The Singapore Free Press, 18 March 1952

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 18,343. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1552. t PRICE FIFTEEN CENTO?
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    SPORE TAXES MAY GO UP
    557 1 Drink duty explained Free Press Staff Reporter "YEW taxation may be necessary to provide amenities and improve the standard of living of the people", said Mr. W. C. Taylor, Singapore's Financial Secretary, m the Legislative Council this morning. "But", he added, "I hope it will
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    Inquiry report to bo published
    28 1 npHE Singapore GoverflJ- ment announced this morning that the report by the Committee which inquired into the riots was being printed for publication.
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    New Govt. for Siam
    85 1 BANGKOK, Tues. PREMIER Phibun SongI gram, who was kidnapped m an attempted coup d'etat last June, is to open Siam's National Assembly today, instead of King PhumiDhon Aduldet The action of the King ln suddenly going last week to the seaside resort of Huahin, started rumours
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    Police put in charge of Egypt's politicians
    214 1 CAIRO, Tues. FHE Egyptian Minister 1 of the Interior yesterday put the chief, of political police in control Df the activities of all Egyptian political parties for the security of the state. The Minister, Mortada El Maraghy Bey. created a new post of
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    Chopper attack in the sea
    118 1 Fre. t*ress Man" Reporter SEX may be alleged as the motive of the murder of a Hokkien labourer, Joo Liang, at Pulau Tekong Besar, off Singapore, yesterday, a C.I.D. spokesman told the Free Press this morning. Joo Liang, while carrying a sack of sugar from
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    Fifth column plot foiled
    201 1 Fifth column plot foiled RANGOON, Tuesday. OURMESE military and police officials yesterday arrested secret Communist agents accused of circulating leaflets urging fifth columnists t^ "4>low up important and strategic buildings" m Rangoon and asking the army and the police to join the Communist rebels. Others are being sought m the
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    37 1 picture THE CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer, Mr. Butler, showing the famous red despatch box containing the Budget to the crowd outside his residence, ss he leaves for the House of Commons. With him is his wife.- Popper
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    51 convicts dig tunnel and escape
    161 1 TIJUANA, Mexico, Tues. MEXICAN and South California police hunted yesterday for 51 prisoners who escaped through a 30-foot tunnel from Tijuana gaol during the. weekend. Five others m the mass break were captured. "We are dying of hunger said Jose Gonzales Esquivez. 27, one
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    REBEL BOMB KILLS TWO
    36 1 Two people, one a 12-year-old girl were killed when grenades were thrown among dockworkers m the CThlnese section of Saigon during the weekend. Police said people, eight of them Frenchwere injured.- Reuter
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    Mecca ban
    22 1 Communist authorities m West China's predominantly Muslim province of Slnkiang have banned the pilgrimage of the faithful to Mecca.— A.P.
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    Air ace lost in cloud
    85 1 LONDON, Tata. A BRITISH air ace, WingCmdr Johnnie Baldwin, SS, has beta reported sing ta Korea daring a weather reconnaissance. Wing-Cmdr. Baldwin was serving with the American air force under aa exchange ef officers scheme. The Air MinJafry mid yesterday that ea the flight o_i
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    TRAPEZE ACT ENDS IN DEATH
    120 1 PARIS, Tues. HEATH caught up with the IT* death defying" Waylands on their family trapeze act at a suburban circus m Paris on Sunday night. Just before entering the _m .U Tln-iimnnn But the family went through its act, swaying from one trapeze to another
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    Her 4th divorce
    27 1 Holcw-3 d Actress Hedy Lamarr yesterday received an uncontested interlocutory divorce from her fourth husband, night-club owner Ted Staffer, because "he hit me/ U.P.
