The Singapore Free Press, 10 March 1952

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA nn SINGAPORE, MONDAY. MARCH 10, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    THE BIG SQUEEZE TOMORROW
    632 1 Britons will pay more tax, get less LONDON, Monday. pRITMN waited with apprehension last night l>* or still more austerity m the new Budget jpjrned to taVe national bankruptcy and f or both recovery and record peacetime •nn ni nt A. Butter, the first Conservative of
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    Will try to save Franc
    29 1 ANTEM.NE PIN AY. 60-year-»ld Conservative, who has farmed France's new Cabinet to set the country oat •t her political and finan- Reuter rial tnaUeL-
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    11 MEN WERE SWEPT FROM DRIFTING BOAT
    267 1 CUXHAVEN, Monday. A GERMAN seaman, feared to be the only survivor of the 18 crew of a fishing vessel was picked from the storm-tossed North Sea yesterday after drifting m a lifeboat for 17 hours. With him#in the boat was the body of
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    Philip put fourth
    41 1 LONDON, Mon. T'HE Queen yesterday approved the following form and order for two. loyal toasts: 1, "The Queen." 2, "Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; Queen Mary; the Duke of Edinburgh; and other members of the Royal Family."-— U.P.
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    More suicides in Italy
    55 1 ROME. Mon. rpHE STEADY post-war 1 climb m the suicide rate m Italy is caused by poverty, illness, family troubles and love, according to the Italian Statistics Office. More men (1,904) than women (730) committed suicide during the year, women prefer poison, while men go m
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    3 WENT HOME
    27 1 Three Chinese who were injured m a road accident near the Bidadari cemetery, Singapore, yesterday refused to go to hospital when an ambulance arrived.
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    The first kiss
    44 1 picture. THE KISS, hitherto taboo on the Chinese theatrical stage, is introduced by Miss Choon Siew Lay, a Hong Kong actress now performing at Kuala Lnmpur. Here she caresses the play's hero, Soo Siew Thong, aad establishes a precedent. Free Press
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    Australia joins Atom Big 5
    203 1 ADELAIDE, Monday. AUSTRALIA is likely to become one of the "Big Five" producers of atomic minerals, Dr. C. F. Davidson, chief geologist of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy organisation said m an interview yesterday. The other main producers of radio-active minerals are the United States,
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    YARD SEEKS CLUE TO LOST SECRET
    103 1 YARD SEEKS CLUE TO LOST SECRET LONDON, Mon. QCOTLAND Yard, M.I-15 (the v War Office's counterintelligence service) and French and Israeli police were last night investigating the disappearance probably at London airport of blueprints of an invention to halve the petrol consumption of cars, planes and tanks, two newspapers reported.
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    MINISTER SACKED
    19 1 Vasile Luca Rumanian Vice-Premier and Finance Minister has been released from his duties as Finance Minister.— Reuter
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    He brought evidence
    56 1 NEW DELHI. Mon. A 25-year-old Harijan A (Untouchable), surrendering voluntarily to the Bangalorf magistrate on charges of murder, brought along m a sack the heads of his two victims. The Harijan, Hanumanthappa, then handed the magistrate the heads of his wife and his neighbour with whom the
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    3 girls die in locked bedroom
    93 1 3 girls die in locked bedroom MELBOURNE, Mon. A WEEPING 24-year-old mother wa s in hospital with severe shock yesterday j after finding her three daughters dead m a smokefilled bedroom. Mrs Shirlev Bannon, whose husband was spending the week-end with friends, locked the three sleeping girls and their brother
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    FURNACE TROUBLE
    38 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Singapore Fire Brigade was summoned to the Glass Factory m Henderson Road yesterday when molten glass was found leaking from a furnace. There was no fire, hhwever, when an engine arrived.
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    BUCKINGHAM PALACE REPAIRED
    63 1 LONDON, Mon. 'THE Queen is still living m Clarence House. About nine rooms are being repair- -690-room layout, are being done over m two shades of ivory. The royal plumbers are installing steam heating m King William IV once termed Buckingham Palace "the coldest palace m Europe"
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    TEST FOR ARMS ISSUE
    116 1 TEST FOR ARMS ISSUE STUTTGART. Germany, Mon. rOUSANDS flocked to potting stations m Ger- 1 many's Black Forest area early yesterday to vote for jthe Constituent Assembly of the nevr Federal State a vote which will also show for the first time what Germans are thinking about rearmament. About 4,000,000
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    PAINTER DIES
    18 1 Painter Ehgenio Viti, 71, died on Friday night at his home at Pizzofalcone, near Naples- A.P.
