The Singapore Free Press, 8 March 1952

Microfilm: NL3662
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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press INGEST AFTERNOON SALE Of MALAYA >o. 18-' jJ> SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH S, 1958. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    Armed men; raid home, rob, tie up family
    231 1 Armed men; raid home, rob, tie up family p.,. > re > >*-»ff Reporter hinese intruders, all entered an attap H og B.ihru Road, esten ay evening, .1 pants and m In a room. pocket of a •aoer packet rr.ak?r, a memLr'.f /re household, the robts tock $525 including f
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    SPY GRABBED U.S. SECRETS
    604 1 Renegade British Major tells of coup WASHINGTON, Saturday. |K)P secret American military information may have been stolen by Russian spies during a conference of U.S. military attaches from behind the Iron Curtain held m Frankfurt, West Germany, m 1951. It was disclosed today that microfilm copies
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    37 1 AS A NEWSREEL cameraman records the scene, the Sultan of Kelantan takes the salute at a march -past of Malay ratings when he visited the headquarters of the Malayan Naval Force m Singapore yesterday, Free Press picture.
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    U.K. barsiwo Italian women
    60 1 LONDON, Sat. gRITISH immigration officials yesterday refused to allow two Italian women delegates to enter Britain to attend an international women's rally m London this weekend* The Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, had earlier refused to grant visas for four women delegates from Russia and
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    Best bets at Penang
    37 1 ALLAN LEWIS, Free Press racing correspondent, gives Tempest, Academy Award. Oakfel and Sturveta as the best bets at Penan* today. TRESPASSER recommends Sturveta and Pax Haven. THE GOING is likely to be good.
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    'Blood-soaked profits' inquiry
    157 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. SENATE investigators dug into new evidence yesterday of high-profit trade m which rich Americans and Chinese Nationalists sold goods to ff China, even after the sUrtof the^orean^wa, denouncing the traffic and what he termed its "bloodsoaked profits.*' said he will insist on further lnqulrv Mr.
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    9 NATIONS WILL SHARE LOOT
    75 1 The United States has ordered a nine-nation split of $3,506,000 realised by the capture of the loot seized by the Japanese during World War 11. The countries and their shares include: Prance 1 per cent: Australia 8 per cent; China 20 per cent; India 8
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    STOLE AERIALS
    6 1 Constant Po'.'lain. SO was
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    300 HURT AS STANDS CRASH
    223 1 Disaster at ice show BALTIMORE, Saturday. A BOUT 300. persons were injured yesterday when A a section of temporary .wooden stands collapsed just before the opening of Sonja Henie's ice show. The ska tins: star, who was m her dressing room when the accident occurred,
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    Minister is indicted for 'negligence
    123 1 Minister is indicted for 'negligence CAIRO, Sat. PUAD Scrag El Pasha, Wafdist Minister of the Interior during the January riots, was indicted last night "for negligence". The charge was brought against him and other Government officials soon after an official inquiry into the riots which found them "administratively responsible" and
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    Reds lose 150 supply junks
    119 1 Reds lose 1 50 supply junks SAIGON, Sat. FRENCH NAVAL commandos yesterday attacked and destroyed 150 junks believed to be carrying supplies from Red China to the Communist-led Viet m 1 n h forces. The French commandos using U.?*-*supplied assault I craft, made the surprise raid j m Songcau Bau,
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    STONE UNDER C.I.D. GUARD
    108 1 LONDON. Sat. TWO detectives from the special branch at Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police C.I.D. headquarters, have been assigned to guard the ancient Stone of Scone m Westminster Abbey. This followed a threat made In Edinburgh last night by a Scottish nationalist leader tljat ttye stone,
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    BURMA RED MOVE STUMPED
    34 1 An opposition adjournment motion m the Burmese parliament to discuss "the grave threat to Burma caused by the presence of Chinese Nationalist* troops on the country's eastern frontier" was disallowed.
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    Explosive marriage
    47 1 A DYNAMITE blast rocked the town of Hamar, Nor- way, last night and blew three persons to WU. Police blamed the blast on a broken marriage. Jens Btubakken 29. had been depressed since his wife, Inrrid. *ook their 13-month- old son. Frank, and left him
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    Congress to cut U.S. aid to Allies
    363 1 Congress to cut U.S. aid to Allies WASHINGTON, Saturday. pONGRESS is determined to cut large slices from the Administration's proposed U557 ,900 mill on foreign aid programme and has called the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, t9 testify next Thursday. Mr. Acheson, along with the Mutual Security Administrator, Mr.
