The Singapore Free Press, 17 April 1952

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST- AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA j^T18.368. SINGAPORE, THURSMT, APRIL 17, 1552. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.;.
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    EVICTION POWERS MAY BE WIDER
    472 1 New Singapore Bill provides for slum clearance _nPAim__c c Pree Freas Staff *WMrter l i[^m^r^^^ Singapore weld be widwed imdinance ?lw? i^T P *?2*lS W c ntnl bIH (Control of Rent Or. SlllSi was placed before the Legislative Cfnuicil this tftJi t_? **\^S? sed the
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    110 p.c. maximum for chief tenants
    236 1 110 p.c. maximum for chief tenants Free Pre** Stall Reporter ft new Singapore rent control Bill fHfisii hf the Select Committee places ctt rb_ on chief tenants, to prevent the chief tenant from charging sub-tenants excessive rents, the RH provides that any nttenant may apply to the geat Conciliation Heard
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    NEW GOVT. OFFICES
    39 1 •n* press Staff Reporter Si_ pore Government 1 a building on Palo accommodate Government depa i tivs Council this morning to <urn of $750,000 mg the property. iot yet been decid:_rtment s will be Palmer Road.
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    They wrote the Bill
    125 1 Free Press Staff Reporter 'THE new rent control Bill placed before the Singapore Legislative Council today is written by six members of the Select Committee, and embodies recommendations made m their majority report. It incorporates much of the existing legislation without amendment. The six members are
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    Only 50 obeyed ultimatum
    67 1 ANLY about 50 of the 260 striking employees of the National Carbon (Eastern) m Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, obeyed the company's ultimatum to return to work this morning or face dismissal. The general manager of the company said that the situation is under consideration. The workers
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    RADIO INDUSTRY
    40 1 Britain's radio and electronic industry attained the highest level of production m its history m 1951, but national difficulties and the increase m defence orders make it unlikely that the high level will be maintained this year. A.P.
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    Westerling is released
    47 1 THE HAGUE, Tiiura. I X >HE former Netherlands Army captain, Raymond. "Turko" Westerling was released provisional;* last night on instructions of the Attorney-General of Amsterdam. Prior to his release, Westerling who was arrested yesterday m the vicinity of Arnhem had gone interro- gation.- AFP
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    Pool winner scrubs floor
    109 1 GODALMING, Thurs. BRITAIN'S Jackpot cham--1 pion. 50-year-old housewife Mrs. Lillian Guest, who brought off a 25,000,000 to 1 chance m winning top prise m a football pool for the second time running, was washing up dishes yesterday when she heard the result of her latest success.
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    SPEAKMAN V.C. IN HONG KONG
    51 1 Private William Speakman, first winner of the Victoria Cross m the Korean war, arrived m Hong Kong yesterday on a British troopship on his way back to Korea. He said, "I want to be back with the boys. I am glad to AFP be East
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    Advised old men to make love
    131 1 PARIS, Thursday. DR. Julien Besancon died here yesterday 50 years short of the 140 he said he would live by devotion to wine, women and tobacco. A graduate of ParU medical school he gained fame by books on the art of living such as
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    VISCOUNT dies
    16 1 Lord Hereford, premier Viscount of England, died at his Herefordshire home yesterday aged 86.