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    CRYSTAL-GAZER FINDS THE BODY
    118 1 jp PARIS, Tuesday. A POLICE smirch for a missing* deaf-and-dumb Paris dressmaker drew blank until her employer took the problem to a clairvoyant. The crystal-gaser said "I ____.s see a wall. It ia night. Toui friend it under tbe wall She is dead, her body is
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    U.S. to buy Indies tin at $1.18
    85 1 U.S. to buy Indies tin at $1.18 WASHINGTON, Tues. T-HE Indonesian Govern- ment has agreed to 'sell the United States 20,000 tons of refined tin a year for the next two years at $1.18 a pound m Jakarta. This was disclosed by authoritative sources. A final agreement was expected to
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    FIRST MARK YOUR HORSE
    348 1 How to pick the winners Then nark your card FE SCOUT, of the London Daily Express, is one of Britain's most successful racing tipsters. Below we give his guide on how to pick the winners. HAPHAZARD betting only leads to financial disaster. That is why I
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    They don't like taxes
    58 1 TOKYO, Tues. I SOME IRATE taxpayers fire-bombed Japanese tax offices yesterday. About midnight four "napalm** bombs landed m j a Yokohama tax office, one j scoring a direct hit and the others near misses. Four hours later another fire-bomb hit a tax office south of Yokohama.
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    The Doctor, the Lawyer, The Priest
    815 2 AN EXPERIMENT IN HUMAN UNDERSTANDING A MOTHER LIES.... A CHILD BELIEVES HER FATHER IS DEAD THE FATHER RETURNS.... WHAT NEXT? JAMES LEASOR SUBMITS THE PROBLEM TO YOU AND TO THREE EXPERTS 1. THE CASE OF JOHNNY MARKHAM tUGHT years ago this week Johnny Markham's
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    23 2 "The man m the pet shop told Vera thai all hi* little birds would starve after Budget Day m unless somebody bought them."
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    Fanny Blankers-Koen Trains again
    567 2  - Fanny BlankersKoen Trains again Leo Hemrick Dutch uibnder to make third r *■__■_■_■_■__■_■■■■**> Olympic bid By ALMOST 16 years ago —m the summer of 1936— a slim 18-year-old girl was sent to the Olympic Games m Berlin by the Dutch Athletic Association. Since that year she has bro- ken one
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      15 2 We have always m Stock WATCHES and CLOCKS of popular makes designs at reasonable prices
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      81 2 COLD WAR A YOUNG village barber's apprentice fell in love with luscious Turkish film star Miney Djochkoune. He wrote her numerous letters. Then he came to Istanbul and wrote he intended to "squat" outside her house, "until he died". For four wintery days and nights he sat in the rain
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      73 2 5 s Fashion Contest I THE winner ot the Sin- gapore Free Press's "Lady Codiva" Fashion Con- I 1 test is Mrs. Lim Hock San, of I? I "Floriston," 9 Lim Twa Tow 1 Road, Paya Lebar, Singapore. f| She will be presented |l with the prixe, a swim suit,
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      154 2 YOUR I LUCKY STAR DORN today, yon have many of the qualification of the real statesman as weU as tbe popular politician. But you are not as self -confident in yuar earlier years as yon should V. learn to rely open, yourself ivore and to trust yonr own kfeae rather
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      29 2 Solution To Crossword No. 612 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.— Across: 1. Pikestaff. 8. Penalty Go*! 10. SOS. 11. Norm. 13. Obed. 14. Cascara. 15. Arid 16. Blot. 17. Bed. 19. Declaration.
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      122 2 New Crossword No. oIS f ff ff F tf ff"fl **********^BH^W~*-*-*--**MM^M mwm ___■_■_> _IJ-L~__SZIZ_J ■-Eifzzjzrz SzCi_:z 1 z 1 z l I 1 I I __l_rS_l _-BBBl____ CLUES ACROSS 3. Made, presumably, by legal tailors (7). 7. Gap for Britain to fill (6). 8. What the dead-end kids have come
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    JIVE GIRL SHOCKS GUESTS
    354 3 JIVE GIRL SHOCKS GUESTS LONDON, Tuesday. r i ESTS at a dance were shocked by the way a U n-year-old girl who is fond of "jtyinr" kissed a nl ul n was stated at Nottingham AssrfaesTllLt those who saw her did nothing about It The evening which began with a
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    24 3 FRANZ LEHAR'S famous operata, Merry Widow" has been filmed again, this time with Lana Turner. Here, Lana looks as daring as a French doll.
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    Fish, from sea to table
    111 3 HULL, Tues. BRITISH trawler owners ss want their customers to see how fish gets on to the meal-table, and a scheme to do this is to start at HulL Ten Leeds women, among them housewives, professional workers and a student, will go- on an early-morning
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    JAP MISSION
    21 3 A Japanese mission, now negotiating a new commercial agreement with Brazil, fc due to visit Santiecfa next monih.- A.P.
