The Singapore Free Press, 18 December 1951

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE 111 MALAYA i*> SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    EGYPT GOVT. 'WILL USE FORCE'
    391 1 All civilians to be trained to use arms CAIRO, Tuesday. J»HE Egyptian Interior Minister, Serag el Din Pasha, told the Senate last night that Egypt was /determined to oppose force with force within the limits of our ability and to the last man". Serags declaration
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    UK position now much stronger -Erskine
    144 1 CAIRO. Tues. T British military Icßßmandei in the C-P7 cv-^ /one yesterJ? Sed Egypt for "a O f silence so that -'jvernments to talk to like friends Si George Ers- statement that r.s he feared of the present lt j ons tth raised tempers
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    Immigration proposal
    55 1 free Press Staff Reporter Wed Committee on Immigration Control [amended to the re Legislative Council ■anting that applicaI re-entry permits ibe illowed at any one month of an 1 having left Malaya. refund by the ConI Immigration to such a permit, there be a right of appeal 1
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    60 1 WILLIAM PURVIS, 19--year-old National Serviceman, has won the D.5.0., the first call-up boy to get this award. Purvis, a second-lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, was commanding a platoon cut off on a vital ridge in Korea. Though badly wounded, he continued to encourage his men, and later, under
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    Bellringers strike
    29 1 Nine bellringers of St. Andrew's Church, Swanick, England, were on strike yesterday because Reverend L. Roper said they must attend services as well as do bellvinging.- U.P.
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    'H.K. MAN TO TEACH MALAYAN POLICE'
    125 1 HONG KONG, Tues. THE Hong Kong Police x Commissioner, Mr. Duncan Macintosh, replied with a jovial "no comment" to a report that the Secretary of State for Colonies, Mr. Lyttelton, wanted him to take part in Malaya's war on Communist bandits. The report, from
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    Much to do in S'pore
    75 1 Much to do in S'pore THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, said in the Legislative Council today that much remained to be done before the composition of the Police Force could be regarded as completely satisfactory. Referring to the maintenance of law and order, he said that many of
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    Anti-Red swoop in Rangoon
    41 1 Troops and police threw an armed cordon round Rangoon yesterday after a warning that Red Flag Communists had infiltrated into the city. Two-hundred suspects were rounded up. Police stopped all traffic in and out of the city.
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    HIS HEART WILL BE TAKEN OUT
    182 1 VICTORIA, British Columbia, Tuesday. AN elderly man prepared to leave for Holland A tonight to have his heart replaced by a w B mechanical pump. The grey-haired grandfather has signed a contract absolving Profelsor Jan Jongbloed of Utrecht, Holland, from responsibility should the operation
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    Ike says "yes"
    26 1 The United States News and World Report said yesterday that General E>seni?o° We olI h e a rr"of a &cr^c inatlon convention. A.P.
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    HIM CONTEST HAVE YOU ENTERED?
    61 1 CLOSING date for the film contest announced on Saturday is Thursday. Twenty-five dollars awards the best entry on "Why like British films" and another $25 the best entry on "Wliy I dislike British films". Cinema seats are being offered as consolation prixes. Entries which should
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    HE FASTED 66 DAYS
    20 1 A Geriran "hunger artist," PeteroSiardy, claims to f s 255? SS& O s' rS pounds.- Reuter
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    Atom adviser
    8 1 The French atom scientist. pUev- A.F.P.
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    British, French premiers talk on S.-E. Asia
    293 1 PARIS, Tuesday. THE British and French Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers at a 90-minute meeting in Paris yesterday discussed Middle and Far Eastern questions, Germany, the European Army and NATO. French sources believed that the French Premier, Mr. Rene Pleven, made a plea
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    DOPED MYSTERY HORSE NAMED
    103 1 J OtiD Resebekiy, iiri -:>li racing peer, revealed in London yesterday that it was the doping of his horse Snap which led him to offer £1,000 for information which would unmask nobblers. Earlier he had refused to divulge the name of the horse for fear of
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    Tin Mission reports to U.S.