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    CZECH REDS TO TRY EX-LEADERS
    95 1 VIENNA, Monday. rnHI- Socialist Arbeiter Zeitung claimed that Czechoslovakia would soon mwrfjM former leaders of its Communist regime °™"L? court m a "show trial that promises to bethe greatest yet organised by the Communist party Never had so many and so important leaders of a
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    50,000 FORCED TO BE SPIES
    53 1 BERLIN. Mon. REPORTS from Soviet-oc-cupied East Germany said yesterday that Red police have drafted about 50,000 persons to serve as informers. The League of Free Jurists anti-Communist body organised m West Berlin said L2OO persons had come to them asking advice how to resist the
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    CRIME BY THE POUND
    50 1 There has been such an increase m crime m CQventry, that the authorities now chart its growth on graphs by weighing the court lists instead of counting the cases. The 1946 records weighed four pounds six ounces. In 1951 they scaJed 10 pounds six ounces. Reuter
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    Restriction on Red envoys
    52 1 French official sources said last night that France is going to restrict Soviet diplomats' movements to a 25--mile radius beginning from today. The action, taken m conjunction with other Atlantic Pact nations, is m retaliation against similar restrictions on the movements of West-. em diplomats m
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    STORM KILLS 6
    33 1 A rain storm on Saturday which ravaged the southern part of Badung, capital of Western Java, resulted m the death of six people and serious injury to five others. AFP
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    'U.N. army can stop the Reds dead'
    161 1 'U.N. army can stop the Reds dead' EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Mon. THE United Nations forces m Korea can stop any Communist spring offensive dead m its tracks, General James Van Fleet, the Eighth Army Commander declared yesterday. He admitted the Communists had a potential strength greater than the U«N.
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    HE SAID HE SAW INDIAN MUTINY
    42 1 A man alleged to be aged 117 and who claimed to have witn?ssed the 1857 Sepoy mutiny, died m Lahore yesterday. He was a shopkeeper and worked m his shop until a few days ago.— AFP
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    Poison in an orphanage
    48 1 BERLIN, Mon. FIVE CHILDREN have died and 30 others have been stricken by arsenic poisoning m a Russian zone orphans' home, the West Berlin newspaper, Telegraf, said yesterday. The paper said the mysterious epidemic broke out m the state-owned children's home m Brandenburg.—. A.P.
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    Gaol for letter
    37 1 A newspaper contributor was sentenced m Panama to 15 days m gaol for writing that President Alcibiades Arose mena had taken $28.--000 m deals for letting a contract to a newly-formed cigarette company A.P.
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    'ILLUMINATED'
    197 2 DEROXIDE is a thing of the 1 past and the age of the "Illuminated Brunette," has dawned So says M. Raymonds a hair specialist, who also holds that women Joo glory m their long flowing tresses are enemies of society and a menace to economic progress. He told a
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    War against comics
    656 2 War against comics ITS ALL SO SILLY, SAYS CLAIRE DUNNE BRITAIN has declared war ca comics. S. i a yl t i c h e rs h a v e toil the Home Secretary that they are •*3 brutal and a i s bsj ig fought < r are not
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    POCKET FLYING ENTERPRISE FOR CARLSEN
    196 2 Mine hikes long, made m Lohdor* A LFftED Pcpe t he LonJe-i p.iofo-cr;jr_ver who rr.r.Jc t.'*e model of thc Mayflower whic'i Mr. Churchi'l gave Mr. Truman when he visited America m j„**u_ry, has just cofalpletcd a model cf tic sinking Flying Enterprise for Cap?_in Kurr
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    Solution To Crossword No. 605
    48 2 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 1, Archbishop. 7, Shiftworker. 8. Embalms. 9, MSS. 10, Red. 11, Gremlin. 12, Horse-racing. 15. Round dance. Down: l. Ass. 2, Climbed. 3. Bottle green. 4, Shop steward. 5. Oak. 6. Prison. 8, Earthy. 9. Million. 13. Rio. 14, Gee.
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    Details of Top Secret' RAF Plane Leak Out
    726 2  -  Hugh Dundas By Croup Captain Photographs and drawings m Swiss flying magazine submitted by Dutchmen A IR Ministry Security Officers are to conduct an urgent investigation into the publication abroad of information about Britain's new top-secret The plane, about which nothing may
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    TIDY, THE 'GUIDE CAT'
    80 2 r)Y, a black and white cat, belonging to Mrs. Amy Palmer, of Windmill Hill, Capel St. Mary, Suffolk, te believed to b e Britain's first "guide cat." Mrs Palmer, 50, is blind and lives alone. She said: "I had Tidy as a kitten, and from the
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    SCARRED FACEs GET GIRLS
    657 2  - SCARRED FACEs GET GIRLS ANTUUNI TERRY In West Germany, where ihe old duelling cull has been re-born, saj s fXN the biood-s.ained V floors of hundreds of attics In German j 0 university towns, the young men are once more slashing at each oEher m the eld duelling cult, nov/
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    New parking system
    170 2 A BRITISH inventor claims to have invented a parking system which might help solve the car parking problem which has become an headache m every city. A Luxembourg enterprise. the Paul Works, recently presented this "mechanical car park," called the Baldwin Auger system. It is composed of
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      104 2 Ask your stationer tor Old Chelsea China notepaper You'll know it by this sign oo the pads and boxes If he doesn't stock it, ask him to get m touch with Donald Moore, Oldham Hall, Singapore, 9, who is the agent m this part of the world for the manufacturers
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      80 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR— ROR.N today, ye«, strong and osnall, right, after all the yon to strike a good balance In forcefni character give. ¥2™C!i to *VL "Wi joo tha ability to pnsh yonr ■__^Z__HVtff. "SLE! By natore. optimistic and m—m •uini.j h* pasn your mignt possibly be In error— progressive
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    POPULATION RISE IS FASTEST IN HISTORY
    396 3 POPULATION RISE IS FASTEST IN HISTORY Food problems mmr M WASHINGTON, Monday. KmTSmm&*M W SI the fLtest 2 40i?ivfn J£ p lalton year b oo^ estimates about f 400,000,000 people now Uve on the earth Ther* is a net increase of about 28.000.000 Z?e a year wVr^wm a i2 S
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    Mother, with twins, gave hot pursuit
    77 3 Mother, with twins, gave hot pursuit ht-month old ker arms, a 1 -itift m a mamma court at uthern Ceylon) I ashe ri on being disF. Ie off on a h the woman m ■if. m her petition thai the defend- peon, was the the twins. int denied pater--1 accepted
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    A flash & convoy's lights went out
    152 3 A flash convoy' s lights went out TOKYO. Mon. AHKITTSH Centurion tank v .oi^ortins Australian infantrymen has delivered a surprise knock-out to a Chin truck convoy supplying Communist frontline tr P-. An Australian advance observe! spotted the convoy :r ng through the night with Its lights on along a mate
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    GANDHI'S SON BEGINS FAST
    51 3 Mr Manilal Gandhi. s§-w-old son of Mahatma uandhi. has begun a 21-day U< a: his home near Durban DurtDfl the fast he will contemplate what part he will J**? m the nationwide nonWri »c protest campaign call* «i for April 6 by the African natiojai Congress.
