The Singapore Free Press, 23 April 1951

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N 15. D63 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1951 PRICK TFN FATS
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  • 293 1 Wilson may follow him from Cabinet r,iiv v rx. LONDON, Monday. a tew hours of Mr. Aneurin Roan's resignation from the ernment, Mr. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, rnu'd as a supporter of Mr. Bevan, last night saw Mr Attlee m a ion
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  • 59 1 Two S.C.s die in attack by bandits Pf«i Staff Reporter .VI L'MPL'R. Mon. T«:is;ables were .ack Bahru area They were on i .x. policeman vai he Grik area of 8a .rday v pened 1 50 -s a river. tin from Sin- Koala Lumpur was en Jagoh and his morning. no
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  • 39 1 Twelve people are under dntontion alter the twohour sceening of 1.250 peoin the 3ua:is Street area i lar^e force of armed Uce ''.irly yesterday. Twenty- four people were •r. finally detained, but 12 were released.
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  • 132 1 RUSSIA HAS 200 DIVISIONS HASWELL, England. Mon. 'pHE Defence Minister, Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, said yesterday he had reason to believe that Russia has increased her armed forces by 25 divisions m the past year. The Russian army now totalled 200 divisions, "many of them ready to be deployed m the
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  • 26 1 A plant for getting uranium from gold mine residue slimes is to be built by arrangement with the South African Atomic Energy Board.- Reuter
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  • 15 1 Japanese experts predict a Conservative (Government) victory m today's municipal elections. Reuter AAP
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  • 204 1 COOCH BEHAR (Northeast India), Monday. -TROOPS were calied out m Cooch Behar yesterdaj to maintain order following Saturday's food riots m which six people were killed and 31 injured when police fired. Two more instances of crowd violence were reported yesterday. A crowd attacked
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  • 87 1 rOVERNMENT food m U spectors will check all shops m Singapore from today to see that ret%ilers keep to the "fair price" list published this morning. Mr. YV. W. Jenkins. Deputy Controller of Supplies, said this morning that the Government was not going to distribute
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  • 92 1 LONDON. Mon. A plane carrying 11 British delegates to the May Day celebrations m Peking left Prague yesterday for Moscow. The delegation was said to be composed of nine men and two women, headed by a Doncaster coal miner, Jock Kane. The agency quoted Kane
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  • 177 1 REDS MASS FOR NEW ATTACK TOKYO, Mon. A MAJOR Communist attack i s imminent along the western front m Korea and may come within 24 hours, according to Army intelligence reports. United Nations patrols repoted that the Chinese were grouped m assault formation m a narrow but very big buildup.
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  • 31 1 The United States embassy m Rangoon has strengthened security arrangements. Six men of the United States Marines have just arrived to keep a 24-hour watch on the building.- Reuter
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  • 22 1 Thirty-eight people are feared drowned by the capsizing of a ferry boat crossing the Brahmaputra River near Dhubri, Assam- A.P.
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  • 69 1 A SINGAPORE bridegroom smiles at the efforts of hLs supporters to get him into a house where his bride awaits him. In due course, according to custom, he was allowed in after his supporters had paid a sufficiently large "entrance fee." The bridegroom (wearing fefc) is Syed
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  • 101 1 HONG KONG, Mon. THE New China News Agency said yesterday that an official of the former British Embassy m Nanking has apologised for what the agency termed "unreasonably meddling" with the laws of education" and advised to exercise "self-criticism," it said. The agency described him as a former
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  • 112 1 TEHERAN, Monday. TWELVE PERSONS were injured yesterday when Communist and anti-Communist groups fought with clubs and fists m the streets of Teheran. Police said a small home--1 made grenade exploded m the hands of one anti-Communist student as he was preparing to throw it among
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  • 16 1 An earth tremor lasting a few .seconds was felt m Northern Assam yesterday. Reuter
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  • 69 1 Mr. Ervin Hohensee, head of the "Mac Arthur for President movement, said m Washington yesterday that the boom for Mac Arthur was gaining strength and it will not take no for an answer. He said that despite the general's expressed desire not to be a candidate, letters
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  • 28 1 Martial law is to be lifted m five Central Burmese districts to permit free voting during the first regional elections tentatively fixed for June 15.— A.P.
