The Singapore Free Press, 1 April 1949

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA fff SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 1. 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 658 1 Churchill 's U.S. warning BOSTON, Thursday. ]yjR. Winston Churchill said here tonight m a speech to over 13,000 people: "It is certain that Europe would have Communised and London under bombardment some time ago but for the deterrent of the atomic bomb m the
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  • 118 1 PARIS. Thursday. r the Colonies, M. Paul te te>. Itli lht Chamber of DepuFrance was going to tir strength to Indoi ihe fight against the >.iv how many planes Infantry strength was I Aith the situation, he 110.000 French troops list 90.000 nationalists M >Niow-trained
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  • 28 1 Bandits shoot watchman ten ViiT X- porter Oi feed the 1 v tig Peng dead a and injured A Jorak ipeciaJ iM bushed ywac >vs-?rday after- i unm-
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  • 98 1 WINSTON Churchill is going to receive a marshal's baton made from a tree which "witnessed" the historic victory of his ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough m 1704. The walnut wood is being donated bj the. Mayor of Blenheim at the request of Mr. E. H. Huxley. Mayor
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  • 118 1 LONDON. Friday. CiOMMUNIST M.P.. Mr. Phit lip Piratin, asked m the Common s yesterday why the United States 509 th LongRange Bomber Group, specially trained m atom bomb technique, was stationed m Britain. The Opposition cheered Mr. Piratin's reference to a lorn bomb technique and iurther
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    41 1 Free Press photo. These lovely orchids, srown by Mr. Ng Keng Soon, are among the exhibits at the three-day flower show which opens at the Happy World Stadium today. Standing among the blooms is Mr. Ng's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ng Tah Choon.-
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  • 58 1 rpHE Singapore C.I.D. Chief, 1 Mr. E. V. Fowler, this morning again reminded the public that substantial regards would be given for Information leading to the arrest of thieves or receivers of military goods. The latest military theft is of 12 electric motors worth $2,000 from
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  • 33 1 MEWS has been received m Singapore of the death, after a game of golf, of Capt. Alec Donaldson (71), former master of the Burns Philip ship Marella, m Sydney on Sunday.
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  • 28 1 Bniain is to reduce the Government subsidy to he steel industry by £25.000.000, Mr. George Strauss. Minister of Supoly. Anno nn/ n Ix>ndon yesterday. Renter
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    29 1 Presiding officers, their clerks and others crowd around Mrs. K. Hawkins the supervisor of Election at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday after they had taken the oath of secrecy.
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  • 144 1 U.K. help for AmmanAkaba highway LONDON, Thursday. I>RI lAIN will help to build a 2>o-mile highway from the Trans Jordan lan capital of Amman to the Red Sea port of Akaba the Foreign Office an nounced last night. The project is one of s veral on which Trans Jordan and
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  • 69 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THIRTY American round-the-world tourists who arrived m Singapore last night In the President Monroe, lost no time this morning m setting out on a tour of the island. The majority of the pas- sengers were retired businessmen who have been around the
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  • 201 1 BATAVIA, Friday. Fj^IVE battalions of the crack Republican Siliwangi Division, which the Republican Government pmployed to put down a Communist rebellion last September, have joined the Dutch forces m Pasun dan, West Java federal state, under a truce agreement, a Dutch Army communique announces.
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  • 47 1 LONDON, Friday. FILMS shot by the Malayan Film Unit showing antiterrorist operations by two British military units m Malaya have arrived by air and were shown to the trade yesterday. They were received with enthusiasm and will be widely shown throughout Britain next week.
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  • 16 1 Switzerland will not make any move toward joining the Marshall Plan at present.
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  • 162 1 WASHINGTON, Fri MR. Winston Churchill has denied that he fought for Spain against the Un'ted States m the BpanUh American war. Mr. Churchill telegraphed the denial to the chairman of i the Senate fore gn Rein' ions Committee, Mr. Tom Con- nally, who read it
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  • 43 1 Singapore Police yesterday rearrested a Chinese ex-detec-tive who a few days ago was arrested for housebreaking and theft but escaped from custody. A police spokesman said the man was being escorted by two constables, when he j suddenly bolted for freedom.
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  • 27 1 Two Chinese, alleged to be members of the Malayan Communists, and two alleged to be secret society men. were artested under the Emergency Regulations yesterday.
