The Singapore Free Press, 20 May 1952

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  • 20 1 The singapore Free Press Slnt*P«*-*. I^BOESI AFTERNOON SAIE IN MAIAYA No 18.396- SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAT 20, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CEN'fS.
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  • 297 1 Governor on Postal wage talk dalays f-fc Press Staff Reporter r e GOVERNOR of Singa- J. F. Nicoll, the Singapore C napany's strike p men's s:rike in ..e Council this said that the S.T.C. ..;tr;geously irrescarried out with disregard of the intere V h public and was a misuse of
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  • 102 1 WITHDRAWAL of the British trading interests from China may mean abandoning assets worth not less than £300,000,000. In 200 yean, British firms have established hotels, department stores, cottonmills, breweries, wharves, shipping concerns, tobacco plants, soap interests and woollen mills. The decision ends a remarkable epoch of
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  • 490 1 Merchant group to conduct all business LONDON, Tuesday, JHE NOTE which Britain has sent to the tlwnese Communist Government in Peking states that the British trading concerns still wish to do business with China, but not to operate in China. tHtHnStS, I premises are closed, their
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  • 61 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. General Matthew B. Ridgway flew into Washington yesterday to report on his completed mission in the Far East and to confer on the New Supreme Command in Europe to which he is going aext week. Gen. Ridgway was given full military honours, including a 17-gun
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  • 27 1 Speculation of possible direct negotiations between Persia, Britain and the United States aimed at settling the oil dispute was frontpaged by Teheran papers yesterday. A.P.
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  • 128 1 T.U.C. SEEKS QUICK END TO STRIKE Free Press Staff Reporter rjiHE Trades Union Congress 1 is trying to bring about an amicable settlement of the strike by Singapore's 600 uniformed staff, the T.U.C. president, Mr Llm Yew Hock, told the Free Press this morning. The strike entered its eight day
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  • 103 1 RANGOON, Tuesday. BURMA hopes* by the end of next year, to liquidate all armed insurrections based on ideologies the Home Minister, Mr. Bo Khin Maung Gale, said here yesterday. But banditry might continue after that, he added. "Tlie danger of th e
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  • 52 1 picture. The U.S. Thomas Cup learn arrived in Singapore this morning:. At the back are Wynn Rogers and Robert Williams. In front are Carl Loveday (captain). Ken Davidson (manager), Marten Mendez and Hick Mitchell. The seventh member of the team, Jo* Alston, fa doe tomorrow.-
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  • 218 1 'Old ally' greets a Minister Free Press Staff Reporter HHHE Portuguese Minister lor Overseas Territories, A Commander Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues, arrived in Singapore this morning by the Portuguese naval sloop Goncalho Velho on the last lap of his visit to the East. H e told the Free Press: "I
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  • 67 1 DENVER, Tues. mEN thousand of the 90,000 X striking American oil workers were expected to return to work last night following a wage ageement. The agreement was with the Sinclair Oil Corporation. Union officials earlier estimated that about 6,000 other strikers who walked out* on April 30
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  • 130 1 PACIFIC DEFENCE PLANS WASHINGTON, Tues. rpHE Australian Prime A Minister, Mr. Menzies, said yesterday, after a meeting with the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, that he hoped the new thr^apower Paoiflc Council would soon be stt up. The Security treaty between the United States. Australia and New Zealand, signed
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  • 36 1 A man among too many men appealed for help in the personal column of The Times, London, yesterday. "Father of three sons desires a daughter/' the advertisement read. "Can anyone send suggestions A.P.
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  • 25 1 The Pope said yesterday that the Communist could not continually champion peace while simultaneously "killing peace" by preaching hatred of God. U.P.
