The Singapore Free Press, 30 January 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE Of MALAYA H» 15.302. SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY St, IH2. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 395 1 New cuts in food, clothes, coal, cars LONDON, Wednesday. OUTUNING drastic new cats in Britain's economy the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. R. A. Butler, told the House of Commons yesterday: "We are really up against it. Our life blood is draining away and we have
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  • 213 1 REPLANT OR PERISH, SMALL MAN TOLD free Press Staff Reporter Kl AI A LUMPUR, Wed. pfiDSRAL revenue r *o-:\d be "seriously Usturbed" and the rubla reduction of smallholders vould be tempo•ut by as much as cent if the l_:s acres of their holdings in need of re- were to be
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  • 27 1 I red Harvey Neath. 69, of the selenium T ard ?as used a s an offen--2 a: to the first world -ied in Florida. A.P.
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  • 206 1 'READY TO TALK ':EDEN TO EGYPT LONDON, Wed. ffIHE British Foreign SecreJL tary, Mr. Anthony Eden, yesterday renewed the British offer to negotiate a revision of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936. In a statement to the Commons, he said: "It is the aim of the Government to reach agreements for
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  • 88 1 Free Frets Staff Reporter* r«RIME in Singapore over v the Chinese New Tear included seven nousebreakings, four robberies^ one attempted robbery, 10 cases of thefts from houses and fife thefts of bicycles besides petty pocket-picking. One of the robberies was committed by two Chinese on a
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    93 1 An employee at the Marine Recruit Depot at San Diego, California, opened his lunch bag and found cheques worth £500— he had picked up the wrong bag in a grocery store. Dr. Otto Lehner (right), representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, speaks at Panmuryom truce camp
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  • 617 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A SPECIAL STATUS for people in the Federation who qualify for Federal Citiienship hi all requirements except the English or Malay languages, is urged by three Chinese members of the Select Committee of the Federal Legislative Council
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  • 101 1 Eighth Div. won 't forget Billy Loh SYDNEY, Wed. THE veterans of Australia's 1 Eighth Division not forget Billy Loh who has died in Singapore. They said they would care for his widow and three children, if necessary. The Australians vividly remember how Billy defied the Japanese during the occupation
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  • 94 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. A YOUNG Chinese schoolboy was fatally injured early this morning when he was knocked down by a car at the corner of Changi and Bedok Roads. He died before the arrival of the ambulance. .This brings the number of road fatalities
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  • 42 1 Two Irish Guardsmen, Michael Cleere and Patrick O"Deli were yesterday found guilty of the murder of a German and aenteneed to death by a court martial at Dusseldorf. The court added .a strong recommendation for mercy. Reuter picture.
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  • 70 1 MELBOURNE, Wed. AUSTRALIA'S Immigration A Minister, Mr. Harold Holt said yesterday he would not place restrictions on girls tarial work." The paper said American diplomatic authorities contacted Australian Ambassador Hudgson who relayed the news to Can- tlon Minister, 1 have no desire to
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  • 185 1 LONDON, Wednesday. MATCHMAKING Britons, who have been talking about a romance between Princess Margaret and Scotland's Earl of Dalkeith, now are waiting for a green-eyed blonde to come home from Hong Kong. -2 z. Tfcen, they say. they will know for sure which girt
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  • 52 1 MAD Mil floating down the rtrer Shone hsre caused a dispute between France and SwitzerThe French say thoiwandg have been killed by the nmd stirred up when the Swiss cleaned a reservoir near the frontier. They claim lSt^tM francs. The Swiss are demanding proof that thev are French
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  • 101 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. REDUCTIONS in the price of coconut oil and Heino mils: powder were named in Singapore Government's fair prices list last night. A 28-katty tin of coconut oil wffl cost $17.50 instead of $18.50 and a one-quart bottle 65 cents Instead of 70
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  • 38 1 The second marriage of pretty Agnes Sasser was nullified yesterday in a brief court hearing at Atlanta, Georgia, following an official confirmation that her first husband who she thought was killed on the Korean battlefield is alive
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  • 546 1 Free Press Staff Reporter 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. JBE DIRECTOR of Operations, General Sir Rob Lockhart, will be re-designated DeputyDirector when the appointment of Deputy High Commissioner of the Federation is made, the Federation Government staled today. In a paper laid on the table
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  • 161 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. AMERICA'S mushrooming atomic arms project is smashing all records. That plus the promise that today's records will be shattered tomorrow is the biggest news in the Atomic Energy Commission's 11th semi-final annual report to Congress. The 211-page report submitted today disclosed. 1.
