The Singapore Free Press, 8 January 1952

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 18.283. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 458 1 Churchill to seek US assurance on S. h. Asia WASHINGTON, Tuesday. i;l\ (hurt hill intends to ask the U.S. Govern--1 menfl to publish a solemn joint statement L ig Communist China that the United a and its allies would not tolerate any i^ -Mon m South-East
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  • 42 1 The French Government, headed by M. Rene Pleven was overthrown yesterday m the National Assembly by 339 votes to 245. The Government failed to obtain a vote of confidence, which it had asked earlier, on the Finance Bill. AFP
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  • 27 1 A Javanese wajs admitted to the General Hospital m a critical condition after midnight after being knocked down by a car m Joo Chiat Road.
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  • 24 1 A Chinese driver was severely burnt when his lorry caught fire at Petain Road, behind the New World. He taken to hospital.
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  • 113 1 SKIPPER NEARING SAFETY FALMOUTH, Tues. 'pHE stricken freighter Flying Enterprise inched to within 145 miles of safety yesterday but shipping circles here said the last stretch was most critical. It was a "hit or miss" whether the vessel and her gallant skipper could make it. Seadogs m Lands End said
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  • 54 1 General Francis Wogai Festing, assistant Chief of Staff m General Eisenhower \s European headquarters, will relieve General Sir George Erskine, British Commander-in-Chief m Egypt, next April The War Office said there was no particular significance m the change which was m accordance with a decision made
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  • 35 1 The battered "Enterprise," Her port rail under the water Her passengers rescued m savage seas, her crew safely off. her captain —KURT CARLJSEN— stiII on board. He refuses to leave.
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  • 28 1 The well-known British skier J. Palmer-Tomkinson, was killed m Klosters, Switzerland, yesterday m a skiing accident while training for the British men's skiing championships.- Reuter
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  • 115 1 JERUSALEM, Tuesday. pOLICE flooded roads with petrol and set them ablaze last night to keep back 10,000 Israelis who marched on Parliament shouting "No truck with Hitler's heirs." The demonstrators, supporters of former terrorist leader, Menachem Beigin's freedom party, stoned their way through a police cordon
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  • 97 1 SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, Tues. FILM star Joan Bennet's husband, Walter Wanger, film director, pleaded temporary insanity when he appeared ln court charged with attempt to murder his wife's friend, Jennings Lang, m December. Wanger's lawyer told the press that the proof that his client
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  • 216 1 CAIRO, Tuesday. ABOUT 3,500 Egyptian employees of the Suez Canal Company went on strike m Port Said yesterday. The strike later spread to Ismailia. The strike threatened to tie up ship traffic through the Canal, although there were indications that the Royal Navy
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  • 167 1 150 TOLD: 'MAKE FED. GREAT' LIVERPOOL, LANCASHIRE, Tues. MR. L. D. Whitfield,.Federation Director of Education, told 150 Malayan students here yesterday that very soon they would "be entrusted with the power of making Malaya great and providing for your fellow Malayans the opportunity to live as free men and women."
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  • 41 1 Passengers on the Canton returning to Singapore this morning after a vacation ln United Kingdom Included Mr. J. D, Joseph, Principal of the Singapore Teachers' Training College, and Mr. A. R. Anderson, acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Singapore.
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  • 99 1 PRETORIA, Tues. THE King and Queen and 1 Princess Margaret will spend a few weeks' private holiday m South Africa m March or April, it was officially announced here last night. The Royal party will stay at Botha House, on the outskirts of picturesque
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  • 70 1 *pWO members of the 20-man team which will do a diagnostic survey of Singapore this month, arrived here from Britain m the Canton this morning. They are Mr. K. Watts, a planning officer, and Mr. S. J. Asken, the administrative officer. Mr. D. A. Komlosy, the chief
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  • 32 1 Fiv e Poles were condemned to death by a Military tribunal m Warsaw last night on charges of spying for the United States. The trial began yesterday morning.—
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  • 20 1 Two fire engines put out a fire m a house In Serangoon Road on Sunday. Damage was negligible.