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  • 230 1 No more UK war goods for Reds LONDON, Friday. OKITAIN has extended the list of poods of potential military value which she will not allow to be exported to Kussia and certain other countries except by licence. This order becomes operative next Friday. At the same time, it was disclosed
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  • 42 1 Aijuur 5.U00 member* <>i the Australian Wharf Labourers Union who struck on Monday m protest against tnp sedition trial of Australia s Communist leader were back at work yesterday. The majority of the 23.000 members ignored the strike call. A.P.
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  • 82 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Fri 4 USTRALJA and India yesJ\ terday asked that the 20-month-old L?utch-Inaone-sia dispute be taken up at the session of the United Nations General Assembly which is opening on Tuesday. The assembly will not be able to make recommendations on the tangled problem unless the
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  • 147 1 P.I. holds up Aussie aircraft TOKYO Friday. REARING Philippines 1 reprisals ovei the Gamboa case. Australian authorities are working out alternative routes over which the Qantaa service to Japan can !>* continued. Four routes hay»- been suggested: '1' through Singapore and Hong Kong: <2) through Guam < which would require
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  • 113 1 ■|UiE British Coionij.] S^crrL tary, Mr! Arthur O Jones, told the House of D mons yesterday that 4.0<. til the people under detention *n the Federation or Malaya md Singapore on Jan 21 had mad^ objections to th A vlsory Committees. Latest available Lnf or .nation
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  • 24 1 Yesterday 33 people re arrested m the Federal! m »tl m Perak. seven m Pahani. two m Selangor and me m Trengganu.
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  • 55 1 4 SPECIAI Market «orr«->p«o-dent five* the pn.c> of rubber tin cents per lh at 1! a.m f4mj as follow* Ba.Ters. Seller*, No 1 R.S.S. Spot. lomc 3C 1 U\ lob. m bales Apr. No. 1 R.S.S. 3«'a U% Urn. l R.s> 34 .u^ No. 3 R.S.S. 32 S
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  • 257 2 by Our Woman Fashion Expert IJEGGY Jannings fJfissJ :•> one of the most striking girls m Singapore, mostty, on first sight, because of her hair which is gleamingly and profusely red. When the eye has recocered from the first shock it has time to notice that
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  • 422 2 of sex as part of general health education should begin m the nursery school. It should continue so that young men and women respect a code of conduct governing the relationship between the sexes— before they are married. The old taboos on sex-teaching should go. These
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  • 915 2 Diary Of A Singapore Doctor Hypnotic Hypodermic JLfOND: Many simple Asians here have enormous faith m the hypodermic syringe. They often come into my surgery jabbing their upper arm with their forefinger to indicate that that is what they want. If I asked no questions, made no examination and simply
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    332 2 WITH btr<rrjth m the other v suit*, West properly opened a trump, hoping to cut down the ruffing power announced by North 'B return to four hearts. Declarer captured East's ten with the Jack, and crossed to dummy's spade ace to lead a low club. The ten was
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  • 83 2 CHY adolescents at Waterloo Grammar School for boys. Crosby, Lancashire, baik at the prospect of beina examined by a woman medical officer, the Lancashire Education Com rnittee has reported. It was the second time m a year members had been reminded of the X) ness
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 125 2 F*P. Crossword No. 653 I I 12 I pH 14 I 15 I 16 I »S' P Lx^a^^^Mß^H HB^^ CLUES ACROSS 1. Siadium (12); 7. Sun-helmet (5); 9 Elephant driver (6r 13. H? If -open (4); 15. Hinder (5): 16. Cabbage (4); 17 Sign of the Zodiac <9>; 21. In
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    • 5 2 Solution To Crossword No. 652
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    • 805 2 SINGAPORE Special Dispatch (BBC); 6.30 ed m Sport" 7.30 Background to News News Analysis <BB<?>. Australia 7.40 Radio Austra(Bl.l'E NETWORK) 6.45 Indonesian: News Prog- lias Variety Bandbox 8 Sonata 484 and 41.7 metres. rammes. 7.15 English: News Recital— A programme for the Emergency news from K.L. Commentary; Farm and Factory:
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  • 56 3 NEW YORK CIVIC REFORMER R n multi-millionaire civic reformer surb% r»-p.>rt»>r> a% he leaves the New York District ,nt\\ Oflivr He appeared before a Grand Jury .m ilk^t-d wire tapping plot against city htriir-r hr »aid h»* had been offered the amJuM^hip «»f Tnmcr if he would iaj off" his
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  • 93 3 Armed Force s claims that the >rld m germ warfare. Research without having the fantastic effect buted to them, germs can be a cheap m! means of warfare." Sec- V Forresial. •ale s nation. hat I OUi vied ef- > war. I Waitt. :.:cal I
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  • 77 3 TH X ghost O B.nton (Durham) churchyard appeared m court and pleaded guilty to causing a breath of the peace and was ordered to pay court justs. Poii identified the ghost as Derek Signey. 17. They «aid he swathed himself m white muslin, donned a luminous
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  • 31 3 I>lhi will remain the capital Of India and the Government has no intention of having a summer capital elsewhere, according to Mr. N V Gadgil. Minister of Works.
