The Singapore Free Press, 10 April 1952

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    16 1 The Singapore Free Press fgdfgdgd ,0. 1»- 363 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS*
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    TORIES TO FREE STEEL
    290 1 unurcmu answer to revolt of 48 M.P.s mill? p LONDON, Thursday. THE Pnme Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill announced yesterday that the Government will introduce legislation to end State ownership of the steel industry and road transport during the present session of Parliament. tronfL/ 6^^ Plan to
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    BATAAN DAY
    16 1 President Truman yesterday approved a Congressional resolution designating April 9 as Bataan Day.- U.P.
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    PANIC IN CHURCH: 43 DIE
    106 1 PANIC IN CHURCH: 43 DIE CARACAS, Venezuela, Thurs. PANIC CAUSED by cries of "flre" yesterday led a crowd of worshippers m the Church of Santa Teresa to stampede, resulting m the death of 43 persons, with more than 110 injured. The victims included 21 children, 21 women and one elderly
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    Tass man to go
    27 1 The Soviet Union will recall the Tass News Agency Correspondent at New Delhi following protests by India of "distorted" Moscow broadcast?.- A P.
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    QUEEN APPROVES
    21 1 The appointment of Sir Evelyn Baring a* Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya was approved vesterda~ by the Queen.- A.P.
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    9 million award against Ford Co.
    146 1 9 million award against Ford Co. NEW YORK. Thurs. Mr HARRY FERGUSON, GT liter-born fanner's M)n whose tractor inventions nude him a millionlire, yesterday won a fourtfir les:i»l fight— and an i*ird of '30.000 against Henry Ford's motor empire. H r md his Inited States ->mpany. Harry Fergussn Incorporated had
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    Eden silent on Egypt
    65 1 LONDON Thurs. THia Foreign Secretary, Mr. t Hn vesrerdav declined 1 make a statement about «|1 o-Eirvp::an conversa•!or.s which he described as purely exDloratorv talks'* fc a written reply to a pstion m the House of Commons Mr. Eden said: "I a nor think such a
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    PARELF GETS NEW CHIEF
    40 1 J tt^r Office announced the appointment c v C. R G. Sixsmith Jje CMef-of-SUll at Far tJ H Land Forces Headauare^ctive this month. v* Sxsmith is now ChiefvafT at the Headquarters British Forces In Hong A.P.
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    ENGAGEMENT OFF
    16 1 Actress Jane Wyraan and Travis Kleefeld wealthy builder, have brokpn off their engagement.— A.P.
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    ANOTHER 'FIRST'
    18 1 Russia yesterday added the trolley car to the long list of things "invented" by Russians.- U.P.
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    Burma 'anxious' over Chiang men
    255 1 LONDON, Thursday. LORD Reading, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said last night that the Chinese Nationalist troops m Burma were causing the Burmese Government "anxious and continuous concern". He said the British Government was at one with it m regarding "these uninvited and unwelcome guests" as
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    Wedding 'rumour'
    40 1 Margaret Truman's secretary said m Colorado Springs yesterday that a report that the President's daughter would marry Martin Braverman, a Washington, D.C.. lawyer, m a White House wedding m August or Sep^™- I ber was iust "rumour".- U.P.
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    'Russia can invade North Japan'
    90 1 'Russia can invade North Japan' WASHINGTON. Thurs NAVY Secretary, Mr. Dan A. Kimball. told a news conference yesterday that Russia has enough forces on Sakhalin Island to invade norther 1 Japan. Mr. Kimball said he is confident United States forces could turn back any invasion attempt unless the Commmunists launched
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    RIOTERS GAOLED
    26 1 Forty-one native Moroccans were sentenced to prisco terms ranging from eight days to eight months for participation m the riots of March 30.— U.P.
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    LABOUR WIN 400 SEATS IN COUNTIES
    228 1 LONDON, Thurs. mHE swing toward Labour X continued strongly yesterday m Britain's local government elections with the party recapturing control of the important Northumberland County Council, Northeast England, and scoring many lesser successes In 12 other counties. Tnese included Bedfordshire where the Labour Party
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    THEY FLEE FROM FLOODS
    49 1 Mdre than 1,100 people m Pierre, South Dakota, here and m neighbouring Fort Pierre were chased from their homes yesterday by the Missouri River's worst flood m 71 years. Men, women and children fought side by side against the flood, filling sandbaes for dykes.- A.P.
