The Singapore Free Press, 31 March 1949

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, THI RSDAY. MARCH 31. 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 221 1 No let-up m Indo-China SAIGON, Wednesday. FRENCH operations against, Chinese Communist 'Invaders" and local rebel elements at several points along Ind*>-( hina's northern border with China were reported here today m a French Far East Command communique. A column of troops ;md aircraft were mopping
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  • 60 1 GURNEY ON U.K. GIFT x >n»*r BSr tile i 4SK-C r the ."OS mated j .ded I ded j .\rd r the the Re i -he rcf*. anJ. -s&ary •ad d»--r 1 not MM .ndeed in-. L- t :j nq -.hat reposed i .-."lority I i C3nr i x m
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  • 37 1 S K Nuff K^ porter > i wo- :^>- Arille at•ur men .-1 and a emitter Muar i 1 ,^'if Royal -frday -y ga W Jt Of t I *oc« *fu»ed L shot I ■?>■-.
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  • 15 1 JJjB MatT Keportfr f^VMPVR Tnurs, G.verncon- aD:j I an r>r ex- Federal asm
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    31 1 picture. Mr C. W. A. Sennet. Connnmsioner of Lands. Singapore, at a dinner given m hi* honour last night to mark his retirement from Government service. Free Free Press Free Press
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  • 14 1 Two Chinese were arrested yesterday m connection with the theft of arras.
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    45 1 Russian Hero looks tired as he scores his 66 1 victory at the Grand National at Aintree last Saturday. He won the gruelling race by eight lengths from Roimond <?•!— 1) with Royal Mount (18— 1) a length away. Only ten of the 43 starters finished.
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  • 89 1 Free Press Staff Reporter UP to Mar. 18, $5 035.904 was collected m Income tax m the Federation. Of that $1,843,834 came from individuals, $2,980,831 from registered companies, and $202,239 from 'unclassified" sources. These figures were given m answfrs to questions by Mr. D. A.
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  • 151 1 RANGOON, Thursday. RANGOON police were yesterday told to stand by after adherents of the pro-Communist White Band People's Volunteer Organisation had kidnapped some policemen. This followed persistent rumours that P.V.Os. from t.^e interior were massing outside the city for large-s-ale infiltration. An official statement said the
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  • 54 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO Europeans m civilian clothes, after threatening a Chinese taxi driver with arazor, tied him up and left him m his vehicle m Woodlands late last night. They took $7 m cash from the driver, and also the ignition key. after destroying
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  • 242 1 Free Press Stall Correspondent KI\LA LI MPI'R, Thursday. CONSIDERABLE number of people m Malaya' accumulated wealth as a result of collaboration with the Japanese, while others were sufficiently astute to make money m the normal course of business, says a report placed before the Federal
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  • 46 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rK)L'R Chinese toughs held F up an old Chinese man m his house m Koon Seng Road last nig bt but because they stole his spectacles he could not see them well enough to describe them to the police.
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  • 50 1 Free Press SUIT Reporter An Indian turned from the sth mile Bukit Timah Road into Dunearn Road to go home last night, and walked into five Chinese who robbed him of $53 m cash, a fountain pen and his identity card. One robber pointed a revolver at him.
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  • 22 1 During screening operations near Ourun m Kedah yesterday out of 350 persons screened 13 were identified as ban dit supporters.
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  • 21 1 The Singapore c.I.D. arrest ed a Chinese secret society 'gangster and another Chinese who used a forged A.P. form
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  • 312 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE re-laying and completion of the East Coast railway line should not be held up, declares the committee which examined the details for the proposed $100,000,000 loan. The bill authorising the floating of this loan comes before
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  • 38 1 Mr. Winston Churchill was guarded by police, Federal agents and Scotland Yard detectives when he arrived m Boston yesterday for a three day visit. He will give an address expected to be of world importance.- U.P.
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  • 52 1 THE Opium Revenue Reserve Replacement Fund stood on Dec. 31. 1948, at $45,606,598. This is invested m Perak River Hydro-Electric 5 per cent cumulative preference shares of £1 each, totalling £850,000, and £4,470.769 m gilt edged securities, it was stated m the Federal Legislative Council
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  • 36 1 The House 01 commons yesterday agreed m principle to a bill enabling the Minister of Transport to carry out the provisions of the 1948 international convention on safety of life at sea. Reuter
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  • 168 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. MONEY has been made advailable from the general reserve of the Colonial Development and Welfare j Fund to render the broad- casting service of the Federation and Singapore mo»*e attractive." A Government tabled reply to a question by
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  • 198 1 NEW yokk, Thursday. PORTUGAL and Iceland yesterday decided to join the North Atlantic alliance as the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, arrived m New York m the Queen Mary for the signing of the alliance m Washington next week. Mr. Bevin told pressh'en i that
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  • 16 1 There were 42 arrests m the Federation during the past 24 hours ended yesterday.
