The Singapore Free Press, 19 May 1952

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    19 1 The singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE Of MALAYA No. 18.395. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1052. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    PACIFIC ALLIANCE ROW
    466 1 Australians deny prejudice against P. I. WASHINGTON, Monday. |y|YSTERY today surrounds reports from Washington printed in Manila saying that the Philippines will be left off the "Pacific Council because Australia opposes any alliance with non-Caucasian nations for racial reasons/ 9 Black headlines the full width of page
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    Masked men tie woman, get $***** jewellery
    159 1 Masked men tie woman, get $***** jewellery Press S.aff Reporter i I-\ ritti his lace covcr- two others, be- be Malays, stole $60 i fiery, worth $10,750 Duchess Road, on the stone Bukit Timah I Singapore, on Saturday Wilson and her Haina servant were tied U P I eked in
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    COURT BREAKS UP CARTEL
    54 1 A v.S. federal court in N v York has ordered the tattoo cf a world cartel 1:1 munitions, arms, chemicals And r.yions. Tbe craer made by Judge tylvestei J. Ryan during tne :i affects the British nperial Chemical Industries the American E.I. Du Dc Nemours Inc.
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    MR. TULLIDG'E
    35 1 Jht funeral of Mr. Peter ai nony Tiiilidge, a EuroJjan mercantile assistant red by the Eastern Singapore, who was road accident at I is R-ad on Saturday, i take place M P^-^ori at
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    Up in the clouds
    44 1 SEVEN R.A.F. Meteor F. E. 9 aircraft effortlessly ov«--come the pall of gravity as they climb vertically near Lake Timsah (background) above the Suez Canal in Egypt, recently. This remarkable picture was made by a photographer in an accompanying Meteor.
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    Postmen stand firm
    46 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S 600 striking postmen said this morning that they would return to work only after negotiations with the Government had reached a successful conclusion. Yesterday the Government offered to reopen negotiations if the strikers would return to work unconditionally.
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    BLAZING OIL ENGULFS MEN -FOUR DIE
    67 1 BLAZING OIL ENGULFS MEN -FOUR DIE LONDON, Mon. AN EXPLOSION yesterday hurled blazing oil across the switch room of a huge electricity generating station at Kilmarnock, Scotland and killed four men. Other men with clothes blazing crawled through the shattered metal door of the room to safety. A wide area
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    GAS BOMBS THROWN AT RED PLAY
    134 1 GAS BOMBS THROWN AT RED PLAY PARIS. vMon. A GROUP of youths, irked by a Communist play criticizing American soldiers in Korea, tossed gas bombs into the audience on Saturday night and tried to toss the assistant director over a balcony railing. Right after the curtain rose for the play,
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    'End East-West distrust' call
    166 1 LONDON, Monday. T«HE eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell, who 1 was 80 yesterday, celebrated the occasion with the publication of a new book "The Impact of Science on Society." In this 140-page survey Bertrand Russell said that 'the human race could here and now, begin a rapid
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    I must be mad, says widow
    237 1 818 TO COWUER ATUNTIC PLYMOUTH, Monday. A 38- YEAR-OLD widow sailed yesterday aboard a rL 23-foot yacht for Florida with ten weeks' supply of food and the determination to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic by sea alone. Mrs. Ann Davison, who
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    The Comet leaves
    55 1 Free Press Staff Reporter •TOE world's fastest air 1 liner, the De Havilland jet Comet which arrived in Singapore from London in 19 hours 13 minutes flying time, left this morning for Bangkok. The Comet, which is on a training flight, Is fully equipped with seats and
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    BANDITS FIGHT WITH BOWS
    37 1 Bandits fought with bows and arrows in a two-hour battle with police who cornered them in the jungle at Liopura, near Jhansi, Central India. Five bandits were captured: two policemen were wounded.- Reuter
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    BURGLARS TAKE $2,470
    110 1 BURGLARS TAKE $2,470 Free Press Staff Reporter WHEN Mr. Goh Sin Zee of Rangoon Road, Singapore, returned to his house from a drive last night, he found the place in disorder and property worth $2,470, which included $700 cash, missing. He had locked the house before he left. He found
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    19-GUN SALUTE
    37 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MALACCA, Mon. A 19-gun salute was fired from the Portuguese naval sloop Gonzalo this morning as the Minister for Portuguese Overseas Territories, Commander Manuel Maria Rodrigues, came ashore at Malacca jetty.
