The Singapore Free Press, 24 March 1952

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA jit*** SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    CEYLON'S NEXT PREMIER
    644 1 Senanayake's son may succeed his father ».r> r. COLOMBO, Monday. |^|R. Dudley Senanayake, who is 40, may succeed his father, Mr. Don Stephen Senanayake as Prime Minister of Ceylon. r Senanayake, senior, known as "Jungl«> i^Ji V was died on Saturday following a fall from a bolting
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    Congress backs Nehru's policy
    157 1 Congress backs Nehru's policy CALCUTTA. Mon. T ur Al.-India Congress \Ci ee__the policyv bodj of India's rul- v- v&sterday un- approved Prime Sinister." Mr. Nehru's foreign i n committee, holding Us gisj session after the gener--5 was meeting for r si nd aay. :tion. moved by B Home Minister. y
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    Sarawak Governor
    25 1 veroot of Sarawak,, Bta Anthony Foster Abell, a::.- tn Singapore this He sails for Engi> leave in the Dutch L Oranje, on Thursday.
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    CHAINED SEAMAN GETS DAMAGES
    97 1 SEATTLE, Mon. A SUPERIOR Court Jury during the weekend awarded US$2,OOO damages to a seaman, who was chained "like a wild animal" to the bridge of the freighter Clyde L. Seavey, on its voyage half way round the world. The seaman, William Olynyk, 27, of New
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    SPECIAL SESSION IN JAKARTA
    38 1 SPECIAL SESSION IN JAKARTA A special session of the Indonesian Parliament has been called for today to discuss Soviet Russia's invitation to send Indonesian representatives to the Moscow International Economic Conference scheduled to open on April 13 A.F.P.
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    35 1 This balloon, which was let up over Bukit Nanas in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday by radio engineers to test the propagation of radio rays in the area, caused a scare among: re- Free Press sidents.-
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    U.K. LAW EXPERT SUPPORTS MALAN
    69 1 CAPE TOWN, Monday. THE South African Government consulted a British legal expert, Professor Emlyn Wade, before the Appeal Court's session which declared invalid the Government's bill to remove coloured voters from the common voters roll. Prof. Wade is Professor of Laws of England at CamKrtHffo
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    Egypt's P.M. to oppose Wafd
    235 1 CAIRO, Monday. THE Egyptian Cabinet decided last night to ask King Farouk to sigfi a royal decree dissolving the Wafd -dominated Chamber of Deputies effective today. Premier Hilaly Pasha is expected to form his own party within the next few days to oppose the powerful
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    24 1 THE eI'EEN has approved the appointment of LieutGeneral Sir Willoughby Morrie, as Governor-Gene-ral of New Zealand, in succession to Lieut. General Lord Freyburg, V.C
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    No time off for romance
    50 1 No time off for romance PHILADELPHIA, Mon. PHILADELPHIA City employees will have to get married on their own time from now on. The City has announced the ending of the custom of granting two extra days' holiday with pay to employees who get married. The City said: "A careful picture.
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    GAITSKELL SUPPORTS ARMS PLAN
    122 1 LONDON, Mon. |7«ORMER Labour Chancellor ■T of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, yesterday declared that the British rearmament programme was fully justified. Mr. Gaitskell said at Newcastle that if it was true that the threat of a world war had subsided, it was due to the
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    Chimp shows the way
    57 1 SYDNEY, Mon. STAR of a road saiety film to be shown to New South Wales schoolchildren is a 12--year-old performing chimpanzee. The chimpansee, Marquis, is one of four In a circus here. Wearing a sun hat, white slacks and a striped sweater, be rides through traffic
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    OFFER TO BURMA
    35 1 A Japanese trade envoy, Ryutar Nemoto, has offered the Burmese a new type of rice polishing machine which will cut the percentage of broken rice from 40 to 5 per cent.- A.P.
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    BAN U.S. COOKIES'
    16 1 Three national associations I ~.M Trmnnaca nr\Y\ f OPf if»n Q TIP <i
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    Cold winds & snow follow U.S. tornadoes
    208 1 Cold winds snow follow U.S. tornadoes LITTLEROCK, ARKANSAS, Monday. TORNADOES RAVAGING six southern states w'th death and destruction since Friday have Abated but cold winds and snow in their wake are bring in t more misery to thousands of homeless. The American Red Cross, straining every resource to bring aid
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    12 HURT IN RIOTS IN TRIESTE
    104 1 12 HURT IN RIOTS IN TRIESTE TRIESTE, Mon. TWELVE people were in- jured, three seriously, In a clash in Trieste yesterday, between police and demonstrators for the return of Trieste to Italy. The hour-long disturbance was the latest in a series la' which Italian newspapers claimed 157 people had been
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    Margaret was amazed to find she 'likes Ike'
    122 1 HOLLYWOOD, Men. MISS MARGARET TRUMAN joined the "I Like Ike" Club here when she appeared in Jimmy Durante's television show. But she did it only for laughs. The Presidents daughter was led blindfolded to a blackboard on which had been drawn a
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    NAVAL TASK
    32 1 Dan Kimball, United States Secretary for Navy said during the weekend that the British and United States navies are going to keep control of the seas" in the Far East
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    Praise for Templer
    78 1 LONDON, Mon. THE London Observer yesterday praised Lieuteni ant-Generai Sir Gerald TemI pier for his address to the Federation Legislative Council as High Commissioner. "It should fully allay the fears of some that he mi?ht prove too much the soldier to appreciate the urgency of constitutional development."
