The Singapore Free Press, 28 January 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA H* 18.300. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1958. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    KING FAROUK SACKS HIS PREMIER
    750 1 Exit Nahas Pasha after arrests of riot leaders CAIRO, Monday. RING Farouk yesterday sacked Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahat Pasha and called on Aly Maher Pasha, a former Prime Minister, to form a new ministry. Maher Pasha, who was once arrested by Nahas Pasha "for
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    KID-EAST TROUBLE FLIGHTS MOSCOW
    261 1 PARIS, Mon. oQVIET RUSSIA apvnred yesterday to lian decided to hold its band temporarily in the Ai^lo-Egyptian conflict ana Communist delegates dismissed suggestions that Russia would bring the dispute before the United Nations Security Council. A Soviet delegate repuz ited reports that the RusForeisn Minister, Mr.
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    Mossadeq says there's a way
    84 1 TEHERAN, Mon. THE Persian Prime Minister, Dr. Mossadeq, indicated yesterday the oil dispute could be solved if Britain chose the "right way." He told the British Ambassador, Sir Francis Shepherd, who called to say goodbye before leaving Persia: "If you think the way you have
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    GENERAL WARNS FOOLS
    97 1 GENERAL WARNS FOOLS MELBOURNE, Mon. AUSTRALIA'S DirectorGeneral of Recruiting, j Lt.-Gen. Sir Horace Robert- j son, told the Melbourne Mil- lions. Club: "If you want to defend this country in this country, then I'm moving to some other country to liver." He said, "Only a fool wants to defend his
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    36 1 picture. MEMBERS OF THE Japanese National Police Reserve Force, which might be the nucleus of a new Japanese Army are training hard in Takada, north-west of Tokyo. Here two Japanese policemen are at firing practice. Popper
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    17-page U.N. truce plan
    60 1 TOKYO, Mon. THE UNITED NATIONS Command yesterday released a 17-page draft agreement handed to the Communists for study By their staff officers. It includes a limit on airfield construction except for specific ones mutually agreed with restricted runways. Definition of the truce demarcation line is among
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    SHOT IN S'PORE
    32 1 A British Army officer, Capt. Humphreys, of the Buffs, was shot by an unknown person at the corner of Clementi Road and Holland Road on Saturday. He died later.
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    EGYPTIAN OFFICER APPEALS TO THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
    147 1 LONDON Mon. rpHE weekend British press X praised the courage of an Egyptian police officer who emerged from the besieged barracks at the height of the battle on. Friday to plead for ambulances. Editorially, the papers agreed the bloody affray was a pity
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    Indies tin mission may insist on $1.25
    202 1 Indies tin mission may insist on $1.25 WASHINGTON, Monday. AN Indonesian tin mission is scheduled to arrive in A Washington by about Feb. 1 to open negotiations for the resumption of American buying of tin from the Jakarta Government. It is understood they intend to stick to their demand for
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    They freeze in Britain
    44 1 LONDON. Mon. LAST night was London's coldest for four years. The temperature at the Air Ministry in London at 6 a.m. today was six degrees below freezing point fahrenheit. Deep snow covered most, of the country from Lancashire to Cornwall.
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    French dragnet catches 2,000
    208 1 TUNIS, Monday. \fORE than 2,000 Arab nationalists were arrested N* throughout Tunisia during the past 24 hours ending yesterday, as French troops and police launched the largest round-up of the 11-day crisis. French officials noted the violence in Cairo had been directed both against the British
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    Mannequins' pay demand
    63 1 THE newly formed Melbourne Mannequins' Association has. decided that £15 15s. is the minimum that a mannequin bhould be paid. For casual work they want A£4 4s. a day. At a meeting of the association it was claimed that by the time they had paid for their
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    'Lear' in Moscow
    18 1 After an absence of 35 years, Shakespeare's "King Lear" IS n nrndnwH in Moscow. A.P.