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    Baby'dies' and lives again
    133 1 Baby 'dies' and lives again PLYMOUTH, Sat. t YNETTfi DAVEY. fourLd week-old daughter of Mrs. Margaret Davey, a Devonport dockyard worker's wife, "died" on Tueiday but was alive last night although "still seriously ill." On Friday last week, the baby suddenly turned blue and could not draw breath. She was
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    SPREE ENDS IN TRAGEDY
    49 1 Michele Battaglia, a 22--year-old electrician, N stole a fighter plane from an airfield m Brindisi, Italy, yesterday and took off. The plane plunged into the Adriatic Sea a mile from the airfield. No trace of either Battaglia or the olane c uid be found.- A.P.
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  • PAGE for CHILDREN
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      JUNIOR CONTEST
      68 2 0 DAI NT this girl ami her doll and tend iff m to Children's Page, f? Singapore Free Press, Cecil Street, to arrive not later than B Wednesday next. fj There are tour prises of $5 (one each -to a boy Jhd girl up to and including the
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      Onward the "Onslaught"
      831 2 Onward the "Onslaught" Through the night come rough— looking men armed with cutlass and pistol. T*HE "Onslaught" was r well out m the channel now and bound for the Eastern Sea and beyond on a voyaere of survey. The Eastern Sea was the ocean east of the island of Madagascar
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      Fame with first Poem
      274 2 TWELVE-year-dld R Jyothi, an Anderson School, Ipoh, student, wrote a poem **Frowi my Window". It was published m a speciafc children's edition of k -New Delhi, India, magazine "It took me about five weeks to compose the poem say s Jyothi At first he wanted to
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      13-year-old Boy Plans Flight to the Moon
      943 2 A THIRTEEN-year-old Londoner, Martin Jeffries, is planning to become the first boy to land on the Moon. He has applied for membership of the British Interplanetary Society. The society investigates and discusses methods of getting from one planet to another, say from the
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      433 2 FOUIffAIH PIN DISP fnr the f* Now you can choose from Ester- [ft 2&&6 brook's numbered "Renew-Points" I IT! <J ■>'<•*>&•* andgetapenthatispenonaUyyours 111 —a smoother-writing, more comfort- f 1 able pea. [Wj fi-w^j. book-keeping, manifold work, school JK f and office use and, m feet, for any YT S «^-3S
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    US. CITIES BY SOVIET A-BOMBERS
    372 3 WASHINGTON, Saturday. firi t detailed reports reaching Washington f Russia s newest long-range bomber ind cate t^rican cities are well within reach of those -i^ bomb carriers. 1 \-ew information on the Soviets' 'Type 31" s -m glimpsed briefly during a Soviet air de-.-ration a
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    BUCKLEY
    10 3 "WHAT DID HB LOSi THIS j i I I
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    SISTERS LIE ABOUT MOTHER
    177 3 SISTERS LIE ABOUT MOTHER LONDON, bat. *pWO sisters "put their heads together" and invented a story about their mother, said Mr. Justice Barnard at Nottingham Assizes. The girls are the daughters of Mrs. Mabel Broomhead, of Liverpoool-streot. Nottingham. Her husband, Mr. Frederick Thomas Broomhead. petitioned for divorce for her alleged
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    ARE REACHABLE
    42 3 MITZI GAYNOR, (right), and Randy Stuart take a break from acting to Inspect a "flying yacht" owned by millionaire-sports-man Glenn Odekirk. The ship, a converted PBY, is luxuriously Tarnished far fishing and hunting trips to all parts of the world.
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    Money! Married women put it before love
    240 3 Money! Married women put it before love LONDON, Saturday. T*HE most important factor m married life is A MONEY. Next comes love. The married women of Britain say so. They say so m 14 pages of evidence by the Married Women's Association, submitted to the Royal Commission on Marriage and
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    Bridge Problem
    258 3 r DAY'S declarer brought home an "impassible" contract simply by drawing the proper inference from an opponent's original pass. West cashed the king and ace of diamonds, then shifted to the nine of clubs. Declarer put tn dummy's club ace and led the spade queen for a finesse.