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    'Cosmic' balloon falls again
    35 1 A second giant balloon carrying equipment for studying cosmic ray activity m the Stratosphere, launched yesterday by an atomic research team at Glasgow fell into the sea after reaching 96,000 feet.
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    SERETSE: TRIBESMEN IN LONDON
    133 1 LONDON, Thurs. SIX African tribesmen arrived here by air yesterday to demand the return of their exiled chief Seretse Krnma and hi<? wife. They c*me from Bechuanaland m South Africa to proe"t a^inst the British Gov__l wprHlon -to bar 40,000 squaie mile Bamangwato reserve. No appointment
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    GOVT CHANGES IN 75 MINUTES
    176 1 LIMA, Peru, Thursday. OHHE Bolivian Nationalist leader, Hernan Siles, A seized power yesterday from General Vallivian, Bolivian President, with the backing of police under the command of General Ortiz. The revolution started m I the early morning with a 15--minute outburst of pistol and machinegun
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    MORE U.S. AID FOR SPAIN
    44 1 MORE U.S. AID FOR SPAIN The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Sub-committee yesterday recommended "positive steps to epcourage the inclusion of Spain m the North Atlantic Treaty Organization" and urged "a substantial amount" of U.S. aid "over and above the $100 million appropriated" last year.—
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    Big Three get Russian note
    45 1 MOSCOW, Thurs. "FOREIGN Minister, Mr. Andrei Vishinsky, yesterday summoned the ambassadors of the United States. Britain and France separately and handed them an important note, which was believed may be the Russian answer to the Western notes on Germany.- UP
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    Court bid to stop Truman order fails
    407 1 Court bid to stop Truman order fails WASHINGTON, Thursday. rVO of America's biggest steel companies failed yesterday m a legal challenge of the Government's dramatic seizure of the industry to avert a threatened strike of 650,000 workers. President Truman had authorised the Commerce Department to take over the $8,000 million
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    NO FREE PRESS TOMORROW
    27 1 Tomorrow Good Friday, there will be no issue of the Singapore Free Press and the Straits Times. Publication will be resumed on Saturday.
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    3,700 FEWER COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN
    142 1 3,700 FEWER COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN LONDON Thurs. BRITAIN'S Communist party said yesterday it had lost 3,700 members m one year and that its latest membership total was 35,124. A statement by the executive committee to be presented to the party's 22nd National Congress said thai the central task for every
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    64 1 picture. A SCREAMING, and evidently hysterical woman kicks and scratches a fireman who tries to carry her away from the scene of the recent tunnel disaster at Caserta near Naples. Italy. A policeman assists th* fireman. Thirty nine people were killed and at least 57 wounded when a store of
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    PACT RATIFIED
    19 1 Pakistan Foreign Minister, Zafrulah Khan, yesterday signed the instrument of ratification of the Japanese peace treaty, U.P.
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    53 2 Marina, aged 13 f j. and a»"tady a filmstar, has three si >i.ers, all actresses. She has made two films m one of them, "Orage Dete" she wns co-star with Gaby Morlmy. Now she has left Parts for Italy where she will play a young girl at college m an
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    39 2 The mild weather h»« Hrou-ht cut the daffodils m such quantities m England that pckers have had a surfeit of beauty. This picture w;i-» taken m Truro, Cornwall the first county to feel the war m breath of Spring.
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    BRAVE STORY OF BARABBAS
    682 2  -  Peter Quennell reviews tiew books m U» K. 1 Under Review Barabbas, by Par Lagerkvist. translated by Alan Blair, i (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.). The Man on a Donkey, by H. P. M. Prescott. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 255.). DOTH Par Lagerkvis! and H. F. M.
