The Singapore Free Press, 28 March 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA y* SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1949. PRICE 10 (Bl!«
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    0 PACT NATIONS MEET THIS WEEK
    109 1 To sign antiRed alliance Lt,,. WASHINGTON, Sunday. r pHL oreign Ministers of ten Western nations will gather in Washington at the end of this week to sign the North Atlantic Defence Treaty and open a new era of Western unity. Attempts are also expected
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    OFTER PEACE LEARMS
    22 1 OFTER PEACE LEARMS M a. .nist ..on I be ight rs nere fid e Jpotnß m an effort was '-V irg that
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    'Varsity Bill will be passed tomorrow
    138 1 'Varsity Bill will be passed tomorrow Free Press Staff Reporter THE University of Malaya Bill is expected to be given its final readings in the Federal and Singapore Legislative Councils tomorrow. Only a formal debate is expected. With the passing of ttie Bill, the ordinances under which the King Edward
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    PUERTO RICANS GET A HEARING
    36 1 CLAIMS by Puerto Ricans for a hearing of their case lor independence from the United States are to be put before plenary sessions of the InterAmerican Commission on Dependent Territories, which
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    Malaya's pets will be on show in U.K,
    744 2 Malaya's pets will be on show in U.K, tish forces in Malaya the British troops were only protecting the tin and rubber interests and not the working class said Mr. Gallacher; and the War Minister only spoke of murders by Chinese Communists in order to bring in racial prejudice and
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    LONDON LETTER
    207 2  -  By Hall Romney VKW Malayan ar- rivals in Britain arc the two sun bears which the .Sultan of Johore has presented In the London Zoo. Their arrival is timely, ur the Zoo authoring are planning to show a collection of t> picai animals from the colonies as part
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    Smoke gets in your eyes
    328 2  -  JOHN HALL By ONE thing being made clear about sight is that a lot of people who are using glasses should tahrow them away, and others who are applying for glasses don't really need them. There ls no evidence that restricted diet causes deterioration In
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    Bridge Hands
    359 2 Neither aida vulnerable Bouth dealer WITH a 1001 „ore. Souths pass to his partner's opening spade bid might be wise. But with the opponents needing only 60 for game, it is more dangerous to pass than to bid. In fact. South proved that to himself by sticking his
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    Pygmies gave him a headache
    408 2  - Pygmies gave him a headache Peter Hill by UUNTING wild ani"mals for a circus is one thing, searching darkest Africa for pygmies is quite another. Last week after making 14 trips to the "Dark Continent collecting animals for his circus in Sydney, stocky, 58-year-old Dave Meekin, was satisfied, but a
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      89 2 P_9 LENA HOKM I FEEL SO SMOOCHIE a*** DEED I DO u.-iir<TßA ART UND WITH «.R« NI<IK AND MIMI JEALOUS ai WHAT'LL I DO? ITS A LONESOME OLD TOWN m sTR* DAVID ROSE HIM>K'HtM ESTRELLITA N Tl I MANHATTAN SQUARE DANCE H> sK*!* 1 NORO MORALES Hl K H CAPULLITO
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      90 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, yon know how to make each moment count. For you. life is too short and you want to accomplish so many important things. You are exceptionally fond of travel and should see that your work allows you to do it for only then can you
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      303 2 Solution To Crossword No. 64s Aeroaa: 1 cnxt. 5 Palates. II Percolate. 12 Spiay. 14 Stretch. 16 Trod. 17 Lied. 18 Hoe. 19 Son. 20 Pier 21 Bear. 22 Fans. 23 Large 24 Motive. 26 Census. 27 Atone. 28 Pars. 29 Sire. 30 Sups. II Hat. 33 Tor. 34 Firs
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      856 2 ■a PV I P'VV l l l V l _P fi QTVf*_PORF Commonwealth Empire IBBC); TOMORROW OIUM/trv/iu. ||j Newa Newa Analsia 400 Music for Teatune with' (BLUE NETWORK) (BBC); 11 45 EDITH OSLER- London Palladium Oixneatra. 4:5 .o« South African Pianist <BBC). Re-eitablishment Newsletter— re -484 and 41.7 metre*. noQ
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    CHANNEL TUNNEL PROJECT
    77 3 CHANNEL TUNNEL PROJECT linri Tunnel propi iJJ- lin beinjj ross :Se pl»n The m1 i t .a Ireneh M An M.i---llm Knti>h ui ha* .I'ready ;>un in T"^ r ren. h t.ovt. ..ininiitt-d itxHf >lrr for > m ij\i»ur. In hill »>f the plan au>t dim uiih a lanv double
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    grid smiled, ooked grim, en scared...