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    STUDENT RIOTS
    10 1 Several were injured In Baghdad yesterday in anti-
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    10 fires and 41 accidents
    106 1 Free Press Staff Reporter 'THERE were 10 fires and 41 minor accidents in Singapore on Chinese New Year's Day. Blazes, started by crackers, included eight lallang fires. An attap hut went up in flames at Bukit Timah Road and a coconut tree caught fire in
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    NEW YEAR BABIES
    27 1 Thirty-seven babies (22 boys and 15 girls) were born in Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital on Chinese New Year's Day. The first was a Hokkien
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    EDEN CONFERS WITH CHIEFS OF STAFF
    407 1 EDEN CONFERS WITH CHIEFS OF STAFF LONDON, Monday. THE British Chiefs of Staff conferred with the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, yesterday. Mr. Eden also received the U.S. Ambassador, Mr. Walter Gifford, for a discuss on of the Egyptian crisis. Mr Churchill, who is expected to arrive back in London
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    Indonesia air force has its first battle
    152 1 SOLO, Java, Mon. INDONESIAN troops sup* ported by attack bombers smashed a concentration of Muslim extremists in Central Java after a week-long pursuit, it was learned yesterday. The battle against 600 members of the terrorist Darul Islam organisation ended on Friday with scores
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    NO PAPER BAGS FOR SHOPPERS
    45 1 Australian housewives may soon have to take their own paper bags when they shop for fruit, vegetables, cakes, or confectionery. Giving this warning recently, Sydney shop-keepers said the cost of supplying paper bags ro tintl HArnnri "all reason." A. P.
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    Photo Exhibition Prize-Winners Are All From Overseas
    389 2 Photo Exhibition Prize-Winners Are All From Overseas Loke Wan Tho Medal Is New Award THE AWARDS LOKE WAN THO MEDAL: A. Aubrey Bodine, F.R.P.S F.P.S.A Baltimore, U.S.A. JkQff'SrfISXUJPC SILVER MEDAL: Francis Wu. F.R.P.S.. F.PSA. Hong Kong BRONZE MEDALS: Yung-Kwong Wong. Canton; C. A Yarrington. New York. HIGHLY COMMENDED: S F.
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    EGYPT COMMANDOS DON G-I. GARB
    286 3 EGYPT COMMANDOS DON G-I. GARB —As guerilla war steps up CAIRO, Monday. EGYPTIANS, deciding that guerilla warfare is the possible action against Britain, have stepped up their activities against the British forces in the strife-torn Suez Canal zone. At the same time a good proportion of Egyptians have indicated they
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    REFLECT BETWEEN NYLONS AID SILK
    113 3 REFLECT BETWEEN NYLONS AID SILK LONDON, Mon. pURE silk stockings can prevent accidents because they reflect car headlamps. Silk stockings "glow like phosphorus/' according to Councillor Arthur Silcox, chairman of Dudley, Worcs, transport committee. He said: "If more women wore silk stockings instead of nylons which don't reflect nearly as
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    SHE GAVE HIM SOCKS
    35 3 SHE GAVE HIM SOCKS German-born actress HUdegarde Nefl told a Hollywood divorce court that her husband took the money she earned, and refused her enough to buy a pair of stockings. She got a divorce.*
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    A.R.P. IN SHANGHAI
    19 3 Shanghai Radio has begun to broadcast a weekly series of program I™**1 ftn air-raid precautions.- U.P.