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    They'll fight for vote
    63 1 They'll fight for vote COLOMBO, Thurs. LEADERS of the Indian mlnoritytln[Ceylon!are considering launching a "nonviolent campaign of the Gandhi type to put moral pressure" on the government to give them back their right to vote. The Ceylon' Governmenthas taken the names of Indians off the registers for the general elections
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    RENT CONTROL NECESSARY'
    292 1 Free Press Staff Reporter DENT control should he continued m Singapore LX for an unlimited period, itisjfeeommended by six of the eight wemhen frt^eScn^^C^niniittee appointed by the Legistative Council to examine rent control legislation. The majority report says: "We are of the opinion that, having regard to
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    Half-way round world for passport
    160 1 Half-way round world for passport CLEVELAND, Ohio, Thurs. A 39-year-old English woman started on the long road back from Cleveland to Singapore yesterday after she had travelled half way around the world to become an American citizen. Mrs. Margaret Joyce Dack. formerly Miss Powell, a native of London, went to
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    U.S. FLIER WOULDN'T FLY
    59 1 First-Lieut. Verne Goodwin of Peabody. Massachusetts, was sentenced to two years m prison and dismissed from the U.S. Army Air Force for refusing to fly. He was the first at 22 reserve officers charged with disobedience to be courtmartialled for his part m a "stay down"
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    CATASTROPHE
    31 1 Police found that the oldfashioned cat-o' -nine-tails included m their exhibition at the Royal Show at Sydney. Australia had only eight tails when the show was over yes- terday.— Reuter-AAF
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    GOVT. GIVES TAX DETAILS
    117 1 Free Press Staff Reporter •THE Singapore Oovernment today gave estimates of 1 the njimber. of income taxpayefV. -^l" k They are Business cornnames 650: salary; earners 9,000 1 Aflan taxpayers 9.000 trW«~ .<, -nation Branch irr the Income tne net smsunt ef taxi Tax Department. Efforts
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    U.S. will give guarantee to E.D. C. nations
    304 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. TOE United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean x Acheson, said yesterday that the Un.ted States' would be prepared ta consider giving guarantees for the integrity of the European Defence Community when it came Into existence. He made this announcement
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    MR. CHURCHILL STOPS RAIL FARES RISE
    127 1 MR. CHURCHILL STOPS RAIL FARES RISE LONDON. Thurs. MR. CHURCHILL yesterday personally stopped a pro Ti posed increase m tares on the, nationalised British railwayf In an attempt to halt the growing criticism of his Con* servative government. <* An independent transport commission, which adiamls^ ters the railways recently ordered
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    STOP PRESS
    28 1 Sugar Bay Robinson, the world middleweight chaos- pion, knocked out Rocky Grasiano m the third round i of their scheduled 15-round' title fight m Chicago.— U.P.
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    The Master of Russia
    876 2  -  DOUGLAS ORGIL Reviews a new biography of Stalin. «BUlin" by Niko?aus Bswechen. STALIN has been "Uncle Joe to the British people for many years. And that, when you come to .think of it. Is surprising. It is a more affectionate sobriquet than the Fuhrer or the
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    Archbishop writes a best sefler
    753 2  - Archbishop writes a best sefler Robert Andrew By "In an age Of Revolution" Dr. CjßTMGarbett <Hodder d_ Stoughton). > P* isn't often that an* archbishop writes a "best seller." But &XCyril Garbett,- Archbishop of York, has done Just that. He has written a book analysing the problems which beset Britain
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    ANEURIN BEVAN speaking....
    574 2 ANEURIN BE VAN speaking. ("In Place of Fear" by Aneurin Bevan) HERE are some quotations from the book by Mr. Aneurin Bevan, "stormy petrel" of Socialism, which has first been published. UP TO the Korean incident American Far Eastern policy floundered from one extreme to another. At first she put
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    AGOOD TALE BADLY TOLD
    722 2 AGOOD TALE BADLY TOLD UNDER REVIEW Advcntves In tne Worlds by A. J. Cronin. Tha Cbeiee by Mire Brandel. rafctoe Periet by Gecages Duhamel. Spring. Green Shadow, by Oecily Mackworth. (Macgibbon and Key). r«HATA.J. Cronin has considerable gifts no one* could doubt who read "The Spanish Gardener.'' But while m
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    BOOKS in the SHOPS
    55 2 BOOKS in the SHOPS doctor mi n theZ^ OorC^^i ael Joseph "NI SwaSa from the mtl 0/ thi i ttudent. **m «««f___ N «ta_^" t_Q the danger 0/ thoTmS of persecuting jSfIH periodically th *Pt*onau Vm iifo*h an outbreak «T £fl present day. at H Little Men. Bi, fcj "Li.
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      146 2 JEST A MINUTE! By GEOFFREY EVANS _V^mWiMi "they've reduced the cheese ratten •gain!" New Crossword No* 638 PtP-sl-stl-Jj -n I M__H_ Ri __RL-H__ 1 1 -R RS RR «__M. 10 ■_______r* a> ~~~~~-________i ________P— RR— R^^^^^_ «__m_> |ft |fl ll H|^a I 1.. I i t I I it—. J—
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      25 2 Solution To Crossword Mo. 637 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 1, Scrambling. 7, Grand stands. 8, Resilient 10, Semaphore. 13. Interceptor. 14 f_eHistory. .Dawn: 1, Sugary. 2.
