term as Foreign Minister, are to be replaced, it was learned yesterday m Prague The three Ambassadors were recalled for consultations late m February at about the time that it was
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  • 28 1 No progress was made m yesterday's meeting of the Foreign Ministers' Deputies m Paris. They are meeting again today which will be the 25th session.- Reuter
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  • 128 1 THE total of the three Singapore Turf Clubs unlimited sweeps at the close of business last night had reached the all-time record of $2,440,000. It is likely that the first p "«e m today's sweep will be worth $Z50,000-the highest m Malayan turf hi^turj^-- the last
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  • 23 1 The dismissal of 11 ministers from Marshal Tito's Federal Government was announced without the reason given. All involve Economic Ministries. Reuter
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  • 19 1 Burmese authorities are investigating large-scale smuggling across the 70-mile border dividing West Burma from East Pakistan. A.P.
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  • 166 1 SAIGON, Saturday. A MILITARY communique announced today that Communist Vietminh troops launched a largescale attack on communications between Hanoi and the French supply port of Haiuhong but were thrown back with more than 2,000 casualties. The communique said that four rebel regiments out of a force
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  • 54 1 CAPTAIN Dimitrios Kolios, of the freighter Semiramis, for whom obituaries and an epitaph had been written m Alexandria, arrived at Mersa Matruh yesterday after drifting eight days alone m a lifeboat. After his ship sank m the Mediterranean, seventeen members of the crew were picked up
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  • 144 1 Free Press Correspondent FOUR hundred and fiftyfive students, includirtg 81 girls, from Singapore, the Federation and Sarawak will sit for the Entrance Examinations to the University of Malaya for three days, beginning Monday. Tile examinations will be h^ld simultaneously m fourteen centres In the Federation
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  • 28 1 Three Chinese, one Mined with a pistol, held up a Maluy m the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, at 7.40 a.m. yesterday and robbed him of three dollars.
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  • 32 1 Finland assured Russia yesterday of her "unswerving determination" to fight side by side with the Soviet army to repel any attack upon the Soviet Union across Finnish territory. A.P.
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  • 24 1 India Is negotiating treaties of friendship with Asian countries like Syria Muscat and Oman Yemen, Iraq, the Philippines. Burma and Siam.— U.P.
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  • 216 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday 'THE T.S. State Department said yesterday that it had already decided to recommend sjme than:; s and additions to the draft of a Japan sc peace ti recently circulated to other interested covernmcnts. The Sta'e spokesman. Mr. M Dermott. said H tive
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  • 74 1 Diesel bursts' 2 'Very ill' Free Prrss Staff Reporter VOE Poi ana X Tionp, two lilt< when a Diesel e**flne «xp]' m tho Nanvnr, I Factory at Tanjong Rhu night, were tie* ribed a.s b» "v»-ry ill." by ihc QeneTAl Hospital thus morning. rly $100,000 cau«»d. I CVbiC ft air
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  • 481 2  - Jules Hants While He Sleeps J. C. Graham By JULES Berg of Pre- serration Inlet, Zealand, has found I vwiv to live happily away from cinema cars, and ra He has all food he wants on doorstep. When run of money he for sold m his garden. 4ed mountains which
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    34 2 •Id Pair c a EJnards of Brighton, England practises at Uembiey. Lomlon for ihe 1951 Novicrs' Five Sk itin- competition. Youn c skating enthusiasts look on. Fat will hove 63 rivals m the contest.
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  • 54 2 Ol Larpool Ha!!. I football team are Ing famous— due he performai keeper. P i is 14 >ears of age. and hai \i!l is a c than hcckey ball :.d know. Pat's \i Pa'ncia Neat .1 teams are v There ie m II inch* ster— the
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  • 129 2 I I the ir like tins: V D have to tlnd the six istaig the tolliwing Replace the X s iii.i you the name ot something you associate nbtatan. riis ol course. ue down." A»i the rt maining are clues "acre A iirnk 2nd line: Wry sa
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  • 893 2  -  S. C. George Page For Children By concluding instalment of a sea serial. OAGADA stood a moment staring stupidly at the sword hilt. He laid a hand on it as though to pluck it out. but his eyes were already glazing and he knew his end had come.