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  • 127 1 LONDON, Tues. npHE DUKE of Norfolk. hereditary Earl Marshal of England, presided at the first meeting yiesterday of the Coronation Joint Committee, a "working party" of the full commission which is planning the coronaton of Queen Elizabeth XI. procession from Buckingham Palace to historic Westminster Abbey, where
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  • 223 1 i don't mind the heat, says Mendez Free Press Staff Reporter ITALLANG airport was teeming with badminton officials and players welcoming the United States Thomas Cup team on their arrival by Pan-American Clipper early this morning;. Only six of the seven Americans are in the Colony. They are Ken Davidson
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  • 59 1 Free Press Staff Reporter HPHE Singapore Government -1- today rejected a suggestion that a committee of inquiry should be set up to inquire into the working of the Income Tax Department. The suggestion, made by Dato C. J. Paglar in a Council question was that the committee's
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  • 89 1 LONDON, Tues. TWE Prime Minister, Mr. 1 Churchill, told the House of Commons yesterday that no arrangements had been made for American observers to witness the test of Britain's atomic weapon in Australia this year. He added: "The United States Government Is prevented by
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  • 86 1 LONDON, Tues. rE PRIME MINISTER, Mr. Churchill, yesterday. told the House of Commons that the American air bases in East Anglia would corftlnue so long as they wgre Deeded in the general interests of wortd peace. He was replying to a question by Mr. Arthur HendSrson,
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  • 868 2  -  Evelyn Irons And she could have done anything in the w0r1d.... MIRIAM Rothschild, Lord Rothschild s sister, could have done almost anything in the world she liked. She had good looks, good brains and plenty of money. She is a parasitologist, and Is considered to be
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  • 302 2 There's a RIGHT and WRONG way to RELAX Bernard Eaton meets the man who taught the late Sir Stafford Cripps IpVERY week until tuberculosis of the spine sent him to Zurich, Sir Stafford Cripps religiously visited a cream-painted house in Holland Park, London, whose brass plate proclaims to the world
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  • 26 2 Three-year-old triplets, from the left, Karen, Elizabeth and Susan Stewart, make a charming: picture all dressed up for a children's fashion show at Windsor.
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  • 418 2  - FIVE STOREYS OF BEAUTY Kay Murray ....in New York's Fifth Avenue are inspected by TN the glittering upper 1 reaches of Fifth Avenue, serenely unabashed by the skyscrapers, is a creampainted, twelve-storey building with a plain red door. Through it pass some of the most famous and wealthy women of
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  • 389 2 Bernard WicksfeS* THE STORY SO FAR A gang of unscrupulous chJacters called "They" 8 have got hold of a mysteri- <> ous formula wMch is sup- jj> posed to have the property of transforming contented << but overweight husbands into matinee idols with the I figures of
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 48 2 Solution To Crossword No. 665 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.— Across: 1, Battleships. 7, Sum. 8, Proctor. 9. Cold water. 11, Distrains. 14. Proofed. 16, W.L.A. 17. Single width. Down: 1. Basic. 2, Tumbled down. 3, Lip. 4, Shorter. 5. Interviewed. 6, Sere. 10, Wistful. 12, Slash. 13, Apes. 15. Dew.
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    • 158 2 New Crossword No. 666 fIHIT" 10 I I) 'TV '1' \Jr 1 TM I I I I IT I I* I ■BS^H CLUES ACROSS 1. Soviet successor to the Che lea (4). 4. 4Ds and 5s initially (4). 8. Inventory activity of shop-lifters? (11). 9. Had no sale at all
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  • 526 3 HUNT IS ON FOR KING OF FRAUD Doctor's trail of dwpesi A DOCTOR of Philosophy and his wife and son are now safe within the Argentine living on the proceeds of a world-wide £500,000 share-pushing racket. They have a beautiful villa in Buenos Aires and £2»!i2;.^£L te&use there is no
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  • 180 3 BRITISH T.V. ADS' SOME DAY U 10SDOS, Tues. Ti ,v bate comrntrR^fte^vUion in a few V xhis will come Y~i S and materials are Sfroni the arms pro- S Government has F'^ed in a White Paper. a r ho British Broadcast--3 i J! n V icn will continue t c
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  • 29 3 :mh forces in IndoMled 22,000 French J troops in the past six [J a Vietminh news T me^aee quoted by and broadcast hv MnsCs Radio said Reuter
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  • 48 3 CLEVELAND. Toes. ME. A. T. HINES recently bought cat to catch mice on his property But the cat slumbered lazily in the sun while mice skipped merrily by. Then Mr. Hines bought a mouse trap. The first victim was the cat U.P.
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  • 178 3 Publicity stunt backfires on actor HOLLYTVOOD. Tues A WOULD-BE actor, who aid tilaclunaiier.s blew oa :11s left hand with dynamite, may have set off the blast himself as a publicity stunt to get a film contract, police said here. Two detectives questioned George Yoho, who also used the name of
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  • 26 3 Employees of the French national news agency. Agence France-Presse, declared a 24--hour strike to back demands for a 5.65 per cent, salary increase A.P.