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  • 46 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. A model of the Princess Elizabeth housing estate in Singapore, which will form part of the Colony's exhibits at the Colombo exhibition will be on display in the window of Robinson's until lunch time tomorrow. fm SINGAPORE DOCTOR says.
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  • 42 2 A doctor *of the Vanderbilt Clinic, New York, helps a sufferer from Parkinson's disease .regain the use of his muscles after treatment with trihexyphenidyl, the new anti-spasmodic drug which has minimised or"\ abolished symptons in a number of uatiens.
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    845 2 A Research Ship Finds Animal Life I*HE Danish researcfc 1 ship Calathea reported recently that she caught animal life for the first time at a depth of six miles under the surface of the world's deepest ocean crevice. The Philippine Deep, off the east coast of Min-.
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  • 551 2 C HAiM AN P1NCHER COLUMN FAT people deserve far more sympathy from their doctors than they have been getting, according to a medical report. Doctors attribute nearly all cases of obesity to "eating for eating's sake.'' New findings disclosed recently make it clear that
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    • 26 2 POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER The moment t heard her say What's Anna N eagle got that I haven't qot I knew we'd have trouble tonight,"
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    • 212 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR PORN today, you have an a™ Si*"* 1 1 »PPeMte for knowledge and want to know as much- about all things as you can. You are a fine leader, but because of your wide diversity of interests, you are inclined to try and lead in several directions
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    • 7 2 Solution To Crossword Mo. 571 Yesterday's Solutions—Across:
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    • 70 2 New Crossword No* 572 Q 1 I I I I'l II I I IJ I CLUES ACROSS 1. Busy Uttle creature that makes a direct line (3); 3. Spring worker might be worse (5); 7. Starry prefix (5); 8. Papal head wear (5); «X* Ha TS «ffl ce promenade (11);
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  • 348 3 VATICAN CITY, Wed. r o:NS thai pilgrims of long L dropped on the tomb Jr peter helped archaeolo- rmine the burial .e Catholic chinch's and prince of the oa w?re from many t hc world, and were index of Christian a through
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    94 3 When he went to live_Jn Hill-view-road he had made enough money to give up work. H e ran his own car and put down special flooring in his new house he was an expert at such matters. Neighbours found him of a retiring nature, but well educated and pleasantly
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  • 172 3 LONDON, Wed. gHORTLY after being sackeu a labourer pushed his tea into ihe River Thames lad hen threw bricks at h. said Mr. R. E. Seaton, scouting, at the Old B Ok Um direction of Mr. Ju Piicher. the jury t George Frederick EdvarOs, aged 41,
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  • 622 3 Real-life Ibsen character BRIGHTON, Wednesday. WHAT happens to an elderly eccentric when, in this enlightened year of 1952, he is ill, lonely, and slowly losing his place in the straggle of life? What lies in store for him in this busy, workaday world? These questions are
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  • 53 3 Delay in JapFilipino talk MANILA, Wed. JAPANESE PhUippine reparations talks have been postponed indefinitely while the Japanese delegation gets instructions from Tokyo on how to answer the Philippine demand for more than $8,000 million in war damage claims. The adjournament was sought by the Japanese team after looking at a
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  • 136 3 NEW FILM PACT WITH U.S. ROME, Wed\ ITALY'S film industry had the biggest year in its history in 1951 which marked negotiation of a pact with Hollywood stopping the dumping of American pictures on the Italian market and setting machinery to put Italian films on U.S. screens. The industry produced
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    38 3 American imports of British cotton textiles last year dropped to the lowest point in 15 years.-— AJ. AN .OLD FAVOURITE in a new pose, Claadette Colbert still has a high place in the affections of picture-goers.