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  • 66 3 LABOUR officers from 18 British colonies will begin a three-month course m industrial relations on Apr. 25. The officers will include Europeans and representatives from Singapore, Malaya, Nigeria. Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Keyna. Uganda. Tanganyika, Northern Rhodesia. Nyasaland. Leeward Islands. Cyprus and Mauritius. Jhey will study
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  • 30 3 H.C church attacked The official Soviet trade union newspaper Trud has denounced the United States Catholic Church as one of the most active instruments of Americans seeking world domination U.P.
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  • 416 3 UK LEADS EUROPEAN RECOVERY A year of Marshall aid A the M«r g h 7^ the U S Congress approved th/rl S^ a U u Plan to hel P Eur °P c sin <* then whirh ?i^ Un u ts h l Ye lost round m ever y country m
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  • 73 3 IRAN has announced that It had protested to Uie Soviet Embassy m Teheran against an unprovoked Soviet attack on an Iranian^ frontier post m which one Iranian was killed and two were taken prisoner. A Government spokesman said the Russians refused to release the two
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  • 222 3 rpHE eleventh national congress of Komsomol Communist Youth League began with a warning that "all religion directly contradicts science", and alleged that flaws had occurred m the teaching of social sciences m the Soviet Union. Stalin was elected honorary president And his son. Maj. Gen. Vassily
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  • 302 3 *T»HE 27-years-old Duke of Edinburgh refuses to be 1 a docile clothes-horse, and his independence of spirit is worrying the tailors of England. The tailors' notion of an ideal Prince, is a handsome young man willing to wear gracefully and conspicuously all the clothes they design
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  • 73 3 lAPANESE whaling fhvts «J have wound up the season's Antarctic expedition and are returning home with 54,500 tons of whale products. Gen. Mac Arthur's Headquarters announced. This is 7,400 tons greater than last year. Two factory ships processed 1,654 whales during the three months' expedition. About
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  • 224 3 THE U.S. Navy thinks it has overcome the most dim- j cult problem of living and fighting m the Arctic-keep-ing warm. Its scientists are perfecting a new simple gadget that saves 80 percent of the body heat normally lost by breathing, and turns 70-below-zero cold inhaled
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  • 27 3 The Egyptian Government has annourced that archaeologists had unearthed four ancient burial chambers dating back to 700 BC at Sakkara. 15 miles from Cain U.P.
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  • 52 3 THE British licensed Berlin newspaper, Telegraf. has claimed that 12 munition plants m the Sovi<»i. zone have been turning out light and heavy arms for the Russians at full pressure. The Russians were "erecting a defence line north of Berlin under cover of their Spring manoeuvres.
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  • 308 3 T'HE possibility of 'push button" warfare m the A near future was debunken m a recent speech by the chairman of the Canadian Defence Research Board, Dr. O. M. Solandt who said the day of the infantryman would probably not pass before the end of
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  • 14 3 Robert Mitchum, the film star, came out of prison A.P.
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  • 33 3 The closing session of the Arab League Council m Cairo has urged Arab delegates to the U.N. Assembly to support the proposal for the independence and unity of Libya A.P.