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  • 99 3 Daughter says her mother had secret romance 4 vp NEW YORK, Tuesday. EAR-OLD marquise has claimed her tunw R^ brother's share in two dollar foris; he ml a mg £2 500 »000 because, she aUeged, he o: Franir te chUd ot H*? 1 mother— a Senator Rc ure Bevx or
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  • 77 3 PHILADELPHIA, Tues. AN unruly prisoner reached between- the bars of his locked cell in a suburban gaol, held a policeman fast with one hand and snatched his pistol with the other, then killed himself with a shot through the head.' The policeman, William Whalen, said
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  • 22 3 Hong Kong will start building towards its first blood bank when registration Jjntres wfll I -Qe f^ftl HP f
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  • Article, Illustration
    18 3 YV JANE DE CARLO brolfe into films as a dancer bntn9w »la>a more drswalfc r^res^Recently she was m\\v***tj**
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  • 92 3 Red spiders threaten China Reds HONG KONG, Tues. rE Chinese Communist premier, Chou En-Lai, disclosed that red spiders are now threatening agricultural production in North China. The premier ordered all local authorities to giv e top priority •to an insecticide drive to save crops. Chou said the spiders are at
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  • 23 3 Maria Petrovna Domashev, 77, an actress with nearly 60 active years in the Kussian *theatr A afi **<**rt tw T^ningrad.- A.P.
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  • 76 3 ROME, Tues. 'PEN jeep loads of steelhel- meted riot police broke up a crowd pf some 3,000 neo-Fascist demonstrators as they paraded down Rome's Central Corso Bourlvard singing Fascist hymns. An estimated 75,000 Fascists attended a political rally j in which the party leader, Deputy Roberto
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  • 32 3 The Philippines Senate has Dassed a bill abolishing the National Rice and Corn Corporation and substituting for it another body "to develop and Improve the rice and corn Industries".- A.P.
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  • 44 3 A BEAUTY IN TECHNICOLOR LAURA ELLIOT has not been in Hollywood long but audiences hope they toUl see more of her. Currently, she is appearing in. "The Denver and Rio Grande** for Paramount in which the Technicolor camera does full justice to her charms.
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  • 280 3 LONDON, Tuesday. rpRE jewel dealer known as "King Fence" limped heavily down the steps of Glasgow Sheriff Court to begin a 21-month sentence at 83. His name is John McArthur —a name known in Hattongarderv where, many years ago, he became a member of
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  • 132 3 NO HOUSING SHORTAGE IN HONGKONG, BUT RENTS- HONG KONG, Tues. INHERE is no bousing A shortage In Hong Kong as there are at least 2,000 vacant flats in Kowloon and Hong Kong, according to the English-language newspaper Hong Kong Standard. Newly-built flats are empty because of the high rentals asked
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  • 12 3 An Israeli Legationis to be opened shortly in ToXyo. AP
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  • 74 3 CANBERRA, Tues. AUSTRALIAN Externa J\ Affairs Minister R. G. Casey has "deplored very much,'' the decision of five Australians to attend a Peking "peac£ conference" which he described as the "usual Communist stunt." In Sydney one of the five. Dr. John W. Burton, former Australian High Commissioner
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  • 60 3 KHARTOUM Tues. SIR Abdel Rahman El Mahdi Pasha, a powerful Sudan religious leader who favours independence for his country, has accepted an Egyptian Government invitation to send delegates to Cairo to explain his views. Reliable sources here say Sir Abdel is standing firm against Egyptian sovereignty before
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  • 106 3 BRITISH raclnf m^ionjtUMt David Bennett was killed hi* stantaneousify when his Norton skidded and crashed into a tree in the »wW event of the Bera« motorcycle <£****** aecident occurred at the same enrve-the Eymatt bend —at which the Italian rider Ercole Frigerio wai ildUed earlier. Bennett ttlLfEtt
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  • Article, Illustration
    268 3 HPHIS b the f*s4 of U v fre- arranged "per* deal* to be presented. They were originally played on college campuses all over 1 the coontry In order w select the finalists fer toe annual Intercollegiate Bridge Championship. To play these same deals in stacked In duplicate boards,
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  • 44 3 A country past office in Schleswig HoLstein seized a suspicious package addressed to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Explosives experts, recalling that someone mailed Dr. Adenauer a bomb two months ago, opened the new package gingerly. Inside they found a dead cat. A.P.