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  • 118 3 Durham. Wednesday. BEFORE strangling himself in Durham Gaol, a prisoner on remand left a last message in broken matchsticks on a table in his celL The matchsticks spelled out the words: "Not guilty." The message. It was said at the inguest <mjtne Prisoner, George
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  • 207 3 NEW YORK, Wednesday. A LL is not completely wondrous with those wonder drugs, the antibiotics. Doctors are reporting more and more about some drawbacks and abuses. Antibiotics are drugs produced, by molds, from the soil. The main ones now include penicillin, aureomycin, terramycln, streptomycin
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  • 59 3 VAIGUILLON-SVR-MER, France, Wed. A BIBLICAL miracle was re-enacted at VAiguil-lon-Sur-Mer, France* when the bay became so glutted with fish that fishermen brake their nets, hauling them in. Villagers turned out to bring in the enormous catch with wash-tubs, spades and digging forks. Children caught eels with their
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  • 440 3 PREEMPTIVE BIDS INHERE are certain situations 1 where you. pick up a hand of enormous playliig strength; a hand so strong that despite its weakness in high cards you are practically certain of making a game. This kind of hand doesn't fit into one category of an opening preemptive bid
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  • 267 3 He claims king 's spirit told of temple secret CAIRO, Wednesday. A DUTCH spiritualist and an Egyptian archaelogist are involved in a dispute as to who was primarily responsible for (he recent finding of an ancient Temple near Fayoun, in the Pyramid belt which stretches south from Giza, Tlie spiritualist
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  • 243 3 SHE LEFT 48 HRS. AFTER MARRIAGE DERBY. Wed. "TORTY-EIGHT hours after F getting married a woman left her husband, said Judge R. A. Willes at Derby Divorce Court., The judge added: "Thejr"had been courting for only two weeks. The marriage ought never to have taken place." He granted a decree
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  • 66 3 30 were tossed about like peas Thirty passengers on a Capital Airlines plane were tossed about like peas in a a pod and five were injured when a sudden down draft caused the plane to drop 3300 feet below levelling off. The five were taken to the hospital after the
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    • 176 3 Radio SINGAPORE 12.00 Programmes in Malay; 1.00 Dance Music by Eddie Grata t, 1.30 Time Signal ft News: 1.45 Lunch Time Prom; 2.00 English Schools Broadcast; 3.20 dose; 5.00 Programmes in Malay; 6.15 Time Signal ft Pf< gramme Summary; 6.17 Nature Club; 6.40 The Radio String Ensemble; 6.56 Announcements ft
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  • 548 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30, 1952. New men in K.L »PHE new politico-mili-•^tary set up in the Federation is taking shape A paper was laid on the table at today's meeting of the Legislative Council in Kuala Lumpur explaining the p:;st of Deputy High Commissioner which is being
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    1102 4 Dangerous Folly, or Hideous Hypocrisy? asks SIR DUFF COOPER r? is distressing for those of us who remember too distinctly the mistakes that were made after the first world war to see them all being repeated after the second. One of the most glaring of these absurdities is the
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  • 837 4  -  LARRY ADLER by CH3R many years I r have been in the habit of sluicing my hair with water before I comb it. Everyone has always said I'll be bald within a year. I started the habit at the age of ten. I
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  • 187 4 Howard Keel: Whoa Emma, From the sound track of the r^J l^ 1 Camiv al. now showing to the Colony, M.O.M. records the rich voice of Howard Keel in these two delightful hits. Both wmibew are sung in slow tlmin*. The*strmg section of the David Rose orchestra accompanies
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  • 279 4  -  FELIX By pOUR leading British 1 dance bands have been lined up for the first-ever Festival of Jazz concert to be presented at London's Albert Hall on Friday next week Bands definitely fixed are Jack Parnell and his Music Makers, Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band the
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  • 142 4 Bach pays more than Baseball AMERICA, the land of jazz, has a boom in Bach, Bethoven, and Brahms. Music lovers are spending 45 million dollars (£16,000, 000) a year on highbrow concerts. This is 5,000,000 dollars more than fans paid in the year to see big baseball. Nearly 200 cities