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    Cocoons for coronation
    102 3 LONDON. Tues UUNDRSDS and thoufarids of cocoons are being closely gwaed at Lady irt T ml Q*** 9Wcworm farm at LuUingstone Castle, m Kent. If the Queen decides to nave her coronation robes made from English silk miles of yellow thread will be spun from them. The
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    He behaved like cat when upset
    356 3 LONDON, Tuesday. A JUDGE made and comments on police procedure which required a man be charged with driving under the influence of liquor merely because his breath smelled of drink. Gerald Tyndal Methold, 38--year-old solicitor, was found not guilty at Surrey Assizes of driving
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    He buys, sells wild animals for a living
    198 3 BRUSSELS, Tues. JAN PEETERS, a Dutchman living m Brussels, is a "trader m game." He not only sells animals; he buys them, too. Peeters started animal trading some 22 years ago m his native Tilburg m Holland. He and his associate. Verhaege,
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    MacArthur was in occupation
    42 3 MacArthur was in occupation President Truman rested m a suite** at the Waldorf Astoria Towers during the week-rend, but not m the presidential suite. General Douglas MacArthur, ousted last year by Truman as Supreme Far Eastern Commander, occuDted the presidential suite.- U.P.
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    RHODESIA CUTS SPENDING
    54 3 The Government of Northern Rhodesia has prohibited the import of cars and trucks direct from America or from any country m Europe. The only cars which might be allowed m limited quantttas are those assembled to South Africa for which the Union is willing to take payment
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    BORDER CLASH
    24 3 A Yugoslav frontier guard was wounded m the head when Albanian guards crossed into Yugoslav territory and flred on Yugoslav patrol.- Reuter
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    A BLOW TO SILVER RACKET
    136 3 LONDON. Tues.* BRITAIN Has cracked down on conttoental ing m "cheap sterling" silw to Now York. me British fjrfborfttes intimated ta the l*ofi»°fi g£uS^ma£t that m future Kriaiirticatlon for an exSSt SenSHtor silver must thorities have used a similar similar trafficking m furs and tin.
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    Reds, not flying fish, play on road to Mandalay
    512 3  - Reds, not flying fish, play on road to Mandalay JACK McBETH By RANGOON, Tuesday. KIPLING must have been kidding. No presentday reporter m his right mind would dare argue with the Great Story-teller, to be sure, but can someone please answer these questions? Where are the famed fly- Ing fishes?
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    Proclamation— 5 weeks late
    62 3 The accession of Queen Elizabeth was proclaimed with full pageantry at Ely, Cambridgeshire five weeks late— At the request of 57 prominent citizens of the ancient cathedral town. They had protested strongly that no proclamation was made on Feb. 16. day after the death of King
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    RED WARNING ON VATICAN
    59 3 Italian Communist leader. Palmiro Togliatti. has warned his party against falling into the trap of "the struggle for or against religion" m Italy's administrative elections this spring. Togliatti. who as a student, was a brilliant scholar m Catholic theology, told 2.500.--000 Italian Communists that the Vatican
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    CLIPPER FLIES OUT ELEPHANT
    44 3 The first elephant to fly the Atlantic. Rajah, weighing 1,200 pounds has left London m a Pan American Clipper for Boston. He is being sent as a gift from the Governor of East Bengal to the Boston Park's Commission.- Reuter
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    NO WAR IF
    32 3 M. Paul Henri Spaak, former Belgian Premier, said m Brussels there will be no World War 111 if Europeans show enough "courage, imagination, daring and sense of solidarity". Reuter
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    MAMIE HAD A LITTLE DRINK
    67 3 HONG KONG. Tues. MAMIE To, 26-year-old dance hall hostess, drank a half bottle of whisky and topped ii by swallowing a gold necklace. Quick action by neighbours, -mlice and hospi&H authorities saved her. Attempted suicide? "No," said Mamie, she was not "such a fool as
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    FIGHT FOR ICES WITH A KICK
    222 3 FIGHT FOR ICES WITH A KICK LONDON, Tues. CLERGYMEN from 18 churches and chapels and a temperance society are among objectors to a scheme proposing the marketing of alcoholic icecream. The ice-cream one part of liquor to eight parts of ice has been produced after long experiments m four flavours:
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    NEW PROJECT
    31 3 Five companies, three from Western Germany, and one each from Turkey and the United States, will construct an $11 million dam on the Sakarya River m North-West Turkey. A.P.