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    BUCKLEY
    10 3 HE WANTS TO KEEP IN j ftUCflCf :^.y I
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    Doctor will 'keep eye' on doctor
    127 3 Doctor will 'keep eye' on doctor SOUTHEND, Mon. A DOCTOR who is a drug addict called at a Southend chemist's shop with a prescription for 14 tablets each containing a quarter grain of morphine sulphate. But the chemist had been warned, it was stated at Southend Sessions. The police were
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    Hotel goes back to its owners
    44 3 Hotel goes back to its owners General Rldgway's Headquarters in Tokyo announced that the swank Imperial Hotel in Tokyo will be turned back to its Japanese owners about March 31 and many other Alliedoccupied buildings will be relea* o*'*0 tVio noar fnture" A.P. &r»
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    Judge turned hot under his collar
    183 3 LONDON, Monday. "THAT makes me think better of human nature", said Judge Hodgson in Kingston County Court when one of Mrs. Elizabeth Fanny Gregory's 11 children— a son— had finished speaking. Mrs. Gregory, who is 79, and a widow, has lived in a cottage
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    Bridge Hand
    328 3 nPHE Stayman convention would X have permitted North-South to reach the much easier contract of six hearts. Under this convention, when the partner of the no trump opener bids clubs it is an artificial bid asking the opener to show a four-card major if he has one. This
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    OLD SOLDIER
    28 3 Walter Chime, Army Recruiter at Worklngton. Cumberland, haa completed 5? years in uniform. He was 12 when he joined the Royal Engineers at Winder In 1900,
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      307 3 Radio Listening SINGAPORE 8.8.C. SINGAPORE 12.00 Programmes in Malay; 1.00 pjn. Monday Matinee Jack Teagarden Orchestra Anita Ellis; 1.30 Time Signal is News; 1.45 Home on the Range; 2.00 Musical Tapestry: Pleasing Chinese Melodies presented by Katherine Khan; 2.30 London Studio Melodies; 3.00 Announcer's Choice; 3.30 Songs from the Shows;
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      139 3 6.15 pjn. Think On These Things— Christian hymns, their music and their meaning; 6.30 The News News Analysis; 6.45 Interlude; 6.50 Prom The Editorials; 7.00 The Billy Cotton Band Show with Alan Breeze and Doreen Stephens; 7.30 Souvenirs of Music— BßC Revue Orchestra; 8.15 The Debate Continues—A talk; 8 30
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      203 3 YOUR LUCKY •3 A xiutV RORN today, the combination of the artistic and the practical fives you the impetus to stand fast by your ideas against considerable opposition. Sometimes, however, enthusiasm seems to outweigh persistency— especially when there is a lot of hard, spade work to be done! You prefer
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Jan. 28, 1952. Dangerous talk
    544 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Jan. 28, 1952. Dangerous talk BERTRAND (Lord) Russell, famous philosopher, has given vent to some extraordinary statements to London pressmen on his return from a visit to the United States. Here is one. "The Americans want war I in Asia not Europe American Republican newspapers
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    U.K. Press on 'Malayan Chaos in High Places'
    2450 4 U.K. Press on 'Malayan Chaos in High Places' London Letter by Hall Romney \MR. Oliver Lyttelton ITI opened the press conference at which he announced General Tempter's appointment as High Commissioner with the remark "You all have the note for publication— if you have not already published it; 'anticipated' is
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    Rhodes, the new 'Monte Carlo'
    119 4 OHODES- the "Sunshine Isle" of the Mediterranean—is to be turned into a Middle East Monte Carlo. The "Monte Carlo" idea is all part of a Greek Government Plan to attract more tourists than ever to Greek summer resorts and spas during 1952 Rhodes and its
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    Middle East 'Mossadeq'
    408 4 Middle East 'Mossadeq TRIPOLI. ANOTHER Mossadeq may be emerging in the Middle East. He is an Arab spellbinder named Beshir Bey Sadawi, who professes friendship for the west but harangues Libyans with bitter attacks on Americans i British and French. Sadawi believes his National Congress Party will win newly-independent Libya's
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    U.S. aid for land of the Gurkhas
    163 4 U.S. aid for land of the Gurkhas ir... Gurkha.^ and of a revolt to receive equipment fi A: rica and \Y< Himalaya n shut itself world lor a eigaers, with a tions, were 1947. Most Mepa of their neighfa today a treacber tain trail is the link with Katmandu. But
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    CHINESE GO GAY FOR THE NEW YEAR
    177 5 Thousands flock to Colony cinemas, parks Free Press Staff Reporter JENS O f thousands of Chinese flocked to cinemas, amusement parks and other places of entertainment last night as they celebrated the birth of the Year of the Dragon. The previous night reunion
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    CITY MAY EVICT SQUATTERS
    81 5 CITY MAY EVICT SQUATTERS es and Fire BriC r..n::tee of the has recomtnat unauthorised lilt on the Counbv :respassers be oU be done where ;rp* are in the building or have jently completed. r. authorised structhe title la land the proposes tjjat a be charged. The mid be fixed by
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    Car left road, overturned
    56 5 AMAT Mon.— Charged i.^iderate driving, am, 39, was fined Seganial, His car was > lave left the road rned. hers, Lim Teng (39) AbduUah bin A. Rauf i r also fined Cl5 each ir offences. Lim knto a telegraph post Ing a bus. Abdullah have, grazed
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    31 5 MR. M. GOPALA MCNON, Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, speaking at th e Indian Republic Day celebration meeting at the India,, Association hall. Balestier Road, Singapore, on Saturday.