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    RISKED HER NECK FOR $1,000
    112 1 PHOENIX, Arizona, Mon. MRS. Doris Scot^ with her broken neck held rigid in a cast, said yesterday that she tried to ride a bucking circus e'ephant to get money to support her fam'Cy. The money looked like a fortune to the 29-year-oCd housewife whose husband
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    Koje P.o.Ws expected to riot again
    312 1 KOJE ISLAND, Monday. THE NEW COMMANDANT of the Koje Island x prison camp yesterday predicted new disorders as men of the U.S. 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment mounted guard in a sudden shift to reinforce the camp's security. Brig. Gen. Haydon Boatner, who took over
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    ACCORDING TO PLAN
    38 1 William Stover, 78, a retired railroad engineer of Indiana, U.S.A. made arrangements for his funeral, then sat down in front of a passenger train when it pulled out of the station ard was killed.- U.P.
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    RUSSIAN OIL FOR ISRAEL
    80 1 JERUSALEM, Men. Israel i/ to buy oil from Russia, Israeli Foreign Office sources said^yesterday. Agreement to import oil and oil derivatives from Soviet Union was understood to have been reached following the failure of the Anglo-Israeli' financial talks which affected Israel's oil supplies. Negotiations broke down
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    BRITAIN RAISES OIL PRICES
    102 1 LONDON, Mon. BRITISH petroleum companies yesterday announced further slight increases in the prices of their products due to rising transport and labour costs. Motor and aviation spirit and oils will from now cost between a farthing and a penny more per gallon. The Government had already
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    IT RAINED LIVE SNAILS
    41 1 Rain laden with tiny snails fell over a wide area near Oran during a freak storm during the weekend. The fall was so thick that some roads were Impassable over an area of two square miies. Reuter
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    BOOM TOWN OF BONN THRIVES
    715 2 The Heart of the New Germany Prices soar in the jerrybuilt capital at the side of the Rhine, says Kenneth Ames. BONN: IN Europe's most nourishing boom town M.P.s attending parliamentary debates park their motor-cars between a row of pigsties and a chicken farm. Sightseeing
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    TUBBY HUBBY DIET
    383 2 TUBBY HUBBY DIET Bernard Wicksteed'sl THEY want five more Tubby Hubbies now! One isn't enough lor Them! Well, They've picked a good day for it, because this morning. They decided to fatten me up a little. For the benefit of new readers, "They" are the People who are trying to
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    Scooting to Sydney
    58 2 Edoardo Mari (left) and Dante Sesaro Vacchi, two young Italian scooter-cycl-*ts are pictured here at the start of their four-con-tinent trip to Australia and back. They carry a load of clothing:, bedding, cameras. and spare parts for their 125cc scooters. From Milan, they will go to Paris,
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    Proud Parent
    48 2 BELOW: Maria, the Mace- (lonian pigmy donkey of London Zoo, has every reason to be proud of her foal, Deanna. Deanna is the first of her kind to be born in the zoo and soon she will be seen on television—and she's only three weeks' old.
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    South Koreans Steal U.S. Stores
    342 2 rFHE old saying about the dog biting the hand that feeds it, is being brought up-to-date in Korea where— helped by corrupt and apathetic police and Government officialsgangs of Southern Koreans ar e systematically pilfering United Nations supplies and equipment. As South Korea is a
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    Honourable Scourge
    171 2 TOAME comes in many guises but f^w are more .out of the way than the guise in which it came to Inspector Shimpachi Utsugi jus^ retired from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Board. Shimpachi Utsugi joined the police to be nothing more than a policeman and take promotion through
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    French 'Moan' Against Justice
    511 2 SPpTUC^T on ORiWsn^ /CRUMBLE of the day in Prance is against Justice or the lack of it. The French can barely open a newspaper nowadays without finding a report of some innocent man being sentenced "in error", or of police brutality towards arrested persons. The judiciary,
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      209 2 MY THIRD DAY j j o>Menu j Breakfast Two rashers streaky baton and tomato, grilled I Two slices toast, buttered thinly Coffee or tea Lunch j Grapefruit Two poached eggs on t«*H Large portion eaulHtower au gratia Any fresh fruit Dinner S Small nip »t c!c*r HMPP I S fortified
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      85 2 ALWAYS ASK FOR NATIONAL LOOSE LEAF BOOKS The illustration shews one of the large range of R"? B: IN EVCRY SIZE FOR EVERY PURPOSE Manufactured by THE NATIONAL LOOSE LEAF CO fft Representative throughout Smfapore and Fedf <•»' r DONALD MOORE, OLDHAM HALL Si\ RADIO ffflff INCORPORATING RADIO MALAYA NEWS
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      25 2 Solution To Crossword Mo, 664 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION \cross: 1. Slam. 4. Baby. 6. Mus c. master. 8. Nahas. 10. Bain). M. Rosps, 12. Ea^l«. l».*Pre<llc-
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      82 2 New Crossword No. 665 f f^ j I I CLUES ACROSS 1. A. B. Splits the fighting vessels (11). 7. This, Mary, is a resume (3). 8. University disciplinarian (7). 9. "A cup of only in the name of a 4isciple" (4*. 5). 11. Wdti the bailiffs in ffl). 14.'