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    22 PER CENT 'DON'T CARE'
    56 3 22 PER CENT 'DON'T CARE' The Asahi Shimbun ha^ claimed that only 33 per I cent of the Japanese people I support the Yoshida Cabinet The Doll revealed, however, i only 12 per cent actively are opposed to the Yoshida GoI vernmrnt, with 22 per cent answering "don't care" and
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      81 3 famine hits THE SUDAN c threatening the -Quarter million native anon of the swampy a province of s Ghazal m the r. hunger- -/-atives have already Wj northwards' v. a pro- OBffm and Kordo**di of iood.— Reur Ml MNG BOOM r all classes pf -J,, r Sou:h Africa V 100.000
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      472 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR SATURDAY jv u: tada> you have very I> \jj9n& conviction* and rootage to romf out with Zm w"» nd b llM>ni m t, Tf \oa may be wron*. tt is Ur m you are eonrnei if* fot to be yo«r way nv »t »H. While tfcl. i«
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      264 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1 Time Signal Programme Summary; 1.02 Saturday Ballroom i —Jack Fina Orchestra Bed Norvo Trio IJO Time Signal News; 1.50 Interlude; 2 Album of Harmony; 1.15 Racing commentaries from the Penang Turf Club with interval music from the studios; 6 Programmes m Malay; 6.15 Time Signal Programme Summary;
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      6 3 New Crossword Mo. 6OS CLUES ACBOSB
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 8. 1952. Political Surgery
    501 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 8. 1952. Political Surgery fTHE British Labour Party is seriously sick. Nothing can cure it but a drastic operation. Come members must be cut from the body before it can regain its full health. The question is who will be the surgeon and which
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  • Letter to the Editor
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      Nehru is Free to Move
      335 4 Nehru is Free to Move S IR I definitely agree with Mr. i Chinnah (Free Press Feb. 29) that Nehruism does not connote the same meaning as Fascism, MacArthurism or Communism. MacArthurt ism equates democracy. Fascism is a hundred times better than Nehruism. Nehruism is no better than Communism. Poor
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    CANADA'S 400
    130 4 EiOUR hundred Illegal im- M migrants, most of them Italians, are believed to have been brought to Canada by an alien smuggling ring m the last two and a. half Immigration officers and m o e mbers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are co-operating m efforts to
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    B.Sc. (Horn) for 'Lift' in New R.A.F.
    535 4  - B.Sc. (Horn) for 'Lift' in New R.A.F. DAVID BURK By pVERY airman, to "paraphrase Napoleon, hag an Air Marshal's "baton" m his knapsack. Now a new R.A.F. scheme announced m the Air Estimates published recently will provide the right sort of recruit with an almost guaranteed springboard to the Service's
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    Around Singapore
    471 4  -  CITIZEN TPm iiiuffiiiffr A SYSTEM of auto' matic registration of voters m Singapore, recommended to Government by the City Council has found lukewarm support among voters and m official circles. It is felt that anyone not interested enough to fill m J form applying for registration as a
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    A 1,000 a Day Trek to Liberty in Europe
    809 4  - A 1,000 a Day Trek to Liberty in Europe KENNETH AMES A man m black called— and the Skopniks again became refugees By ULZEN, W. Germany: T»HERE is nothing x unique about the Skopnik family. Theirs is a story which has been duplicated several million times m postwar Europe. But
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    16 4 Jack-wouldjrou mind explaining to your kids that were opening an air base, not a candy store?
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    Herr Doktor wants phone to squeeze the British
    306 4  - Herr Doktor wants phone to squeeze the British William Hamsher Says HE^ R D^or Degener is J* fortably installed brand-new suite J offices near the fe! tian Naticnal Bant But he has no phone The Egyptians haw- mised to link btaSj ft day or two," and Dr V gener i.
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    IMPORT CONTROLS BOOST PRICES IN STORE
    159 5 IMPORT CONTROLS BOOST PRICES IN STORE Free Press Staff Reporter CONTROLS imposed by Singapore Government two weeks ago on the import of certain luxury and semi-luxury goods from nonsterling areas have pushed up the prices of some of these goods. Controls were imposed on Swiss clocks and watches, intoxicating liquors,
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    38 5 fnl m«r: i! Chemical T^ JSs tea pirty held r% J r ;U: service he firm. rora left: Mr. S S rctjfs— director ,u" i J Siniraf«rr« Mrs. 1 !ir Mr R. C mm p.. n Free Press
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    MR. CRITCHLEY FOR KARACHI
    21 5 tv.; a>t..: n Cummis- Malaya. Mr T.E.K. leave Smga- m to attend cen'erence grill be away a
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    'RESERVATION' PLAN DELAYED
    63 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Although the Malay Reservation at Majedee was gazetted some time ago the scheme has not been put into operation as yet. The report of the committee which planned the development of the reservation is still being considered by Government. Many upplicants are waiting for
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    BANK DIVIDEND
    30 5 The Mercantile Bank of India has declared a final dividend of six per cent Uess income tax) making twelve per cent for the year ending Dec. 31. 1951.-
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    SHOW STOPPED BY BLACK-OUT
    48 5 The entertainment which was to have been P/esented by the Telok Ayer Methodist Youth Fellowship chapter at Waslev Church hall m SingaL ThSSday night was SanceHed because of a long black-out. w The programme now be held on Tuesday at Wesley Cfcureh hall atspm.
