The Singapore Free Press, 2 February 1954

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. No. *****. Singapore Tues.. Feb. 2, 1954, Price 15 Cts
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  • 462 1 Call to join with I Moscow JJUSSIA called on France at the Four Power Conference m Berlin last night to desert the Western alliance and join m dictating a Communist peace for Germany. The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. V. M Molotov, precipated a grave crisis
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  • 281 1 Fed. elections as soon as possible POLLING NEXT YEAR? AUTHORITATIVE sources m London said yesterday A that it is the British Government's policy to press ahead with elections m the Federation as soon as possible. The desire of the three races tr associate themselves mort •ly with the machinery of
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  • 60 1 MALAYAN Railway authorities m Singapore said this morning that no serious damage was caused when the crasher wagon of the Singapore— Kuala Lumpur mail train was de-railed between Chamek and Niyor. near Kluang. Johore. last night following an explosion. The mail train itself did not run
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  • 32 1 Sept. 1955, is the date for ending segregation of white and Negro children m schools ot U.S. military posts, under a new plan of the U.S. Defence Department.
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  • 27 1 ire Rubber Market :«-n<'(\ OH an uncertain tone this morning with first grade, February shipment, at 55.5 8 cents a pound, unchanged from yesterday's close.
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  • 27 1 Seven hand grenades and three boxes of .303 ammunition, all unserviceable, were found buried m the compound of d house m Thomson Road. Singapore, yesterday.
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  • 269 1 RENEGADE REVEALS RED SPY RING A SOVIET diplomat has surrendered to a top-secret United States intelligence agency m Tokyo and is voluntarily disclosing the operation of a Russian -spy ring m the Far East He is Mr. Yuri Aleksandrovich Rastovorov. Second Secretary of the Soviet Diplomatic Mission m Japan, who
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  • 43 1 They 're off! Duke gives the signal THEY'RE OFF! And the man who gives the signal is the Duke of Edinburgh. This picture of the Duke as starter was taken at the Royal trotting meeting at Addington, New Zealand. The Queen was present.
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  • 23 1 Inspector O. Oopalan and Singapore detectives last night detained a 'Malay trying to enter the Capitol flats with a ladder.
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  • 216 1 Japs to fly Comet to U.S., Britain TOKYO PLANS 1955 SERVICES VI R. Seijlro Yanagita, Presl- dent of Japan Air Lines, said v<\sterday m Washington that his company plans to inauKUrfttc let air services to Eimlano vi.i India, and to San Francesco ny way of Honolulu, early tn 1955. Mr.
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  • 369 2 MP CALLS WINSTON 'LIAR' -SAYS 'SORRY' Tories win rate an rifle THE Conservative Government, by 2(')t) votes tO 230. last night defeated an Opposition censure motion deploring its decision 10 scrap the new British E. M. 2 nlle m favour of the Belgian F. N. 30. Sir Win.ston Churchill said
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  • 56 2 Michael was once a woman picture. An artist's model who changed frcm a woman to a man. Michael Kirn Harford, formerly Kathleen Rarford, pictured with his "husband," Patrick (VLyna.ni, on the stage of the Grand Theatre, Brighton. He was telling the story of his change of sex m a new
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  • 232 2 POLITICALLY paralysed Italy inclined last night toward hiring back the old family doctor, Mr. Alcide de Gasped, who kept the patient healthy for eight postwar years. Eight times Prime Minister Christian Democrat Mr. de Gasperi was fired last summer wher he declined to prescribe
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  • 39 2 The West German Federal Statistics Oflice says the value of the country's trade with the Soviet Union during the first 11 months of 1953 jumped more than seven times the corresponding figure for 1952.
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  • 46 2 Several Communist trade unionists have outwitted Ceylon police and left for Vienna to attend classes organised by the World Federation of Trade Unions, informed source said yesterday. Premier Sir John Kotelawela had ordered that the Redb should not be allowed to leave Ceylon.
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  • 34 2 A 2,577-ton British collier loaded with coal exploded m the river Thames iust below London this morninp Injuring five members of the crew. The collier Hudson Sound v.;is badly damaged and sank.
