The Singapore Free Press, 6 March 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA So. ***** SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH t, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CEN
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    U.K. DEFENCE PERILS EXPOSED
    1091 1 Lnurcmu wtns: vote split LONDON, Thursday. t}IK Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, 1 trti a 314 to 219 vote of confidence on his Ciaservative (lovernment's handling: of Bri{i]n r armament m the House of Commons W nkhi jhr winii Xx Minister of Health, Mr. ikl!i ii
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    De Gaulle ready to take over
    206 1 PARIS, Thursday. GEN. Charles de Gaulle, leader of the strong rightwing: Rally of the French People, is convinced that he will soon be asked to form a new government to save France from disaster, his political chief of staff said yesterday. Louis Terrenoire, secretarygeneral
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    WEST BERLIN HITS BACK AT REDS
    118 1 WEST BERLIN HITS BACK AT REDS BERLIN, Thurs. "^EST Germany cut off electric nowdr deliver. ies to the Russian zone yesterday In reprisal for the stoppage of Eastern current to West Berlin. The two zones had supplied 384,000 kilowatt hours daily to each other. The Soviet- controlled East Berlin Power
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    $17 million to free a prisoner
    84 1 $17 million to free a prisoner WASHINGTON, Thins. AOMMUNIST Czechoslovakia v has hinted that it might consider releasing William Oatis, Associated Press correspondent, m return for a $17,000,000 steel mill. The State Department acknowledging this, said Disposition of the steel mill is not and will not be connected with the
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    COCOS AIRPORT NEARLY READY
    51 1 The airport of Cocos Island, halfway between Australia and Ceylon m the Indian Ocean, will probably be ready to handle commercial aircraft on the AustraliaSouth Africa route by July 1. Two permanent buildings are ready and the placing of the coral pavement airstrio was under way.
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    ATOM TALKS
    23 1 Sir John Cockroft, head of Britain's atomic energy research plant, will attend meetings with American and Canadian atomic experts.— A. P.
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    Old friends meet
    56 1 Two old friends and colleagues meet. L*dy Tenler. wtte o* the Hl* h Commissioner, who arrived In the ago, listens as Countess Mountbatten (m uniform) tells her of the St. John Ambulance Brigade m the Federation. Picture was taken at a Parade of the Brigade held on
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    174 MEN NOT ON RED LIST
    120 1 174 MEN NOT ON RED LIST PANMUNJOM, Thurs. THE United Nations yester- day demanded that the Reds account for 174 more prisoners of war whose names were missing from lists submitted. The United Nations negotiatiors, at the same time, released a new list for-publi-cation. It was compiled from Communist radio
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    'Ike can easily win election'
    74 1 PHILADELPHIA, Thurs. THE former Economic Cooperation Administrator. Mr. Paul G. Hoffman, said yesterday he was convinced that General Eisenhower could win the Republican Presidential nomination without even returning to the United States to campaign actively. Mr. Hoffman, now President of multi million dollar Ford Foundation,
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    GOLDFIELDS EXPANDED
    44 1 Africa's vast Rand Coldfields are being exploited "to a scale of very considerable magnitude", the Minister for Mines Mr. J. H. Viljoen said yesterday. "An increasing portion of my Department's energies is required to be devoted to uranium matters", he said. Reuter
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    JOINT ANGLO-U.S. AIR BASE PLANS
    114 1 LONDON, Thurs. BRITAIN and the United States are planning the joint use of a giant airfield under construction at Tymbou m the southern part of the island of Cyprus, it was to be m progress. The base apparently is to be one of several to
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    THEY QUEUED UP TO GIVE BLOOD
    165 1 RIO UE JANEIRO, Thursday. DONORS were queuing up yesterday at the city's blood bank to replenish plasma stocks depleted by Tuesday's train crash at Anchieta m which at least 120 persons were killed and 250 hurt. The call for volunteer blood donors brought immediate
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    NOBEL PRIZE WINNER DEAD
    23 1 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, who shared the 1932 Nobel Prize for Medicine, has died m London. He was 94.
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    TITLE FOR PRINCE CHARLES URGED
    49 1 LONDON. Thurs. rjAERNAVON City officials last night asked the Queen to bestow the title of Prince of Wales on three-year-eld Prince Charles. The last Prince of Wales, now the Duke of Windsor, received the title when he was 16 from Kinjr George V. U.P.