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    ISRAEL DECISION
    35 1 The Soviet Trade Union newspaper Trud yesterday attacked the Israel trade uni* on federation Histadrut for its decision not to aend representatives to the Internal tional Economic Conference at Moscow next month. Reuter
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    More Jets Crash In Britain
    988 2 But RAF flying has never been safer. More planes are in the air today, says HARRY C. DRAKE ALTHOUGH jet-plane crashes are'becoming more and more numerous in Britain--witness three in one week within a 20-mile radius of York recently jet flying by both trainee and
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    Anybody About?...
    75 2 No! Just my opportunity for a night out. That was the plan that flashed through the mind of Blondie, London Zoo's white marmoset. But Blondie was disappointed. The keeper nipped his plan in the bud. Below: Except for the bicycles and the machine gun this might be a
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    Lisbon is Europe's Biggest Hide-out
    583 2 Lisbon is Europe's Biggest Hide-out FIVE ROYAL FAMILIES GLAMOURISE REFUGEE SOCIETY, SAYS GAULT MacGOWAN I ISBON has become the European hideout of tax-evaders victims of revolution and wealthy refugees from the atomic era. Five royal families glamourise refugee society, which includes not only Europeans, but Canadians and Americans who were
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    THEY MAKE MONEY IN ALL COUNTRIES
    712 2 SPOTLIGHT on SPIVS Wide-boys, hawkers, fridbfa barrow boys, street trader^ they go by many names a^ operate with many different degrees of honesty AMERICA AMERICAN street traders— they call them "spivs" too— are the nearest thing you can find to down-and-outs. In New York
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    Ghosts in Greece
    271 2 r< HOSTS are walking in Greece or at any rate in the small village of Vythos in the north of the country. In Vythos, in fact, the ghosts have been walking for quite a time and they appear to have set up something of a permanent headquarters
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      35 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR gORN today, yon have a strong character and a firm will. Your sense of justice b keen and yon will fight for anyone you consider hi an M mdtrdof'*. Hence, you are
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      38 2 never be pushed into anything against your will. Your ideals are high bnt yon must guard against sticking t» the traditional when new* concepts and practices are better. If yon will accept a challenge to do a Job,
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      37 2 intuition is keen. Learn to obey Its dictates. Never go against a "hunch" or the move will prove to be one In the wrong direction. Although rather aloof and almost cool toward new acquaintances, von have a
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      21 2 Solution To Crossword No. 617 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.— Across: 1. Cold cream. 7, 8. A fool and his money. 9. Salve. 10.
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      85 2 New Crossword No. 618 1111 B^B I —j. 1 f i i i^^— L— L— b^^— CLUES ACROSS 1. Carrot ode (anag) (9). 7. How Jill imitated Jack (7). 8. Striking creature on cricket field (3). 9. But this art does not necessarily mean wooden pictures (4-7). 10. Suitable atmospheric
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    JAPAN PLANS MUNITIONS OUTPUT
    283 3 JAPAN PLANS MUNITIONS OUTPUT Aircraft get top priority of Japan's ability to Sake war machines said that only big assistance from the Unit ed States could enable a quick g*over T of munitions potenJapanese nrms want flnanf** 1 Mueprlntsind SnSKi mtTy ammunition manufacture, American machines. According to an authoritative source
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    FRENCH CUSTOMS ACT WITH PASSION
    227 3 FRENCH CUSTOMS ACT WITH PASSION LONDON. Mon. Tan Nieni age has made H V;:> New York and ,/n'more alike, but the V; -,> the three ?;;f t western cities still re- worlds apart a:r traveller, dip- briefly into the life P; n \;Crnetropolis, the con- .:>* -ar. be startling, .htwn
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    Russia has a new fighter
    91 3 LONDON, Mon. RUSSIA has a fast new jet flgfatei of the MIG-15 r.?e according to the latest nrfej of soviet air strength. It Is smaller and sleeker than the MIG-15, with higher wings and conforms to the description of "a new MIG type flghter" recently
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    Cabbies' comment
    75 3 Cabbies' comment IF you want a quick cap--1 sule summary of life in Paris, London and New York, the best citizens to talk to are cab drivers. In Paris, a cab driver reported: «Life is fine if you have money. Here, only a very few have if A cabby said
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    Man from gaol says people more harassed
    204 3 LONDON. Mon. JAMES O'Connor, 43, called at Scotland Yard a tew hours after he wa& released from gaol after serving ten years of a life sentence for murder. "I am innocent, and I want to clear my name," he said. "I am trying
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    BOMBER CRASHES
    22 3 A four-engine navy patrol bomber with ten men aboard crashed Into Corpus Christ! Bay. Texas, shortly alter taking off.- A.P.
