The Singapore Free Press, 19 January 1952

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 18,293. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 191 1 12 TUNIS LEADERS EXILED BY FRENCH TUNIS, Sat. 'p I LYE Nationalist 1 and Communist leara were arrested and riled* 1 to the interior erday as an indefinite teral strike was called leftist unions to prothe stringent mea- s 'aken by France to keep a firm hold on its Tunisian
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  • 25 1 Field Marshal Sir Claude Auehmieck. former Com-mander-in-Chief m India, left London yesterday for Pakistan where he has privi "ii business interests. Reuter
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  • 511 1 'Common action* with US over Korean truce WASHINGTON, Saturday. authoritative British source indicated yesterday that Britain is ready, if necessary, to break off diplomatic relations with China should the Chinese Communists violate any truce which may be negotiated m Korea. Mr. Churchill's government, this informant said,
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    56 1 piciure. PROFESSOR A. A. SANDOSHAM, new incumbent to the Chair of Parasitologr at the University of Malaya, gave his inaugural lecture at the University last night on "The Challenge of the Parasite." He spoke on the possibility of foreign troops coming to Malaya bringing m diseases from which we have
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    42 1 The crew selected to fly the Argonaut aircraft m which Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will go to Nairobi, Kenya. In this group at London airport the Commander of the plane. Captain R. C. Parker is on the extreme left.
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  • 84 1 NEW YORK, Sat. JOHN BrouMkaris, 28, of Athens, told a news conference m New York yesterday that Communist guerillas forced him and five other Greek soldiers to march nude over 13 miles to a point near the Yugoslav border. He said they slashed both his
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  • 29 1 A World Health Organisation team of 11 emminent medical scientists from seven countries will shortly visit Burma, Ceylon and India to work with medical education nroJects. A.F.P.
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  • 288 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TiHREE cases of armed robbery, involving over A $7,000 m cash and jewellery, occurred m Singapore between 7 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. yesterday. At 7.30 p.m. six masked Chinese, all armed with pistols, entered a house at the ninth milestone Changi
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    30 1 "Unfortunately Mrs. Thelman is unable to deliver her lecture as advertised, but this gentleman has kindly agreed to talk briefly on the subject 'The Art of Nobbling."
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  • 58 1 ALLAN LEWIS', Free Press racing correspondent, best bets for today are RED WOLF, OPERA and JIMSON. Best out-sider: FRIENDSHIP. There has been no rain at the track since Wednesday and the groins: this afternoon should be good. The false rail will be m use 15 feet
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  • 135 1 SNOW, ICE GRIP BRITAIN LONDON, Sat. 40 motor cars were stranded by four-foot drifts of snow on the main highway between Sheffield and Manchester m the Midlands early today. Most are almost completely buried m snow. Some of their owners put up for the night at nearby hotels. The Lanarkshire
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  • 43 1 Burma yesterday offered the United States proposals whereby would receive economic aid without adhering to the clauses of the Mutual Security Act Agreement Burma has failed to sign the agreement, deadline for which was January 8. Reu ter
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  • 195 1 WASHINGTON, Sat. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill left Washington yesterday following his final conference with President Truman. As he left Mr. Churchill expressed amazement over the interest and bustling activity of photographers and their glaring flashbulbs. He said, "You must have had great expenditure m these bulbs.