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    U.S. SUPPORTS BRITAIN IN MALAYA
    283 1 U.S. SUPPORTS BRITAIN IN MALA YA WASHINGTON, Thursday. qnHE United Stales is solidly behind Britain m its A "determination to defeat Communist terrorism m Malaya". Mr. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, said yesterday. Mr. Acheson stated: "We have confidence m the ultimate success of their efforts, both to halt the
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    FIRST PREMIER
    28 1 Kwame Nkrumah, African politician who left prison m Feb. 1951 to lead the Gold Coast's first elected government, yesterday became the country's first Prime Minister. Reuter
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    Aircraft drop aid to quake victims
    191 1 Aircraft drop aid to quake victims TOKYO, Thurs. > AMERICAN planes yes- y A terday dropped food and medicine to stricken; towns m Japan's frost; bound Northern Island of Hokkaido still cut off. from the rest of the country by the tidal? waves which followed Tuesday's submarine earthquake. With telephone
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    Burma issue not for U.N.
    55 1 LONDON, Thurs. MR. Sewlyn Lloyd, Minister of State, told the House of Commons yesterday the British Government would, not bring the issue o^ Chinese Nationalist troops m Burma to the attention of the United Nations Security Council. Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour) had asked for this
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    Mary Borden Sets A Puzzle
    776 2 Mary Borden Sets A Puzzle Peter Quennell REVIEWS NEW BOOKS IN U.K. UNDER REVIEW Martin Merricdew, by Mary Borden, (Heinemann. 15s.) Miracle at t arville, by Betty Martin, edited by Evelyn Wells. (John Lehmann). No Picnic on Mount Kenya, by Felice Beniuii. (William lumber). 'THERE is a distinc- tive pleasure
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    60 2 Famous U.S. author John Steinbeck (left) is interviewed m his book lined study m New York by Voice of America commentator, C. Ranlet Lincoln. Mr. Steinbeck was describing the. chances that ha*e taken place m the Middle West since he wrote his novel "Grapes of Wrath" m 1936. This broadcast
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    EARLY WRITERS USED GUT, SOOT
    410 2  -  HELEN CATERER By during a 8.8.C. Pacific Service broadcast on a visit to famous libraries m Britain. MANY early books were written on vellum and the "ink'» consisted of a mixture of soot, gut, cuttlefish liquid and lamp black. They were written with quills that
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    Roosevelt's Letters
    516 2 They explain how he worked himself to death says Charles Wintour third volume of x The Roosevelt Letters is a rather expensive series of footnotes to a life of Roosevelt which has yet to be written. On Roosevelt's reaJ character this book sheds a patchy light. Only personal
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    Her Motto: 'Don't Think'
    696 2  - Her Motto: 'Don 't Think JAMES BARTLETT reviews a film star's story of how she conquered grief. Dcr.'t think about it by Carmel Myers YOU do not expect to look among the vworld of film stars for a philosophy of living. Toa of ten^ there is an impression that theirs
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    QUOTES
    22 2 and totffnq (v CCi l P( en ir I I P »w <} '< <mi <<V"v can't fc/ r fo ve SELF toft
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      157 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR jQORN today, you men and women appear to differ quite widely m the use that you make of your basic characteristics. While yon men are more Inclined to be practical, strong-willed and efficient at fact-finding, you women are romantic, intuitive and have -what could be called an
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      41 2 New Crossword No* 603 CLUES ACROSS /si W SSS^II w^PWMKI lor baking day (4. 7) 7. In which 9 operate iT^ri P? J? }> A funner artist it seems (3). 12. Refreshing place m Minnesota (1). li. Mother embraces the a*ent (7lLlKtooSr
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    POEM MADE VICTORIA FURIOUS
    230 3 )NDON, Thurs. labetll has the (I lights suessing j contemporary U and Masefleld royal com- P:ces until he oj candidates for ya a barrel of aw two playK..ot, American- The Cock- party," and Christopher U The Lady's b urning-" 1 native of St. Louis, y long
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    BUCKLEY
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    'Recognise China'
    30 3 Mi Btaaj Ranjan Sen, Indian Ambassador to the United States, said the west .r recognize Red China :e there can be a soluo he Far Eastern problems U.P.
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    BURMA MOST VULNERABLE TO INVASION BY CHINA
    405 3  - BURMA MOST VULNERABLE TO INVASION BY CHINA JACK McBETH People afraid by RANGOON, Thursday. IF any one country m South -East Asia is more vulnerable to a possible Chinese Communist invasion than any of its neighbours, Burma must claim that distinction. There, internal chaos invites disaster. As one fully qualified
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    31 3 Curvaceous Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's most sensational newcomer, goes over her scene witK Macdonald Carey while Barbara* Bates checks their dialogue from the script of "Let's Make It Legal" at 20th CenturyFox.