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  • 46 3 Hong Kong has begun construction on a floating laboratory to be used for fisheries research. The 66-foot steel singlescrew motor trawler is expected to be completed within a year. It will have a European skipper and a crew of 10. A. P.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 215 3 DOKN today literature and the arts make a very dftinite appeal to you as a career It is not likely that vmi ran be completely n»ppv in work which does not call upon your creative talents. Vm are a fine student of numan nature and have the jift of being
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    • 13 3 BUCKLEY "WERE GETTING LOW ON THE •MASHED POTATOES, SARGE I *?i OuTHi Mmmltmmm >»
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    • 212 3 Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m News; 10.05 Tunes from the Shows; 10.45 12. Schools; 1 p.m Radio Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45 Guy Lombardo Orch.; 2—3.20 Schools; 6.25 Album; 6.40 Radio Malaya Trio; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News: 7.15 Can We Help You?: 7.30 I Haven't a Clue; 8 Music With A Lilt;
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  • The singapore Free Press
    • 412 4 fHE parliamentary com- mittee of the Labour Party would have us believe that, as far as Singapore is concerned, the Emergency does not exist. That is the only possible conclusion that can be drawn from its direction to Labour Legislative Councillors to vote against extension of the Emergency
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    • 20 4 INSTEAD of surveying the 1 rise of a new glittering oil empire. Dr. Mossadeq today surveys the ruins of
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    1140 4  -  JACK THOMAS Outspoken book by a womandoctor-magistrate REVIEWED BY WHY do some people find in marriage the most satisfying and delightful state in which human beings can live and others experience only disillusionment To find the answer to that question a woman doctor, who is also a magistrate, bfegan
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  • 45 4 STOLEN— ONE MUMMY IF a visitor to the British Museum walked out at closing time with a prostrate mummy under his arm and his pockets bulging with precious relics of bygone, ages, the chances are that someone might suspect something. Not to in Egypt however
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  • 373 4 JUSTICE WIELDS A DAGGER PALERMO. 'THEY call it the "MAFlA"— the word means "misery" and here on Europe's south- ernmost island it is as much a secret power as any branch of the dreaded "Ku-Klux-Klan" in America's southernmost States. Independent, defiant, known and yet untouchable; terrifying and yet generous, this
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  • 333 4  -  RODNEY CAMPBELL By NEW YORK. THE U.N. Security x Council was called into emergency midnight session after an interplanetary bomb blew up an Asian village. On hand was an ultimatum from a space platform the delegates could dimly see. "Earth must give in", the writing
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  • 282 4 CIFE ship-breakers have started a job which will keep many workers fully employed for fifteen months. They have been allocated the 21,833-ton liner and famous troopship Empress of Australia to break down as scrap, which is expected to go to West of Scotland steel
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  • 101 4 rIS year's British Btf» tries Fair got away a very poor start At Olympia and Earis Court disconsolate slilr holders stood around m gloomily assured one mo: j that they had "nev?r s« anything like it. The queues of other gj war years just
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  • 478 5 it is a day for thinking, says Nicoll 70,000 Singapore boys and girls observed Empire Day this morning at a short ceremony in their school halls. Although today is not an official holiday for schools, most of the school heads dismissed their pupils for the day
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    17 5 picture. A NEW DELIVERY COUNTER at the Post Office in the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore Free Press
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  • 23 5 KUANTAN, Tues. Leong Yoon Tong and Taw Tan Hoo were fined $6 for carrying a passenger and leaving a bicycle unlocked.