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    Now it's gravel from mud
    81 3 NEW YORK, Mon. U.S. scientists have discovered a complicated process for producing synthetic gravel from nothing more exciting than handfuls of ordinary mud. It is good for quick and temporary roads and may be used to build emergency air strips in any future war. Tlie
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    LAUGHS LANA
    16 3 LANA TURNER attends a premiere with Fernando Lamas, Mid to be her favourite escort.
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    SHOT BOY HAD MARKS ON NECK
    239 3 LONDON, Monday. INHERE were ten wounds on the neck of a 15-year-x old boy found shot dead in the armoury of Dean Close, a Cheltenham public school, it was said at the inquest. A doctor thought they might have been self-inflicted. By a majority
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    NET WORK HAS NO LOOPHOLES
    59 3 Western Europe's first radar warning network has just been completed with no loopholes. The network Is now functioning across the 2,500 miles of NATO'S command from Norway to Italy and guarantees, for the first time, that any sneak air attack would be detected long before
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    WARSONGS RING OUT IN TOKYO
    246 3 WAR SONGS RING OUT IN TOKYO TOKYO, Mon. rE trumpets and trombones are muffled and the drums are replaced by tambourines and castanets— but Japanese war songs have come back loud and strong. The imperial navy's "Warship March" was Japan's best-selling gramophone disc last year even if it was played
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    BAN ON RED PRO
    16 3 The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, has nrriAitkri Poland to
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    Scarlet lipstick marked his body
    189 3 Scarlet lipstick marked his body WRAPPED in a bright, multi-coloured blanket, a well-spoken man appeared in West London Court with messages in scarlet lipstick scrawled across his head and body. He told the magistrate that several women had dumped him in a Kensington street alter stripping most of hit clothing
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    Ashoutcost him £75
    176 3 A shout cost him £75 LONDON, Mon. A N Army pensioner shouted A to a council official: "You are a lying rat and a corrupt official. Several people heard him. On the same day he wrote "Perjurer, Perjurer, Perjurer" on the official's car. At Kent Assizes, the pensioner. Mr. Mark
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    Subs back from Arctic cruise
    54 3 Two British submarines have ended a 3.000--mile scientific cruise that took them 300 miles inside the Arctic Circle. The subs, the Anthion and Taciturn, each carried five officers and 58 ratings on the two- week jaunt to study the effects of low temperatures on men
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    10 years short
    30 3 Joseph Kester has died in Bambridge at the age of 104, 10 years short of the goal he set himself at his re- cent birthday party.— A.P.
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    LONELY GERMAN GIRLS TAKE TO DRINKING LIQUOR
    239 3 HAMM, Germany, Monday. WESTERN Germany has 150,000 alcoholics— the equivalent of 10 military divisions among tlie 15,000,000 Germans who regularly consume alcV-' holic drinks. During 1951 West Germans paid out 3,500,000.000 marks or alcoholic beverages or an average of 246 marks for every
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    Bridge Hand
    264 3 Bridge Hand Both sides Taioerafrla. North deaUr. SOUTH trumped the opining club lead and lad the Hag of hearts. "Imagine!" he, grumbled, "five trumps missing, and they all have to be tn one hand. I suppose the diamond finesse Is wrong, too." His supposition proved correct ..but the trouble was
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    POLICE SIWOOP NETS 600
    67 3 More than 600 African men and women have filed through two special courts in Johannesburg after a surprise police swoop on the township of Newclare where 13 men were killed and 95 injured in riots earlier this month. Many minor offenders were immediately fined. Others, charged
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    Another confession
    52 3 LATEST story from behind the Iron Curtain naciiii the CxechoslOTftkUn Minirter who pmid a Yfttft to the load museum. Stopping before a skull labelled u AtUU the Han," muaeum wat sure that the akuM belonged to AltlU the Hub. Came the reply: "There U no doubt about it.