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  • 40 4 Beethoven— Sonata Ne. 8 in C Minor (Tathetique') flayed by Sofc«M (ptaSTHMT. C lftlJ This sonata has the Beethoven characteristics in rich proportions An opening movement of violent contrasts, a broad melody and Staccato Chords, a famous slnw
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  • 686 4 T*HE best news for A music lovers this week has been the arrival in the colony of the film "The Tales of Hoffmann" based on Offenbach's opera. I saw it on a recent visit to London and again at a preview last week and I have
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  • 219 5 315 armoured! vehicles: Bandits are to be denied blukar cover KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday, HE Federal Legislative Council was today asked to approve nearly $9 million to buy more armoured vehicles, build more police buildings and to destroy blukar around resettlement areas and on potential ambush spots.
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  • 135 5 $1 MILLION SOUGHT FOR DEFENCE BUILDINGS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A $1 MILLION vote was A sought today from the Federal Legislative Council for the construction of temporary emergency* buildings through agencies other than the PWD. The Secretary for Defence will control the vote and allocate funds to State and Settlement
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  • 30 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The fourth election meeting of Mr. S. C. E. Singam, independent candidate for Bungsar Ward, will he held on .the YMCA ground, Brickfields, on Saturday.
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  • 20 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Mohamed Sharlff who owned a bakery business which he established forty vears ago, died yesterday.
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  • 80 5 THE Singapore City Coun- cil's Building Committee hag recommended that the Municipal Ordinance be amended to raise the maximum fine for failure to carry out an order to demolish an unauthorised building. Ik is proposed that the fine be raised from $10 to $50 a day
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  • 76 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WHERE were 34 disappointed people in Singapore yesterday. They missed the joy flights offered by the Royal Singapore Flying Club during the Chinese New Year holidays. They had bought their tickets. But the rain marred their fun, putting the airfield under
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  • 68 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE cost of the funeral of Sir Henry Gurney and other expenses which resulted from his death totalled $7,000. The Federal Legislative Council was today asked to approve this sum. A further $4,000 wa s asked to meet the funeral expenses Of government
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  • 94 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE two bridges over the 4 Klang River at Klang, Selangor, are to be repaired shortly. The. Federal Legislative Council was today asked to approve $596,000 for this purpose. The council was told that the bridges must be repaired so that reasonable river
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  • 39 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. An exhibition of handicrafts by UMNO Youths section will be held at Batu Pahat at 9 am. on Friday In connection with the UMNO Youth Conference which opens on Saturday at the Bandar Pen-
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  • 82 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. GRATUITIES totalling $6,515 are to be paid to the dependents of five members of the security forces *who were killed by bandits. Annual allowances totalling $2,050 will also be paid to the dependents of the Dato Naning Malacca and those of three other members
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    22 5 REV. PIYADASSI THERO, aged 37, who became a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, is in Singapore on a religious mission.
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  • 120 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A PROPOSED new rule of the Singapore City Council lays down that appeals by Council employees against disciplinary action and dismissals ordered by the Establishment Committee should be heard by the Service Committee. The recommendation will come up for confirmation at
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  • 29 5 Col. Arthur Young, the 45--year-old City of London Commissioner of Police, will fly to Malaya on Feb. 15 to take over reorganisation of the police force.