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  • 115 1 MUNSAN, Saturday. T*HB possibility of a shift m the United Nations A armistice policy was seen yesterday following high-level strategy conferences m the Allied apple orchard camp. Censorship forbade giving any details of the policy huddle, but the dreary deadlock at Panmunjom, has dragged
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  • 475 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. THE co-operation of all races m Malaya cannot be obtained unless they are convinced that a united independent Malaya is really going to emerge. Because of this, the directive which the British Government is preparing for Gen. Templer will
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  • 40 1 Speaking on Thursday night at a meeting of the Racial Institute, at Capetown, Manila! Gandhi, son of tha Mahatma, declared his support of an honourable compromise between the Indian community m South Africa and that country's government.- AFP
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    • 66 1 M.FuiTEltftS.llttKtl Diamonds Jewellery A 67, Stamford Rd., (Eu Court) Bldg., Spore, Telephone 7923. H Most people know, but some don t. H that Beer should not be served m H a glass which has been cleaned S with soap- Soap will clean your M glass thoroughly but it will affect
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    • 194 2 Feeling much more cheerful now in he has discovered how to work '.he saucer Rupert spends some time swerving and soaring and diving about m the sky before he decides t.o go home. Bu. then there is a new problem. AH around him is nothing but
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    • 864 2  -  RASTIS jjLjgjj •"T^HE sloop will be manned by a skeleton crew, under the command of Lieut. Rawling. They will take the cutter for their getaway, if necessary," said Saunders. The two ships will sail at close quarters, on a course due west. "The moment we
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    • 938 2  -  WENDY YOU WILL NEED A STEADY HAND FOR IT YOU have been back at school for one week now time enough for hands which have been employed helping you amuse yourselves during the holidays to get back into shape for the difficult task of writing
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    • 192 2 PEN PALS COLUMN Terry Lee, of, 153. Killiney Road, Singapore, wants pen .pals between the ages of 12 and 15. He is Interested m cycling, cinema, and music. Freddy Koh, 188-S, Tempenis Road, Singapore, wants Pen pal s everywhere between the ages of 10 and 16. H e Is interested
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    • 520 2 A xNOTHEK expedition, has come back from Mount Everest and still no one has reached the top of the highest mountain m the world. If it had been 900 ft. lower It would have been conquered years ago and nobody but geography teachers would have
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 162 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD J.— _L——Li__J i I I I I I CLUES ACKOSS.-1. 'Princess Dream 6. Bright green precious wiU probably be our next stone, a. A sketch of grassland 9 queen. 5. The bottom of a ship. 7. The monkey nearest to man. 11. !T?* volce Length A barrister ma
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  • 62 3 The Australian Govern mcnt announced m Canberra that it has concluded a:: agreement with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company the construction of a $22 400,000 refinery 'at Prenantle. Western Atistralia. The refinery is scheduled for completion m 1956 and will supply 40 per cent of Australia's gasoline.
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    271 3 .-i would have liked it if his :ouble of two diamonds bp read as a penalty .vh:ch it wasn't. At any be hoped to be able to bid himself and have >r read the situation if, for k West took out In two However, this question r arose;
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  • 63 3 The New York Times said that the United States has agreed that West Germans should be permitted to have a tactical Air Force of over 1,000 planes by mid-summer, 1954. The paper quoted Allied sources as saying that the XJJS. reached such an agreement with
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  • 15 3 I The United Nations Ad-I I rvv mm fffoa. r\n KnrfiflM
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  • 441 3 DIAMOND MONOPOLY MAY BE BROKEN World 's 2 richest men fall out LONDON, Saturday. MILLIONS of dollars-worth of diamonds may be ITI released upon the United States— because the two "richest men m the world" don't get along. The diamonds are produced m the fabulously rich Mwadui diamond mine of
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    15 3 TODAY'S PIN-UP, Charlotie Austin, a 20th CenturyFox starlet, gets m the mo od for baseball
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  • 457 3 NEW YORK, Saturday. AMERICANS have been learning from large head- lines that they have passed through a year of record output, record foreign trade, record employment and record taxation. And they are headed for larger slices of nearly everything this year. Along with prosperity
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  • 16 3 America's new superliner. the United States, will make her maiden voyage July 3. A.P.
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  • 165 3 NO MOON TRIPS YET PHILADELPHIA. Sat THERE will have to be hot dog stands m interplanetary space if space ships fly to distant planets. This prediction was mad? by the retiring president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Drr Roger Adams, worldfamous chemist, of the University of
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  • 51 3 A Greek engineer from Lesbos Island claim s to have invented a super-super atomic-energy-propelled Üboat. The new submarine (260 tons) is 110 feet long, shaped like a cigar and— -to avoid atomic bombing can submerge to 1,600 feet and remain at the bottom for 24 hours at a
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  • 275 3 HYDERABAD, Saturday. THOUGH his days are numbered m more ways than one, the fabulous Nizam of Hyderabad still does not seem interested m getting any fun out of his fortune. i ~Z^ Rtf tha The 65-year-old Nizam, whose riches run over $2,000,000,000,
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  • 247 3 MANNERS COST BRITAIN DOLLARS LONDON. Sat. BRITISH goods are becoming too costly m America, according to a senior officer of the Board of Trade, who ha s Just returned from the U.S.A. Particularly damaging was the increase made m the prices of some products of ours at a time when
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  • 34 3 Owners of about 25 Pana-ma-registered ships have applied to change the registry to other countries. Panama has set penalties for Panamanian ships carrying war materials to Communist China. A.P.