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      170 3 Radio SINGAPORE II am Emergency Hews from 10 05 "Tunes from the ?foh*\; 1 0 5 Schools; 1 pjn. Music: 1.30 News; 1.45 "The Wh ppoorwills"; 2-3_» Schools; E- „T "i ur Stars and a Btarlet"; UN. Album-; 6.40 Radio Ma- <* Trio; 6.55 Announcements; 7 yews; 715 Can We
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Mar. 18, 1952. Control of power
    565 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Mar. 18, 1952. Control of power "THERE was a time when Singapore had fewer blackouts, shorter blackouts. It seemed then that there was a bare chance that the worst had passed. But hopes have now been proved false, and the fear is that the worst
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    Mao's Friend Raises a Storm
    508 4 AFRAIL-looking, but strong-willed 68--year-old Chinese, Pang Shu-mln, a leader of the Democratic League and a delegate to the Kuomintang Communist peace talks held after the war, has now changed his mind about Marxism. He is openly questioning Communist doc* trines and challenging his critics to
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    FRENCH LEAK' MUST BE PLUGGED
    577 4  - FRENCH LEAK' MUST BE PLUGGED Lionel Shapiro Where the U.S. dollars go says "ARE we going stark, raving mad" was how an American newspaper greeted the American decision to cut aid to Britain while increasing aid to France. Since then France ha? received $570,000,000 (U.S.) which is addi tional to
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    WATER
    578 4  -  J. L HAYS It's anything but SWEET, but it IS By SUEZ CANAL ZONE. U7E nearly die of laughing every time its name is mentioned this so-much-in-the-news Sweet Water Canal. Canal? Yes, fair enough, it is a canal. Or rather a series of canals. Water?» Well, we suppose it
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    EMPIRE LINK-UP BN ATOM BOMB
    263 4 Cold rush' I ror uranium !S %Jk/HERE a little over 50 WW years ago the magic c word "gold" drew a rush of eager adventurers to the Klondyke, today the sons of those same Canadians rush to S stake their claims no less eagerly than
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    HOME ON THE (ATOM BOMB) RANGE
    490 4  - HOME ON THE (ATOM BOMB) RANGE Donald McCormick By IN what is probably the most unhomely territory m the worldshunned even by the aboriginal tribes— the stark, Saltbush" Desert of South Australia, Britain's first atom-bomb will be fired. This decision marks long negotiations between London, Canberra, and Washington. It means
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    Turks learn English
    79 4 r ATEST craze m Istanbul is learning English. Everyone from 13 to 30 is doing it. It has been stimulated by Turkey's admission to the North Atlantic Treaty. "English by Radio" holds a peak broadcast hour. The manual to follow the broadcasts is m its third printing.
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      14 4 ENGAGEMENT. WEDDING a DRESS RINGS U.S.de Silva IK ORCHARD MU. SINGAPORt 9. TEL 2246*
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    GOVT. STUDYING WAYS TO FIGHT GRAFT IN COLONY
    133 5 GOVT. STUDYING WAYS TO FIGHT GRAFT IN COLONY Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Government is considering recommendations from the police to fight corruption m the Colony, a government official said yesterday. The recommendations are: 1. An Anti Corruption Unit separate from the police force so that it could function without
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    Police to have own vehicles workshops
    187 5 Police to have own vehicles workshops Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police force •^wiU have its own vehicles workshops, while improvements are being made to the Combined and Radio Operation^ Rooms, and the C.I.D. Building. FsP-^diture for these items, totalling nearly $200,000 has been approved by the Finance Committee which
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    This name will end the confusion
    104 5 This name will end the confusion WHERE had been too much confusion m Singapore over Boys' Town m Bukit Timah and the Bukit Timah Boys' Home m Clement! Road. So the Social Welfare Department's home for delinquent boys is to be renamed ''The Gimson School for Boys." That i s
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    TRANSFERRED
    42 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Mr. Ng Yook Tong, Office Assistant, Town Board Headquarters, Johore Bahru, has been transferred to PWD to take over from Mr. J. Buxton Financial Assistant, who is shortly leaving fcr Kuala Lumpur to join he Corps of Accountants.