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      132 2 YOUR I LUCKY DOBN today, you will either have to curb >our lovf of pleasure and foniiniu. excitement or ntnvert thi« energy into som< constrietiw course if you are to roarh tht heights to v in. h "ar talents, by edict <.i the star> should entitle vou. Musics dramatic, emotional
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    FOOTSTEPS AT ONE A.M. END IN DIVORCE
    317 3 FOOTSTEPS AT ONE A.M. END IN DIVORCE 3 other men in a wife's life LONDON, Monday. WHISTLES at one a.m. and footsteps on a fireescape were mentioned in the Divorce Court when a wife was found to have misconducted herself with three men. The wife, Mrs. Dorothea Dennis, admitted arrairs
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    Bridge Hand
    406 3 Nonh-South vulnerable. North daaler. NORTH 4AKQIOI Oil O 4 S WEST BAST A J 6 3 2 47(4 V Q 10 9 6 <?53 AJ1075 O A 9 6 *A Q 10 9 7 4 SOUTH SIIII4 OKQ S 2 111 The bidding: North East South West it
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    ALWAYS PUT YOUR BEST (PHONE) VOICE FORWARD
    279 3 ALWAYS PUT YOUR BEST (PHONE) VOICE FORWARD NEW YORK, Mon. DO you have "telephone fear?" Or does your telephone shudder whenever you reach for it? Are you making a real friend of your telephone, or are you letting it show you up These questions are being explored by a 29-year-old
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    Russian is 'A Must'
    35 3 Study of the Russian language ,is "one *of the major political tasks of Chinese youths today", and 2,000 students are learning their lessons at a Manchurian school, a letter front Jferbin
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    Feeling the pinch
    33 3 Japan's only airline has reported it was feeling the pinch from the United States oil strike, and cut gasoline allocations for the next four weeks bv 35 per cent.- Reuter-AAP
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    Not worth it, saysman, 103
    76 3 Not worth it, says man, 103 L MELBOURNE, Mon. IVING to be 103 is not worth it, in the opinion of William Henry Heard, who recently achieved that are. Alert, spry and cheerful Heard said men these days were more temperate than they used to be. "I don't think a
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    Franco: 'Free satellites'
    51 3 MADRID, Mon. GENERALISSIMO Francisco U Franco has warned the West against any further appeasement of the Soviet Union. He was applauded loudly when he recommended that the West should not forget the Russian satellite countries of East Europe and called for their liberation as soon as possible.-
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    Coronation badges —made in Japan
    114 3 Coronation badges made in Japan LONDON, Monday. UNDER-COVER samples of Coronation medals, badges, and brooches made in Germany and Japan are circulating in Britain, it is revealed. Jewellery and fancy goods firms in the Midlands are preparing to appeal fof protection to the Board of Trade. They want to stop
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    RUBBER FOR REDS
    32 3 Another shipment of Ceylon rubber, comprising about 4,000 tons, will leave Ceylon for Takw Bar in North China on the Polish Ocean Lines vessel Kilinski. now in Colombo.- U.P.