    28 3 2* hold a ia~- Rome \tiu. beautv ior after ever K 1 of ro- :ed a d :rom I I I A.P.
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    OUNTIES ON CHINESE PROBE
    12 3 OUNTIES ON CHINE SE PROBE I tot three Bri- rmine vohred -ency
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    JAP REDS INFILTRATE THE POLICE
    410 3 JAP REDS INFILTRATE THE POLICE New membership campaign T* k ch *l Be made b y th <- Yomiuri Shimbun recently that th e Japanese Communist Party has started a campaign to recruit party members from the police force is a development of obvious and immediate concern to the Japanese.
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    NO BAR ON U.K. CAPITAL IN S.A.
    66 3 THERE are no restriction! or capital coming from Britain to the Union of Soutl Africa, the Secretary of Finance Dr. J. E. Holloway. tok a deputation in Capetown. He warned, however, thai there was a great deal o; money in South Africa whirl*
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    U.S. offer of 1,000 acres to Europe D.Ps
    213 3 U.S. offer of 1,000 acres to Europe D.Ps A RETIRED American chemist is ready to offer 1,000 acres of land in Florida to displaced Europeans on a share-the-profit basis. Frank W. Burg, 69. a plant husbandry expert, said he has presented plans to the U.S. displaced persons commission for establishing
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    Divorce ruling on gestation
    173 3 A LONDON divorce court has ruled that it is possible for a woman to have a baby 12 months after conception. Charles Jones, of London, sued his wife. Bertha, on a charge of adultery with a man unknown because, he testified she had a child In
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    FRENCH TO ADVISE
    32 3 The Government of India announced has two agreements by which French firms will advise on the possible establishment of a ship-yard and radio and radar factory in India.— A.P.
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    Want own parliaments
    94 3 IlllE Liberal Party, which has ten of the MO seats in the House of Commons, has agreed to support a demand of its Scottish delegate at a party assemhly that Scotland and Wales should have their own separate parliments to handle their domestic affairs. The unity of
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    MALAN WARNS COMMUNISTS
    54 3 DR. Daniel Malan, South African Prime Minister, has served notice on Communists that his Government was "determined'' to act in the matter of their activities in the Union. "The time has passed." the Premier told the Union Assembly, "when the Government of South Africa allowed Communist activities
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    BIG U.S. SOCIAL INSURANCE PLAN
    162 3 rpHE U.S. Government has presented to Congress 1 details of a broad new social insurance programme that would cover virtually every employed person in th e nation and greatly increase the present scale of benefits. The Executive Branch s recommendations for expanded old age and
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    INDIAN REPS. TO VISIT U.K.
    80 3 REPRESENTATIVES of the Indian Army and Navy and the Minister of Defence ar^ to leave New Delhi on April 6 for an eight-week mission In the United Kingdom America and Switzerland. Air Marshal Sir T. Elmhirst, chief of the Indian Air Force, is already In
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    SURGEON KNIGHTED
    20 3 The King has knignteci professor J. R. Learmonth the surgeon who operated on him on March 12. A.P.
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    Sound proof
    49 3 CLARENCE Bessey. 67, of New York admitted he is too old to be a successful burglar. He was arrested because he had not heard the burglar alarm after he had broken into a home "I guess I am getting a little deaf." he told ihe police. U.P.
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    NAZI CHIEF
    26 3 NA ZI CHIEF Hans Albin Rauter. chief of the Nazi police during the German occupation of Holland, has died before a firing squad in Amsterdam.— U.P.
