The Singapore Free Press, 13 February 1953

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singpore Free Press Ijamgl Afternoon Sale m Malaya No I* ijmrr. Fri. Feb. IS, 19."*. Price 15 tv
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    THE THIRD MAN IS CAUGHT
    434 1 THE THIRD MAN IS CAUGHT He was packing bags for a getaway Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police early today swooped down on a house m Dunlop Street and captured the third man a Chinese m yesterday's shooting between four gunmen and a police party nat Tampenis. The arrest was
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    They met in S'pore
    82 1 IjiIGHT weeks after she i arrived m Singapore, pretty Irish colleen. Miss Maria Stokes, from Bangor (N. Ireland), was married at the Colony registry office yesterday to Mr. E. A. Kunz, proprietor of the British Electroplating Works. Mr. Kunz, who is ▼ice-president of the Swiss Club,
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    VARSITY AT JURONG
    67 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Al3-MAN committee, headed by Mr. Tan Lark Sye, will this month start planning a Malayan Chinese University. The site will be 500- acres at Juron? jri yen by Ule Hokkien Association. "I am confident we have the y for the building and at
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    TRAITOR' SAYS COURT
    43 1 Former v. S. Army Sergeant, Jonn D. Provoo, was found gui lty m New York last night °f treason. Provoo, 35, was accused of go»n? over to the Japanese after ne was captured m 1942 at the wi of Corregldor
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    Rubber price
    21 1 ket ,m nsapore Rubber MarJ «Poned quiet this morning U^™. Dri(V changed from a b ys close 761/8 Snte
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    Crime even to carry cosh
    57 1 rE British Government last night made a new move to stamp out hooligan crimes n Britain by introducing a Bill which will ban the carrying of coshes and knuckledusters. The Bill follows an outcry against a recent wave of violence It aims to give the
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    EXTRA 12 PAGES
    22 1 Today's Free Press contains a iree 12-page Chinese New Year Supplement. Make sure it comes with your vape r
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    WOMAN STABBED WITH PENKNIFE
    63 1 A SINGAPORE Chinese woman resisted two Chinese youths who tried to rob her m Geylang Road yesterday. She was stabbed twice with a penknife. The woman, riding m trisha, was stopped at the junction of Lorong 27 A and Geylajig Road. When the young men demanded
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    THE PRINCESS
    17 1 Princess Margaret, who has been suffering from a gastric chill was up and about yesterday.
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    JAP BID FOR TRADE
    28 1 An official ll~member Japanese trade delegation arrived m Cairo yesterday m a bid to recapture her prewar Egyptian and other Arab Middle East markets.
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    Stranglers left taximan broke
    173 1 llWn S SUff held lana and a Chinese Avj, nue U I V a l xi m R'' ch ards a knife "Sf ignt at the point of tlruTer, I? 2 ran awa with the aoon'a takings, a and a wrist watch. failed the taxi m
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    Murdurer attempts suicide in flames
    119 1 Murdurer attempts suicide in flames A BAVARIAN, an ex-Nati. v Munich yesterday sho' c his local mayor, then set fir. to hit own explo iv.s-filled house and jumped m flames from a second storey window. Villagers poured water over hi blaring clothes. He was rushed off to hospital critically injured
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    CONTROLS OFF
    29 1 The Eisenhower Administration yesterday took price ceilings off thousands of additional commodities and items among them poultry, eggs, soaps, patrol, crude oil and all rubber products.- A.P.
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    SHIP REFLOATED
    21 1 The Panamanian freighter. La Colorado, which was aground near Hainan, ha s been refloated by a French naval craft.
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      177 1 ROII VAL.OIS) -V -^j^*...&/' *»Jsf P^itt., -JmZ? V^V f HsW vw^gw yp j Mb I Dt sSsW. i silence, rich with comprehension There are people with whom you can pass happy hours m a mutual silence, rich r.^a* with comprehension. Why Because you f^C»i^k^l feel at one with them. Others
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    SOVIET DOCTORS' CASE FOR U.N.