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    MORE OF LAMOUR
    66 3 THE SARONG is missing, but otherwise everything is as*it should be. It's Filmdom's old friend, Dorothy Lamour. icearing what appears to be an unusual type of grass skirt for her role in Cecil de Mille's technicolor picture The Greatest Show on Earth." But the sarong is soon
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      315 3 Radio SINGAPORE 9.35 a.m.-9.55 Schools; It News; 10.05 Tunes from Yesterday Today; 10 45-12 Schools; 1 p.m. Monday Matinee; 1.30 News; 1.45 Home on the Range; 2-2.50 Schools, 6.17 Children; 6.35 Composer of the Week; 6.55 Anouncements; 7-7.15 News 730 Spot the Favourites; 8 World Affairs, Allington Kennard; 8.15 At
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    TALK IT OVER
    255 4 SINGAPORE is strike-con-scious as it has never been since the tmlamented days of the S-F.T.U. The Incredibly foolish walk-out of the busmen Is over, but the postmen are still idle. This week the Medical Workers' Union and the Government Seamen's Union are to discuss strike action, and
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    The singapore Free Press MONDAY, May 19, 1952. Bandit rewards
    296 4 The singapore Free Press MONDAY, May 19, 1952. Bandit rewards MANY a law-abiding citizen must have felt a sense of shock on reading the news that three surrendered terrorists are to be rewarded by the Federation Government. They are to share $12,876 for bringing in ten of their jungle comrades
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    Gay Pilulde to Coronation Year
    946 4 Gay Pilulde to Coronation Year DT all the tokens, Is to have a brilliant season as a prelude to the most wonderful Coronation year in history. Technically the Royal Academy, now open, has already inaugurated the season. Although Court mourning will not finish until the end of May the Queen
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    Rec 'Ghost' Towns
    296 4 *nHE B.B.C's Freedom Broadcasts to the Iron Curtain countries of the East are inspiring hundreds of political refugees to make their bids for liberty. Proof of this comes \n a report from American Intelligence Officers who state that, in an attempt to halt the flight of the
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    U.S. Hasno Reply to the Comet
    577 4  - U.S. Has no Reply to the Comet- RODNEY CAMPBELL IN THE AIR BRITAIN LEADS By NEW YORK. SEND the Comets over here! America should see how far Britain is ahead. The flight might be expensive, even risky. It might not get any dollar orders. But it could give Britain's prestige
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    But the 'Queens' have a Rival
    422 4  -  JOHN HALL AT SEA —A U.S. CHALLENGE By ZOOMING out this is a slim, trim American debutante who will be a boon to Britain in one way, but may be a bane in another. The newcomer is the world's latest luxury liner, the 52,000-ton
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    ALI AND THE TWO BEARS
    155 4 FIS is the story of L. i sun-tanned, simple pe» ant on Turkey's frontierim Bulgaria. Ali loved perfonninc hoi He had two of therr. a:.c k toured towns and v:lia» along the liirkish frontier Everywhere he went t was popular— and so m his bears.
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    CRISIS: LABOUR MOVE
    189 5 Councillors told: 'Say no to extension' J^ABOUR members* of the Singapore Legislative Council have been asked by the parliamentary committee of the party to vote against the extension of the Emergency Regulations at the Council meeting tomorrow. The parliamentary committee took the decision at a week-end meeting.
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    NATIONALITY PROPOSALS FOR S'GOR COUNCIL
    147 5 NATIONALITY PROPOSALS FOR S'GOR COUNCIL RUALA LUMPUR, Mon. ggVSBAL important O amendments to the Q t v Nationality Bill, 1951 will be considered t)t!iV IU a meeting of th o Selangoi State Council Thev have been proposed in a report by a inject committee appointed by the State Council a
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    Three arrests
    42 5 Itorec more arrests were Bade by the Singapore Police sterday in connection with Thursdays incident at Bukit Ttaab Road where picketers attacked with bottles a lorry tfl National Carbon Company's workmen returning ran work. On Thursday 10 people were detained.
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    City gives away an orang utan
    113 5 City gives away an orang utan THE Singapore City Council's Health Committee has agreed that an orang utan, it bought in 1948, be presented to its present keeper, Miss L. E. Bach. This rescinds an earlier decision to give the animal to Tungku Mahkota for the Johore Zoo. The City
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    Johore meeting
    27 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— A meeting of the Executive Council of Johore was held at the Council Cnamber, Bukit Tambalan, yesterday. The Regent of Johore presided.