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    A BROTHER (OR SISTER) FOR BRUMAS
    68 3 A BROTHER (OR SISTER) FOR BRUMAS A CUB t^^ 1 Ll hur a*^? I**1 Of Brumos. the ISS^-S b~;/S tohois about 15 years old' r ?J* Germany durl MX* 9 &f •"L** "St one «*imali went fZ London beSuse food shortage at Ban\b£ 0 I°°d1 d nrit ZSS^ 9 Park
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    The baby who chewed anything
    257 3 The baby who chewed anything LONDON, Thurs. TWENTY am MONTH OLD Alan Simpson, J^prt of life, had m the habit, ever since he cut his first tooth, of chewtog "anything he could get his teeth into." He first began chewing the aides of his cot, and when he began to
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    WAFD TO RESIST
    29 3 The Wafd Party, led by the former Premier Nahas Pasha, has called on Egyptians to "resist to the utmost" tho Government measure postponing General Elections. Reuter
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    SUGAK FROM INDIA
    20 3 The Indian Government has decided to permit, until June, the export, of 50,000 tons of sugar.- A.P.
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    3 chart route for Singapore to Paris race by motor car
    334 3 KABUL, Afghanistan, Thurs. THREE Swiss adventur- ers charting the way for a Singapore-to-Paris motor dash found Afghanistan's car-shattering roads their greatest challenge. But they have finally made good their passage to the Khyber Pas s and good highways beyond
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    19 3 The French Government has asked that Morocco be admitted to the United Nations World Health Organ i- sation.- AFP
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    LAW OUTWITS CONCEITED FORGER
    234 3 LAW OUTWITS CONCEITED FORGER He boasted of his skill! C_MALT erwmm s___a a* Thursday. S^^ n f!!I" ll i ircd Atcxander Crawford, firmer ceited^faSSSTJi 0 ,l *l av cr a mall with a "confoolS K f as a forger, nearly whata fo?r^ c by exactl y th opposite to ii_tl!__-!
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    32 3 ■IUWG4MW NEFF. Continental favourite who won wide rococnltlon m Europe tut year for her performance m **c German picture "Mm Without A Name", b now ap9***% X hi Nth Century Fox production*.
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    More workers unemployed
    72 3 MANCHESTER, Thurs. ]\MR. ERNEST THORNTON, «I Secretary of the United Textile Factories Workers Association, has announced that probably 150,000 to 180,000 workers were not working this week owing to the •closing down of Lancashire's cotton mills. This was more than half the total number employed m the
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    Common front for Spain, Portugal
    57 3 Spain and Portugal have announced the formation of a common front toward the problems of Western defence. A communique issued after the meeting between General Franco of Spain and Premier Antonio Salazar of Portugal said they had agreed to consider the Iberian Peninsula as a
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    The two 'Queens' must lay-up
    232 3 LONDON, Thursday. I*HE world's two largest liners, the 83,000-ton Queen Elizabeth and the 81,000-ton Queen Maryp are next winter to have their biggest overhauls since reconditioning after the war. Both ships, which from July, will face keen competition on the North Atlantic passenger service from
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    SHE SAID 'YES' IN A GAOL TO HER 6ft. MAN
    285 3 SHE SAID 'YES' IN A GAOL TO HER 6ft. MAN LONDON, Thursday. r[ AOL was the most romantic spot permitted to 6ft 3ins: Douglas Gordon Goody for his proposal of marriage to 19-year-old W.R.A.C. Private Maureln Blissett. She said "Yes." Goody, a 21 year old National Service bombardier with a
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    BUCKLEY
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    Asian bloc to try again
    85 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. ARAB and Asian members of the United Nations may make one more attempt to get a Security Council hearing on Tunisian complaints against Prance befqre pressing for an emergency General Assembly session. Ahmad Bokhari of Pakistan, President of the Security Council, told
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    HUNT FOR SON
    46 3 Because Mr. F. W. Gasson of East London wants to go to Korea to look for his son,' believed to be a prisoner, the National Council of the South African Red Cross Society has decided to send him there as its representative. Reuter
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    He defended the low neckline
    59 3 Sir Leonard HiU, the famous physiologist who has died at Corton near Lowestoft, was an outspoken exponent of sun bathing, open collars and walking. Back m 1027, Sir Leonard defended the low neckline for women. They used to be known as "pneumonia blouses/ he said,
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    Aid might be axed
    42 3 Senator Tom Connally has told a press conference m Washington that he expects the Foreign Relations Committee of which he is chairman to recommend a cut of at least $1,000,000,000 m President. Truman's new foreign aid bill.— U.P.