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    Sweep queue: MCA official explains
    202 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ANY" inconvenience to members of the Malayan Chinese Association m obtaining lottery tickets at the Singapore office, was unfortunate and un-* avoidable, the secretary of the Colony branch. Mr Chuang Hui Tsuan, said yesterday. Mr. Chuang was replying to i a
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    Royal Schools music exams
    89 5 T**HE 1952 practical examinations, including the L. R S. M., of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music London, will be held m Singapore m August and September. Entries for these examina tions should reach the Examination Secretary, Department of Education, Singapore, before May
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    14 apply for this course
    39 5 ABOUT 14 people have applied for the student almoners' course to be run by the Singapore General Hospital, the Free Press was told yesterday. The candidates will be selected by the Public Services Commission.
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    71 5 A SINGAPORE WOMAN, Mrs. Ethel Taylor, was a member of an international group which attended the 49th birthday party of Mr. Terence Driscoll. founder of the International Club at Addiscombe Grove. East Croydon. Surrey, England. Picture shows Mrs. Taylor (second from left) helping to cut one ot two birthday cakes
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    New unit for Air Corps
    208 5 New unit for Air Corps THE Malayan Air Training Corps has been expanded by the formation of a unit at the Singapore Victoria Afternoon School. An initial grant by Government of $13,908 to the new unit has been approved by the Finance Committee which tabled a report m the Legislative
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    CHINAG GOVT: CORRECT NAME
    51 5 Some Singapore Chinese nationalist organisations have received a request from Formosa, that the Chiang Government be referred to as "the Government of the Chinese Republic" and not as f* Nationalist Government." A similar request has been sent from Formosa also to other territories where oversea Chinese
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    SAND FOR JAPAN: WORK BEGINS
    150 5 iipERATIONS to remove tons of sand from Pulau Tekong KechU, an island of about 220 acre s off SinMpore, to Japan have beSwner of the island, told the Free Press yesterday He added the A wtfn m earnest after an Mr. G. H. Kiat, representing
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    51 5 MYRTLE OORAI RAJ, of Madras, India, and Alice Tay, of Singapore, have been students at the Westover School for Girls, m Middlebiit*, jDoWiectlcnt, where ttjy havrbeen housi guests Miss Raj (left) and Miss Tay depart by train from Middiebury enroute to WeUes ley College, at Wellesley, Massarhnsetts, where they al-o
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    YWCA centre for Chinatown
    91 5 THE Young Women's Christian Association will start building their new $250,000 four-storeyed Women's Centre at the Wayang Street-Canal Road junction as soon as $100,000 is collected. Mrs. Shufen Khoo secretary of the Chinese section of the Association, said yesterday the building fund now stood at about
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    FOOD OFFICE TO COST $41,000
    88 5 FOOD OFFICE TO COST $41,000 SINGAPORE Government* recently established Food Production Office will cost; more than $41,000, according 1 to a report tabled by the Finance Committee m the Legislative Council this morTTfctis sum represents the cost of staff and equipment, and the general expenses of a central office and
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    COLLEGE WANTS MORE WOMEN STUDENTS
    113 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. SINGAPORE Teachers' Training College wants more women students, Mr. R. c. Ince, Senior Inspector of Schools, said yesterday. The first batch of students recruited this year for train- ing were mostly men. This batch consisted of about 350. "The number of
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    BLACKOUT AREAS
    93 5 FLLOWING substations are liable to load shedding tonight: Jm Chiat Place, Jalan Yasin, Jalan Eunos, Atlas Ice, Happy, World, Asia Rubber Lorong Sim* Avenue Sawmill. Shell Co., Lee Robber Works, Mt. BattenNetwork, Spore Swimming Clob, Tanjong Rhu, U.E. Shipyard, Rhu. Cross, Nanyang Ice Works, Cathay, Macdonald House, Tan