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  • 381 1 Why no Hong Kong paymen t M.P.s QUERY WAR DAMAGE LONDON, Wednesday. OPPOSITION M.P.s todaj questioned Mr. David v Rees- Williams, the Colonial Under- Secretary, about the different attitude adopted by the authorities m Hong Kong towards war damage compensation compared with that m Malaya and Borneo Replying to Mr.
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  • 100 1 LONDON. Thursday. RRITAINS Racecourse Betting Control Board, operators of the totalizator, made a surplus of £490.000 m 1948. Allocations of .surpluses are decided by Home Secretary, Chmer Ede. He has agreed ttat the latest distribution shall be 1222,840 40 the fund for iht improvement of
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  • 98 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs THE Government White Pa- per embodying proposals for a unified health service to iikely to be puolished m May. The delay has been due. says the Government, to the necessity for considering recent representations to the Secretary of State
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  • 52 1 SPECIAL Market corrotp**dent fives the prices of rubber (m rent* per lb at 11 a.m today M follow*: But»t«. SeJton. No 1 R.S.S. Spot loose S€\ SY lob. m bale* Apr. Tone of market: Quiet. N«. 1 R.S.S. U\ 37 No 2 R.S.S. 34 54-, No. S RS
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  • 737 2 2 books tinged by red shadow TWO of this week's books or their authors have been touched by the red shadow of Communism. Willa Gibbs, an Ame- < rican with all the Trans- < atlantic earnestness, all < the modern schools J careful but distasteful emphasis on the physical aspects
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    21 2 Glamour on parade m South Africa. A passing-out picture of South African Airways hostesses after completing their training course m Johannesburg.
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  • 1108 2  -  DAVID BRIGGS By no place on earth safe WASHINGTON: "IT S.S. United u# States", the world's largest aircraft carrier known to the U.S. navy as "the first great warship of the atomic age", vyill be a veritable floating airbase when it is completed early m 1952.
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    375 2 T'HJE slam bid was ambitious b> about the difference between the Jack and the queen or spades In S oath's hand, or a fourth spade m North's hand. But the contract could, and should, have been made. That It wasn't was due to declarer's taking the wronjj finesse.
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  • 252 2 LISTING THE BEST FILMS OF LAST YEAR HOLLYWOOD: T»HE Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced that 51 films domestic and foreign, were named on 15 separate lists of "the 10 best pictures" for the year 1948. All of these lists were published m the United States, by various
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    • 101 2 DOMESTIC PETS The Book of Dog Edited by Brian Vesey Flt«gerald $25.20 A Golden Treasury of Dogs (Ac Anthology devoted to Dogs) by Anna Redlirh 7.50 Th» Dog Owners Guide 'With Photographic Illustration of 60 Breeds) by Eric Pitch DagUsh 4.50 Dogs m Britain by Clifford L. P. Nubbard 12.60
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    • 267 2 RYTFYSD SINGAPORE (BLUE NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from X.1.. at 10 a.m. TODAY 10.55 to 12.00 Schools 1 Broadcast; 1.00 Radio Orchestra; 1.3Q News; 1.45 Dance Music; 200 Commentaries from Selangor Turf Club; 6.00 Programme Summary: 6.02 Children's Programme; 6.20 Calling All Hospitals; 7 00 News; 7.10
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    • 248 2 Council meeting; 10.00 "Grand Hotel"; 10.15 Voices m Harmony; 10.30 Dance Music. BFEBS (Singapore) (including bbc Krtaji 19 Metres, t* Metre*, tl Metre* and 4« Metre* TODAY 445 English: Programme Summary; News Headlines; share M/u-ket Report; 5 00 Eileen Joyce at the piano; 5.15 Famous Names: 'Sir Joshua Reynolds'; 5.80
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    • 118 2 May 9.30 Australian Artists Perform 10. News 10.10 Light Orchestral 10.15 Women's Newsletter 10.30 Music for Millions 10.45 Australians on Record Oe- j off Brooke Ac Harmoniques 1100 News. RADIO CEYLON (S.E.A.C.) 1984 Metre* «no SI 51 Metre* TODAY 4.55 Station Open ng and Programme Summery; 6 Matin c«; 530
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    • 129 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are a bundle of contradictions. Your natural preferences run to the arts and sciences. But, since you are capable of infinite detail work, you are too often put m some routine job. Guard against this, for as you grew older, you will regret that
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  • 440 3 H.K. attack on Minister DECENT statements by Australian Immigration Minister, Mr. Arthur Calwell, on the "White Australia** policy were "at best fantastically illogical and contrary to all known facts, and at worst might be held to constitute criminal libel," th e Hong Kong Standard
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  • 40 3 8, 000 German 'world Citizen' is i, quired 8.000 i lie old own of •en days. a.her. head ktlKO .f -he apwere i-.nen and no a.-^ini; i> uorld igec from •i Ocr- tenth 'a as a ■I of them A.P.