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    Naming streets is a problem
    148 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WITH increasing housing development m SingaTf pore and the opening of new roads, the City Council is continually facing the problem of whether to approve the names suggested for the new roads or find other names. Although proposals have been made
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    COUNCIL IS AGAINST -BUT CLASSES GO ON
    250 5 SINGAPORE Council for Adult Education continues to run vernacular classes m spite of the Legislative Council's recommendation that the grant it receives from the Government shoujd not be spent on the teaching of any language To* ne* than English. Out of about 200
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    28 pass exams
    52 5 28 pass exams FRTY-NINE candidates sat for the examinations of the Institute of Architects of Malaya last year, and 28 passed. Mr. Irving Watson, the secretary of the board of examiners, said yesterday that "generally the result* for this year were very good, and the Colony showed more effort than
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    BUS OWNERS PLEDGE AID
    100 5 25EREMBAN, Sat.— Owners of bus and transport companies m Negri Sembilan, at the fifth annual meeting of the Negrl Sembilan Pass-nger Transport Operators Association, decided to help the public m every way m spit* of the difficulties due tn the Emergency They also decided to spare
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    1,500 WORKERS DAILY MOB THIS DEPT
    132 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CINCE Mar. 1 an average ot 1,500 hawkers daily have been seeking a renewal of their licences at the City Councl's Town Cleansing Department, the Free Press was told yesterday. Now that- the ceiling on the number of itinerant licensed
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    More Gurkhas for Colony police
    84 5 More Gurkhas for Colony police gIXTY more Gurkhas are coming out soon from Nepal to join the Singapore police force. The present strength of the Gurkha contingent is 240. A police officer said yesterday: "Recruiting of Gurkhas is hampered by unsettled conditions m their country. There may be prosp.ects; of
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    Fed. wants more farmers
    87 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE Federation needed young Malayans to develop its agriculture which was basic and fundamental to the country, said Mr. O. J. Voelcker .Director of Agriculture, m a broadcast from Radio Malaya last night. He said that the reponse from Malaya to Government's offer
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    Squatters get $12,000
    104 5 SEREMBAN, Sat. QASH relief, totalling approximately $12,000, has been distributed by the Negri Sembilan branch of the Malayan Chinese Association to needy squatter families who were moved out of the Ser-emban-Port Dickson Road resettlement area to Rasah. Mr. B. H. Tan, secretary of the branch, said that
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    NEW LAWYER
    26 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Admitting Mr William Scott Gilchrist to practise as a lawyer m the Federation yesterday. Mr. Justice Taylor wished him every success.
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    S'PORE DELEGATES FOR MADRAS PARLEY
    119 5 Free Presa SUlt Reporter SINGAPORE wiU be repreat the sixth International Conference of Social Work to be held m Stodras. India from Uecem- nox iieces^ry for a p!^^^^^, dele o; acUviUes of the organisation. The session m Madras will be held under the Patronage of
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    Pain doesn't kill his cheer
    59 5 TORCHANI SAID, a North African soldier, badly wounded m the fighting m French Indo-China, and now on his way back to Algiers on the French hospital ship, Oregon, is always cheerful when his wounds are dressed by Nurse Christiane Poilverd, a member of the French
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    British election lessons for S'pore
    159 5 PONNUDURAY SUBMITS REPORT SINGAPORE'S -electoral procedure follows that of Britain as closely as conditions permit, says Mr. M. Fonnuduray, Assistant Supervisor of Elections, m a report to the Government on his visit to Britain to observe the general elections last year. i He suggests that
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    LABOUR TO MEET
    24 5 The newly formed Independent Labour Party will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss Its stand on the National Service Bill
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    50 OFFER TO WORK FOR CLINIC
    102 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TpIFTY Singapore Chinese physicians have informed their association, the Chung I Shin Kung Hui, that they would serve at a free public clinic, sponsored by the association Two hundred requests were sent out by the association. A ceremony will mark
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    MORE GIRLS TAKE TO VICE
    120 5 MORE GIRLS TAKE TO VICE Free Press Stair Reporter JUVENILE prostituticn "is believed to be on the increase, m Singapore, said Mr. Leonard Cornwell, of the Social Welfare Department, yesterday. He appealed to the public to be accurate and dear when reporting such cases. "We appreciate very much letters from