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    Vichy supporter is pardoned
    60 3 V ichy supporter is pardoned Charles Murras. 84, writer tr._ Royalist politician, has received a medical pardon 1 Paris from a life fentence for 'Intelligence JJJtn enemy and demoralising ■ue army." Murras was sentenced m J**o .or supporting the Vichy jrne during t£e GermaJ fn, pa t. lon though his
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    Golf won't be'atomised'
    63 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. rpHE Atomic Energy ComX mission ha s tamed down a plan to produce radioactive golf balls. A Congressman had suggested that lost balls could be traced with a Geiger counter The commission said that a radioactive ball would be dangerous if carried and a Greiger
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    ENVOY TO RETURN
    35 3 /JUJfd States Ambassador SS Mr David Bruce, is -ed to leave Paris tor the United J- l to take up his new •PPoin.ment of Under- v a- r v of State.—. AFP
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    THEY'LL TAP TELEPHONES
    51 3 An emergency powers bill passed m Parliament authorises Sweden's security police to open letters and tap telephone calls from people suspected of espionage or sabotage. But whenever the police do so, they must report their action to the court Immediately. The court is empowered to rescind their
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    BRITONS NOT OBSTRUCTED
    53 3 The British Minister of State, MT. Selwyn Lloyd has said m London that British subjects In China who apply for exit permits now generally obtain them, although delays still occur. When there were delays, he added, the British Charge d'Affaires m Pekta* made representations to the Chinese
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    U.K.-IRAQ TALKS
    24 3 Britain has invited the Iraqi Government to send representatives to London next month to negotiate a new sterling balances afirree- ment.— Reuter
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    TRAIN BLOWS UP
    23 3 Some Vietnamese passengers were injured when a Hanoi-Haiphong train blew un on a mine about 11 miles from Haiphong.- AFP
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    WIFE STAGED LOVE SCENE WITH GROOM
    405 3 LONDON, Mon. niSTRAUGHT and dri- yen to "monumental folly", a wife staged a scene where inquiry agents would find her m a compromising situation with her husband's groom, said Mr. Justice Collingwood m the Divorce Court. The judge dismissed a petition hy the husband,
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    EDEN IS BETTER
    22 3 The Foreign Secretary. Mr. Anthony Eden, ill with flu since last Monday, is making satisfactory re- covery.— A. P.
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    Community vote
    32 3 The 311 persons of RunneHs community m lowa have voted to build an US$ll,OOO municipal waterworks, but defeated by seven vrZST an US$ll,OOO bond A.P. issue to pay for it.
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    NEHRU'S REGRETS
    35 3 The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, has nt a message of sympathy to the Japanese Government "at this hour of your nations suffering" caused by earthquakes and tidal waves m North Japan.— A.P.
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    LOVE MAKES NATIONS GREAT
    149 3 NEW YORK. Mon. T.OVB, lt seems, can be ere- dited with helping to make nations great. A scientist writes that national greatness may often follow inter-marriage of different stocks or races of people. Their <Sfrgpring are hybrids, and often benefit from combining the best to The
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    New 'comics' are Bible stories
    332 3 New 'comics are Bible stories NEW YORK, Monday. WHAT makes the Bible the world's best-selling book, year m and year o%t? That is, aside from the spiritual solace millions receive from it. Miss Margaret Hills, librarian of the American Bible Society, has a few answers: "You don't have to be
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    REDS PURGE 2 MINISTERS
    51 3 The President of the Rumanian State Bank. Mr. Aurel Vijoli, and assistant Finance Minister. Mr. Alexandrou lacob, had been dismissed for "grave deviations from the laws and government's decisions." A communique said the deviations damage the Interests of the state and the working of the people.—
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    SECURITY LAW
    57 3 The Pakistan Government has introduced a new public safety ordinance to replace one declared void by the Federal Court. Tne new law, which will last for seven weeks, provides tor the deportation of foreigners and Internment, restriction of movement and detention without trial for all who act "m
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    5 HUKS KILLED
    26 3 Five Communist Hukbalahaps. todq-Hag a commander, were killed m a fierce encounter with government fru»t>f»- m th* Panmanga vil- lage near Manila.— Reuter
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    UNKNOWN IS STAR OF BEAUTY SATIRE
    44 3 PAULINE STROUD. 19--year-old dancer, was relatively unknown when she was given the title role m "Lady Godiva Rides Again." a satire on Beauty Queens. Her only other film experience was as Vera-EDcn's dancing standin m "Happy Go Lovely."