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  • 71 1 MOMBASA, KENYA, Tues. 4 ban was issued yesterday forbidding aU soccer m Kenya* coastal province for 21 days following a riot at a soccer cup tie here. Over 1,000 African supporters of the defeated team rushed the pitch at the end of the game and chased the winning
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  • 388 1 Record loss in Britain 's reserves LONDON, Tuesday. BRITAIN'S losses m gold and dollar reserves m tha fourth quarter of 1951 amounted to $934,000,000. the Treasury announced yesterday. This was the highest loss on record. This followed losses totalling $598,000,000 m the previous three months and brought British reserves of
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  • 100 1 ANY possibility that sterling would be devalued at the coming Commonwealth Finance Ministers conference was discounted m responsible quarters m London last night. The British official view, though not expressly stateed, is that devaluation would make an already very grave situation far worse. An authoritative
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  • 88 1 Scotland Yard impressed the inspector Free Press Staff Reporter "SCOTLAND Yard impressed me very, very much," said Singapore Police Chief Inspector Percy Pennefather on his return from the U.K. aboard the Canton this morning after a six-month specialization course m fingerprinting, photography and criminal record wroK. Chief Inspector Pennefather, who
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  • 15 2 THE ENGLISH HOME: Barry Appleby packs a lifetime of woe into this one disenchanted evening
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  • 900 2 Mr and Mrs, Ignore That Advice! AND ANNE EDWARDS SAYS- ILf V advice to the two lfl people who live together m The English Home is not to take the advice of people who are always giving advice on How to be Happily Married In fact, if they take the
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  • 453 2  -  NANCY BAUME By C^RANK Sinatra, on r his recent whirl wind visit to London, found time— in spite of all the excitement of a royal variety show, rehearsals,* a jewel robbery and mobbing tactics by eager fansto tell me all about his views on food. It's
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    53 3 DANKLLI DARRIEUX. popular French star, had this hair style designed especially for her by a Hollywood stvlLst. The hair is parted tluwn the centre with two softly waved dips on either sides of the forehead. The ud« hair is drawn up and I m kward. ending m a mass ..i
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  • 211 3 And now-an abominable coal man ..ONDON Tues. M: EMILY MAKIN. 74- ir-old wlf« of a retired I ogsgate fish porter, has intered the Abcminable» nan He turned up while was raking out the ashes hei Orepiaee is l metal statuette. bsh scorched and ,:v M... --er dresa- r daughter. washed
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  • 174 3 r.z-LGRADE, Tues. tempi by the German S5 Ul plant an agent m Tito's headquarters ?s ssinate him m Sep--1944 an effort failed by only a few •-d yards was disf 'by the Yugoslav pubicn, -Thirty Days." agent who succeeded iding Yugoslav parte send him
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  • 286 3 None has a good word for it. LONDON, Tuesday. UEADMASTERS ha ve met m London to discuss the 11 examination that has replaced the old School Certificate the General Certificate of Education. Not one of them could find a food word for it. What they said
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  • 227 3 Doctor was in quite a dilemma LONDON, Tues. A CLEVER dog does what it is told. But a clever child? That is another matter as Dr. Maurice Burton found. He gave a holiday lecture called: "Is my dog clever?" to 100 children at London's Natural History Museum. Dr. Burton, a
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    49 3 picture. The French sculptor, Jean Weber, recently completed busts of leading Parisian mannequins to form part of the decoration of the new Mannequins Club opening in Paris. Here Lucky, the chief mannequin from Christian Dior's house, is holding her own bust and admiring those of her contemporarie s Popper
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  • 65 3 He gave brandy to his hens Johannes Viljoen, 45, poultry dealer, of Benoni, pear Johannesburg, told a court that he fed 100 bottles of brandy a month to his 1,100 fowls to increase their laying capacity by ten dozen eggs a day. He was fined £45 or 70--days' gaol for
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  • 35 3 A senior Chinese Communist official m Canton, Li Mv, business director of the Department of Communications, was convicted for "wastefuHy spending JMPSI4, OOO,OOO (US$7OO) of State funds for his wedding banquet.- U.P.