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    Move to aid stranded men
    51 5 THE Singapore Tiong Hin Club will seek Government permission to collect funds to aid the 26 shipwrecked Chinese fishermen who are now being looked after by the immigration authorities. The fishermen were rescued off Bataan by the British oil-tanker, Entis, and brought to Singapore on
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    12 GAMBLERS FINED
    86 5 KLUANG, Sat. Police raiding a house m Jalan Station found 12 persons gambling. The 12, Tine Koon, aged 20, Geok Keok, aged 17, Tan Seng Moi, aged 28, Yak Hoi Leong, aged 42, Chea Kirn Hock, aged 21, Tiew Soo Tim, aged 19, Tong Goh Keng aged
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    $40,000 RAISED BY TAXES
    34 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Pa hang Religious Affairs Department received nearly $40 000 m religious taxes last year. A further $15,000 was received from other sources. amounted to over $86,000
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    Seletar struck with the storm
    423 6 Free Press Soccer Reporter RAF. Seletar 4; G.H.Q. Signals t. A RAINY start to the United Services League season for Royal Air Force Seletar, but a good one m that they produced clever football under bad ground conditions at Tanglin yesterday. Indeed, the men from
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    Lodgers were better side
    103 6 IN their Services League;; Senior Division match at^ Changi yesterday. Royal Air= Force Lodger Units and Singapore Engineer Regiment= drew with one goal each, c Lodgers nad the better of= the play and only brilliant"^ work by Phillips mi n the= Sappers' goal kept the scored
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    JUNIOR LEAGUE Good soccer in Nee Soon encounter
    214 6 JUNIOR LEAGUE Good soccer in Nee Soon encounter POYAL Army Pay Corps and§ iV H.Q. Royal Army Ser-E vice Corps should prove to= be two of the strongests sides m the Singapore! United Services Footballs Association Lagtie Juniors Division this season. 5 At Nee Soon yesterday theg teams both provided
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    THREE PROFESSIONALS OFFER TO HELP
    555 6  -  GEORGE WHITING 1952 Olympics. .No 7 By RANDOLPH TURPIN, Freddie Mills and Terry Allen are all willing to put their services at the disposal of Britain's Olympic Games amateur boxers this summer not necessarily as teachers, trainers or coaches, but as men who have achieved
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    HYPOCRISY IN SPORT LET THE BEST MAN WIN
    986 6  - HYPOCRISY IN SPORT LET THE BEST MAN WIN PETER WILSON Says McDonald Bailey B,y j\ iiujnosm vi statements n&Ve oecll lasucu recently wi the vexed question of abolishing the difference between amateurs and profess inoals, and having "open" Olympic Games. These have come from such diverse sources as FieldMarshal Lord
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    WALES XV IN VITAL GAME v. IRELAND TODAY
    131 6 [RELAND and Wales meet m Dublin today m a match which las a vital bearing on the International Rugby Union championship. If Wales win they will carry ►IT the triple crown for the ninth ime and place themselves inlisputably at the head
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    REME RALLY BRINGS 3
    130 6 H£M.E 3; H.MS. Terror 2. i DOYAL Electrical and 1% Mechanical Engineers were trailing by one goal to nil at half-time m their j United Services League match against H.M.S. Ter- ror at Naval Base yesterday, i A -second-half rally took i the Craftsmen into the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      89 6 MdndrdKß Kxclusire to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya j BJSM f-STM M*lt WASTMATA— WOAAAN— FLYIMG I I I BETTER SWITCH TOAOAYROUTeJ i JANE Exrlusire to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya I WfU-, SUPPOSE PV6 IB -T ALWAYS SUCMV LSAVg IT TO U«^ P/ WWiaT>« Il^ ...e-r x^ruen V
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    32 7 picture. r taanM of the R.A.F. Sefetar team, in PSR th i H Q Signal Regiment forward in yesterday ld League match f !lt>d r lv tvur coals te one.- Free Press
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    TEMPEST IS NAPPED IN 5.30
    1232 7 TEMPEST IS NAPPED IN 5.30 Film Fan out; Going is good Prom ALLAN LEWIS «a wvh> PENANG, Saturday. A G °vD day xfor the Fox stable" is the general opinion here. Lt.-Col. Pox has i5TS*¥ eß «*«e d R«ce One and he could RaceiV? Otkfel lookB m RsiJ l^^? H°3P
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    REME WIN 10 OF 11 BOUTS
    465 7 REME WIN 10 OF 11 BOUTS Anc/ior Cup final free Press Boxing Reporter ffftfClNGLl the Koyal Electrical and Mechanui Engineers on the Anchor Cup for internjt boxing against Singapore District Signal teiment at Tanalin last night. Bi I rovided an easy 21 points to for R.F.M.E. who, as the Singapore
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    Swim record smashed
    40 7 °KD Konno, Ohio State's little Hawaiian swim am* sensation, won the 1,500-metre event at •penm* of the Western Conference Swimming *jm Michigan last nieht m an aimosi incredible tor<J-biistin g time of 18 mm. 11.5 sec. U.P.