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  • 95 2 DR. EDWIN H. Armstrong, inventor of many basic radio patents, plunged to his death yesterday from his 13th floor flat m New York. "I want the whole world to know 1 am sorry for what I am about to do," Dr. Armstrong wrote m one of the two
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  • 51 2 The U.S. Government ha* *eized U*****,816.00 m cash and negotiable paper consigned In people m ChrtT* during the past seven weeks. Treasury spokesman reported yesterday. Government officials *a:d prosecution of American Chinese who tried to send these asset, to China is being considered by the U.S.
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  • 151 2 MESSRS. FRIED, HAM AND BACON AT BREAKFAST THIS STRANCL WOKLU g MR. Fried. Mr. Ham. Mr Bacon and Mr. Egg Bat down together to breakfast m London. They had been hunted out to have the first breakfast at a new "bacon and eg^" restaurant. Atomic earrings TWO women at Dubois
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  • 282 3  - Let' s soak landlords, Paglar says P. M. RAMAN THEY MAKE TOO MUCH By rnHB GOVEKNMEwr is ut'ing ur-ed to levy a special tax ten per cent on landlords s in all land sales m ipo re and to acquire all vacant land for public purposes giving owners reasonable either
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  • 65 3 STOCKER JAMES Skivington was sentenced to nine months' detention by a Royal Naval court m Malta yesterday for causing damage aboard the 9.000 ton submarine depot ship Forth. The sailor was found guilty of damaging five gauges and setting fire to a cushion. He also attempted
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  • 27 3 TOP: The single-edged larg e type of German throwin,; knife which can be bought at a Singapore shop. BELOW: the double-edged smaller kind
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  • 122 3 Apache knife for thugs for the asking Free Press Staff Reporter ANY gangster can walk Into a Singapore shop and buy himself one of those vicious Apache knives the type popularised by Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok on the screen. These knives. German-made, weighted and sharpened, at the tip
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  • 117 3 rpANGLE GUY" Ernest J. Hemingway author, big game hunter and explorer has pooh-poohed doctors' suggestions that he is suffering from "nervous re-action after narrowly escaping death m two jungle air crashes a week ago. To prove it Hemingway, confined to bed since Saturday, strode
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  • 250 3 THE MANCHESTER Cotton Board is c^'' t 1 conference of all trade organisations concerned to reete a protest ?rom the British cotton and rayon industries against the Aniflo-Japanese trade agreement signed recently. The agreement was dLSCussea yesterday by the executive of the Manchester
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  • 200 3 A DDITIONAL study courses, i\ niirpri nt producing better officers have )t*en Included n the one-year training of a lew batch of 07 Singapore police i-adet inspectors at the Police Training School m Thomson Road mc at* ..uidies are precis anting, ethics, logic, civics and
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  • 443 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 1954. Opinion IHE Japan<\sr peril loom* again. It may turn oat to be the shilling shut made with sweated labour. It may be Sheflield cutlery made m an obscure Japanese town. It may be false price labels concealing secret discounts. It niav mean
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  • 861 4  - Duke Supplies the 'Human Touch Bernard Wicksteed ALL EYES ARE OM THE QJEEN BUT THE praises the consort who has done so much to case the queen's burden without "stealing the show. CRKIbi'CHURCH. I WANT to pay tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh. If it weren't for him. this back-breaking
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  • 394 4  -  ROBERT CANNELL yHE man from Arnhem A took part m the most moving TV programme Britain has heard for years. Minions saw the end Of a tenyear story which began when paratrooper, Andrew Milbourne, came down from the sky to lose an eye and two arm s
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  • 308 5 HE'S READY TO BE VICTIM OF A ROCKET TEST Singapore Marine ■1 Police are all set for a novel experiment m Colony waters sea-rescue with the aid of a new rocket-firing device. Four sets of this equipment, specially made for police use and ordered by the Singapore Marine Division last
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  • 146 5 Frtv Press Staff Reporter 11HE SINGAPORE Council o: Women has thrown a spanner m the marital works m many a home m the Colony. The offending initrument is the proposed Monogamy Bill. first wives oi some Chinese itizem are gathering unde: council's banner to battle
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  • 26 5 The U.S. State Department said yesterday that a film pichowing Communist atroin Korea is being distri-"-d this week to 261 televin Nations in America.
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  • 98 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE first Singapore Asian U hold the post of Acting Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. Out 1 Soon Ann, is leaving on Saturday m the Chusan for England where he will study City Conn cil procedure, vehicle registration, and taxi administration.