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      167 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1 p.m. "Monday Matinee"; 1 30 News; 1.45 "Home on the Range"; 2-2.50 Schools; 6.17 Children; 6.35 "The New Road"; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News; 7.15 Interlude; 7 30 "Spot the Favourites"; 8 "World Affairs" by Allington Kennard; 8.15 "At Your Request"; 9 "Movie Magazine"; 9.30 News; 9.45 "Curtain
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    PORTENTS?
    43 4 CAN it be that Singapore's "cultural desert" is sprouting two lusty plants. music and the drama? Ibsen's drama "Ghosts," as presented bv the Arts Theatre, last week packed the Victoria Hall to the doors. Bookings for the concerts this week at wh«eh
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    The singapore Free Press MONDAY, Mar. 24, 1952. Danger in Korea
    514 4 The singapore Free Press MONDAY, Mar. 24, 1952. Danger in Korea IF a lie is told often enough, there will always be gullible people who will swallow it. That is why the Communists are piling on without pause their horror stories of U.N. airmen bombing Korea with germs Eacn U.N.
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    Angry Defence ot Malayan T.U.C.
    1142 4 Angry Defence ot Malayan T.U.C. LONDON: "fTHE efforts which havfe been made to psomote the formation of respectable trade unions were doomed from the start," wrote Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge in one of a series of articles on Malaya published by the Daily Telegraph. The statement has angered the International Confederation
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    London Letter
    322 4  -  Hall Romney (which includes North- West Europe) for the other three years. Units and battalions will move in that way with all the men in them, irrespective of the length of time they have been overseas. Mr. Head attached great importance to the elimination of cross-posting because, he
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    THE ARMY OF THE HOMELESS
    205 4  -  MARCEL WALLENSTEIN By PARIS. T«HE cry of 10,000,000 x people driven from their homes in Europe grows louder. The 10,000,000 are spread through all the lands of this hemisphere outside Russia and Russia's colonies strangers to the earth they walk. Their homes, their money, their
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    AMERICAN RIVAL TO THE QUEENS
    58 4 Top: An artist's impression of the "S.S. United States" (52,--000 tons), the new American Super-liner which makes her maiden voyage in |uly. She hopes to win Hie Atlantic Blue Riband. Centre: "Queen Elizabeth" (83.673 torn), the worlds largest liner. Bottom: "Queen Mary/* (75,--000 tout), also
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    New U.S. Super-liner Will be Safest Afloat
    734 4 New U.S. Super -liner Will be Safest Afloat NEW YORK. AMERICA'S new A 52,000-ton superliner, S.S. United States, with which America hopes to win the Atlantic Blue Riband from the Queen Mary, may set up a record, not only for speed, but for being the safest ship afloat. Every inch
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    Malayan students in U.S.
    92 5 AMERICAN classmates of Ding Boon Leong, of Klang, Selanfor, a student at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, say that Ding's artistic ability is much admired "and perhaps envied" on the campus. Ding, who is taking a pre-medical course*, has included art among his college studies. Two
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    They will discuss rice
    76 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ANOTHER exchange of information on world rice matters will take place at Phoenix Park tomorrow when the fourth Consultative Committee meeting on rice is opened by the CommissionerGeneral. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. Among those who will attend the conference is Mr. Norris E.
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    2 ACQUITTED
    45 5 SEREMBAN, Mon.— S. Seenivasagam and S. Ratnasingham. chief clerk and senior hospital assistant, respectively of Mentakab Hospital were acquitted and discharged in the Sessions Court here on Saturday on a charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of a cheque for $1,000
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    Chinese buy estates
    113 5 Chinese buy estates JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. MANY rubber estates chang- ed hands in Johore last year and nearly all the new owners are Chinese companies, or individuals. Among the estates sold were thirteen who are members of the Johore Planters Association. These estates and their new owners are Tai Tak
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    $100 TRESPASS
    38 5 TELUK ANSON, Mon. Convicted of house trespass at Kampong Batu Duabelas in Lower Perak, Hasbullah bin Ahmad, Mohamed Hassan bin Ibrahim and Ong Koo Lim were each fined $100 or one month's gaol at Teluk Anson.
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    INFORMER WINS
    34 5 TAIPING, Mon. Chuah Say Chin. Ng Soo Swee. Ong Ahi Chye and Chuah Ben* Kong were each fined $20 at Taiping for playing "pakau" in Market Lane. The informer was given $20.
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    TAXI OWNERS DON'T LIKE THIS SCHEME
    156 5 MANY motor hiring garages in Singapore, yesterday, disapproved a scheme, being considered by Vehicles authorities, to allow people to hire 'first class' taxis and drive them themselves. Mr. W. A M. Watts, the Registrar' of Vehicles, said, "I am still working on the matter."
