The Singapore Free Press, 19 April 1951

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA y 15.060 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1951. rnuv ten i nts,
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  • 175 1 LITTLE HOPE FOR 75 IN SUB. Not found by 'zero hour PORTSMOUTH, Thursday. is little hope of saving the 75 men rd the submarine Affray, stuck on the the Knglish Channel near the Isle of exact position has still not been d and her air supply was not expected to
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    25 1 A WORD m the ear of Princess Margaret by Earl Mountbatten, her neighbour at the premiere of the film "Captain Horation Hornblower R.N." m London.
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  • 132 1 Shinwell in jets for Esypt row LONDON, Thurs. THE Defence Minister, Mr. Lmanuel Shinwell. came under tire m the House of Commons yesterday. for sending jet engines and spare parti for jet fighter planes to Egypt. Replying to a Conservative, Mr. A. V. Harvey, he said only parts for essential
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  • 47 1 ARRESTED ON HOU SE ROOF Staff Reporter r.i^ht arrested men seen m the n r- k>k Ayer Sin :apore. The other IV. aa caught after > on the roof. dann was raLsed by a ...4 opposite who hree fio Ure s on the 999' and a r rived.
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  • 24 1 > Staff Reporter •m escorted by 1 constables was by bandits m the area yesterday. A poitenant and a conhred slight injuries
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  • 170 1 LONDON. Thurs. MR. Woodrow Wyatt, (Labour) asked m the House of Commons last night what were the intentions of the Governments of the Federation and Singapore about price controls and the publication of fixed prices of essential commodities. He also asked to what extent the
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  • 268 1 Politics not for me '—Mac A SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. PENERAL Douglas Mac- Arthur said yesterday: "I have no political aspirations whatever. I do not intend to run for political office and J. hope my name will never be used m a political way". Speaking before 25,000 cheering people In the
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  • 39 1 American casualties m Korea to Friday totalled 60,775, an increase of 1,379 over the previous week. The total included 9,195 killed, 40,181 wounded and 10,899 missing. Wounded who died raised the total deaths to 10,363- A.P.
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  • 177 1 TEHERAN, Thursday. ABOUT 5,000 strikers demonstrated outside Abadan, yesterday and were dispersed by tanks and military. Some were injured. Three injured labourers died m hospital. The Anglo-Iranian Oilt Company said intimidation m Abadan was increasing and agitators were continuing threats of violence against strike-breakers. Tanks
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    39 1 The Ist. Ba 4 t3lion Rcyil Inniskilling Fusiliers arrived at Southampton aboard the troopship Dilwarra last week after fighting and serving around the world for 17 years. Picture shows Fusilier J. W. Oliver, s-±en with his daughter Maureen Patricia.
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  • 27 1 Sardar Majibullah Khan, Dersonal envoy to the King )f Afghanistan, said m London yesterday that his country wanted to settle the frontier problem of Pakhtnonl^tan
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  • 204 1 U.N. closing in on Chorwon TOKYO, Thursday. ITNITED NATIONS task forces are closing m on Chorwon, south-western keypoint of the Communists' defensive concentration m Korea. Bur U.N. troops driving at the town from the south were driven back by furious Chinese resistance and artillery fire yesterday. Just south of the
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  • 106 1 Free Press Staff Reporter "I am feeling weak and I do not think I have the energy to walk to the plane," said Australia's sick atom scientist. Dr. Marcus L. Oliphant, when he was taken to Kallang Airport from Raffles Hotel this morning to catch a
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  • 30 1 The air chiefs of the United States, Britain, France and Canada will meet within the next two weeks to review turner fv<is by the air for- Reuter
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  • 18 1 A four-engined B-50 bomber crashed and burned yesterday on the Fort Bliss, Texas, military reservation.— A.P.