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    PHONE CALL FROM BAMBOO CURTAIN
    189 3 BUSINESS remains at a standstill in Tientsin, according to a recent telephone message from a former Shanghai businessman who is among the hundreds of foreigners swept behind the "bamboo curtain" when Chinese Communists captured Tientsin in January. The businessman said they, had not seen a
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    BRITISH SOCIALISM FOR TAIWAN
    288 3 BRITISH Socialism, in a modified form, is being applied by General Chen Cheng, Governor of Taiwan, in his administration of this former Japanese possession. Ifanj of the top-level cffici- als are British-returned studentl, and British-trained technicians are employed in most of the key industries. Gen. Chen
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    WASHINGTON-BUENOS AIRES ROAD PROJECT
    259 3 DROSPECT for early completion of the Christopher Columbus highway in Southern Mexico has stirred international enthusiasm over the eventual construction of a Pan American highway network of 16,000 miles, to link the capitals of all the American republics. The Christopher Columbus, highway, 850 miles in length.
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    U.S. TO BUILD TWO LINERS
    76 3 CONSTRUCTION on two trans-Atlantic liners to carry 1,000 passengers eacn and to cost $50,000,000 <US ll to start soon, in the U.S. The Bethlehem Steel Com- pany has announced in Quiney that the liners, to be built for the American Export Lines, are for the
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    Rumanian Communist 'inhumane'
    197 3 Rumanian Communist 'inhumane' COMPULSORY collectivisation on the Russian mod-I was revived recently in Rpmania. The ejection of the farmers from their homes, said official British circles took place "In conformity with the inhumanity called for by the doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat". Government agents penetrated into the farm
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    More coconut farms in Ceylon
    108 3 A NUMBER of new coconut nurseries are to be established in Ceylon by the Coconut Research Institute as part of a programme for the rehabilitation of the coconut planting industry. The coconut industry represents Ceylon's third largest export after tea and rubber. Coconut acreage in
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    HK PAPERS BANNED
    27 3 Nationalist postal officials in Shanghai who have tightened censorship of mail from Communist -held areas in Norm China have tanned two Hong Kong newspapers.
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      91 3 aofce rt rfertSflf rattKntdl Slice Sarratiuta NEVER FAILS TO GIVE COMPLETE SATISFACTION 1. It is the only Sacramental Win e holding the Institute of Hygiene Certificate of Purity, Quality and Merit. 2. It is a Natural Pur e Grape Wine unfortified and of Highest Quality. 3. It is exclusively used
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Mar. 28, 1949 STOP THIS DEFIANCE
    574 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Mar. 28, 1949 STOP THIS DEFIANCE MORE co-operation be '.ween the various Government departments. Government and Municipal. that rule our lives with their foiu_, cords and bills is needed in Singapore, if the revelation by Mr. W. A. M. Watts, the Registrar of Vehicles, at
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    S.E. ASIA is drawing closer to a union
    1496 4  -  GUY ROBERTS by POLITICS and economics have drawn and quartered aSouth East Asia. We now watch Communism bring its knife to cut up Burma and paralyse Malaya. For three centuries this corner of Asia has been the centre of a tug-of-war. We
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    ONE YEAR'S BATTLING ON THE COUNCIL FLOOR
    701 4  - ONE YEAR'S BATTLING ON THE COUNCIL FLOOR S. SIVADAS By N_XT FRIDAY is the first anniversary of the Singapoie f A n Legislative Council— a Council which, for the first time in the S efectetmen" lia\ing CICCICO mem bers and an unofficial maionty. Tr,oncriirotincr .hp Inaugurating the Council on April
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    FAITH
    30 4 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not s doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face In s glass. JAMES, 1, 23
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    Saying it with doves
    19 4 Saying it with doves the jw V6ir S.nce the c Gods. resoand**^ 1 coctEJ 'And beyond^ „re. t A.P.
