The Singapore Free Press, 30 April 1951

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 18,069 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 19 1 They've lost', he says <• i Va» Fleet. Bth commander. "The pi Me «>l Urn (hni'^e Ihrt hi> failed he
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  • 62 1 Man. Mr. John !SMd the he m Chiuld bring m Korea d American noliI I ing < v hin» to prey from apt he he right policy pursued with 1 1 11 it can- spreading. brins it Br i f i> h Go\ ernmen* tv
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  • 23 1 Chinese, armed with broke into a house m D Road. Singapore, on •iioht and robbed pani of cash and >rth $347
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  • 56 1 Biiton^ topped the list of foreign tourists visiting India during the last three months of 1950. Pakistanis and American ranked next. Out ot 2,389 foreign tourist* 803 were British. 559 Pakistani! and 373 American. These figures exclud" arrivals through Bombay where figures are compiled only irom
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    40 1 picture. A group of Chinese Communist actors at Canton are shown putting on make-up preparatory to staging an anti-American propaganda play. The man m the centre is nuttinr on a false nose to take the part of Uncle Sam. A.P.
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  • 344 1 300, 000 REDS PUSH ON SEOUL 2 7th Brigade 's 'superb 'action TOKYO, Monday. gADLY MAI LED Chinese Communists are believed to be bringing up reserves, reorganising and resupplying m preparation for a fullscale attack on Seoul. As 300,000 Red "suicide" troops continued their weok-long push southward m bitter fighting,
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    27 1 Picture. TOUR Muslim scouts of th. Singapore 50th Troop taking their oaths before the »eputy Commissioner, Dato Syed Ahmad AlsaKoff. at ar investiture ceremony yesterday. Free Press
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  • 163 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A RECORD revenue of A $6,575,367 (against an estimate for the year of $4,643,000) was collected for the second year m succession by the Singapore Estate Duty and Stamp Office, the department's annual report for 1950 says. This exceeds last year's revenue of
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  • 104 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. p EPRESENTATI VE John IV Kee, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, predicted a "tough fight" on the House floor this week over a Bill to rush 2,000,000 tons of American wheat to India. President Truman has appealed ior immediaie passage of
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  • 141 1 TELLS COURT 'I NEED WHISKY' RAJAHMUNDRY, South India, Mon. AN Indian doctor has challenged the validity of the Madras State Prohibition Act. Dr. N. S. Reddi, of Rajahmundry, petitioned the Madras High Court for legal permission to drink whisky denied him by the State's Prohibition Act on the ground that
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  • 242 1 LONDON, Monday. IF America's rearmament programme consumed 1 raw materials which would otherwise be sent abroad it would be impo sible for Britain to carry out its part of the defend bargain, said Mr. James Callaghan, Parliamentar Secretary to the Admiralty, yesterday ftt Eni\ Id,
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  • 60 1 THE Chinese Prime Minte--1 ter, Chou En-lai. today ordered the requisitioning of all property m China belonging to the Britishowned Asiatic Petroleum Company. Requisitioning was ordered for "our national security and m the interests of the general public." It appeared to be m retaliation for the
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  • 68 1 PARIS. Mon. A FRENCH B-26 bomber with General Andre [arteman. Air commander South-east Asia, is missin* m Indo-Chlna on a recon- supply depots during a fourday sweep across the Plaine des Jones, about 30 miles west of Saigon. Two strong infantry detachments with amphibi- a Vietminh
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  • 5 1 Filipino Government troops
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  • 241 1 MELBOIRNE, Monday. A FTER A DAY of counting and checking of votes m the Australian General Election, Prime Minister Robert Menzies was last night m sight of his objective a majority m both House of Representatives and Senate. By Saturday night his Liberal Country Party Coalition
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  • 103 1 U.S. BRANDED BY DEVOUT INDIANS NEW DELHI, Mon. INDIAN Holy men declaring that the United States the most materialistic country m the world, and most m need of spiritual influence," yesterday "decided that that country will be the first stop m a round-the-world goodwili mission. Leaders hope to send some
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  • 196 1 Persia gets a new 'prograb' premier TEHERAN, Mirfit JHE Persian National Front leader. Dr. Mohamed Mossedagh, accepted the post of Premier yesterday and agreed U form a Government before the expected May Day trouble by the Communists. Mossedagh accepted the premiership a t tin* palaoo of the Shah after both
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  • 88 1 WASHINGTON. Mon AMERICAN officials said yesterday that there w.t.s "absolutely no truth to the report published In Japan that President Truman was working out a new blueprint of Asian policy involving the creation and employment of four Japanese divisions. They said that such a report
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  • 49 1 Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Ifizra Abol Hassan Ispahani. warned m New York yesterday thai Pakistan and India would be unable to play a greater role m world affairs and eon bute fully to peace effort.s as long as the Kashmir Issue wag not seLih-d- U.P.