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  • 209 5 NATIONALITY BILL IS PASSED BY COUNCIL Kl ALA LUMPUR, Tues. oELANGOR Council of S) State yesterday unanimoUS lv passed, with several amendments, the Selangoi Nationality BUI whi h received its first second readings last and was then sent t( a select committee. -;ves effect to the decitaken by the Federal
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  • 98 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. D. T. ASSOMULL, the A president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, yesterday urged that direct radio telephone links between India and Singapore be established soon. He said the volume of Singapore's trade with India was much heavier than
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  • 207 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MALAYA Hall has proved, in the second year of its existence, its worth as the centre of communal life for students from Malaya, says the annual report of the Malayan Information Agency tabled in the Singapore Legislative Council this morning. Increased
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  • 80 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. /\NLY 810 new voters have registered since the "Kuala Lumpur municipal electoral roll was re-opened four weeks ago. There are another two weeks to go before the registers are closed. Mr. C. A. J. Potter, Kuala Lumpur Supervisor of Elections,
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    38 5 MlIJt-R AND PIIIPPS (MALAYA) LIMITED ft«ff« dinner to their optical dealers at Tal Tone's Restaurant, New World. Lett to right are: Messrs. Lim Ah Choon, Chonr Kwee Sang, C. Chong, Lim Sing Fontr, Toang, Yao Senf Chew, Fan,
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  • 147 5 COUNCIL IS ADVISED: fHE Singapore Select Committee on the Central Provident Fund Bill says that no attempt should be made to legislate for a central provident fund until the Legislative Council has decided whether a retirement benefits scheme should be introduced, and whether such a scheme
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  • 83 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load *J shedding tonight are: (1) Albert St., Short St., New lee Wks., Firestone, M»*ir»ii«l» Rd.. Bukit Timah Pumps, Balestier Ed., Jalan Ampas, BJLB.C, Mcßitchit BraddeU Use, Islmnd Golf Club, Seletar Pmmps, Nee Soon, Seletar Wireless, Mental Hospital. Trafalgar Estate, New World, Beademeer Ed, Ban
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  • 57 5 A bridge and mahjong party in aid of the Singapore St. Andrew's Mission Hospital will be held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Manasseh at 5, Marine Parade, on June 6. Tickets, priced at $5. can be obtained from Lady Forgarty, telephone
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  • 159 5 Closer contact* wtth Govt /CHAMBERS of Commerce in Singapore will form an Association of Chambers of Commerce, to maintain closer contact with the Government. The body will work on similar lines as the Central Advisory Committee on Trade and Supplies in* the Federation. The association, wbich
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  • 171 5 Free Press Staff Reporter itfRS. Beatrice Church, a lfl former Singapore business woman, and head of the Advertising and Publicity Bureau of China, Hong Kong and Malaya, has spent the last two weeks in Singapore collecting material for news articles for the Overseas Daily Maill.
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  • 191 5 Squatters move out from P. Lebar Free Press Staff Reporter OQUATTERS, who lived in Paya Lebar at the site wanted by Singapore Government for building the Colony's new airport, are moving rapidly to the Bedok resettlement area. Nearly 50 families have built new homes in Bedok since the first move
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  • 28 5 PENANG, Tues— The next meeting of the Penang Settlement Council will be held in the Council Chamber, Peel Avenue, on Monday, June 16, at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 1077 6 But Parmiter should win By ALLAN LEWIS THE Summer Cup, one of the main sprinting races at Headquarters, is the attraction at Bjkit Tim ah tomorrow, second day of the Singapore Turf Club's Summer meeting, and in my opinion there are only three horses likely
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  • 437 6 Solperion is a safe bet COLPERION should be one of the safest bets of the day in this Cl. 2, Dlv. 4 race over six furlongs. He gave two very impressive performances at Ipoh when he was with the leaders until entering the straight in both events. There is no
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  • 311 6 mHE Cl. 2. Div. 1 race over seven furlongs could be the 'Spencer Stakes" His three candidates, Honolulu, Entertainment and Opera could fill the first three placings, Honolulu drops 71b. for finishing a close nfth in his last race over 1 mile. I think he will
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  • 200 6 gHOWMAN flniihed fairly well w6c? nifflntehe? ftfth and Sunny Way. X think he has improved enough to be vary hard to beat in Oils Cl. 2, Div. S— tF. Age. fttHivlfion lov^ 4 lb. r A«M» has- had only two races in Malaya and
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  • 260 6 Iur ALEKZADEH should improve enough from his first race to open his winning account in Cl. 1, Div. 3 race over six furlongs. He was handy to the leaders at the half mile and soon after his rider lost his cutside stirrup. With
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    • 169 6 Horses not accepting T^OLLOWING horses will -T not start tomorrow: Uninsured, Cherry Lint;, Giy Co-Ed, Majestic Scholar, Tudor View, Lough Carra, The Potentate, Northern Circuit, Persian Lord, Chance Remarks, Cambridge, Richmond, Avilor, Bright Boy, Brigadier, Lyon Queen and Riratonga. Woodcote Inn b a very doubtful starter in the Summer Cup.