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    JAPAN'S boneyard of naval mastodiam
    809 4  - JAPAN'S boneyard of naval mastodiam C. WARD PRICE by KURE, Japan: IN the seclusion of an island-studded bay, on the shore of that superb piece of oceanic fretwork, the Island Sea of Japan, there lay, less than four years ago, two towns, 12 miles apart Behind stood steep hills, with
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      21 4 Be Sure You Ask for MULLARD MODEL MAS. 306 80!e <Vgrliu>. CHEONG LEE CO. 9 Upper Hasten 81. Singapore Pbon* SSUi
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      70 4 2nd 1 13, Batten /br Exquisite French fl** and Lovely (to*** The "DAVEY i\ VIAKKtIi aid <il »IMS I* M A Electric Coffee Percolator j Elegant Superior Quality, con I structed of strong gauge Copp*' Outside in heavy Chromium Pla' Glass Top allows the percolation gj. coffee to be observed
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    MAKING SCHOOL GIRLS BETTER WIVES
    497 5 MAKING SCHOOL GIRLS BETTER WIVES Special tuition about homes a tuvd/^tw Free Prcss Staff marrying a Singapore schoolgirl a tew years hence will be getting a good housewife and a good companion. More than 1,000 Sirls ranging from 11 to 16 years of age, are today receiving training in domestic
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    IT'S HER JOB
    27 5 picture. \KM»niii tiilks. a graduate of the Bath Domestic Scitt Cmmtir. v. ho supervises domestic science train inr in Wap«>rr «irls* schools.- Free Press
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    Cash prizes for best flowers
    209 5 tM Director of Botanic Gardens in Singapore, Mr. 1 E Hoitum >aid yesterday that he thought the tufcning society's flower show to be held on PrbT. \aturdav md Sunday next would be a great K:. close today, have been received and professionals all over the
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    Australia-UK air service via Ceylon
    108 5 r ROUGH its Ceylon Airways connections, Australian National Airways might soon be able to offer Austra-lia-England air passages in opposition to British Overseas Airways Corporation and Qantas Empire Airways, according to the managing director of A.N.A., Mr. I. N. Hoiyman. Last year ANA. acquired a
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    RURAL RATES UNCHANGED
    63 5 Rates and taxes for 1949 for Singapore's rural areas, resolved at a meeting of the Rural Board in December last have now been approved by Government. There Ls no change on 1948. An education rate of one per cent is fixed in 27 districts on the annual
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    ROAD DEATH
    37 5 A six-year-old Chinese boy Ho Ah Kow, died on his wa; to hospital at about 1 p.m yesterday, after being knock ed down by a lorry at th< junction of Albert Street anc Queen Street
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    Malay students 'quite' well off—official
    91 5 Malay students 'quite' well off official P •-> Malay focrr^pondrnt H aflMMt given to fj_- in Engp sßounts to about £23 a I- tax, of the Kedah ■tea D-- cornel« ..at the illou inade- o- n <2ej*-" 1 rector of Scholar?, he said. ■f" the other s ~iie alJJ^JJa^ many
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    NEW MOON DAY
    19 5 n fails CJiJP c-. brated at the R8£ n T> m P^ 263, bv IC** As-
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    Jap cameras sell "like hot cakes"
    140 5 Free Pres s Staff Reporter l APANESE cameras, said to be "just as good as' the German Leicas, are selling like hot cakes in Singapore at prices ranging from $140 to $200 each. Some are reported to De improvements on the Leicas, containing many
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    PACIFIC AIR FARES CUT
    94 5 BRITISH Common wealth Paciile Airlines has announced a cut in fares from Sydney to London ▼ii the United States. The general manager of BCPA In Australia said the new fares, no* in orce, are £327 single and £589 return, insteid of £358 single and £650 return.
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    Taxi owners are worried
    376 5 A SCHEME for the gradual elimination of taxis of pre- 1945 manufacture has been submitted to Singapore Municipal Commissioners jointly by the Hire Car Association and Taxi Transport Association. This arises from the decision of Municipal Commissioners to stop licensing as taxis, after the end of
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    Rush to Join Ipoh M.C.A.