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  • 144 1 15 cent papers tomorrow TIH MiiL.i|>4ir Flee Presv will be .soid at a retail prio of II tenti fn»m tomorrow. Thi.s i-* m accordance with an agreement rear lied MMM jMil»li>hiir; companies m Malaya at present producing Knglishlanguage daily and Sunday newspapers. The increased price i» necessitated mainly by the
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  • 69 1 HABLEICEBB, Bun -a. TJNGKU ABDUL A/./ ol Uk- Suitar. ot Idh and formar Prime Mini. of the State, died sud(. at his home i Un'iku Abdul, v. m his ca ly sixtte live m Bn^ian the war, when he his ikj.s v Prl He married
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  • 559 2 Modern escape devices which were not used set the Navy a puzzle by TOM POCOCK 4 S destroyers, frigates, submarines, and aircraft combed the Channel m search of the missing submarine Affray, naval officers m the Admiralty paced up and down the bleak offices asking each
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  • 616 2 PO WER FROM PEA T Many countries are interested m getting This "tort* 1 gives oils, alcohols, gas charcoal, tar, writes IVOR McCOLL EK)R more than 100 r years, since the Industrial revolution m England brought chemicul analysis to a nn art. the world has been wondering about turf. Today
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  • 33 2 Columbia's Terry Moore, soon to appear m "Tw« of a Kind" wears a lemoa yellow off the-shoulder with crisp while linen .shorts for a day on the beach.
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  • 192 2 THE Fon of Bikom, In the British Cameroons, has 110 wives. All of them are reluctant to take the mis. sionaries' advice and go home to their mothers. But polygamy must be decreasing, for a paramount chief of Kikuyu. East Africa, once boasted 400 wives—
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  • 492 2 British tourist trade brings Riviera back to life By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT npHE French Riviera A is basking at the moment m the water rays of Britain's increased tourist allowance. This increase has restored to the South of France for the first time since the war its cherished winter season.
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    • 115 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR JJORX today you have a critical, analytical mind. Yon want to know the whys and wherefors of everything. You are independent and have a great deal of endurance when confronted by competition or opposition. You are a friendly, sympathetic and lovable person to your close friends and
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  • 228 3 NORTH I J6 3 2 \KKSJ I I -I I \>l A'A a I i «*»> l 111 A V i A 1 QJ 4 X I M.n. Paa \'<i^ > r In B can hardl] f v no thn North mus ramp, i will h •>. the
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  • 61 3 - t!ir Benesal Ran. India's j manent delegate to the Lfnited Nations, told reporters m Toronto that "millions of .iis countrymen would starve to death this summer unless food Is sent to India. A bill to provide India with \UOO.COO tons of food grains to avert the
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  • 385 3 INDO-CHINA 'LIKE KOREA' Creepers cover ruined houses HANOI, Monday THE tragedy that has befallen five million Vict--1 namese on this crowded sector of the world's "cold war" periphery since World War II is second only to Korea m misery and suffering, according to neutral observers who have seen the devastation
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    21 3 '7;*«t.B« of leading flares n ,he ,151 ,h, ion. Left replica of Queen Victoria c-n'r- i „r an,, a !o(l ^^j,,..
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  • 131 3 THE French Premier. M. Henri Queuille. staked the future of his cabinet yesterday on a National Assembly vote of confidence on the electoral reform bill to clear the road for a general election m July. By demanding a vote. M. Queuille cut short the all-night session
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    39 3 FASHION TALK ExQueen Soraia Ullah of Afghanistan chats with fashion designer Eniilio Schuberth of Rome during his spring- and summer collection showing. The show, attended by many of the leading set m Rome, lasted until well into the night.