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  • 125 7 Shirai, 28-year-old I :.jer from Japan, out a 15-round East night over ageMarino of Hawaii ;r world flyweight ..-t.T.pionsfcip. 35, started fast but I io the clostog rounds mercllcaa rain of id a punches frjm tbe rawnj ch:.ilenger. e announcement had won police surI the optn
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  • 359 7 LAST week's leaders in the United Services League Senior and Junior divisions, are still in the lead this week. R.A.F. Lodger Units' position is not in immediate danger, but what will happen in the course of the next run is anybody's guess. REME are the main
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  • 40 7 A raincoat and felt hat win be added to the dress uniform of Italy's Olympic team fcfnff to the Helsinki games In July. Tlit Italian Olympic Committee announced the addition! today as a measure sible chmr weather.- A.P.
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  • 376 7  - ONE THREE ONE IS IN FINE FORM ALLAN LEWIS Will be hard, to beat Saturday By n\K THREE ONE (Ellery). was the only Governor's Cup candidate to work fast a? Hukit Timah this morning, when the second jj:a<s track was again the main track opened for jralloping. One Three One
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  • 55 7 LEADING rider Colin Tulloh has ridden the first winner at the last four racing days. The four winners, all trained by Jack Spencer were: Cinema, Lucky Tom and Rio Grande at Penang and Stage Show in Singapore last Saturday. Will he win the first race
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  • 230 7 RADRODRO TO 'WADE INTO' BROOKS BOY BROOKS, triple Orient champion did not impress Fijian light-heavy-weight title holder Isimeli Radrodro when he fought Australia Steve Brian in Singapore last Monday. Radrodro who lights Brooks at the Happv World Stadium on Friday night had this to say after a workout in Kota
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  • 312 7 rPHE Fiji Regiment bring to their cricket much the A same dash and vigour that marked their rugby. Three of the rugby side were in fact in the cricket team that beat an S.C.C. side at the Fadang on Sunday. In many ways the Fijians' display
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  • 141 7 The Fijian umpire caused comment by carrying a bat with him throughout his spell of duty. His explanation was the Fijians were in the habit of cracking their bats (I am not surprised) and he therefore had one always in readiness But the real explanation, 1 understand, is
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  • 449 7 Peng Soon beats 1949 hero easily By NETMAN. MALAYA'S 13 Thomas Cup candidates underpin* "intensive training" are fighting fit This was obvious last night, when they made their, final public appearance at the Happy World Stadium before Malaya's team Is named for the final
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  • 319 7 Dismalgame at the Stadium Chinese Athletics 3; K. Raja 0 IN a game devoid of interest after the first half, Chinese Athletic got the better of Kota Raja by three goals to nil in their S.A.F.A. First Division encounter at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. A& though the pathetic display put
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  • 49 7 TWO Colony Olympic Swimming hopes. Wiebe Wolters and Lau Buong Hoo, will attempt to qualify for the 100 metres free style event at 5.30 todav at the Chinese Swimminx Club The qualifying time set for thfcs event by the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council Is 59.2 sec.
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  • 27 7 fffONO KONG Bank collected a II round dnawi In their Singapore BHPA ***** TM^tt* Mintfleld aC. at Shell ground yecterday Mansfield* made no reply.
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  • 185 7 TREVOR Balky, latest can--1 didate for the England cricket captaincy, played a bl« part In the M.C.C. success yesterday at Lords against the Indians. The tourists, with two wickets still standing, require SO runs to save the follow-on In reply to the M.C.C/s Ant fmungs total
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  • 418 7 teamwork by Yorks bowlers Frei x Trueman and I. fl. Wardle yesterday brought an abrupt end to the Yorkshire -Worcestershire match at Bradford. Yorkshire won by an innings and 73 runs as Trueman, a 21-year-old right arm fast bowler on leave from the R.A.F., claimed
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  • 45 7 TNDIAN amateur boxer A. R. Naidoo. aged 21. died in a Dui'ban hospital less than 24 hours after winning the Natal non-European (non -white) feather weight title on Saturday. He collapsed on leaving the ring after his third bout of the evening.- Reuter
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  • 155 8 COEDS USE BROOMS TO DEFEND PANTIES KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Tues. SHRIEKING coeds with brooms and butcher knives Jcjned police armed with pistols and tear gas yesterday to drive off 500 "pantie raiders' at the University of Tennessee. Three hundred more men s:udents at Vanderbilt University in the state capital of Nashville
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  • 15 8 CARPENTER —To Vera and Leonard, on May 20th a son and brother to Anthony.