    86 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. A REPORT on production and marketing of tin in the Far East was submitted yesterday to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the government's tin btyer. The report prepared by a special government mission just returned from Malaya and Indonesia, is regarded as a possible
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    MILLIONTH LIFE
    28 1 The m^-.onth nrrson to *tel in a traffic accident In the United States since cars came into use will be killed before Friday, a survey shows
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    Boy stole plane: landed in court
    60 1 A 1-6- v .5 r-old who had never been in the air, stole a plane and flew for three hours in darkness over St. Paul, near Hastings, Minneapolis. He did it to show he -was fit to join the U.S. Air Force. He was
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    Now Australia has the abominable bird
    85 1 r-XANT bird and beast foot pri- *♦< recorded in rock have (l started an Australian rhral to the Himaliyan "abominable snowman" lejpe nd reeved by the last EverVictoria S'M* T-i-ntologist. said that fossilised footprints he had found may be W,tM rea« old. The nrints,
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    35 1 picture. Sir Shenton Thomas, with Lady Thomas, enjoying: a joke with Sir Arnold Robinson, former Singapore lawyer and Legislative Council member of the At Home of the Association of British Malaya in London.- Free Press
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    CIVILIANS IN CHINA TO BE TRAINED
    83 1 CIVILIANS IN CHINA TO BE TRAINED HONG KONG. Tues. •THERE will be large scale military training of civilians in all China's seaboard provinces this winter, Peking Radio said last night. Quoting a report from Nanking, the radio said meetings to discuss plans for the training of civilians had recently been
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    £ gains strength with freedom
    332 1 gains strength with freedom NEW YORK, Tues. rIE pound sterling brought slightly higher prices in terms of Jie United States dollar \n New York trading yesterday. Business was carried on by the foreign exchange departments of banks. One New York bank said the pound was bid at 2.80 dollars, up
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    English Husband
    1185 2 and Anne Edwards talks about the His habits and humours, his virtues and vices DEEP in the heart of the English Fxmily Man lies the longing to regain the territory that he held in Victorian England when "love was of man's life a thing apart a n d
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    The way to HIS heart is still through HIS stomach
    235 2 T^HE old saying that the way to a man s heart is x through his stomach is endorsed again through the unofficial offices of the United Nations A cook with imagination, Miss Claire Brown, director of a test kitchen for
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    169 2 gORN today, you have one of those exceptionally magnetic personalities that is able to sway others over into your way of thinking. You have the social know-how down to an easy science and will succeed best in some kind of work calling for constant contact with mankind.
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      108 2 "FOR HIM' |f| OKL\, FA^ AM) MKG! /J i#/ f DON'T FORCET THE CHILDREN'S PARTY DECEMBER 19th THE MAN'S SHOP ROBINSONS i BY EASTERN WINDOWS jj the story of a battle of souls and minds Perhaps miy thofij wtu sun i P.O.W camp will nV.-v, WILLIAM H. McDOl (.A!J s
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      49 2 Solution to Crossword No. 537 Across:— l, Ape. 4, Clara. 7 Dale. 8, Ate. 9, Brave. 10 leather. 14. Brain. 15, Gnu. 17 Jlue. 18, Peter. 19, End. Down:— l, Adam. 2, Pat. 3 Eleve. 5, Larch. 6. River 10* Horse. 11, Alice. 12, Bagle. 13, Sued. 16, Nun.
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      49 2 New Crossword No. 538 I 0 1 f i answer's a 15 William th >, nurnea on loot. 12. The stockings mav be mLofitn f Conqueror was one. 16. Mother's be^ween'c^ada £3 the US 1 f rminB part of tho bound^ I CLUES DOWN known girls' storv Of Green G
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    HE LAY ON DANCE FLOOR SAYS WIFE
    227 3 around him A HUSBAND an« wife .if? 01 Tuesday. Harpenden, firtf^J^.S 11 Y! ctor 'a Day, of cruelty grounds akX^*^ dl ce on Albany, Regent's Park Claude Erne st Day, of refused a decree by Mr. Commissioner Grazehrook in the Divorce Court n
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    24 3 FILM STAR Ann Blyth, like all* visitors to London, felt she just had to pause in Trafalgar Square and get acquainted with the Pigeons.
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    Africans won't bow
    23 3 s Morofca, President African National Conin Bloemfontein a ma in South scorn oinly reject" i^.signed to rethe position of Reuter
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    CONTROL LIFTED
    17 3 Ldian Government d exchange conT. < announced in Ottawa by Canadian Minister Mr. Douglas AbU AFP
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    CAUGHT WITH LOOT
    38 3 Motor-cycle police with guns in their hands stopped a speeding car at Buffalo, New York, and arrested three men. In the car was 30,000 dollars worth of gold and silver just smuggled over the border.