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    NEW MALAY GIRLS' SCHOOL
    77 5 BATU PAHAT. Mon.—Che Saleha binte Onn, wife of Incbe Seth bin Monamed Said, District Officer, Batu Pahat. opened the new Rengit Malay girls' school. The old school was built by the villagers in 1933 and was rebuilt recently at a cost of $40,000. Among those at
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    40 5 picture. THE GOVERNOR, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, followed by Mr. R. Alderson, chief of BOAC's Jet Hiffht team, leaves the Comet Jet mfter he had inChsngl. Hie Comet had r; flown in from Britain 19 hoars 13 mirrhtes.— Free Press
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    Cameras sold below prices
    113 5 Cameras sold below prices lIANT camera dealers in m Singapore are telling new cameras at below standard prices. A dealer told the Free Press yesterday that times were bad and the demand for cameras had decreased recently. Dealers had to reduce their margin of profit. Buyers bargained more now over
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    President for four years
    108 5 MR. Homer Cheng has been ITI re-elected president of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association, Singapore, for the fourth successive year. Mr. I. C. Lam and Mr. G. H. Kiat have been re-elected vice-presi-dents. Other office-bearers are: Treasurer: Mr. Yeow Swee Hong; Secretaries. Mr. Jee Ah
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    Provident fund sweep in K.L
    66 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— A cash sweep, organised in aid of the Ceylonese Malayan Provident Fund, was drawn yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. The following are the winning numbers:— lst, No. *****: 2nd. *****; 3rd, No. ***** Consolation Prizes: Nos. *****. ***** ***** *****. ***** ***** and
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    Gordons are in S'pore
    34 5 picture. THE IST. BATTALION, Gordon Highlanders, arrived in Singapore from Tapah yesterday for rest mad re-training. The encaied colours of the battalion are being taken off the train. Free Press
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    April is top month for murders
    181 5 piGHT people were murdered In Singapore during: April. This is a record number for any month since 1946 except December 1950, when IS people were killed during the riots. Statistics issued by the Colony C. I. D. show a considerable drop in armed robberies
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    CLUB TO HOLD GARDEN FETE
    63 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore Kamala Club will hold a garden fete on June 28 to raise money for the Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association and for their own building fund. "Half of the proceeds will go to SJLT.A. and 4he other half to the cost of
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    These men are wanted by CID
    215 5 These men are wanted by CID Free Press Staff Reporter REWARDS totalling $2,500 are still waiting claimants at the Singapore C J.D. The money is to be paid for information regarding two murders and unlawful possession of fire-arms and desertion. The police are offering $1,000 for information leading to the
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    TWO GET MORE LEA VE
    193 5 r|\HE Health Committee of JL the Singapore City Council has agreed to extend the leave of two City officers studying in London, Dr. V. M. S. Thevathasan, and Mr. Patrick E. Taye. The extensions, of two months in each case, are without pay and without
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    City chilling rooms to let
    47 5 SINGAPORE City Council's chilling rooms at the French Road abattoirs are to be let. A Council committee has decided that the public be invited to tender for the renting of these rooms. The rooms were recently used by the Singapore Cold Storage.
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    Co-op opened at- Tampin
    89 5 SEREMBAN, Mon. THE British Adviser, Negri 1 Sembilan Mr. M. C. ff Sheppard, opened the new Tampin Co-opera-tive Stores on Friday. He congratulated the committee for their work and said it was a miracle how they got the building which belonged to the police. The secretary
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    Kampongs can beat bandits —Ruler
    270 5 Kampongs can beat bandits Ruler IPOH, Mon. yiGILANCE to note and report infiltration of subversive elements and courage to fight the terrorists when they appear, if applied througnout all the kampongs of Malaya, would soon end the Emergency, said the Sultan of Perak yesterday when he opened the Tapah Home
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    Robbery charge inquiry
    70 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Mon— A pork-seller, Lai Boon Bak, told the Gurun Magistrate, Inche Abdullah Ghazall, that a Malay pointed a revolver at his stomach uid robbed h!ir of $53 and I- is identity card. L*i was testifying at a preliminary inquiry into charges of armed robbery agonist