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  • 61 3 Eight of the ten Royal Marine cadets who were not hurt m the Chatham bus crash on December 4 had a 12-day holiday by the sea. The holiday was given by an organisation working with the Marines to "help the boys forget the tragedy" m
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  • 258 3 THEY KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT STARS LONDON, Tues. MOST young girls today can tell which film stars are about to marry. "They can say, too, which film marriages are about to founder and who is divorcing whom," said Mrs. Irene Evans, secretary of Leeds Marriage Guidance Council. "The gossip of
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  • 85 3 Li Kwan, a 50-year-old Hong Kong baker', consulting a fortune-teller, wag warned there would be a flood m Hong Kong within the next few days. He was told to wear some "charms" to protect himself from "evil spirits." While crossing from Kowloon to Hong Kong, Li
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    251 3 NORTH'S bidding seems incon- sistent. After a mere tingle raise, which hig partner passed, he 'suddenly leaped to game. There were two reasons: He assumed that East would produce good support for hearts and Wanted to shutout any indication of it; he also diagnosed his part- a play.
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  • 334 3 LONDON, Tuesday. "TWO "Cockney" girls m "rags and tatters,'' hair m x crackers, with multi-coloured scarves over their heads and carrying shopping bags, walked among the queues m the street markets from Old Kent-road to Deptford, S.E. H In the accents of their "calling," and
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  • 159 3 'Pub' centref or dope pedlars LONDON, Tues. FOUR stages m the effects produced by smoking reefer" cigarettes containing Indian hemp were described at Marlborough-street, London, by Dr. Lan O. Holden, Director of the Metropolitan Police laboratory. "The first stage U one of excitement and exhilaration," said Dr. Holden. "Then there
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  • 132 3 LONDON, Tues. TWO sisters, who were friends of film star Charlie Chaplin in his 20's, j were the principals at a recent birthday celebration. The party was to celebrate the 91st birthday of one of them, Mrs. Elizabeth Lee. Her sister-, Mrs. Nellie Mills, now nearing
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  • 325 3 ISMAILIA, Tuesday. THE British garrison In this terrorist-ridden town is calling Mrs. Anne Chapman, of Enfield Middlesex, the "Miracle Mother." She deserves the title, for she overcame her fears of flying— and helped her son to speak again when it was feared he never
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  • 99 3 The Rev. Alfred C. Raby, of St. Marks, Purley, recently told his congregation m the course of a sermon: Today m shops and offices where the public are concerned, time and patience and stamina, chiefly of housewives, are sapped because from quite early m
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  • 190 3 MARRIAGE FAILURE CASE ROOK LONDON. Tues. AN attempt is being made to find out, on a scientific basis, why marriages break down. It wff! last a year. Th e Marriage Guidance Council will analyse results then and produce statistics*. They will be drawn from standardised case sheets The sheets are
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    • 345 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR TJORN on Christmas Day comes to very few and seems to bring with it a special benediction and a combination of talents which gives yon exceptional potentialities if they are properly developed. Yon have good judgment, discretion snd intuitive farsightedness. Although yon may appear high-strnng or i
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    • 103 3 your idea. Your temperament is not an easy-going one and you are susceptible to moodiness. You are usually either elevated to the heights of extreme joy or m tiie depths of despair. You are very fond of music and may have some talent m this direction. "Friendship and love mean
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  • 588 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Jan. 8, 1952. Thoughts in the rain ?THIS is a time of year A when, all good New Year resolutions notwithstanding, most people feel bad-tem-pered. This is the rainy season, a trying season for all except those with the patience of Raffles Statue The rains
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  • 657 4 AS the giant 83,000A ton liner Queen Mary draws slowly into her berth alongside the luxury ocean terminal at Southampton this week gangs of dungareed stevedores will gather on the quayside. As soon as the lines are fast, the, gangways up, they will swarm
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  • 313 4 Letter to the Editor CIR, In connection with news that the Singapore Improvement Trust will make a $7£ million cut m their building programme for the current year, will you be good enough to publish the following pointers: Since the primary aim of the Trust
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  • 325 4 For the Dockers a Clean 'Job' 'pHE Southampton docker lives close to reality. Working the "big, ships," the "Queens," the crack American, French, or Dutch liners, he sees what it means to have, and hold, the finest sea-borne traffic. He sees the passengers the "big ships" carry, the evident wealth