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  • 325 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. OENVTOR Richard Nixon, Republican, yesterday charged that the Defence Department save m White House orders m preparing a "g*"*""* 1 rampaign" against General Douglas Mac Arthur. He said "scores" of Defence officials are digging through secret files to unearth data which will be
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  • 28 1 Eire's Minister of External Affairs. Mr. Scan Maeßridc yesterday advocated a federal Ireland as a means of uniting Eiro and the counties ol Northern Ireland.- Reuter
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  • 16 1 A Swiss plane crashed m Northern Italy y«'st»*rday killing; its four occupants. Reuter
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  • 307 1 U.S. gives guarantee to Pacific TOKYO, Monday THE United States determined to use its military might to support and protect its allies fully m the Pacific as well as m Europe, the IS. State Department special adviser, Mr. John Foster Dulles, said yesterday m Tokyo Mentioning fears now current that
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  • 34 1 Soldiers and policemen m tanks and armoured cars yesterday hunted for an estimated 70 Huk rebels who on Saturday ambushed and killed five American soldiers 'and one soldier's Philippmej born wife. U.P.
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  • 92 1 CAIRO. Mon. TGYPT has completed a draft reply to British proposals for revision of the AngloEgyptian treaty of 1936 Egypt's reply reportedly insists on the early evacuation by British forces of the Suez Canal zone and that the Egyptian and Sudan questions must be settled
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  • 35 1 Houses shook, window < ratil»'d and empty tin.<> iumpfd out of dustbins whei tremors hi' a 10-milo str r,f the western seaboard of VValf.s shoril/ a!u*r d N iama«p ua-> r^po: bed. Reuter
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  • 20 1 President Truman retun to Blair House yesterday aftor :i week-end v ui.\,. aboard th<» Idfntial varht Williamsbur. Reuter
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  • 992 2 Richest Man is Selling Out Here the fantastic story of the Nizam of Hyderabad, the man with a fortune of gems estimated to he worth £27,000,000 and a bank balance of £12,000,000. Yet. wUk all his wealth, he spends only seven shillings and sixpence a day. pRECIOUS stones and sold
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  • 65 2 METRO-G OLDWYNMAYER Producer. Jack Cummings, who recently mffered a wrenched back and was ordered by his physician to wear a brace i» sf-mbling a corset, received a gift recently. It was from Jane Powell appearing m the Technifc Si** fllm THE TENDER k HOURS, produced by Cumf
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  • 346 2 ISERVICE STATtONI Q—l had a new set of valves m mv car which wan rebored about 6.000 ?niles ago. When the engine runs slotc, there is a slight "whine' 1 coming apparently from the valves. When I race the engine it stops the noise. m
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  • 432 2  -  Thomas R.Henry By T*HE United States is A now the second largest producer of Uranium m the world. During the past year the amounts of this highly radioactive element, the basic ingredient m the atomic bomb and all projected developments of atomic energy, obtained from
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  • 903 2  - Where the Smartest Women Live ROBERT SHEARER BY I>OME is never more beautiful than m springtime.. During late March and into April the city's lovely flower beds are blossoming m a riot of colour, fountains are playing gently m every park and arbour. As the sun sets m gold every
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  • 96 2 THE Foreiign Office and the Treasury have a new problem on their hands: tryIng to find other jobs and homes for the large number of British Control officials returning to London from Germany. At one time British staffs m Germany topped the 20,000 mark. There are
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 164 2 iYOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you have exceptional talent which only needs the proper direction to make you one of the outstanding personalities of your age. Always keep m mind that genius, alone, is not enough! IS takes a stupendous amount of work to develop the genius for practical success.
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    • 118 2 Solution To Crossword No. 333 Across: 1. Butter; 7. Finger?; 8. Staffs: 9. Enteric; 11. Decocted; 15. Hercules: 17. Infidel; 18. Soothe; 19. Epithet; 20. Thorns. Down: 7. Beside: 2. Trance; 3. Effected: 4. Riant; 5, Ogled; 6. Train; 10. Teacloth; 12. Plater; 13. Assess; 14, Snipe; 15, Hilts; 16.