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  • 258 1 RETAIN BETTER TRUMAN: 'PACIFIC PACT CLOSER' i The condition of ex-Mar- WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE United States was close to agreement with Australia and New Zealand on a Pacific security system against aggression, President Truman said yesterday m Washington He said that the Dominion Governments had suggested an arrangement which would
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  • 66 1 The master plan for splitting up I. G. Farben. giant German chemicals and dyes empire was revealed by the Western Allies yesterday. The plan, which has been five years In the making. provides that about fourfifths of the trust's properties In West Germany will be
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  • 68 1 QUESTIONS ON LEPERS Mr. Stanley Awbery asked the House of Commons yesterday what supplies of sulphurtone were sent to the two leper colonies m Malaya m 1950. He also asked if the amount sent was sufficient to meet the requirements and what improvements m the treatment of leprosy had been
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  • 19 1 ON condition that the money be expended only m «terlin> cbUMriti. the British Go\emnvnt husMlllM-
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  • 82 1 FURTHER indication thai the Trade union movement is largely opposed to the striking: New Zealand dockworkers was given m broadcast last night by Mr. James Freeman, Vice-Pre-sident of the Dock workers m ion. He suggested that the strikers be told: "Enough of your wicked
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  • 33 1 Mr. Rorpt Lapham. head of the ECA mission m Grecro. has asked the Greek Government to refund over US$lOO,OOO of Marshal Plan r< Herat ions allegedly mispent on a road project.
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  • 123 1 MALAYA HAS SPARES FOR ITS ARMOUR LONDON. Thun BRITISH forces m Mi are usinK armoured vehicles made during Wo; 11, Mr John Dusdale. Minuter of State for < Affairs, told a questioner m the Commons yesterday. He denied, that tt were short of spare p supeested by the qu« Conservative
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    41 1 picture. KOYAL BRIDK: Th Sultan of Selingor's daughter, Tungku Bariah who is to be married to the Sultan of Trengganu's son on Sunday. pictured ><"st rdav with her attendants at the Borsndam ceremony trimminc of the evebroH.s and hair. Free Press
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 74 1 British Electro-Plating Works ,iv Kd Spore Phone 6377 From Raffles Hotel to Tengah Airport or the Racecourse to Johore if we placed our month s sausage sales end to end they d cover the same distance. Sausages are nourishing and cheap no wonder we sell such a lot of them
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    • 66 1 SHE BESPOKE TAILORS i THAT CAN i r\ satisfy you Betty lovci bet pllppici and looks after them carefully, just as Mummy looks after Betty's perfect complexion. For Mummy sees that her little daughter uses Pea is Soap she knows that Pears' transparent purity and tonic action are preparing Betty
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  • 216 2 Mont mar tre Characters THfc LITTLE MADELEINE. ky Mrs. Robert Henrev. Dint. THIS book, though really 1 an autooiography, is as •live and fascinating as a i ass novel. Mis, Robert Henrey. now i rieci to an Englishman. v s born under the shadow Jacre Coeur m Monti Ire. In
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  • 732 2  -  GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON By THE LETTERS OF EZRA POUND. Ed. D. D. Paige. Faber. The ABC OF READING. By Ezra Pound. Faber. A PATROL of Allied soldiers moving cautiously forward m North Italy (1945) made an interesting literary find. He was a shabby man of
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  • 520 2  -  Jon Hope By DAPER shortage will 1 restrict the first printing of The Hinge of Fate— the fourth volume of Winston Churchill's war memoirs. It will need a second edition to bring the number of copies up to 300,000— the figure topped by each of the first three volumes.