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  • 121 3 Canadian Communist 'offensive /CANADIAN Communists are \.t out to place key men In Parliament this year. At present no Communist sits m the Canadian Parliament. But Tim Buck, leader of the Canadian Communist party, called the LabourProgressives, says* candidates will be entered m dozen selected constitutences." The daU of Canada's
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  • 84 3 INDONESIAN leaders 111 Dutch-controlled Sumai.a have urged that their island be 4iven a bigger voice m moves lor establishing a sovereign United States Indonesia. Seventy-nine delega^s from 12 Sumatra sta'es under Dutch control met m their first conference *s guests of Dr. T. Mansur. htird
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  • 194 3 WIN*, that President Truman had cut nexi \ear S MOMf budget so low that it endangered nalecuritv. the chairman of the House Armed 5 i nmmittee. Representative Carl Vinson v, urgrd the House Appropriations Committee to the military budget by V.5.51.600 millions. :s to me that we
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    55 3 Prin.p -lar-are. with >>or 21-year-old lad> -m Wait S?^jS^«J«n.»«lvtal the Central rnn.n. Court londSnafterhp,rin a cas. In which wo me., were chared with the itlrmptert nmrdrr of po!«r office^ Thh was MM of several vis.ts pan rei-p.-i h ?kI Princess to BMtisli in^'tntir is. She h*v ;»'r*^d> Uited ParUament, Scotland
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  • 24 3 Governor Arge Santayana ol Quezon province Philippines has reported that unidentified submarines had appeared renoni\v off Luzon s east coast. AP
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  • 187 3 FLOGGING of prisoners, a form of punishment abolished or dying out m most countries, has been revived m Canada as a means of combatting a serious outbreak of gang violence. In one day, seven youth. were sentenced to prisor. terms ranging from two to five years
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  • 30 3 ECA LOANS TO EUROPE MOUNT I mly that 51.001 c > 8 rang, eca J >Aid that by loc ns I 597 i 700 It year's i la^oni both loan.^ U.P.
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  • 272 3 U.S. scientific aid for Mexico rubber SCIENTIFIC cooperation be--5 tween the United States and Mexico to promote the growth of Hevea rubber trees m southern Mexico is reported m a new technical bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture. Mexico has long been a producer of rubber from Guayule,
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  • 44 3 une oi ivorea s leading churchmen has been arrested under the National Traitors' Act on the eve of his scheduled appearance on the same platform with the Korean Republic President. Syngman Rhee, In honour of Korea's leading ant i- Japanese martyr. U.P.
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  • 219 3 pLANES may oust cattle drovers m Australia's vast northwestern "Outback" where the great beef herds roam. In speeding beef to hungry Britons, the first step is an ambitious scheme to airfreight sta-tion-killed beef from th e heart of the West Kimberly mountains for shipment overseas
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  • 55 3 FHE Canadian Pacific Air lines are expected to start i third Pacific air service m July from Vancouver to Sydney via Auckland. The other two are those of Lhe British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines an of ihs Pan-American Airwa,'s linking Australia and New Zealand with the United
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  • 149 3 SYDNEY County Council' chairman Mr. J. O. Cramer says that Australia will be at the mercy of Asiatic peoples unless coal production is m creased. "Coal production is no greater now than it was m 1939 m fact, production underground has decreased," he said. The Financial editor
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  • 312 3 THE recent announcement by the Governor, of Hong: Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham, of the impending retirement of the Colonial Secretary. Mr. David Mercer MacDougall, has led to a widespread press and public agitation that he be requested to reconsider his decision. Seldom, if ever, m Hong
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  • 102 3 ABOUT 4.000.000 Indians m the Gulf of Cutch area are facing a famine because of a rainfall this year of only half-an-inch instead of the usual 12. Isolated by swamps and jungles, the area can only get relief by sea from ports down the coast, but food
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  • 46 3 NO UPRISINGS, SAYS TITO MARSHAL i. usgovenu, »t has denounced as deliberate and senseless lies recent reports of uprisings and unrest m Yugoslavia. It was the first official notice that the government had taken of the reports which included statements of purges and troop movements U.P.
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  • 23 3 The Royal Navy has launched the first ship of its newest and biggest destroyer flotil>a, the 2,610-ton Decoy, at Glasgow. A.P.
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  • 397 3 Strong bid to win London for Tories LMCiHTY political amazons will be m the forefront of the impending Batlte for London", m which Conservatives will next month try to wrest control «tf the world's biggest city from the Labour Party. They are the women candidates m the London County Council
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  • 45 3 PRESIDENT Qumnos cabi- net has adopted a new policy to protect Filipinos m import trade. The cabinet agreed that 20 percent of import quotas reserved for allocation to new businessmen under present regulations will be granted exclusively to Filipinos. A.P.