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      192 5 BLACKOUT SCHEDULE SUBSTATIONS Uable to load shedding tonight are: Chinese Rubber Wks.. Lam Soon People's Park, Nanson Rd., Cannery, Lam Choon Rubber Adelphi, Capitol. Newton 1 2, Works, Thye Hin, Fredwater House. Wayanr Satu, Balmoral Rd., Dal- Industrial Gases, KUburn Estate, vey Rd. Chartered Bank. George Dunearn Rd., Island Golf
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    ATHENIANS SCORE EASY WIN
    448 6 It was a one team match Free Press Soccer Reporter THERE was only one team worth watching at the Stadium yesterday, and they were the Athenians. In fact there was nothing else to it, for Sino-Malays were oat of the picture from the kick-off to the
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    S'PORE XI v. TOURISTS
    108 6 HPHE Singapore team to meet x the Athenians »t Jalan chosen last las Tew Clung; Johan, Teow Keaf Taw (capt.), Davids, Hin Wear; JbrahJm Yusoff, Boon Ge— 4. McDonald, Boon Leon* Bahim Omar. aUaetiu; Narayanan, Yassln, I— all Yusoff. Hoon Leeng. On Wednesday a European eleven
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    WELL HELD
    22 6 WELL HELD picture. Osman Angvilla, Sino-Malays goalkeeper, grabs a, Bennett shot (not in picture *»rfn^ T Mt*rd»'. •ram* against Athenians.- Free Press
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    Ross does it-but there's a hitch
    344 6 VLEANOR ROSS, a Singapore Olympic hope for the 100-metres dash, on Saturday ran the distance a second below the standard time of 12.9 sec. set by Singapore Olympic Sports Council. But will she get a ticket to Helsinki? It is understood there is yet
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    Gular revelled in the mud to win the Cup trial
    1627 6 Gular revelled in the mud to win the Cup trial By ALLAN LEWIS A HEAVY rainstorm between races five and six upset all calculations on the mala race (Race 6), Cl. 1, Div. 1, 1 Mile, at Bukit Timah on Saturday, opening day of the Singapore Turf Club's Governor's Cup
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    HARROVIAN' RUNS BRILLIANT THREE
    253 7  - HARROVIAN' RUNS BRILLIANT THREE ALLAN LEWIS Should be good thing Wednesday By ",Sf NG n"" SKg d »w* b Honolulu (Fry) and Entertainment (Tulfoh) wo*t "actively over three in 37 a& with Entertainment on the totide doing nightly better Ulan bis atiMemate at the Honolulu may have had the wont
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    G. Melayn weighed 131b. more
    137 7  - G. Melayn weighed 131b. more ALLAN LEWIS k, WSH TADEK Yl to GM^ t Helavu on Saturday, after race, be wwtf** »4 Bl^* than I'' stones. J; ring the race h* *ei«bt by U IIL radek had to wear three heavy wocllen sinjflets and also hid a couple of heavy
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    Recs give repeat performance
    287 7 Senior league cricket Free Press Cricket Reporter SINGAPORE Recreation Club gave a repeat per- f ormance the same as they did last week to score the only outright in the Senior cricket Tournament over the week-end. They beat Indian Association in an exciting finish by fifteen
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    GRAND PRIX MILITAIRE
    59 7 T lEUTENANT-COLONEL D. N. Lj Stewart of »»»ti*i^ riding Anwrtow, won the Grand Prix Mttitaire of the international horseshow at Lucent by covering the 800-meter count with 13 obstacles without fault in 3t seconds yesterday. Majcr Julio Sagasta of Arrentina, on Don Juan, was second and Jonquerers
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    ENGLAND HELD TO 1-1 DRAW
    271 7 ITALY and England drew I—l1 1 in Florence yester- day in on e of the poorest international soccer matches seen for years. England led at hatttime with a goal by inside right Broadis and Italy's inside left Amadei equalised 18 minutes after the interval. A
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    Governor's Cup weights
    68 7 pOUBTEEN Horses have f be«i handicapped in the Governors Cup race this Saturday. The weights are: 115 Gambar Melayn 9.0T tn Gular Kit 122 Sandown 8.11 m One Three One 8.1 1 343 Technicolor B.o* M4 Tkrm Street 8.07 til The Bosun 8.07 StS indiTiduaWy 8.06 1»
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    POLICE WIN
    26 7 POLICK Sports Club heal Katoas aajarah 'A* by eae geal to nO In their S.A J.A. Div 2 i nwiawtrr at Thomson Road yesterday.
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    SWEDES ENTER THIRD ROUND
    309 7 FkEFENDJNG champion Sweden moved into the third round of the European Zone Davis Cup tennis eliminations on Saturday along with Italy, and Denmark. Meanwhile, four other nations Belgium, West Germany, France and Argentine took leads in their second-round matches. Sweden beat Chile by five matches to
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    WEIGHTS FOR WEDNESDAY
    252 7 WEIGH IS for Wednesday at Bukit Tira*J»: THE SUMMEE CUP CL 1, Olv. 1-6F Uninaore* M7 Good Gamble 9.02 Cherry line 9.00 Woodcote Inn B.IS Pirn t.l* Zanzibar 8.10 Pmtitirr MS Gay Co-Ed 8« Majostie Seholar »<M Deoanter B.OJ fifty Grand M4 Tutor YltV t-H a .1
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    Scoreboard S.R.C. v. IA.