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    Decline of The Russian Novel
    1143 2 Edward Ashevof t says the home of Tolstoy, Dostoievsky and Turgeniev now produces only "moral tracts" TT has taken some x3O years for the Soviet Government to make sure that only the novels it wants are written and published In Russia. The Russian novel of
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    BOOKS in the SHOPS
    92 2 I nation Homes Ov Ralph Dutton (Win- > gate) I Fascinating survey of the growth of London and the development of its domestic architecture from the 17th conturv onwards Robert Ross, Friend of! Friends, edited by Mar-< gerv Ross. (Capes.). < Best known as Oscar Wilde's
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    SMUGGLERS PANIC AS PINAY TURNS ON TUP HEAT
    647 3 SMUGGLERS PANIC AS PIN AY TURNS ON TUP HEAT PARIS, Thursday. A FAMOUS little woman with an enormous black canvas shopping bag has disappeared from my quartier. Pretty, with a dark, straight fringe above her pale, powdered face, she padded on her rounds m carpet slippers; always wearing a black
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    53 3 picture. Popper THE "ELIZABETHAN Look*' is the latest thing m men's fashions. Three mannequins modelled the style at a fashion store an Oxford Street, recently. In the picture Terry Thomas, the well-known television star (second from right) wears an extreme Elizabethan outfit with the male models displaying modern clothes of
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    45 FLEE FROM TITO'S TRIESTE
    37 3 Forty-five Italian school teachers have fled from the Yugoslav-controlled zone of the Free Territory of Trieste into the Anglo-American home because of intolerable police persecution," Ansa, the Italian news agency, reported.- A.P.
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    TORNADOES TOLL
    15 3 Recent tornadoes m East Bengal are reported to have killed 279 people.- Reuter
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    Bridge Quiz
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    Ambush reprisal kills 200
    35 3 Colombian Army and Police force* killed 200 bandits m Joint actions against the gang which recently attacked the Governor of Tolima Departmnet m an ambush that cost 18 lives.- A. P.
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    PACT SIGNED
    6 3 ThP first commercial agree-
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    FRENCH BOMB REBEL BASES
    40 3 HANOI, Wed. SUNNY skies over northern Indo-China brought more death and destruction from the air to Communist rebels yesterday. French bombers and fighters reported hits on Vietminh convoys and bases 80 miles north of Hanoi.- U.P.
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    ENVOY SEES POPE
    28 3 Pope Pius XII has received m private audience Dr. R. T. Wiriato, the new Indonesian Minister to the Holy See who presented his credentials U.P.
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    Rain saves cattle
    69 3 BRISBANE, Thurs. RAIN, falling over 40,000 square miles of Queensland's northwest sheep and cattle country, has ended the area's worst drought for 50 years. Graziers said it would save thouands of starving stock. It was the first rain this year apart from isolated showers for most of
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    ALIEN LAW IS UPHELD
    46 3 The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld by five votes to three a requirement of the Internal Security Act of 1950 that aliens must make timely application for travel papers after they have been ordered deported or be subject to ten years'-ttmpri-sonment A.P.
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    'Queen will rule for 36 years'
    7 3 'Queen will rule for 36 years' U.P.
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    HEAD-HUNTERS TERRORISE P.I. VILLIAGERS
    174 3 HEAD-HUNTERS TERRORISE P. I. VILLIAGERS MANILA, Thursday. jifANGABAT head-hunters, roaming the upper if x reaches of the Agusan River and the mountainous boundary between Agusan and Bukidnon provinces on Mindanao Island, have killed 18 persons and ravaged many villages recently. Their victims have been Manobs (a semi-nomad Mohammedan tribe) and
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    Hitch-hike, Pope tells tourists
    222 3 Hitch-hike, Pope tells tourists ROME, Thurs. THE Pope has praised x "tourist ascetism"— hitch-hiking, camping, and other ways of inexpensive travelling, such as are fostered by the cut m the British travel allowance. Holidays abroad, he said, on limited budgets "give to the organism, temperament, and character a healthy moral
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    JETS FOR PAKISTAN
    7 3 Two more Jet fighters
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      195 3 rhe News News Auiuysis. 6.45 CTUrfIPOPF. Interlude and Daily Quotaton; DIJNvJ/lX'^yxi** 6.50 From The Editorials; 7.00 mam News- 10 05 'Music Sporting R€cord; 7.15 Land and 10 a.m. News, io.ua Livestock— an agricultural magaWhile You Work"; 10.45 Jack 745 Sandy MacPherson at Qmith fihow"- 11-11.30 "London the theatre organ; 8.00
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, April 10, 1952. End of a curfew