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  • 277 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR CIR, v A 'wild word' by Mr. Selig S. Harrison (Singapore Free Press, Friday, Dec. 21), arrested my attention. I would be less than Indian if I did not raise my voice m protest against hi? splenetic outburst. J a i rl son states,
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  • 848 4 'Our Grade' Has Done It Again Eve Perrick says Gracie Fields, who has recently announced that she is to marry again tor the third time, likes to be loved and to be amused. weeks before Italy came into the war and made our Gracie theoretically an enemy alien, was slightly
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  • 557 4 AFTER deploring the fact that there is a war going on m Korea, the Swedes take little further interest' m the matter. But, nevertheless, although the Swedes consider all wars (including the war m Korea) to be foolish, they want to help the wounded
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  • 131 4 /\N his way to Malaya is a former British paratroop major. The news is important because this major, one of the cloak-and-dagger boys at the time of the Palestine troubles, is being sent out by one of the world's biggest rubber companies to command their private
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  • 219 5 13,582 babies were born there last year AN all-time record number of 13,582 babies —344 more than m 1950— were born m Singapore's Kandang Kerbau Hospital last year. It was not the only record set last year. In October 1,365 babies were delivered— the biggest
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  • 189 5 Vnew community and youth centre for some 699 reMdents of Radin Mas, Kampong Bahru, Singapore, has been formed. At Its first general meeting held recently, Inche Baki bin Othman was elected chairman. The centre will make use ci the Malay Association premises at Radin Mas
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  • 107 5 THE Special Electricity Com- mittee of the Singapore City Council has sanctioned passage expenses to bring another 40 skilled workers from Hong Kong to speed up cement construction work at the Pasir Panjang Power Station. The first batch of 40 meri arrived m
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  • 95 5 THE Tiong Hin Club m Cecil Street, Singapore, is sponsoring a party to fete the Chinese who »were honoured by the King m the New Year. The Club has suggested th? formation of a joint committee by Chinese associations and clubs to organise the function.
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  • 52 5 Atter a aay ol fruitless air search of islands m the Lingga and Riouw Archipelago, the R.A.F. last night called off further search Tor the Hornet pilot missing since Friday m the South China Sea. The Hornet a twin-engfja-ed, single-seater fighter, disappeared while on a flight from Singapore
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  • 96 5 Malayanised courses MALAYAN student teachers 'being trained m England on Kirkby Scholarships will be given "Malayanised" courses, Mr. Robert Williams, principal of the Kirkby Training College, said m a weekend talk on the aims of the College. Special emphasis would be placed on how to deal with backward and maladjusted
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  • 73 5 A Hastings transport aircraft, which was due to leave Changi m the early hours of this morning will inaugurate the R.A.F.'s first regular service between Britain and Australia. Planes on the route, which will be flown monthly at first, will refuel at Jakarta and then fly to
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  • 109 5 'FHE Singapore Adult Education Council is asking R Government to continue subsidising Chinese adult classes. Mr. Lee Kong Chian, vicechairman of the Singapore Adult Education Association, said yesterday: "The matter is being taken up. The council wants to have the question clarified." A
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    39 5 MR. G. SHIPWAX, Dunlop Rubber Company's Chief aviation representative for the Far East (right), is greeted by Mr. P. D. O. Liddell, of Dunlops, on his arrival m the Colony yesterday b y Qantas-BOAC from London. Free Press picture*
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  • 74 5 The Rallies Society is sponsoring a programme of folk songs and dances by Mr. Devatta Jetley, a student of the Indian dancer Uday Shankar, who is now having a successful season m New York. Mr. Jetley's programme will be presented at the Oei.. Tiong Ham
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    47 5 picture. THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, the Most Rev. Dr. Cyril Garbett, being garlanded by Mr. S. D. Paul, secretary of Christ Church, Singapore, yesterday at Farrer Park. The Archbishop met representatives of the Diocese of Singapore and took part m the service at Christ Church. Free Press
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  • 22 5 PENANG. Tues.— The Indian magician, Sorcar, arrived m Penang yesterday to open a short season at the Sun Theatre.