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  • 16 3 General Ridgway visited the British Commonwealth Division after a surprise triD to Korea. U.P.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 442 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR SATURDAY DORN today, you are a student at heart and -nioy investigating all bran(hfs of learning, their utmost limits. You like knowifdge for the take of knowing* and will want to make >oursen* informed Oq a multitude of subject*. If you v»m concentrate on some one subject,
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    • 14 3 BUCKLEY "BUCKLEY WANTS TO SEE IF HIS BOOTS ARE RE ALL V WA TERPROOFr
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    • 391 3 Solution To Crossword No. 563 Across: 1, Double. 7, Or quits. 8, Beldam. 9, Diamond. 10, Nissen. 12, Streets. 17, Rascal. 18. Wart hog. 19, Blends. 20, Fir tree. 21, Stayer. Down: 1, Debunk. 2, Unless. 3, Loader. 4, Ermine robes. 5, Summits. 6, Stone. 11, Statute. '13, Eaglet. 14,
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  • 551 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Jan. 19, 1952. Churchill's speech A MERICANS saw m Mr. Churchill's speech to the United States Congress on Thursday an indication that British policy on the Far East had moved closer to their own. That is probably exactly what the British Prime Minister m tended
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  • 613 4 —so be offered Botha House, the place where he was cured, to the King, says Donald MacCormick LONDON. fTHE inside story be--1 hind the King's decision to spend part of his convalescence m South Africa is that the initiative for this trip came entirely from
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  • 441 4  -  iMIifi Jiilililiiiii IT is a good sign or a bad one, according to the way you look at things, that the advent Chinese New Year has not sent prices of food and consumer goods sky high. True there have been fluctuations here and there, but generally, because of
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    13 4 "All Mr r Churchill** efforts fO maintain u>nrtd peace mean fivthina to }™*J*^**
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    44 4 A 100-year-old London firm is making fold lace and other adornments for Australian officials and Service officers who will greet Princess Elisabeth and Prince Philip on their tour. Here intricate work is don* by two women making the King's Colour for the Roral Aim.
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  • 789 4  - Profit— Sharing Boom In American Industry RODNEY CAMPBELL by No material or time is wasted when the worker takes home y part of what he makes AN American castings firm was about to go out of business. Management and hired hands, worn out by months of failure and depression, were
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  • 279 4 THE Badenweiler March— Hitler's favourite song— echoes nightly m scores of German beer halls. Monuments to victims of Fascism are being desecrated. Ex-Nazis are whipping up local organisations to fan hatred of the Allies and the pro-western German government at Bonn. Some openly proclaim political
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  • 262 4  - TAKING A 'PEEP' AT THE ZEBRA Courtenay Edwards By LONDON yEBRA crossing,- J v be picked o- electric lights let a the road surface aerodrome In lamps if experime now being made Pro that they give the warning to motorist I learned this lur visit to the Road R.'L" Laboratory's
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  • Free Press Saturday Magazine
    • 8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, January 19, 1952.
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    • 750 1  -  RAE MARCH MALAYA'S FLYING CLUBS ARE PLAYING AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. by THK private flying clubs m Singapore and Malaya during these days of emergency have changed from mere training c l ubs into eluhs which play a vital part
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    • 1053 1  -  CHIN HOCK A Free Press short story by The footsteps paced back and forth m that room overhead a room shut up and sealed since death claimed its owner. For six consecutive nights "the thing" walked and every night it walked faster than the night before. (JLUMP Clump Clump
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    • 669 1  -  A. Byrd Says THE Military Authorities, those obscure people who seldom have names, have made a new rule, and it looks as though it may have an interesting effect upon civilian public opinion. There have been many complaints, founded upon fact, that the
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    • 883 2  - H'wood Morals: The Facts Bob Thomas By HOLLYWOOD: HOW immoral is Hollywood? With America becoming acquainted almost daily with new revelations of immorality m public life, attention is again focussed on this great news centre of human foible^ and follies—Hollywood. Recent headline happenings of Barbara Payton, Franchot Tone, Ava Gardner,
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    • 369 2  - A Spate of 'Lives' For 1952 Harold Heffernan By itfOKE biographical ifl stories will be filmed m 1952 than m any similar period m Hollywood's history. MGM will film "Catbine Williams," a dramatic story of the life of David Marshall Williams, whose inventions made possible ihe U.S. Army's carbine. James
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    • 116 2 PERHAPS 1 am too simple, 1 but I shall never understand these film popularity polls. My congratulations, certainly, to Alec Guiness, Anna Neagle and Jean Simmons on being named the three top British money-drawers at the box office m 1951. But why, then, do none
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    • 121 2 HOLLYWOOD'S "M os t Beautiful Girl m the World," Miss Ursula Thiess. who has arrived m London was asked how much time she spent cultivating and preserving her looks. The answer, was "Very little." She h&s never been to a beauty parlour and prefers to wash
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    • 262 2 (IARY COOPER is **back, as intrepid as ever. In "DISTANT DRUMS" (coming to the Capitol) he is fighting the Seminole Indians m the swamps of Florida. Tne Seminole Indians twice fought bitter wars with American troops m the last century and they certainly seem to have
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    • 129 2 'Miss Wayne' is now Miss Cutts TW O years ago Robert Montgomery went to England to make his first picture there. He picked a promising young actress named Patricia Cutts as leading lady; his company extravagantly over-publicis-ed her as the "Typical English Beauty"— and insisted on renaming her Patricia Wayne.