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  • 311 3 WOMAN COST DOCTOR THOUSANDS A negations over paternity fail LONDON, Monday. Al f Llllan Stungo changed into a red party frock as soon as she got back to Harley-street London But before she and her psychiatrist husband went out to celebrate she had a drink of champagne and talked about
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  • 95 3 LOS ANGELES. Mon A COURT has ordered Pier Angeli. 18-year-old Italian actress, to save 15 per cent, of her US$l,6OO monthly salary, even though she wants to support her family too. Miss Angeli had asked the court to approve her new oneyear contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios
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  • 32 3 Russia has ilrmanded the elimination of half the articles of the proposed UN. Human Rights Cov^.ant because they constituted "an Interference m the sovereign rights of United Nations member states."- A.P.
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  • 85 3 British film showmen have lifted a two and a half year ban on two pictures with scripts written by Ben Hecht The films are: "Where The Sidewalk Ends." with Dana Andrews; and "Whirlpool." starring this year'y Acadewiy Award winner Jose Ferrer. The films were barred
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  • 117 3 LONDON, Monday. MOl R has spread that the British Mission ttttag volunteers for Britain's coal mines is c n| preference to eligible bachelors, aged 18 vs the rumour, is "to make Englishmen and have them marry English girls". U reat/h-' found it necessary .igsestion. B i
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  • 120 3 LONDON, Mon. IyjISS Wendy Hiller, star of the film 'Pygmalion,' has been left US$l,OOO by an American who saw her only once— and that on the film. When the film was reissued m America some years ago it was seen by Mr. Charles Price,
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  • 52 3 A severe hailstorm swept over Gauhati, North Assam, for 10 minutes yesterday. Hailstones, some, the size of tennis balls, littered the streets and compounds but melted quickly Into pools of water. Farmers feared that the hailstorm— the second m a week— extensively damaged jute and rice
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  • 32 3 Three people died and nine were injured m a clash between armed jute mill workers and police m the border town of Biratnagar 150 miles northeast of Khatmandu, Nepal.— Reuter
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  • 26 3 Fourteen persons were killed and 20 injured when a bus plunged into a road embankment as it was speeding towards Manila.— Reuter
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  • 390 3 BY. M. HARRISON GRAY. TF exaggerated importance is 1 attached to the theory cf reverse bidding, ludicrous results often follow from its tie-up with the principle of preparation as, for instance, with a hand of this type. S Q 10, 6 3, H A Q J 3 4.DK6,
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  • 191 3 Allegation over pit recruitment LONDON, Monday. V(> compensation will be paid by the Government to a 50-year-old cloakroom attendant who spent several hours m Pentonville Prison, England, after being wrongly jailed on March 29 for three months for stealing a wallet which the 17-year-old complainant later found
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  • 67 3 Giant Klondike M t ke Mahone, 77, has died m Hollywood. He made £20.000 m the Alaska gold rush before he was 20; set up dog team records that have stood 52 years; was "The Strong Boy of the North"; knew "The Lady that's
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  • 23 3 Moscow Radio has launched a new Englishlanguage propaganda drive apparently aimed at American troops m Korea and the Far East.- Reuter
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  • 187 3 COI 180 I DR. James Rurnham, lamed political m thinks that if thr rame into power m < "S'alin would unrioub use thorn for his own pWi until racn time a fit. when ho would rrplace thrm with his own direct Agents." Dr. Burnham. un'i!
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  • 90 3 AUSTRAi.IA. THE Australian Prim* Minister. Mr. R O M<-n--zies has said the c rrnment had consistently adopt rd the attitude that no re-srowth oi militarism m Japan be allowed. He laid: What is overlooked If that the United States and Britain disagree with us II these
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  • 81 3 Mandarin duck persecuted The handsome mandarin duck, threatened With *-xti net ion m its native ba Ln China and Japai yin« establish itself In Britain. But it is being pc: I by the man with t lie gun who cannot resist its copper-red crest and orange-brown plum;: Twenty-one years ags
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    • 300 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore] (Bl.t'E NETWORK) Pm Programme Summary; T a 4.47 From the London Editorials 10 am. Emergency News fr^^. iBBC»; 5 Classical Records— RimKuala Lumpur; 1 p.m. Monda> sky-Korsakov; 545 The Debate inee; 130 Time Signal Continues <EBC'»; 6 Indonesian: i; 145 Home on the Range; New>s and Programmes
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  • The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, April 23, 1951.