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  • 149 5 Free Press Staff R -"ior ter LIEUT. General Sir Otto Lund, Commlssioner-in-Chief of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, will arrive m Singapore by air on January 27, on the first leg of his inspection tour of Malaya Sarawak and Hong Kong. He "will
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  • 136 5 T^HE Singapore Government has given the green x light to the City Council to implement the recommendations of the Hawkers Inquiry Commission and license all hawkers, an official spokesman said yesterday. -The City Council is expected to get nearly $2,000,000 a, year
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    44 5 DR. C. A. GIBSON-HILL (ri ght) and Mr. Loke Wan Tho, two members of the selectio n committee for entries m the Singapore photographic exhibition, studying some of the prints received at Raffles Museum yesterday. The "exhibition opens on Jan. 25. Free Press picture.
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  • 46 5 THE Director of Education. Singapore, said last night that the Government's contribution of funds to Chinese schools has risen sharply every year for the past three years. The total aid given m 1949 was $473,264, m 1950. $647,734 -and m 1951, $1,555,677.
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  • 44 5 Tlie recently-formed Government Seamen's Union of Singapore is to ask for pay increases, housing allowance, and overtime and pension rates. A meeting of the Union last night at Pulau Brani decided this and appointed a committee to negotiate with the authorities.
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  • 90 5 STC PLANS TO SHORTEN WAIT A T BUS STOPS HPHE Singapore Traction Company expects to put x about 40 new omnibuses on Singapore roads this year, Mr. A. A. Ewing, general manager, said yesterday. "They will be used on the most congested roads", he added. I The engines and chassis
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  • 314 5 New travel law proposal welcomed I Free Press Staff Reporter THE recommendation by a Select Committee that Singapore's new immigration law should provide for the grant of Resident's Certificates to aliens who hay? lived long m the Colony, was welcomed hy Mr. Lee Wee Nam, a local Chinese leader, yesterday.
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  • 27 5 There will be a meeting of the Animal Lovers' League at Raffles Institution today it 5 p.m. Following the meeting there will be a film show.
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  • 106 6 rE Ne.v York metropolitans amateur hockey team, on Sunday night met the first serious opposition of Its Japan tour and was held to a 5 5 draw by the Kanto Staci from the Tokyo area. Al Kanto players are m their th:: -es. Their hockey
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  • 364 6  - BUSY WEEKEND FOR SELECTORS FIRST-TIMER South hockey XI named Saturday By gOUTH selectors wiU see 19 Singapore players m action on Friday, Saturday and Sunday when the quadrangular hockey tournament between Perak, Negri Sembilan, Malacca aad Singapore takes place. It is not the case of the Colony trying to make
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  • 143 6 It's gloves again far Brander AM ATE UR feather-weights will be interested— if not exactly delighted to learn that ex-champion Peter Brander has started light training for the first time this season. Brander walked into his club gymnasium at Slough, did a few exercises* and expressed the intention of putting
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  • 39 6 HELSINKI. .>____. -The Soviet Olympic committee nas confirmed the. Union's participation m the Olympic Games here next summer ln a registered letter to Mr. Eric Von Franctell chairman af the Finnish Olympic committee, it was announced here today.
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  • 443 6 Eight-point plan is sensible Says PETER WILSON AS we are now at the time of year when it is deem--5* ed right and proper for everyone to make new resolutions, so that an overwhelming odour of reforming is m the air, let me put forward some suggestions for improving cricket.
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    39 6 picture. Incident during the recent English First Div. one-all draw played oat at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea, and Portsmouth. Chelsea goa lie, Robertson, blocks eat Portsmouth centre-forward, Clarke, while another Portsmouth forward puts up his arms in despair.- fox
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  • 179 6 AFTER their great display against South Africa on Saturday, members of the England rugby team have been selected en bloc for the match against Wales at Twickenham on Jan. 19. Line-up is: W.G. Hook fGloucester); J.E. Woodward (Wasps), A. E. Agara (Harlequins), L.