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    Today's race card
    985 7 rpHE v probable starters and jockeys at Pennag x today are given below. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race 9. fiTSISS™ Bin Jones 7.13 RACE 1—2.00: CLASSES 4 5 (COMB.) Div. 1 —6 FURS. 1. 113 Pax Haven Tulloh 9.00 2. 224 Flylite Mulley 8.13
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    9 thoroughbreds killed in fire
    167 7 \IINE valuable racing 1 thoroughbreads were killed and more than a score injured m California last night when a raging fire sioept through a oarn at the historic Pleasanton race track. The fire which completely razed one 300-foot barn m the middle vt the stable
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    All The Latest Selections
    275 7 RACE 1 2.00 RACE I BACE3 3.89 RAGE 4 3^0 RACE 5 4.88 RACE 6 -88 RACE 7 5.00 RACE 8 5.30 RACE 9 6.00 RACE 10 6.30 ALLAN LEWIS mmm PAX HAVEN Finalist China Town OAKFEL I*cky SUbr II Thumbs Up HUNTING MUSfC Dancing Fury
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      39 7 T HE GREATEST TAG-TEAM MATCH EVER TWO REALLY TERRIFIC TEAMS. V E R S U S •'EELn^^* Vmm TIGER SAMARA A W^, HOLD EH N X HOUR FIGHT -NO ROUNDS. Oon» Miss This SmpwW""** 0 H:i. SuDuoHi— B«mt» i
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      151 7 TONIGHT'S TAG WRESTLING FUR really good wrestlers meet have not yet met Individually) m a rough and tumble tag- and against them will be Seelia -team match at the Happy World Samara and Tiger Holden. tonight Tne contest, which is Supported by two other fights, wiu last Partnering each other
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    BEVAN MAY TAKE BATTLE TO RANK AND FILE
    204 8 BEVAN MAY TAKE BATTLE TO RANK AND FILE LONDON. Saturday. T EFTWING Labour Party rebel, Aneurin Bevan was reported ready to carry the issue" of British rearmament to a national conference of the party rank and file m a challenge of the leadership of Mr. Attlee and party "moderates". Political
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    Australia cuts import credits
    106 8 SYDNEY, Sat. THE Commonwealth Bank yesterday directed all Australian trading banks to issue no further credit for imports. The move, heralding drastic import restrictions, presumably is the result of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers London meeting which decided that Commonwealth countries must live wichir. their nicer: t\
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    Police hunt the hounds
    103 8 MAESTEG, WALES. Sat. DOLICE were called yes--1 terday —to join m a fox hunt. But. they were only to track down the hounds. The West Glamorgan hunt cot under way m rood style with the pack picking up the trail of a fox right away. The
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    Tin talks to be" resumed
    62 8 WASHINGTON, Sat. sources said yesterday that American-Indonesian tin negotiations "probably" would be resumed on Tuesday. The talks broke down almost two weeks ago when the Reconstruction Finance Corporation refused to raise the offer of $1.18 per pound for Indonesian tin, delivered m Jakarta and $1.21
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    ADENAUER'S VIEW
    31 8 The West German Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer, said m Bonn last night that by joining the common defence of the West, West Germans can make Russian aggression "highly improbable.' A.P.
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    MUSEUM GETS DEADLY FISH
    64 8 A SIX-INCH fish which can pric"k and cause certain death m half an hour was brought ashore from the liner Stirling Castle at Southampton yesterday by Frederick Mitchell-Hedges, 70-year-old British explorer. Back after exploring the Seychelles group of islands and ruins m the southern province of
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    ALISON ATTLEE
    24 8 Alison Attlee, 21-year-old younger daughter of former Prime Minister and Mrs. Clement Attlee will be married today to Cant RirharH Davis. U.P.