    • 394 4 THE vexed and vexing question of allowances lor Legislative Councillors will receive a thorough airing when it is debated m Council next month on a motion submitted by the Progressive Party. T I t«a •> Unofficial nroup m the rtue of their a members, are Uing lor a
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    • 142 4 rDAY the Singapore Govment publishes its first "fair price"' list of >rntial commodities. It nils the public what they should pay— and not a cent more -for more than 150 different brands ol milk. Infant foods, tea. coffee, tinned fish. flour, jam. washing soap. cigarettes and tobacco. But
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  • 312 4 "Our men are young, but they were hardened m hill warfare tactics m Hongkong. They had got the measure of the enemy before I left. The 27th will go on hitting them for six as long as need be." LANCE-CORPORAL SYME, aged 21, of Clydebank, Glasgow,
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  • 497 4  - 'THEY 'RE GREAT SOLDIERS Sidney Rodin By VI HV soon LIEUTENANT EDWARD CUNNINGHAM, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, will stand up m his wheel chair m an Aldershot hospital to see it' he can walk on the artificial leg they are going to lit him. He lost his own
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  • 95 4 A page of glory. CYRIL ANYSLEY, Sunday Express Special Correspondent m Tokyo, cables: THE 27th Brigade entered the Korea war at the express request of General Mac Arthur who wanted infantry badly. They landed at Pusan on August 28 from Hong Kong dressed m jungle green and all ready for
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  • 288 4 By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT rpHE other day, Miss 1 Charlotte Bill, a stately old lady of 77, received a letter at her home at Slough. it began "My dear Lalla". Only one family called her Lalla the Royal Family. The letter was
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  • 1021 4  -  HALL ROMNEY OUR LONDON LETTER by ALAYA'S new radio iTI transmitter will be m use very soon. It will be adequate for Retting propaganda broadcasts from Britain relayed to the people of China and other countries of the Far East. That, at all events, is
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  • 740 4  -  Don Whittington By AUSTRALIAN MIS GOES TO WASHIh A MERICANS will find Percy Claude Spender, 53-year-old Sydney lawyer, Australia's new ambassador to the U.S., a very different personality than the present incumbent, Norman Makin. or his predecessors. Owen Dixon and R. G. Casey. Mr.
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  • 89 4 CAT'S I m: test p:. pride m day when he on the par.v's Wfti lookiJ r ie; airli tossed ab<n:" somothir.e hk a million i looked trnible and I other Con <Ls pie' look indifTrrf Putting their paces of cake' for I proved the and be**
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    • 118 4 2nd Floor 5 13, Battery Rd. For Exclusive I AFTERNOON EVENING COCKTAIL FROCKS I LARGE COLLECTION OF WOOLLEN SUITS. "from fib* hmmbl* acorn..-"! On the lit J«ly, 1925, a very tawnble acorn »a* p|> on the Mand of Singapore. Today that acorn hM b* a larg« and flovriobinf oak. Rathor
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  • 274 5 OBSTACLES TO POLICE WAR AGAINST CRIME Corruption, shortage of aff, public apathy PTION .k S K Report™ Considering these hindrances m their system, the Colony Police are ger.r rally not doing badly this year, although their r.rime-and-ar-rest figures for the first quarter may not suggest it. There were 2.245 crimes
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  • 28 5 vi.thk-ta. Kfjeni io«n p<> ft h.ndjt tarcef- b) i har-e of Hvin-. l'»n«'s m the II I I tt Ten^ah I Free Press plain. <
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  • 22 5 BANDITS KILL 'KING' OF PULAI of Fuai. 5-i-year-N m older oi bandits on Dg home I P; lai D hehur o I
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  • 230 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r PHE use of dachings for weighing by stallholders m Municipal markets may be abolished if a proposal before the Health Committee of the i Municipal Commissioners is accepted with the object of preventing short or false weights
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  • 189 5 Free Press Staff Reported. r 'THE following rewards ofTercd by the Singapore Police during the first quarter of this year remain unclaimed: f 1 .000 fur information on the murder of Deter ive Constable No. 2SO, Ang Beng Siong at 7.50 p.m. on Jan. 2, 1951. at thr
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  • 143 5 Disregard of General orders Regulations 'THERE was a widspread disregard of General Orders and Colonial Regulations m the keeping of accounts of Singapore Government m 1948. observes the 1948 report of the adult of the accounts of the Colony, just published. The report says that this was due to the
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  • 54 5 T lEUT. Graham Leslie William*. Malayan Royal tfaral Volunteer Reserve, has been promoted to the rank of Acting Li«t*enantCoramander and seconded for duties a* CommandlAl Officer. sea Mocre. Malayan Rovml Naval Volunteer Reserve, hai been seconded for duties to the Sea Cadet Corps ai Act J^s
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  • 39 5 B.I. freighter in ocean rescue THE crack 8.1. freighter CHANDPARA, which took part m an ocean rescue of mere than 1,000 Australiabound immigrants on the s.s. Linguria recently, pictured on her arrival m Sinuanore on Friday. Free Press picture.