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  • 62 3 PATENT SYSTEM FOR JAPAN The Far fitirrn Uwuni*sion has announced the establishment of an effective patient system m Japan m a broad policy decision which assures full publication ol all patents m Japan and pi vides for the restoration of Allied -owned patent rights, lost during the war. The commission
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar. 31. 1949
    • 355 4 LITTLE news comes out of French Indo-China, but rhat little is extremely disquieting, for on the heels of the announcement that France has completed nego- tiatien* with the ex-Em-pcrrr Bao Dai for the! cr.juion of an autonomous Viemam Republic comes new* that Communists from Kvaaftaafc
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    • 238 4 I NOVELISTS and film scriptwriters will have to conjure a new and more accurate picture of the Malayan planter and business tuan. libelled for years as a whlsky-swillln* adventurer, with a useful gift from the story -tellers' point of view of getting Into awkward corners
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  • 764 4  - Hindu women may win divorce by new law R. SATAKOPAN By NEW DELHI: THE 150 million Hindu women of India may receive personal and private rights that their Western sisters have long taken for granted through a revision of the Hindu code now before the Legislative Assembly. Law Minis tor
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  • 20 4 And the fruit of j i righteousness is sown m place of them that make peace. James, 3, 13.
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    3 4 WHO'S fNCItCLINC WHOM?
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  • 290 4 UNDER the patronage 01 Queen Mary, Britain s Ninth Antique Dealers' Fair the third Fair since the war will be held m the Gre*t Room of Grosvenor House, London, from June 9 to June 24. There will be 10U exhibit- TS well known to all connoisseurs
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  • 906 4  -  POLITICO BY A POSSIBLE -and certainly not improbable result of Saturday's Municipal election may be Progressive Party control of the city. The Progressives have a can didate for each of the 18 seats, and the party machine ha s fought the election with a vigour and
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  • 757 4  - A peep into 15th century China M. T. LEONG By HID you know that the Chinese made the first compass m the world? A tiny one of wood, the centre of which is replaced by a modern compass with peculiar characters known only to ancient Chinese scholars, and relics ranging
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  • 62 4  - Presses rush out notes Shanghai EDDIE CRIGHTON By capable of tiSS? GY1.500.000,000 T3l hours Bit the not? beg*nd (or ta* c«^ a down i flooded bask i ord« rs r "-a^ an I O:. me: :peW bank V Issued 0Y440 nOO.OOO. I» ance c -»ri* »as made neccs tra: R
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    • 13 4 S^jMiERY &E<ksifv<t tM MAMFACTVtm MM 76 YEARS REPUWION I ill AoO* f Pt»4.S*
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    • 89 4 CONCERTO IN E FLAT (Mi <•' Eileen Joyce (Piano) H Conducted by Leslie Hewar<* DX 8178-80 §tff- i) CONCERTO FOR OBOE A OF^ Leon Goossen (Oboe) A PI Orchestra conducted by DX 8301-OS TRIO No. I IN G (Haydu» .5 Eileen Joyce. Hoist F.. TRIO IN A MINOR < Brahms
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  • 78 5 L fre* stafl Ef ffa $3204.359 is one I* -re to- 100,000, t by the •cc on CTnid reported for gfljn b;. FedFfJJ^. ondl at r :-ing. alsc c counsupple- I Federal <: 12.716 i ment ap- the i.r.pe. and s for U Payments •p. gtv.n t $21 p«r
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  • 80 5 K. porter is 1 a meetx o"clock Chinese 0| X2a ng Road. Party candiPw r _Dr .< James h will! i nt of! g?.*r C C Tan. will There will be two other elec- tion meetings today. Mr. Cheah Kirn Bee, Independent candidate for South Ward, will hold
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    44 5 picture. The World Y.W.C.A. Secretary, Miss Elisabeth Palmer, is seen addressing the Rotary Club and Inner Wheel meeting at the Adelphi Hotel yesterday. Next to her is the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, and on the left is Lady Gimson- Free Press
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  • 266 5 Free Press staff Reporter T St interim re P° rt of th e Singapore Salaries Kevision Committee, recommending a higher pay code for Municipal servants, may be referred to the new Municipal Commissioners who are due formally to take office on April 6, the Free
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  • 128 5 Ab a result of the visit to ft Singapore of the financial secretary of the Society for :he Promotion of Christian Knowledge. Mr. E. W. Bishop. :he Society is selling all its books at prices based on 43 :e.its to shilling, and 48 cents for other
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  • 112 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A REPORT on the working of the artificial limb factory m Kuala Lumpur is to be submitted by Sir Sydney Palmer and Mr. Khoo Teik Ec to the Executive Committee of the Central Welfare Council. Sir Sydney said that the whole project
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  • 41 5 Members of Radio Malaya's "Forum of the Air" tonight (8 o'clock) will be Lady Hone, Mr. Justice Taylor and Mr. Allington Kennard. The guest member this evening will be the Air Commander-in-Chief, Far East, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd.
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  • 39 5 The passing-out parade of No 94 Squadron RAF. Regiment, Malaya, will be held at Sembawang tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. Air Commodore H. J. O. E. Proud, A.0.C., R.A.F. Maintenance Base, Far East, Seletar, will take the salute.