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    It was bad luck for Mrs. Luck
    141 3 LONDON, Thurs. UR. JACK GOFF'S chlm--111 ney wa s on fire. And for the firemen It was the .usual drill. One got on the roof, hose at the ready. In the parlour carpets were rolled up, furniture was pushed away from* the fireplace^
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    Bridge Hand
    337 3 COME experts have lots of O "favourite" hands* others, ilka B. J. Becker, who exercised hit wisardry ever the South cards ta today's deal, have no special jEa^DurMtea Nevertheless, lt if probably proof of something or ■other that tha deal which B. J. •furnished In response to a
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    RAPID RECOVERY
    27 3 The Greek Premier. Nicholas Plastiras, who has been making rapid recovery from a paralytic stroke, expects to return to fiig duties m another A.P. month.-
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    CRUISER ON TOUR
    23 3 The French cruiser. Jeanne d'Arc, has anchored al Damascus as part of a six* months-tour of the Mediter- ranean:- A.P.
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      216 3 SINGAPORE i Com P etition 65 Prom The Editorials; 7.00 Sporting Record; 7.11f 10.00 ajn. News; 10.05 Music d Livestock— An a_riWhile You Work; 10.45 The Jack **T ana "vestock— An agriSmith Show; 11-11.30 London cultural magazine; 7.45 Sandy Studio Melodies; 1 pjn. Standard MacPherson at the theatre organ; String
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. April 17. 1952. A bus we miss
    587 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. April 17. 1952. A bus we miss /\NE thing that immeUdiately strikes the new-comer to S.ngapore from the West is the total inadequacy of the public transport system. Where else is there a cit y with roughly a million people m Which the majority of
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    Japan fears a fogbound build-up
    525 4 Japan fears a fogbound build-up Russia looks like staying m the Kuriles, says Richard Hughes from Tokyo JAPANESE defence authorities are becoming alarmed at coastguard and lighthouse reports of the growing build -up of Sdviet strength m the Kuriles, the 600-mile fogbound chain of volcanic islands stretching from Hokkaido, Japan's
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    EVEREST AWAITS A BRAVE NEW EXPEDITION
    6 4 EVEREST AWAITS A BRAVE NEW EXPEDITION
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    Will Those Last 1,000 Feet Defy 'Excelsior?'
    1180 4  -  GEOFFREY WAKEFORD E_ A Swiss expedition, the first since 1938, is now on its way to the base camp from which it will set out m an endeavour to conquer Everest. Six previous attempts, all by British climbers, have failed to reach the
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    Bawling on Cairo's Bourse
    693 4  -  MARGARET GILRUTH BgHW CRISIS m Efim By A COLLAPSE m the Alexandria cotton market has been a spectre haunting Egypt's able young Minister of Finance. 41--year-old Dr. Abdul Mortaal Bey, ever since he took over this thankless portfolio after the fall of the Wafd Government and
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    HEALTH SCHEME: GOVTS AGREE
    573 5 Single list for officers planned ""mm^!^******-*^**** which h^^ over <™"* certain difficulties wmil?rfjsf!_ rie ed m connection 2fc__rSi^& <^^ ,ist sa *> official %rk^ this morning. stud^ the e _S__2 Committee which first list for all m^ c ded a sin le seniority Select Comr^^ J
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    PUPILS IMPRESS T.U.C. MAN
    166 5 PUPILS IMPRESS T.U.C. MAN KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. fH F W Dalley, British Sm Trade Union leader who w^ .ome to Malaya to teach unionism- told the Free v 55 yesterday that he was > pleased and impressed p keenness shown by I first batch of 25 "trade leader pupils. They
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    NEW TRADE COMMISSIONER
    47 5 The new Indian Trade to Singapore, Mr. J. Coelho, is expected to arrive m the Colony by the end of this month. He will replace Mr. Jogindra Singh who returns to India at the end of his tour of duty early next month. y
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    Deportation Bill report
    82 5 fimt. report 01 the Select Committee on the Bill to regulate the deportation of undesirable British subjects was tabled m the Singapore Legislative Council this morning. The report recommends that only the Governor-in-Council may make a deportation order m respect of an immigrant British subject, who does
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    Society plans new building
    64 5 rE Leong Kuay Hoay Kuan, a Singapore Hokkien community association, has decided to build new premises, costing $150,000, m St. Michael's Road. The land was donated by the late Mr. Lim Teck Koon, former president of the association. The association occupies now a dwelling house Stanley
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    More recruits for R.A.F. Regt.