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  • 246 5  - Rice men say: Make up our losses JOSEPH YEO By MORE than 900 rice dealers now want the Singapore Government to pay them five cents for every kati of rationed rice, because of losses incurred m two price cuts. This decision was taken at a meeting of representatives of the
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    • 325 5 WHITER TEETH with Macleans Br Be MAKE THIS 14-DAY TEST: Why not give Macleans a trial for yourself? Be quite fair about it clean yojr leath thoroughly morning and night for a couple of weeks. Right from the start your mirror will show ycu the difference as the smooth, creamy
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 233 6 MANDRAKE THE MACICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis cz=^=i rigs»g 1 pii-ss.i 'cONGRATULAT.ONS.eOTH)/^ MIMTOJAILt^T JAIL COUIO «/>UOfc KISS THE BRIOE. UMOUCH. 1 f 1 X^T 4=nf JlTt\ /jP^ f TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT Leslie Charteris UNI IMi l«yg^,nn./ gu/ccT.l HAM A GOOD JUDGE OF 1 BESIDE
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    • 606 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN TODAY, there is great deal of force m y our make-up and you are uki i« influence people to think J way, no matter how stranee your original ideas may seem I first. The stars have give,, exceptional talent m the arts but you must guard
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  • 292 7 WHIN TH£ SCHOOL BUS IS CROWDED 'TEACHERS who travel m school buses must give up their seats and stand if a boy or girl has not got one That is the order given by Derbyshire County Council \nt\ the teachers are angry about
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  • 240 7 r rilE Army recently checked the inventory of a gard»r's cottage, leased two y3ars > to billet an officer who has >ince moved out. It was a full- operation. Five men, a Jeep, a car, and civilian transport took part. And the schedule was: 11.0
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  • 61 7 A jury failed to reach a verdict at Bedfordshire Assizes recently on a claim for damages by 16-year-old Derek John Pearce, who was permanently paralysed after a swim-pool accident. The boy sued the mayor aldermen ,and burgesses of Bedford alleging negligence m the management of
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  • 158 7 SPAIN has broken off chess relations with Britain because Catalan champion Roman Bordell was asked to withdraw from the recent Hastings Congress to please the Russians. This was the meeting at which Britain's Hugh Alexander brat the Russian Grand Masters, David Bronstein and
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  • 36 7 orenadier Guardsman Roland Thompson was .sentenced at a Chelsea court martial recently to 84 days' detention for stealing a camera from his commanding oihcer. Findings and .sentence have to be confirmed. i
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  • Article, Illustration
    27 7 The annual dame Kivt*. Liaison Officers to Colonial students m Great Britain and Eire was held at Seymour Hall, London recently. Picture shows a group of Malayans.
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  • 34 7 A woman Kiving evidence at Lambeth recently was a.sked by the clerk of the court: "Would you kindly refrain from addressing counsel as 'ducks.' Counsel was fair-haired, attractive, barrister Mls.s Una Collins.
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  • 30 7 Newspapers were delivered late to residents m a block of flats m Poynders Road, Clapham recently. The paper-boy was trapped for half an hour m the lift.
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  • 221 7 4 BO! T 650 officers of the City of London police force iV recently set out to talk crime prevention with bankers, stockbrokers, and big business m general m the Square Mile. Chief constables all over the country sent representatives tc watch the
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  • 90 7 Cuatomi and Exci.se raked m £1.764 million m taxes —highest ever—for the year ended last March. This U .1:11,000,000 more than last year, but £52,--000,000 leu than Mr. Butler, tho Chancellor, hoped to get. He got the money on: Smokes: t;(517 million (2s. 9d. for
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  • 58 7 One thousand torus of .sugar ho.; been stacked on a waste piece of ground at Barton Hill. Bristol, Mr Lloyd George, the Food Minister, told Mr Stanley Ambery (Soc, Bristol Central* In a written Commons reply. The site was private ground. The sugar was fully protected and
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  • 301 8  - New Year Treat for Aged PETER DE CRUZ Story by ]y]()RK than 2,000 Chinese old folk m Singapore queued up id the entrance of the Great World Amusement Park last week, hours before the annual distribution of Chinese New Year #ifts by the Shaw Brothers. Every year, since 1949, they
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  • 126 9 'Ang Pow' Queues Below: the old women queue n Members of Shaw Brothers staff check up on identity cards fore issuing gift chits. Below, left: Carrying their (lift bags these old men and women shuffle towards the nates. Right: The men queue up to eceive their gifts. the old Chinese
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  • 721 10 OH FOR A HUSBAND, SIGH SLEEPLESS STGNORINAS And here is ait Italian lovely HOW to find a ousfcuid is a very serious problem that disturbs the sleep of millions of sitfiiorinas m Italy, a country m which many parents forbid "flirting. For Italian women outnumber the men by 1,500.000, according:
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  • 311 10 New Narriman comes out of hiding AN inquisitive crowd presses forward to peer at the girl who emerges from a sown shop m Cairo's neon- clustered Soliman Street. A policeman clears a path for her to reach her car and she drives off to the accompaniment of a few unfriendly
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  • 28 10 Three oil companies paid the Alberta Government more than U5526,000,000 for exploration rights m the nrw and little known Pembina Firld.