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  • 65 5 rriWO more bandits were hanged yesterday morning a' I Johore Bahru prison for the possession of firearms and ammunition. This brings up to 55 the total number of bandits hanged since the be pinning of the emergency la The UI men executed yesterday morning were Pek
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  • 227 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CREELING that there Is a real need for the Mothers Union In Singapore today because of the incidence of child delinquency and many other problems affecting: married life, about 20 women have got together to revive the Singapore branch of the
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  • 42 5 The detailed results of the 1948 Cambridge School Certificate Examinations have arrived. Private candidates may call at the office of the Examinations Secretary to copy them, and candidates from Government and Gov-ernment-Aided Schools may obtain them from their schools.
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    41 5 Free Press EAWRSETWA Detective Choo Kit, of Selangor, receiving the Colonial Police medal for gallantry. In a close range gun duel m Kajang, he killed the leader of the Selangor M.P.A 8.A., Lav Tew, and a high executive among the terrorists.-
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  • 341 5 BRIGHT FUTURE, SAYS EXPERT Pineapple canning industry But great deal to be done Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE Malayan pineapple industry during the next few years would be able to raise pi induction to two million cases a year and could make an even more important contribution
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  • 240 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OAR GAIN hunters thronged Robinsons for the first day of their 16-day sale yesterday. During the day 8,000 people visited the store. An employee was on duty at the door of the store all day checking with a hand adding machine the
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  • 124 5 SHORTLY after a military to guard entered a camp at Y?o Chu Kang Road. Singaoore, one of three occupants of the camp picked up a rifle and was holding it at his waist when the gun went off. The guard who was hit cried )ut. "Why did
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  • 49 5 Because he did not like being stared at, 29-year-old Chua Choon Seng assaulted an ice-vendor with a gimlet. In the Fourth Police Court yesterday, Chua was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for causing grievous hurt The incident took place at West Hill Road on March 23.
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  • 30 5 Mr. Walter Fletcher, niober merchant and Conservative M.P., will broadcast over the Bine Network of Radio Malaya tonight at 7.10, immediately after the 7 o'clock news.
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  • 35 5 Members ol Base Workshops, R.E.ME., are to give a show "Oh Cleo" In their camp at Ayer Rajah Road on Saturday night. Repep.*, performances will be given on Monday and Tuesday next week.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 75 5 A.. mails are due to arrive m Singapore today from the U. 8.. Holland. Australia, Siam and the N.EI. Closing time for posting airmails at the O.PO. is: to the U.K., U.S.. Africa, Holland. Ceylon, Batavia. Palembang and Sourabava: 6 p.m. Surface mails are due to arrive here today from
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  • 196 6 Radio talk IN a radio talk last night, Dr. Andrew Morland, tuberculosis specialist of University College Hospital, London, said that fines should be imposed to control spitting on the street, pavement, or floor. If the penalty were enforced from time to time, and cases
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  • 53 6 For stealing six egg*, a Harbour Board labourer, Lim Joo Seng was sentenced yesterday to one day's simple imprisonment and fn.ed $25 by the Third Police Court Magistrate. Mi. R. J C. Wait. Lim was arrested outside a godown and the eggs were found In
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  • 160 6 COMMUNAL RELATIONS 'NOT SO GOOD' AN observation that intercommunity relations In Malaya were now "not so good as pre-war' was made by Mr Maurice Freedman, a Colonia Social Science Research Council investigator, m the course of his talk on "Impressions of the Chinese people m Singapore" at the Mayfalr Muslca
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  • 322 6 riMiK question whether a L monthly tenancy can be assigned to a third party by a tenant was raised m the Singapore High Court yesterday m a case m which Mr. Soon Smug Poh. managing director Ol the Spot Radio Company, of Orchard Road,
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  • 112 6 PICTURES of the fir^t SinI gapore Municipal election scenes are to be shown m Britain. The Federation Film Unit has arrived m tho Colony to take them. Election campaign meeting!, taking the oath of secrecy m the Victoria Memorial Hall this evening and i the
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  • 171 6 I> V doing voluntary work, women can help to create 13 good public opinion and influence Government action. Miss Elizabeth Palmer, World Y.W.C.A. secretary, told yesterday* Rotary luncheon meet- ing at the Ad el phi Hotel. Among those at the luncheon were the Colonial Secretary.
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  • 47 6 Another educational film show will be held a* the V.M.C.A Orchard Road, tomorrow night at 745 for V.M.C A. members and friends. The Walt Di ,ney film "Bambi" will be shown at the YMCA. hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. for Movie Circle members.
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  • 98 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. WHE Federal capital was X rapidly deteriorating into a gigantic s lum, declared the Deputy Town Planner for the Federation. Mr. T. H. H. Hancock, at the Rotary Club luncheon meeting here today. There were now more than 10 000 temporary structures,
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  • 57 6 SEGAMAT Wed— Alleged to have cheated three Indian labourers at Oomali Estate, Haron bin Wok. a special constable, stood trial before the Sega mat Sessions Court President. Inche Hamid. yesterday. It was stated that Haron Induced the Indians to give him money as licence fees for their
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    71 6 piciure. Above are the three special constables who were decorated for gallantry against bandits (left to right): Krishna Bahadur, who was on leave m Sun gel Pelek. and walking with Mohamed bin Mat (next to him) when they were attacked by six bandits. They killed two of them.