    65 5 More recruits for R.A.F. Regt. The fifth batch of recruits for the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) 65 Malays from all over the Federation and Singapore— passed out from their four-month initial training course at a ceremonial parade at Changi airfield this morning. They paraded before the Station Commahder, Group Captain EC.*
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    $2,000 FOR FUND
    23 5 Khiam Guan and Sons, a Singapore trading firm, has donated $2,000 to the building fund of the Singapore Chinese V.M.C.A.
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    POLICE BUY 30 RADIO CARS
    148 5 POLICE BUY 30 RADIO CARS Free Press Staff Reporter gPECIAL expenditure fo.r Singapore police, totalling $171,857, has been approved by the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council, according to a report tabled m the Council this morning. This amount covers the cost of 30 radio cars, the final instalment on
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    S'pore helps rice project
    64 5 SINGAPORE Government contributed $710 towards the cost of a jrice hybridisation project at Cuttack m India for 1950 and 1951. In a Finance Committee report tabled at the Legislative Council this morning, it was stated that the project was undertaken following the recommendations of the International
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    THAT IS A STUPID SUGGESTION: McNeice
    401 5 MR. T. P. F. McNeice, President ef the Singapore City Council, said yesterday that it was scurrilous to assume that the City Council was being dishonest with its consumers over the checking of their water, gas and electricity meters. He told the Free Press
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    HOMECRAFT FOR PRISONERS
    167 5 CLASSES m homecraft and mothercraft will be started soon for women prisoners at Outram Road Prison. Mr G. E. W. W. Bayly, the Commissioner of .W^f; Singapore, said yesterday that this irpart^of a rehlbiiitation scheme' Th<- Singapore St. John Ambulance Brigade Is arrangInz these classes. Embroidery Peace
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    Govt, seeks information
    193 5 COLONY TRADE WITH RUSSIA SINGAPORE Government has asked trade organisations m the Colony for information about their members' business dealings with Russia. It is understood the Government is particularly interested m knowing whether any trade had taken place between merchants of the two countries since the ECAFE
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    FACTORY PAYS COMPENSATION
    73 5 Free Press Staff Reporter EMPLOYEES of the Lee Rubber Factory m Lorong 3, Singapore, have agreed to accept a compensation of $900 each for cessation of work because of the temporary closure of the factory. The factoiry ha s been closed because of poor demand for. low
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    RADIO SET FOR LEPERS
    40 5 'JHE Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce has presented a radio set to the Johore Leper Camp for the use of Indian leper s The set was donated by Mr. Hira Singh of Gian Singh and Co.
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    $362,000 aid for clinics
    85 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A GRANT of $362,000 by the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund for the construction of three infant welfare clinics, and a teaching centre m Singapore is reported m a paper tabled by the Finance Committee at the Singapore Legislative Council this morning.