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  • 29 3 The Chief Minister to the Punjab, Dr. Bhargava, yesterday laid the foundation stone of one of the world's largest dams and initiated the Nangal Bhakra project. A.P.
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  • 54 3 Wives and relatives of 75 men lost m the submarine Affray yesterday attended a memorial service at the Royal Naval Barracks at Chatham. Search ships are still looking for Affray, which disappeared m the English Channel 12 days ago after a routine dive. The search may
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  • 43 3 "Ladles from Hades" returned to Hong Kong yesterday from Korea. The main body of the kilted Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders returned to garrison duty m Hong Kong aboard the American troopship. Montrose, after eight months at the front.— U.P.
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  • 171 3 BERNE, Monday. pRIXCE Hans von Liechtenstein, who earned £125 a day for staving m jail, has been freed from Loerrach Prison, on the German-Swiss border He was held for smuggling three days before Christmas. His release was secret Soon afterwards he crossed the Swiss
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  • 26 3 The General Council of Japanese Labour Unions has cancelled its projected May Day rally m lace of a warning issued by Supreme Allied Headquarters.
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  • 66 3 ILE D'YEU. Mon. IF Marshal Petain recovers from his recent illness he may be transferred from his barren Atlantic island to more comfortable quarters on the mainland. Most people do not think he would be moved from his present prison until after the general election. But
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  • 24 3 Dr. Soekiman's new Indonesian Government was sworn m by President Soekarno and took over governing powers from the outgoing Natsir cabinet. A.P.
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  • 80 3 The South Korean President Syngman Rhee, has dismissed the Ministei of Justice, Kirn Chun Yon. This was the second dismissal of Cabinet Ministers arising out of the Koehong incU dent m 36 hours. The President dismissed the Home Minister. Dr. Cho Pyong On who was the first.
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  • 28 3 'COMMUNISM' EN VOY The U.S. State Department has sent Consul-General AngUs Ward to Nairobi. Kenya. to look into the Communist Uuation. it is announced m .7 ishington.- U.P.
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  • 219 3 HOLLYWOOD, Monday yERONICA LAKE, who developed a hair siyle- the Peekabo into film fame and a weekly wage of £1,600, told a reporter over cocktails m a Beverly Hills hotel how she managed to end up flat broke. She and her husband, director Andre de
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  • 35 3 Professor Marcel Aymonin. French Cultural Attache and Director-General of the French Institute m Prague, has charged that the French Embassy and the Institute were conducting espionage and asked the Czechoslovak government for "asylum."— U.P.
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  • 71 3 COLONY TO KEEP OLD CONSTITUTION ACCRA, M T r> lative assembly. by six lon. The motion was thf' Assembly* Coiv Pi ple'i Party whirl; von km on cveroment now campaign. Tn» p linked that the pn on-* stifution .should bo l'!v»-h a trial. T!. J. B Danouah I opponents of
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  • 56 3 Fiv«' persons di*'d yest^rda^ m W'jerton. Weil Virginia, when a runaway bus rrashr<| agairist a concrete wall ad the foot of a steep hill Thirty-four persons aken to hosp. yen ir< a seriou.s condition Tiie bu4 careered wildly down a Stile* long hill bet rashin^ into
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  • 24 3 The Panrhen Lama of TibeU us on his way to P»kinK v Man Ts( -tung. according to a N«'\v China N»-ws A?"nc» nu'.s.sag'v- Reuter
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    • 87 3 I T a Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya IV A -AT I JUSTfINISKEO STRANGE, I CAN'T QUITE ALL -"ll^^^^^H WERE YOU H YOUR FORTUNE..! REMEMBER m n RIGHT. o ,\jl- SAYING,^ ONEOOLLAR. pJ FORTUNE "OH.DEAA. MADAM. f M n,,T SWAMI? PLEASE. r r I MUST HAVE LEFT
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    • 142 3 SINGAPORE BlriißS [Smyupore] (BIX'E NETWORK) 4.45 pm. Programme; 447 Froir rtO o t 'he London Editorials; 5 Cla 9.3d a.m. School.; M 0 Inter- Records; 545 The Debate Conlude; 10 00 Emersen-jy News from tinues; 6 Indonesian: News and Kuala Lumpur; 10 10 Close; 10.43 Programmes; G. 30 Canto: to
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  • 550 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, April 30, 1951. Straws in the wind rrHE rise m the value ol Malaya's overseas trade, which started about the middle of last year. continues and the figures for March, issued a few days ago. show a new peak level. Exports were almost $606 million