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  • 61 6 INDIA'S number two Narendra Nath beat Japanese number four Nakano 8-6, 6-2, 6-4 m the finals of the men's singles of the invitations tennis tournament at the National Stadium, New Delhi on Sunday. Narendra Nath and Sumant Misra also eliminated Nakano and Kamo m the doubles
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  • 478 6 WHAT'S TOM DONE? If dull cricket continues j ASKS HAKOLD MAYES pOUNTY cricket, as wa know it, is on its last legs. That is something, plenty of people have been thinking for some time, but one has previously been bold enough to say it just that way. Tbere have been
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  • 290 6  -  By JOHN MACADAM WH EN they start talking about Brighter Cricket Jje are inclined to wince and* think back to the occasion when Groncho Marx threw a party m Hollywood. It was announced during cocktails that Groucho would piay the violin, and true enough, at a cfeoal. he
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    • 122 6 Fighting Spartans go down 5-1 IN the third replay of their FA. Cup second round match played at Goodlson Pack, Liverpool. Tranmere Rovers beat Blyth Spartans by five goals te one. Tranmere are now away to Huddersfield Town m the third round on Saturday. Reuter, TtL. tm-COHTMVOH^ 2ND WEEK! 11
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  • 843 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS Some may miss first day s races m Singapore By TVVKNTY-ONE horses entered for the Singapore Spring meeting are held up by the floods m ihe Segamat area of Johore. The horses affected are Sullivan Stable: Royal I ,ir. Masterman, Neptune's Daughter, Argos
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  • 40 7 This is Alex Buxton, the crinkly-haired fighter with a devastating pur/h who meets British and European middleweight champion Randolph Turpin on Feb. 12. Buxton has a formidable record 25 of 35 victories inside the distance.— Reuter picture.
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  • 56 7 "DRITAIN'S 1952 motor-racing, may include Piero Taruff, Italian ace who recently won the Mexican road classic, it was reported m Milan yesterday. The racing director of the Italian Ferrari Team, Maestro Ugolin, said Taruefl has received an attractive offer, but has yet to decide. Taruefl
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  • 291 7 GIFT TO SEDGMAN: PAPERS PROTEST TWO week-end Sydney newspapers sharply criticised the Australian way of amateur tennis that kept Davis Cup star, Frank Sedgman, out of the professional game. Sunday Sun sports columnist Alan Hulls said that the Sedgman affair makes amateur tennis look more phoney than ever. Another Sunday
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  • 309 7  -  JAMES PARK By WHETHER we shall learn anything official about what measures are to be taken to defeat the doping menace m England Ido not know. The rewards offered remain unclaimed. The current issue of the Racing Calendar contains a notice that an owner and trainer,
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  • 88 7 JOHN Reid. who toured England with 1949 New Zealand team. scored 283 for Wellington against Otago m a Plunket Shield match at Wellington yesterday. Reid batted six hours 25 minutes and hit a six and 38 fours. He was out first ball m his first innings.
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  • 136 7  - Horses back from spell ALLAN LEWIS By HPHE following horses have com- pleted a spell at Ringlet and have returned to their respective trainers:— Starain (2-12-51), Black Velvet (2-12-51). Meath (4-12-51), Dante's Idyll (4-12-51), Ropewalk (7-12-51). Raj Mihal (7-12-51). Richmond (8-12-51), Serpentine (11-12-51), Ursinia (13-12-51), Gold Meridian (14-12-51), River Patrol
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  • 38 7 rLLOWING on after scoring 158 m reply to M.C.C's first innings total of 370 for five declared, East Zone were 97 for three when play closed yesterday m the match being played at Jamshedpur India.