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    Foot pointing draws frowns in Yemen
    251 3 Foot pointing draws frowns in Yemen WASHINGTON. Mon. -rOOT pointing is a disr graceful habit m Yemen, according to Dr. Harry Hoogstraal, who has just returned from Yemen which he visited at the invitation of King Iman Ahmad bin Yahya Hamid Al-din. Hoogstraal is head of the department of medical
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    RETURNED SOON
    27 3 Yugosiovakia has notified the Greek Red Cross that 71 more children abducted by Communist guerrillas four years ago will soon he returned to Greece.—, A.P.
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    Bridge Hand
    217 3 A declarer who plays as South did In the to-lowing deal reduces his own chances by about 60 per cent South, dealer NOBTH The Mining; Sontii West North East SH Fass 4 H Pees Pass Pees Three no-trump would have been an ironclad contract as it fa_n*n______ *dnce
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    Reds still plan domination of S.-East Asia
    367 3 Reds still plan domination of S.-East Asia TAIPEI, Monday. IfIGH Nationalist officials m Taipei beleve the Reds will stop short of creating another Korea m South-East Asia despite reports by propaganda agencies of such moves. They ar ft convinced, however, that the Chinese Reds have m no way abandoned their
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    B.B.C. SINGAPORE
    123 3 6.15 pm. Think On These Things Christian hymn, their music At their meaning; 6.30 The News Ac News Analysis; 6.45 Interlude; 6.50 Prom The Editorials; 7 Springbok Serenade A Variety Programme; 7.30 Souvenirs of Music— BßC Revue Orchestra; 8.15 The Debate Continues A Parliamentary Review; 8.30 The New
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    Ex-PoWs get tax-free assels
    53 3 The distribution of A £730.--000 worth of Japanese assets m Australia at the outbreak of war to former prisoners of war of the Japanese will bi tax free. Payouts from the Australian Government's special A £250,000 fund for prisoners of war would also be free of
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    But hatters don't mind a bit
    60 3 SYDNET, Mon. ThASSENGERS m Syd- ney's open "toastrack? trams travelling to under* ground Wynyard station are losing their headgear of the ra.e o/ tmo dozen a tpeefc. The tosses att occur when a train and trtfm pass. The wdden gust of Air tugs the
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      76 3 Radio SINGAPORE 9.35 am.— 9.55 Schools; 10 Emergency News From Kl.; 10.05 "Tunes From Yesterday arid Today"; 10.45—12 Schools; 1 pm. Monday Matinee"; 1.30 News; 1.45 "Home on the Range": 2—2.50 Schools: 0.17 Children; 0.35 "Comooser of the Weeks"; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News; 7 JO "Spot The Favourites": 0 "World
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    The Singapore Free Pree Press MONDAY. Mar. 10, 1952. Weaker sex
    527 4 The Singapore Free Pree Press MONDAY. Mar. 10, 1952. Weaker sex A RECENT broadcast debate m the Malayan Forum focussed atItention on a subject that could benefit from stimulating discussion the emancipation of women. Malaya being a mans country, the debate did not entirely do justice to its subject. It
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    Secret Army of Smugglers
    572 4 WHILE statesmen are busily forging the links of the Benelux Union, the Benelux countries are fighting! Tanks and machine guns bring Dutch cattle to Belgium's wellfilled butchers' shops. Armed convoys carry five tons of Dutch butter each week to the Belgian breakfast table They return with
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    'SCUTTLE' FROM THE CALL-UP
    295 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR rpHE Government's proposed National l Service bill has had reactions which surely could only happen m Singapore. First the suspiciously unanimous acclaim with which it was greeted— if press reports are to be believed—by men of all classes and creeds and— ages.
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    Ex-P.o.W. is now judge
    96 4 MAN who spent 3V_ years as a prisoner of tne Japanese at Kuching "has just been appointed a puisne judge m Tanganyika. He is 44-yefcr-old Mr. J.T. Abernethy, a Scot who, via Sedbergh School m Yorkshire, Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, became a
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    THE QUEENS NEED A REST
    682 4 DLANS for the Coro--1 nation have already been discussed bet\ieen the Queen and the Earl Marshal. It is likely that an early announcement about the actual date possibly m September will be made. The time between the Accession and the announcement of the date of
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    Strange Tale of a Hermit
    1348 4 Strange Tale of a Hermit AMD FOUR SISTERS WHO HID m_ JACK GREENSLADE throws back the shutters s j which have hidden a man from the world for 27 years and tells the story behind the headlines below. WILL the mystery of the dilapidated Georgian house m Somerset-street, Kingsdown. Bristol,
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    STUDENT LEAVES
    27 5 lb BHMSwanon, of the S:r..apore Survey Department. waa awarded a Govern■efil scholarship for higher s: iies left the Colony for Bri ban* over the week-end
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    THIS IS DEARER
    22 5 A two-and-a-half pound tin of powdered milk (Anchor teand) will sell m Singapore a: $380 frcm today instead c^S3w.