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    Diplomat will fight wo clear his name
    155 3 Diplomat will fight wo clear his name WASHINGTON. Tues. Service, ft r d ,;.plomat, has 01-out ngnt to I charges that o dismissal > e Department n lb years' ser--5 ....i.ic posts. the'secrei iry of State, Mr. Ac fired Se ?^ce a .o. g /ernment's top f^l> v revit vv
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    THE SILENT WITNESS
    108 3 *ARIS> Tues. speechless o n its perch «ite someone with a hammer was murdering its mistress. If Jo j o bad screamed its piercing scream Mme. FlorQ«€« Oak Imm, near A-fWita*, w«t eni p^^ nUrmt have been saved. But tne parrot was silent with a burned tongue.
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    They couldn't take it
    73 3 They may be tough in Texas, but at Fort Worth the members of a congregation got so tired of the "hard preaching" of the Rev. W.W Baker that it wound up in- a free-for-all, in which 50 deacons and others were involved. Explained one of the
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    New tank is superior to Stalin
    130 3 New tank is superior to Stalin LONDON,. Tues. THREE armoured divisions 1 the spearhead of the British Army-y-are to get two new weapons which will make them the mightiest armoured units in the world. One is a super- tank. The other is a tank destroyer. The super-tank will be better
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    Newspaper girl is U.S. 'woman of the year'
    239 3 Newspaper girl is U.S. 'woman of the year' NEW YORK, Tuesday. AMERICAN newspaperwomen have chosen one of A their own as "Woman of the Year'' for 1951. She is Hong Kong-born Marguerite Higgins, plucky and pretty young foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whose coverage of the Korean
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    Flying-boats to be replaced
    45 3 Four-engined turbine- propeUed Britannia landplanes have chosen to replace Solent flying boats on the Tasmanian air service. The replacements were expected to be made by 1955--1966. Britannia planes would cut the Sydney-Wellington trip from seven hours to four, officials said.- Reuter
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    U.S.BUYINGMAY HURT BRITAIN
    148 3 LONDON, Tuesday. BRITISH experts fear a new spurt in UJ3. defence buying will halt the recent easing in Britain's raw material supply position. .According to a Materials Ministry surrey published in the official Board of Trade Journal, Britain's supply troubles eased a bit in the last half
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    'NO QUARTER TO REDS'
    59 3 India's Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, told an election meeting at Cuttack, Orissa, that n( > quarter would be given to the Indian Communists to "sew disruption and anarchy In the country." He said the "Communists are defaming India by declaring time and again that she
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    NEW BID TO FIND PIRATE GOLD
    111 3 LONDON, Tues. A NOTHER attempt to discover the treasure of Captain William Kidd, the pirate who was executed at Tilbury 250 years ago, is planned soon. So far treasureseekers have used ships. Now a proposal has been made that aircraft be used. The leader
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    FLOATING RADIOS
    31 3 The first of several floating radio stations, which will be able to move about to dodss Soviet jamming, will go into action next year, the Stale Department has announced.
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    BUCKLEY
    9 3 NOW MY Witt CAN HAVt H« kLItGATO*BAG< tf
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    A-POWERED SUBMARINES BY 1954
    77 3 A-POWERED SUBMARINES BY 1954 WASHINGTON, Tue«. THE United States Navy ha« 1 announced that its first atom powered submarine should be ready by 1954. Some unofficial estimates were that an atomic -powered submarine might attain an underwater speed of more than 30 knots, making it capable of running down the
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    THEY AGREE ON TRADE PACT
    50 3 After three -day trade talks, India and Pakistan have agreed to honour the arrangement made in February. Pakistan will expedite the supply of food grains, while India is to send coal at a faster rate of 125 railroad wagons daily and five ships monthly.- AP
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    The Singapore Free Prss TUESDAY, Dec. 18, 1951. Nothing sacred
    259 4 The Singapore Free Prss TUESDAY, Dec. 18, 1951. Nothing sacred r THE Communist camx paign against Roman Catholicism appears 10 have taken on a particularly hideous form under Mao-tse Tung. Two Canadian nuns have just been sentenced at Canton to five years imprisonment for alleged maltreatment of children in an
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    GOOD FOR THE SOUL
    258 4 OINGAPORE is a rich city and, in the opinion of some, it's riches have been amassed at the expense of its soul. People from the more smiling towns of Penang and Ipoh have been known to comment that in Singapore the dominating motive is love of
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    Mountbatten is a 'Supremo', Born and Bred