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  • 115 5 Audit story of a stolen motor car THE report on the audit of the accounts of the Colony for 1948 contains the following story of a motor cariA motor car allotted during the British Military Administration period icas stolen without trace. The car was comprehensively insured and it teas later
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  • 70 5 The Governor, Sir Franklin Gunson. visited the Fisheries Department m Teiok Ayer Basin on Friday last when representatives of two Ash merchants' associations m the Colony waited upon him with a memorandum of their grievances. Picture shows the Governor discussing their grievance* through an interpreter. Facing
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  • 175 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TAR cleaning m Singapore has become a lucrative occupation for about 500 Indians In Raffles Place, Empress Place, Collyer Quay and other business centres m the city these cleaners earn substantial monthly incomes. With the tremendous motor vehicles, the number
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  • 126 5 POLICE SAY 'NO' TO FARRER PARK MAY DAY MEETING Inf Prey» Maff Reporter. 'T'HK Mngapore Polirr have rej«cted a proposal *»> he committee of Singapore Tr^dr I nil ns to hold a trr«tinc m I arrer Park m ronnrrii Ma> Dai < Puss was told. U i* Itlh.cJ hat th-
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  • 324 5 FED. 'CALL-UP DODGERS' 'Runaway' youths pack Singapore lodging houses Free Press Staff Reporter TTNABLE to accommodate the thousands of Chinese youths who are leaving the Federation to evade the manpower call-up, Singapore lodging houses are finding room for these 'runaways' m the city's hotels. All available space m lodging houses
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  • 81 5 •pHh ry of S'.aU 1 lor the 1 Col write ofl $11,446.53 lot! bj Singapore Government when two armeci men held up the Seenof the Collepe of Medirim January 1948 and made ofT Lhe money, reveals the repov the Audit' of the Acif.unts o: Colony for
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  • 281 5 Senior Assistant Heaitn umcer o: the Municip.il Health Deparu. should be nominated Dr. Morrison is now on lea\e m U.K. and is noi due back October. If he attends tue ference, the Comnnssoners i pay his Congress f«-e.«- irougtll) 4-i < and his
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  • 54 5 A NUMBER of Mah.yan boy* v girls are to be train' a youth leaders h\ 'It*- M.. Youth Council m AutjuM Welfare experts and peop!( experience of vou'L w«i:k will i fiiH t the etVM In Kuahi LIM probably terlag U At its me< Council appointed
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  • 819 6  -  CRU SADER B. Clever win over Kota Raja Rnvprs 2; Kota Raja l. DOVER'S, with two useful points at the expanse of X Rota Raja, whom they beat two-one at Ja an Sesar Stadium last evening, are now second m the team placing m
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  • 135 6 Deserv ed win for Pegasus ANOTHER 100.000 crowd at Wombley Stadium saw Pegasus, the combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities team formed only three years Ago, win the Football Association Amateur Cup by defeating Bishop Auckland, a north-east England side. 2-1 on Saturday. Peeasus. playing soccer of the old-time Corinthjan type,
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  • 26 6 UESULTS of Saturdays IK. A^ Mcc?r friendlier were: FWkM 3 Aberdeen 3. Queeifs Park Rangers 1. Brentford 1: Moairose 2 Dundee 1- A.P. Reuter
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  • 356 6  -  JIM CHAMBERS From VEWCASTLE United and Blackpool, who meet at N Wembley Stadium In the FA. Cup final next Saturday, were beaten m English League games on Saturday. Newcastle wore downed two-nil on their own ground by Manchester United and Blackpool were well beaten 3—l
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  • 217 6 PRESTON North End won the Div. 2 championship of the English Football League with a one-nil victory on Saturday over Hull City, for whom centre-half Neil Franklin and Denmark's Vi&go Jens'en at left-back played fine defensive football. England winger Tom Finney snapped m a goal through
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  • 1027 6 UK. Soccer League standings after Saturday's matches FIRST DIVISION Goals P W D L F A pts Tottenham 40 23 10 7 78 43 56 Manchester U4O 23 7 10 67 39 53 Blackpool 40 20 9 11 78 51 49 Mid brough 40 18
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    29 6 Screen (E. Donnelly) winnine Race Three m Kuala Lumpur on Saturday from Greater Love (Straker) and Ross Road (Crowe) The Dancer (Tulloh) was fourth. Free Press picture
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  • 417 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS From Xl ALA LUMPUR, Monday. A LAST-minute change of plans for Fifty Grand gave him one of the easiest wins seen at Kuala Lumpur for some time, when he won the main race over seven furlongs on Saturday, first day of the Selangor
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  • 15 6 McLeod's Picture Tip on Saturday icas a winner— Rio Grande m Race Eight.