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    IT'S HARD TO ENFORCE THIS LAW
    185 5 IT'S HARD TO ENFORCE THIS LAW Council is advised: THE Municipal (Amendment) Bill, which would x impose an obligation on tenants m Singapore, who sublet their premises, to furnish the City Councillors with particulars of the sub-tenancies and the amount of rent paid, should not be proceeded with, says the
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    $500,000 approved for new quarters
    150 5 $500,000 approved for new quarters Free Press Staff Reporter rpHE Finance Committee Aof the Singapore Legislative Council has approved $500,000 for the building of additional staff quarters this year. In a report tabled m the Legislative Council this morning, the committee says m view of the serious shortage of accommodation
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    BLACKOUT SCHEDULE
    136 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: CJnion Building, Home Pipe. Rheem, Ford, Bin Sens, Wire Mesh, P.W.D. Quarry, Nanyang Mfg., Bukit Panjang:, National Carbon, Princess Elizabeth Estate. Dairy Farm. Ulu Pandan, Jurong I. 2 A 3. Bukit Timah Village. United Chinese Rubber Works. Lam Soon Cannery, Lam
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    It's MOTHER Who Counts
    938 6 What mfa a \thlld »^;»>i f iwri:orijiWj^ DAVID BURK reports on a still-continuing research into the effects of mother-love on character and personality A CHILD needs his mother. That seems pretty obvious; but very lew people know why that' need exists, ho* strong it is, nor
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    FLAG OF PEACE CAN WIN ON TODAY'S FORM
    733 7 Runs three m 38 seconds IVQRKINP Ii AL N LEWI S W whfch w_L°K C n secon track-kS&^^-£33_: l«SS_____tfs.- S run wellon to?___w?«« last cl a PP e arance. He could i^v^ii^^atu^dayover 5_ furlongs if he reproduces his track form. Gay Ensign
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    Malay stars
    153 7 out of Spore XI (Harith, Bakar and Madon) S INi APORE Malay stars, Harith. Awang Bakar and Sharif Madon, have net jjeen included m the Colony team to meet the Indian soccer tourists Aryan vm khana— on Sunday at jilan Besar Stadinm, The three players are now m
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    WIN FOR DROBNY
    54 7 Resulis the international •er. n v.:. lament yesterday inrud€C a victory for former Czech ■art Jaros'av Drobny now jiayirg for Egypt over Owen W. ..._.:r.s of South Africa 6 2, In the secend round. ggi cv Catch D. Mitic over Bicardo Balbiera of Ch le 6 B,
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    QUEEN STREET WIN CUP FINAL
    521 7 Queen Street 8.C...2; Prince Edward Road 8.C...1. TRIM determination triumphed over steady play m the Youth League Cup Final at fie Singapore pa.! .ins yesterday when Queen Street Boys* Club beat Prince Edward Road Boys' Club two-one. earns were well and the issue was till
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    HELP THE JAPS, SAYS RIDGWAY
    176 7 HELP THE JAPS, SAYS RIDGWAY rjBN. Matthew B. Ridgway yesterday urged servicemen and servicewomen under his Far East Command to contribute funds to the Japanese Olympic team "m the spirit of Olympic cooperation." The Japan Athletic Association has been campaigning for funds to send a full team of almost 100
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    RUGBY RESULTS
    41 7 Kugby League: Liverpool City 0: Rochdale Hornets 17. Busby U-Jeo: Teignmputh t. St Thomas Hc^ital 0 WymcuOi Alb'on 14; Metropolitan Police 6. Reuter picture. mm a -.kntn_-r-.nf_._i with the teams (.Qoeon's Street r'"ht and __,-U_. o_le.-r MpWJ?__tf_*L_^^ Free Press
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    LODGERS STILL LEAD
    280 7 CHANGI Lodgers have drawn ahead m the United Services Football Association Senior Division league, having a four-point lead from nearest rivals H.M.S. Terror. Changi lie beside Terror with the same number of points but not quite such a good goal average. In the Junior Division, Flying Boat
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    RNAS WIN 6-2
    43 7 POYAL Naval Air Station Ssm"l* bawang beat R.A.F. Seletar by six goals to two m a fit ndly water-polo match play:d a* Seletar yesterday. Scorers for Sembawang were: Brunswick (3). Virjoe, Reynold and Barnrtt. Salvidge and Freeman scored for Seletar.
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    SIGNALS WIN 2-1
    33 7 IDISTRICT Sig._al Regiment beat G.H.Q. by two goals to one m an Army Major league soccer match at Tanglin yesterday. Mulholland and Walker scored for Signals. Vanstone scored for GHQ.
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    WALKOVER
    29 7 Singapore Volunteer Special Constabulary were awarded a walkover In their &AF.A. Div. 3B League match against the Singapore Municipal Services Union which was to have been played yesterday.