    1009 4 Mountbatten is a 'Supremo', Born and Bred WHICH should we most admire: the intellectual gilts of Lord Mountbatten (plainly, far above the reach of ordinary mortals), his energy (by any reckoning, remarkable)—or his charm? It is the last which makes the deepest impression on a reader of Mr. Campbell-Johnson's uncritical,
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    NOT-SO-GAY PAREE
    231 4  - NOT-SO-GAY PAREE HENRI THODY By PARIS: TIRADE in Europe's 1 most expensive, most luxurious capital is doing a slow march. On the brilliantly-lit boulevards of Paris, the shops are almost empty, the cafes and restaurants only partly full. Money is suddenly scarce, while prices are from 25 to 33 I|3
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    YOUNG 'HOPE' OF BRITISH RACING
    648 4  - YO UNG 'HOPE OF BRITISH RACING Rhona Churchill By T*HE youngster of 22 whom the British Racing Drivers* Club recently acclaimed Champion Driver of Britain for the second year in succession, will tell you lie wanted to be a dentist "like Dad" but "didn't have the brains.'* There is only
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    THIS CALENDAR IS ATOMIC
    364 4 AN American doctor has iverted an "atomic calendar^ which corrects the dates of world events with the minimum of irron. With his calendar, Dr. W. E. Libby, of Chicago University, can check up on, say, the time of the Stone Age, on the coming of the
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    Talluah Writes Her story
    377 4 Talluah Writes Her story rote E VERY «ta» v. j ■MM) t Tallulah 8.." strides the c r^ room of her count^ house in WestcheJ and dictates her I story. "One Hundred m to thousand «rd iMj dahling. and only hagS y< through. T:., g"J*»f| only suppo |^j Mis s
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      39 4 —LORD MOUNTBATTEN— Britain's last Viceroy of India, a brilliant war leader and the man whom many believe is excellently qualified to end Malaya's war is here critically assessed for his part in the Indian negotiations by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON****
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      23 4 Bring your Christmas shopping QL^gzr f A MmAAJf POULTRY CANW.O FISH CRACi-^-K* FRUIT SWEETS CAKES CHOCC AJB NUTS uc •f Singapore Cold Stprag
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      31 4 POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER "But. darling, if I'd stayed In Parti and heard it on the Third Programme, no one would ever KNOW How much music meant to me I"
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    PEKING AGENTS IN THE COLONY
    320 5 They forward London squeeze money to China Free Press Staff Reporter (^HINESE seamen in London, blackmailed by Communists using threats of violence on their families in China, are believed to have been sending considerable sums of money to addresses in Singapore for transfer to China.
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    This banana made them blink
    100 5 This banana made them blink MEMBERS of United Engineers in Singapore blinked yesterday when their general manager, Mr. T. A. Henzell. walked into the building holding a 17 -inch banana. The banana, grown b\ Mr. Henzell's syce. Amat. measured Sh inches In circumference. The monster banana Is pictured above with
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    MALAY EXHIBITION
    37 5 The Malay Society of Art will hold a Malay arts and crafts exhibition on Dec. 23 at the Malay School Kota Raja, Singapore. Mr. George G. Thomson, Public Relations Secretary, Singapore will open the show.
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    Builders fear rise in prices
    161 5 |MPORTERS and dealers welcomed the announcement yesterday of the temporary lifting of control of imports and distribution of building materials. Directors of big housing projects, however, said middlemen may take advant.age of the relaxation of control to corner goods and force up prices. Mr. C.
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    CHRISTMAS TREAT
    23 5 The Dockyard Club, Naval Base, will hold a children's Christmas party on Dec. 22. About 200 children will get a treat.
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    PWD to form civil defence branch
    159 5 T*HE Singapore Public Works Department will have a civil defence branch. The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council has approved $21,000 for the temporary subordinate start of the branch- The committee has also approved $15,000 as the Colon'y share towards the capital cost of
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    More social activities for boys' clubs
    136 5 A plan for more cooperation and social activity among the nine boys clubs will be put into operation this week by the Federation of Singapore Boys' Clubs, the president, Mr. G. V. Santhou, said last night. The Federation is inviting its affiliated clubs to
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    ANNUAL DANCE
    27 5 The Social Welfare Department's EOS Sports Club will be holding its annual dance in the main hall of the Social Welfare Building on Dec. 22.