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  • 1373 4  -  Hall Romney 8.8.C. TO BROADCAST MALAYAN VISITORS BATTLE OF MUD WON LONDON LETTER by IfM Concern over cost shown by public WITH less than a fortnight to elapse before the King, stepj ping out of the Cathedral on to the steps of St. Paul's, opens
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  • 5 4 The Tunku arranges the flowers
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  • 65 4 S:: PRINCESS ELIZABETH, with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Sir Victor Mallet, the British Ambassador to Italy, taking a walk m the grounds of the British Embassy m Rome during: her visit there. PRINCESS MARGARET, op :ivjv sent of a purse from a ilx-jrear-old
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  • 819 4  -  Clifford Hulme By compensation is arrived at by the Commonwelath countries before the debate takes place. The list of signatures to the motion is growing steadily. A fortnight ago it was about 30. today it has 287 names attached, and I have no doubt that
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  • 417 5 Keen students—spend earnings on books ivmH^r F \v W u V J\ the olon s prisons, said i K h1 by their oolle uS WHh th P tr nr^' re esS mechani They are commander Bayly said mat they spend a great deal of their spare
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  • 90 5 p ree Press Staff Reporter •OST all the women offenders serving terms Singapore prisons, are on short sentences. two out of ihe 19 women m gaol today, are ng sentences of three years. The rest are for a fo-'n^ht to six months.
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  • 18 5 MALAY WOMEN TO CARE FOR WOUNDED ni Welfare vtn>■ca'i Mtdicil >oldier^ angle bi Ifnallai tq-,. Red i Brigade.
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  • 150 5 pVE thousand French 1 troop* 'invaded Singapore They came off five French .snips. The men are theil way to French IndoChina. The five ships which put int Sin ;>ore simultaneously early e<= 1 1 1 ay morning were the cargo .rocpers. Pas.cur, Lt. De La Tour,
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  • 144 5 'W orst town' men join the H-Gs THE worst town m Malaya," Pusing m Perak given 48 hours on Saturday by Kinta's District Officer, Mr. ML. Bemacchi, to organise fully its Home Guards has n* lost any time m doing so Following Friday night's ambush of three special constables within
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  • 232 5 Mr. Yap to fight for Tiong Bahru hut dwellers Free Press Staff Reporter REFERENCE to protests against big increases m the assessment of properties m Singaporeparticularly of attap huts m the Tiong Bahru MM —by the Municipal Assessor's Department, will be made by Mr. Yap Pheng Geek (Nominated) at this
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    16 5 Mr. V. Shunmugam (right.) and his new traffic signal.— Free Press picture NEARLY ALL SCHOOLCHILDREN KNOW-
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  • 249 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ANEW idea m traffic signals will be on view at the Victoria Memorial Hall during Education Week, which began yesterday. It is a simple affair based on what its inventor, Mr. V. Shunmugam, electrical instructor at the Singapore Trade School,
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    25 5 picture. Little Wong tall Sen pee?s voinjh a winder of a model house at St. Andrew s School's Education Day exhibition on Saturday. Free Press
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  • 168 5 In another case, it was proposed to increase the annual value of a property, which consisted of a number of plank and attap buildings, from $12 m 1950 to $2,040 this year. It was stated that this property was large and was made up of seven completely separate
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  • 114 5 Mr. V.K. I l air, president of :h. Singapore federation of Se: < Unions, was appom'ed the Singapore delegate to the Asian Regional Conference of the ICFTT at Karachi on May 28. JM a meeting of all tracit union* m Singapores Farrcr Park yesterday,
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  • 244 5 THE COMMITTEE SOLVED A PROBLEM— 'WHOSE DRAIN?' Free Press Staff Reporter T*HE question of whether or not the Singapore Improvement Trust should be responsible for the main outlet drainage of land m Havelock Road, on which it has a big building programme m hand, arose at a meeting of the
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    39 5 Hr. O. P. Malalasekprj well-known Buddhist lev d?r who is touring South Fast Asia to look into thwork of various Buddhi^ associations. being presented with a scroll hMr. G. A. Pieris at Sinpnre Buddhist A^- ii^'
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  • 42 5 Muslims weddings will be held m the newly built community centre m Kamnonz Bahru. Kuala Lumpur, if plans by Inche Mahmood bin Haji Abdul Rahman, Selangor State Councillor and chairman of •he management board of the Malay "settlement are accepted.