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    EVADED DUTY ON CAMERA
    53 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Ho Swee Tee, a tapper of Cha'ah, was fined $200, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment, for evasion of duty on a camera valued at $8C on which the duty nayable was $32. Ho said that the camera was an olcr one
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    Adult education branch to open
    42 5 TAIPING, Mon.— The Perak Adult Education Association is to set up a branch m Taiping shortly. Membership is open to all interested m adult education. Subscription rates are $6 ordinary $10 sustaining and $100 for life members.
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    COLONY GOVT. SUSPENDS ISSUE OF LICENCES
    200 5 COLONY GOVT. SUSPENDS ISSUE OF LICENCES Import of textiles from Japan Free Press Staff Reporter 1N(lA pORK ('overnment has temporarily suspended issuing y, kerne > to import textiles from Japan pending a decision on the \l to be allowed to individual merchants. -now It is understood that the chambers of
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    Leaders must help Psrlis: Mentri Besar
    186 5 AKAU. Mon. f „-,n been P~ is a backward i sh( must look to S»*< Sn?c and ther leaders to her feet. £j*L c;. b gar. Raja Haji VlVjd sai at yesterday's Sr. Council meeting. on n »m id called on the \o r.ve
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    City may lose Deputy President
    151 5 City may lose Deputy President QINGAPORE City Council** w may lose its Deputy President. Mr. H. G Hammett, shortly. It is understood that Mr. Hammett may return to the Federation to fill another post.. He was transferred from the Penang Municipal Commission, where he wa President, to the City Council
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    School gets $115,000
    109 5 TAIPING, Mon. ALTHOUGH the drive for funds for the Hua Lian High School was only started on Friday, donations to date total $115,000. The biggest gifts were from the Synn Lee Co., Ltd., $21,000; Lee Rubber Co., Ltd., $21,000; Mr. Lim Huan Lye, $20,000; Giong Hong and
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    Riot tribunal report soon
    115 5 CINGAPORE Government is to publish soon the findings of the tribunal which enquired into the accusations made against six senior Singapore police officers by the Riots Enquiry Commission. The Commission, headed by Sir Lionel Leach, began a public enquiry into the riots m 1950. Among those
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    OWN BUILDING
    28 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— The Kota Tinggi Branch of UMNO has decided to build its own building and is promoting a raffle to raise the necessary funds.
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    34 5 MR. SAID M. RAMADAN, sec retary of the World Muslim Conference, (right) who arrived m Singapore yesterday on a goodwill mission. He is seen with Mr. S. I. O Alsagoff, Iraq's Consul m Singapore-
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    SCHOOL PLANS 16 NEW CLASSROOMS
    197 5 ANEW scnool building at a cost of $170,000 will be built this year for St. Therasa's convent, at Kampong Bahru, Singapore. The site of the building will be at the back of the present school Lack of funds is delaying the plans, said Mr. Rozario.
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    Emergency law is enforced
    48 5 Emergency law is enforced JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Emergency Tenants Registration regulations have been made applicable to the following areas m Segamat district: Kampong Abdullah Labis, Sungei Karas, Lubok Bandan, Jementah, Kebon Bahru, Bukit Siput, Pekan Jabi Bahru, Buloh Kasap. Batu Anam, Gemas Bahru, Kampong Tengah and Bekok Bahru
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    TRANSFERRED
    24 5 TELOK ANSON, Mon.— Mr. S. Muthucumaru of the Customs and Excise Dept. has left Teluk Anson on transfer to Lumut as chief clerk
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    THEY MAY NOT DEPEND ON BRITAIN
    49 5 Free Press Stall Reporter "DIBLE Societies m Mabya, X 3 ova In Sin- i Mr lav Pindiay, the _ecretary of the Bible Societies. s?id this today. Mr. Findlay said the socle- sentative of ali Protestant denominations and international m character. The Malayan Protestant
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    They want to star in films
    102 5 JVf AN^ local songstresses may get chances to become screen actresses. The Malay Film Productions of Shaw Brothers Limited have, so far, given screen tests to 20 local songstresses, said Mr. J. F. Lawler. the publicity manager. He added there are others on the
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    Penang needs 7,000 for civil defence
    207 5 PENANG, Monday. A ONE-MONTH publicity drive will be launched xm m Penang from today to recruit 7,000 men and women for the Civil Defence Corps. It will open with a broadcast over Radio Malaya at 7.10 p.m. by Maj. Gen. E. B. de Fonblanque,
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    HOSTEL FOR TB PATIENTS
    90 5 HOSTEL FOR TB PATIENTS KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A HOSTEL is 10 be built m Trengganu where TB patients may stay while receiving outpatient treatment. The executive committee of the Trengganu Anti-TB Association yesterday unanimously agreed that the hostel was an urgent requirement. It was decided that lf Government did not
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    PROGRESSIVES WILL BACK BENEFIT FUND
    157 5 PROGRESSIVES WILL BACK BENEFIT FUND SINGAPORE Progressive Party still favours the 10 establishment of a central provident fond for employees, said its president, Mr. C. C. Tan, yesterday. This did not necessarily mean that the Party had rejected outright the pensions scheme proposed by the Retirement Benefits Commission, he added.