    241 2 Israel to accuse Russia qniE Soviet accusation, a«ainst the nine Kussian "Borrla" doctors fa Moarow *nU 1 other manifestations of anti-Semitism behind the Iron t urtain will J h Jjn|W by Israel to the notice of the General Assembly of the I nited Nations later
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    Radio appeal to a turncoat
    82 2 Radio appeal to a turncoat TAIPEI, Fri. THE daughter of turncoat Premier Wong Wen Hao yesterday appealed through a radio broadcast to her father urging him to return to the Nationalist stronghold. Wong, the first Nationalist Premier since the proclamation of the present constitution m 1948. evacuated from the mainland
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    BRITAIN'S TEXTILE OUTPUT IS UP
    65 2 Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Broad of Trade, told the House of Commons yesterday that Britain's textile production had by the end of 1952 increased by more than 40 per cent since the slump of early last year. Lxports were about 20 per cent
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    TO FIGHT TREATY
    24 2 A committee of 100 French Senators gnd Deputies had been formed m Paris to fight ratification of the European Army Treaty.
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    NEW TYPE FILM
    24 2 An< w type of third dimensional film made by a process called triorama, was given a first ■bowing In New York.
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    MALAN ANNOUNCES ELECTION DATE
    64 2 S Africa's Prime Minister. Dr. Daniel Malan. has announced the date of his country's general election April 15. He said he will seek a new mandate on his apartheid (race segregation) measures. He chiefly needs backing for his plan to take the Cape coloured mixed race
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    READY BY SPRING
    32 2 West Germany will have twelve combat-ready divisions to Join m the defence of the West by spring of 1955, the Federal Defence Commissioner, Mr. Theodore Blank, said m Bonn.
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    BRITAIN'S TRADE DEFICIT UP
    36 2 Britain's trade deficit increased slightly m January mainly owing to larger Imports which rose from €267,700,000 m December to £290,100.000. Exports also rose m January to £217,900,000 from £203,700,--000 the previous month.
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    RANCH FLOP
    17 2 Britain lost £540.000 on a ranching project m Queensland. Australia, a Government report said yesterday.
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    Why ban Press? Judge asked
    80 2 NEW YORK, Friday. NEW YORK Stale Supreme Court Justice, Benjamin Sc'tireiher, directed General Sessions Judge Francis Valente to thou rausc today uinj hi should not lift his order excludiuu public and pre*! from the vice trial 0 f MiUOt Jclkc. The order uas issued on
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    Instrument to beat Mau 'perfected'
    141 2 rE fanatical Mau Mau movement m Kenya is being brought "increasingly under control", the Secretary for Colonies. Mr. Oliver Lyttelton said yesterday. "The instrument with which to deal with it has been largely perfected." Mr Lyttelton said. "It always takes time. We should begin to
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    FREIGHTER FIRE UNDER CONTROL
    58 2 Rescue ships and planes yesterday reported a fire aboard the freighter, Pesident Pierce, was "well m hand" and that nine American passengers and two crewmen had been transferred to a Navy transport. Seven of the passengers were women. The ship was about 100 miles south-east of
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    FIRE ENGINES STOLEN
    30 2 Two new fire engines were stolen from a Moscow factory. One was kept m a suburb for months before the thief sold it for 22,000 roubles (U555,500).
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    BRITAIN FIGHTS BATTLE OF THE SANDBAGS
    180 2 TROOPS and civilians forming a sandbag army toiled m snow and rain on both sides of the North Sea yesterday to build sea defences strong enough to meet the heavy tides expected m Britain and Holland this week-end. Dangerous north-east winds will coincide with
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    Britain, Egypt sign agreement on Sudan
    137 2 I^GYPT and Britain signed an Hi historic agreement yesterday rmination of the d Sudan, and Gen ;amed Ne^;ib immediate ly ted friendly negotiations for the evacuation of British troops from the Suez Canal zone. At a press conference later, Gen. Neguib said he hoped
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    NEW ATOM MACHINE
    40 2 Leading United States atomir scientists have be cm U( rk plans for a new a] machine, more powerful tha any now m tiweiw Thp not powerful atom smasher now ii use is the "Cosmotn Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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    S'pore women warned
    277 3  -  P. M. RAMAN II GRAVE DANGER TO LIFE ft R E doctors vwS 1 terduy warned young In of the serious conIST3 E wa nted babies. nf the methods used ,f make a woman an invalid rest of her life. They can t00 nr A C Sinha,
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    FACTORY WRECKED
    30 3 An explosion wrecked the nitro-glycerine plant of tne Nobel Explosives Factory m Karmskoga, central Sweden, yesterday causing damage estimated at 1,000,000 crowns (£66,600). Sabotage is not suspected.- Reuter
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    WOOL GOES UP
    27 3 Brisbane wool prices have reach a sessional record. Top greasy price was 140 2 pence per pound and top scoured price was 181 pence.