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    Co-op plans more classes
    128 5 Co-op plans more classes Free Press Staff Reporter. THE Geylang Co-operative Society has asked the Department of Education for the us e of the Geylang English School in the evenings to run more English literacy classes. The society is now running four classes in the Geylang Malay School and these
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    WELFARE HOME GETS $1,500
    61 5 WELFARE HOME GETS $1,500 The Johore Bahru District Welfare Committee has voted $1,500 for urgent needs of the State Welfare Home. This is in addition to a sum already voted for a radiogram. Lt.-Col. Browne, member of the Committee, will place a wireless technician at the disposal of the committee
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    44 5 nirtnp THE A.O.C. MALAYA, Air Commodore J. L. F. Fuller Good inspecting members of No. 60 Squadron in Singapore when the Squadron. comprising Vampire jet fighters, was presented with its new badge. Its original badge was lost through enemy ac^inn in Rnnn» 1942. R.A.F.
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    Granite shortage holds up houses
    144 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Improvement Trust is short of granite to push through its housing projects with speed. The Trust has asked Government whether it would be possible to compel operators of quarries on Crown land to supply a portion of the granite taken
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    Seminary to build extension
    92 5 Seminary to build extension Free Press Staff Reporter THE Chin Lieu Bible Semi- nary at Green Lane, Singapore, plans to build a $70,--000 extension to house a chapel, a library, more classrooms, and dormitories. The chapel will be named "John Sung Memorial Chapel" in memory of the "John Wesley" of
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    BLACKOUT AREAS
    54 5 Following areas are liable to be blacked out tonight: New World, Jutland Road, Bendemeer Rd., Ban Hock Leong, Milne Rd., Jalan Pekan, Jalan Sultan, Beach Rd., Alhambra, Raffles Hotel, Sumbawa Rd., Boon Tat St.., Aljunied Rd. Sims Ave., Paya Lebar Pumps,. Joo. Chiat Place, Jalan Yasin, Jalan Eunos,
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    NAVY PICKS 17 MALAYS
    114 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 'JHE Malayan Naval Force's recent recruiting campaign for 30 volunteers resulted in the selection of only 17 Malays of a "very good I type," the Free Press was told yesterday A spokesman of the M.N.F. said several applications had been received from
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    YWCA award for member
    114 5 THE Singapore Y.WC.A's Combined Clubs will be holding a tea party at the Y.W.C.A. premises in Raffles Quay tomorrow There will be presentation of the Y's life membership brooch to Mrs. Yeo Jin Bang she will be the fourth member to receive this award, the other
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    SAW PAK 'FOR OLYMPICS'
    572 6  -  PETER HILL Will lift for Singapore if. By THE inclusion of Malayan lightweight champion Thong Saw Pak in the Singapore weightlifting team to the Olympics next year is being referred to the S.O.S.C. by the Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation. Saw Pak, who is at present doing
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    IRON MAN
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    French XV here this weekend
    262 6 Free Press Rugby Reporter TWO fixtures have been arranged in Singapore for the French Air Force rugby tourists who arrive on Thursday from Saigon. They will meet local Army and Royal Air Force representative sides on Friday and Saturday respectively. The Frenchmen, who recently returned
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    R.M.P. LOSE 3-0
    44 6 ROYAL Military Police went down by three points to nil against Singapore Cricket Club "B" in a rugby match played an the Padang yesterday. The Club's three winning points came eight minutes from time when Harrison converted a long penalty kick.
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    RAY FAMECHON WINS
    49 6 RAY Famechon, French holder of the European featherweight title, beat Juan Pad ilia of Mexico on points over ten rounds before a crowd of 10,000 in Paris last night. Famechon. who did most of the attacking, gained only a narrow verdict against a clever opponent. Reuter.