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  • 655 6 Stylish win for Marco Polo M\RCO POLO, won the first race at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday very stylishly from Jaunty by half a length, with Tnited Pisces 3> lengths away third and Nachtegaal another two lengths behind fourth. Marco Polo, who was lying fourth behind Epsom Downs, Jaunty and United
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  • 233 6 Newport give har fight THERE about m I much I beirm a I as m th I I Albion- N ed at a way through wards of h fl m a t! I work B Albion B Tantram B Ken Jones i I for Newj B Bris:<>: k B first-team
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  • 124 6 NYANGAL BE A TEN MARCEL Boussac's Nyangal, regarded as the likely winner of the Epsom Derby this year, ran a disappointing race m the Prix Jean Prat for three-year-olds over 12 furlongs at Longchamc yesterday. He was beaten into the second place by Le Tyrol, who finished Vk lengths m
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  • 283 7 MALAYA BEAT DENMARK BY 3-2 Hock Leng gets cramp, retires COPENHAGEN, Monday. \JALAYA beat Denmark m a badminton contest at Copenhagen last night, winning three he five games Malaya won only one singles match as heong Hock Leng had to retire owing to cramp m one of his feet. Lossmann
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  • 79 7 ftEM policies. with rMi «.<> teaiu-build-future. are being n-.anv of the English i kri club*. »m" ciTrn rvery enjnd. though frw i> win the (him-vi.i-.on, which md of this month. I p -ri-nre talndnid> m the near Iho folded one of -.tin m the com ■>; tntrshed
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  • 92 7 HASSAN HASSANEIN. who played m British tournaments last year, retained his title of Egyptian open golf champion yesterday with a record low aggregate of 276 for the event m Alexandria. Norman Von Nida. Australia's open champion, who challenged for the honours, finished second, but ten strokes
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  • 165 7  -  Billdaw Splendid trial by From ALLAN LEWIS 1 Xl ALA Ll'MPl'R. Monday. I {\i Kn are still very heavy after four hours' rain rdav morning There was very little fast 1 iis morning: BILLDAW (Charles) did the best <;»ing alone, he ran half a mile m 54,
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  • 77 7 THE Soviet swimmer, Leo- nid Mechkov, claims to have broken his own world 100 metres butterfly breaststroke record, during tlie preliminary heats of the Soviet swimming champion ships at Moscow on Saturday with a time of 1 rrm 6.2 sees. Mechkov holds the world record with a time
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  • 28 7 JOLLILADS A.U. defeated Gordon Highlanders by two goals to nil m a soccer friendly on the Railway ground yesterday. Scorers for Jollilads were Sapee and Salaudin.