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    TOWN BOARD OFFICIALS
    78 5 JOHORE BAHRU— Mon. Members appointed to serve on the Town Board. Kota Tinggi, this year are: the District Officer, (President), the Administrative Officer, (Deputy President), the Assistant Engineer P.W.D Kota Tinggi, the Health Officer. Johore South, the O.S.P.C. Kota Tinggi Mr G. Scurr. Tuan Sheikh Abdul Rahman
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    ACQUITTED
    56 5 KUALA KANGSAR, Mon.— Wong Fah, a detective, who was charged- with five counts of misappropriation was acquitted. MK GOH CHIANG CHUAH, a Singapore Customs officer, who retires in March after 35 years service in the administrative department He received the M.B.E. in June 1950 Mr. Goh, 53, is at
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    HE WANTS FREE SCHOOLS
    111 5 HE WANTS FREE SCHOOLS KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— 17IREE and compulsory edur cation for children, extensive adult education, more houses, playing fields and parks, local community centres and better Municipal services are the aims of Mr. S. Karalasingam, Labour candidate for the Bungsar Ward of Kuala Lumpur. Speaking at a meeting
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    NEW INSPECTOR
    18 5 TAIPJNG, Mon.— Mr. M. Campbell has assumed duties in Taiping as Inspector of Schools. North Perak.
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    Oantas passengers visit this temple
    125 5 SINGAPORE'S 30-foot statue of Buddha m the Buddhist Temple in Race Course Road is more familiar now with thousands of air passengers who have passed through the City than with the great majority of people living in the Colony. The statue is an important item
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    Fewer free passes
    64 5 Fewer free passes A SINGAPORE City Council Committee has decided that fewer free passes to Jalan Besar Stadium be issued thi s year to teams affiliated to the Singapore Amateur Football Association. The number will be reduced from 631 to 611. But officials of the Association are to get more
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    ILO TRIP: UNIONS TO HELP
    99 5 ILO TRIP: UNIONS TO HELP BECAUSE 14 Sinsapoi>e trade unions cannot afford to help to send a representative to the International Labour Organisation seminar,, opening on Feb. 4 in Calcutta, the Government Administrative and Clerical Union has come to their aid. At a meeting of 15 irade unions last week
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    RELIGIOUS MISSIONS MAY NOT GET TRUST BUILDINGS
    127 5 RELIGIOUS MISSIONS MAY NOT GET TRUST BUILDINGS Free Press Staff Reporter pOLLOWING an objection by Mr. D. Robertson, a Singapore City Councillor and former Improvement Trustee, the Improvement Trust may not, in future, allocate their shop buildings to religious missions. Seven missions are accommodated in Trust property. Recently Mr. objected
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    21 5 MR. AND MRS. ONG AH LENG, after their wedding: %i th« Singapore Registry recently, The bride was Miss Khoo Cheng Neo.
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    EXTRA HELP
    25 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Johore State Government has engaged 20 temporary clerks to prepare new rent rolls because land rents have been raised.
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    TENDERS CALLED FOR NURSES HOSTEL
    106 5 'TENDERS are being called for the construction of a hostel for 250 probationer nurses at the. Singapore General Hospital.. Every person applying for a form of tender will be required to deposit $100 with the Accountant, P.WJ), Singapore. Two conditions under which the deposit will
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    34 5 picture. BRIGADIER AND MRS. N.D.WINGROVE (left) chatting with the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, at the cocktail party held on Saturdav nirhf at the Australian Commissioner's residence to celebrate Australia Day. Free Press
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    New road safety measures urged
    93 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE City Council committee has recom- mended that white lines be painted on the left half of all minor roads at their junct ons with major roads. It also urged that signs, with the words "Halt Major Road Ahead," be
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    DOCTORS PLAN 3-DAY MEET
    47 5 The Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association will hold its annual meeting in Penang during the Easter holidays, Apr. 11 to 13. A clinical and scientific meeting will be arranged for Apr. 12. The annual dinner will be held the same evening.