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    AUSTRALIA TO SLASH IMPORTS
    45 3 Australia will slash her imports by more than A £100,--000,000 (£80.000.000) m the next financial year. One report said drastic import restrictions would cover a wide range of less essential goods from Britain and elsewher* nrohablv from July 1 next Reuter
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    ECE CHAIRMAN
    31 3 Mrs. Karin Kock, head of the Swedish Government s Bureau of Statistics, has been unanimously elected Chairman of the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe for the third year. A.P.
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    Bathing belles ban Bikinis
    129 3 Bathing belles ban Bikinis HOLLYWOOD, Thursday. ANNETTI Kellerman, the woman who revolution--11 bed beach styles, predicted the decline of the «kinl bathing suit. She declared the girls wiil b seen on the beaches with more cover-up than the French-style suits afford. 1 dont think women like Bikini suit," she declared.
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    2 for 'smoking championship'
    78 3 2 for 'smoking championship AMSTERDAM, Thurs. /GRANDFATHER Nico KliJll sing, aged 77. is now training to win the worlds pipe-smoking championship held by Paul Spaniola. or Flint Michigan. Last October. Spaniola kept 3.3 ounces of tobacco going m his pipe for 88 minutes, two seconds. At Christmas, grandpa KUJzln* was
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    He 'destroyed young souls' for years
    210 3 He 'destroyed young souls' for years LONDON. Thurs. J± 51-YEAR-OLD vicar, who destroyed for years the souls of little children, was sentenced at Nottingham As*i»es to 15 years' imprisonment. The Rev. Francis J. Wood, till recently vicar of Wkithorpe Skegness, was told by Mr. Justice Stable, "Nobody will ever know
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    Mercy plea for child killer
    244 3 Mercy plea for child killer LONDON, Thurs. A FTKR a jury at Liverpool Assizes found Jane Silcock, 23, guilty of the manslaughter of her 11-month-old baby. Pauline Anne Wall, they strongly recommended mercy. Silcock, sentenced to four years' imprisonment, heard, during a trial lasting three days, the prosecution suggest that
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    ANIMALS BAN
    33 3 The CJJ3. Agriculture department has ordered a halt to virtually all imports of livestock and meats from Canada because of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease m Saskatchewan.- A .P.
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    19 3 The Russian zone has reopened the Rothensee Locks to East-West German barge traffic after a shutdown for repairs A.P.
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    Envoy's friend goes to gaol
    75 3 Mr. James J. Moran, political crony of former Mayor of New York, William O'Dwyer, now UJS. Ambassador to Mexico, was sentenced to 12& to 28 years m prison as the m a s t c r-mind of a US$5OO,OOO-a-year shakodown racket. Moran, former First Deputy
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    TURKISH CYCLIST
    21 3 Ozal Ahmed Bedetrin, 25--year-oM Turkish student, has arrived at Rabat, Morocco, after cycling 26,250 miles since leaving Istanbul.- A.P.
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    One world—one voice, says Red
    53 3 One world one voice, says Red A Russian broadcaster has forecast an all-Communist world of the future with a single language and culture. He said: This language will. Of course, not oe German. Russian, or English, but a new language which will have absorbed the best elements of national and
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    STAMP IS NO JOKE EITHER
    19 3 OKLAHOMA CITY, Thurs. i THE national conference velope carrying their 1951 income tax returns.
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    Science sets new problem
    91 3 CANBERRA, Thurs. Australia's Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, believes that science, by prolonging life, has areated a new social problem one of the greatest m history. There is now a greater number of aged, non-pro-ductive people to be fed m additiqn to increased population, he
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    JET BLOWS UP: BABY SAVED
    252 3 LONDON, Thursday. PETTY Officer William Merritt ran through flames and rescued his month-old son John when a Meteor Jet plane crashed m a garden at Westerton, Sussex, and showered the surrounding houses with blazing fuel oil. Petty Officer Merritt, on leave from H.M.S. Adamant, was
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    MORE GERMAN STEEL FOR U.K.
    50 3 Britain and West German y have concluded discussions for a new trade agreement providing for substantial Increases m the supply of "German steel to the United Kingdom. Germany, however, has agreed to increase its imports from Britain substantially above the level for 1950, A. P.
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    GUERILLA WAR
    31 3 Republic of Korea troops killed or captured some 2,500 of the 7,500 to 10,000 Communist guerillas concentrated m south-west Korea's mountain areas In the first half of December.- U.P.
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    SCOUTMASTER WILL PEDAL ROUND WORLD FOR 6 YEARS
    205 3 SCOUTMASTER WILL PEDAL ROUND WORLD FOR 6 YEARS ROME, Thurs. A 25-YEAR-OLD scoutmaster from India is pedalling his way around the world. With luck, Mateti Narasimhan hopes to push his bicycle around the earth In four and a half years. His schedule, however, calls for six years behind the handlebars.