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  • 237 6 Buying greets new account LONDON, Thursday A FAIKLY general buying movement gav e most sections on the London Stock Exchange a vet firm appearance at the start of the new account yesterday, says Reuter's financial correspondent Rubber and tins shares made further Fains. This account will include the Budget and
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  • 276 6 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE I*6o-90 113 5 16 —1 ;*> Wai 3 v°l4 104, RAILS Can Par < £5' IB BANKS Chart rt-d (£5 pd.» w> Hongkong t|l2s» 103 Mercantile £25 1 (£l2 pd i 24 East m iff) 8 IXSIRAS( I Com. Un <uto> io\ Prudential A 32\*>x d:\ Royal
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  • 93 6 Free Press Staff orres,w ln w A SFADItt Guard; patrol!^ hills near Ampan R sj x mile^?^N Lumpur, this afternoon killed an a J^? The patrol went out from ('her, morning and last ni«:ht laid an Ll^ suspected bandit suppl> mute Us|j «i They
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  • 30 6 The Lak Aik Amateur Musical and Dramatical Association will stage a Gua Ka:i* performance and publish a souvenir magazine m May m celebration of its 20th anniversary.
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  • 32 6 Urges action on police welfare I r»-»- Pr«sv Mifl rjrrsfmJ LUMPI 4 rES ":0N ta# a .A I j up I J j 1 j j j j j had a( Of
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  • 51 6 rmtm MALAYAN I «lm < ft* I 1 set foot m a cinema tor Ihen< v >«n J tfc ij Mr. Evans, who leaves b> air on lone I on Monda>. said that he would -P^d hl hfr th*^ vilUgr of Ham on the River
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    • 257 6 mdndrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Pre*> m Malaya H I I WHERE (lON CQMpO, JUST OFF The] I -JUST OFF THE PIKE. I'M AFRAID II I GOOD WORK^NAROA.U OH/ THE T .n,C? r<o J,,0,» > 1 A ft L.m? AM I f PIKE. THE ONLY FARM THEY WILL BE
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  • 449 7 SELECTORS CALL BACK F. SWIFT Changes made m England XI ENGLAND S selectors have recalled veteran *rank Swift of Manchester City as goalkeeper for the team against Scotland m the international championship match at Wembley Stadium on April 9. The selectors, who rely up«l a team of welltried soccer stars,
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    51 7 picture. i looked well set for victory as they Lirifef b> 1 ieneths at Hammersmith Bridge m l\*silt Bout Race from Putney to Mortlake last Satur- for supremacy, (am bridge i the sap went ahead to score a thril- r t m riualh the last few yards of the fonr-miu
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  • 19 7 frt i iUtf Reporter I Dft- the goal *zrd. tne fine oblcd up v -v -o r. ler.tal-
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  • 361 7 Chinese Casuals I. 1 [thin? wa> ne\er m doubt when Rovers met Rjßfse Ou.iln m a Senior Division S.A.F.A. Uvesterdav at Jalan Besar Stadium. It was f m I game gave them their fourth i Casuals it was their third i successive defeat. The 3
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  • 215 7 WORK on the new entrance road at the Island Club ha s been sarted and the plans for the proposed new building are now being prepared, it is revealed m the report for 194fl submitted to the annual general meeting held last evening. New
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  • 75 7 T IGHTWEIGHT BOXER Billy J Cornwall of Des Molnes. lowa, died of heid Injuries suffered In a bout with Tote Martinez on Tuesday night. Martinez floored Cornwall with a right-hand punch m the ninth round and Cornwall's head hit the canvas hard. t It was
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  • 70 7 •pHE ollowicg players will re- prsent the Malay Sport* Association, Singapore, In a badminton match against the Lucky Star B.P. on the M.S.A. courts on Sunday at 8 a.m.: Singles: A. Sujak (captain), 3. Mansor. All b. Hamld and K. Yadt Doubles: Bakar Aljaru and Abdullah Haji Ahmad;
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  • 30 7 ON MDA IS FAVOURITE I I I McV golf I"""" I I Tugot, L ...ppir.es V year. New F»" .r.e cr*»am C*»wi pr:.'%sional g«lf IJV -o win 'ralia's I :**d.
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  • 30 7 :;<tno. Satur- H* ha> wrestltof World months In fight m a win r-call put »t^sS*Wr'-ing bill i Pindar, the W; :^t with m«mb« d oj •v. Smith. X < Chlr.*
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  • 26 7 FROM POLITICS T 0 GOLF i^SA waun reL't^; Ea^ord. New W.>7 ted ton on the CJ^mock. Eire, the -p. Urn 1 g the WOMI Cup Rritam.—
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  • 10 7 Singh. M V Scxa su,nh kr *J and Warden."