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  • 760 2  - Spokesman for a Generation PETER QUENNELL reviews new books m the U.K. World within World. The Autobiography of Stephen Spender. (Hamish Hamilton). STEPHEN SPENDER back from India, where he has been hard at work diffusing sweetness and light for UNESCO, the PEN Club, or some other benevolent institution is evidently
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  • 413 2 H. G. WELLS, by Vini> cent Brome, Longmans. IT is yet too early to estiy mate Wells's final poj» sition m the hierarchy of <* greatness, but as seen *<l from the twentieth cen- <> tury he is generally conJ sidcred to be one of the
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  • 208 2  -  Robert Ottaway By 1 Pies. O'Connor Outstanding, comical cob Irish .short you will v read. So bin Ctajagal i Moravia g burg> Ma> torrid lore Italian Exquis I The Mesh. b\ shal (Reiner winning Frei cerning tha pntcvivi n coddled tt wed w.r. observed and lanczi. F estinx
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    • 198 2 ECONOMICS Economic doctrine by Cray $4 50 Introduction to Economics by Cairncross A Social and Economic History of British by Cregg International Economics by Salera The Substance of Economics by Silverman Bio- Economics by Yahuda The Groundwork of Economics by Silverman The Development of the Soviet Economic System by Baykov
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 238 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you are artistic, yet thoroughly practical. You know pretty well what >ou want out of life and plan to get it. Since you have a Kreat deal of self-confidence, you are willing to take chances :hat others might not dare. Even if you have had
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    • 86 2 Hew Crossword No. 331 CLUES ACROSS 1. Dramatk- wartime de.stination (8 3). 7 Though Mrsi^pnt t cm no puuer (id. 8. Sufficiently certain (4, 6) 10 Fiok m dish fnr -c <, 3). 13. A select race increases speed (11) 15 Bakery anector^ don't sit on them at table (5,
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    • 37 2 Solution To Crossword No. 330 Across: 1. Assurance; 8 Small fg :haage; 9. .Ordeal; 12. Erie; J3. 1 Andorra; 15. lot*; 16. Pieces; 18. i rranslatkm; 19. Represent, fkma ;H I. Sun4.^t Ea^e; 3. tTnWM^. 4 S
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  • 107 3 Ceylon Govt urged: 'Ban alcohol' COLOMBO. Thurs. r y won Government was 1 a to prohibit the alcohol at all State s either m Ceylon or i m a resolution passed nicety attended public In Colombo. resolution also re;ted the establishment of •jerance Department to the public on the drink
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  • 48 3 d 30 hours of their 22 special officers appointed to illegal immigration a arrested 45 sus- r and around beaches ar m Ceylon's northi vince. se police officers were i under the special ."-v recently set up tc 'he drive against immigration frnr»i Reuter
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  • 67 3 Inquiries have come trom the United States Consulate m Melbourne about a new Austra H an drink which* tastes like something between beer and champagne and. according to reports, has no hangover effect. Mixer Harry C. Wallent. an Adelaide wine merchant, said hU new brew can be drawn
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    289 3 was t lßi f it had le^s per cent, charce be--\.(h hand happened to losintj diamonds. Ned less than a I r hope of that 30 per ince ia riecbrrr's very but South knew BtaM of hearts. depended trick m .-.1 either vinuliif the break VtMUd enab'.p South
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  • 52 3 FISHERMEN at Looe, Cornwall, England, were told that the local canning factory could take no more pilchards because of the shortage of packers. So they went to the factory and helped. They worked day and night till they removed the bottleneck. Then they went to
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  • 103 3 COLOMBO, Thurs. MANPOWER experts from w the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation are to carry out a comprehensive labour survey m Ceylon within the next few months. The experts are being sent at the request of the Ceylon Government
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  • 330 3 MISSIONARIES ATTACKED Accused by Chinese Reds VIOLENT »«a NG KONG Thursday. 'arf w n m t ny minds la «»tasti C charges authorit^ S. by the Chhlese Corrfmunist autftorities against foreign missionaries. Hn^i v alle sations, according to observers m S r U& over la th ge y j^ ended
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    45 3 NEW ENVOY-Ceylon s new High Commissioner m London. Mr. E. A P Wijeyeratne. former Minister of Home Affairs. Speaker of the Ceylon State Council m 1935. Mr. Wijeyeratne succeeded Si r Oliver Gooneil[*ke as Home Minister m 1948, and succeeds him m his new post.
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  • 22 3 Northampton Watch Committee recommends to the town council that policewomen should each get six pairs of nylons a year.
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  • 26 3 GOV T. TAKES THIRD In Australia, according to the Federal Statistician, Dr. Roland Wilson. 1.883.400 men work for private enterprise and 559.300 for the Government.- Reuter
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  • 222 3 JOHANNESBURG, Thursday. JOHN Nissen, ex-JR.A.F. radar expert, could not describe the bones of the hand m Afrikaans, so South Africa's Air Force examiners decided he could not be promoted from private. He is quitting the Service, leaving the Union force without an experienced radar instructor. After
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    28 3 Z-MAN REPORTS— Leading Stoker Mechanic W. M. 8011. of County Durham, after drawing: his kit and i! 5 bounty money. He was one of the first naval Z-men.