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    Don't send children to school with jewels
    106 5 Don't send children to school with jewels Free Press Staff Reporter A NUMBER of Govern- ment schools m Singapore have warned parents not to send their children to Primary classes with precious ornaments or jewels. This follows a number of thefts at schools. It is understood that a six-year-old Eurasian
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    Blackout areas
    150 5 Blackout areas SI B- stations liable to loading tonight: Arthur Rd., Tanjong Katonc, Broadrick Rd., Telok Koran. Bedok, Changi 9% mile, Changi Prison, Tanah Merah Besar. Selarang Barracks, Atlas lee. Happy World. Asia Robber Lorong 3, Sims Avenue Sawmill. Shell Co.. Lee Robber Works, Mountbatten network. Singapore Swimming Clob, Tanjong
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    MOVED RICE
    44 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Koh Ah Kiat, of Pontian, whose application to have his case heard m Pontian was refused by the Johore Bahru Court because the offence was committed here was fined $80 for moving 119 pikuls of rice without a permit.
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    HAWKERS WILL REGISTER IN GROUPS
    83 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 'pHE Singapore Hawkers' Union will help its members to get their licences m groups. Mr. Teo Pen Bok, the pre- sident, said yesterday that the Union has 3,500 members, all stationary hawkers. The itinerant hawker population of Singapore, estimated at 25,000,
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    Scouts urged: 'Carry on'
    69 5 SEREMBAN, Mon. AN appeal for energetic training to get more Scouters to assist m the formation of Scout groups m resettlement areas m the .State was made here at Saturday night's annual general meeting of the Negri Sembilan Boy Scouts' Association by the State Commissioner for
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    FLOOR SHOW IN GREAT FINISH
    1235 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS Saturday's Penang races reviewed From PENANG, Monday. FLOOR SHOW and Mombasa staged a thrilling finish m the main race (Race 6) the Kedah Cup for Class 3, Div. 1 horses over 81-furlongs at Penang on Saturday when the Penang Turf Club concluded their
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    Observation won convincingly
    179 6 /OBSERVATION, improving on his first run, won v the main sprint (Class 3, Div. I— 6f). In convincing style at Penang on Saturday. Observation allowed Liberty Flag to lead him about half-a-length until heads were turned for home. He then -stretched out m earnest and running on
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    Mervyn Rose loses final
    50 6 Mervyn Rose loses final AUSTRALIA'S Davis Cup player, Mervyn Rcse. was beaten m the finals of the SoothAustralian tennis championship at Adelaide on Saturday by Rex Hatwlg of Victoria, who waa not considered good enough to be seeded for the Australian championships held m January. Hartwig, who knocked up Ken
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    MALAYANS WIN DOUBLES TITLE
    43 6 LONDON, Son .—The Malayan badminton players, E. B. Choong and L. T. Lee. last night wen the Surrey men's open doubles badminton title when they beat N. B. Radford and W. C. Shute 15-0. 15-10 In the fiuaL— Reuter.
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    Four teams left in English' F.A. Cup
    733 6  - Four teams left in English' F.A. Cup JIM CHAMBERS SATURDAYS U.K. SOCCE* kOUH^ From ARSENAL, the bookmakers 9 favourite, Newcastle l holders, Chelsea and second division Blackburn ft* d 1 through to the semi-final round of the F.A Cm*. ers al| h Saturday. p tourn aitien t J A well-below-full-strong
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    ONE MORE CHANCE FOR RAY WILDING
    185 6  -  GEORGE WHITING From DAT WILDING, Britain's American -trained hean. weight, will be back m London urn week. He is to defend his Central Area chaa pionship at Earls Court on Tuesday against York* shire's Frank Bell, against whom he won the title m Manchester
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    R.M.P. WIN 1-0
    25 6 In the re-pUy of the Army Minor Units Mmmm soccer match bathe Royal TiQasi i iiSS *^t beat E_t hy 1-i. V
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    Savitt beak Patty in two sets
    127 6 Savitt beak Patty in two sets IJICK Savit: of New J.rs?t won the mens singa the Caribbean Lawn Te_:i Championship on SaUitf? i alth a 6-3. 6-3 victory m Budge Patty of New Yen Mrs. Patricia C_r.a_| Todd, of California, dispow of Mrs. Carol Pratt ofJtr maica. the former Bettj
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    JOCKEY McPHERSON TO RETIRE
    173 7  - JOCKEY McPHERSON TO RETIRE ALLAN LEWIS Last meeting at Bukit Timah By QOUG. McPHERSON, who recently returned from a business trip to Australia was m a ♦chatty mood when I ran into him at luncheon yesterday. Don;? told me that he would ride at the coming j Singapore meeting then
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    Superior skill, speed saw Army through
    596 7 ARMY v NAVY RUGGER REViVED l.v PETER LOVEGROVE THE \rni\ s 11—3 victory over the Royal Navy at 1 Twickenham on Feb .23 m the second match of the Inter- Services rugby union tournament would appear, on the surface, to have been due to
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    Scotland XV v. England
    140 7 SCOTLAND have chosen three new "caps all forwards, for the Calcutta Cup Rugby Union International match with England at Murrayfield Edinburgh next Saturday. The newcomers are J. M IngBa, J. P. Friebe and D. 6. GilbertSmith. Altogether the team shows five changes, one positional, from that
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    Racehorse beats two records
    86 7 !VfR. Harry Isaacss' lour-year-,u old Kentucky colt Intent won the $50,000 17,057 > San Juan Capistrano handicap m Arcadia. California m world record time on Saturday Intent which started favourite covered the l-**£mlles course tn two minutes 55 seconds which was 2-1/5 secrnds better than the
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    HJALMAR BEATEN
    54 7 T>OAL Evenes of Norway won the 500-metre sprint m the international soeed-skating meet at Oslo on Saturday and Carl Erik Asplund of Sweden won the S.OOO-me'res event. Evenes' time was 46.4 seconds. Asplund clocked 5:16.6. Johnny Werket of the United States was «M*rvn_i tn tpvptips and Hialmar Anderson
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    NOW FOR ROBINSON!