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  • 126 7 QNE-SIDED soccer was seen at Thomson Road yesterday, when Police Sports Association trounced Aston Athletic Club 7—2 m a Junior B. Group 2 S.A.F.A. League fixture. Arthur Lim scored for the Police, but m no time Montelro equalised and the Police went on to score two more
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  • 189 7 TRAINERS of English soccei League teams, casting envious glances at the exalted positions of Portsmouth. Southampton. Swansea Town and Hull City, are wondering whether there is more m it than mere coincidence that the leaders of the respective divisions all come from seaside towns. Many
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  • 28 7 ORISTOL beat Cliltoc by 11 points to 8 In a Rugt)y Union match yesterday. la a Rugby League fixture Warrirgt^»» trounced Bellevue Rangers 32-0 Reuter
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  • 183 7 HENRY Davis an ex-Detroit, Negro won a unanimous decision over the bantamweight j champion Manuel Ortiz, m an overweight bout m Honolulu on Tuesday night. Davis weighed '25 3 4 lb. OrUz 124UOrtiz, won a disputed decision over Davis last May. Davis wa~ ohead o! '■ha
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  • 190 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. rB Van Breukelen stable confidently expects to bring off a double at today's races here with Jack Druce n and Lena Dear. There has been no rain during the past 24 hours, and the going has Improved, although
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  • 123 7 MERRY Union BP. defeated Everglow B.P. by six gamei to one In a friendly match at the Happy World Stadium. Detailed results (Merry Union players mentioned first): Singles: Lim Kirn Peow beat Wee Thlam Bock 14—14, (3—2). 15-12; A. Sujak beat Khoo Bee Chuan 15—6.
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  • 48 7 yESTERDAY'S U.K. soccers results were: Third Division Southern: Torquay United 1. Port Vale 0. Third Division Northern: Hull City 2, Tranmere Rovers 0. Irish Cup Semifinal Replay: 31entoran 1, Portadown 1 (no extra time played) Association Match: Royal Wavy 1. Royal Air Force I.— Reuter
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  • 49 7 BOSTAM Hall Kurshl. holder of the Malay Sports Association (Singapore) tends title was beaten by I. A. Alsagoff m the open singles final, the scores being 6—l, 6—l. In the senior doubles semifinals, A. Kamls and Ismail Ads beat A. Hamid Kasslm and Abu Nairn 6—l, B—6.
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  • 37 7 A JUDGE has ordered the city of New Orleans to correct its records to show that the three boxing Doc use n brothers, Bernard, Maxle and Regina, were Caucasians and have no Neorro blood. U.P.
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  • 26 7 rpHE Dutch middleweight boxer Job Roos of Rotterdam outpointed the Belgian middleweight, Rene Kockaert,' In tcfi-round bout In Rotterdam on Monday niuht A. P.
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  • 1354 7 TOD A Y'S FORM G UIDE ACCEPTANCES Donnellv): Won good race over 6f. with 8.5. Form Selection*: J PRATTLIN 2. Royal Eajrle. Kan -acceptor: Kerry's Luck, 9.0 Carnival Time 8.7. Race 6— cl. 4, Div. 2— 5% Furs. §01 Lady Ruth 9.0 (Dawson): Has not raced for some time. Winner
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  • 117 7 JACK KRAMER, former Wimbledoo champion, last night struggled for nearly two hours against Bobby Riggs, his fellow American, before winning 7—5, 5—7, 10 8, to record his second successive win over Riggs m tbe indoor professional lawn tennis tournamem, at Wembley, London. Riggs showed a
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  • 104 7 'PHE Alabama Stud N S W paid 3.200 guineas for the brood mare Yanowinna at 'h*Newmarket Woodstock sales rrt cently. This i£ the highest price for years for a brood mare at Nevcmarket. The mare has had a colt by High Peak (Imp.). Highest prices
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  • 55 7 JIMMY MARSDEN never mnd v a match of the Morley rugby team until he died at the :u--of 79 and he will be with the boys even m death. They scattered his ashes on tie playing fleld yesterday as a ia t mark ot respect for the
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    • 268 7 TRESPASSER I EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER MOST FAVOURED SELECTION RACE 1 ATOM BOY ATOM BOY ATOM BOY ATOM BOY 2.30 Bitter Sweet Wirra Young Clem Coldstream ATOM BOY Peggy g Choice Flying Capricorn Graceful Spear Wirra RACE S MOONSUNSTAR LENA DEAR GOLDEN GATE LENA DEAR 3 00 Baroda Prince
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  • 39 8 ON 28/3/*49. at General Has- pital, Joiiore Bahru. to Joy. I wife of Kuok Hock Nien, a daughter. BAISTER To Dorothy (Dolly) n— Hassall. wife of P. M. Ba ister. on March 27th. m Capetown, a son fMichael).
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  • 68 8 THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between Simon, second s.vi of Mr. Mrs. D. J. Ellas. of Singapore, and Janet, youngest daughter of Mr Mrs. C. Currel of j Laiuieston. Stirlingshire Scotland, j THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Thomas Graham, only son of the late Mr. T. Ftettitt and Mrs. Johnson
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  • 28 8 THUBRUN: At ttie General, Hvspital. Singapore. 3 1st March, ft m\ malaria. Thomas James. dMrly loved husband of Mildred J. Thubrun. Interment at Bldadaii 5 p.m. to-day.