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    ARMY REFUSED LAND FOR A CEMETERY
    197 5 ARMY REFUSED LAND FOR A CEMETERY A COMMITTEE of the Singapore City Council has turned down an application from the military authorities to buy a piece of Council land near the 16th milestone Chua Chu Kang Road 'or use as a cemetery. It was suggested that when the town" planners
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    Blackouts: Query for City
    89 5 Blackouts: Query for City SINGAPORE Ratepaysrs Association has decided to ask the City Council why it had refused to purchase three generators which were available from non-sterling sources. In reply to a suggestion by the association, the President of the City Council has replied that firms with private generating equipment
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    Now all have
    86 5 Free Press Staff Reporter DR. H. R. Morrison, the City's Deputy Health Officer, said yesterday: "All the stallholders in markets run by the City Council have either got scales or produced receipts of having ordered for them." He added: "Licensees in private markets have been instructed to
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    Blackout schedule
    114 5 The following areas are liable to j load shedding tonight; j Atlas Ice. Happy World. Asia Rubber Works, Sims Avenue Sawmill, Shell Co., Lee Rubber Works. Matchworks Singapore Swimming Club, Tanjong Rhu, U.E's Shipyard, Nanyang Iceworks, Cathay, RfaeDonald Bouse, Tan Kai Place. Fort Canning. Waterloo St.. St. Andrew's
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    SHOPKEEPER FINED $50
    72 5 Yong Chai Kee, a shopkeeper, was fined $50 in the Johore Bahru Police Court for failing to display a price list fot controlled articles. He complained that the fine was tqp severe for a village shopkeeper. The Magistrate told him that the maximum fine for such an
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    CO-OP STUDIES ILLEGAL INTEREST
    139 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rfiHE Singapore Urban Co--1 operative Union is considering the Moneylenders Ordinance with special reference to the illegal interest charged by some unscrupulous money lenders, Mr Andrew B. Pinto secretary of the union^said yesterday. it appeared that a nuznoer of Government employees have
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    PARK: CITY CHOOSES SITE
    214 5 Govt to be asked: 'Buy the land 9 SINGAPORE City Council has found a site for the development of a public park in the East Coast Road area and proposes to ask Government to buy 200 acre s of land. The Council's Estates and Fire Brigade
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    38 5 picture. SINGAPORE BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION members held a prayer meeting for the solace and comfort of the soul of the late Prime Minister of Ceylon, the Rt. Hon. D S. Senanayake. at the Sri Lankaramaya. yesterday evening Free Press
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    Charge for amateur shows may be cut
    147 5 Charge for amateur shows may be cut A Singapore City Council committee has recommendedva reduction in the charge for the use of Victoria Theatre for amateur performances, from $100 to $70. This flat rate covers rent and normal services provided. The rate for the employment after 5 p.m. of a
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    Can't ban planes over hospital
    100 5 TT would not be possible to prohibit totally aircraft from flyin* over the Singapore General Hospital, the Singapore Ratepayers Association has been informed by the Colonial Secretary. The Colonial Secretary's letter, in reply to representations by the association, states that under certain weather conditions, aircraft
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    Sarong gift for Mrs. Roosevelt
    115 5 Sarong gift for Mrs. Roosevelt SINGAPORE women will send rifts of a KeLintan silver belt and a blue, silver and sold sarong to Bin. Eleanor Roosevelt to await her return to the United States, if they are unable to five them to her in Singapore. Mrs. Roosevelt may miss Singapore
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    Settlers get school
    53 5 Settlers get school A CHINESE school to accommodate 150 children in the Bamfoo re-settlement area was declared open yesterday by Mr. R. O. K. Thompson, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Johore. The school was presented with a radio by Dato and Datin H. E. MacKenzie. A cocktail party was held to
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    26 6 V.S.C. 'A' Division and V.S.C of TT Joo Chtet DlfMoo drew a-»U In a soccer fctemlly st Mm Edward Boft Club ground yctter-
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    MENDEZ SHINES IN US. VICTORY
    176 6 Canada go down 5-3 THE United Slates on Saturday night defeated Canada 5—3 in the American zone badminton final of the Thomas Cup at Calgary, Canada. They will now meet the winners of the match between Denmark. European zone champions and India, Pacific -zone champions,
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    FRANCE STEALS HONOURS
    291 6 FRANCE STEALS HONOURS WALES, as expected, defeated France, 9 points to 5, before a 50,000 crowd at Swansea on Saturday to win the International Rugby "Union championship. Earlier in the season the Welsh had beaten England, Ireland, and Scotland. But Saturday's Welsh victory was a colourless anticlimax to their previous
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    CEYLON SPORTS CLUB OFFICIALS
    94 6 At the annual general meeting of the Oeylon Sports Club the following were elected to office: President: Dr. C. Subrahmanyam; Vice-Presklent: Mr. E. R. Antoniss; Hon. Sec.: Mr. M. Ounaratnam; Hon Treasurer: Mr. S. Nadarajah. Committee: Messrs. P. E. Perera, V. Ambiavagar, A. D Ponnambalam and
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    2 GAMES WERE POSTPONED
    47 6 Yesterday's Singapore Amateur Football Association Tooth Competition match between Serangoon English School and Victoria School and the Div. One League game between Kota Raja and Chinese Athletics were postponed owing to the bad state of the ground at Jalan Besar Stadium, following rain.