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    'Opportunities in S'pore'
    51 7 AUSTRALIAN jockey Athol Mulley, who by riding 54 winners m seven months became Singapore 's leading Jockey, said on his return that. ther*. were great opportunities m the colony for Australian jockeys. Th* main thing is to have a permanent retainer with a strong stable," he added.—
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    PHILLIPS SAVES
    36 7 picture. Combined Service goalkeeper Phillips blocks an uprising shot from Aryan inside-right Narayan m yesterday's match at Jalan Besar Stadinm. Boniface (right) and Skinner, Services right-back and centrehalf, are seen beside Narayan Free Press
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    $40,000 short of Olympic target
    493 7 HELSINKI looms just a few weeks ahead and Sin- gapore is still $40,000 short m funds to send a team. The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council has collected only $4,900 of the target figure of $45,000. Clearly something has to be done. At their meeting
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    Newcastle and Arsenal draw 1-1
    216 7 Newcastle and Arsenal draw 1-1 AN early injury to Jimmie Logic, Arsenal's Scottish insideright. and the inclusion of six reserves by Newcastle United robbed the re-arrang-ed League match at Highbury, London, yesterday of any bearing on this season's Cup Final m which these two clubs will" battle at Wembley on
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    OTHER RESULTS
    25 7 Res- cf yesterdays U.K. Football Results: League 111 (Southern): Aldershot 2 Gillingham 1. Scottish League Division 'A': Third Lanark 1 Rangers 1 Reuter.
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    SERVICES WILL HAVE TO DO MUCH BETTER
    436 7 Free Press Soccer Reporter Aryan Gymkhana 2; Combined Services 1. CERVICES started off as if they were going io swamp the Aryan tourists and took the lead after seven minutes, but the Indians' speed and confidence after they had settled down served as
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    Rocky had to strip
    100 7 ROCKY Graziano the challenger m last night a toorld middleweight boxing* title light had to strip naked, to weigh m under the weight limit of 11 st. 6 lb. He weighed 11 st. 5 3 lb. without a stitch of clothing* on him when he stepped
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    SEDGMAN IN THIRD ROUND
    73 7 AUSTRALIAN ace Frank Sedgman reached third round of the Italian International Tenuis Tournament yesterday with a 6-1. 6-3, 6-2 victory over Marfo Beladielli of Italy. Grant Golden of Chicago., also reached the third roundi while Arvilla McGuire of Berkeley, California, was eliminated m the second women's
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    BRADDELLS WIN
    42 7 In a friendly scccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday, Braddell Cricket Club beat Bukit Timah S.C. by 3—2. I>.A. Barnett. former -«^calipn Test left-hander and wicketkeeper, who now leads Buckinghamshire, will captain the Minor Count.es Respresentative XI this summer.
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    EGYPT 'NOT SATISFIED' WITH U.K. IN THE SUDAN
    371 8 EGYPT 'NOT SATISFIED' WITH U.K. IN THE SUDAN mf% **l f Jf* mmmm m m Tl jp 3 Ijiii flnoeit f|_illif_iVf llMil_l_H Mi EiflAll LONDON, Thursday. THE Egyptian Ambassador to Britain, Abdil Fattah Amr Pasha who arrived here thjs morning by air from Cairo cave the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden,
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    Reds hold 40 missionaries
    56 8 NEW YORK. Thur. ABOUT 40 American Protestant missionaries are being held against their will m Communist China as "scapegoats'' for the Red regime, the National Council of the Churches of Christ m the United States revealed yesterday. The missionaries are the remnants of 2,535 serving In
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    MEAT TO BRITAIN
    30 8 Meat shipments to Britain lander the one-year agreement expiring on April 23 are expected to reach 186,000 tons, compared to the *con- tract figure cf 200,000, A.P.
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    3 girls outrage Marine 7 times
    350 8 RAZOR ATTACK ON CAR RIDE NEW YORK, Thursday. A 21-year-old marine told the police yesterday that "he had been raped seven times by a "beautiful blonde and two brunettes'* who threatened him with a razor, ripped off his clothes and left him' clad only
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    'Hard to get airmen'
    77 8 'Hard to get airmen' WASHINGTON, Thurs. VJB Air Force told Congress yesterday it was getting more and more difficult to persuade American youths to man the new types of combat aircraft. This testimony came from Air Secretary, Mr. Thomas Finletter, and General Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff.