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    TAKE UNINSURED FOR MAIN SPRINT
    1258 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS k By Wednesday race chances Horses not accepting HOLLOWING horses will not start tomorrow Ondine, Unas, Birthday Gift. Tiberius, The Potentate, Inky BUI, Happy Quadrant and Lyon Queen. Cobro, Ra-Ll, Cavalier, Cadsow Glen, Avilor, and most probably Gambar Melayu and Scotch Express. Watch
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    Saturday's winners are led In
    41 6 ■iSftkv^' picture. Right, Datin Thuraisinffha m leads in Masterman, winn er of the firu Timah on Saturday and left Mr. Teng Yen ff Fooi owner, leading in CmTJt that horse's surrey In rsc» fiw» Free Press
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    CAMBRIDGE IS PICK OF THIS LOT
    264 6 CAMBRIDGE, who is very well handicapped, looks the pick of this field. Rlgoletto is working well enough to be given a strong chance and Fifty Grand, who revels m heavy going, wiU win if the track is m the same condition as on the
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    FORD OFFICIALS
    32 6 _>_H__K. ***J_« »»na«- «enermi meet--8 wert etected offl Worur Pent Hoo,: HotTsE*: W J (LJ?^ Al ff Btl fc«" Cheng: Hon Sports Cant.: Mr. A. Bgfig^ Superintenden l: Mr Pooa
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    HALF-MILER TO TRY AGAIN
    37 6 GjOIRMANN notified tha United States Olympic Committee jepeidaj that ha will run In the half-mUe event of tha OlyapHe Sporta Carnival at liadiaon Sguue Garden. New. York pest Saturdaygiven hie choice ot mmi.
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    FORMOSA ATHLETES
    86 6 FORMOSA ATHLETES THE visiting Fora_m«* swept the tov-djy »J track and field meet m m Manila I*** 6 They scored a W* points" 60 pas* °*f closest rivals snd j first m seven event* P ln five. -^-^I Tr«n Eng-loog d ro^g) the star of the d»| U<e national reP*
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    20 6 IPOH Moo.-fWjjJV ctitoa ib, iJr»wj *s third w^ tl !tf TOfiL* Toont Hon *^^"e*r_W_ft yMr w_Tl^* l___i point! to to*»~^^
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    GILTEDGED & LUCIFEE LOOK SAFE BETS
    771 6 GILTEDGED LUCIFEE LOOK SAFE BETS rjILTEDGED, third to Astute Monarch and Corazon M the first <Ut be very hard to beat m the Cl. 2, Div. 5, 6-F. event He is well treated— down 3 divisions with only *r: 9 lb. extra, m a very weak field. Proctor and Cardinal
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    PENANG FOR T-T GROUP
    78 6 TH3 promote intereK S game, a table-leans* tion is to be formed a IP Penang table-tent-. «P held a meeting at the Bj Clerical and Adminisßtt* 1 Union on Sunday vh« I verted that an «_sodaaa» be formed The meeting sppomsc man committee Mean chapakesan. Chuab
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    S'gor cancel triangular
    93 6 THE Selangor Badminton Association Committee ?i!?_ de 2? ed to the i»sl triangular tournament among Penang. Perak and Selangor. c The ""Petition for which Selangor were to have been hosts waa postponed from last year owing to lack of s suitable halt J? JK to mis Easter
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    WINNING GALLOP BY ACCEBER
    299 7  - WINNING GALLOP BY ACCEBER ALLAN LEWIS But Uninsured caught the eye By fHOUGH he did not return the fastest" time Uninsured (Tulloh) was the most attractive worker at Bukit Timah this morning. Uninsured ran three m 41, without being fully extended. He should improve quite a lot from his last
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    19 7 j i 'RM Fcr- n- d"-' 1 Z left v p,»r;s- rt Newcastle f r^^b to two.
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    Protection for jockeys
    84 7 AN Australian racing club is arranging police protection for ace jockeys who may get assaulted for not bringing m their mounts. Action followed an incident m which an angry punter hurled a handful of tickets at top jockey Jack Purtell as he trotted favourite Hampden Park to
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    RUGBY LEAGUE CUP
    29 7 II Rugby League Cup pt-tal draw made m yesterday resulted Micgtoc Town v. Barl Leigh v Featherstone Itches to be played on inlay March 29 —Reuter.