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  • 45 3 Wrong answer BALTIMORE. Thurs. A insurance salesman, met at the door by a housewife with two black eyes and a bruised nose, asked who was responsible. "My husband, she replied. "He asked me who I thought was right MacArthur or Truman.. I said Truman."- A.P.
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  • 113 3 GREENOBLE, Thurs. SOME of the best skiers from Chamonix have made the first ascent of Mont Blanc this year to survey the wreckage of the Indian airliner, Princess of Malabar, which crashed on the Tournette Rock, just below the summit, on November 4 last year, killing
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  • 71 3 PARIS, Thurs. A BABY market m which new-born, unregistered infants were on sale for £100 each is being investigated by Paris police. Some of France's richest families have been purchasers m 23 cases so far uncovered. Market headquarters was m Montparnasse— the Soho of Paris next door
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    18 3 "I NEVER WEIGHED THIS MUCH BEFORE SINCE IVE BEEN IN 'a THE ARMY I~ <4~+, «'/J I
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  • 69 3 Communist China plans to double its output of black tea this year m order to accommodate Soviet-bloc countries, the Shanghai News reported. The output of green tea will be halved at the same time. This move is thought to be aimed primarily at Tibet, which consumes
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 64 3 F^lidrSkfi Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya Thousands of miles away, thbron I -but r couldn't V thue. nahda good, i need your help, them* am ■-vTwha, is* n. R da jsi3^^b^^d SKSK JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya '\-l~}"j°£* Sf T^N^O^yOU^SELF /°viAT EE I*FALLE
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    • 191 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore] (BLL'fc NETWORK) 445 pm programme Summary; 10 a.m. Emergency News; 12 4.47 From the London Editorials pmMmmM w a ay nm (BBC); 4.55 Composer of the Week Programmes m Mala>, 1 p.m. Ricnard StrausS 5 .15 statement Light Music Medley; 1.30 Tim* of Account (BBC); 5.30 Adven-'
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  • 497 4 THURSDAY. April 19 1951. The rural Cinderella T. complaint by Mrs. V Mtnon. the elected mber for Seleta:. Singapore's rural as are being giver, motherly treat j \\i" m the matter services draws •/ion to the con- skirmishes between urban and rural <I t is I ."<ct;'d m the I
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  • 805 4  -  CYRIL RAY The Moscow Scene By T^HE new Soviet Dip- lomatic Dictionary" is now on sale, summing up m its two volumes, as the "Literary Gazette approvingly observes, "the repulsive hypocrisy, monstrous lack of principle, the self-interest and venality peculiar to the imperialist powers'' and "the
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  • 699 4  - It Seems To Me POLITICO By SINGAPORE is justly proud of the TenYear and Five-Year Education Plans, without which thousands of children would be without schooling today. It can be equally proud of the boys and girls the schools are turning out. Take the boys of Katong who have joined
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  • 644 4  -  ALEXANDER CLIFFORD THE i WORLD YOU LIVE IN By THE bombs which Israel's planes have dropped on Syrian soil (very close to the spot where the Gadarene swine thundered down into the Sea of Galilee 19 centuries ago) have livened up one of
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  • 1033 4  -  NORMAN LINDHURST Lowenstein leads students on British bombing decision issue By DEER steins and wine 13 glasses are being lifted by Heidelberg students these days m raucous toasts to the "hero of Heligoland", and student wine restaurants resound to the old drinking songs. The man who
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  • 25 4 Teachers Strike Now H r o it i». that sour mot ire* uen a< tuatwt %oltl\ h\ our ti-jht ttvninst vlosfti s-hvp f>olic% P JON
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  • 30 5 FRAEWELL GIFT FROM STAFF I. t,-«" J B, l..*npllie Malay silver I jrfsented to them by ihe I nited Staies < p»cral and 1.5.1.5. I ft hetrrr their >>m Sinsapo^e. pr-ur^.