    522 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, April 10, 1952. End of a curfew qpANJONG Malim has had its sentence 1 called off. The twenty twohour curfew is lifted, to be replaced by one limited to the hours of darkness. The rice ration is increased. What does it mean? Can it be
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    HOOPED TERROR
    1726 4 I AMERICA STRIKES BACK AT ttfl... GEOFFREY BOCCA, reporting from New York, tells how G-men are trying to unmask the new leaders of the Ku-Klux-Klan revival reveals This is the story of 50,000 people »ho brlieve that they are simply doing what conies naturally hie naked truth I>Y
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    The New Elizabethans
    16 4 r»^,i2l* new El &abethan age. On the left the 2S^^*JL2S?. U *™lder with«t
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    PEASANTS make good OFFICERS
    627 4  -  HENRY THODY In Turkey, the West s newest ally By "MAHMET, how many lfl humps has a camel?" asked the Turkish Army instructor m English. The 17-year-old Military College student, standing rigidly to attention, answered m good English, "Some have one, sir, others two". Not surprising,
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    MALAYAN IRON ORE FOR JAPAN
    108 5 A million tons to be shipped within a year Free Press Staff Reporter ]\|ALAYA will export 1,000,000 tons of iron ore to Japan within a year, under an agreement concluded recently by two Japanese steel firms with the Malay Eastern Mining Company. A representative of
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    MAY DAY PLAN MAY BE BANNED
    133 5 MAY DAY PLAN MAY BE BANNED SINGAPORE Police are unlikely to approve any application for permission to hold a public procession, or an openair mass-meeting, on May Day the Acting Commissioner of Police, Mr. N G. Morris, told the Free Press yesterday. Mr. Morris added that he nad n ot
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    1729 motorists prosecuted
    86 5 1 729 motorists prosecuted ANE thousand seven hunv dred and twenty-nine motorists were prosecuted by the Singapore Traffic authorities for offences involving lights during the first three months of this year. These offences included: vehicles not carrying obligatory lights, waiting at the roadside with lights, and waiting on the right
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    SIKH FUND TO AID STUDENTS
    57 5 A Malayan Sikhs Education Aid Fund to help poor Sikh students towards a higher education, has been formed. Candidates can obtain application forms either from the president of the fund, Dr S. Tara Singh, Seremban, or the secretary, Mr. Ginder Singh, Port Dickson. Applications must
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    Impersonation charge
    58 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Thurs. )sman bin Haji Hussein, who was alleged to have collected meney pretending to be a police sergeant, had three charges of impersonation explained to him m Bukit Mertajam court yesterday. He was ordered to be kept m custody until next Wednesday. Osman was fined 520
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    20 5 JUNIPER FOO, 12, the youngest competitor, won both SSSLtT -f Mali,a. wk. w. one of the judges.- Free Press picture
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    Airline plans special rates for tourists
    191 5 MALAYANS desiring to travel to Holland, New York, Montreal and back to Singapore will be able to do so at special air tourist rates to be introduced by X.L.M. Dutch airlines m Singapore on May 1, if Governments concerned approve. The special air tourist
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    'ALL MUST VOTE' TOWN TOLD
    86 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Trjurs.All residents m Johore Bahru town are being urged to take an active part m the first Town Council election. The appeal is being made on behalf of the Government Junior Staff Union, Johore Bahru branch, the JB Chinese Reading Circle, UMNO, South
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    Man rescues girl from sea
    52 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— A girl, seen struggling m the Johore Straits at noon yeswas rescued by a Chinese man. She received artificial respirailon and was rushed to hospital where she is said to be recovering. An identity card gave her name as Choo Yee Lan,
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    Only 10 food stalls get licence
    153 5 rE Singapore City Council's Health Committee has agreed to license only 10 soft drink and food stalls for the Changi trade fair out of a long list submitted to it by the organisers. In deciding on the number of stalls to license, the committee
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    APs help in drive
    148 5 APs help in drive IPOH, Thurs. AT their first public parade since their formation several months ago, the Ipoh Auxiliary Police Force helped m a recruiting campaign for Chinese police personnel on the Ipoh Padane yesterday. The parade was attended by high-ranking police officers. Mr. T. Q. Gaffikin, Chief Police
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    Had Red papers allegation
    81 5 BUKIT MBRTAJAM, Thurs —Strict security precautions were taken m Bukit Mertajam court yesterday when Ong Bah Bee was produced on two charges under the Emergency Regulations. He was ordered to be remanded until next Wednesday. Onj? was alleged to have had m his possession on Mar.