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    Pre-emptive Bids
    543 3 WE have described the Fishbein T? Convention for bidding against pre-emptive opening three bids. While this Convention may achieve good results with a certain few hands, we believe that It is inferior to either of the two other "systems" m current use— the Culbertson method and the Four
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    She was raped by dentist, she told parents
    277 3 She was raped by dentist, she told parents ROME, Thursday. TIE Vatican has annulled the marriage of a Rome dentist on the grounds that he did not wed of his* own free will, but solely because his wife's family threatened scandal by alleging that he seduced her when she was
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    Film posters censored in Geneva
    183 3 Film posters censored in Geneva GENEVA. Thurs. AN official censorship of film advertising has been established here under a de* cree of the Geneva cantonal government. Charles Duboule, head of the cantonal department off justice, said the censorship had been made necessary by the "increasingly objection* able" advertising methods of
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      254 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1 p.m. Light Music Medley Earl Towner His Concert Orchestra; 1.30 Time Signal News; 1.45 Dance Music played by The King's Men; 2 English Schools Broadcast; 3 University of the Air; 5 Programmes m Malay; 6.15 Time Signal Programme Summary; 6.17 Calling All Hospitals with requests for patients;
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    Shot in Time
    175 4 fItHE distance between SinJ. gapore and Hong Kong is 1.440 miles. Quite a long way The difference between the result of firing a shot m the two colonies :s almost as great. In the former it is arrest and more riots: m the latter promotion and a
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar. 6, 1952. Table talk
    350 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar. 6, 1952. Table talk TO the tales of terror and murder from Malaya which have appeared m the London press is now added a tale of horror. A few million people of Britain have been informed by a mass circulation Sunday newspaper that there
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    Two New Recruits for Europe's Army
    656 4 Latest recruits to the West's defence force are Greece and Turkey. The two "extras" are comparatively small countries Judged industrially and as armaments arsenals. But the men they can deliver are fighters as tough as they come fighters trained m guerilla warfare *nd (if
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    The 'Blue Spaders,' on the German Border, are Ready
    623 4 The 'Blue Spaders, on the German Border, are Ready Dictators like to strike m the Spring. Should Russia strike, 30 divisions will pour out like a flood tide, says Norman Lindhurst BAMBERG: OPRING— any Spring —is a time of awakening. It is also the time when a wouldbe world dictator,
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    BUT FAR EAST FIGHTING IS A DRAIN ON WESTERN DEFENCE
    410 4 BUT FAR EAST FIGHTING IS A DRAIN ON WESTERN DEFENCE HTBST faces East And this ff map shows their strength m Europe, excluding, on the West's side the forces of Spain, Greece, and Turkey. The strength of the West will be increased this year— but not to the level demanded
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    THE HALF-ROUBLE RAIL TUBE
    759 4 THE HALF-R O UBLE RAIL TUBE Cyril Ray travels underground m Moscow on .I ■iiMinii ,^^^m iirmrm < T HAVE Just got back from spending three and a half hours and a mere* half a rouble on a tour of the Metro the underground railway system that is Justifiably Moscow's
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    AIR NOISE
    139 4 HOUSEHOLDERS m: U Guard i a and Idlewiid airfields. New York, ay being helped by people Ing near London Airport In both places they explained about the MIX I airliners, whether ifttan or revving-up on the ground Now expert opinion the efli cts of Doifii Ui vibration, prepared
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    TRISHAS MAY BE BANNED FROM 2 COLONY ROADS
    123 5 TRISHAS MAY BE BANNED FROM 2 COLONY ROADS Free Press Stair Reporter rpKISIIAS are to be banned from Connaught Drive and Fullerton 1 Road during the day. Id w. R M. Haxworth, Singapore's Traffic cnnerintendent, said yesterday that the ban would h^ imoosed as soon as he got instructions. The
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    Progressives to offer 3 study gifts
    247 5 Free Press Staff Reporter fHE Singapore Progressive Party proposes to award three scholarships, tenable for three years, to Standard Seven students m need of financial assistance. The scholarships will be paid out of the Party's City Day Scholarshin Fund of $1,500 which, it is
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    They earned $6 a month -56 years ago
    126 5 They earned $6 a month -56 years ago KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. KLALA LUMPUR, 56 years at?o. was a town lit by kerosene lamps and Government servants were paid $6 a month, said Mr. R. Thar.ipipillay, a retired schoolmaster, at a Rotary Club luncheon m Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Mr Thampipiilay, aged
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    JUDGE WARNS BOY WHO LIED
    77 5 Ho Tnam, a nine-year-old bey. who was a prosecution witness m a trial at the High Court, Johore Bahru, was called r «p at the end of the trial a:d told by Mr. Justice Si err hat he had deliberately lied Id the witness box.