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    14 2 Ptggy the camel ireSeQ ac« Sheila and Linda the donkeys at the London Zoo.
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  • 196 2 DEAR CHILDREN. THE results of last week's "Solve this puzzle' competition were most disappointing. No one sent m absolutely correct answers although one or two of the pictures were very tastefully coloured. Perhaps it was rather unfair to give you flowers which do not grow
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    36 2 Six times the Dumb I .lends League Dogs home at Willesden have sent Rex a crossbreed bulldog to make a home with people who have offered to take him. t to the I m vkfle. H
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  • 190 2 CCREENING of "Alice m Wonderland," now being filmed for next summer's showing has been the biggest and most complicated problem Walt Disney has ever set for himself. Moving scores of figures, human and animal, vegetable and marine, through 16 major sequences of exciting adventure
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  • 93 2 Letter arrived 22 years late f p\VENTY-TWO years ago Paul RafTelhuesehen. a baker at Westerland, Germany, wrote a letter to his girl friend, placed it m a bottle and threw it into the sea. He did so, of course, more or less as a joke— never expecting that he would
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    • 54 2 SEND YOUR RADIO FOR REPAIRS TO new JOHNSON RADIO 220. 100 Chiat RoaJ. 855 North Er WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEES. ALL MAKES OF RADIO ON SALE. D 0 N'T FORGET YOUR PROGRAMMES W^J^ m detail SINGAPORE CARES RADIO POL FOR CHILDREN IN MM CHINESE FOUNI FULL PROGM- 1 OIL FIRST CASH CONTEST
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    • 231 2 STAMP CORNER Thia Asian games sta p ■vs the torch, symbolism the Olympic spirit, which was carried to the stadium by i- 1 f runners. JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLIES ACROSS— I. The little r— rj j > girl who s^am through her own f 1^ I 1 BB Tliree of them
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    • 18 2 ACROSTIC SOLUTION waT c r f 1 E c t moN c y 1 v N a r
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  • 40 3 Jogging the memory APt Rill poultry farmer, having trouble with egg thieves rigged a trap— a tin of lead balanced over the door. Now up and about again, he' s the first to admit he -should have remembered it. Reuter
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  • 265 3 Magazine makes allegations OECIRITV LONDON, Saturday. k \iBii4 including specialists from Br inVh f V c I telHfirence < MI 5 > an <* the Special invp^ Scotland Yar d, have been given orders to investigate a new "atom spy" scare. Rmnn ln f quines foll
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    307 3 (A) Pi i c spac:^ response la i one n* nc force and hla partner must rebid. At younext turn you will have much more itforma ion regarding the strength of opponents' hands md therefore the possible strength ot partner. If you just keep quiet the opponents may set
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  • 98 3 LISBON. Sat. 1 'pHE Portuguese Government has dcclaied war on profiteers. Cost of living m Portugal aaa risen steadily since the beginning of the year, particularly m iood prices, and the Portuguese Minister of I Economy, Dr. Ulisses Cprtes, has issued a stein warning that exag?e:ated profits
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  • 56 3 The Manila Daily Mail, quoting official sources, has stated that the armed forces had been alerted to foil a reported attempt by four Russians to land on the Pampanga delta off Manila Bay. The paper said that a Catholic priest was arrested as a lecturer m
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  • 26 3 Mr. J. Donald Kingriey's appointment as United Nations Agent-General for K-j--rean Reconstruction has been agreed by a vote of the International Refugee Organisation. A.P.