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    CEYLON ASSN. OFFICIALS
    80 5 At the annual meeting of the Ceylon Tamils' Association, Singapore, the following were elected office bearers: President, Dr. P. Thillain&than vice-president, Mr. C. Carthlgesu; hon. secretary. Mrs. Retnasabapathy; hon. treasurer. Mr. A, Markandoo: hon. literary secretary, Mr. A. Sachithananthan; sports secretary, Mr. K. 6. Moorthy. Committee: Messrs.
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    13 DYSENTRY CASES FROM ARMY H.Q.
    73 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. mHIRTEEN of the 43 cases 1 of dyseiitery. repprled m the Federattonjor^e.wcek one 1* Pers^k. one m fielapgor and the other m Negri Semjbilan. Th^re were 4$ cases of pneumonia with 13 'deaths. f> A jr«&r«Ht>i 10 rasPc 01 Which reported
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    Assn. plans to teach 10,000
    113 5 Assn. plans to teach 10,000 PENANG, Thurs. u riIHERE IS a vast storeA house of romance m adult education," Mr. Heah Joo Seang, president of Penang Adult Education Association, said at yesterday's annual meeting. "We talk of franchise, of civic consciousness, selfgovernment and full nationhood, but s^ely we must first
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    HE HAD CHANDU
    32 5 MUAR Thurs.— Sim Kai Ec, aged 52,' found m possession of chandu and chandu dross m a shop at Jalan Meriam, was sentenced at Muar to six months' imprisonment.
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    34 5 TWO Singapore-built refuelling vehicles for the Comet Jet airliner being driven to the Harbour Board wharves yesterday to be shipped to Bangkok. There are two other vehicles for the Kalians: airport.- Free Press picture.
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    HAD BURGLAR'S TOOLS: GAOLED
    61 5 KUANTAN, Thurs. Toi Sang was sentenced by the Kuantan magistrate to two months' imprisonment for possession of house-breaking implements and another month for giving $2 as a bribe to a policeman to release him. He was arrested on top of a cage of fowls m the
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    BLACKOUT SCHEDULE
    79 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: Tan Chye Place Fort Cannlnff, Seah St/ Waterloo St., St. Andrews/High St./ Stamford Rd., Albert St., Short St., New Ice Works, Fire Stone, Mackenzie Rd., Bukit Timah Pumps, Balestier Rd., Jalan Ampis, 8.M.8.C., McRif chic, Braddell Rise, Island Goll Club, Seietar
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    They don't like being aliens
    152 5 HPHE Singapore Progressive Party is to urge Govern* A ment not to treat as aliens. Federation -born people now resident m the Colony, who wish to apply for naturalisation. This wjls stated at a recent meeting of the party committee. Government would be I asked
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    It will be Black Monday for 7,600
    87 5 It will be Black Monday for 7,600 Free Press Staff Reporter WHIT Monday thus year will be Black Monday for about 7.600 students m Singapore Chinese schools. They go back to school on that day after a week's holiday. Boys and girls m the Chinese schools began their vacation after
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    A.C.S. OLD BOYS' OFFICIALS
    83 5 The following axe office-bearers of the Anglo»-Chinese School Old Boys' Association of Singapore :J Dr. A. W. S. Thevaihasan, president; Mr. Thio Chan Bee and Mr. Wong shein Vein. vioe-presi4 dents; Dr. Ong Swee Law, sPcre-4 tary; Mr. E. T. Doraisamy, secretary; Mr. Quek Khai Kee,
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    1039 6 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK: AT last a plan emerges that will help Britain to stand on her own financial feet, earn her more dollars, and perhaps get her out of hock. The plan is simply to have a big, permanent exhibition m New York— and m other American cities
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    Riots-How The Army