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    Palm oil output is down
    108 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon THE Federation of Malaya produced 48,000 tons of palm oil, 14,000 tons of palm kernels and 160,000 tons of copra in 1951. Palm oil production was 5,000 tons less than that in 1950 and 2,000 tons less than that in 1949. but
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    'Fight for rights': Indians are told
    170 5 'Fight for rights': Indians are told KUALA LUMPUR, UOSL INDIANS domiciled in Malaya must fight for equal rights, declared the secretary of t.ie Selangor Labour Pry, Inche Mohamed S: ie:% at a gathering of ver 1,000 Indian workers celebrating Indian Erde* pendence Day m Pert Swettenham en Ba urday. "All
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    Pool plan is cleared
    111 5 Pool plan is cleared THE Vehicles and T:\;fHe I 1 Committee of the SicgSLpore City Council fc:s no abjection, from the traffic point of view, to th* proposal of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. to put up new buildings and a swimming pool on Crown land in the Telok Av:r reclamation off
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    CITY COUNCIL TO GET NEW PIANO
    97 5 Free Press Staff Reporter oINGAPORE City Council has placed an order for a Chappel concert piano an English make of Diano used by the BBC, in the I Festival Hail in London and j in various other Dlaces for use at the Victoria Theatre
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    SCOUTS TIPPED TO WIN TODAY
    585 7 SCOUTS TIPPED TO WIN TODAY But Hong Kong game is off Free Press Rugby Reporter rrjjKUK will be no final in this season's I \KKLF inter-unit rugby cup competition. T h t winners of this evening's semi-final at T,rmiin between Singapore Engineer Regiment al j Special Air Service Regiment will
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    Springboks win 17-3
    122 7 JH magnfflctm pack mainly responsible Ik the South African tourkf side s defeat of the Barbs ri ma ny it points (one Ihret penalty goals and j three points (one in thetor last match In E in at Cardiff on SaturS alii Africans will their tour with
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    LIFEGUARDS
    47 7 The three candidates who won the Royal Life Saving Award of Merit at the Chinese Swimming Club pool last week. From left: "Wee Koh Ten*, Ho Wee Song, (Award •f Merit Ist liar.) Tan Siongr Teng. Front row: Goh Chin Chye and Lee Hon Ming (Examiners.)
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    MANCHESTER U. TAKE THE LEAD sedgman and McGregor win
    454 7 MANCHESTER U. TAKE THE LEAD sedgman and McGregor win SURPRISE home defeats, which dethroned the First and Second Division leaders Portsmouth and Birmingham City, and ugly crowd scenes at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge were but a few of the features of the English League programme carried out in spite of snow-covered
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    61 7 Australians Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor on Saturday retained the Australian national tennis doubles title by defeating fellow countrymen Mervyn Rose and Don Candy 6-4, 6-5, 6-3 In the Australian Lawn Tennis Tournaments at the Memorial Drive Courts, Adelaide. Thelma Long won the women's singles title, defeating Helen Angwin 6-2,
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    39 7 TRELAND, holders of the i^ternational championship, belt Prance, runners-up last year, by 11 points to 8 in their rugby Union match at Colombes Stadium in Paris on Saturday. At half-time Ireland "were leading by six points to nil— Reuter
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    S.C.C. enter semi-finals
    78 7 SINGAPORE Cricket Club beat Teachers Training College by two goals to one in their S.H.A. knockout tie on the padang yesterday. S.C.C. triumphed after extra time had been called however, through a goal scored by Capt. F. Reynolcs. They now enter the semi-finals where they meet R.A.F.