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    INDONESIA CAN NOW COMPETE
    30 7 'T»HE Indonesian Olympic Com--1 mittee has been recognized by the International Olympic Committee at Lausanne, aad Indonesia will be lnvitea to rartake tn the Helsinki Olympic
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    SCOTS WIN BUT FAIL TO PLEASE
    154 7 X Scottish Football League beat the League of Wand (Eire) by two goals to nil m Dublin Strdav after leading I—o1 0 at half-time. Scottish selectors could have obtained little fresh information from this match xo help them In choosing the SCbtland team to
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    BRICKS AND ALL ON HALL SITE
    160 7 BRICKS, sand, steel, cement, asbestos and wood m fact all the materials required to build the Singapore Badminton Association's new hall m Guillemard Road are on the site, and a contractor employed by the architect, Mr. Ng Keng Siang, said yesterday, that the hall
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    CHAMPION TRAINS
    25 7 Radrodro, light -heavy weight champion of the Fiji Islands, having his gloves lace d on before a sparring session at N^ Soon yesterday.
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    Katong Sajarah let chances go
    386 7 KATONG Sajarah, who were promoted from Div. 2 to S.A.F.A/S Senior Division last year, are still without a point. Yesterday Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers beat them by two goals to nil at Jalan Besar Stadium. If good soccer was not seen, the teams made up
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    Danes lead England 4-0
    110 7 THOMAS CUP DENMARK had a 4—o lead over England at the end of the first day's play m the European zone final of the Thomas Cup International badminton championship, m Manchester yesterday. Paul Holm, Danish national champion, gave his country a great start when he beat
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    JACKS SOCGER
    37 7 Clubs and associations who are desirous of having friendly football matches with Jacks Sports Club are requested to write to the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Lim Choo Ann, c/o William Jacks Co. (M) Ltd., Ocean Building.
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    TODAY'S U.S.L. FIXTURES
    29 7 SENIOR DIV. RAF Changi RAF M.U. R.N.A.S v. SER RAOC. v. RAF Seletar. JUNIOR DIV. RAF M.U. v. RAF Changi. R.A.P.C v. R.N.A.S. RAF Seletar S.R.R.A.
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    CONSPIRACY CHARGE v. I.B.C.
    244 7 THE L.a.l i States Uovernmem yesterday accused the Internationai Boxing Club of New York and Illinois of conspiring to monopolise professional championship boxing m America. Tlie Department ot Just^ complaint made m a civil action In the Federal Court «ai< 1 tha i_!Sf clubs .obtained contracts
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    YOUNG FRISCO MAY FIGHT HERE NEXT MONTH
    289 7 Free Press Boxing Reporter VOIING FRISCO, former middleweight champion A of the Orient, may be seen battling again m a Singapore ring m April or May this yea.-. Frisco has written to say that he is prepared to meet any light-heavyweight m the
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    LEGG IS HER NAME
    34 7 Experts are watching with interest, the progress of promising young athlete, Ann Legg from Woolwich, a member of the Cambridge Harriers, seen here practising putting the shot at Charlton Park.
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    RADRODRO PACKS A WALLOP
    149 7 JSIMELI Radrodro, light- heavyweight champion of the Fiji Islands, should give Australian's Steve Brian a busy evening on April 4, at the Happy World Stadium. During his** workouts at Nee Soon, the brawny Fijian has shown that he packs the wallop which saves a referee that
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    U.K. BANKERS SCORE 7
    339 7 HONG KONG Bank Sports Club 'A" beat Pulo Bukom S.C. yesterday by seven goals to nil m j a Singapore Business Houses F.A. Div. 1 league match. Beins scored three goals for the Bankers. V. Klass notched two and Rahim Omar one. The remaining goal came
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    England XV v. Ireland
    132 7 England XV v. Ireland ENGLAND'S team to play Ireland m a Rugby Union international at Twickenham on Mar. 29 will be unchanged from that which beat Scotland m the Calcutta Pup match on Saturday. "It is also the same team chosen for the match on its original date* of Feb.
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    SAFA probes Stadium brawl
    83 7 AN emergency meeting of the Singapore Amateur Football Association Council this week will hear the findings of the S.A.F.A. Commission of Enquiry which met yesterday. The Commission met to investigate the incident at Jalan Besar Stadium last week when players from Chinese Casuals and Amicable A.A.