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    Monopoly fear
    143 5 TELUK ANSON, Thurs. APPOSITION to the sugges- tion of the Commissioner of Road Transport, Federation of Malaya, that taxi licences m lower Perak should be granted only to bus companies, was voiced by several members of the Lower Perak Town Board at Tuesday's monthly meeting. The Commissioner had
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    TALK ON POETRY
    31 5 Mr. A. Schooling will talk on "How to read Poetry" at a meeting of the East- West Society at the British Ccuacil Hall, Stamford Road at 3.30 tonight.
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    New market for K.L.
    92 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. •pHE Municipal Health Committee will insist on strict cleanliness m the private market and bazaar to be built on the vacant land at Batu Road, opposite the Odeon cinema. New by-laws would be enforced to charge a fee for the maintenance of proper
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    PENSIONERS WANT TO BE HEARD
    142 5 PENANG Thurs. PROVINCE Welleslcy Pen- sioners* Association has sent an "earnest request" to General Sir Gerald Texnpler. the High Commissioner, urging the appointment of a special committee to meet pensioners and widows to consider higher pensions and cost of living allowances. "Grievances of Malayan pensioners
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    He gets a medal
    48 5 THE COMMISSIONER GENERAL. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald (right), chatting with Mr. C. E. T. Mann, Director of the Robber Research Institute, after he had presented him with the Colwyn Metal for outstanding services to the rubber industry. The presentation was made at Bukit Serene yesterday.
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    New plea by pig breeders
    195 5 Free Press Staff Reporter DIG rearers m Singapore's Frankel Estate are appealing to the City Council for a temporary suspension of an order prohibiting the rearing of pigs m that area. I They ask for time to move out to another area, pointing out that
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    NAMES WERE NOT RECORDED
    61 5 Lim Ken Lim, a hotelkeeper m Serangoon Road. wa& fined $400 m the Singapore First Police Court for falling to register the names of a couple on Jan. 30. Chee Yit Shin, keeper of a lodging house m Hokkien Street, wa A also fined $50 for
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    They want bus service to school
    149 5 They want bus service to school pARENTS of children studying at Telok Paku English school, two miles from Changi village m Singapore, have sent a petition to the City Council asking that a special bus service to carry children from the village to the school be approved. The petition is
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    801,920 acres under padi
    63 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Tjp to the end of last year. 801,920 acres had been planted with padi m the Federation m the 1951-52 season. Of these, 761,220 acres were of wet padi. the remaining 40,700 acres being dry padi. The total acreage for both wet and
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    42 get first aid certificates
    65 5 KOTA BAHRU, Thurs. Captain Swan, of the 3rd Battalion, Malay Regiment, presented 42 first aid certificates to members of St. John Ambulance Brigade at the Malay School, Padang Garong. Capt. Swan also opened two new ambulance classes accompanied by Dr. Ng Yew Seng and Mr.
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    The Trust reconsiders rent concession
    139 5 The Trust reconsiders rent concession Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Improvement Trust is considering whether it should continue to grant the 15 per cent reduction m rent given to its postwar tenants m January 1950. A decision is likely to be taken soon. The reduction was granted to tenants living
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    Soldier is injured
    51 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. J^ British military despatch rider was seriously injured m collision on Tuesday and taken to hospital with a broken leg. The collision took place near the entrance to the Majedee Detention Camp, as a truck was turning into the camp area from Kota Tinggi
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    MORE EXAM RESULTS
    56 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Further Cambridge School Certificate results have been received. They are: A. V. A. knight, grade 3, Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur; Kuan Beng Ei, grade 3, Kajang High School; P. Ponnudurai, grade 3, St. George's Girls 1 School. Penang; M. Beltran, grade 1, Convent, Penang;
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    GIVE SVC MEN SAME PAY AS BoRs, SAYS ONG
    294 5 t ree Press Staff Reporter llfl R. T. W. Ong, president of the Straits Chinese British Association and an officer In the Singapore Volunteer Corps, said yesterday that the volunteers should be given the same privileges and treatment as British Other
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    SURVEYOR TO BE TRANSFERRED
    44 5 TAIPING, Thurs.— Mr. AD. Couper, deputy Chief Surveyor, Perak, will soon be transferred to Headquarters, Survey Department, Kuala Lumpur Mr. Couper is vice-presid-ent of the North Perak Cricket Association and a member of the Town Board, Larut and Ma tang.