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    BOSCO BOA KAYOS 'LAUGHING' MIKE
    38 7 Singapore's three Chinese star wrestlers celebrated Chinese Now Year on Saturday by winning all their bouts at the Happy World stadium. The only knockout was scored by Bosco Boa over Laughing Mike Barrettt.
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    South were foiled once again
    311 7  -  CHARLES BRYCE By IT happened last year and it i happened again on Saturfj' South so nearly emerged umphant against the North the annual Malayan ***** classic, but just did not make Itb Last season South made a •to"? 11 /any In the fast North
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    RUGGER SELECTORS LOOK AROVIID
    279 7 T!HE England Rugby Unim" selectors, who today are expected to announce their choices for the match against Ireland on *eb. 9, took a last look at possible candidates taking part in the week-end club programme. The choice of matches was limited because of a number of
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    Johnny forgets
    235 7 I But he is I 1 not worried I WORLD table tennis f¥ champion, Johnny i i Leach left London airport i yesterday to defend his i i title hi the world cham- i pionships in Bombay without a lucky horse- i shoe and with no one to
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    M.C.C. HIT UP 233 FOR THREE
    123 7 M.C.C. HIT UP 233 FOR THREE A fine third wicket stand of 117 in one hour 35 minutes between Tom Graveney (96) and Don.Kenyon (54 not out) enabled the MCC touring team to finish the second day of their match well within reach of the Hyderabad total. Hyderabad were dismis&d
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    TOWEEL KEEPS HIS TITLE
    206 7 VIC Towecl of South Africa retained his world batomweight title against Scotland's Peter Keenan on points over 15 rounds at Johannesburg's Rand Stadium on Saturday night. Toweel took the initiative early, with Keenan holding on and being warned for hitting on the break in the first
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    CLEVELAND SETS NEW 100-YARD SWIMMING MARK
    70 7 CLEVELAND SETS NEW 100-YARD SWIMMING MARK fiICK Cleveland, Ohio State University's ace swimmer from Honolulu, set an unofficial 100 yards free style world record at Colombia (Ohio) on Saturday in a match against the University of Pittsburgh. Cleveland swam the 100 yards in 49.3 seconds, shattering his own mark of
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    3 FIJI REGT. TEAMS FOR SEVENS RUGBY
    199 7 3 FIJI REGT. TEAMS FOR SEVENS RUGBY rnHREE teams from the Ist Battalion Fiji Regiment x have entered for the seven-a-side rugby tournament organised by the Singapore Cricket Club, The competition starts on Monday Feb. 4. The Fijians, with their speed, size and stamina, will be a force to be
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    FIJI XV TO MEET SCC
    25 7 A fixture between the Fiji Regt. XV and Singapore Cricket Club has been arranged for Feb. 9 on the Padang.
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    VICTORIA TAKE LEAD
    107 7 A SEVENTH wicket century partnership by lan McDonald and Fitchett enabled Victoria to gain a first Innings lead of 65 over Queensland in their Sheffield Shield match at Brisbane on Saturday. Replying to Queensland's 220. Victoria were all out for 285 when stumps wen drawn, Victoria were
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    BIRTH
    24 8 BRIDGES: TO HELEN ELIZABETH, wife of Major D. R. Bridges, on 24th January, at Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, a son. David Clutha Gordon.
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    36 8 THE engagement Is announced. In Singapore, of Miss Sylvia Ngim, of Malacca, to Mr. Fred Parker, of Bradford. Yorks, U.K. Mr. Parker is employed by .the City Council, as an engineer, in the Gas Dept.