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    GAMBAR MELAYU GAVE MULLEY FIRST BIG WIN
    1115 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS By pAMBAR MELAYU surprised and proved himself the best miler in Malaya by winning the Spring Cup, one mile, at Bukit Timah on Saturday, concluding day of the Singap ore Turf Club's March meeting. Gambar Melayu began well and Mulley allowed
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    WINNING EFFORTS
    99 6 WINNING EFFORTS WAIKIKI (Mulley) clearing away at the finish of race °5 Saturday to win from Royal Fair (J. Donnelly), with Ray Street (Percijal) third and Tajurrah (Mawi) fourth. Waikiki's fluent win completed a doable for the meeting. MR. MEADOWLARK (Laudown) winning the second race oy a short-head from French
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    ARSENAL IN RUNNING FOR A 'DOUBLE'
    672 6  - ARSENAL IN RUNNING FOR A 'DOUBLE' JIM CHAMBERS By IN one of the biggest upsets of the Eneikh season. Huddersfield Town, bottom If Division of the English Football uZu* J*« *J of the table Manchester United by tL.** 1 H two on Saturday. y lhree It* *Z This shock to
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    Beaten box is banned for good
    126 6 |OE GARZA. much-beaten I years old Detrict *5£ weight, ham been suspend permanently from the rioc the Michigan Boxing car* mission. At the same tim? mou, maker WUUe Dormng W2 a Detroit was handed a 9C fr suspension for n^lieS matchmaking and qS McDonald
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    230 6 International match: Wales I France 5 (played at Swamet Inter-Services tomrMWDt ft Army 9, Royal Air Force 6 ipi»p at Twickenham;. Club matches: Guy's 11. Old Paulines 3; London Irish 10 ATderthot Sar vices 8. London Wett 8 Neath 11; Met Police asr Bart's 6; Ok! AUeyniaxu
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    AUSTRIA WIN
    19 6 Austria beat Be#a»J two goals b nil in W*J national "J* J Vienna yest no score Reuter
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    37 7 i -eenway U ft) working out with Steve Brian at the RjV World yesterday. Brian lights Fiji champion IXdro on Apr 4 Radrodro will train at the Happy jjf.it, >udium at 530 p.m. today.— Free Press picture.
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    SWOLD ANNOYS TWO-TON TONY
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    Les Ames retires
    238 7 mrO-TON l« n > Galento was enraged recently I w hich sums up the sad state of heavyweight boxinii It's been a dozen years since Tony was one d toxin? bis draws. But a man, even a wrestler, hi> his pride. angered Tony when *7'"ar." e<i Savold.