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    Masked men get $100,000
    45 8 Two masked and armed men held up the Quonset Point Naval Air Station Credit Union at the naval base early yesterday and escaped with about $100,000. The police said the men were last seen fleeing the station m a black sedan.
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    Truman on holiday
    19 8 President Truman left Washington by air yesterday for a three-week holiday at Key West, Florida, A.P.
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    Congress may cut aid
    402 8 Continued from page 1 I nist fight, m Indo-China, the report said. "This campaign Is taking a heavy toll of Indo-Chinas own forces. It is also costing the French Government well over US$l,OOO million yearly and great numbers of trained officers and men who could be
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    RFC CUTS PRICE OF SYNTHETIC
    119 8 WASHINGTON, 3at. •pHE Reconstruction Finance Corporation yesterday reduced the price of synthetic rubber by three cents a pound to 23 cents effective at midnight. The RFC operates 28 government owned synthetic rubber plants, which sell their output to the industry at cost. Administrator, Mr. Harry
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    When cow meets bull
    68 8 PARII Sat. pHRISTIANE Pruvost, a y pretty milkmaid, was injured yesterday when she tried to prevent her prize cow from meeting: "Rodolphe, M a handsome three-year-old bull. The cow "Aglas" was just returning from a morning bath when she met "Rodolphe" m the main corridor of
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    BUS GOES ABOARD AIR FREIGHTER
    37 8 picture. THIS SEEMS an unusual air-land crash, but this 30--seater. motor coach is merely being: driven bale tne copious interior of the original Blackburn "Universal" freighter on Brourh Airfield, East Yorkshire.— Reuter
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    Mystery cure of ailing girl
    197 8 LONDON, Saturday. A MAN, who often said "I would five my right A arm" to see his ailing daughter cured, lost the arm m a car erash and the daughter was mysteriously cured. The odd case, with the name withheld, was described by Dr. J.
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    NAZI LEADER'S CLAIM
    52 8 Otto Ernst Remer, a leader m the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party, charged m court at Brunswick, Germany yesterday that many Germans who acted against the Nazis were, m fact, traiors to Germany. Already serving one goal term for slander, Remer went on trial yesterday on another slander
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    GOODWILL MISSION
    23 8 The Vietnam Government will shortly send Dr. Ho Quag Phuot on a "good will mission" to the PhiliDDines and Indonesia.- A.F.P.
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    25 8 Graham for Karachi United Nations Mediator for Kashmir Dr. Frank Graham is leaving New: Delhi for Karachi today after talks With Indian frnvprnmATit leaders.- A.F.P.
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    29 8 Three-and-a-half-year-old Colii^ Craig who left Kfrkcaldy, Fife, recently to live m England, feeds the swans on the Thames at Surbiton, Surrey. Result: Scots sustenance for Sassenach swans.— Popper picture.
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    HERO FORGOTTEN
    22 8 Communist Czechoslovakia ignored yesterday the 102 nd anniversary of the birth cf Thomas Masaryk, founder nf the Czech Republic. A.P.
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    17 8 Ninety Japanese war brides sailed from Yokohama yesterday to join their husbands m the United States, Reuter
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    2 QUAKES SHAKE JAPAN
    35 8 2 QUAKES SHAKE JAPAN Wajima on n s r »r It was fell licrh-i. and Yokohama 1? lnTl *fi Japanese official* i, known d.-ad Tr 572 injure ln rra y? ay -rth Q uaK,. Un
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    TOO MANY WERE FINED
    32 8 The Loitf Betch order-d the remc^l 7?*| parking met -> |n fmj! the citf hall I Reason; T .,0 -a- w clUcrs were being Cj foverstaying rhi time. A.P.
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    FOOD FOR INDIA
    28 8 The U.S. Hututl fid A?oncy has allocated tv is? 000 to India lor th?S?" of wheat and bivad gS bp delivered b^rnr^ of Augru.s: U.P.
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    Aid for Lehanon
    39 8 The Uni:?d states Q6mh ment announced yes e-u? that :t has signed a csntratt with a private er.gine'ei company to belp the people of Lebanon develop a power project m the Litar.i R ve r basin.
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      Masthead
      8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, March 8, 1952.