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  • 307 8 Paratroops leap to rescue of hostages **p vmAMA^m^mm^ MIAMI, Florida, Tuesday. pRIM drama is being enacted deep in the Brazilian jungles where a U.S. civilian aviation investigator and a Brazilian Air Force major are the hostages of a renegade group of parachutists. Gordon Bennett, chief adviser of the Miami international
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    31 8 MISS KARTIKA AFFANDI from Indonesia wore her Balinese costume in Grosven or- Square, London, when she modelled the dress at the first exhibition in London of Indonesian arts and commercial products.
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  • 57 8 Mr. Stephen White, an editor of Look Magazine claimed yesterday that growing Soviet atomic power might make nonsensical the assumption of United States foreign policy that Europe could be defended. He said that Soviet scientists had built up an atom bomb stockpile which was beginning to
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    139 8 CAPTAIN Job* Dymoke 25--years-old and ft. ins. tall has arrived home in the troopship Lancashire Sun.' to be Queen's Champion at the Coronation and as such will have the honour and duty of carrying her Standard. The office of champion to the sovereign is hereditary i and Captain Dymoke is
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  • 22 8 The wrekage of a U.S. Air Force rescue plane, missing since Friday was found yesterday on a ciacipr in south Icelav A.P.
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  • 215 8 The Queen asks for allowances LONDON, Tues. QUEEN ELIZABETH yesterday looked ahead to the marriages of her 21-year-old sister, Princess Margaret, and her son, Prince Charles, three and a naif years old. In a speciail message asking the House of Commons to decide on her own and other Royal incomes,
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  • 45 8 A decisive week of diplomatic negotiations for Europe's security and world peace opened at^ Paris, yesterday wi!i the finishing touches scheduled to go on both the unified European Army plan and a treaty giving German-/ a nr* ecycrslsn status.- U.P.
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  • 504 8 21 MILLIONS A YEAR BUT WASHINGTON, Tuesday. TBN SAUD, shrewd and wily old King of Saudi 1 Arabia, beneath the sandy surface of whose kingdom, abutting on the Red Sea, there lies an oil deposit of immense proportions and value, is bringing steadily-increasing pressure
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  • 24 8 Delegates from 27 countries including India meeting at Rome yesterday started studying the possibility of an international agreement. avoid cotton crises.- Reuter
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  • 41 8 Hong Kong has the densest refugee population per square mile in the world, according to a recent competent survey. Three-quarters of the 2,500,000 people on the island are refu o^** 5 n ****<& wav «r another. U.P.
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  • 253 8 Nun* on murder t>hm<> NEW YORK, Tuesday. A PLAIN, middle-aged nurse napped or sat stolidly in her cell at Westumka, Alabama, yesterday after coolly confessing to killing a little niece with arsenic. The 42-year-old hospital head nurse, Mrs. Earle Dennison, denied, however, that she "poisoned
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  • 339 8 Continued from Page 1 these employees have done to work for two years. "The second reason is that the managers and other British employes of the firms have the greatest possible difficulty and experience prolonged delays, in obtaining permission to enter or leave the country." The Hongkong and
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  • 75 8 A U.S. fighter piTit whj deliberately dived his blazing F-84 Thunderjet into the sea to avoid crashing into the crowded city centre— was the guest of honour last night at a Mayoral ball at Margate, England. The pilot, Captain C. Kenneth Walker, a veteran of the
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  • 176 8 TOKYO, Tuesday. YTICE- ADMIRAL Charles Turner Joy, leader of the United Nations delegation at the Korean truce talks, is to return home to America next month to become superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Major General William K. Harrison, deputy commander of the
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  • 20 8 More than 1,000 employees of the French semi-official Agence France Presse were back at work In France yes-
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