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  • 47 5 Ing against r Eulati n en- b> tnc Ccm- ::.ment rei;ardna was Kwangtana the Singapore Kuan 'Can- As* the Mah B As- the -iore H I was en- 1. ZtatM tuat bo v. ;-h to :i t~ lon from •.e Chinese Com-
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  • 67 5 The Hongkong University Alumni Association will hold its general meeting at the City -lub, Kwangtung Bank building Cecil Street, on April 27, at 7.30 P-JTI-The meeting will be followed by I a dinner. The number of members of reKistcred Trade Unions m the j Federation at
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  • 321 5 WOMAN WORKERS WORRY BUILDING TRADE Call for training of skilled labour m Spore thf i Free Press staff Reporter 1 trad^n f men -<*Pecially young girls-in the building who t»nt Slni?a or e I s cau «n* concern to engineers m the Colony Tf wK !°k cc a tramin e
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  • 587 5 THE Association of Engineers m Singapore recently considered the establishment of a training school m the Colony for skilled labours, but was unable to arrive at any decision on the subject ,ii V 1 meetin g al so saw no prospect of obtaining skilled
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  • 213 5 rE Singapore Art Society's secund annual exhibition of the vor> of artist* resident m Singapore. Malaya and Sarawak will be declared open by MaiorGeneral D. Dunlop. at 5 p.m tomorrow m the Eritish Council Hall. Th" exhibition will remain cpen daily tnereafter from 9
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  • 130 5 Rubber export ban COUNCILLOR TO QUERY AUTHORITY OF FED. GOVT. THE Government of the Federation of Malaya will be asked at the first meeting of the new Legislative Council on Wednesday next week under what authority it had introduced its ruling that no rubber can be exported except to specified
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  • 210 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. yyiTHIX a few days of the opening of a stall to sell food at low prices m the Katong Market, Singapore, by boys of the Victoria School Civics Club, (shown m the picture above) a number of
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  • 263 5 PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS TO SCHOOL CHILDREN '«ii« com r adore ot Shell Cj-ipinv. Mr. Chin? Kee San,' who recenly retired from service, was presented with a silver plaque at a a dinner given m his honour at the Happy World on
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  • 93 5 Free Press Staff Reporter jyflO/JS schools m the Colony should adopt the scheme of "staggering" dismissal hours to prevent accidents to School children, Mr. G. D. Hunter-Gray, ASP. m charge of the Traffic Department, told the Free Press yesterday. Mr. Hunter-Gray added that a few schools
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  • 40 5 The Singapore Customs Department collected $3,--386,639 m Entertainment Duty last year. This was about $450,000 more than m 1949. Of the tota l Entertainment Duty collected last year, $2,726,357 came from cinemas and $348,444 from sports.
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  • 70 5 Correspondence is going on between the Commissioner of Labour the Perak-Hydro Employees Union and the Perak Hydro Ltd., as to the form of arbitration to s 1 le the dispute between the Union and the Company. It is reliably learnt that It will be a
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  • 46 5 piHurf. Mrs. Elizabeth (hoy (Nominated) and (rifh Mr«. Vilasi»i Menon (Independent member for SeleUr District) at their seats on either side of Che Ahmad bin Mohamed bin Ibrahim (Nominated) at Toesday's opening session of the Singapore Legisla ive Council. Free Press
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  • 246 5 REORGANISATION OF SMC DEPTS. Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners have det tied to leave open the question of whether or not they should engage the services of Mr. X A Withers, of the London firm of efficiency experts, to ad\Ne on the re-organisation
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  • 150 5 CLOTHING FOR SQUATTERS IN FEDERATION Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Kwangtur.g Hui Kuan 'Canton Provincial Association) has decided to make arrangements for sending old clothing for Chinese squatters m the Federation resettlement areas m response to an appeal from the various Cantonese community 'guilds m the Federation. The decision
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  • 34 5 The Old Foik.s 1 BOTH buU by the Perak Chinese Welfare Association at the fifth mi.c. Ooprnp Road, will iy officially opem-i on May 3 by the Sultan of Per ale.