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    • 495 2  - Four Army 'Cops' —and a Girl IAN GRANT PREVIEWS THE LATEST FILMS aama. HHHE Swiss made 1 "FOUR IN A JEEP" (coming to the Pavilion) provides a film experience out of the ordinary run, not only because of its quality, but because it gives us a more than surfacedeep penetration
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      • 146 2 "OUT OF THE BLUE" wßfc^ v %>^^P^ TONITE at MIDNITE Egypt's SEXIEST Dancer l| HHm featuring her Exotic style of S^ "EL SABH EFFEMDI" Eg (with English Subtitles) Jp statring Egypt's Invisible Man J^J. W who walks through Bedroom 'J^"^MU^t it's astonishing mmiwWi'' See! Beauty Queen of Egypt W^ 1^
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    • 860 3  -  A. J. Forest by IN the former occupied countries of Western Europe, many families were reduced to distress, if not to actual starvation, because of their war-time assistance to shot down and fugitive R.A.F/and Allied airmen. Without thought of reward or gain, but solely
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      5 3 ~«*n_«wJhe_nZd Bush Babies, Now and
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      92 3 Royal blue, black and white wool was used by MetroGoldioyn- Mayer's Helen Rose m creatina the four-way suit worn by Diana Lynn. The sculptured jacket worn above the slim straight skirt has a smooth throathugging collar faced with white. The same, wool is used for the revers and cuffs of
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    • 47 3 Onions raise crop of hair A bald Adelaide policeman, Constable Pengilly, rubbed his head with onions every day for five* weeks— and now he has hair an inch long growing t»n his scalp. He believes the onions did the trick and thinks brown ones are the best.
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    • 58 3 The U.N. Assembly Budget Commitee has approved appropriating UJS. $3,000,--000 (£1,000,000) to cover increased construction costs for the U.N headquarters m New York. Russia's delegate said there had been extravagance m the buildin* of the headquarters. Mr. Byron Price, Assistant Secretary-General, said he must "repudiate m the
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    • 365 3 IT a short story Continued from Page 1 walk again. I did. Ha -ha -ha! My brother's beginning to suspect something now! But still I am not going to tell him. I found out that he had heard me walking the night before last. He tried to inveigle me into
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    • 39 3 Chile Greece and Pakistan took their seats on the Security Council on Wednesday at its first 1952 session m Paris. They were elected to twoyear terms m December to replace Ecuador, Yugoslavia and India. U.P.
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    • 24 3 Dr. Allen Daley, who was knighted lor jhla work m maintaining the health of the city of London during war-
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    • 858 3  - Blindness need not mean idleness CHARLES G. COGAN says JIVING proof that blindness need not relegate a person to a life of idleness and helplessness is furnished by an American veteran of World War 11. He is Oris D. Rodgers, 37, who now is gainfully employed and leads a normal
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      7 3 Photo by Fishing m Brunei. Hedda Morrison.
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      • 205 3 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint II iitzabeth Taylor, -...{'.uldxiyn-Mayer x Here is food for h the glamour-wise: BNfIK that your good j H pm with the departure Km \outh." You should tid that many of the lovely sou find so glamorous were probably impressing •.norably ten or fifteen Ami ten or fifteen
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      • 96 3 latest Selection of known Brands ss Watcf-et *o» Cents Ladies m Stock REPAIRS ALSO UNDERTAKEN Wholo«*le and Retail YICK WOH HING 29 Nortn Bridge Koad Singapore 7 Tel: 792 Z. NEAR MIDDLE ROAD JUNCTION Buy Our Latest range of NEW DESIGNS MEDIUM TYPE m pure 22KT Cold about $130 each.