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  • 226 5 'Let's dance' —that's what they want Frr» Prrss sun" Reporter D anting ha.s become so .lap In Sin hat 1 particularly :he younger **ho no longer wi.sh to b< ibbed I \val! -flowers" tX son fur. re bent on learning er.her at dance studios cr through books of Instruction Several
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  • 21 5 A $5,000 bandit I h rommtltoe membei ol e Mm Yuen and a men urria? area of Pahamr
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  • 1053 6  - CHANCE REMARKS A GAME SORT picture. Shahpere will score soon From ALLAN LEWIS OVERCOMING a setback about a furlong from home, Chance Remarks finished brilliantly m the sixth race (Cl. 2, Div. I—6-f.)1 6-f.) at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, the last day of the Selangor Turf Club's April meeting, to
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    27 6 AMATEUR CUP WINNERS: The Pegasus team chair their skipper, Saunders. aft r he had received the Cup they won by beating: Bishop Auckland 2-1 on April 21.
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  • 228 6 PITTING m his claim with a little over a furlong to go. Frog had little ditliculty m disposing of the early leaders, Prattlin' and Constellation, to win the third race, for Class 5, Div. 1 over seven furlongs on Saturday. Frog appeared to have
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  • 131 6 THE Aga Khans Fraise Dv Bois II will not run m ihe 2.000 Guineas at Newmarket on Wednesday. His iner, H. Wragg. will saddle Royal Serenade »E. C. Elliott' and Barshishi (C. Smirke I P Ma hen rides The Champ: W T Evans, Sun Prince; D. Smith,
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  • 68 6 rOLONY cyclist Suradi bin Kantian (Tanglin C.C.J yesterday broke Awthar Singh's Malayan cycling record for the 25-mile time trial Suradi returned 65 mins 13 sees, for this event organized by the Singapore Cycling Racing Association at Bukit Timah Road. Awthar Singh's record was 56 mins. Tan
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  • 26 6 French racing car driver Louis Rosier yesterday won the Bordeaux Grand Prix m a Talbot. Rudolf Fisher Switzerland' In a Ferrari. was second.— A.P.
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  • 29 6 'flue 20: h game m the chess match between Eotvinnik /\r\6. Bronstein for the worlds championship was adiourned yesterday at the 42nd move. Moscow Radio reports. Reuter
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  • 963 6 UK. Soccer League standings after Saturday's matches are: FIRST DIVISION P W D L F A pts Tottenham 41 24 10 ***** 58 Manchester U4l 24 7 10 73 39 55 Blackpool 40 20 9 11 78 51 49 tfid'brough 41 18 11 12 76 64
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  • 71 6 Wembley once again baulk 'Wizard' F rom jim („u S Am the da people from footbai sft: C-t 11 sum. n nificeni Milb ti In Sia! the H Ao/ Goal did n refiuse attai k coun oppo-sition r way. that Cup rfcMM were ver\ U Saturdin likeh v tion Toward
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  • 618 6 THERE can be no doubt m anyone's mind, even those fervid Blackpool supporters who made a brave show of colour with their tangerine rosettes and streamers, that the real hero of Saturday's FA. Cup Final was tall, speedy, sharp-shooting Jack Milburn, whose two
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  • 17 6 F. P Man" (an p >nd< g his cycle EC Lun n retun d
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  • 249 6 TOTTENHAM Hotspur won the Div. 1 championship of the English Football League on Saturday, centre-forward Len Duquemin scoring the only goal m the first half against Sheffield Wednesday. The one-time England left wing of Les Medley and Eddie Baily ripped through the Sheffield defence and
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  • 27 6 Catholic Young Men's Association (Parish Mission) gained full points with a walk over from Singapore Civil Service Association m yesterday's Third Division soccer fixture.