    59 5 THE rapid growth of the Perak branch of the Malayan Chinese Association was referred to at the meeting of the association in Ipoh yesterday, when Mr. Leong Tew Joh announced that since the branch had been formed only a month ago more than 10,000 applications
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    NEWSBOY IN THE NEWS
    200 5 NEWSBOY IN THE NEWS Pree Press Staff Reporter FACED with the task of having to deliver to hundreds of homes in Singapore, copies of the Straits Times and Free Press, a young newsvendor 15 years ago vowed that one day he would facilitate his work by buying a motorcycle. So
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    Hospital Week ball, cinema
    161 5 TWO events have now been finalised for the Hospital Week which is being held from May 2 to May 9 to raise $60,000 for the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. The ball at Flagstaff House, which is being thrown open for the occasion by the C-in-C FARELP
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    MALAY ART EXHIBITION
    74 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent PREPARATIONS for holding the All-Malaya Malay Art Exhibition in the British Council Hail on April 7 for four days have now been finalised. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, will declare the exhibition open. After the eUs© I at the British
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    PENSIONERS ASK MORE PAY
    92 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent rE Muar Malay Government Pensioners' Welfare Association has submitted an appeal to the Johore Government for an increase in their pensions, the Utusan Melayu reports The present pension rates are considered insufficient to cope with the high cost of living, while "some
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    Big gun battle in Segamat jungle
    269 5 Big gun battle in Segamat jungle Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. nnwo bandits were _ill- ed when Seaforth Highlanders and Police on Saturday afternoon dislodged a big bandit <**d.iii from its camp on a jungle-covered hill near -•e^amat in Johore, after a gun battle of over an hour.
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      84 5 Airmails are due to arrive in Singapore to-day from the U.K., U.S.. Holland, Slam, Chim*. Philippines and the 51. 8.1. Closing times for poaUng airmails at the G.P.O. to-day are: To Australia, Siam, China, Philippines, Batavia, Palembang and Sourabaya: 6 p.m.; to Padang and Medan: 1.30 p.m. and to Dabo
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    Ten Rounds Of Blood And Battery
    1319 6 IVfV TOUGHEST '•fight, they called it. Ten rounds of blood and battery which lifted the curtain once more on Harringay Arena after its war-time sporting black out. For people who like their entertainment in the raw that first world title fight of mine against
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    Leicester cause biggest upset
    368 6 Leicester cause biggest upset minutes' football was not suliicient to decide the Football Association Cup finalists on Saturday as Manchester I'nited. the holders were held to a division of two goals at Sheffield and so played extra time. Meanwhile, Second Division Leicester City caused one of th e biggest upsets
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    WOODCOCK IS JUBILANT
    137 6 AFTER Bruce Woodcock had knocked out Johnny Ralph in Johannesburg!! on Saturday, Woodcock said he was satisfied with the way the fight had gone. "I am feeling on top of the world and am now set for a world title fight." His manager, Tom Hurst, said Woodcock
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    YMCA FRIDAY TOURNAMENTS
    74 6 THE Y.M.C A. will hold an indoor games lightning toumanvnt for members every Friday. Entries will be accepted until 6 pm. on each day of the tournament The following fef* will be charged: Billiards 50-up. •knockout- 20 .cents. Table-Tennia Singles. knock-out; 20 cents. Table-Tenni-s Doubles, knock-out; 20
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    Malacca A.F.A. Sub-Committees
    83 6 A I the first r oui.cil meeting of the Malacca Amateur Football Association the following sub-committees were elected: Disciplinary Board Messrs. P G M O. Mahinda»«, J. P. Yap Eng le* and Tay Hong Seng, Capt. Ali bin Maldin. M B. E. and Tengku Ku^seln bin lengku
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    CERDAN v TURPIN
    34 6 HPHE Frenchman Marcel Cerdan. world middleweight boxing champion, flew to LorJdon on Saturday, from Paris to complete tr.r.nint* for his ten round nontitle fight tomorrow with the Englishman Dick Turpin A.P.
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    LATEST U.K. LEAGUE PLACING!