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    Y.M.C.A. SOCCER
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    World title to man of 64
    136 7 BpUE hoppe 64-year-old American holder of ■j "vorld three cushion bilchampionship, won J Kk for the sixth year 2 succession at San Franco over the weekend. won seven of his nine to the championship. wher two. He made J retaining -he title when •geared
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    DANE BEATS SEDCMAN
    11 7 i<3 9 on Saturday *,^:liar m wh:ch Nielsen
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    Marijorie Jackson strongly fancied
    17 7 Mar ijorie Jackson strongly fancied V* *iU iL tr lia n -%-orr.on C*>*corri fV he orkJ Badminton
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    WOMEN'S TOURNEY PROPOSED
    216 7 U.P. LESLIE AMES, the Kent and England batsman, announced nis retirement from cricket on Saturday. Ames, one of the best wic-ketkeeper-batsmen of all time, has suffered from a spinal complaint for several years. He played in only one game last season and said he had quit because
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    ARMY INVITE ALL CIVILIAN FENCERS
    667 7 SINGAPORE civilian fencers who have been marking time since their instructors, Mat Grainger and Tom Evans of the Army, were transferred elsewhere in September last year, are invited to continue their lunging and ripostes at the PARELF School of Physical Training at Tanglin. The offlcer-in-charge
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    30 7 picture. MRS. A. C. SIMMONS leading in Birchgrove (Straker), winner of the seventh race at Bukit Timah on Saturday. Birchgrove returned the highest dividend of the day, $92. Free Press
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    ROBINSON KEEPS ON DODGING 'RUBBER'
    502 7  - ROBINSON KEEPS ON DODGING 'RUBBER' PETER WILSON Turpin 'shabbily treated' By SUGAR RAY ROBINSON is a chizophreitic' of boxing. In the ring he has been one of the great mechanics of our time, a boxer who can ngnt, a tighter who can box. trvi™ U L°^ i( L e the
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    FANS STAMPEDE FOR CUP TICKETS
    162 7 of football fans stampeded in London A yesterday, brushed aside police cordons and pushed down two brick walls in a rush for tickets for next week's Arsenal vs. Chelsea F. A. Cup semifinal. Dozens of people were trampled and at least two Lad to be
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    Belgian move rejected
    114 7 Belgian move rejected A BELGIAN proposal to cut the distance ot the international cross country championship from nine miles to eight was rejected on a tie vote in Glasgow on Saturday. Belgium, Spain, France, and Northern Ireland supported the move, which *as opposed by England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic
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    RAIN AFFECTS SAFA LEAGUE
    56 7 RAIN AFFECTS SAFA LEAGUE YESTERDAY'S heavy rain I washed out the Singapore Amateur Football Association's league fixture programme. Only one of the schM'.iled games took place, Singapore Harbour Board S.C. beating H.M, Dockyard by five goals to one in a Div. 2 match. Bird (3), Salleh and Choon Chee. scored
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    Race season starts today
    133 7 Race season starts today I HPHE iflat racing season in Great A Britain opens today with more horses and cheaper admis- j si on prices. The first meeting will be at j Lincoln, 100 miles northeast of London. Racing will continue until mid-November. Steeplechase meetings art held during the winter
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    A CHANCE FOR BUANG HOO
    69 7 NEO Chwee Kok, who has already been selected by the Singapore Olympic Sports Council to represent Singapore at this year's Olympics will pace 18--year-old Lau Buong Hoo of the Y.M.C.A. in the 100 metres freestyle trial at the Chinese Swim-; ming Club at 5.30 p.m.
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    JOHORE GOLF
    45 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— The February Monthly Gclf Medal competition at the Royal Johore Tnternationai Club resulted as follows: ..Men's Medal won by Flt./Lt. Hamilton Brown. Ladfes Medal won by Mrs. E, A. Clampit. GLASGOW, Sun.— Peter Keenan said last night he will defend
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    ChuaEng Cheng (6 wkts for 27) rattles Navy
    330 7 ChuaEng Cheng (6 wkts for 27) rattles Navy CIX wickets at a personal expense of 27 runs— a feat performed by Chua Eng Cheng in the wee!.end Singapore Cricket Assoc ation tournane t matches upset Royal Navy in their match against the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club at Honr Lim Green.
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    PENG SOON PRAISES CHOONG
    146 7 WONG Peng Soc:. with characteristic modesty, ssid in Londcn that enly experience had won him his third ruccessive All-England championship. "Eddy Choong put on a beautiful show," said Wong. "He has many fine shots, but I think he need s a little more experience. That will
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    ATTENTION AMATEURS
    89 7 The Civilian-Police combined are holding their area elimination contests for the open S.A.B.A. boxing championships at the Police Training School on Apr. 7 and 9. Entries for this area contest close on Apr. 5 and may be sent to the secretary of the 5.A.8.A., Mr. B. L. Dunsford.
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    DAVIS CUP PAYOFF
    87 7 »pHE United States Lawn Tennis A Association will scon be getting 2 bout $38.000— its ttoera of the profits from the 1951 Davis Cup challenge in Sydney. A.P. THE WORLD PREMIER£ oi the film ."Robin Hood' starring Richard Todd and Joan Riee, took place at the Leicester
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    U.N. MAY FIGHT PLAGUES IN CHINA, N. KOREA
    331 8 U.N. MAY FIGHT PLAGUES IN CHINA, N. KOREA ♦Why enrt 'em to kttl f em?WTr©©i>s NEW YORK, Monday. qpHE United Nations has offered help to China and North Korea in stamping out epidemics there because it Is in the United Nations' interest to prevent the spread of typhus, cholera or
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    Cliffs collapse: five die
    50 8 Cliffs collapse: five die Cliffs collapsed under torrential rains and crushed five children and one adult in Japan's southerly island of Shikoku. At Tokushima in the same Island the violent rainstorms caused five landslides. River banks collapsed and the waters flooded hundreds of homes and washed away five bridges.— Reuter
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    Students' Centre
    31 8 A western United States centre for Chinese students and scholars was opened during the weekend by the China Institute in America adjoining the University of California in Berkeley.- A.P.