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  • 24 7 England beat Scotland by four goals to two m an International men's hockey match at Port Sunlight. Cheshire, on Saturday.- Reuter
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  • 22 7 y M .;>':.- Leafs won 1 Cup. em .•key supre- on S T: gained ri nmtcties seven flna Montreal Cana- Reuter
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  • 124 7 ra who have In will be hat the famCourse at .1 be m play vpfir Not exd form, but d to make, what C who have seen -h belter course es »as almost ..v \ery much dunr.K the war and it "i aoo to remedy
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  • 55 7 p. AMPON (PHILIPPINES and Miss Shirley Fry (U.S.) repeated their Rome tournament success when they won the mixed doubles at the Palermo international lawn tennis tournament yesterday. They beat America's Miss Beverley Baker and Hal Burrows m the final 6-4, 6-2. Ampon is returning to Manila today
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  • 284 7 WEIGHTS for all seven races on Wednesday April 25, second day of the Sefangor Turf Club April meeting: are: Cl. Div. 2— Abt. s'sF. I/Apache 900 Life Buoy Autumn Balloon 8.11 Billdaw 8U Lord DhoU 8.10 Rimflre 8 09 La TraviaU Tajurrah 8.07 Tryas 8 -06
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  • 293 7 Sappers knock out R.E.M.E. Free Press Soccer Reporter lIOLDERS of the Parker Cup, Royal Electrica 11 and Mechanical Engineers, were eliminated bj Royal Engineers, who beat them by three goals t( nil m a semi-final replay al Gillman sports grounc yesterday. Royal Engineers will meet Royal Army Paj Corps m
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  • 123 7 Belgium beat India BELGIUM beat India by four matches to three In an international table-ten-nis match held at the historic little town of Binche on Saturday night. Before play began the Indian players and members of the Belgian team were given a warm welcome at a reception by the Mayor
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  • 40 7 With outstretched i'jnis. liov ers' goalkeeper Murray stops Haji Car ham (Kota Kaja) from getting home a header m yesterday s S.A.F.A. First Division League soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium. Report m Page b.— Free Press picture.
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    46 7 With England's goalkeeper. Bert Williams (right), helpless on the ground, centrehalf Jack Frogatt (left. No. 5) clears from the goal-line m the international soccer match against Scotland at the Empire Stadium, Wembley, on April 14. Scotland won by three goals to two. Reuter picture.
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  • 245 7 Bailey may race as a quarter-miler E McDonald Bailey of Trinidad, the British sprint champion may produce a historical parallel m athletics if he becomes a successful quarter-miler. He has intimated that m the latter part of the coming season he will race over that distance and m preparation has
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  • 381 7 ONLY one scored outright win' m the Junior Section of the Singapore Cricket Association tournament yesterday. They were Sinhalese. Section A Army II beat Khalsa Assn. by 103 runs on first inns, at Khalsa Army 11. 201 for 8 dccl. iFrewer 27. Daniels 31. Stalliard 29.
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  • 315 7 S.C.C. STILL LEAD IN S.C.A. TOURNAMENT SINGAPORE Cricket Club still lead by one jKiint from Ceylon Sports Club m the Singapore Cricket sociation tournament. They beat last season's champions, Singapore Recreation Club, h\ 99 runs on fir^t innings at S.R.C yesterday. Batting first, *Recs totalled 82 (Gould 12 f Ward
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  • 37 7 AIRMEN HOLD G.H.Q. 3-3 RAF. Changi held GU Q. Farelf to a three-ail draw m yesterday's United Sen League soccer match a* I lin. Scorers men MoLaughlin <2i and PoiMttl for Chanel* Cunningham. Phimbley Woods for G.H.Q.
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  • 152 8 MORE U.S. AID FOR FORMOSA Nationalists are kept informed TAIPEH, Monday. THE Chinese Nationalist government is being kept fully informed by Washington on plans to expand the United States military aid programme for Formosa to major proportions, it was stated officially yesterday m Taipeh. The two governments are still m
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  • 42 8 Mil. uoiiomiey, Secretary for Overseas Trade, has told Members of Parliament that Britain had not ordered 20,000 tins of water for defence purposes from the U.S. He said he would make inquiries into the origin of the report.
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  • 100 8 Britain will stage her largest international conference on the beneficial uses of atomic energy this summer. 1 the Ministry of Supply said; yesterday. Representatives; from 20 countries will meet at Oxford from July J6 to 1 July 21 to discuss atomic 1 energy techniques. They will
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  • 75 8 Major Hayter. self-taught navigator, arrived m Aden yesterday m his nine-ton 32 ft yawl Sheila 11. on his way from England to New Zealand via Singapore. Major Hayter took 26 days to reach Gibralter m bad weather and stayed there for three weeks He
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  • 66 8 THE three neutral observers appointed by the International Court of Justice on a fact-finding mission to French settlements m India will submit their joint report on what they "saw and heard" during the one-month tour they have just completed. They were not m any way
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  • 20 8 The Pope yesterday received m private audience Mohamed Soliman Ghannam. Egyptian Minister of Commerce and Industry.— U.P.