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    ENVOY EXCHANGE
    13 8 Egypt and Peru have decided to establish diplomatic relations.- Reuter home.—
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    TRIBESMEN MEET SERETSE
    34 8 TRIBESMEN MEET SERETSE picture. SERETSE KHAMA, exiled chieftain of the Bamangwato tribe (right) chats with some of his tribesmen who flew from Bechuanaland to discuss his future. They met at Khama Chipstead, Surrey, Reuter
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    IKE DEFEATS TAFT IN NEW JERSEY
    166 8 NEWARK, New Jersey, Thursday. GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER received aproximately 150,000 more votes than Senator Robert Taft m Tuesdays New Jersey presidential preferential primary, almost complete returns showed yesterday. According to the latest results Gen Eisenhower has secured 31 debates out of 38 due to
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    Truman may raise steel wages
    140 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday prepared to go over the heads of the seized steel industry and grant pay rise s to 650.000 steelworkers. After talks between management and Labour collapsed last^night, Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Charles Sawyer, now running the $8,000,000 industry for th*
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    ANGLO-U.S. ACADEMIC ALLIANCE
    122 8 LONDON, Thurs. LEADING US. Universities are to be. asked to send delegates here next year to discuss the formation of an academic alliance with uni* versities of the British Commonwealth. The alliance was suggested by Dr. James B. Conant, President of Harvard University, when he was visiting
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    HE DOESN'T FEAR GAOL
    46 8 "aol holds nc terror for Ishimatsu Nakahara of Tokyo, The 73-year-old man has been arrester* for tb- 2_*vd Hvr**. Since his first arrest m 1890 when he was 10 years c.d. he had spent a total of 57 years behind bars.— A.P.
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    HANGED IN CELL
    34 8 Sam Smithwick, j>4, former Jim Wells County Deputy Sheriff serving a life sentence for the shooting of a radioman, was found dead by hanging m his cell at Huntsville, Texas.- A.P.
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    NEW POLIO DISCOVERIES
    51 8 NEW YORK, Thurs. DISCOVERIES likely to be valuable m investigation of infantile paralysis were reported yesterday by American scientists. One is that the disease strikes first m th e blood and not m the nerves. This discovery is already being used to prevent infantile paralysis m monkeys.—
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    FESTIVAL OF KIVU
    27 8 An International Fair will be held at Costerville from January 4 to February 11, 1953, under the title of Fes- tival of Kivu.- -AP.
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    A-BLAST ON TV
    22 8 America's next atomic blast, due m Nevada next week, will be seen on television across the United States.- Reuter
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    ATONT SAILORS WON'T TALK
    235 8 FREEMANTLE, Western Australia, Thursday. aiIJNT sailors came ashore from Britain's secret *3 atom test ships at Freemantle last night under orders to "keep mum" about their voyage from Britain and their eventual destination. Asked by reporters if they had had a rough trip they replied: "We
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    2s. TO SEE HOME OF CHURCHILL
    48 8 Prime Minister Mr. Churchill, is admitting sight-seers to the grounds of his private country hom c at Westerham Kent, on May 21. He will charge two shillings admission fee and the proceeds win be donated to the Young Women's Christian Association. Reuter
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    ARRESTS
    22 8 Many arrests have been made m Czechoslovakia following the discovery of a widespread scheme for issuing counterfeit food ration cards.- Reuter
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    Wheel chair speedster
    39 8 Wheel chair speedster BRIGHTON rt £st__£?S chair. d ,n *»li 4 Griffins uheel v With a motor attach J**" 41 miles an V passu* two automobi.^ The speed limit f or valid chair. «>« r cna,rs miles an hour A.P.
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    SLIM RETURNS
    31 8 Field Marsha! Sir Slun, British Chfef Z Wm Imperial General Stan J* back to London 5f 2 ew York yesterday atfe. .njghts [ecture t, iur in united States. Reuter
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    NARCOTICS TALK
    35 8 The United Nations r mission on Narcotic Dm_ mE gan its seventh session 5? ii__ York yesterday Jgftg of completing a singL i n J? national convention^,, f. r control of narcotics.- Reuter
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