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    • 623 4  - Friscowanttsto return LEFTY By yOUNG Frisco former x middleweight champion of the Orient, is still fighting fit, writes Little Nene, Singapore featherweight champion, who is m Australia for a series of fights Frisco, now scaling 175 lb would like to return to Singapore provided there are ftehts for him. The
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    • 38 4 Three of the members show off what weights can do to build bodies like theirs m the Association's "sweat section.** In the Centre iS Ra»v TiMm Sim* Juttioi- \?r Sin*aporr> 1949. Free Press o»~ ture.
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    • 394 4  -  IVAN SHARPE 1952 Olympics....No2 writes WHY don't England ff get behind Scotland and. as respected pioneers, try to clear up this Olympic Soccer mess? Why do the FJL encourage what the Scottish F A so rightly opoose o Scotland decline to cum-p-'ie m the Olympic
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    • 292 4  - HERE TO STAY ROGER YUE mmc* Says DE CASTRO'S Health and Club, the "York Body-Building Club. Queen Street Boys* Club, and the Kiwi League— all these institutions are the "homes" Of physical culturists m Singapore. Now, yet another body-building section has been added to the long: list oX established names.
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    • 90 4 A RECENT meeting was held with the object of forming a National Council for Sport, by some sportsmen who believe that Government aid is the only cure for Britain's sporting ills. Previously there had been an exploratory meeting attended by several M.P.S. and the committee felt
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    • 977 4  -  MATMAN THEY CRY FOR BLOOD WHEN my baby daughter grows up into a big girl of six years I shall see that she still believes m Santa Claus, her schoolbooks and the general pleasantries of life. She will definitely not go to wrestling matches not like
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    • 27 4 I talent s Hiu i keeping an eye on ill tti I crossing users. Da;:v coservations haw indicated M there Is prorr.L<ir.: talent amongst them
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    • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 177 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. CURFEW is being imposA fC between 3 p.m. and tub ub m a specified area m f, districts of Tapah. Sinpar and Tt-luk Anson, In Perak gj-ea is bounded by a J running from the bridge 30] milestone. KamDegong Road, east sun^ei
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    • 148 5 HUT DWELLERS MAY GET NEW HOMES Govt. studying city plan Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE Government is studying a scheme to provide alternative accommodation for hut dwellers m the city. The plan was submitted by the Attap Dwelling Sub-committee of the City Council. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, a member of
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      68 5 DR. F. J. HARLOf? (right), Adviser on Technical Education to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lytteltovi, at the Singapore Junior Technical School, yesterday. Others m the picture are (left to right): Mr. E. Bray, principal of the school, a thirdyear plumbing student, Mr. Abdul Manan bin
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    • 48 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. ■■pHE present programme for constructing new police stations, police posts, barracks and quarters m Johore, is expected to be completed shortly. The $4,000,000 contract to put up these buildings was given to the Singapore firm of Wing Coo-Kian four months ago.
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    • 23 5 Brigadier N. D. Wingrove, Colonial Defence Liaison Officer, has been appointed acting Assistant Secretary to the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald.
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    • 190 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE iron-tyred bullock cart is "particularly destructive" to Malaya's lightly-constructed country roads, Mr. J. E. Bush, manager of the British Rubber Development Board, said yesterday. Mr Bush supported the proposal that all buliock carts should be fitted with pneumatic rubber tyres. The Negri
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    • 40 5 The Johore Bahru District Welfare Committee has allocated $1,500 to the State Welfare Home for badly needed amenities. This is m addition to the money already provided for the purchase of a radiogram for the Home.
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    • 37 5 A private car owned by Chinese was partly destroyed by flre at the junction of Read Street and River Valley Road, Singapore, last night. Cause of the fire .was a short-circuit m the car\s wiring.
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      33 5 PROFESSOIt JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY, a concert pianist and Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, who passed through Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on his way to give a series of concerts m Europe.
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    • 58 5 The Singapore police force will hold a ball at Victoria Memorial Hall on Jan. 25. The ball will be open to all ranks and their guests and will start at 8.30 p.m. The Sambodian Dance Band will be m attendance. Tickets at $2 per person are
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    • 21 5 SEREMBAN, Sat.— Dr. D, X, Majumdhar left Negri Sembilan yesterday for a year's holiday and medical treatment m India and Britain
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    • 17 5 MR NAGALINGAM avid Miss Krishnammal, who were married yesterday at Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple, Singapore.