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    Goodwill mission
    28 8 Formosa and Korea will exchange goodwill missions this week on the occasion of the opening of the first commercial air route between Taipeh and Pusan.- A.P.
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    Lady Mountbatten
    23 8 Lady Mountbatten left Tokyo on Saturday by air for Britain. She plans to visit New Delhi on the trip home. A.P.
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    Point Four chief
    25 8 Dr. Randall T. Klemme has been named acting Director of the United States Technical Co-operation Administration (Point Four) in Pakistan A .P.
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    Plea for the Japs
    33 8 President Quirino, who is at present making a tour of Central Luzon, was reported to have made another plea to the Senate to approve the Japanese peace treaty.— Reuter
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    'No deal possible' on Persian oil
    225 8 LONDON. Monday. 4 WOULD Bank expert, Mr. Hector Prudhomme said in London yesterday that it was clear there would be "no deal" with Persia at present on her nationalised oil industry." Mr. Prudhomme went to Teheran recently with other Bank officials to try to
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    Japs say move the children
    199 8 TOKYO, Monday. A JAPANESE magazine, Yomiuri, yesterday A demanded that illegitimate children fathered by American troops in Japan should be taken to America. "The orphans would not feel as forlorn there," it commented, "as they will in Japan. After all America is a melting pot
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    HONDURAS GOVERNOR
    37 8 Mr. Patrick Muir Renison, 41, present Colonial Secretary at Trinidad and Tobago, was named yesterday as the new Governor of Honduras. Mr. Renison will succeed Sir Roland Herbert Garvey, who becomes Governor of Fiji. A.P.
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    LOYALTY PLEDGE
    24 8 Chinese nationals in the Philippines have affirmed their oyalty to the Chinese Nationalist Government led by President Chiang Kai- I snek.- Reuter
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    PLANE COULD NOT GAIN ALTITUDE
    137 8 FRANKFORT, Mon THE CONTROL tower of the Rhein main airport in Frankfurt yesterday disclosed that it had received a radio message from the airliner, "Queen Juliana," a few minutes before it crashed declaring that the plane's hydraulic system was out of order. The KLM Douglas
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    Peking attacks Red Cross
    54 8 The Communist radio in Peking during the week-end called the International Committee of the Red Cross "the most vicious and shameless accomplice and lackey of American imperialism." It accused the Red Cross of wanting "to try to whitewash the perpetrators of the crime (germ warfare) with
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    AUSTRIAN FEARS
    36 8 The Austrian Secretary for Interior, Mr. Ferdinand Graf, yesterday warned against the danger of the Communist Party in Austria on the ground that it enjoyed strong support from the Soviet occupation auth- oritips. A.F.P.
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    HORSE THROWS RIDER
    28 8 HORSE THROWS RIDER picture. A PEHFECT header is what Capt. T. W. Muir took when his horse, Dynovi, threw him in the Military Gold Cup at Sandown Park.
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    Truman says: Our aim is peace
    213 8 Truman says: Our aim is peace WASHINGTON, Mon. PRESIDENT Truman said yesterday the goal of United States foreign policy was world peace, with all peoples free from the fear of aggression. In a foreword to a booklet published by the State Department, summarising foreign policy since the end of the
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    Bad clock's best hour
    91 8 MELBOURNE, Mon. AN old Dutch clock, half an hour fast, helped to j save 19 people in an^ apartment house fire at Mount Evelyn, 27 miles east of Melbourne. John Noorbergen, 16, said his mother usually called him at 5.30 a.m. to go to work. Because
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    New era for Asia, Spender says
    71 8 This is a new era for all young people and nations, the Australian Ambassador. Mr. Percy C. Spender, told high school students from Asia gathered at Washington on Saturday night at a youth forum. "Anything is possible for you young Asians today," Mr. Spencer
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    PULP MACHINES
    27 8 A large consignment of machinery for use in making pulp at the governmentowned Ce b u Portland Cement plant is due shortly from Japan.- A.P.
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    Dulles severes official ties
    183 8 NEW York- ILffR. John Poster Dulles. Republic Mor Adviser to the Stat« DepaSem°>4J to sever his official ties with thJ t has kc3 cratlc Administration, according J rum n D«3 from Washington. P r riSS With (be Presidential eiection coming nearer, Mr Dulles, architect of the
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    Windfall for seven women
    47 8 NICOSIA Ci SEVEN Cvnnot I informed "eL r r- 4 Greek Con^^J they were hears toM Their uncle pkhm I years ago at the J^J leaving the fortune *1 It was only recentt J his distant heirs W 3 to Cyprus r AFP
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