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  • 538 6  -  Navy hang on to first-half goal Xv CRUSADER Ko\al .Navy 1; Singapore A U, SINGAPORE Civilians "A* have still a lot to learn, judging by their display against Royal Navy m last evening's soccer match at Jalan Bern Stadium. In a 15-minute attacking spell from
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    30 6 picture. Ibrahim YusofT, Singapore "A" right-winger, dribbles m as he is being tackled by Herbert, Navy's left half. On the right, waiting to intercept, is Stutchbury, Navy's centre-half. Free Press
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  • 50 6 npHE Indian table tennis team A continued their successful European tour yesterday by decisively beating the Saar at Saarbruecken. In the men's match India won by six matches to nil. without conceding a single set. The women's team won threenil aLso without dropping a same.- Reuter
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  • 79 6 S.C.F.A. TEAM V SINGAPORE 'A' ON SATURDAY CINGAPORE 'A will meet v Singapore Chinese F.A. at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday. The Chinese team wil be selected from the following: Loh Fook Teng. Sect Yew Chang. Son Teow Keng, Chan Yew Heng. Yip Chong Kum, Ng Kok Tong. Foo Hee
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  • 66 6 L ACEY TO LEAD U.K. GOLFERS j^RTHUR Lacey has been] selected non-playing cap- tXIn and manager of the 1 Rider Cup golf team to play the United States m the pro-! fessional international match, at Pinehurst. North Carolina, on Nov. 2 and 4. Lacey played for Britain against the United
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  • 206 6 F* A. CUP finalists Newcastle United, who elimin- ated Bolton Wanderers m the tournament earlier this season, were beaten one-nil by Bolton m the First Division of the English League yesterday. Former England centre-forward Lofthouse scored the running goal. Huddersfteld Town saved themselves from relegation with
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  • 78 6 Reuter A.P. YtStOtUy'a U.K. Rugby League resuhs were: Barrow 28, Featherstone Rovers 0; Bradord Northern 0 Keighley i 7; Bramley 12, Halifax 6; Leigh 13, Rochdale Hornets 2; St. Helens 9, Huddersfielcl 14; Swinton 14, Salford 20; Waket'ield Trinity 26, Leeds 18; Whitehaven 8. Warrington 2; York
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  • 26 6 MELBOURNE. Wed Chicquita. greatest stake winning mare racing m A'ostralia. was injured at trackwork yesterday. She injured her near foreleg and her future is m doubt.
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  • 300 6 ROYAL Army Pay Corps (Singapore) entered the final of the football competition 1951 by defeating Royal Corps of Signals I goals to two at Nee Soon yesterday. An even game brought the h, both sides, and if Signals had shown more polish m
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  • 53 6 DOYAL Air I defeated Sin" sians XI by four" m a_ thrilling on the Pada Eurasians lead when Ki.. i penalty but ln minute Sulenr.: for Airmen. Airmen went forti when Suleiman second goal b, val. A^ f -er the Eurasians di goal by Bgained the up,,
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    36 6 picture. Mutton, Royal Navy goalkeeper, pushes away the ball as Ah Hoe < right) and another Singapore *'A M forward rush up. The fame, played at JaUn Besar Stadium yesterday, was won one-nil by Navy. Free Pres
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  • 64 6 JHREE second h 1 enable Baa S.C i feat Malayan two m a Bu^ toccer match 2 Thomson Road yresterd led the with two goals by B and Hon Yarn. P ftrs[ ce h d aff. BOal f r B Bata roocht bacK |r
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  • 35 6 UARINE Department beat lfl Hotspurs S.C by six goals to nil m a Third Division League match at Geylang yesterday. Omar Awang, Wahab Abu and Ali Sugor each scored two goals.
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  • 60 6 MALAYAN badminton players won all their matches m the indoor tournament which started at Oslo last night. Wong Peng Soon beat Willy Nielsen. (Norway) 15-2. 15-3. Ong Poh Lim accounted for Norway's champion. Johan Elgaan. 15-8. 15-8. Ismail bin Marjan beat Reidar Engebrepsen (Norway) 15-10. 15-12
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  • 34 6 Borneo Moters win four-one DORNEO U v Malaya I by four goals to a Business Ho.. match at A day. Scorers for tornc M were Webster and An Yf!)\v H for M P H
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  • 345 7 life Buoy again impresses I From ALLAN LEWIS KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. V FLAG (Charles) did a splendid on the Kuala Lumpur training track runs when he reeled off three furlongs -the fastest gallop of the day Qbei two grass track, which was opened was very heavy
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  • 41 7 ROYAL Singapore Golf Clubs April L.G.U. Medal was played on Monday afternoon. It resulted m a win for i Mrs. Wicks m the Silver [Division 89-18=71 and for Mrs. V. C. Cutler m the Bronze Division 101-27=74
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  • 41 7 Playing with better combination. Chin Yoon Fook and Nayagan yesterday won the V.M.C.A. open iiinior doubles tennis title after a .hree-set victory over Yau Meng Pai and Ong Beng Bee. Chin and Nayagan won by 6-2. i 4-6. 6-2.