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    • 94 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. RIDA has agreed to help smallholders at Changkat Melintang, Purii, Perak. to replant 150 acres of smallholdings, at present ovef- ment said yesterday. This is RIDA'S first attempt to replant a substantial area of small Jipldlßgs, m one block work is to start
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    • 291 5 IPOH, Saturday. MEMBERS .of the Settlement Officers Association iTI of Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang will surrender their extra gazetted duties as magistrates and assistant collectors of land revenue if they fail m negotiations with Government. Stating this yesterday to the Free
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      16 5 MR. rX)NALB FRASi.it, a United Nations photographer, who arrived m Singapore yesterday by Qantas-BOAC, pictured at
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    • 59 5 Free Pres^ SiaJT Kcp«>r;er -The Oversea.- League, Shaw Brothers and R. K. O. Radio Pictures, who Jointly organised the Alice m Won dorian a tea party at the Great World last December, will give a Chinese New Year tre.it to 500 of Singapore's poor children
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    • 282 5 A WARNING AGAINST NEW DISEASES Free Press Staff Reporter WITH troops from Africa and the Fiji Islands coining here, Malaya must be wide awake to the possibility of diseases peculiar to those countries being: introduced here, said Professor A. A. Sandosham, Professor of Parasitology at the University of Malaya, last
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    • 83 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. mHE rehabilitation of dis- charged lepers, the welfare of the blind and antituberculosis projects will .benefit from trie proc^os ol i the fifth Federal Soda! and Welfare Services Lottery. tickets for which are now on sale. The Lotteries Board announced today
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    • 251 5 Co-op plans homes for retired govt men KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. T*HE Selangor GovernA merit Servants' Cooperative Thrift and Loan Society Is planning a housing project to provide homes for its members after their re i:ement from Government service. Mr. M. W. Navurr.: ,m. chairman of the society, old the Free
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    • 321 6 Manchester U. going all out By a Special Correspondent pN( iLISH League football clubs make a violent switch this week-end from the triumphs and upsets of Cup football to the routine struggle for championship points. In the First Division— where Portsmouth lead by two points from
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    • 130 6 Extra time decides KO hockey ROYAL Air Force Changi scored a goal m the seventh minute of extra time to eliminate Sherwood Foresters from the .Singapore Hockey Association's knock out competition yesterday. The match, played at the Indian Association ground. Balestier Road, produced only one goal the winning one. With
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    • 137 6 Choong and Heah win CHUONU of Malaya, holder of the n.en's singles title, lost only eight points m three matches to reach the semi-finals of the Scottish badminton championships m Edinburgh yesterday. He won nis quarter-final tie against the En lish international, H R. Marsland, with the loss of only
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    • 60 6 DONATIONS amounting to $4,000 have already been received for the Skeeter Garrard fund. The response hat been splendid as the fund was only opened yesterday. Donations can be sent to E. Harper, Secretary Malayan Jockey's Association or will be collected by OUie Davles, who will be
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    • 89 6 IN the annual Medical Graduates t Undergraduates tennis tournament at Sepoy Lines yesterday Alumni Association beat Medical Faculty by five games to nil. Results (Alumni Association players mentioned first)* Df P. Y. Khoo beat Yap Khim Yin 6-3. 6-1; Hu Wei Hsen beat Arthur Lim 6-2,
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    • 209 6 AUSTRALIAN left hander, Neil Hancey, hit out at West Indies bowling at Melbourne yesterday, jooring 88 runs for Victoria out of a first-day total of 293 for six. McDonald and Thorn*, Victoria's opener*, batted immmnelj and seemed to have little difficulty m settling down against an
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    • 166 6 Fine form by BODCA SINGAPORE Cricket Club i 5 went down to Base Ordnance Depot Civilians' Association m a hockey friendly on the Padang yesterday by six goals to three. The grand form shown by 8.0.D.'s forwards kept the Club defence fully occupied. Centre-forward Kirpal Singh opened accounts for 8.0.D.,