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    Ozzie gave a buzz
    51 3 Ozzie gave a buzz THRFE British Army engineT l w,th a min c detector found the key to a nffp? c J k u boul of uffered by Ozzie, Chester's *°os ostrich. p/t Vet ,rinarv sur B*on listen- "*■*>« »>um and then re--82? "j causp ~a Padlock m Uz *'c
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    GIFT TO MUSEUM
    43 3 to h C p en l ury ha bee n Presented byth P n^ Ua i a Lvm P" Museum CaSn T F H n r m ritain to an on' Green m answer Time". PM üblis hed m The
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    R.A.S. MEETING
    27 3 Hoy a a,. S an o branc h the *anuai^^.Society holds its M^eu m w tlng at Raffles day vm Singapore at 5 p.m. to-
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    FUN IN GAMES HALL
    85 3 Ithuiese N»w Year parties S" 5 Bad ™ton Hall roor n iii B P?P ul ar as a ballPore Baring of the Singaft nigh t dmmt °n Association, C ?S dur *g T%n »rtt o, ar They are: Singapore Badmintoa Association annual dance 9 pjn. to
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    SMOKING BABOON HIT OWNER IN EYE
    242 3  -  ROGER YUE By rPHE first day that Mr. Sheum Cheong Fook imported Chico, a black African baboon, for his circus, he received a blow from the beast that nearly cost him an eye. Showing me a red weal under his left eye yesterday, Mr.
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    COSTLY AS A LUXURY HOUSE
    235 3 COSTLY AS A LUXURY HOUSE luil its only a goclowii I rfJt l*r» <{ iff Reporter yili: shortage of godown space m Singapore i so i< ute today that an old Japanese store whu 'i was \.tlued at ahout $300,000 has hern auctioned for $601,000. The godown. situated at Havelock
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    WESLEY YOUTHS
    22 3 Singapore Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold an "International Night" m the Wesley Church Hall, at Fort Canning Road, tonight.
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    LAST NIGHTS PLAY
    235 3 rpHE audience at the Victoria -1- Theatre last night who saw the Arts Theatre productions. Shaw's "A Village Wooing" and Jean Anoullh's "Antigone" were treated to a flood of words and very little action. In Shaw's case the dialogue was a pleasantly down-to-earth, cut and thrust duel
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  • The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. February 13, 1953. Opinion
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      SERPENT YEAR
      202 4 rpHE prophets of gloom would have us believe that the Year of the Serpent which enters at midnight tonight will not be a prosperous one. With much retish they point to depression periods of the past when the evil reptile swallowed up not only profits but capital as
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      Baiting the Jews
      140 4 WHATEVER doubts may remain about the anti-Jewish character of the Stalin regime must now be banished. Soviet Russia yesterday broke off diplomatic relations with Israel. The offence with which Ben (J urio n s government is Charged doe s not appear sufficiently seriou s to warrant such
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    U.S. to 'Get Tough' with Asia, Europe
    723 4 U.S. to 'Get Tough with Asia, Europe DON IDDONS DIARY NEW YORK: IT haa Ml taken the Eisenhowf-r Administration long to embark upon a policy of getting tougher described more polit* ly here as a programme of "stern alternatives." The new President and his Cabinet have decided to be tougher
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    Safety First— or U.S. First?