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    SCOREBOARD
    218 6 West Indies Ist Innings— lsl West Australia Ist Innings— loB West Indies 2nd Innings— 2o3 WEST AUSTRALIA— ted INNS. Sarre c Guillen b Valentine 44 Williams ran oat 51 Frankish lbw Valentine 0 Langdon not oat Oatridge b Valentine 14 Carmody not oat 16 Extras 1 Total (for 4)
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    WEST 4 USTRALJA NEED 113 TO WIN v. WEST INDIES
    225 6 WEST Indies bowlers did not display their firstinnings form at Perth yesterday when West Australia went in again. Trim lacked his previous fire At close of play, the State side had scored 134 for four, requiring 113 to win. Langdon
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      204 6 MSiidfdkS Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya I THINK WHAT YOU WANT, HORSE FA CfcJ I YOU- I YES. YOU TAKE THE CAR. I Wf'S GO/A/V GUf SsTHtY,YOU IYOuVtSUSPICIOUsTYEA^UrwI^ WHERE WE PART COMPANY. rMJ [MEt J IT^ANYHOW. SO LONG. THE T^J JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press
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      601 6 Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 p.m. The Radio Orchestra; 1.30 Time Signal News; 1.45 Dance Musk played by Bun Adlam Orchestra; 2.00 Close down; 5.00 Programmes in Malay; 6.15 Programme Summary; 8.17 Pour Stars A A Starlet; 6.30 United Nations Album; 6.40 Radio Malaya Trio; 6.55 An. nounoements A Singapore Shares Market
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    SATURDAY'S RACES MAY BE POSTPONED
    152 7 SATURDAY'S RACES MAY BE POSTPONED 45 horses still held up in K.L. FORTY FIVP °7 ALLAN LEWIS rhi- xt horses enured for the Penang K,.ai a r S New J ear meeting are held up at off IL L Umpur These horses have been taken «JW ai I\. an J
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    38 7 •,j., n v\ victorious badminton team which wrested Foon »sr C U P from P«»»nff on Sunday by beat"e l, m 'bv five games to fonr pictured on their re--3i t np, ipre with the Foon* Seong Cup.
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    BERNIE WANTED TO BE A JOCKEY
    310 7 Free Press Boxing Reporter DERNIE HAIL, who is 5 ft. 10 in. high and No. 1 contender for the Australian welterweight crown, said yesterday: "I really wanted to become a jockey but I just got too heivy, so boxing it was." The lanky Australian
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    ALL BLUES WIN 11-0
    117 7 KEEN tackling and hard running by the Singapore All-Blues saw them defeat the visitins Kuala Lumpur Technical College XV at Bukit Timah yesterday. The Blues' 11 points came from a goal, a penalty goal and a try. A scrum near the visitors' tryline gave Sze Fcok
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    SCC WOMEN WIN 5-2
    36 7 FIVE goals were scoied by Singapore CVicket Club "A" against Girls* Sports Club «B» in a women's hockey match on the Pa dang yesterday evening. The GSC team replied with two goals.
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    GURNET SHINES IV TANGLIN DUEL
    324 7 GURNET SHINES IV TANGLIN DUEL r ree Press Rugby Reporter ||5 I 19; G.H.Q. Signals 3. 1 HNE performance by wing-three Gurney markA ed the Koyal Army Service Corps "A" XV's victory m GHQ Signals at Tanglin yesterday. He scored 4e of his side's fixe tries and had a hand
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    CHARLES BACK IN SADDLE
    40 7 Herde Charles, who missed the Ipoh meeting owing to an accident on the training tracks at Singapore, is quite fit again and will resume riding at the Penang Christmas Meeting. Charles rode several hosses this morning.
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    Today's trackwork
    836 7 COMMISSIONER General's v Cup candidate, Tara Street (Bagby), attracted attention this morning when he went much better than Fifty Grand (Mulley) to reel off three in 37 3 5. Tara Street did his work well within himself, and taking a line through this gallop he is as fit
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    ANKARAH WINS IN GRAND STYLE
    85 7 j-.i-j *o« rmind non-title doui. "he Ynd of '.he fo«n lRd •v' t ps*jred I Meanwhile, ex-hea vy weight U* champion, Joe Lous, vno has the Far Er.st left Ho u' Kcru -crday bv plans for Los Angeles Lou's did a bit 1 but ,v~
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    AUSSIES ARRIVE
    26 7 Bernie Hall, No. 1 contender for the Australian welterweight title (left) and Taffy Hancock, ranked third flyweight in the world, pictured at Kalians Airport.