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    • 40 3 LAST 5 DAYS ONLY AL c (IN ALL DEPARTMENTS) featuring:— GENUINE BARGAINS DRASTIC REDUCTIONS BOOMING OFFERS IT IS THE KIND OF. SALE SUCH AS NEVER BEFORE TAKEN PLACE N. B. We Are Opened Whole Day/ WASSIAMULL'S 31-33, HIGH STREET SINGAPORE
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    • 123 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore) fß l4ll NKTWORK) Progra mme Summary: 10 a.m. Korean News and Em- London Editorials er"ncy News; 12 Programmes m J-« of the WeekMalay; 1 P^' P r^ r a a v mm a e U r S Jom" Handel;Tls World Affairs; 530 mary; 1.02 S ffl! im
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    • 271 3 m3ndrdk6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m W'tlava JANt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m tin if: F-v volj V\ <E ng\ «|4 THATS nOw aE'u aa.< y" |V >^S^^^ 4 I MAVGM'T I '(jnT The PIX6D MR PELIX l"^^* 3Ui£"n.> 01/t AS H 1^ -</i V t/
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  • 471 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, April 7, 1951. Hello, Mr. Griffiths NUMBER of us must c frowned and lv king nolsi o.ipprowu. admirx.e mucli wa^e and none of us ild have remained :U on read:: S Ol Mr. E s dramatic k phon call on to H;s 8 tary uf
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  • 558 4 ASKS OH. AMERICAN military power is now increasing by leaps and bounds The United States, a country not given to half measures, virtually abrogated its power when it demobilised immediately after the war. Now it is reasserting its might with its vast
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  • 881 4 Talking about Singapore by Citizen. CITIZENS ARE WONDERING IN a few days Singapore will hold its fourth elections since the franchise was give:i to the people m. 1948. It has been said by both the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, and the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, that this experiment
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    779 4  -  Ritchie McEwen Four Zoned By To the casual visitor a city of harmony... THE casual visitor to Vienna, forty miles inside the Iron Curtain, will be disappointed if he expects to 'see some spies'. On the contrary, he will very likely be impressed by the apparent harmony between the
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    10 4 You wtfl I, altl niftiu, »tre the rbunilnhouta." Bj JOH
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  • 337 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR rjEAR Sir, Your leader "Workers and T.B. is good and has given a pointer to employers which it is hoped will not be disregarded. Following the liberation I. an employer of Asians, found that a number of pre-war employees had suffered very
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  • 61 4 'YES MAN MIGHT GET 'NO' President i\ recommends r Peace Pny, |f •justicialist pr principle «i •M armament. I made the sue Peron d epul> lll(1 r Hippo. cited the sident's etions ur security, his appeal for til announcement I made of hK n; spirituil ita j n tatariag Uiat
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  • 41 4 take the fii I later > ment ii:. firsi B second Saturd; The operation was postponed, bu prov. into fom merely by Council U agree. The TUC I Holiday R< vernment Holidays with P tions -i other bodh Easier. bodies
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    • 18 4 ?7V DEALERS IN ALL HIGH CLASSES OF WATCHES. LEE M!N WATCH CO. 51. CHANGE ALLEY SINGAPORE Tel. 3343
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  • 50 5 I'rrsian which Daw ing: ■■:>iie at .1 hul ..r thf Hu'Jd- MM Mill it p.m. Q'i HOLIDAY M O. P. Wixxiford. manager A.O.C. Officers' Shop. pore, accompanied by Mrs. Woodford and their two sons. Desand Llewellyn, have by the v>n today for a holiday In Australia.
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  • 203 5 'DAGON' SERVED HIS PURPOSE 50-FT. TALL IDOL TOOK A TUMBLE Free Press Staff Reporter J)AGON." the 50-ft. tall, 1,000 bulb figure, the idol of Delilah's people, the Philistines, came tumbling down from its perch at the top of Singapore's Cathay building yesterday evening its purpose was ended. For seven weeks,
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  • 322 5 MC's APPROVE $3 22, 000 POWER SCHEME Mains sub-station for Sennett Housing Estate i>F^ini?o v Free Press staff Reporter K^mu^ being assured of a sewerage service, the Sennett housing estate at the site of the former Alkaff Gardens, will also be provided with a supply of electricity. The first houses
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  • 70 5 Photo by It is notified for information that nationals of the former Indian states may no longer be regarded as British protected persons THE parsing out parade of Johore Bahru Auxiliary Police Officer, on Wednesday Mr. P. D. H. Jackson, Chief Police Officer, Johore, presenting
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  • 34 5 *'me Japanese-owned rubber estates m the Federation, which have been held by the custodian of enemy property since the liberation are to be sold by tender this month.