    415 7 Scoreboard S.R.C. v. IA. SJ.C- Ist lan.: 128. I-A— Ist Inns.: Hussein Shah b Bavk«r c. nUdari ifcw Goiiin* 4; sgakea Stem Coflftng Yusoff BMbr Raiji b Barker 16; M. C«lll»f 6; M. Ashrell few Coliinr 11- r S.E.C 2nd inns.: J. Ma*U*» Hwsein Shah b AngmHkl ™j" Mas** b
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    Tourney Table
    72 7 rseator pirttli— b«w in: SECTION 'A* ut Ina. F. W. L. D. W. L. Ptt. Nto 4 1 1 1 1 3» CeiklM 4 1 2 1 26 Amut 4 1 1 t 22 S.C.C 4 1 I 1 1 it SECTION 'B' BJLF. 4 1 S 36
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    FIJI TEAM
    71 7 FIJI TEAM picture. This it the Fiji Regiment that beat S.C.C. on the first innings on the padang yesterday. The Fijian* wore sarongs and some of the players were bare footed, btt taw* did not prevent then fres* filing a breeiy exhibtS.C.C.: 111 for (deeld.) and W (Edo 20, Cakobau
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    BATSMEN'S SATURDAY
    157 7 WITH perfect weaifce* and hard pitches batsmen generally dominated Saturday^ County championship programme. Th* fall— rW are the seer e«. Surrey v Sussex (Oval): Sussex 365 for t (John Laagrtdge 195, Parks 13t>. Derby v Leicester (Derby) Derbyshire 225 (Hamer 51 Goodwin 5 for 44). Leicester 43 for
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    ROVERS 'A' NET 5
    75 7 ROVERS 'A' NET 5 ifrOVERS 'A' beat Woaderlads by five goals to one in a &AJJ.ADiv. 3B match played at CYMA gic ;kl yeaterday. i. changes were even In the firs, half but m the second, ttwas all Rovers. They scored four times in the second session, one of tfene
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    TICKET LISTS
    82 7 iijr TN .addition to the original lists posted np at ttie Cathay Cinema, extra lists of successful applicants for tickets for Thomas Cup matches to be played in the Colony, will be displayed at the Alhambra Theatre* Beach Road and the Emporium, Battery Road. Umpires, service court judges
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    SIMPSON HITS A CENTURY
    99 7 ITBm first ttur't plajr U UK* 1 between the Indians and the id C C b#lof>g«i ■Mskly te> Reg Simpson an4 Tom Oraveney. who SSi wored octlent tawdred. to Mtiid a s«*»©f tor ajc. The day's play was exhilarating from the crowd's point of view bat
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    CONVINCING WINS FOR TWO STATES
    209 7 CONVINCING WINS FOR TWO STATES MALACCA and Penang scored convincing victor i«t j la their inter state cricket matches against Negri Sembilan and Kedah respectively. Innings victories were recorded in both games. Malacca were at home to Negri SemMlan who failed miserably in both their knocks against the sustained attack
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    GRAHAM DRAWS
    30 7 MIDDLEWEIGHT WtOtkj Cu« talMani of lam and welterweight BiUy Graham of New York fought through 10 Interesting rounds to a draw on Saturday Ha*** Muftnm Sauara Garden.- U.P.
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    BULLET TOOK 38 YEARS TO KILL
    42 8 BULLET TOOK 38 YEARS TO KILL A 59-year-old truck driver died in Hampton, England, c« Friday from enemy action —in World War 1. The coroner said war veteran, William Huges. died from a German bullet wound received 38 years ago A. P.
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    STATESMAN DIES
    18 8 Henry Berenger. 85 year old statesman and former French Ambassador to the United Sta y&>;<rday. Reuter
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    RAH SABOTAGE
    25 8 Government railroad officials charged yesterday that eight trains wrecked in northerrn Mexico in 45 days were "criminally sabotaged" by bandits seeking loct U.P.
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    BIRTHS
    15 8 KIRKWOOD: To June, wife ol Jamie, at Kinstoa-on-Hull, 14th HS'JZ!*-* brother f and Michael.
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    SETTLE WITH TUNISIA U.S. TELLS THE FRENCH
    262 8 SETTLE WITH TUNISIA U.S. TELLS THE FRENCH w^ww*™^ PARK, Monday. REPORTS persisted in Paris yesterday that the French Government had received a Note from the United States criticising France's handling of the Tunisian situation. The French Foreign Ministry denied the story two days ago but yesterday a Government spokesman refused
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    EX-KING'S VISIT
    22 8 Ex-King Michael of Rumania arrived in Florence. Italy, yesterday to visit his mother, the former Queen Helen of Rumania A.P.