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  • 195 7 RESHUFFLED ELEVEN FOR SERVICES Tryout against S.B.H.F.A. Free Press Soccer Reporter ITNITED Services League selectors have picked an "experimental" representative soccer team to meet Singapore Business Houses Football Association XI on Wednesday at Jalan Besar Stadium. Jimmy Simpson of the Royal Army Pay Corps moves out to the left wing,
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  • 63 7 FA NNY FOR HELSINKI M Fanny Blankers-Koen, h winner of four gold London OlymteQdfl to compete m Games m Helsinki erformancv> f his seaft satisfactory. Unite decision will not tade until the end of the Blankers-Koen is nor ?o accept invitations to Vienna on Whit Sun- m Liverpool m May
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  • 29 7 AL Air Foice Lodger L nts trounced SingaDtotrtet Signal Retib9 six goals to one m United Services League a match at Changi on Half-time score ::e.
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  • 52 7 fiHERE were three outright" 1 results m the Singapore Cricket Association's Section B tournament played yesterday. R.A.P. Tengah II and Braddell CC. both scored innings victories while 8.0.DC.A. accepted a sporting challengT by V.M.C.A. m making 80 runs m 52 minutes to win 10 points at 8.0.D.
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  • 86 7 Indian Association beat Melwani's team by 17 runs on first innings m a friendly game of cricket played at Balestier yesterday. In Melwanis teams innings Rasiklal returned the splendid bowling analysis of six wickets for 11 runs. ww The scores were: MHwani's XI 85 (Bagu
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  • 70 7 Tanjong Irau became the first side to win the Seletar Kampong Cup when they beat Permuda by two goals to one m the final played at the 15th. mile Seletar Grange yesterday. Permuda scored first through Suleiman but Tanjong Irau's in-side-right Cappi won the game for them with
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  • 55 7 TH E Netherlands beat Wales at Amsterdam yesterday by four goals to nil m an international hockey match. This was the first match between the Netherlands and Wales since 1948, when the Dutch won B—2. Half-time score was one-nil. Scores were R. Kruise «2». J. Van
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  • 84 7 MISS DORIS HART, ranked No. 2 In the United States won the women's singles title m the Paris International lawn tennis tournamental yesterday. Io the final she beat her countrywoman. Miss Shirley, Fry 8-7, 6-0. Americans Dick Savitt and Budge Patty won the final of
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  • 247 7 RE. HOLD SPORTS MEET OOYAL Engineers (Singapore) held their annual sports meeting at Gillman Barracks yesterday. For the fourth successive year, Workshops Squadron won the inter-Squadron athletic shield from the five other teams competing. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Base Workshops won the invitation mile nedley relay
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  • 124 7 IN a dull and monotonous game, Chelsea yesterday defeated Copenhagen's KVW Club 2-1 m the Draetspark Stadium, Copenhagen. Twenty-two tiiousand spectators were at the stadium when the game started, but several hundred left before the English referee. E. Ling, blew his whistle after 90 uninspiring minutes'
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  • 102 7 [EMPLOYEES of the General Electric Company. Singapore, have completed their first inter-department badminton competition for the Muriel Leslie Gammage Trophy. Their Sales Department, under the captaincy of Abdul Rahman Ahmad, won the final, with Accounts No. 2 team as runners-up. The trophy was presented by Mrs. L.
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  • 284 7 T«HE Singapore Chinese Swimming Club excelled other similar organisations m the country m providing privileges and amenities to its members on a monthly charge of only $2. said Mr. G. H. Kiat, vice-president, at the Club's annual general meeting yesterday. Describing the club finance a*
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  • 85 7 'WE WERE READY UMPIRES TTMPIRES m yesterday's v annual Singapore Civilians v. Combined Services cricket match on the Padang claim they had to wait for the players during the criticised belwcen-innings period of 20 minutes. Any time wasted was by the cricketers themselves, they told the Free Press this morning.