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  • 94 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WORK FOR THE DISABLED ABOUT 180 replies have been received from employers m Singapore to the scheme which the Government hopes to launch m the Colony soon for .the rehabilitation and re-training of disabled workers. Although the scheme is to oe
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  • 59 5 Government employees m Kuala Lumpur generally welcomed the cost of living allowances proposed by the Benham Committee m their report published yesterday. president* of a number or Government union* were unanimously of the opinion that, tne ne*- allowances would remove, W a large BMMUre, Urn
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  • 46 5 n .o Onn bin Ja'afur. President of the United Malays' National Organisation, said yesterday tna tin re were too mai>y "ec«W among the Malays Jn Kuala Lumn» mid that this "»*»J22 Malays m Kua?a Lumpur Qj# rsmt disunite ol ail Malay* la the country.
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  • 7 5 <•;. ;A\fAf Fri.— A middle
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  • 505 5 LYCIA CLOOTS-BABY OF THE 'ICE REVUE' By Maureen Mallal rpWELVE-year-oid Lydia Cloots sat quiet and confident m the cool lounge at the "Cockpit" hotel when I went to see her yesterday afternoon. She is the youngest member of the Scandinavian Ice Revue and I had expected some difficulty m getting
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  • 141 5 gINGAPORE Chinese coffee shop proprietors have appealed to the Deputy Controller of Supplies for permission to increase their prices for coffee and tea In view of the current high cost of coffee seeds and other commodities and the demands for higher wages by coffee
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  • 43 5 OINGAPORES 92 Trade Unions will be engaged mainly m "internal activ. ties" this month. Ninety f.w per cent of these unions wiil hold their annual con f erei)-.r? end election of olTice bear^ri for the c fining year, during tWa penoci.
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  • 319 5 First Chinese for Dublin Scholarship ECHO OF JAPANESE OCCUPATION Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE doctor, the Free Press was informed, has been selected by the Singapore Faealt) of Medicine authorities to take up a six-mor.th scholarship m midwifery and gynaecology ofT^r <l by the Dublin Rotunda Hospital and Trinity
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  • 84 5 4 HILL whereby the M tiie Crony o{ whether Britten sub.ecis OC ni..v b« re^u!: I d ;.i>d <■ la accordance vulh the ***** Industrial, tocial, labour or r>" r La ol Malays tfcm IfcM time, ik to be Introduced the L f\ U The Bill h.
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  • 120 5 NURSING HOMES CONTROL Free Press Staff Reporter A draft Bill has been prepared to provide for the registration and inspection of nursing and maternity homes m Singapore. The Bill, which has been forwarded to the Municipal Commissioners for consideration, will for the first time introduce a measure of control over
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  • 136 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE appointment of a Chinese and Indian to the two posts of Personnel and Welfare Officers m the Sing:ir>ore Labour Department will be made within a feudays, the Free Press was told yesterday. The 13 candidates eight Chinese and five
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  • 27 5 The Governor has Appu:hural Thurai Rajah. A ant Superintendent of Polio be Justice of the P« ;cf, for '^c Cnlnnv of Stn^aDor* 1
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  • 585 6 TITLES FOR 2 S'PORE BOXERS FARELFfinals last night TWO of Singapore District's three represent--1 atives m the finals of the FARELF individual •boxing championships won their fights at the Happy World Stadium last night. Both gained their titles on points decisions. L/Cpl. Megbahudar Rai (Malaya District) became the first man
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    39 6 picture. Ar..;y n.iv -01 ward Fte. D. Pace b alms the B Isiutn Army backs m an internaiional serv ces match between the British and Belgium Army teams la t weekend. The match was dnwn two-all. Army News Service
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  • 256 6 BO.DC.A Z\ KE.M.E 1, \N unexpected goal by their left-half, Balan, enabled Bass Ordnance Depot Civilian Association to snatch full points from R.E.M.E. m their S A.F.A First Division League clash at Jalan Besar last evening. 8.0.D. Civilians missed a number of scoring chances m
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  • 83 6 MAIAYA Publishing House boat Ci. a and ElecI i? Company thn In a thrilling .Business Houses Leagu "A" le. In the fifth minute the OTEC '4oo!ke:per Arshad brilliantly saved ,i penalty but at half-t me M.P.H. leel by .i poil scored by Dollah. K. Hamid increased
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  • 47 6 \.tth to' m hurt m ths course of play. Netaji Memorial I' C. \o:': m er K-ril defeat by :il Hospital R.C. m a B.A.F.A. T'rird Division "A" tie a: Geylang yesterday Hospital's coals «rere -cored by I (4), Rahman (2), Tiong i and Haraoor.