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    LETTER BY MILTON
    29 8 A letter written In 1639 by «ie poet John Milton to the Vatican librarian has been jUseovere* in the Übrary of the University of Rome Reuter
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    Reds faked SOS signs to trap helicopters
    125 8 Reds faked SOS signs to trap helicopters WASHINGTON, Mon. AN Air Force Helicopter pilot from Korea says Commurfists tried to trap United Nations helicopter rescue crews behind enemy lines by using faked SOS signals. Major John J. Dean, of the air force's air rescue service, told the American Helicopter Society
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    Pinay leads in election
    70 8 PARIS, Mon. VESTERDA¥S clecUon for 1 half ofVrance's Senate (Upper House) showed small Gaullist losses in favour of Conservative candidates and independents supporting Premier, M. Antoine Pinay's save the franc programme —when just over half the results were known. Final results are expected to indicate broadly
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    QUEEN GETS A STURGEON
    50 8 British fishermen have agreed for centuries that the sovereign owns all sturgeon. So when the crew of the trawler Dorren Johnston caught a 37-pound beauty near Newhaven last week, the owners sent a telegram to the Queen offering it to her. The Queen accepted gratefully.— A.P.
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    CITRUS CONGRESS
    30 8 Five hundred delegates from 19 countries met in Valencia yesterday in, a weeklong congress of citrus fruitproducine nations to try to solve present nroblems in his field A.P.
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    COLLISION AT SEA
    37 8 The tanker David e. Day and the freighter Marine Flier made their way Into San Pedro harbour in California^ early yesterday under their Own power Affpr o M oif C .i M sea.- U.P.
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    30,000 cheer the Pope
    82 8 VATICAN CITY, Mon. MORE THAN 30,000 people 111 cheered 'Pope Pius XU yesterday as he was carried Into St. Peters Basilica to JW homage to a newly beatified nun. The ceremcny o: beatification raising the 1^ to the first stage in the road to iormel recognition
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    MINERS DON'T WANT ITALIANS
    29 8 s£rt£ VsCSLTSr S ne Jl nion veto the plan after two minutes of unsuccessul promotion by minp to suceeedla,. it hopS *f •j!22 ed Mtkmalla.
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    Police charge unruly crowds
    56 8 Police intervened during ek ff d 7 hen vto *ent crowds attempted to break «P PuWc meeting, of 'the Anmadiya community a jsssr&asr 1 m ny In the disturbances, 25 policemen and some civilians were injured. Baton charges were made and tear gas used erti»mf.» d
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    Killed on his way to meet wife
    99 8 Killed on his way to meet wife NEW YORK, Mon. A WAR bride's hopes of a happy reunion with her husband on her return with her young son from an overseas visit turned to grief yesterday. Instead of the husband she expected to greet at the airport, an air force
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    CYCLONE HITS EAST ASSAM
    41 8 A 150-mile an hour cyclone, described as the worst in 37 years, and a hail storm struck northeast Assam, on Saturday. Two persons were reported Wiled and many cattle lost. Damage to houses made 2.000 homeless.- U.P.
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    PARIS VISIT
    15 8 King Talal of Jordan left Amman yesterday on a visit to Paris. Reuter
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    CHILE SAVES $
    22 8 CHILE SAVES Chile yesterday susperiad imports of foreign motion pictures until September in a move to save fchile's rfniiar exchange resources.- UP
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    NINE RACING CARS CRASH
    107 8 BRITISH DRIVER Stirling Moss' buckled Kief t racing car (foreground) lies among straw bales after a crash in which he and nine other entrants in the second heat of the 500c.c. Grand Prix at Brussels were involved. The crash occurred when Moss, in second place, braked
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    They lived as cliff eagles
    289 8 JAP ROBINSON CRUSOES WASHINGTON, Monday. TWO Japanese die-hards who hid for eight years A on Saipan Island in the Pacific are described as having "lived like eagles" on a diet of snails, eels and rats. Both thrived on their Robinson Crusoe-like experience which began late
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    MALAYAN IN U.S. WARNS ON RUBBER PRICE
    103 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. DATO Nik Kamil, Mentri Besar of Kelantan, told a press conference here unless there is a fair and decent price for tin and rubber there would be a lot of trouble in Malays. Dato Nik, who is touring the United States
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    TERROR REIGN GRIPS NEPAL
    49 8 About 600 Communist bandits have released a wave of terror in Eastern Nepal, tearing prison gates away and setting all convicts free. After an attempt to loot Jhapa disttrict, adjoining Darjeeling, the bandits clashed with the Nepatese army and about 200 rintpr* moro captured.- U.P.
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    Asians could build own homes
    190 8 GENEVA, Mon. AN expert of the International Labour Organisation yesterday called on Asian workers to em^'ov their spare tune in building as a means or overcoming Asia's serious housing shortWriting -in'Mto u m*n tabour", an ILO housing expert, Mr. e. J. Howemtfie of the United
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