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    • 351 6  -  GEOFFREY SIMPSON By I^OKMATION of an international committee to regularise world boxing championships is the object of a European Congress called for this year m Brussels. Every country, including officials of American control bodies, will be represented. Such an attempt is not before time. Too
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    • 257 6 nPPONENTS for the final of the Singapore Base y District inter-unit knock-out hockey cup will be Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Base Workshops and 30 Battalion Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Yesterday at Alexandra, 30 Bn. beat Singapore Royal Artillery Regiment In the semi-final
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    • 240 6 A GREAT forward tussle one of the best for many years is anticipated m today's rugby Union International between England and Wales at Twickenham. Both sides are particularly strong. They fully extended the powerful South African touring side, who had a desperate struggle to defeat
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      • 92 6 Today's sport K\w.\Ci: Last Oa> Siu^apurr Tf Spring Meeting. C.BY: SX.C. Arm> at S.t <.; NawU Base t S.H.B. at Na »1 Base; R.E.Mi:. y 223 8.0.D at 8.0.D.; Nee Soon Garrison v R.\.F. Tengah at Nee Soon; O.H.Q. Farelf -A- v EJLF. SeleUr V at TangUn; E^J". Chanfi t
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      • 124 6 to 13 J i r i <i /y Mindr^kC co the Singapore Free Press m i/ Q/(^ ""'I 'M jd^'^f ASAt-LmMOSKMOrtMR THIkrtHIM/ ||»iAB MIM. 1 1 K»U HUA? [QtAPPfQ er V JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Ifefo, f WfiL, I SUPPOSE WtfO Xl f WHV-SOOON6SS MEi— \f\JST
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    • 1284 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS Back Friendship for a good dividend By |VM I "SSIONS on this afternoon's main r ice tor CL 2, Div. 1, 9F. were wide. Horses mentioned were Cape Horn, Chantilly, The K;im. Master Bruce, Abbotsford and to a lesser degree Munlee and
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    • 210 7 I ALLAN LEWIS TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER a > RACK 1 JIM SON THE MONARCH THE MONARCH THE MONARCH THE MONARCH S.1S Endora Eodora Eudora Friendship Evdora The Monarch Wonder Lad Slm§fU Endora Jimsen MS? 1 J**** LIGHTNING LIGHTNING LIGHTNING OPERA 2.45 Ligfatning Newmarket
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      7 7  -  MacLeod By Solution on Monday
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    • 41 7 f* H.Q. "A" defeated V.M.C.A. by \2» four goals to nil m a friendly hockey match played at Tanglin yesterday. Scorers for the Army side were Sfct Wlssett- Warner, Capt. Taylor, WO I Searle and Capt Perkins.
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    • 59 7 Additional mid-week football fixtures: Third Dt<r. (Sooth): Shrewsbury v. Swlndon; Walsall t. L*ton Orient (both P*** 0 <f January 13 owing to FA. Cup)_ The Bolton Wanderers t Derby County First Division match due to be played on April 26 baa been brought forward to February 2 the
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    • 288 7  -  MATMAN By WHEN King Kong and Chief Little Wolf step into the ring tonight for the third time to fight to the finish with no disqualification one is left to wonder what new methods of savagery will bm indulged m by the two
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    • 79 7 T^HE powerful Nen 2joulh Wale* batting side was humiliated, at Sydney yeste/day by West Australian bowlers Puckett a>d Price who dismissed them for 22t on the first day of the Sheffield Shield match. Sidney Banes failed to scor« and Flockton was top scorer with 47. Keith Miller was
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      • 216 7 ONE OF THE COUNTLESS TENSE AND THRILLING I MOMENTS DURING THEIR LAST MATCH A WIN ON A DISQUALIFICATION IS NOT A WIN. TO SATISFY ME" 1 SAYS CHIEF LITTLE WOLF "EVERYBODY IS AGAINST ME" COMPLAINS KING KONG R Ul l< <FE WHO IS lfcE\U> TOPS WITH, Hi tMKUKKKKME HEMAND THE
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      • 1137 7 ACCEPTORS and probable Jockeys for today's A races are riven below. The double tote will be on Races Five and Eight. The Bis Sweep will be drawn on Race Seven. Race 1—2.15: Class 2, Div. 4— 6 F. &19 Yds. 1 -00 Wafltiki Mulley 9.00 "Belmont Stable" Spencer 2 300
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    • 38 8 WISE. TO KATHARINE, wife of Mr F. Wise, Kampar, twins a son daughter at Penang on the 17 1.52. TO MR MRS. BTVAONANAM of Hongkong Shanghai Bank Jchor* Bahru, a son on Jan. 17, at General Hospital.