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  • 120 10 ALAN CAMERON was on his way to be married. And a little matter of his car breaking down five miles short of the village was not going to make him late. The temperature was 104 degrves it was South Australia— but he took off <<>at ,-md
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  • 32 10 A ten-month-old baby David Wilkinson, died recently after being hit by a falling chimney cowl which crashed into his pram near his home m Church Road Earley, near Reading.
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  • 231 10 Radio hams team up with R.A.F. rpHREE radio amateurs and the R.A.F. teamed up to speed a life-saving drug froir. Britian to a German just home from a Russian slave camp and given 24 hours to live. This drugs-by-air drarra started m the quiet of an
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  • 886 11  -  FRED MANOR Noted geographer predicts calamity m our age by HELSINKI. BECAUSE of the cosmic eruptions through which we are passing, the world's available humus s shrinking and there will be serious difficulties m growing enough food to Prevent large-scale famines. This is the considered
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  • 387 11 East-West vulnerable South dealer ♦X 4 2 WEST EAST (JK6 9 6 3 0 ***** <? Q j 10 8 4 A 10 9 0 Q *> 73 6 SOUTH Q 2 9A 6 2 OAK J 9 4QJ I f The bidding: South West North East IH.T
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  • 38 11 photo. A worried frown creases the fine brows of the muunifUent •Mandarin of Barwick," Mrs. Barnett Pastridge's entry for the Chinese Chow Club's championship show at the Welsh Hall m dray's Inn Road, London Reuter
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    • 30 11 li^s irvkmt -m Jr'-r-lr I[VUU\ U U ift I sKy > V'^ outdoor ir^Sl I CHARCOAL •i _,J eßUEc""'*^ phone »»4« 6G7 OXt£Y RISE, SINGAPORE. TOMORROW NIGHT EXTENSION TO 1 A.M.
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  • The Pressman's Postbag
    • 287 12 PRESENTIMENTS tell me that the New Year will brlni prosperity and hapiness to those born m the "Year of the Horse." I am one of these "fortunate' people. Love Oj horses is an innat< passion of mine I have greal admiration and respect
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    • 83 12 ONE of your correspondent; wrote of having heard I woman-hawker tinging her bab> to gleep with the hit-tune "Ten Thousand Mile.s." Here'.s one which misht am ize your leaders. A news a^enry once reported: 'Sale.^ of perfumed British hiiii oil are booming m Africa. The natives of
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    • Letter, Illustration
      67 12 THE SLI -TAX of Perak shakes hands with Miss Foo Lee Khetij;. and Mr. Low Vat who were n arried m Falim. Ipoh. The bride is the second daughter of Perak State Councillor and tin niiiur. Mr. Too Yin Pong and Mrs. 100 MR. PETER DIBDEN and Miss Noel Coventry,
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    • 68 12 BROTHER director of a big school m Singapore is m :hc habit of discouraging the beys by strong language. His English vocabulary is very small. My advice to him is to 40 to the various public libraries m this city, and try to read as much as possible.