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  • 29 6 Standard Vacuum S.C. h°!d trie division team. Amicable A.A.. o a two-all craw at Farrer Par:: cterdav In a SCOCCT friendly Vactma led two-nil at <-> interval
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  • 102 6 Shagreen 17-2 favourite JRISH-TRAINED Shagreen was made 17-2 favourite for today's Grand National at last night* final eallover. Afterwards a rumour spread that the horse had gone wrong, but the owner. James Rank, said that Shagreen was Tit. i nal quotations it-2 Shagreen; 9-1 Arctic Gold; 100-9 Freebooter; 100-8 Roimond,
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  • 213 6 ENGLISH football selectors made a surprising choice yesterday m their selection of the national eleven to play Scotland at Wembley Stadium next Saturday. As many as seven of the team which drew two-all with Yugoslavia at Highbury Stadium last November have been cast aside. The selectors have
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  • 298 6 How Cheong beat Choong brothers Free Press Staff Repocter pOLOXY badminton champion Cheong Hock Leng, m a letter to his wife which reached Singapore .yesterday, disclosed that he has settled down to English conditions at last and is playing at top form. Hock Lens says that when he beat David
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  • 166 6 AN approach is to be made to the Home Office asking them if a plea might be forwarded to the King to award the Order of the British Empire to the world's greatest footballer, Stanley Matthews. Whereas Sir Donald Bradman was knighted wh le he was still
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  • 50 6 MR. James Rank's six-year-old Promotion won the Liverpool Spring Cup. run over 10 furlongs, 170 yrds ai. Liverpool this afternoon. Mr. James McLean's Flush Royal was second and Lord Lovat's Montezol third. Twelve ran Betiing was 10-1 against Promotion, 13-2 Flush Royal and 20-1 Montezol. Reuter
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  • 19 6 Eradicrd Northern beat Keighley by 12 points to lour m a Rugby League match yesterday. Reuter A.P.
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  • 235 6 First trial for S'pore 'A' today Free Press Soccer Reporter piRST of the season's tryouts foi S r XI will be the game against Rusine* at Jalan Besar Stadium t«d;t> -A v*u 12 fixtures have been arrani'.cd for the community clubs and other ass*ciati< In addition, it is intended I
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  • 1026 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS Racegoers out for mudlarks By gIKIT Timah racecourse received .80 inches of rain between 4 a.m. and 6.30 a.m. today, i he going for this afternoon's racing will be, at the best, soft. There was little discussion on the races because ardent race fans
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    38 7 picture. ion L G Megbahadur Rai (7 von the «>Hti-ht final m the FARELF champion ships, which were concluded world StaiJium last night. Picture shows m ll>r;iir.*:. C.-in-{\, FARELF. present- IRELF championship belt and a win>latuett^. Free Press
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    7 7  -  McLeod By Solution o.i Monday
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  • 218 7 rrHIS mornings rain held up work on the main T trac™ 'until about 6.45 The second grass track, -hirh was opened for fast work, was heavy and, under the 8 conditions, there was little gallopmg. Flylite (Tullohi went very attractively when he worked on the outside
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  • 284 7 ALLAN LEWIS TRESPASSES EPSOM JEEF CALL BO* R C l JEANNETTE JEAVNETTE JEANNETTE JOHN HAM Jl. WMMI 2.M Winter Lady Winter Lady Winter Lady Jeannetu V\ inter Lady Marcos Aarrliai GslWftJ Greer Marcus Aurelius Winter Lady John Ham R^ A 2 BILLDAW BILLDAW BILLDAW BREVITY BILLDAW
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  • 1288 7 Race I—2.oo— Class 3, Div. 3— 7 F. less 22Y. 1 220 Marcus Aurelius Ayres 8.13 "Belmont Stable" Spencer 2 200 Trousers Mawi 8.13 'Mining Kongsi" R. Breukelen 3 300 Royal Borough Ellery 811 Mr. K. Y. Lim Daniels 4 004 John Ham Bagby 8.10 "Niel
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  • 43 8 PANCHERI: To Mary, wife of P J. Gibbs Pancheri. a daughter. MITCHELL. To Eulis. wife. of Fim Mitchell, at K.K. Hospital. on sth April, a son. Thomas -v. I.VCNSON. At Malacca on 2.4.51, to Joyce, wife of Robert p.son. Malayan Police. a