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    LUCK AGAINST LITTLE CLUBS
    395 7 Third round F.A. Cup Draw I UCK did not favour the smaller clubs in the dr.itr the third round of the English Football Association Cup. On form and reputation, the major clubs alone should be challenging from the fourth round onwards to appear in the Wembley
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    40 DIE IN CRASH
    17 8 Forty people were killed when a train was derailed in Argentina yesterday.- UP
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    RUSSIA BUILDING NEW POWERFUL WARSHIPS
    394 8 RUSSIA BUILDING NEW POWERFUL WARSHIPS LONDON, Tuesday. RUSSIA is building battleships of a new powerful type, according to the new edition of Janes Fighting Ships, standard authority on the world's navies published in London yesterday. Jane's stated that its information on new developments in the Soviet navy was "presented with
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    DEBUT BY ARTS THEATRE
    247 8 DEBUT BY ARTS THEATRE K.S. r £HE Singapore Arts Theatre made a good impression in their first production, "The Heiress," at the Victoria Theatre last night. "The Heiress" is a beautifully constructed play offering three clearly delineated leading parts the graceless heiress herself, her forbidding father and her charming suitor.
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    EMERGENCY BOARD
    31 8 President Truman formed an emergency board last night in an effort to end the sUrike of Pan-American World Airways which threatens serious disruption of the Korean air lift.—Reuter Reuter
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    FOR WORLD WAR III
    32 8 A prisoner of war camp used at Florence, Arizona, during the second world war, is bein? restored for possible use in the event of a. third -war.- A.P.
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    Helicopter on gas
    25 8 The U.S. Navy has successfully flown a helicopter powered by a gas turbine a midget sized engine- which develops 175 horsepower. Reuter
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    FAROUK'S YACHT
    21 8 King Farouk's luxurious yacht, the Mahroussa, is being re-decorated and refurnished in Italy at a coit of U554,000,000.- A.P.
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    Self-lighting cigarettes
    82 8 FRIBOURU, Tues. A SWISS chemical manufacturer has invented a self lighting cigarette. One tip of the cigarette is saturated with a secret chemical which sets the tobacco aglow when rubbed gently against the side of the packet. The friction produces no flame, nor is it necessary to inhale
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    Joan Bennett was watched
    148 8 BEVERLY HILLS, California, Tuesday: A SHEAF of typewritten reports by a detective agency were studied yesterday by the police and the district attorney in the Walter Wanger shooting drama. Police Chief Clinton Ancierson confided that the reports, found in a brief case in Wanger's car, may
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    COLD WAVE KILLS 121
    42 8 With temperatures continuing to drop in the eastern states, the cold wave now gripping the United States yesterday caused 121 deaths. At Houlton. Maine, the temperature reached 33 degrees below zero and 13 below at New Yor^- AFP
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    ACCUSATION
    35 8 Syria was accused by Israel yesterday of a "highly serious and flagrant breach of the general armistice agreement" in connection with the reported killing of two Jewish fishermen On the Sea of Galilee.- A.P.
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    'Let's make a new start'-Soviet
    209 8 PARIS, Tuesday. •THE Soviet bloc put forward a resolution yesterday A that the proposed Disarmament Commission should, in effect, make a new start on the whole issue of atomic control and arms reduction. Western spokesmen commented privately that the United States, France and Britain would
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    SCOUT KNIVES ARE 'WEAPONS'
    50 8 The Miniocry of Justice at Brussels has ruled that bay scout knives in the future must be considered weapons, and must. not be sold by hard ware stores. Tile Ministry took the step alter learning that boy scout knives had been used in street brawls.- A.P.
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    DIVORCED
    27 8 A.P. Mrs. Budd, 64, muther ol Bette Davis, has won a divorce from Captain Otho Budd, whom she charged witlj cruelty. They were married last year.—
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    LEOPARD ESCAPES
    19 8 A leopard, being flown from India to Amsterdam, was destroyed en route when it broke free.- Reuter
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    U.N. tells the Reds 'honeymoon is over'
    235 8 U.N. tells the Reds 'honeymoon is over MUNSAN, Korea. Tues. COMMUNISTS in Korea were told yesterday by the United Nations liaison officer, Col. Andrew J. Kinney, "the honeymoon is over" and that Allied aircraft would attaTck "from now on" any additional traffic on the road from the North Korean capital
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    Bridge Hand
    304 8 East-West vulnerable. South dealer The bidding: South West North East *4 All Pasa WOW much can you learn by reading bow bridge hand* 1 are played? A great deal if you are able to apply the general principles of one hand to the similar situation when it occurs
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      28 8 _THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris FJ5r Tli HOPLE/^ THINK ¥DU U*£^L [THAT STUFF SENTTD US IN —^T, i R T. J sh«d by Reginald Alexander Christian wuia n«M_
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