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  • 72 7 A PENALTY goal by Woodward. A R.A.F. Seletar centre-forward, m the last minute of their friendly match against the Jollilads at Seletar yesterday gave the airmen a narrow four goals to three victory. Jollilads led when Zaman scored two goals and Salahudin one and Woodward was the
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  • 50 7 In a friendly cricket match played at the V.M.C.A. ground yesterday, the Singapore Cricket Club beat V.M.C.A. by eight wickets. Scores m brief: YJK.C.A. 78 (Jansen 18. Sharpln 17. Huck C'nuan 13. Munro four for 14. Duff three for 10>. S.C.C.: 80 for two (Munro 46, Flack 22).
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  • 26 7 CHARTERED. Bank S.C. dcv feated Ford S.C. by five goals to nil m a Business Houses League B soccer fixture at Thomson Road yesterday.
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  • 26 7 ALOK STAR. Sun. Kedah played well to beat Penang by the odd goal In five m a friendly interstate soccer match here this evenIng.
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    39 7 picture. WINNING GOAL: The ball rebounds from the left post off a header by Ibrahim Dollah (left). Arshad. Malays' goalkeeper, succeeds m retrieving: it but the ball had crossed the goal-li.ne. Looking: on is Haji Garhan (rifcht). Free Press
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  • 491 7  -  CRUSADER By Singapore "A" 2; Malays 1 ALTHOUGH they lost their match against Singapore "A'' at Jalan Besar last evening, the Malays revealed themselves to be a powerful combination and will be a force to contend with m the coming S.A.F.A. Community League. Having their first
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  • 115 7 JtfORMAN Von Nida, Australian golf champion, was beaten by one hole yesterday m a brilliant 36-hoJe final of the Egyptian match-play tournament at Cairo. His conqueror was Hassen Hassanein, the Egyptian Open champion, who like Von Nida. is to play m Britain during the summer. Both played
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  • 40 7 OVERCOMING a fourthround knock-down, German heavyweight Hem Ten Hoff gained a close point* decision over Gene Jones, of America m Berlin last night German light-heavyweight Herchard Hecht won a hard fight against Albert Yvel (France > on points- A.P.
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  • 98 7 ROGER Bannister, crack British mile r«nner kd throughout the fiiuU lap th^ Benjamin I-rank-lin mile at the Philadelphia relav s meeting on Satur day nicht to win the event gomu away. Fred Wilt American National indoor mile champion, was second, followed by Ik>n Gfhrmini four times
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  • 213 7 Villoresi wins 'Mille Miglia' LUIGI Villoresi. Italian racing star. yesterday c his 4.100 cc. Ferrari to ft dazzling victonr m the I loui "Mille Miglia" road race. His time for the 1.564 kilo•nrtres route north and central was 12 hrs. 50 mlru 18 sec*., and his averai?* speti 121.822 k.ph.
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  • 70 7 REMAINING result! Saturdays United Kingdom football league matches lute kiek-ofTs» are English League Div I. Bolt on Wanderers 2, W< 1 Div 2. Bamsley 0. Leict 0. Div. 3. (Southern' Torquay 2 Exeter 0. Div. 3. 'Normem >: Chester 4. Scunth I Orm I. Tranmere I Darlington
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  • 92 7 IKE Williams, world light- weight champion, will now defend his title against James Carter m Madison Square Garden. New York, on May 25. instead of May 11. The champion, who ha* not defended his title vncf Dec. 5. 1949. suffered a one-inch cut over his left
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  • 191 8 Vogeler: I have message VIENNA. Mou. ROBERT A. Vogeler warned •every individual American" yesterday that "what happened to me can happen to you if we do not all band together to destroy these enemies of individual freedom." Tlie American businessman, who was released on Saturday from a Hungarian jail. spoke
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  • 280 8 East zone now a satellite WASHINGTON. Monday. RUSSIA was attempting to take control of all Germany and "bring the Soviet dream of a world conquest close to a sure gamble," said a U.S. State Department spokesman yesterday m Washington. In what amounted to a ''white
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    24 8 NEW LINER The new Swedish cargo passenger ship Patricia which has joined the London-Gothen-burg run. She carries 408 passengers with a crew of 13S.
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  • 30 8 Former Nazi Dutch prisoners of war returning on Saturday from Russia told newsmen that many Russians hope for America to liberate them from the Kremlin.- A.P.