    314 4 John Ashwin and a Comet 'mystery. AMERICA is worried about Britain's Comets. This is nothing new for America is worried about the airworthiness of every plane which is used by American Airlines. As the Comet is going to be used by just these lines very
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      17 4 UNJ&S in4>e Vp^S^} wf »z f MAjpMjf P. N. HENDRY Jewellers 76. North Bridge Rd. Phone 7421
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      136 4 q( CHINESE n% NEW YEAR /yr' Shopping and delivery arrangements VI Jj L ORCHARD RD. BRANCH FRIDAY, 13th FEBRUARY Store open today. Deliveries as usual. Double issue of bread on "standing orders." Fresh milk as usual. Please place orders for MONDAY delivery of frozen goods and groceries. SATURDAY, 14th FEBRUARY
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    BUSTY'S 3rd JOB IN 3 WEEKS
    409 5  - BUSTY 'S 3rd JOB IN 3 WEEKS G. T. BOON Pushing biscuit sales By "SINGAPORE amazes Hi said attractive, redhaired Rusty Snelson, 29 year-old Army wife, who created a stir among wellbred mems and tuans by lying on a super-foam latex mattress m a shop window. "A job is a
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    THE TUANS AND MEMS, THEY DON'T LIKE US
    296 5 THE TUANS AND MEMS, THEY DON'T LIKE US i i£ i, > CUSTS I.WEYE WGIPOKt: S 177.050 bicyclists Jam have parks of their •wn The Singapore City Council will shortly consider «lan> for this provision, Mr. p J. Buckerid/re. Registrar ef Vihitles said yesterday. in d foremost advocates of •park*
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    GEYLANG METHODISTS
    19 5 Church will hold aChinW A r ear thanl «?iving serSo?fow! JUmed R ad at 8 a m
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    RADIO PHONE LINK
    25 5 toen i? n tele P hon c service beCta v?n P re a nd tion on Fo D me into °P era
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    SEVEN MALAYANS PASS BAR EXAM
    63 5 Seven law students from Singapore and the Federation are among those who have just received their calls to the Bar at London's Inns of Court. They are: Mr. Chee Tung-foo (Malacca), Mr. David Anthony (Selangor), Inche Mohamed Din bin All (Singapore), Mr. P. Hoalim Singapore),
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    LIVESTOCK SCHEME
    27 5 The Singapore Veterinary Department will set up demonstration units for poultry, pig and livestock breeding. But first there will be an island-wide survey of industries.
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    POULTRY REARING
    20 5 To increase Singapore poultry and egg production, the Veterinary Department is supplying more ranikhet vaccinations to rural farms.
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    CORONATION PLAN
    29 5 Singapore Chinese yesterday formed a 45-man committee to plan the Chinese community's Coronation celebration. The Singapore Malay Youths Literary Association will hold a concert on April 19.
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    BALLET EXAMINER IS IMPRESSED
    150 5 BALLET EXAMINER IS IMPRESSED Mor ?h Uy D Davls examiner Da^'nV he s^°y al Academy of she rih,. ye s J* rday that Bhe *oul d J! Urned t0 Britai tonics t h u^est to ballet com- ™re to send a troupe to <*" with n as "neatly imin Yin
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    NO DARK WORK
    31 5 On sale m Singapore now is a German invention, the "Duplomat," which can produce photo-like duplicates within one minute. It does away with the need for a darkroom.
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    A-MAN'S HOLIDAY
    33 5 British nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Prof. P. II S. Blackett, and his wife are m Singapore. They will be leaving m a day or two for Australia on holiday.
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    BEDOK SERVICE
    28 5 The Bedok Methodist Church will hold a Chinese New Year service m its new building at the 9' milestone, Bedok Road, Singapore, at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
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    FLOOD VICTIMS
    26 5 Singapore Presbyterian Church Orchard Road will hold a service for the flood victims of Europe on Sunday, at the request of the Netherlands Consulate.
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    BOGART'S 'BABY'
    37 6 LAV REN B AC ALL is a star m her own right m Hollywood, but m private life she is Mrs. Humphrey Bogart. The film colony has given her a nickname everybody coils her Baby."
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    Rooney: No 'purple past' with call girl
    401 6 MM Xl Koone\s name popped up from the purplr p.isl of Mil t'irl Tat W.inl. but t»»r pint sized film st ir said "We were never alotH Mi s W.trd, a 1a star v tfi.il Of Minot (Mlckeyi J» !k<- who much taller
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    Homey touch -Brighton's best label
    111 6 Homey touch -Brighton's best label HOW ran seaside hoteliers break tourists' obsession for London? Mr. Stanley Till, president of Brighton and Hove Hotels Association, gave this answer: Friendship is something that peculiarly belongs to the English seaside. In London the tourist is swallowed up. Oxford awes him, Stratford gets him.
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    PHONE SERVICE
    21 6 The International Telephone Exchange announced m Seoul the opening of a telephone service to any point m the U.S.
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    Terrified woman fell from window
    150 6 rVO of Britain's most dangerous bandits are back m gaol. Each must serve a term of 14 years. Both had black records. George Jackson, a 33-year-old labourer, escaped from Parkhurst Prison m 1946 and eluded police and troops with bloodhounds for more than a week.