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  • 51 7 SOCCER: Div. 1: Indonesians v t Indian R.C. at stadium; Div. 2: Kola Raja 'A' v Star Socceritcs at (Dylans; Div. 3B: 8.0.D.C.A. 'A' V.M.M.A. at BODCA; Business Hsr Lee. A: Pulau Bukom v Breweries at YMCA; Business Hse. L<e. B (.uthrirs Mansfield at Farrer Park. TENNIS: V.M.C.A.
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  • 249 7 pLORY Van Donok. the F Belgian golf professional, led the field with a fine score of 67 m the Silver King £1.350 72-hole golf tourney at Moor Park, near Stockmansworth. yesterday. Van Donck played the 6.073 yard West course with great skill, one of his
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  • 300 7 T>OYAL Air Force Changi cricket teams for the week-end are: Saturday— friendly v. 223 BOD. R A P. Changi Ist XI: F Lt. Barton (capt.}. FLt. Buckland, FO Cosh, Sgt. Bowman Sgt. Burton. Sgt. Hutchinson, Cpl. Buchanan. L.A.C Beames. L.A.C. Hopkins. L.A.C Haughton. L.A.C. Fitzpatrick Umpire:
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  • 49 7 picture. The winning Army Cup Final team. 4th. Training Regiment R E.iVI.E. (Blackdown). Left to right (on floor) Colby and Collins- iront row (sitting) Nock Hallet. Wilkin.s (captain). Tansey. Hall; back row Maj. Hall (manager). Shea. Herbertson. Thomson. Farkes. and Sgt. Nelson (trainer). Army News Service
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  • 247 7 4 S.CC CAMES THIS WEEK SINGAPORE Cricket Club will play no fewer than four matches this week-end, two on Saturday and another two on Sunday. S.C.C. meet Singapore Recreation Club on Sunday m the Singapore Cricket Association senior tournament. Recs were last year's winners, but S.C.C,
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  • 24 7 Free Press Correspondent TAIPING. Thurs.— Combined Services scored a 5-0 victory over the British Military Hospital m their first division soccer fixture.
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  • 67 7 LONDON. Wed.— Dave Sands. Australian holder of the Empin middleweight title, will train at Newcastle for the defence of his title against Randolph Turpin. the British and European champion this summer. He is expecrd to arrive m England on May 8. Sands trained
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  • 48 7 Colonials C.C. team on Sunday v S.C.C. at the Padang (friendyt will be:— F. Choppard (Capt.t. \V Hatnayake, G. Woodford, A. X nando, G. Fernandez, H. L. Jinadaaa, R. Sitharam. D. Miller, G. N. Woodhull. Mohamed Shah J. de Souza, D. Kruseman, E M. O. Wolff.
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  • 365 7 Grand National 'too severe From VERNON MORGAN •PHE debacle m this year's Grand National Steeple- chase, m which only two of the 36 runners completed the course without falling, has raised the question: "Is the race too severe?'' Some think it is and a number of modifications have already been
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    • 75 7 5 CAMES FOR INDONESIANS CIVE matches have been arranged m Singapore for Indonesia's Asian Games soccer team, which is expected to arrive here on May 3. The five games for the visitors are: Saturday, May 5: v. Malays. Sunday, May 6: v. Singapore "A." Wednesday, May 9: v. Combined Services.