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  • 53 7 ipiFTY percent of the tickets tor the World Olympic Games at Helsinki from July 19 to Aug. 3 will be distributed for sale throughout the world ftnd Malayans who wish to watch the games may apply to the probable local agents. Thomas Cook and Son. Sales will conclude
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  • 98 7 HERE is another rival tor Itcger Bannister at Helsinki next year big, burly Don McMillan from Victoria who has shattered the Australian mile record by clocking 4min. iteec. McMillan, who reached the final of the Empire Games mile m 1950, but failed to gain a place
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  • 52 7 TyjERILL Barber of Brattleborc. Vermont, won the Harold Nelson and Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial ski jumps at the Bear Mountain New York state park on Sunday. Barber, repeating his previous victory over Art Devlin, two times United States Olympian, also received the award for the longest jumps of
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  • 212 7 lOHNNY LEACH, English holder of the world table tennis championship, lost his French international title m Paris last night when he was beaten m the quarter-finals of the championships by the French No. 2, Michel Haguenauer. Haguenauer won 21-19, 19-21, 16-21, 21-12, 21-14. The Rowe twins
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    31 7 Brentford's Gaskell turns the ball cut for a corner m the F.A. Div. 2 League game against Cardiff City at Cardiff. Thc game ended m a scoreless draw.
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  • 261 7 TKE names of the world's six top athletes of 1951 will be inscribed on the silver and gold Heltris World Trophy on their respective continents, the Helms Foundation revealed last night. i The new engravings for .he year 1951 will be unveiled at j the
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  • 115 7 Russians on skates set new records PRAVDA reported yesterday that Soviet men speed skaters broke two world speed skating records m one day at a meet m the mountains near Alma Aaa, m Kazakhstan. It said a Moscow skater. Yurev, covered the 500-yard dash m 41.7 sec. one-tenth of a
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  • 60 7 Combined Volunteer Police Soccer XI against Kesatuan Sinaran Anak Melayu at the Police Training School ground on Sunday will be selected from: Samal Sahib, Shazali, Sunny Tan. V. Nadarajah, Tan Wee Hock, D. Kessler, V. Marimuthu, Luke Lop2S. Richard Tan, Goh Kirn Pong. Charlie Tan, Chan Soon Ann.
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  • 161 7 Revised U.K. football fixtures for Saturday Jan. 12: F.A. CIP (Third Round): Barnsiey vs. Colchester United; Bradford vs. Sheffield Wednesday; Brentford vs. Queen's Park Ra niters; Bristol Rovers vs. Preston North End; Burnley vs. Hartlepools United; Cardiff City vs. Swindon Town; Chelsea vs. Chester: Doncaster Rovers vs.
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  • 122 7 DESPITE an opening stand of 80 by Harvey and Grout and a fifth wicket partnership of 52 between Carrigan and Mackay, Queensland finished the second^ day's play of their Sheffield *Shield match at Melbourne against South Australia with arrears of 99 and three wickets to fall. In
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  • 53 7 BRITISH golfers Dai Rees and Harry Weetman left London airport yesterd ay fori Australia. Before taking part hi a tourney In Sydney at the < end of March, they will nlay exhibition matches m Kenya, Bombay. Colombo and Singapore. Rees has with him the new centre
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  • 659 7  -  CHARLES BRYCE By WE now know both sides for Saturday's H.M.?. Malaya rugby final at Kuala Lumpur between Combined Services and Ferak. Servicrs selectors announced their team yesterday. The selectors could have produced several combinations as powerful as this one, but none actually stronger.
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  • 56 7 Laddie Ou:schoorn, former Singapore cricketer who is now playing for Wcrchestershire. has not yet arrived m the Colony. He is still m Colombo r.nd i* waiting for a plane to briar h'm here. While m the Crlovy he will stey with an old friend of his, Mr. Gordon
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  • 357 8 MR. TRUMAN 'IS SO UPSET BY NAGGING IN U.S. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. A NEWSPAPER cartoon hits the nail on the head. Mr. Truman, dressed as a harassed housewife, broom m hand, is vainly trying: to cope with a mass of debris m the home. Through the window Mr. Churchill is seen
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    42 8 PRINCESS ELIZABETH and the Duke of Edinburgh will ride m Daimler c?rs with special "gold fish bowl" transparent plastic, tops, during their tour of Australia and New Zea'/ind. Picture shows the roof of the Royal Daimler being given a polish. Popper picture.