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    Gardner beats Terry Allen
    38 7 TEDDY GARDNER, Of Hartlepool, won the British and vacant Empire flyweight titles and retained his European flyweight crown when he outpointed the British champion, Terry Allen, over 15 rounds at Newcastle last night. Reuter
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    WASHED OUT
    20 7 Rain stopped the cricket match between Police and Technical College on the Police Depot ground, Kuala Lumpur, Sunday.
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    TRUMAN URGES IRON FIST AGAINST RUSSIA
    586 8 Tm tired of babying the Soviets 9 NEW YORK, Tuesday. UNLESS Russia is faced with an iron-list and strong language, another war is m the making, according to President Truman. He said the Reds understand <mly one language "How many divisions have you?' 9
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    88 8 A NEW DEVELOPMENT m our mechanical age is the slot machine that wfll dispense perfume or even spray you with it. In the foyer of a Copenhagen cinema one such machine has just been installed. If you stand m front of the machine and insert three Danish kroner you are
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    'Wanted killer' surrenders
    71 8 NEW YORK, Tues. A YOUNG man told the police yesterday that he killed Arnold Schuster, the tipster m the capture of bank robber Willie Sutton. The man was picked up at a Brooklyn bar shortly after he had telephoned the nearest police station. The police said he
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    U.K. EMBARGO
    31 8 The embargo placed on exports to Hong Kong was hurting the Allies more than the Eastern bloc, declared Professor E. S. Kirby, economist of the Hong Kong University-.- Reuter
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    BISHOP DIES IN PRISON
    38 8 Archbishop Cyril Rudolph Jarre, 74. of Tainan, Shantung, died on March 8 following a month-long imprisonment by the Chinese Communists. He was the second bishop to have succumbed to Red prison rigours m China.
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    100 REFUSE TO BE FLOODED OUT
    248 8 TIGNES, French Alps, Tuesday. FRENCH security police yesterday had to wrest from the pocket of the Tignes "res'stance" leader the keys to the Town Hall cupboard containing the records of this tiny mountain village condemned to die under the waters of France's biggest power
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    Pacifist culture in cold war
    314 8 LONDON, Tuesday. rpHE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, told the House of Commons yesterday that if a Russian diplomat wanted to visit Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, he could do so if he got the permission. He could go by rail, or road, and ''even
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    Japs give U.S. special rights
    60 8 TOKYO, Tues. pRIME Minister. Mr. Shi- gem Yoshida. said yesterday that the "United States garrison m Japan is entitled to extra territorial privileges/ The Premier added: "Both Britain and France are granting similar privileges far U.S. troops garrisoned m their countries. "Japan's administrative agreement with
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    CALL FOR CUT Hi U.S. IMPORTS
    138 8 LONDON, Tues, Mr. Douglas Jay, former Labour Financial Secretary m the Treasury, said yesterday that the Conservative budget offered Britain ''inequality m misery", and advocated instead drastic cuts m imports from th§ United States. Re opened the Labour at- tack on the last day
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    Big Three prepare an answer to Moscow
    198 8 Big Three prepare an answer to Moscow LONDON, Tues. rK FOREIGN Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, the French Ambassador to Britain, Mr. Rene Massigli, and the UJB. Minister, Mr. Julius Holmes, yesterday worked on the text of the Western reply to Russia's latest proposals on Germany. Hie draft of the Western
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    Police charge on crowd
    78 8 LONDONDERRY, Tues. r-LUB SWINGING police 1 yesterday charged a crowd of 1,000 persons thronging around an Irish National tricolour. The crowd had stoned police barracks after a St. Patrick's Day gathering. When the meeting ended, police had appealed to the crowd to disperse peacefully, but about
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    U.K. to stick by Colombo Plan
    63 8 Britain is expected to reaffirm her full support of the Colombo Plan for Economic Development of South and Southeast Asia at the meetings of the Plan's Consultative Committee from March 24 to 31 at Karachi, Pakistan. The Marquess of Reading. Britain's Under-Secretary of State
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    33 8 Two human skeletons discovered by road workers at Brindisi Italy were identified yesterday as those of a Roman Consul and a Roman soldier killed m a batt.r about 200 B.C.- U.P.
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