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    • 45 8 the marriage took place on Jen 18. at Dove's Nest, Tanjong r*ungah. Penang, between Mr. Lo-x Clwng Hoe, fourth son of t^e late Low Hoon Chip of Sin- 00-f\ and Miss Ng Saw Kui. voongett daughter of the late Ng C> Hin of Taiping.
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    • 348 8 WASHINGTON, ajferday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN and the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill yesterday announced a metals exchange agreement under which the United States will make available to Britain a total of 1,000,000 long tons of steel for 55,000,000 pounds of aluminum and 20,000 long tons
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      48 8 picture. THE EARL OF DALKEITH, whose engagement to Princess Margaret, it is rumoured, will soon be announced. The Earl, an escort of the Princess for the past three years, is the son and heir of the Duke of Buccleuch, and a nephew of the Duchess of Gloucester. Reuter
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    • 169 8 Red move has 'shattered' Kashmir hope Karachi, sat rpjdfc Pakistan Muslim League 1 President Chaudri Khaliquzzaman, has urged Muslims not to be deceived by the Russians' "sugar-coated pills," but to overcome the problems facing the Muslim states through Islamic unity In a statement to a local news agency under the
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    • 40 8 Two thousand families were ordered to be evacuated yesterday when torrential rain brought death and destruction to waterlogged Los Angeles and Southern California. Nine deaths were recorded untiJ Thursday night making 13 for the week Reuter
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    • 56 8 Police with smoke bombs dispersed a crowd of 500 demonstrators and arrested 16 people— including ten schoolboys and a headmaster— during a visit of Sir Robert Howe, the Sudan Governor General, to Kassala yesterday. The crowd shouted antiimperialist slogans. Kassala is a town near £he Eritrean border
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    • 22 8 Russia has protested a second time against "illegal holding" of Soviet children m the American zone of occupied Germany. A.P.
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    • 256 8 Dance recital is a success Free Press Staff Reporter A WELL-filled house at the Victoria Theatre last night gave generous applause to the dance recital by the Fine Art of Movement Academy m aid of St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital. 1 That applause was justified and warranted by the talents of
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    • 57 8 South Africa yesterday ended her boycott of the United Nations General Assembly which began on Dec. 18. The Minister of the Interior Dr. T. E. Donges, returned to take part m a debate on putting South West Africa under a U.N. trusteeship the same
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    • 22 8 The State Department yesterday officially announced the re-organisation of its Propaganda and Information Section, including the "Voice of America.' AFP
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    • 52 8 LAST NIGHT'S RECITAL picture. Maureen Teo (at back) and Penelope Morrell m "The Good Samaritan" one of the items at last night's dance recital at the Victoria Theatre by the Fine Art of Movement Academy m aid of St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital. The recital is beinr repeated tonight and tomorrow.
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    • 210 8 Mail order bride is found shot LOVELAND. Ohio, Sat. ALGA, a British girl, who married an American, L. C. Trent, after a courtship by mall, was found shot m their home m Loveland on Thursday night. Police believe she snot herself. In the summer of 1951 Trent asked the Mayor
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    • 22 8 The Pakistan Foreign Minister, Sir Zafrullah Khan, arrived m Geneva yesterday as a guest of the International Refugee Organisation. AFP
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    • 270 8 REFUGEE PLAN IS REWRITTEN BY ARABS v PARIS, Sat TSE Arab leaders yesterday withdreV their opposition to a proposal of the Big Three Western powers, and Turkey calling for a three-year $250 million relief and rehabilitation programme for Palestine refugees after it had been revised m accordance with their proposals.
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    • 79 8 LONDON, Sat. "pIE London Stock Exchange paused yesterday. at the end of the week during which share prices of home stocks showed sharp fluctuations Recent heavy fall m industrials attracted profit-taking 0y short-term bears and the rew price movements were to higher levels. Light and heavy
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    • 35 8 The U.S. Acting Secretary °A. State for Fa r Eastern Affairs, Mr. John M. Allison, has informed foreign diplomats that the Unite* States probably will open its Tokyo embassy m ADril U.P.
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    • 17 8 The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, received the Ambassador of Nepal yesterday at th» Ambassador's request. AFP
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    • 135 8 GENEVA, Sat. £)R. BROCK CHISHOLM, Director-General of the United Nations World Health Organisation, said yesterday the "rhythm method" of birth control advocated by the organisation m India was m accordance with the teachings of. the Roman Catholic Church. Reports had said that the birth control
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