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    Now they must study civics
    86 5 Now they must study civics Free Press Staff Reporter (SINGAPORE Chinese students sitting for the annual Government Junior Middle Class examination are now required to take an additional subject— civics. Candidates for the Senior Middle Class examination have to take two new subjects—geography and history. Singapore Chinese high schools nave
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    NEW HOME FOR BUDDHA IMAGE
    98 5 The image of Lord Buddha m the Kong Beng Sia, a Singapore Chinese Buddhist institute, will be taken by three monks from its premises m Lorong 33, Geylang, to its new home m Pulasan Road at 6 a.m. on Mar. 10. The decision to remove
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    SCHOOL TO BUILD MORE CLASSROOMS
    168 5 fHE Geylang Methodist Girls' School m Aljunied Road, Singapore, plans to start building a $130,000 extension m May, Mrs. S. A. Daniel, acting principal of the school, said yesterday. The extension will have two storeys and contain four classrooms and a hall. The school has
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    ADONIS IN CAREFREE VICTORY
    794 6 Yesterday's races reviewed Billyßagbyrides his 7th winner From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Thursday. ADONIS streaked away soon after entering the straight to win the main race, (Race 6, CL 3, Div. 1-7 f by an easy three lengths yesterday, second day of Penang Turf Club's Spring Meeting.
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    32 6 picture. The three winners of the down-hill competition at the Winter Olympics m Oslo. Left to right: Othmar Schneider (Austria) flntt. Guttorm Be*- (Norway) third and Stein Eriksen (Norway) seco nd. Popper
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    THRILLING WIN BY LIFE BUOY
    558 6 practically unraced and is now really striking form. He will go much liigher than yesterday's combined 4 and 5, Div. 3 race, Talkie beat the others almost as easy as Constellation beat him. Princess Beau who followed the pacemaker Golden Beau all the way, hung
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    Royal Tan wins steeplechase
    158 6 TRISH-TRAINED eight-year-old A "Royal Tn. runner-up m last year's Grand National and. well fancied to go one better at Aintrees next month, won the National Hunt Handicap Steeplechase over three mites at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire yesterday. Royal Tan won the race, regarded as a reliable test tor
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    NEW RULING FOR SPORE WRESTLERS
    105 6 TN view of trouble m the ring on numerous occasions recently aue to wrestlers m«ntmn4i«Wj> th e referee or refusing to obey his instructions, promoter Wally Oakes has announced that m future if the referee instructs a man to break a hold and he refuses
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    BOUSTEADS WIN JUNIOR TIE
    23 6 In a Div. 3 match played at Clerical Union ground yesterday. Boustead Sports Club defeated Robinsons S.C. by 3-1.
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    Lee Uma boasts of his defeat
    677 6 Lee Uma boasts of his defeat PETER WILSON gives exjailbird Lee Oma's description of his tight against British champion Brace Woodcock at Harringay on September 21, 1948, and ranks the American No. 1 m his Gallery of Unsportsmen. OOXING is accustomed to collectino h u lthw been variously styled -The
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    'D' Day leader now with Leeds
    357 6 From ARCHIE QUICK WfHEN the Normandy beaches were invaded on f f D >» Day m thc first wave aginH^ was Sgt Tommy Burden, of the Northumberland Fusiliers. He is still a leader of men, but now it is Leeds United football team of
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    Indian boy to play at Wimbledon
    61 6 TEEN-AGE high school student E. Krishnan, who yesterday best his father m the men's singles final of the All-India tennis tourn v m Madras, been hosen to represent India *He junior tennis cham, ,*^iiip at Wimbledon. It is the first time the All-India Lawn
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    POSTPONED TIE
    20 6 The S.A.F.A. Youth Competition tie between Anglo-Chinese School and Young Soccerites has been postponed to Saturday, Mar. 15.