    758 6 P W D L F Apts Portsmouth 32 19 8 ***** 46 Newcastle 33 17 9 7 58 42 43 Derby C. 32 16 8 9 51 43 40 Charlton 34 14 10 10 54 61 38 Manch.JJ. 30 14 9 7 38 31 37 Arsenal
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    Refused licence
    60 6 HEIN TEN HOFF. who vta> have b en the first Qerman boxer to flght In thr United State* since the war. has been refused a licence to box in N w Yark After this announcement b Eddie Eagan Chairman of the New York Stat* Athletic Cmirr.i>sion. Ten HofT
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    French oirmcn v SAFA today
    100 6 THI fstttst Air lor**,. cer team from \j|. N uill pfc, si.o^ Amat.-ur l«<.ib»ll tion side jt Jalar B mt Stadium thia evrninr. (.ate (harce> «j|| br fi and "lit «ei:iv 1 lie I rem h Airrneti mi to R.A I M.»!ava bi Mil in
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    NEW TENNIS CHAMPIONS
    21 6 NEW TENNIS CHAMPIONS RICHARD U-* o i i at of Ami xor cfaMP*sh:p x .r-docr d_P* Mow fcifc* -2 M Reuter
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      159 6 MSntlrflkfi Exclusive to the Singapore Free Pres> in Main* 1 I WHERE J CALM DOWN, M^ YOU Ul I JUST RELAX. WE GOT A LONG RIDE. HH ~xr W ARE YOU I FINO OUT ALL ABOUT it I'M TIRED- NO SLEEP LAST M&HT. _L____k ttM* I THE TRUCK CARRYING N'ARDAt
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    DESERT KING BACK IN FORM
    285 7 DESERT KING BACK IN FORM Km to Vb/fev too good for rivals? Free Press Racing Correspondent F.ESERT Ki^^ t^PF* Monda^ JJCfeftJiT King (riding boy) showed impressive /T a lorm ™s morning when he beat Star God *J^ ng^ a two-furlong sprint down the straight Watch this one in the class
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    Trespasser's selections
    99 7 ADVANCE selections, subject to scratchings, for tomorrow's Koala Lumpor races are: CL J, Div. 4—5, Furs. TOBOGGAN Camelia Alabama CL 3, Div. 4— Abt 7 Furs. WHISPERING SANDS Cold Wave Demaratus CL 4, Drv. I— Abt. 7 Furs. CAROLINA Lobau Lady Lucky Tom CL 4, Div. J— Abt
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    National winner ran fast race
    426 7 4N unsung nine-year-old gelding, Russian Hero, captured the 103rd running of the Grand Na t n *le t ei l iech!kse on Satar day in a runaway finish. The 66-1 horse took the lead at the next-to-last fence to run home eight lengths in front
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    Camelia, Peter Con best bets
    1253 7 FO#M GUIDE FOR TOMORROW Free Press fUcing Cor respondent BEST form selections for tomorrow's Kuala Lumpur races are Camelia and Peter Con. Full form guide ls given below: Claas 3. Div. 4 5), Far* -43 r._TM. 3.4: Showed promise at Ipoh when she ran good
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    TEE SIANG TOO LATE
    30 7 p icture. Service, the Army goalkeeper, gathers Use ball before Tee Siang could get to tt ia yesterday's trial game at Jalan Besar stadium.- Free Press
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    New York crowd boos decision
    240 7 yETERAN middleweight Jake Lamotta won an un- popular 12-round split decision on Friday night over Robert Villemain of France and soon afterwards the Athletic Commission chairman. Edde Bagan, announced that the boot would be investigated. A crowd of 11,491 fans at the Madison Square Garden.
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    Senior League Positions
    129 7 LATEST positions of the teams in the SAP A FJenlor League are: W D Li A PIS Rovers 3 3 0 0 15 1 6 C./A. 3 3 0 0 10 1 6 RAF. Seletar 3 S 0 11 1 8 Navy S > 1 0 8
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    PRISONS BEAT MEDICS 3-0
    66 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Monday. SCORINO three goals without reply, the Prisons XI defeated the Medics yesterday in a League soccer match on the Medics' ground. Baid scored twice In the first half through centres from Mohd. SakL the right-winger, Yunan increased the lead In the second session.
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    Rain stops play in four games
    277 7 RAIN caused four cricket matches to be abandoned in Singapore and Johore Bahru yesterday but before it came some good individual scores had been put up. Highest scorer of the four games was Benny Kleinman of the S.R.C. who was unbeaten with 73 in
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    ITALY BEAT SPAIN
    28 7 TTALY beat Spain 3-1 yestti-iiv 1 tn Madrid before more than 85.000 spectators ir the 14th soccer match between the two nations A.P and U.P.