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  • 44 5 The request was made so that the public will not lose I valuable parking space. I use by a small section of the local community." The City Council, in its re- Free Press Staff Reporter i the sineaDore Government j
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  • 246 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. MR. A. Heywood-Waddington, Malayan Economic IT Representative in Britain, will visit Malaya shortly to obtain Malayan views on rubber, tin and other trade matters before attending the Rubber Study Group meeting in Canada in May. The Finance Committee of the Federal Legislative
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  • 54 5 They forgot this $100,000 THE Federal Legislative Council was today asked to approve $101,000 for the payment of housing allowances to officers appointed or seconded for emergency duties. Provision was made in the 1952 budget for the salaries and COLA of these officers, but by an oversight, provision was not
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  • 73 5 SINGAPORE ARCHERY CLUB PLANS PA VILION CINGAPOJIE Archery Club d plans to build a pavilion in the University of Malaya grounds adjoining Cluny Road. The City Council's Building Committee has agreed to grant the club a temporary permit for putting up the pavilion. It will have timber walls and a
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  • 98 5 CINGAPORE'S first All-Ma-d laya Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute will be held at the Anglo-Chinese School building in Barker Road for eight days from April 15. Six hundred delegates are expected to attend. The eightday programme will include instructional courses, discussions, and music. Delegates intending to attend the Institute
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  • 41 5 KAJANG, Wed.— Mr. Ma Loh Kah and Mrs. Yap Blew Pah, Kajang High School teachers, have left on transfer to Kuala Lumpur. Mr Ma is now attached to Batu Road School and Mrs. Yap to Pasar Road School.
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  • 191 5 Chinese may get free passage to return home KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A SCHEME to repatriate any Chinese who wants to return to China with his family may be tried out in the Federation. The scheme provides for the voluntary repatriation of those who elect to return to China instead of
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  • 180 5 University site wiil cost $3½ million KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rTHE 1,477-acre site of the University of Malaya at Johare Bahru is to be bought by the Federation Government for $3,629,000 this year. The Finance Committee of the Federal Legislative Coun cil has approved funds for this purpose About 674 acres
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  • 82 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THREE retired senior Federal Government officers are to be re- employed this year on one-year contracts to assist in clearing up the arrears of work which have accumulated in the Service Branch of the Federal Secretariat* They will be paid $1,400 a
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    53 5 FOl R (GENERATIONS met when Mrs Low Kway Song (seated extreme right), wif e of a Methodist honorary minister, celebrated her 61st birthday recently. It was also the silver wedding of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Koh Kong Seng. Picture shows little Michael Kwek coneratulatine his grandmother on
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    • 271 5 -vA 1 0 DORIS DAY I 1 I !cve the way you say goodnight 1 I In a shanty in old shanty town DB 2932 i ROSEMARY CLOONEY wish I wuz 1 8 M xed Emotions DB 2949 XAVIER CUGAT Cr HIS ORCHESTRA i Guadalajara Cancion tapatia i Tel! me
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    2262 6  -  LEONARD MOSLEY Did Alice Tripp NEED to die? "Among your friends and mine are people who would plot a major crime simply to cover one minor indiscretion 11 by J. L. HAYS pays tribute at firsthand to the young National service man This is the second instalment, the