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  • 74 8 West Germany is to join the agreement on the transfer of sterling accounts. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard told a press conference at Bonn. This, he said, would help Germany to settle her foreign currency debts, the biggest of which are with the British Commonwealth. Efforts would
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  • 484 8 Korea objects not defined From CYRIL AYNSLEY TOKYO, Saturday. SOLDIERS who are fighting m the Korean war want a definite proposition from the politicians one way or the other. They hear Britain speaking through the tongues of Mr Morrison and Mr. Shinwell, India through
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  • 140 8 LONDON, Saturday. STERLING area gold and dollar reserve figures— up by $458,000,000 m the first quarter of 1951— although considered satisfactory, brought no help to domestic stocks yesterday m the Stock Exchange, states Reuter's financial correspondent. B government funds eonued to meet small selling pressure before
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  • 49 8 The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed and sent to the Senate a bill to suspend two cents per pound import tax on copper until February 15. 1953, with the priso that if the price drops below 24 cents per pound the tax be re-imposed. U.P.
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  • 31 8 President Vincent Auricl of France left Toronto by train for Ottawa yesterday after receiving Toronto's most clour ful ovation since the visit of the King and Queen. U.P.
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  • 31 8 A British Embassy spokesman m Buenos Aires yesterday denied reports that agreement has been reached with the Argentine Govern- ment to resume meat shipments to Britain. A. P.
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  • 385 8 F)R RONALD RICHTER, 42 years old atomic expert, Austrian-born, who was honoured by President Peron for his work, was one of the dozens of scientists, including Germans, who passed through London after the war and were interviewed by the authorities. One of his close
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  • 64 8 Egypt yesterday asked Britain, the United States and France to stop "Israel aggression" against Syria following Thursday's flare-up m the demilitarised zone between the two countries. She called for action under the three big powers declaration last May that, m the event of frontier violations, joint
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  • 23 8 President Quirjno has signed the Convention for the Exchange of Postal Money Orders between the United States and the Philippines. Reuter
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  • 45 8 The film actress, Barbara Stanwyck, had her second date yesterday with Robert Taylor since their divorce on February 21. She told reporters at a night club: "There is no use trying to keep it secret. I am carrying a torch for Bob."- A.P.
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  • Free Press Saturday Magazine
    • 8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, April 7, 1951
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    • 846 1 MORIES OF THE 1915 NG£PORE MUTINY by TUAN DJEK initinv <>l l iii* Wins of the Infantry, m battalion i m Singa»>l!t CWI r.H.Y I wis t Tinggi h had rub*d i lear n and lay District on opposite the i1
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    • 1217 1  - THE WHISPERING CITY KATHLEEN HICK LEY A SHORT STORY by |T was dusk when Awe reached the walled city. After driving all day m the sun the old stones m that dim light appeared ns unsubstantial ;is a dream. The city itself helped to foster the illusion. It was something
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    • 448 1  - THE ANCESTORS GET FOOD AND MONEY TESSIE TAN by CHINESE festival, which originated m China as a sort of JJatumajia with garlanded Chinese youths and maidens dancing near tombs to celebrate the obsequies of the (lend, was observed tins week m Malaya ns the annual Ching Ming Festival. One hundred
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    • 133 2 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint BY May factory 7 Marta Tom,, M« Marta Toren t«» apply her rougr «]<xn Lam Turner. So alwW rvrr\ othrr glamorous i can name. But «<o you? I ttti only about a 50-50 chancf J<>. .Vhic\ing rouge per*.rx' r is simple, but many women r know <ome
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    • 540 2 LAN GRANT previews 'Highly Dangerous and 'Clouded Yellow. 9 4 'IIIGHLY dangerous" (New Alhambra) and 'Clouded Yellpw" (Cathay) two British films to be shown soon m Singapore are thoroughly un-British and for that reason look like being more popular m Malaya than many much better