    39 7 pADDY Young, New York, decisively outpointed Ernie Durando of Bayonne New Jersey, m a ten-round bout at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. The victory gained Paddy a title bout wi*h middleweight A.P. champion Ray Robinson.—.
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    New heavyweight champ
    24 7 VOUNU Heine Neuhaus (German,) J? U^S~P I heavTweicbt championship at Dortmund, Germany. 2__i_l_ 2*r_fS SnS>e%B Ens "aVthe s^- falen ball.—. A.P.
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    TIONG BAHRU HOLD POLICE TO DRAW
    312 7 TIONG Bahru Rangers nearly created a major upset m the S.A.F.A. League Division 2 yesterday when they robbed Police Sports Association of a valuable point m a I—l1 1 draw on the Police Depot ground. Alert defenders rose to the occasion m the face
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    GUBBINS GETS 2
    30 7 In the R.A.P. soccer trial held at Seletar yesterday, the Blues beat the Red and Whites by two goals to nil. Gubbins scored both goals for Blues.
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    Weights lor Ist day at S'pore
    379 7 FOLLOWING are the weights for alf eight races on the first day of the Singapore Turf Club's March meeting, on Saturday, March 15: HORSES CL. 1— Div. 1 9 Fur. Tara Street 9.04 Curlew 9.60 Col. Whatnot 8.12 Gular 8.10 Melbury Court 8.09 Col.
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    Is this a racing record?
    136 7 Is this a racing record? (TjONSTELX_ATION w h o scored a double at the Penan? mccl ing was the best ifcrss to take a line through m regard to form. When he won his first race he beat Movie II by two lengths, with Courtenay a hcid away third, Tail
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    RNAS BEAT FIJI REGT.
    54 7 "DOYAL Naval Air Station Sem- bawang beat the Fiji Regiment by five runs m a thriring cricket match at Sembawang yesterday Scores Sembawang, 111 (Cotton 31, Cook 24, Senebtci four for 45, Tuni three for 30). Fijians 106 (Petro 37, Aku 28, Chaplin five for 44,
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    U.K. SOCCER LEAGUE PLACINGS
    789 7 UK Football League standings after yesterday's matches are* FIRST DIVISION P W D L P A pts Manchester 0 33 18 9 6 69 43 45 Arsenal 32 17 8 7 63 45 42 Tottenham 34 17 6 11 63 47 40 Portsmouth 32 17 6
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    WALES IN LINE FOR 'DOUBLE'
    356 7 WALES IN LINE FOR 'DOUBLE' WALES veil the "trfp!e crewn"' iiv We nint'i tjr/e on Saturday by c featur* Ireland 1 :-3 i the Rugby HniTn international match ct Dubli >. They now b m a good! chance to emu'ete their feat of to r sir s ag 3 by
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    Greenway arrives ready to fight
    293 7 Greenway arrives ready to fight picture. TWENTY-one year old Ray Greenway, the first of three boxers to arrive m Singapore from Australia for Little Nene's promot.on on April 4. looks a touq:h customer. I He came m. yesterday all ready to step into the ring, havine trained before he left
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    Rovers just made it
    133 7 ROVERS lcoked as though they would swamp Fathul Karib when they established a 3-0 lead at half-time m their Div. 1 game at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday, but the heavy rain that fell just before the interval and m the second half, bogged Rover's down and
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    FAULKNER TO PLAY HERE
    87 7 IyTAX Faulkner, the 1951 British Open golf champion, winner of the "Masters" title and first man to earn the British Golf Writers trophy, arrived m SingaDore last night by 8.0.A.C. Argonaut. Today he leaves for Australia to take part m the McWilliams Wines competition m which
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    Brother's record still stands
    132 7 ITALIAN ace Paolo Marzotto ln a two thousand c.c. Italian Ferrari yesterday won thc 12th -circuit of Sicily" motor race, one of Europe's toughest road speed tests and the first important event rf the Italian motoring season. He covered th* smelling 1.080 kilometre (about 675 miles))
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    N.Z. XV loses 22-3 to Japs
    85 7 A CROWD of 6,000 and the players themselves were stunned when the New Zealand rugby team bowed yesterday to the AUKyushu Japanese Stars, 22-3, Kyodo News Agency reported from Fukuoka. No one had thought the Japanese could swamp the husky soldiers from Korea like
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    HALLOWEEN WINS
    49 7 XJALLOWEEN, an ex-hunter, Ll won its first race with a professional jockey as it took the Hurst Park Grand National Trial Steeplechase over a moderate field. Second was W. Sat'noff's Davcr Cottage, another nonnational entry, a length m front of Whisoerine Steel. <F. S. Dyson) third.— A.P.