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    • 172 6 MdndrdKG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya j j'" r^ IT'S THE MICE IN MY ROOM.' t SET I l IVE JUST GOT TO SLEEP TONIGHT I WOULD LOOK LIKE THW. 6000 NIGHT'S SLEEP FOR A WEEK, "^ir^ A^B^B Effi'l I^W^ JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press
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  • 187 7 Y OUTH SOCCER BEGINS IN MARCH SAFA's bid to boost game Free Press Soccer Reporter ■THK Singapore Amateur Football Association's 1 Youth Competition for boys who were under 18 years on Jan. 1 this year is expected It begni in March. Entries close tomorrow, but so far only three learns
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  • 381 7 THE EIGHT COUNT —Some boxers only slipped I.m ARCHIE QUICK p MPLETE confusion exists *w B:::iih amateur boxthe new audible Varying interpreI It red iced the Ei^g- i s Sco:iand InternaJ match at the Royal Hall London, to a and the evening be- rest remarkable of d1
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  • 50 7 T-*E r.nai of the Singapore Base L. \nc: inter-unit Hockey b ?JL e tion will be played between r iV E Wor^op and 30 Bn. p- Oc «> Wednesday Feb IS at r GO c. Singapore Base DistV- preient the cup, and meto the winning team and
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  • 57 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— The South Johore Rugby Club's last match to be played on the home ground takes place on Saturday when the Club's opponents will be the Naval Base. The S.JJR.F.D. season will be brought to a close after the match against R.A.F. Seletar which will
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    56 7 The Queen- went to Sandrinffbam recently to watch her Devon Loch run at Hurst Park, anil was joined there by Princess Elizabeth who came from Clarence House. Photo shows: Jockey Brian Marshall, who rode the Queen's horse in the Mortla's Novices' Steeple Chase, amusing the Queen and Princess Elizabeth with
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  • 115 7  - Samara has a 20-inch neck MATMAN By &EELIE SAMARA, a Negro wrestler with lHin. biceps and a 20 in. neck flew into Singapore from Manila yesterday and said: "Who's this guy King Kong yer talking about— never heard of him except that movie character." Weighing 2751b., Samara is booked to
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  • 250 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS He may leave nexf monfh From THE Skeeter Garrard Fund has swelled to $8,400. A This sum represents money in hand. However, several donations have been promised and it won't be long before the $10,000 mark is reached. Of the $8,400, $4,000 was subscribed
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  • 175 7 Cup tennis will be revived AN inter-State tennis tour- ney for Malays will be revived this season after ten years. The trophy is the Iskander Cup, holders being Johore who won it just before the Pacific War. The decision to revive the competition was made after discussion between delegates from
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  • 149 7 rnUNGKU Raja Mohamed, prex sident of the All-Malayan Malay Badminton Association, on Monday appealed to his community to continue their progress In the game so th*u they could produce more players of the class of Abdullah Piruz, the Seiangor champion and Ismail b'r Marjan. doubles, title holder of
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  • 62 7 WEIGHT LIFTING OFFICE-BEARERS Young Chinese Amateur Weight Lifting Party officials for 1952 have been elected as follows: President, Mr. Tan It Long (re-elected); Vice president. Mr. Leong Kwong Nang (re-elected); Sec. Treas. Mr. Tai Yew Chai (re-elected); Committee, Mr. Boey Chee Choon (.re-elected); Mr. Kong Fook Kee (re-elected); Mr. Lim
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  • 38 7 T»HE Japanese Olympic Alpine skiing team arrived in Oslo last night by air from Tok*o to start training for the Winter Games. The Japanese speed staters have already arrived in Scandinavia to begin training. A.P.
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  • 29 7 Middleweight Jimmy King (142 ib.) of New York, making his French debut, won a dull tenround decision over. French middleweight Gilbert Stock (147) in Paris on Monday night.— UP.