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    4 playeirs show" up in second S.A.F.A. trial
    646 7 4 playeirs show up in second S.A.F.A. trial Singapore Civilians 5; Singapore District (Army) 3. IN order to give contenders for places In ihe Singapore Malaya Cup side chances to show their capabilities, the S.A.F.A. selectors fielded an entirely different team from that which beat the Navy last week against
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    TITLE FIGHT ON JUNE 22
    136 7 UZZARD Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott meet for the world heavyweight championship title M recognised by the National Boxm* Association, at Coniisky Park, Chicago, an trie night of June 22 It was on this site and on the same date that Joe Louis won the
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    BERNBROOK FOR SANTA ANITA
    141 7 \f R A. O. Romano said yesteriTl day that he would take the Australian racehorse Bernbrook to America about August, possibly to have his first real Americaa ve- ir. the Santa Anita Handicap. Bernbrook is named after the famous Bernborough. now at the stud in America.
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    Parker takes titles
    108 7 CRANK PARKER 'USA.) wen A the men's singles of the Alexandria internatiot— l tennis cha pinrxbipt on Saturday, beatiug Pedro Massip of Spain 6-3. 6-2 Madame Nelly Landry (FTanoe won the women's title, dropping one game only in defeating Miss Joy Gannon (Britain) 6-1. 6-0 Frank Parker
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    ROBINSON WINS
    45 7 WELTD iWH 'GHT champion Ray "Sugar*' Robiaecn iiM4 lb.) threw all his punches in the first six rounds of his bout on Friday night and then fought for life to take a doee dec— tan over Bobby Lee (1484 lb.) of Baltimore- U.P.
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    NOT COMPETING
    31 7 tennis cl— n THE Argentine L»*n Tennis Association has decided not to compete In the Davis Cup tournament. Argentina were fee have played the first match against Egypt.- U.P.
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    MARRIAGE
    17 8 The Marriage between Mr. Tng Kee Hock and Miss Anne Choo Siang Neo took place yesterday.
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    DEATH
    30 8 T Francis Xavier of United Engineers died Suddenly at his house 8 Butterworth Lane on 27 3.49 Funeral took place 5 p.m. ves'orday Deeply regretted Uptountrv P?pers please Cooy
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    67 8 R K S CHAN family wish tr. thank Ma ior Wee Kah Kiat A- family for their kind assistp:.cn relative friends who attended the funeral of Madam Wee Noe Noh. Deeply regretted. Mrs. Ngoi Shang Ton and f nbßi wish to thank all relations snd friends who attended the
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    PMs. TO DISCUSS PACIFIC PACT
    376 8 New C "wealth concept? LONDON, Monday. AMONG vital subjects to be discussed at the Dominion Prime Ministers' conference, opening in London probably on April 20, according to informed quarters, are: Th e expansion of Communism in the Far East, the unrest in Malaya and Burma,
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    'SPLIT W.F.T.U.' CALL
    133 8 'SPLIT W.F. T. U. CALL LONDON, Sun. BRITISH. United States and Dutch trade union leaders today appealed to national trade union centres still affiliated to the Communist-led World Federation of Trade Unions to consider withdrawal. The appeal was signed by Arthur Deakin and Mr. Vincent Tewson. for the British Trades
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    NANKING YUAN CENSURED
    66 8 NANKING YUAN CENSURED A resolution censuring the i_ government policy of dumping gold and silver dollars on the market as a measure against inflation was moved in the Control Yuan on Saturday by Hu-en-hui and Tang Hung-lieh. The policy had not only failed to serve its original purpose of checking
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    'NO VIETMINH VICTORIES'
    71 8 A FRENCH military spokesman in Saigon yesterday denied claims to "numerous and striking victories" by Vietminh (Indo Chinese autonomy movement > in renewed warfare against the French in Tonkin (northern Indochina*. "We have the situation under control." the spokessaid. Earlier Radio Vietminh, mouthpiece of Moscow trained Ho
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    CHINESE CASH FAMINE MOVE
    77 8 JHE Chinese Finance Minister S. Y. Liu was reported yesterday to be seriously considering issuing money orders of 5.000. 10.000. 50.000 and 100.000 gold yuan denomination by the Central Bank to tid* 5 over the present acute shortage of cash The scheme is said to have
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    URANIUM IN MINE
    31 8 The Sunday Graphic; reported yesterday that large deposits, believed to contain uranium ore urgently needed for Britain's atomic researches, had been found in a Kent coal mine.- Reuter
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    Hk PHONE SERVICE
    15 8 A Hong Kong Shanghai long distance telephone service will start on Friday.