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  • 139 8 Plane took off with no pilot pOLICE, ambulance and fire ■services watched a runaway pilotless plane cruise round the countryside above Leicester last night when it took off on its own and flew two hours at a great height before crashing. No one was injured. The plane was a small
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  • 84 8 TEHERAN. Mon. thousand men O were at worlt m Abadan yesterday and produced 4.600.000 gallons of oil. Strikers m all other oil areas have returned, although m Abadan intimidation of men wishing to go back is still strong. Sir Francis Shepherd. the British Ambassador m
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  • 60 8 Republican Senator Robert Taft yesterday gave notice of a new battle m Congress over President Truman's plan to give Iff. Dean Acheson. Secretary of State, and his department top control over ali foreign aid programmes. Senator Taft told a reporter: "I am going to fight the
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  • 37 8 'NO WAR. IF Mr. Byron Price, assistant secretary of the United Nations, told newspaper editors yesterday he does not believe there will be a World War lll— 'lf we wipe our hands and keep our powder dry".
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  • 123 8 LONDON, Monday. pOR years Frederick George Gregory was known m London's East End as "Uncle Fred." The nickname was originally due to his business. It soon became a tribute to the kindly uav h«» ran that hwiw— He was a pawnbroker. For 34 of
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  • 18 8 Vandals overturned all headstones m a little Jewish cemetery at Giessen, Germany, during Saturday night. A.P.
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  • 16 8 French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman yesterday called for a supra-national government m Europe.— A.P.
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  • 28 8 Japanese traders have reported soaring exports of cement to the sterling area, filling m the gap resulting from reduced exports from Germany and Britain Reuter
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  • 13 8 Alexander Abramovich Krain, noted Soviet composer, died yesterday. aeed 67.- U.P.
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  • 11 8 Former MarshaU Petain's condition "slightly imoroved" last night.— U.P.
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  • 523 8 LONDON, Monday. MR. Aneurin Bcvan, m his letter of resignation tc Mr. Attlee, the Prime Minister, who is at present m hospital, said he felt the Socialist Party had veered away from those principles which were "giving to Great Britain moral leadership of the world.
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  • 26 8 Sweden and Russia have made a trade agreement for this year calling for exchanges valued at 40.000.000 crowns (£2.762) m both directions. Reuter
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  • 34 8 The first batch of United States troops to be home from Korea under the American Army's newly announced rotation scheme. 1,500 officers and enlisted men, sailed yesterday frc-m Southern Japan. Reuter
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  • 58 8 Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, holidaying m Italy, yesterday attended morning service m Rome's St. Andrews Church of Scotland. In the afternoon the Princess, m navy blue, watched her husband lead a Malta services polo team "the Optimists" m a losing match <4-9)
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  • 24 8 Lord Boyd Orr will head a 15-member committee of inquiry appointed by the Pakir/an Government to recommend an agriculture modernization programme. A.P.
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  • 27 8 The tiny kingdom of Nepal now has an air force. It consists of two recondition Douglas Dakotas, bought from India for 500,000 rupees. A.P.
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  • 23 8 The Cooperative for Ameri- can Remittances to Europe care so far has sent Inflia 3.336 food parcels. 267 clothing packets and 300 ploughs.
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  • 330 8 Chianglanding bid imminent HONG KONG, Monday. OERSISTENT rumours are current m Hong: Kong of an early Nationalist raid m strength on the Communist China coast. The rumours, which have reached official quarters m Hong Kong, suggest that the Nationalists on Formosa will attempt a landing late m April or early
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  • 108 8 They met in an ambulance LONDON. Mon. A CHANCE meeting m an ambulance began the romance of 23-year-old Red Cross girl Pamela Holewell. of The Drive. Beckenham. and Philip Murton. of Twickenham. Pamela was invalided out ol the A.T.S. with infantile paralysis after a year m hospital. She recovered, and
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  • 48 8 Ex -ruler of Baroda sa ys: I'm sorry MAHAP him oi alegiar stitutio: He has sent a suranee Gopala-san-.y A: vr acts of sion" or. hj view wit k lowed hi^ tp pea] ago to p Prasad eration of t>., nrder withdro. merits r the rul- ~oda Reuter
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  • 53 8 TEL A\ ISRAEL wit: ing refugees i camps for puted den,. the Syrian -Israeli b The charge wa letter to the a the Unite Supervisor* B Bennet de R The i on the mixi mission I violations of tl Syrians sin Thr lettei Syrians of tions
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  • 13 8 M Ifahon P tine Isra ousl au f focatim mur. U.P.
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