    432 6 A BRIGADIER EXPLAINS BRIGADIER J. A. Melsop told a meeting m London just what happens when the Army is a?>sd to take over a riot area. A plan has always to be worked out beforehand. One of the most important jobs for the military commander was to
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    'Roger—Out' is Recorded
    122 6 'Roger— Out' is Recorded piVER since the fighter pilots' "tally-ho!" of the Battle of Britain, scientists have been recording samples of conversations between pilots and ground workers all over the world. The scientists concerned plan to weed out the best phrases, translate them into English the basic language selected and
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      118 6 New Crossword No. 633 I II II i* I i I r CLUES ACROSS 1. Joint whiskers (6, 5). 7. Fatal result of hot weather m the Labour Government? (11). 9. it's clearly the end of the Cabinet (3). 10. In India she's worth very little (4). 12. Scott wrote
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    GOOD GALLOP BY COL. WHATNOT
    627 7 GOOD GALLOP BY COL. WHATNOT Derby trials From ALLAN LEWIS pOLONEL WHATNOT (Percival) wound up 1 hi. Derby preparation with an outstanding tr ial on th e second grass track, which was m rood order, at Ipoh this morning. With Colonel Daly (Lansdown) and Chan till v ,E Donnelly) as
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    SINGAPORE CAGERS TRIUMPH
    58 7 SINGAPORE CAGERS TRIUMPH A 4me finish In last nlgnt't thrnUnc basketball encounwbetween Singapore and the team from Manila gave Wjta^re victory irthTtrlaii- **g Eastern tourney. 12^*2. won the wt W-«. the third was drawn at X2S J** SUifmpore nrged ££U-«i.h 54 Both teams m action at the Happy World last
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    Motherwell triumph three-one
    155 7 MOTHERWELL battled its way into the final of the Scottish soccer Cup final yesday, beating Hearts 3-1 at Hampden Park m the secdhd replay of their semi-final tie. The first two meetings, at Hampden Park, both ended m 1-1 draws. Counting extra time, the marathon tie took
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    Turpin to fight Frenchman
    87 7 Turpin to fight Frenchman jJANDOLPH Turpin. British and European and former world middleweight champion, is to fight Jacques Hairebedian. French lightheavyweight titleholder, at Harringay on April 22. Hairebedian replaces Renarto Tontini, the Italian champion. who has been taken to hospital m Rome with an ankle injury. j The Frenchman was
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    64 7 /CHARTERED Bank S.C. beat \J Mansfield s.C. 7-0 m a Singapore B.HJ.A. Div. 1 match at Thomson Road yesterday. Chartered Bank scored through C Marshall (3) Salleh (2). Hock Leng and Mahadeva. In a Div 2 Kame Ford S.C. drew one-all with Guthrie S.C at- Shell
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    22 7 Yesterday's U.K. RUGBY UNION RESULTS: Combined Midlands side 0 Combined London side 22; Camborne 3 Captain Crawshay's side 17.- Reuter
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    348 7 IT was a robust encounter at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday and Chinese Athletic had to work hard for their odd *oal m five victory over Katong Sajarah m a SAFA Div. 1 fixture. The game started at a cracking pace and quickly developed into
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    Mc Cloud's quick action saw Cherry Ling win
    1321 7 Mc Cloud' s quick action saw Cherry Ling win Hpw jrtfey ran at Ipolj yesterday By ALLAN LEWIS f*HERRY LING proved himself a sprinter of quality when he won the main sprint at Ipoh yesterday, second day of the Perak Turf Club's Derby meeting. McCloud had Cherry Ung nicely placed
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    WALLY TNOM DRAWS
    34 7 WALLY Thorn, the British welterweight champion drew a 10-round welterweight fight with Danny (Bang) Womber of the United States who is now resident m Prance, at Earls Court, London, last night.