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      62 6 Today's sport SOCCER DIV. I: Rovers v I*C »t Besar Stadium. IIC DI\ r 2: Star Soccente^^i* "A" at Geylans ladiu £ii>CA v H.M. Dockyard at WDtJ-,, DIV. 3.4: Rovers S.t. Windsor Rovers tt ij^c,, BIS HSI LCI r »5; vi Handelsbank Clerical Ib»" v Breweries at F»r" J^l FRIENDLIES:
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    SMILING THROUGH RUNS 3f IN 38
    444 7 SMILING THROUGH RUNS 3f IN 38 Sealed Orders m great form From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Thursday. CMILING THROUGH (Charles) working alone on the outside of the No. 2 grass track here this morning, reeled off three furlongs m 38, the best gallop of the morning. Smiling Through ha* shown very
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    GARDNER v. WILLIAMSON MARCH II
    100 7 GARDNER v. WILLIAMSON MARCH II aNSELL ADAMS, a heavyA weight from Trinidad, wsterdaj >igned to meet ba\ Wilding of England m a ground &ht on Mar. 11 at Earls C urt arena. irt contest will be the main EDornna bo<u on a card hetded hv the British heavyweight U«e contest
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    22 7 picture. f AMMELL. the S.R.C. goalkeeper runs out to from REMEcentitJ^ard Slee m Testtjtor'l m* 1 game at Jalin ntmMr. Free Press
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    TANNY CAMPO RETAINS TITLE
    56 7 MANNY Campo. Orient fiyn eight A champion. successfully de'^ced his Philippines title at the Rii-il stadium. Manila, last r r ...tr. he easily outpointed ADftlea Alberto. t rr.po weighed 109 !b. and R 111 taoltaci bowl on the fame l.rrv Bataan beat Ronnie F-pi:-.i->a to win
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    BANKERS WIN
    42 7 H,.n;.v>i,: Ban.< Sports Club **A" cflf.'rc Malaya Publishing House c cv 3-0 n their Singapore Business Houses FA. Div. 1 League ::e at Thomson Road yesterday. ihe xmn for Hongkong Bank *<-:e -P Perers '1). Rahim Omar P Rosano tl).
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    REME DID NOT TAKE CHANCES
    446 7  -  TEMPLAR ■y HPHERE was some consolation at Jalan Besar yes- terday the stadium wasn't empty. There were great wide gaps m the stands and the 150-odd diehards who came to see R.E.M.E. play S.R.C. m their Div. 1 tie, saw a fraction of their moneys
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    Irish soccer XI to play England
    101 7 Seamus "Jimmy" D'Arcy, the Chelsea inside right, is the only new "cap" m the Ireland team to meet Wales at Swansea m the international soccer match on Mar. 19. Ireland have made four changes, one of the position, from the team beaten 2-0 by
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    RUGBY UNION
    30 7 Yesterday's Rugby Union results were: Aberdeen O, Cross Keys 12; Bridgend 11, Pontypridd O, London University 3, Loughborough College O; St. George's Hospital 9, Saracens Nomads 8. Reuter
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    21 7 HASSAN bin Othman, this year's winner of the Muswin Cup, awarded to the best shot of the Johore Bahru Rifle Association.
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    YESTERDAY'S U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    57 7 YESTERDAY'S U.K. soccer reft suits are: Representative match: The Army 3. Royal Navy 2 (played at Charlton). Scottish League Division 'A*: Celtic 2. Morton 2 (postponed en Jan. 5). Scottish League Division *W: Albion Rovers 1. Alloa Athletic 1 (postponed on Feb. 9>; Dundee United 3,
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    DREARY SOCCER IN THE MUD
    219 7 SINGAPORE Bukit Timah Sports Club scored a fully deserved four-one victory ever Seietar Football Club m a SAFA division 3B league mid) at Geylan Stadium yesterday. Both the teams played dreary soccer on the flooded ground Buk.r r.man showed more combinatior. out bad luck and
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    Revised U.K. soccer games for Saturday
    306 7 »PHE following are revised x fixtures for Saturday, J March 8. I F.A. CUP «TH ROUND. Blackburn Rovers vs. Burnley; Luton Town vs. Arsenal; Portemouth vs. Newcastle United; Sheffield United vs. Chelsea. LEAGUE DIVISION I < Aston Villa vs. Tottenham Hotspur; Blackpool vs. Pulham;
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    167 HORSES ENTERED FOR SINGAPORE MEET
    520 7 (\NE hundred and sixty seven horses the best m Classes. One and Two have been entered for the Singapore Turf Club's March meeting on March 15, 19 and 22. Entries have been received from 77 Class One horses and 90 from Class Two. There
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    ONE BOUT WAS STRICTLY FOR RUGGER FANS
    542 7 ROYAL Air Force Seletar made it three m a tow m winning last night's Royal Air Force Mala y a Open team and individual boxing championships held at R.A.F. Tengah. With a four-point lead over R.A.F. Chang:, their nearest rivals, Seletar won the
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    Mew talks on Persian oil
    77 8 TEHERAN. Than. A NEVT series of talks m the International Bank's efforts to find a solution of the Persian oil situation opened here yesterday with a meeting between the Premier, Dr. Mossadtq and the Bank's negotiator, Mr. Ttetor Prod Homme. At yesterday's meeting. Mr. Prud
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    BIRTH