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  • 450 8 Mid-East told: 'Hands off LONDON, Thursday. QYRIAN President Shukri El Kouatli and his Cabinet ministers were arrested and taken to a military prison three miles outside Damascus m the Syrian Army's lightning coup early yesterday, according to latest reports reaching Amman, capital of Transjordan by
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  • 80 8 rpHE Singapore Civil Servict x Association gymnasium hall Is now available for badminton practices. To mark the opening of the court, a tea -party will b« held on Saturday at 3 p.m. The handicap singles final between Yap Chin Hee and Ng Liang Chuan will be
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  • 43 8 r THE proposal to invite a HongKong all-Collegiate football team during the Holy Week, April 9—19, for a series of rive games against college and university teams m Manila was approved by the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation yesterday- Reutet.
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  • 83 8 DR. Soerkiman, leader of the powerful All-Muslim Masjumi Party, has been permitted to return to Jogjakarta. The Masjumi Party is made up of Right-Wing Republicans. Dr. Soerkiman wa« Interior Minister m the cabinet of Premier Mohamed Hatta until "the Dutch overran the Republic last December. He escaped
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  • 224 8 LONDON, Thursday. T*HE deputy Conservative leader, Mr. Anthony Eden, 1 who returned yesterday from his 69-day, 40.000--mile air tour ot British Commonwealth countries, said, m reference to the Malayan terrorist movement, that 99 per cent, of th c population are opposed to the insurgents"
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  • 76 8 VINCENTES Indiana i. Thursday. U.V.Vfn/ PACE, 18, who iX told the police he had put poison m the family voffee pot because his father would not let him use the ?ar, icas ordered detained m police custody yesterday. Five members of the family, including the
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  • 111 8 RICE CONTROL TALKS WASHINGTON Wed. rwMiE representatives of 18 1 nations will meet m New Orleans on April 10 to decide whether international controls on rice should continue beyond June 30 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said It would also discuss the unsettled political conditions m the Far
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  • 75 8 LONDON. Thursday. TWO hundred members of Parliament of all parties urged the British Government last night to take the lead In reviving the long dreamed of plan for a tunnel under the English Channel between England and France. They tabled a resolution asking the Government to
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  • 108 8 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR Thurs rpHE Federation Government 1 does no* consider it de- i'.rable to lift the moratorium until the titles to land (occupation period) legislation ha s been enacted, it was; dialed at the Federal Legislative Council today, m reply to a
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  • 23 8 FACTORY BLOW S UP Two people were killed and 15 injured when an explosives factory at Trafaria. near Lisbon, blew up yester- A.P.
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  • 124 8 DALLAS (Texas*, Thurs. ANGUS MITCHELL of Melbourne, President of the Rotary International, is an honorary Texan now and can outbrag the natives. "We have 130.000.000 sheep down there, our eucalyptus trees are as big aa California's redwoods; my country is bigger lhan Texas, and we do not
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  • 106 8 The first of 22 CanadairIV planes ordered by the British Overseas Airways Corporation was officially handed over at London airport yesterday. The plane reached England from Montreal. Eight observers of the United Nations Kashmir Commission, six from Mexico and two from Norway, have arrived m New Delhi.-
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  • 113 8 ARQME, Thurs. SUDDEN war rumour caused a market place riot m Bari, South Italy, yesterday which had to be quelled ov police. Word of an imminent war ii culated In the market place yesterday morning. This soon changed to 'war will be declared" and then "Bari
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  • 63 8 rt King has appointed Fairbanks. Jr.. the film actor, an honorary knight Commander of the British Empire (K.8.E.). The British Consulate at Los Angelas said: "This award is understood to be m recognition of his untiring work on Dehalf of AngloAmerican amity, particularly as chairman of
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  • 145 8 LONDON, Wednesday. rpHE Dutch shipping lines waging an all-out L freight-slashing offensive against British and Indian companies on the 1 urope-lndia route today carried the "war" into Britain They announced they were sending five ships In the 7,000 to 8,000 tons class, to pick up raigoe.3
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  • 183 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday /CONFERENCES to be held within the next 10 days A m the United States may shape th e course of 1 world affairs for years to come. Envoys of Western Europe aacr c converging on the U.S. for the signing of th e North
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  • 52 8 LOS DOS. Thursday. IJRITISH shoe manufacturers. seeking to work out new methods to ensure precision fitting m shoe*. art sponsoring scientific foot surveys. They have sent foot surveyors into factories, schools and offices through F land to measure the fet thousands of children anil adults
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  • 45 8 RUSSIAN soldiers and German police last night pursued three German women into the American sector of Berlin and carried them off. It was reported that shots were fired. It is believed they were smuggling food from the Russian zone- A .P.
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  • 65 8 gets "active" REMOVABLE plastic wallpaper may provide the answer to the critical problem of radioactive pollution, an Oakridge chemical engineer told the American Chemical Society of San Francisco yesterday. Dr. Carleton Jealous of the National Laboratory at Oakridge said some laboratory units have been equipped with plastic
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