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    358 7 Free Press Boxing Reporter COME grand fights were seen d last night at the S.V.C. Hall, when boxers from the Army, Navy and Air force battled m the semi-flnals of the Interservices team and individual championships for the India Cup. The night's boxing ended with
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    BIRTHS
    48 8 ORGAN to Monica and Desmond a second son at the Cliff Nursing Home PenAnce Cornwall. THOMPSON: A son to Doreen wife of J. E. Thompson at Kandang Kerbau 9th April. BROWN: At Bungs r Hospital on 7th April, to Nancy, wife of Bert, a daughter, Jasmine Violet.
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    FRENCH REDS HAVE MILLIONS IN HIDDEN ASSETS
    532 8 FRENCH REDS HAVE MILLIONS IN HIDDEN ASSETS PARIS, Thursday. MILLIONS of dollars* worth of h dden assets arc owned by the French Communist Party m investments at home and abroad, according Ho the Gaullists. The Red party derives an annual tax-free income of between U. 5.5400,000 and U.S. $500,000 from
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    49 8 picture. SWEDISH-BORN Hollywood star, Marta Toren. smiles down at London fashion designer, Mattli, as he shows her some of his ideas for a really startling evening gown. She may wear it m the film "The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By" to be made shortly m Britain.— Reuter
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    Taft wins over Ike In Illinois
    141 8 Taft wins over Ike In Illinois CHICAGO, Thurs.— Senator Robert Taft, Republican, yesterday scored an overwhelming victory m the U.S. fifth and largest Presidential preference primary elections. He obtained six times more votes than Mr. Harold Stassen and seven times more than Gen. Dwight Elsenhower. Mr. Taft will therefore be
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    Plane missing with 37
    57 8 TOKYO, Thurs. AMERICAN and Japanese ships searched yesterday for a Japan Air Lines plane that disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, 150 miles southwest of Tokyo, with 37 people aboard, three of them Americans. The plane, a two-engine Meric 202, disappeared after taking off from Tokyo's Haneda
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    WAR CRIMINALS
    29 8 The Japanese Government yesterday freed 1.019 war criminals from purge restrictions, including Genki Abe, who was Home Minister In the wartime cabinet of Premier Hideki Tojo.- Reuter
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    12 DIE IN CRASH
    30 8 All 12 men aboard two American Air Force planes were believed to have been killed yesterday when the planes collided m mid-air at Camp Edward, Massachusetts.
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    WAR TOLL
    19 8 Announced U.S. battle casaulties m Korea reached 107.134 yesterday, an increase of 178 since last week.- A.P.
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    CRICKETER TO FACE TRIAL
    101 8 COLOMBO, Thurs. CEYLON TEST cricketer, Mahdeva Sathasivam, was sent for trial yesterday on a charge of murdering his wife Anada on October 9. A magistrate's court committed him and his 18-year-old servant, Hewa Marambege William, to the Supreme Court on the murder charge, or alternatively charging
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    170 8 BUENOS AIRES, Thursday. WENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Roy Frederick Fry is x dead, according to tax form R27, but each morning at four bells he reports as a steward for duty aboard the luxury liner R.M.S. Andes. He Is a second-class i "ghost," so he. scrubs the
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    29 8 The Persian political and religious leader, Ayatollah Ktshmai. yesterday issued a proclamation urging his fel-low-countrymen to boycott foreign insurance companies, m particular the British 'ones.
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    133 8 CASCA IS. Portugal. Thurs. rE Marquis of Praio, whose 21 -year-old bro-ther-in-law was found shot dead m bed after a riotous drug party, was released yesterday. The Marquis has been held incommunicado and ques-" tioned almost constantly for 13 hours m an attempt to clear
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    Reds to blame for trade barriers
    247 8 LONDON, Thursday. T<HE British Board of Trade said here yesterday x there was nothing m the way of free trade between Russia and Britain or China and Britain— apart from the attitude of the Russians and the Chinese. In a statement on the Moscow
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    TEA TO COME OFF RATION BY YEAR END
    150 8 LONDON, Thurs. gRITAIN'S Food Minister, Major Lloyd George, told the House of Commons yesterday he hoped it would be possible to take tea off the ration by the end of the year. As a step on the way he announced that the
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    WOOL SLUMPS
    35 8 Prices at the trjird and final wool sale of the season held at Christchurch, New Zealand, were estimated to have dropped at least 20 per cent since the previous sale m February.- Reuter
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