    17 8 GWYTHER: To Bobby, wife of Len. at Bungsar Hospital, on 4th March. *52, a daughter Susan.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    90 8 MR. AND MRS. D PHILLIPS wish to fhank all relatives and friends for their gifts and good wishes on the occasion of their recent marriage. THB family of the late Mr. Woon Chow Kit thank their relatives and friends who kindly sent messages of sympathy, wreaths and attended his
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    DEATH
    23 8 AT Madras, on 4.3.52. Madam R^jsmmal, wife of late T. S. G. S*?try. X L. and mother-in-law of X. C Natarajan. Singapore
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    DULLES DEFENDED AGAINST CHARGE OF 'VIOLATION'
    273 8 DULLES DEFENDED AGAINST CHARGE OF 'VIOLA TION UcS. did not break filth with Britain WASHINGTON, Thursday. TIE U.S. Secretory of State, Mr. Dean ftcheMn, yesterday defended Mr. Foster DvDes. principal United State negotiator of the Japanese Peace Treaty, against a charge that he had violated an agreement with Britain over
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    Oilboat Olga says 'I made $500,000'
    167 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. A SHAPELY blonde, who said she is known as "Oilboat Olga", told U.S. Senators yesterday that she sot more than US$5OO,OOO for herself from two deals m oil tankers. She was one of the witnesses called by a committee investigating influence peddling
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    KOREA TOLL
    25 8 American battle casualties m Korea since the beginning of the war now total 106,298, an increase of 306 over last week's report. U.P.
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    JOBLESS PREFER H.K. TO CHINA
    225 8 HONG KONG, Thursday. OIR Alexander Grantham, the Governor of Hong Kon^ said yesterday that 1951 was a year of declining trade for the colony and the position was "certainly serious" though it could not be called "catastrophic". One of the results of the :rade decline,
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    MIGs HAVE NEW MARKINGS
    46 8 Several days ago American pilots spotted Red MIGs with new markings the noses were painted purple instead of the usual red. The Americans believed the In iw ftf^iTig meant that a new class or Red pilots had come to J*jt froat.< U.P.
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    PRIESTS FREED
    37 8 Two Belgian Catholic priests arrived m Hong Kong yesterday after five months m a Chinese Communist goal. aaiTisii actress F^t Kirkwood and Mr. Spire D. Gabricle, of Gabricle Shipping line, were married m London recently.
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    AUSTRALIA RATIFIES JAP TREATY
    118 8 CANBERRA, Thurs. The Australian Senate last night passed all stages of the bill to ratify the Japanese Peace Treaty. The Bill ratifying the Jap~. anese peace treaty was passed by the House of Representatives amid scenes of dis- order last week. The Opposition Labour Party had
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    NEHRU STATES HIS HOFES
    62 8 The Indian Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru told the outgoing parliament yesterday that he hoped its newly elected successor will help to "build up the democratic structure of government at which we aim." Parliament was dissolved yesterday. Mr. Nehru will remain Prime Minister with the new parliament
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    ENVOY EXCHANGE
    16 8 Pakistan has decided to resume diplomatic relations with neighbouring Afghanistan at ambassadorial level. A.P.
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    U.K. will stand by Sudan
    165 8 U.K. will stand by Sudan LONDON. Thors. JJR. Selwyn Lloyd, the Minister of State said yesterday that Britain would stand by her pledges to the Sudan. The Government was "well aware" of the feeling m the Sudan about Egypt's claim to sovereignty over the territory now ruled jointly by Britain
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    GOLD PRODUCTION
    47 8 Richer ore from the new goldfleld m the Orange Free State will ensure gold production m South African m excess of the present output for at least 30 years more, the South Africa* Minister of Mines. Mr. J. H. VUjoen, told the Senate yesterday. Reuter
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    ENVOY TO CHINA
    20 8 Kwun On Chik, former North Korean Ambassador to Hungary, had been named Ambassador to Red China.— A.P.
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    TAXI TAKES SHIP FOR AUSTRALIA
    46 8 THE 30-YEAR-OLD m-roon-coloured London taxi, which travelled more than 9,000 miles, before arriving m Singapore six weeks ago, left yesterday, on board {fee. Maetsuycker, with ownerdriver Ludwig, Lobel and his wife, Nora. The young couple are on their way to Australia.
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    Prince's estate at stake
    156 8 Prince 's estate at stake VIENNA. Thut-rf AUSTRIA'S parliament averted il A porarlly. a discussion yesterday On disposttton of the vast estates 0 h -l Starhemberg. hated pro-HlUer leader of 7h nee *i Heimwehr (National Guard). f the h^ The discussion might have brought an open break m the house
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