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    FLOOD RELIEF
    18 6 The Netherlands Association m Jionf,' Kon X has remitted HK$4O,OOO to the Netherlands lor flood victims.
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    39 6 A REAUTIFTL girl on beautiful lounge Marilyi Monroe, of whom U.S. editon said: **M for Marilyn, M for Monroe, Mm-mm-mm". After Singapore se» La Monroe m "Monkey Business", it can await her newest celluloid antics h "Niagra." J asmmajmsmnmammtmmaamMmmM
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    GAOL MUTINY BID FAILS
    159 6 Prisoner faces flogging APRISONI \l i" chart, uith incitement to inn and 11 others have r-cd uith nfuvil U v .rk. 1 ible i and attempted mutiny an ol punishable by Hogging tr pers f the men not n tarn to U cells. "Subsequently." a gaol
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    Peru makes peace with Yorkshire
    115 6 Peru makes peace with Yorkshire MR. CHARLES r.PFEjf^w. a Keighley. Yorkshire, b*j. ness man, announced cheerhjfc that his own personal interiiitional incident with- Peru hit been settled amicably *m a cheque for €92 ss. The cheque was for repainte hi* car, damaged when twotttf chairs and a glass table-top M
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    RIDER WORE NO CRASH HELMET
    47 6 I Said the coroner at a Lewishham inquest on a 23-year-old motor-cyclist: "This man would probably not have died had he been wearing a crash helmet." The motor-cyclist, Derek Laurence Payne, fell under his machine after colliding with a nedestrian. Verdict: Accident.
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    FAR EAST TRIP
    30 6 Mr. Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for United States president m the past year, announced m San Joan that he will begin his Far East trip on March
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    WAY TO STOP COSHTHUGS: GO TO CHURCH
    254 7  -  Dr. Sangster says THE Find-Your-Faith crusader, Dr. W. E. Sangster. spoke about tosh thugs and faith to 1,400 people at Portsmouth. "One of the most distressing features of juvenile crime today is tiiat the young cosh boys come increasingly from what are called
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    Police search river—but man was at lunch
    97 7 Police search river— but man was at lunch THE name of one highlyindignant citizen was erased from the police list of reported suicides m Kalamazoo (Michigan). Ura Johnson heard that officers were searching the Kalamazoo River for his body. Very much alive, he stormed into the police station. Johnson hastened
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    LONDON WARNED: GAS TINS MISSING
    56 7 Police loudspeaker car toured London's East End last night warning that ten Una of poison gas swept away by the floods from a store near Victoria Docks are still missing. The tins each contain a gallon of hvdro^en chloride. They are painted grey. Said the
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    HOTEL DEATH DUE TO DRUGS
    61 7 A verdict that death was due to an overdose of drugs taken by misadventure was recorded at a Bexhill (Sussex) inquest on Mr. Reginald Kingsley Bacon, aged 51, of Cadogan-place, Chelsea Mr. Bacon, head of the Post Office public relations department and formerly public relations
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    GIVE BEER MUGS? NO, SAYS PARSON
    67 7 A plan to present senior school-children with "pint beer glasses" as Coronation souvenirs was criticised yesterday. The Rev. John McLaren, of Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, said: "Although parents may be a bit careless at times, they would not like to see children of 13, 14, and
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    A NEW LONDON AIR TERMINUS
    62 7 A new air terminal for London will be opened on the South Bank exhibition site on May 19. to be known as Waterloo Air Terminal. The Kensington terminus will close the same day. For the new terminal the Station Gate building put u|> for the
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    'Parents unknown' cat wins prises
    189 7 'Parents unknown cat wins prises I A MODEST, small, black Manx cat. marked m the catalogue as "sire and dam unknown", had his cage covered with ribbons and prize cards yesterday. mc cat. Yancam Greeba, won j»o "best cat" awards, throe and a second. And he Just failed to become
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    3 TWINS IN CLUB
    15 7 M uth Club R. of EsusL "owe cc sets of twins.
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    TAXES ROLL IN TO CLOSE GAP
    81 7 THE taxes were still rolling into the Treasury last week with a revenue surplus of £110 million. Since January 1 a gap of more than £500 million between Government spending and revenue has been wiped out. leaving a surplus of £6,733,000. But because of
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    STARLINGS 'AT HOME'
    16 7 A plantation at Tring has become the roosting-place of I thousands of starlings.