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  • 204 7 Free Press Correspondent A 41- YEAR-OLD Malacca planter, Bernard J. Newey, won the 1952 Northern Malaya golf championship yesterday morning when he beat the holder, R. R. Jackson of Perak, on the Tiger Lane course at Ipoh. Newey, who was eliminated in the semi-finals of the
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  • 56 7 jJAFAEL Iglesias, Argentine heavyweight boxer, intends to quit the ring and return to Buenos Aires. Iglesias was knocked out in three rounds in his North American debut last Thursday against Bob Dunlap of Oakland. The handsome, young South American since has been suffering dizzy spells
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  • 101 7 A USTRALIAN Women's AmJ\ ateur Athletic Association in Melbourne .has nominated the following women's sprinting team for the Helsinki Olympic Games. Marjorie Jackson (New South Wales); Shirley Strickland (Western Australia); Winsome Cripps (Victoria) and Verna Johnson (Western Australia). Miss Jackson and Miss Cripps will run ia the
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  • 105 7 Flight Badminton Party officebearers were elected at the General Meeting fcr the year 1952 as tollows: Patron, Mr. Lim Kin Tong; President, Mr. Tan Hock Siow; Vice-President Messrs. Tan Buck Hong and Yoo Horn Sor; Secretary, Mr. Kiang Kong Boon; Treasurer, Mr. Lim Mong Kiong; Sports Captain,
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  • 169 7  - 'We were let down Goddard \says rjTOE West Indies Cricket Board of Control came under fire yesterday from John Gcddard who has captained the West Indies team on their Australian tour. He was confirming what Lindsay Hassett, Australia's captain, said recently regarding the itinerary of the tour. Hassett referred to
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  • 26 7 I BOMBAY, Tues: The five-man z team from Singapore arrived here by air last night for the world ta- ble tennr, championships, which start on Friday.—Reuter.
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  • 118 7 WORLD RECORDS mHE International Olympic L Committee yesterday announced that the recent iceskating records established by Russian^ could not be officially recognised since Soviet Russia did not belong to the International Federation of Winter Sports Norwegian skaters. Engn«*ian?en and Parstad, are still officially considered as holding the worid
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  • 134 7 JN a thrilling finish to their Sheffield Shield game yesterday Queensland *beat Victoria, holders of the trophy, by 18 runs. The last Victorian wicket fell to Len Johnson in the closing minutes of the final day and Johnson (4 for 46) and Cyril Smith (4
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  • 276 7 DRITAIN'S county cricket officials are already discussing the next MCC tour to Australia in two years' time and they are not happy over the prospects. Last winter's M.C.C. tour of Australia was as far as the countries are concerned; a financial flop. Not a
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  • 406 7 PACE BOWLERS BAGGED MOST W.I. WICKETS I A USTRALIA kept a firm hold on the unoi tidal cricket championship of the world when they i beat the West Indies yesterday by 202 runs in the i fifth and final Test with a day to spare. 1 In the match, the
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  • 96 7 THOMAS CUP DONOR EXPECTED A FRIEND of Ibe Malaya* Thomas Cap Badminton team, Mr. H. Chilton. r\r»rc« tentative on the Inteimfi'm.l Badminton Federation of tho rJUL. said yes.terday on arrival at Kalian* Airport that Sir George Thomas, the donor off the Thomas Cup. hopes to eomo oat here for the
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  • 93 7 Woman to swim Gib. Straits (It's 42 miles) /CHANNEL swimmer t Flo: e ire Chadwick (America) lv.s started two weeks training lor an attempt, tc swim the 42 miles across the Straits of Gibraltar in June. Miss Chad wick, fomer Snn Diego. California, secretary, is the only woman to swim
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    • 38 7 Today's sport RUGBY: Royal Signals v RAF Changi at Signals; SCC v Naval Base on padang; SAB. v RAF Tengah at SHB; Tengah "A" v RJVIJP. at Tengah. HOCKEY: Senior K.O. tourney: S.R.C. v Police (semi-final) at SJLC.
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  • 53 8 HMTfMOHB. MARYLAND. Wed. DOLICE ar e looking for m 1 fan* of bandits who can read shorthand. A local school was broken *»W and USS» stolen f ram the headmaster's safe. which had been opened without a sign of force. On the floor was the combination written
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  • 44 8 The inhabitants of three villages near Melun, France. are looking for a pie<|-piper to rid them of a plague of rars. Last summer they were punned by flies. They got rid of the flies. Now they have the rats.- A.P.