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    27 8 CABLE received by S. Ponniah. Co-operative Officer. Johore. that his brother Manlam, teacher, Govt. English School. Segamat. passed away in Ceylon, on 25.1.52. An OMMOHATION VACANT
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    TRIBUNAL TO SETTLE EMPIRE PROBLEMS
    483 8 TRIBUNAL TO SETTLE EMPIRE PROBLEMS Conservative aim Gradual autonomy BIRMINGHAM, Monday. TI& Conservative Government's aim was "self-Government in the Empire", but its view was that "it should be done in stages/' the British Minister of State for the Colonies, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boy d said in Birmingham. The Minister, addressing a
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    Malaya's trade with India
    69 8 NEW DELHI, Mon. INDIA'S favourable balance of trade with Malaya during the first nine months of 1951 totalled Rs. 142,500,000 (US$30,000,000), official statistics reveal. Indian exports amounting to Rs. 273,000,000 included foodstuffs, tobacco, livestock, raw materials, precious stones, groundnut oil, cotton, yarn, artificial silk, books and
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    ROYAL TOUR STAMPS
    58 8 Australia will issue three special stamps to commemorate the visit of Princess idtab b ulgh and the Duke of The stamps— a red threepence stamp portraying the Princess a blue 7i pence stamp and a brown one-shil-llng-and-sixpence stamp, both portraying th e royal couplewill be on sale
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    Malan arrests' 10 Indians
    63 8 Ten prominent Indian leaders of the anti-govern-ment South African Indian Congress were arrested by police in Johannesburg on Saturday night after a oarty conference. The Indians were charged with obstruction and allowed £15 bail. The police complained that the Indian leaders had prevented them from perusing
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    13 8 A Japanese trade mission will start shortly new trade negotiations with Argentine officials.
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    This may be Jimmy's dog
    74 8 IF eight-year-old Jimmy Hadley calls at the Singapore Swimming Club today he may find his missing dog Scup." A member of the S.S.C., Mr. Peter Fairbarns, telephoned the Free Press this morning that he saw a dog, like the one described by Jimmy, roaming the
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    100, she has 224 descendants
    33 8 Mrs. Klass Hohlenn who has 224 living descendants, observed her 100th birthday at Cyen, Alberta, yesterday. She has seven children, 67 grandchildren, 132 greatgrandchildren, and 18 great-great-gandchildren.— A.P.
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    JAPS PRAY
    31 8 About 500 Japanese yesterday attended a special mass at St. Vincento Paulo Cathedral in Tokyo to pray for the early recovery of Argentina's Eva Peron from her illness.- A.P.
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    FORTY-ONE DIE IN BUS EXPLOSION
    114 8 Driver's match starts fire ATLIXCO, MEXICO, Monday. pORTY-ONE persons were burned to death yesterday in a bus fire and explosion. Six were small children. Six passengers escaped the flaming vehicle and are in hospital with severe burns. The driver also escaped and fled, apparently uninjured.
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    He cut out his intestines to 'cure ache'
    129 8 NEW ORLEANS. Mon. A 56-YEAR-OLD man who slashed open h s stomach and cut out 12 inches of intestines jto cure a stomach ache died during the weekend at Charity Hospital. The hospital identified the man as Sidney Landrv of nearby Gretna,
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    MONEY REFORM IN RUMANIA
    47 8 Rumania announced yesterday a drastic currency reform calling in all money in circulation and pegging the new currency to the Soviet rouble. Bucharest racjjo reports indicated that the reform amounted in effect to slashing Rumanians' purchasing power h v mnra than tnrnthirds.- Reuter
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    LIFELINE FROM THE ROCKS
    60 8 LIFELINE FROM THE ROCKS picture. THIS WAS THE; LIFELINE to safety for 35 men saved from the storm-tossed Liberian ship, Liberty, which hit the rocks near Cap* Corn wall, Land's End, in a 95-mph gale. An uninjured member of the crew, Mohammed Mogkbl, comes ashore by breeches buoy. He riM
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    Wife forgives 'murder plot'
    275 8 Wife forgives 'murder plot' FAIRFIELD, California, Mon. A YOUNG wife yester- day bailed out of gaol and took home the husband accused of trying to hire two men to kill her. "I love him all the same" petite Mable Fong, 21, said when told by officers that 23 -year-old Ralph
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    RIVER DEATH TOLL MOUNTS
    51 8 More bodies were discovered yesterday at Calcutta's River Hooghly, bringing the death toll in Saturday's river tragedy to ten.. The victims were drowned when a jetty leading to the Indian Navy's flagship Delhi gave way when a crowd of sightseers were waitine to board the ship.-
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    FLOOD THREAT
    22 8 Floods were seriously threatening the towns of Columbus and Daytona, and part of the population has already been evacuated A.F.P.
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