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    Father of R.A.F. is 80
    51 7 The father and founder of the Royal Air Force, Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Trenchard, is 80. 27ie Air Afi/ifeEer. Lord De Lisle f^ f ha f ]Jt f*j£ him a telegram of congratulations on behalf oj trie Air Council and all ranks of the
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      305 7 1 For wan I of a Valve I Shoe, horse, rider, the battle, the kingdom, ill lost according to the old nursery mjwmt I want of a nail! Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trille may he regarded as the rhyme m reverse. In days of mammoth machines and
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  • PICTURE PARADE
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      OVER HE GOES AND...
      16 8 <!»*« Nsi »•»> ,ow l^gli akove St. Mjr4 S««*re m Vcwkc *wd M he
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      ...DOWN ...DOWN ...DOWN
      23 8 ...DOWN ...DOWN ...DOWN ...the crowd look up m horror I scatter and then close m. Fikn j is 'Venetian Bird" coming soon. I
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      FILM STAR AND GUARDSMAN
      46 8 Durinu a visit to London's Tower of London. Qlen% Ford, the film star, hju a that with a Scots Guards scnjtunt i)i lull dress uniform complete with traditional busby. Glenn i A to Jilni Hit "Tune Bomb" Jur M.-U.-M. i v London.
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      28 9 I (m actress Era I %"Venetian Bird". This her first British film Her immaculate charm and breath--taking beauty are U likely to uum her many more film roles.
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      84 9 m,^mmßm^mmmmu^mWmWn^m^*mmmmm t Wearing the Order of Nahda on hit tunic and a blue and white sash. 18--year-otd King Hussein of |ordan marches with other olficcr cadet! to th« Sovereign's Parade at Sandhurst. King Hussein, whose Coronation takes place m May, left the Royal Military Academy after lhi% parade wriirh completed
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    983 12  -  John Chia A Free Press short story by fit, SURFACE of the land, likt* the brown crust of baked brend. began to crack and harden. Valleys, which had been river-beds at one time. were HOW dry. The evaporating oceans, shimmering m the heat, lay like thick
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    438 13  - He makes $13 a night AND IT'S FUN, TOO G. T. BOON Flow the Little Pie started business lIW It M HIM Mi the shoes ef the d public may not be a high calling, but its fun. It is also most profitable to 12- year-old Yee Sai C hee,
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    S'PORE WOMEN BUY HUSBANDS' COSMETICS
    248 13 Free Press Staff Reporter WHO says Singapore wives do not buy cosmetics for their husbands? A survey I carried out revealed that about 50 per-cent. of our women DO purchase mens toilet goods such as shaving cream, lotion, bath salts and talcum powder. Perhaps the
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    213 13 MR. CHURCHILL has invited party leaders m the Commons to attend a conference on House of Lords reform. Viscount Swinton, Deputy Leader, gave the news to the Lords, who were debatine the second reading of Viscount Simon's Life Peers Bill. Lord Simon
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    56 13 rIE Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh saw the French film, m ßeUet of Evening* m London. It took 200 policeme n to hold back a crowd of thousands. The movie, approved by the British censors, features an undraped shot of the Italian actress. Gina
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      390 14 FASHION report from Italy rtfO MAIN impressions from the >\trt of the Italian sprintr fashions. FIRST: 111 Italian designers have discarded the hard. unfeminine lines of last season, and have pone all out to show the natural flpure. And SEI OM>: The new colour is called SugarBas Blue (so popular
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    814 15  -  TRESPASSER Broadside and Col. Daly are the dangers By IN one of the most open races m thr series, I pick 1 Millionaire to win the Selangor Gold (up over I] M tomorrow from Broadside and Colonel Daly. It was a pity Millionaire was taken out
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    218 15 Horses not accepting Xl \l II MPI R, IlKoiMBI.t: scratchingi for tomorrow :»r«-: Olympic I >. r n lory, S a Blank, Vascn da dmi.i o*l--luit Km. I nin>ured, Hushm Kubbtr Exporter, Waikiki Toucan. Windy Corner. What Happened. lirideford. and Trial by Jury. cl. M. i/ORM horse here Is Kabaka.