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    • 130 12 ■JOWHERE is the Royal more genuinely •M loved than m th, lealth as the present mpiy demonstrating I was therefore nysttfled at the menf motives inspi who used the Queei im 7T i joke of doubtful taste at a rJ Victoria Theatre nn£ show. It was
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    • 145 12 IN your issue of Jan. 28 you published the views of some interesting personalities who spoke for and against Dr. Lin Yu-tang'a dress-sense. A man of Dr. Lin's calibre whose erudition U beyond question, should not, m my opinion, be made a subject of gossip. On
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    • 158 12 Any grouse? HAVE you a grouse? Have you a bright idea? Have you seen anything strange or unusual? Then write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBAG— briefly. LvLj L(iJM colours make the fabulous difference A full range of the fabulous Rovlon Bp colours is now
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  • 859 13 Food Alone May Not Make You Fat says the SIXGAPORE DOCTOR THE DANGERS of obesity became well known during the last century. Medical circles from ancient times knew that certain diseases, such as hiiih blood pressure, heart diseases and swollen lc^s. m fat persons can improve after weight reduction and
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  • 597 13 MEDICINE PROMISES MUCH IN 1954 NEW YORK. V INETEEN fifty-three was a year of enormous H'omise for medicine. A tope for the elimination poliomyelitis, new tdrenal and pituitary •ormones. and powerful ipons to aid the physician m the treatment of hock, leukemia, RH negaive babies, and the disabilities of old
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    • 131 13 I CROOKES W I HALIBUT OIL I ESSENTIAL *m for healthy growth, J» strong teeth, and ML' Buy :i bottle todny! "^^^A fefc v BiM Bissl '^Hssssssfl LBf A Aw SSBBh SSBBf V i Vf ImVT v i sTWmllf I I f v-*~ sa.^k\ v si I i DISTRIBUTORS: THE
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

  • 214 14 Kick the soccer bookies out of the stadium Free Press Soccer Correspondent TOUCHUNBgaMMhm is a danger to Singapore soccer. Steps should be taken to counteract it before the BCW season begins. This evil can become so big thai it will impede the progress Of the same. Last year
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  • 78 14 New Army manager SGT T. Pounder RAVC, attached to King's Troop RHA, St. John's Wood Barracks. is the new team manager and trainer of the British Army Football Association. Ho is a registered Football League referee and linesman, and succeeds Captain G Saunders RA. Sgt. Pounder was once an RSM,
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  • 49 14 THE following hockey players have been selected to represent the South against the Indian Tourists at Jalan Besar Stadium, Singapore, on Feb. 13 B. Manuel; A. Koelmeyer, P. Vias; P. Pennefather, 8. Vellupillai, H. H Sequerah; Durrant, Dozey, Sheikh Mansoor, B. Coutts, Sneik AH.
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  • 278 14 BRITISH driving ace Mike Hawthorn crashed within siffht of victory on Sunday m the Grand Prix of Buenos Aires. Winner was Maurice irintignant of France. Roberto Miere.s of Argentina was second and Guiseppe Farina of Italy 'bird. Hawthorn's Ferrari 2500 skidded on he greasy
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  • 37 14 rpHE Ist Battalion Fiji Infantry Regiment beat Ne^rl Sembilan by II ix)int.s (lour RoaLs. three tries and a penalty goal) to ei^ht (a goal and penalty goal) m a rugby friendly at Seremban yesterday.
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  • 85 14 THE English and Scottish trams competing m the World Football Championships m Switzerland this summer will set up their headquarters m Lucerne, the championship secretariat has announced. The Austrian team will live at Baden m the Canton of AarKau. and the Germans at Spiez on
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  • 109 14 OFFICIAL confirmation is expected .soon that the Boviet Union intends to compete m the i j:>4 European Athletic championships scheduled to be held from August 25 to 29 m Switzerland. The Soviet Union and Albania arc the only two of 29 Euro|>e<in countries In the International
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  • 152 14 THE Football Association of Malaya btl made a provisional draw for the 1954 Malaya Cup competition. Tentative fixtures are: North: Apr. 17— Sel. v Perak: Perils v Penang; Kedah v Combined Services. Apr. 24— Perak v Kedah; Combined Serice v Sel. May 1— Combined Services
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    • 325 14 Malaya's Privilege '!<• See _.JISW j? 111 l FILM FOR THE 1954 W MJSw jfZßtb \SI HIM I ESTH M ttffrT —Tomorrow 5 Shows 11 a.m.— 1.:;0— 4— 6 30 South-East Asia Film Co's ROSA Dec XOSAs/o *v Supereolossal Filipino Fantas> *l^fe\/^k CJ^ f^P —In Malay Dialogue IJ^t^tJVKf Vt^ Free
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  • 332 15 Rugby rivals m Tanglin clash RASC 16; G.H.Q 3. rllE Koyal Army Service Corps scored two goals, one try and one penalty goal to a penalty goal by G.H.Q. m a rugger friendly yesterday at Tanglin. Despite favourable conditions, the play was not so
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  • 62 15 Invitation XV to meet th? m Saturday's rugby at Jalan Besar Stad'um has selected as follows 'arker iSCC. capt.); Prothero 0 [impshiresi. Phipp 5 Hampshire* >, irson iRAAF). BarcHy (J:hoet: EdlngtOO (Negri-Malacca>. Pigr.u Armitage (SCC>, Lnrhheai Smith (Army). Handcock Cooke (Joho-e'. Rirhardsoi Baird (SCCi, Carmichael re).