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    • 305 2  -  Maureen Mallal By TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS'—(due at the Cathay) Cast: Kathryn Grayson, David Niven, and Mario Lanza. 'THERE are a number of discordant notes m this new technicolour musical. Perhaps the most obvious is David Niven who appears quite out of place m
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    • 333 2  - Laurel, Hardy in Paris COLLIE KNOX By IN Paris nothing is surprising. I passed Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall walking arm-in-arm along the Place de la Concorde on their way to film-mak-ing m Africa, and did not give them a third look. If someone had told me that immediately on
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    • 234 2 Princess Margaret Prefers Peck j^^ußurt^^WrtCMlTTTTb^ PRINCESS Margaret confided recently to Mr. Ronald Neame, producer of "The Ma*ic Box" for the Festival of Britain, that her favourite film star was Gregory Peck. "He is exceptionally good looking," (She said. "And it's not often that you get someone 6O good looking who's
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    • 503 2  -  GENE HANDSAKER By HOLLYWOOD. TVDRIS Day gets the most fan mail of anybody at Warner Brothers— about 1,500 letters a week. The ones that please her most say their writers saw one of her pictures several times. The record is 14 sittings through "Tea for
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      • 154 2 Remember Inljl Kf ■lil i BLJ Sole Agents for Malaya ■rltish Nort:. low tangcham; umiti Singapore r.nd i EPHEDROL quickly relieves i COLDS and L 1 CATARRH W It clears the na>al pas. j B&£r sa^es to remove stutfincvs WBB A 1 and the distressing conditions of head colds and
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    • 745 3 says Eleanor Yager Born 19 years ago. this exciting new sport is gaining popularity and devotees insist that it is not difficult to learn. HjOST people have tlie idea thai water skiing is about as safe as riding on Ihe tail of a rocket and most
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    • 406 3 (Continued from Page 1) ing with the whispers. I tried to ignore it. but it insisted on obtruding itself into my mind. The picture began to fade. The Mandarin's face became blurred and his gown less gorgeous. He dropped his hand to his side with a gesture
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    • 633 4  -  CHARLES BRYCE By SOCCER referee does not often sustain an injury on the field of play, but this happened t<> Sgt. Moreton last week. Thirteen minutes before the end of a Singapore Amateur Football Association Division I match at Jalan Besar Stadium, he
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    • 83 4 GOALKEEPERS NIGHTMA RE •pu.\^i\ fellers, have 1 a heart we can't stop so many shots all at once." Jerry Dawson (left former Glasgow Rangers, Falkirk and Scotland goalkeeper, and Jimmy Brown, Hearts goalkeeper are simultaneously having goalkeepers' nightmares. Dawson could not stand up to the shots and turns away, while
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    • 64 4 "JWO of Australia's leading professional cyclists. Victorians Graeme French and Stan James, leave on July 5 for Europe as a twoman team. Each has good records m Australia m handicaps, sprints and five to ten mile races French won the Australian and State 10- 1
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    • 497 4 B> CRLSADKK PRELIMINARY discussion on the proposal tor Singapore to share m the Hong KongManila scheme tor bringing: out European teams to play m the Far East took piace at this weeks meeting of the Singapore Amateur Football Association Council. The secretary of the
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    • 500 4  -  IVAN SHARPE By rpHE South is thumb- in°: its nose. Where's the Cock o' the North? Before Herbert Chapman went to London and won the crown for Arsenal, the League championship had never gone below Birmingham m 38 seasons. Now. it seems, the cockerel of
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    • 223 4  -  OLYMPIAN VARSITY SPORTSMEN By ]V|OST versatile spoils man at the University of Malaya is pro bably Rudolph William Mosbergen. Rudy, as hb friends call him, plays at least seven different games, besides being 3 useful shot-putter. From 1946 to 1948 he represented St Joseph's Institution at
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