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  • 308 8 REDS MAKE DEPORTEES EAT LEFT-OVER FOOD COMMUNIST AUSTERITY IK ACTION HONG KONG, Wednesday. QVERSEAS Chinese deportees from Malaya are being censored by Chinese Communists in Canton, Kwangtung, for their occasional lack of appetite and refusal to eat the left-over food from the previous day. A "reform" movement has been launched
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  • 124 8 Yoshida has three complaints TOKYO, Wed. ]y]R Shigeru Yoshida, the Japanese premier, said e terday that too many un. pleasant things lie between the Soviet Union and Japan to permit "friendly relations." M:\ Yoshida made the s*a:ement in the House of Councillor? when he was auctioned by members of lbs
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  • 62 8 Compensate them, he urges Representative Dempey, Republican. New Mexico, appealed to the House of Representatives yesterday to lift from a Committee pigeonhole a bill to pay approximately U5582,000,000 to former American prisoners in World War The bill would require Japan Germany and other enemy nations to compensate American prisoners of
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  • 33 8 Mr. Julian Taylor, distinguished visiting surgeon, win give a talk on Breast Cancer at the Physiology Theatre, University of Malaya at 8 pjn. today and not 8.30 p.m. as previously announced.
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  • 139 8 COCOS ISLANDS, Wed TCRESH food and mail is to r be delivered fortnightly by regular air courier to the 500 Austalian airmen and civil aviation personnel temporarily in residence on this remote atoH in the Indian Ocean. Qanta s Lancastrians under charter
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  • 165 8 'RUSSIA BETRAYED CHIANG PACT' U.N. speaks up for China PARIS, Wednesday. rPHE United Natfons Political Committee last night A passed a Nationalist Chinese resolution condemning: the Soviet Union "for failing to carry out" its treaty of alliance and friendship with the Nationalist Government of China. The resolution also said that
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  • 30 8 The little kingdom ot Laos will be represented by two officials and an exhibit at the Colombo Plan Exposition in Colombo, on February is through March 14.- A.P.
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  • 19 8 Britlsn west-county ports last year exported 471,613 toss of China clay, earning a record £2.533.698 in fnr*l«rn currency. A.P.
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  • 148 8 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. ANNUAL saving of $1,300,000 and improved efficiency in the public service are the result of two years' work by the Organisation and Methods Branch which is advising the Federal Government, says the third report of the Branch tabled at the
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  • 34 8 Jungle war gains picture. FRENCH soldiers recover war material after a sharp tussle with Vietminh attackers in one of the many actions taking place along the Black River, 40 mii*« south-west of Hanoi A.P.
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  • 128 8 ti BONN Wednesday. nPH£ West German Government said yesterday that France is trying to transform the rich Saar coal area "bit by bit" into a separate state and warned that such action would prejudice a German peace treaty. Walter Hallstein. West German Secretary for
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  • 19 8 The Senate yesterday confirmed an agreement admitting Turkey and Greece to the North Atlantic Pact.- U.P.
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  • 538 8 Eight points for a more efficient economical govt. KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. UNNECESSARY CLERICAL services, lack of central control of purchasing and stores, neglect of inspection of work, lack of training facilities, and low standards of office accommodation are among eight points which need eliminating if the business of the Federation
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  • 35 8 A mule that fell 40 feet down a well into five feet of water in Bunn, North Carolina, was hoisted out by a crane two-and-a-half hours later, only slightly injured. A.P.
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  • 106 8 EC AFE ADMITS JAPAN RANGOON Wm rE Bth gessioo United UattonsEc* lri Commission for a r jr> Far East, whir;. oDeni?^ last night adop-.-jV^' resolution extending geographical commission to Included and accepts associate member The chief fepai ver, Mr. S. Shi r. his seat. Hp said j a^ elusion would
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