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      The king of all fruits
      665 1 v()\\ ycurs and years my dosed acquaintance with durians uds driving behind a OIT v load of them, trvina to pass, risking death to creep around the bin vehicle and escape the nauseating odour which nearly made nic faint m the driver's scat Often I
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      LONGING FOR MALAYA
      191 1 LONGING FOR MALA YA a.-TER Qfci two months A U Dortmund. Gerrir.y officers and men of the Ist Battalion of The King s Own Yorkshire Light mfantrj looking back I ~i.~i'.y to the sunshine md varmU) of Malaya b the current issue of the regimental magazine. The Bugle, the Editor
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      STRANGE WAYS TO PASS THE TIME
      723 1  -  J. K. Tan by PASSING the time during periods of leisure is strenuous work for some people, and various are the methods used fo keep boredom away Especially enterprising are the recreations devised by the Chinese, whose ancestors perfected the art of how to
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      THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
      880 1  - THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Anthony Wise by QNE of the most trying aspects of life m Singapore is what I call the Things That Go Bump m the Night tendency. By this I mean that no sooner does one get comfortably settled m bed with the cares
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        18 1 INDIGESTION j STOMACH roWDEtp iJBB airily anrt i.^ £tt£t!- v --^^Hi ial POWDER- '^gned— '\AL£Jt C. JMCL£AiV~ i!^!!!!,^
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      Masterpiece—or Just Plain 'Corn?
      684 2 Masterpiece— or Just Plain 'Corn? d SOMEONE somewhere* proclaimed *'A PLACE IN THE SUN" (coming to the Cathay) as "the best film ever made". Quite a few people have been persuaded into believing it to be, if not a significant contribution to films, at least a gripping melodrama. I should
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      THE MISSING BODY
      321 2 AFTER the above pretentious piece of filmcraft I found a modest British mystery "MR. DENNING DRIVES NORTH", (Pavilion) very enjoyable. It has a story with the most unexpected twists and turns, and flesh and blood characters and is acted with exceptional competence by John Mills, Phyllis Calvert,
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      STORY OF THE FILM KISS
      141 2 STORY OF THE FILM KISS "THE film kiss has had many variations since it first appeared on the screen 55 years ago. It began with Edison's first film (1896), m which isee below) John Rice bestowed a chaste mous-tache-embroidered kiss on May Irwin. Then came the acrobatic kiss, its chief
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      'Godvoa' at the 'Glamour' School
      1020 2 'Godvoa' at the 'Glamour' School Marjorle Clark, beawrtifrt b«t ingenuous daughter of a Midlands newsagent, divides her afSetilns between Monte, h.ttersmacker' at a local store and Simon Abbott, popular Him star. After winning a contest to appear as Lady Godlva In the Festival Pageant she is lasted to contest f
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      It's Malay —and it's good
      87 2 "JIWA LARA." (Malay Film Productions Ltd.) "JIWA LARA" (to be shown m Singapore soon) proves that Malay films have come a long way. This is a tragic drama with as usual the tragedy a little overpowering, but there are also delightful little bits of sly
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      AN INDIAN FILM
      44 2 Bhabis Hindustani masterpi»- "heart thr l iyan i be shov.ii it 1 this yv«-k. enci music c colourful feature the beaut? a I dian scree (f Sto i was thr-. Ofl Ml toll] while maki the ffin died later: R.G. PILLAI
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        106 2 3 Shows at 3.15-^.30-9.15 p.m. \%^hJ Sensational Dancer A'MAL m iSLi "ELSABHEFFENDI" with Chadia Said Abou Bakar the Egyptian who walks thru Walls Pf I ENGLISH SUBTITLES |f# Xon'U Rave the New f J I "SS* SAMBA ill j» ;^2^£££i£^ DANCES .tl I}■ jjisii IB n Tonite Madhubala m k
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      HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint
      64 3 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint d t; It il **»1 s V to -Sr trrqurncv ot shamp^ouvz practically impossible w 0 it t lirar m mind that I J. .-..rhfr hair health at 0g .r, thr roots, unless kh learned trom your tresses. A 'l\ Hair trom which p, S.j- not brrn
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      The courtesan and the student
      1808 3  -  John Chia A POIGNANT TALE OF MEDIEVAL CHINA by j^RE you sure she won't be coming today, Madam Wen?" Madam Wen looked at the blue-gowned handsome figure before her with unconcealed annoyance. "Do you think I would lie? Would I send for you otherwise? She
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      A SHOW BY 7 WOMAN ARTISTS
      595 3 The Singapore Art Society exhibits the work of .an Anglo-American group. pAINTINGS and drawings by seven members of the An-glo-American Group —a group of much travelled woman ar tisfs now m Singapore nre now on show at the British Council Centre. The exhibition is
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