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    • 364 7 Allen Cup cricket: sides picked TEAMS for University of Ma- laya's inter-Faculty cricket match for the Allen Cup are: Arts and Science: N Thillagaratnan <capt.», P. A. Hamid, M.C. Pasupathy, B. R. Maries, J. D. de Silva, J. P. R. Menon, A. Rajaratnam, Tan Boon Teck. J. Delilkan, V. Meyhantan,
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  • 220 8 Temporary move by UN committee LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. T*HE United Nations three-man Good Offices Committee has decided not to act on the North Korean peace offer for the time being, according to a diplomatic source at Lake Success. The Arab-Asian group, which has considered the
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  • 179 8 25,000,000 FACING STARVATION NEW DELHI, Thurs. pAMINE m Bihar State will become more severe than at any time since the great famine of 1871, according to predictions by Indian experts who have just completed a survey. Government officials confirmed that deaths from starvation are steadily increasing m North Bihar "though
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  • 82 8 Pact proposed with Reds WASHINGTON. Ihurs. THE U.S. State Department said yesterday it had "under study" a letter from the Italian Foreign Minister. Count S'forza. sussesting that the North Atlantic Treaty powers should offer Russia and other Communist countries a non-ag-gression pact. Mr. Michael McDermott. State Department spokesman said Count
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  • 202 8 TO PAY £300 FOR 'BREACH' [VAKK HAIRED Miss Joan Wilson was having lunch m the restaurant of the High Court, London, when a jury of 10 men and two women' awarded her £300 breach of promise damages She .heard the news from her solicitor Her
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  • 67 8 BEYIN IS CREMATED The cremation of Mr.. Ernest Bevin. Britain's former Foreign Secretary, took place yesterday m the presence of world diplomats, politicians, trade union leaders and other public figures. Outside the chapel was the greatest profusion of wreaths twtt seen at a cremation —142 of them from Kings and
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  • 44 8 President of Portugal dead President Antonio Oscar Carmona. of Portugal, died m his 81st year yesterday. The Portuguese Government decreed 15 days' official mourning. The President died peacefully holding his wife's hand. His two daughters and three grandchildren were also at his bedside A.p.
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  • 28 8 Yesterday's closing quotations on the Hong Kong money exchange market were: HKS6.O4 6.095 per US$l. HK515.60 per sterling. HK5315.1 per tael of gold.— rr v> U.P.
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  • 55 8 An Anglo-Argentine trade agreement will be signed shortly, a high ranking Argentine Government official predicted yesterday. Dr. Camporal. Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. told reporters that the British and Argentine negotiators have "practically finish- ed work on the draft of a treaty and said it
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  • 167 8 Six sign Schuman Plan PARIS, Thurs. OIK NATIONS yesterday signed the Schuman Plan treaty here merging their coal and steel resources m a vast European pool. The Foreign Ministers of France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg signed the treaty m the historic Clock Room of the French Foreign
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  • 94 8 JAKARTA. Thurs. AFTER three weeks of fruitless efforts to form a new Indonesian Cabinet, the Nationalist party leader. Dr. Sartono, returned his mandate yesterday to President Soekarno. The President named another Nationalist leader, Mr. Sidik Djojosukarto, and the Moslem M&sjuml Party's leader. Dr. Sukiman. to a
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  • 49 8 The flood situation m central, western and southern Sweden has been aggravated by heavy rains. Large areas of the central Swedish plain have been turned into a vast inland "sea" where only the telegraph poles and power lines mark the roads and railways. A. P.
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  • 24 8 An Arab shepherd was killed, one was seriously Injured and another detained yesterday after an armed clash on the Syrian-Israeli border. Reuter
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  • 25 8 Five British pest control experts left by air yesterday for Iran to help fight a locust plague, the worst m 50 years.
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  • 188 8 LONDON, Thursday. T^HE London Stock Exchange yesterday made a strong start to the new account, states Reuter's financial correspondent. Many gains were shown by leading industrials and the recent down-trend m gilt-edged was reversed. Investment buying created sharp gains m oils under the lead of
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  • 36 8 Yugoslav officials said yesterday that it is not yet certain if Marshal Tito is to undergo an operation. Earlier it was reported that he is to be treated for a gall blader disorder. A.P.
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  • 26 8 The United States has put some of its newest Snort submarines into Korean waters and at least one has been m combat. A.P.
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    48 8 Once ijrain the delegates of the Big Four Power* enter the 'Pink Palace' m Paris to talk about an agenda for a meeting of their Foreign Ministers. DR. PHILIP JESSUP for the U.S. M. ALEXANDRE PARODI for France. MR. ERNEST DAVIES for Britain. And MR. GROMYKO for Russia.
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