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    184 15 T TAKE Cypress Point to win the A.A. Henggeler Memorial sprint over 6f. and complete a double for the meeting. He is penalised 5 lb., but he won on Wednesday with plenty hi hand When he bJI the front m the straight none of
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    COLLAPSE BY INDIA
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    76 16 rP-SEEDED Fausto Gardini of Italy and Hong Kong's I Ip Koon Hung were eliminated i from the mens doubles of the Philippine national open tennis championship m Minila yester,day. Felieisimo Ampon and Raymundo Deyro, whipped them 6-3. 7-5. 6-0. m a semi-final match The Filipino stars
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    333 17 li but this does not bother Allen Williams Free Press Ifcixing Reporter AUJEN HIM JAMS, the undefeated hea\ y\\ right champion of New South Wiles, who battles Alex Buxton, serond ranking British middleweight, over 10 rounds at the Happy World S adium tonight, his turned a deaf
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    108 17 At II ld I i soccer mat. li m -U til victims of thr flood disasters m England and Holland will be played at Jalan Bexar Stadium on Feb 27. This was agree*] to at last nights S.A.F.A. roun cil meeting. Teams will be an English Dutch
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    Aussies made a good choice
    294 17  - Aussies made a good choice JIM CHAMBERS HUTTON By I EN HUTTON. En«»l:md's J probable captain against Australia m this sumi\s Test match ft laid yesterday ho expe ,f i the Australian team to be "very good m the fteld." Dommenting on the 17 i named yesterday to make the
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    SHAKEY START BY UNIVERSITY
    342 17 A University of Malaya 4; Singapore Cricket Club 1. FTER an uncertain start against the Singapore Cricket Club, University of Malaya rallied strongly m the second half to romp home easy winners m the semi-final of the senior knockout hockey tournament at the University ground yesterday
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    35 17 Welterweight rhampion Kid Gavilan. who t.k.o.ed southpaw Chuck Davey on Wednesday night m a title fight, began negotiation* yesterday with promoter Jim NorrLs regarding the possibility of his entering the middleweight tournamei.t- IP
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    132 17 From TRESPASSER. •pIAINtR Marinas van iheukelen ttf that he is most optimistic regardin- Colonel Daly'i chances m tomorrow's BeUngor Gold cup i T I l e Co l0 I*l1 1 8 .spectacular victory £J_2 C t? tr,;,! last Saturday has given him most satislacl lon.
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    109 17 AFTER 20 minutes of extra time Malayan Basic Training Centre and Regimental Pay Office drew for the third time In their Nee Soon Garrison inter-unit hockey cup semifinal at Nee Soon yesterday. The j match was goalless. Two previous ties were drawn one--1 all. Both defences
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    U.K. TEAMS AID THE FLOOD FUND
    61 17 rPHE English League first divi- sion football team. Portsmouth, plan to take 13 player* to Antwerp for today's exriibi;.r 0n game a S ain st London's West Ham United m aid of the flood distress appeal. Portsmouth were specially asked to include Belgian bom
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    199 17 r*AI4BB Wf one-sided v- t.rday m the Sinnil icket Club's seven rugby competition, on t__ Pad an Three matches were Dla^ Forty three points uere m 42 minutes' playing time Biggest victory margin wai jby Royal Signals It scored 17 points .lour tries, a goal without
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      12 1 Chinese New Year Free Press Supplement I *^^ffE^^h—. Friday, Feb. 13, 1953.