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    NEW U.K. CANCER DISCOVERY
    218 8 LONDON, Monday. EXPERIMENTS carried out by Dr. W. E.* Gye, Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and his colleagues may, according to the British Medical Journal, lead to 'the biggest advance in cancer research for many years." In most fields of research, the view is
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    ECA $ FOR WEST STEEL
    49 8 ECA FOR WEST STEEL ECONOMIC Co-operation Administration officials were yesterday considering a one hundred million dollars programme to modernise Western Europe's steel industry with Marshall Plan funds. The programme calls for buying modern ore-mining and rolling mill equipment as part of the long term plan in Western Europe. U.P.
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    Bid to raise ancient treasure ship
    128 8 BOSTON, Monday. VINCENT PALMER, 36-year-* old American archaeologist, is planning to use 1949 methods to raise a treasure-tilled Roman galley sunk off the cdABt of Tinls 2,000 years ago. The wreck of the galley, sunk I while taking looted art treasures from to Rome,
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    AUSSIE REDS' STRIKE CALL
    185 8 SYDNEY, Monday. A USTRALIAN key industries face possible heavy loss of production from labour stoppages threatened in protest against 7 the prosecution of Mr L Sharkey, Australian Communist leader, for an alleged seditious utterance. The hearing begins today. Main stoppages appear likely to occur in industrialised
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    RUHR RECORD
    37 8 RUHR miners set up postwar records in their average daily coal output in February and production increased in every other major coal producing country In Europe, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe reports.- U.P.
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    13 8 A sterling agreement between Britain and Egypt will be signed In Cairo tomorrow.
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    'Odds faveured war' says Kurusu
    223 8 TOKIO, Sunday. 'pHfc Japanese Ambassador in Washington at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Saburo Kurusu, says in a new book published today that he left on his mission to the IS. convinced that the odds favoured war. Tojo was optimistic when he
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    Rocket goes up 68 miles
    52 8 THE U.S. Navy has successfully fired a high altitude rocket from the deck of a ship for the first time and the missile reached an altitude of over 68 miles, says a report from Lima, Peru. The test was made last week "several hundred miles
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    Smuggling seizures
    21 8 The Istanbul police yesterday arrested two brothers on charge of spying for Russia on the American Military Mission.- U.P.
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    63 YRS AFTER
    97 8 AMONG more than 2.000 passengers in the Queen Elizabeth which sailed for England from New York yesterday was 96-year-old A. Vaughan Coltson, who crossed the Atlantic in a Cunard ship for the first time in 1886. He is on his way to visit his eldest daughter Mrs.
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    FIGHTING TERRORISM Listowel to see MacDonald
    312 8 FIGHTING TERRORISM Listowel to see MacDonald SYDNEY, Monday. T*HE .Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, Lord x Listowel, who leaves by air for Singapore todav said in an interview her e yesterday that he would discuss the Malayan situation with the Commissioner General in South-East Asia. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. There
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    SOVIET LEADS -IN LONGEVITY
    52 8 OLD age is the latest subject on which the Soviet Union cla ms to lead the world. There are s 29.000 persons over the age of 100 in the Soviet Union— more than any other country in the world, according to a Tass report distributed in
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    Britons cut gambling
    58 8 Britons cut gambling RH 1 I o v S N cording to the p? Committee JS lbl »nR Bun* the X* •Si '••am *™*n staked C pools. More Mrm* *ha. 00.000.000 11. 194<— ooes ro- n*3 ly indicate a decriMrrfS lere> i p__T3 mea: Ksttn xher n« J A! Poke
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    PAKISTAN PLANES
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