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    BEVANITES WILL NOT SIGN
    444 8 PLEDGE TO TOE LINE LONDON, Monday. nnHE crisis-ridden British Labour Party 1 plunged last night towards a political disaster as week-end attempts failed to produce a compromise which would keep it from breaking m two. A new political group of Left-wing Socialists headed by the fiery
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    THEY FLEE AS VILLAGE SINKS
    46 8 The inhabitants of the tillage of Rangra near Lima Pern yesterday A abandoned their homes ana fled into the country. They had noticed that the whole village was gradually sinking into the earth to the sound ol subterranean rum- Dies.— AFP
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    U.S. court upholds segregation
    97 8 U.S. court upholds segregation NEW YORK, Mon, VIRGINIA Negroes have lost the first round m what they promise will be a continuing battle against the state laws requiring separate public schools for whites and Negroes. A special three- judge Federal Tribunal ruled unanimously during the weekend that present statutes calling
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    AMNESTY URGED
    71 8 A former German paratroop general Bernhard Herman Ramcke, yesterday urged an amnesty for all Nazi war criminals except where plain murder could be established under German law.- A.P. Kumari, s. N a -"••rat mm and Kumari S. M. Kamala busily engaged m a family quarrel m the short
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    POISON IS No. 1 KILLER OF U.S.
    269 8 POISON IS No. 1 KILLER OF U.S. NEW YORK, Tuesday. pOISONS rank surprisingly high as killers of Americans, a new study finds. They kill more people than all the infectious diseases combined, excepting tuberculosis. The poisons are many kinds, taken accidentally or Intentionally. They include alcohol, carbon monoxide gas, sleep
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    'Dreadful story of 3,000 murders'
    71 8 The Indian parliament has extended by six months from April 1 the Preventive Detention Act to enable the Government to detain without trial subversive elements, mainly Communists. The Home Minister, Mr. K. N. Katji. told the House at the end of December, 1951. there were
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    DR. FRANK GRAHAM
    23 8 Dr. Frank Graham, United Nations representative for Kashmir, yesterday met the Pakistan Foreign Minister. Sir ZafruUah Khan. m Karachi.— Reuter
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    Crash victims found
    85 8 WENGEN. SWITZERLAND, Mon. A RESCUE column groped its way through snow and fog covering the treacherous slopes of 13,500-foot Jungfrau Mountain last night to bring down four bodies from the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force G-47 which crashed into the peak on Friday. The four are
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    MISSION TO IRAQ
    29 8 A German university mission of five men and a woman arrived m Baghdad yesterday to study teaching problems at the request of the Iraqi Government.— A.P.
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    WOMEN PLEDGE 'PEACE IN KOREA'
    108 8 LONDON, Mon. A MEETING of about 1,400 women organised by the Communist-inspired Nationalist Women's Association yesterday voted resolutions whereby they undertook to do everything possible to achieve peace m Korea. The meeting was held to celebrate International Women's Day." British authorities refused visas to all
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    HE LED POLICE TO BANK ROBBER
    482 8 Murder of a salesman NEW YORK, Monday. ARNOLD SCHUSTER, a Brooklyn trousers salesA man who led police to Willie Sutton, America's most wanted bank robber, was found dead on Saturday night on a vacant lot, riddled by bullets. Schuster; 24, who received no reward
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    FATHER AND SON MEET
    51 8 FATHER AND SON MEET picture. MR P. S. HUNTER, a Surrey solicitor (right) meets his father, Dr. P. S. Hunter, former Municipal health officer (left) on his arrival in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC from London. Mr. ard Mrs. Hunter will spend a three-week vacation with their parents. Free Press picture. Free
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    Surgeons hail robot heart
    215 8 PHILADELFHM MEDICAL authorities were 0 :v. iT1 yesterday about commenting 7> v heart which made medical history t man alive for one hour and twenty r :'n:a surgical operation wa s performed rm V 1 But nrivately they wer* en- K[ n h thusiatic over the
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    MALTESE want MORE COLA
    55 8 MALTESE want MORE COLA A Maltese trade unin- a. legation is to leave ot-** don this week to L with the Admiralty <??* the Trade Union '"(W^ a claim by 18 000 workers for an hS* cost of living allowan* 1 The workers wh y been on strike for H
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    ENVOI QUIS
    16 8 tn T !i c Ambas^ to Turkey. Mr Mia ag Ahmed, has resigned.-T^ AFP
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