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  • 147 8 BANGKOK, TU9S. A BRITISH committee, headed by the Ambassador, Mr. Geoffrey Wallinger, and a Thai Commerce Ministry committee begin today a five-day discussion of the rice quota problem. The Minister of Commerce is insisting that only 800,000 tons will be exported during the first ten months
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  • 170 8 Ribbentrop 'cleared in' 56, court rules WIESBADEN, Tues. A GERMAN court decided yesterday that by 1556 people will no longer resent the name "von Ribbentrop." In so ruling, it ordered the Henkell champagne company to employ Rudolf Von Ribbentrop, 31-year-old son of Hitler's late Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. who
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  • 93 8 MOSCOW, Tues. 'pHE Soviet Army newspaper, Red Star, says there still are "serious defects" m some oi the social science lectures and seminars being held m Russia's military academies. They are too feeble m showing the Soviet Union's leading role m the struggle for peace and
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  • 64 8 The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, has received a request from two members of the East African Indian Congress for an early interview with him. The two were authorised by the Executive of the Congress to protest to the Secretary of State
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  • 109 8 WEST RUN A 24-YEAR-OLD mother and third members of one week after the first The baby bom m 1951 pounds. The 1952 babies w four pounds, five ounces, three pounds, eleven ounces minutes of one another. "Mother and babies ar hospital spokesman. Tbe mother is Mrs. E
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  • 27 8 Mr. K. C. Wu, Governor of Formosa, said yesterday that he believes the Communists will start a "major" conflict during the United States presidential campaign.
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  • 62 8 Burrows Matthews, cdiv jr of the Buffalo, New- York,) Courier Express and newlyappointed press relations adviser to 'General Matthew B. Ridgway, -arrived m Tokyo; yesterday He wiill act m an advisory capacity and as a civilian, j He will take over the responsibilities of Brig.
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  • 234 8 VISHINSKY'S PLAN UNREALISTIC— U.K. PARIS, Tuesday. MR. SELWYN LLOYD, Brit sh delegate to the United Nations, said yesterday that he did not believe that any useful purpose could be served at this moment by referring the negotiations m Korea to the Security Council. Ali parties wanted the armistice negotiations to
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  • 122 8 TOKYO, Tues. H^IDE DIFFERENCES were reported yesterday to be dividing Japanese and Indonesian delegates discussing Japanese reparation payments to Indonesia. There was little optimism that the talks could be ended soon m order to clear the way for similar negotiations between Japan and the Philippines scheduled
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  • 59 8 Tj:p United States Ls sending two State Department officials to the Sudan next week to get first hand information on tl c state of feeling, m the country. The United States has informally raised with Britain the possibility of admitting King Farouk's claim to
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  • 169 8 SYRACUSE, New York, Tuesday. |\OROTHY Raymer and Robert Haskins, young *J victims of polio, were honeymooning yesterday after, a weekend ceremony at which all the attendants and most of the guests weife paralysis victims who get around with the aid of steel braces, crutches The
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  • 33 8 Indo- Jap talk? Seiichi Katsumata. Japanese Socialist leader and a member ol ttie Diet, arrived m New Delhi yesterday for a week's long series of conferences with Indian socialists and government officials. A.P.
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  • 24 8 A Moscow medical professor has been stealing all the glory for discoveries his students make according to the Soviet newspaper, Izvestia. A.P.
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  • 269 8 PARIS, Tuesday. GENERAL Eisenhower yesterday said he would not resign his Supreme Command *m the absent of a clear-cut call to political duty." But he did n »t say outright that he would refuse m all cir. ur n. stances to stand for
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  • 73 8 T.V. NEGROES 'OFFENSIVE'--US GOVERNOR NEW YORK Tues •TELEVISION produce j 1 broadcasters gei ignored yesterday the of Georgia Governci, Talmadge to boycd sion shows where whi 4 Negro performers ft| together. Talmadge. m a v,--tical newspaper on S singled out three C Broadcasting S\ i shows as "cfft j Southerners
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  • 18 8 The Philippine Repa Committee yestsrdsy ed that the Philippines insist on an USsB.oorreparations claim Japan A.F.P.
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