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  • 32 8 Wellington (New Zealand > journalists today voted to condemn sections of the Government's waterside emergency regulations restricting the Press. The regulations were framed to deal with the ten-week-old dockers' strike. Reuter-AAP
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  • 32 8 Marshal Tito will not be able to attend May Day celebrations m Belgrade tomorrow because he will be under the constant care of his doctor for some time vet Reuter
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  • 18 8 The U.S. battleship Missouri has returned to Norfolk, Virginia, after more than six months m Korean waters. A.P.
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  • 35 8 Leaflets were distributed yesterday L\ Malaga, Southern Spain, calling for a general strike tomorrow, Labour Day. In Barcelona, leaflets summoning workers to a protest meeting tomorrow have also been distributed.- Reuter
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  • 27 8 Communists ambushed Mr. W. Judson Garrott, AngloBurmese Commissioner of the Sagaing Division on the Mandalay Monywa highway, but were driven off by armed escorts A.P.
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  • 18 8 Wes* Germany's largest state. North Rhine-West-phalia, yesterday banned a number of Communist and Communist sponsored or- ganisations.- Reuter
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  • 96 8 British postmen to 'go slow' LONDON. Mon. WIDESPREAD dislocation of British postal services is threatened by postmen who want more pay. Though their union has decided to send the claim— they are asking for a n extra ten shillings a week to bring their weekly pay up to £5— to
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  • 26 8 Output of machine tools m "the United States has increased by about 50 per cent since the outbreak of war m Korea. Reuter
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  • 131 8 MONS, Monday. AT four, Jean-Marie Doclot has been kidnapped 18 times And each time Commissioner Georges Goffin, chief of Mons police, has been called m. Jean, whose parents were divorced two years ago, is sometimes kidnapped by his mother, sometimes by his father and his grandmother
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  • 19 8 West German voters went to the polls yesterday m two of the Federal Republic's 11 states.— A.P.
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  • 72 8 SENATOR Paul Douglas, Democrat, Illinois, said m Washington yesterday that "only a miracle" could prevent World War 111 and called on Americans to stop feuding over the dismissed of General Mac Arthur. He hereby joins the Republican leader, Mr. Harold Stassen, m appealing to the nation
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  • 55 8 FRANKFURT, Mon. £)R. Necati Cakir, 47. Turkish News Agency chief m Frankfurt, his German wife and their six-year-old twin sons were found dead yesterday In their gas-filled apartment, stated the police. The deaths were said to indicate suicide. The bodies were m found m the kitchen
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  • 66 8 Mr. Arieh Ben Eliezer. a member of the Israeli Parliament, and his wife were detained by U.S. Immigration officials on their arrival m New York by air yesterday from Paris. The couple were later sent to Ellis Island "for further examination." Mr. Ben Aliezer had come
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  • 260 8 LONDON, Monday. OOBERT BOYNTON, a 37-year-old writer, went to Carnarvonshire Assizes with a sheaf of papers under his arm and told the judge he would defend himself. First he objected to the jury saying: "I don't like the look of them." Then during the
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  • 86 8 VATICAN CITY, Mon. pOPE PIUS XII yesterday venerated 25 newly-bles-sed priests martyred m Tonking nearly 100 years ago. Thousands of people, 2.000 foreign pilgrims, packed St. Peter's Basilica for the ceremony. Two of the martyrs were Spanish Dominican Bishops. Giuseppe Diaz Sanjurjo and Melchiorre Garcia Sampedro. The
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  • 38 8 Peking Radio yesterday anrounced the names of two British and two American prisoners of war m Korea. The Britons were Trooper Eddie Surridge of East Roydon, Hertfordshire, and Rifleman H.*Traynor of Bolton, Reuter Lancashire.
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  • 41 8 All political parties m Burma have asked for a third postponement of Burma's iirst general election. The parties do not want the election held until the country is more setted. they told the Election Supervision Commission. Reuter
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  • 20 8 The West German President, Theodor Heuss yesterday opened the Hanover Technical Fair. This year, there are 21,793 exhibitors.-
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  • 26 8 The Maharajah of Rajpipla, race horse owner and one of India's wealthiest princes, died at his home In Windsor yesterday. He was 61.— A.P.
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  • 29 8 The Government of India will shortly set up a penicillin factory near Bombay at a cost of £1,500,000. It will be aided by two international agencies. Reuter
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