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      SONGS AND DANCES IN THE STREETS
      290 1 by Winston Wn Strolling minstrels and lion dancers find the New Year season a profitable one. Their method of approach may be noisy but it is effective and great fun. y\\ M< is ihe symbol of i<>\ lo Ihe rhin.iikl Iheir Vw ir sli\;il
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      Big Sister has a heavy task
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      THE LAWLESS CAN NOT HAUNT
      534 2  - THE LAWLESS CAN NOT HAUNT K.S. Chia by The killer came on slowly, a thin long knife m his hand Ken pressed the trigger of his qua There was only a clipk. For a moment Ken was afraid Then his jungle training came to his aid. fHE bandit threw away
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      1070 3  - A night for reunion C.C. LIN ROBERTS FATHER HAD BEEN VERY ANGRY WHEN ROBERT MARRIED LIZ AGAINST HIS WISHES AND HAD CUT HIS SON OUT OF HIS FAMILY CIRCLE. AS THE YEARS PASSED LIZ HOPED FOR A REUNION BUT HOW WAS THIS TO BE EFFECTED A short story by [^IZ
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      51 5 p~ Alice Lee Lily Lee Yang Lee These Malayan Chinese and visiting Hong Kong artistes will entertain Singapore audiences with their songs, dances and acting during the festive season as they have done m the year now ending. There will be no holiday for
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      907 6  - Death of a Khon F. CANNING by THE MONGOL CHIEF ROARED WITH LAUGHTER: "NO ONE SHALL SAY THAT |j I AM WITHOUT MERCY. I WILL RETURN OUR PRECIOUS CAPTIVE TO HIS BROTHER. LIKE A SPIRIT OF THE WIND." THEN HE ORDERED THE SIEGE I MACHINES TO BE SET UP JUST
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      Scrolls to bring luck
      266 6 dent with glittering harness and a magnificent saddle, built high m the front and the back. With a shout of delight I Khan turned with his small bodyguard to meet the sortie party. Though heavily numbered the Khan drarly loved a fight, and his welftrained bodyguard
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      1157 7  -  JADE SNOW WONG I CHINESE NEW YEAR IN SAN FRANCISCO— CRACKERS AND LION DANCES by M l i s^ JA P E srsmv WONG of ITX left the United States on Jan. lo for a << >< three-month tour of Asia. She will visit Japan.
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      The things I like about the New Year
      794 8  -  NONI CHIA by (aged 13) JT WILL be Chinese New Year soon and I will become one year older. It is going to be a happy time for me. My father asks me which day it is I like better, Christmas or
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      1139 9  - Mr. Lee gets a peace offering H. S. LEE A short story by I "No one has the right to call himself a man who has not fulfilled his prime duty to himself and his parents to marry and have children" DESPITE his wealth and the continued prosperity of lii
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      1547 10  - THE ENCHANTED JUNGLE Wynn Patrick by I Across the path lay a grave covered with Flanders poppies and I I among the flowers lay two skeletons with bony arms across f < each other. What was the terrible secret of the strange grave m JJAVK you ever stood on sacred
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      17 14 Two popular Chinese film stars of Hong Kong. Lin Luan Yu Su-chicw
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      75 16 °f course, with my prand 8 Parents and parents I havo 8 packed 1 i??JV *et my iU children to' \\g* %j SAY to my father that 5> perhaps this year, I'd be too old to receive red packets >> He roars with laughter at the vn "It (g SO
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      RED IS THE COLOUR OF HAPPINESS
      662 17  -  Chan Chin Bock by JF YOU arc driving on a fine cool evening along one of Singapore's shady no-speed-limit roads and suddenly there zooms past you a big limousine of a dirty red colour, you would undoubtedly have cause for comment if the driver
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      Cards are a new idea
      488 19  -  LUCY TAN by 1 JTIFTY years ago, it would have been gross insult for any Chinese to receive or send a greeting card during the Chinese New Year. Today the practice is common, providing profits to card makers, printers, vendors and I good revenue m
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        151 20 Shrr lim iin-1 FuriK Bln K -erh "V «-V» 1 Ik p^pu£oJtj^t rfodxui. mWW^'- mww^tuUlUmiwA^mU^^. ll£ \uWmu\uwu\ v \m3u\ ¥mk BK UT^** Wk tf -.^-^—^^mm^mmmm^m^m^mmvm^^m^^^^'!^*^} "THE AGE* affirms leading oversea opinion when it says: "Probably Citroen s most outstanding feature is the manner m which it negotiates corners. Short of
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      468 22 f t€tem many a lone lnoiiii-nt I Of d«*t>atfl. That moraine a* she wrnt about her household chore, the thought kept Intruding. It was nearly noon when > she decided to go over to the town for some purchases. She hurriedly gave instructions to he r servant and then took
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      20 22 It's also a time to remember the poor m A housewife sires alms to the poor at the New Tear.
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      354 23  - TAILORS HAVE A BUSY TIME BEBE YEO by fJUSBANDS may grumble about decreasing business profits, but wives are determined to have at Ic:ist one new "cheong sum" or frock with which to greet the New Year. Many a Chinese husband, not without some secret satisfaction, points out to his wife
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      A basketful of blessings
      153 23 M k, Y lOV,*I OV ,*i A Y£ G 9? D LCCK Lone "I*, and Many Noble Sons is the wish suggested by the three fruits m the basket depicted above. The one on the right is the Buddha s Hand; it is highly valued for
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