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  • 76 15 l/'EITH MILLER, Australian Test I all-rounder, scored 143 for New 1 South Wales and left them with a chance of forcing a win at the end of the third day's play m the Sheffield Shield match m Sydney. Scores: New South Wales IK2 'J De Courcy 39.
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  • 25 15 MALAYA'S Sportsman of the Year for 1953, as selected by sports fans throughout the country, will he announced m tomorrow's Free PreSS
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  • 26 15 kv Freddy Haas of New sank 10-foot putt for an on the 18th green to win the '•■'ooo Timderbird Invitational numanu it on Sunday.
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  • 146 15 I) '.YING well up to form an iving the edge on his onent, 32-year-old Fit. Niven, ex-R.AF chamin England and curreni ;or champion, added to 'Is by capturing the Malaya »olf champion m Inoh yesterday morn'M N BEAT KB I.AIRIST'P THE MALAYAN *MPION, TWO IP IN WH
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  • 207 15 AN undefeated 87 by P. Punjabi the young opener helped India to score 214 for three wickets before the close of play yesterday when they began the fifth and last Test against the Commonwealth at Lucknow. Heavy rain had washed out the first
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  • 32 15 pOLONEL Evan A. Hunter, 66. Secretary of the British OlympicAssociation for 25 years until retiring m 1948, died on Sunday m the Chester Royal Infirmary after a short illness.
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  • 501 16  -  ALLAN LEWIS From lITTLK ANDY (Mulley) did a winning gallop at Kuala J Lumpur this morning, by beating Ll'C KY TOM II (Hudson) easily, to reel off three m 36 5. Little Andy did his work more than Half way out
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  • 130 16 WITH a first innings lead of 481 runs Queensland declared at their Saturday total of 589 for nine when play was resumed m the Sheffield Sheild match m Brisbane yestcrduy. West Australia dismissed for 102 m their first innings were 118 for three when stumps
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  • 148 16 THE FA. CUP |>ORT Vale and Norwich, the 1 two giant-killing" teams of the six lowly third division outfits remaining m the Football Association Cup. have been lucky m the fifth round draw Both will play their next matches at home. Norwich, who
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  • 198 16 All Blacks game put off rPHE RUGBY Union match between the New Zealand touring team and Southeastern countries which wus to have been played m Ipswich tomorrow, hai been cancelled becau.se of the hard ground. The match was arranged at the Ipswi'h Town Association Football Club's ground where and association
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  • 94 16 NEW Zealand struggled desperately against what seemed inevitable defeat on the third day of the fourth Test ■gainst South Africa m Johanaertourv yesterday. At the close New Zealand still required 16 runs with four second innings wickets standing to avoid an innings defeat. They followed
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  • 59 16 Sir Henry Leveson uower. one 01 the grand old gentlemen of English cricket, died yesterday at his home m London. He was 80 years of age. Affectionately known to cricketers thje world over as •Shrimp." because of his slight build he was associa^a with the Scarborough festival
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  • 161 16 M» RWN Rose t>eat Rix Harttrig 6-2. 0-6. 6-4 6-2 to wti t lie Australian singles championship at the V.:,.'- city tennis courts m Sydney pester. day. The 23-year-old left-handei who was a member of the Austral: an Davis Cup team but tbi did
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