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  • 451 3 "AF all the many fin e divisions under me m the war none was finer than the Highland Division" declared Field Marshal Montgomery speaking at the 32nd re-union dinner of the 51st (Highland) Division m London. The 51st, h e said, was th e only infantry
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  • 201 3 FRANK LOYAK WEAVfcK, 22-year-old Australian married to a Japanese has taken over his life's name because "the Japanese have treated me far better than my own countrymen." I want to demonstrate that the only thing Australia had done for me is to persecute
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  • 58 3 rpHE Yugosla C v^m-mlst 1 Party pap^r. "Borba." accuses Cominform countries of playing into the hanis <>t "impenalisLs" with their war of t nerves against Yugoslavia. It said the Comintern s an* -Tito campaign 'is only thr beginning of trag.c consequences for the whole of the democratic
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  • 52 3 JAP STAR FOR HOLLY WOOD yiNORU TAKADA. popular Japanese screen actor, has been invited to Hollywood to play a role m the 20th Century Fox production "Three Came Back." according to the Japanese press. The picture i s based on a novel of Borneo prison camp life by Mi>s Agnes
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  • 665 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, April 1. 1949. SYRIA PUTS TIME BACK THE ii&htning coup by which Col. Husni Zaiin has seized the reins of government m Syria is a serious blow to the efforts of Dr. Ralph Bunche to bring peace to Palestine, because it puts back into the
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  • 738 4 'Politics won't alter the Chinese trader...' By HENRY BOUGH HONG KONG: QPTIMISM m the future of Hong Kong, whatever the political situation m China, was expressed by the Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Mr. P. S. Cassidy, at its annual meeting. He said that whatever the
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  • 479 4  -  GEORGE IVANOFF-MIMJIEFF K> QNK of the major tasits China faces as the civil war is drawing to an end is the restoration of her railway system, reduced to a rubble by eight years of the war against Japan and three years of the civil war, and the
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  • 848 4 He 's tired of seeing films PEOPLE MAKE NEWS {{OLDER of one of the most difficult jobs m Singapore, the Official Film Censor, Mr. JACK EVANS, has seen more films m one year than most people see m a lifetime. He leaves on Monday for a six-month holiday m UK
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    52 4 I quota. Chuck is certainly a boy for ice-cream— he's said to have eaten 20 m a single day Here he gets to work on an ice-cream cone pro ferred by hi s keeper. Thick snow ov the ground ioesn't deter Chuck iroundhog at Columbus, Ohio, USA Zoo, from demanding
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  • 166 4 NEW DELHI: 4 SEARCH for oil is underway m four •.areas of India, whion now imports more than M per cent of its re qiiirements. The geological survcj of India is making detailed geographical and geophysical investigations m Cutch and Kathiawar, *v the west coast,
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  • 902 5 $6 MILLION FOR NEW TRUST HOUSING Not enough' Robertson Free Press Staff Reporter THE W 000^00 housing programme of the Singapore Improvement tioned™y tie ii^Lj hlch .»,^.000,000 Government loan was sancart"san? ouarw K e "^"-^vers the construction of £n\Sd T iSL nil, d h ?P* la Kampong Silat, Alexandra, Henf^l
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  • 34 5 festival ills on :ounci .rurally I Hock Brown account visiting daj m n before notice legend Ing" are rifl be points and the :oned .rested i- says ::c en rate by tions, flow
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  • 18 5 Ny !s sale of he es- Isaac :row. 1 at ita of a rings, f- j pen-
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  • 26 5 The St. John Ambulance Bngade. officers and N.C.O.'s class will be held at Brigade headquarters. Stamford Roai. at 5.30 p,m, today.
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  • 314 5 Free Press Staff Reporter pHE British Labour Party was showing evidence of an awakening sense of the interdependence between British workers and workers m the Colonies, vice President of the Singapore Labour Party and its Municipal election campaign irganiser. Mr. F. Thomas, told the Free Press
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  • 153 5 F. P. Chinese Correspondent TWENTY THREE cinema halls m Singapore, including the Capitol, Rex, Cathay. Alhambra and Pavilion, have offered to give 25,000 Chinese school children a free treat to celebrate the Children's Day on 'April 4. Some of the other theatres are located inside
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  • 111 5 CLAUDE RAINS gives a- magnificent performance m The Unsuspected, which opened for a season at the Pavilion last night. Theme of the film is murderby a man so devilishly cunning that he remains unsuspected by the people at large. For a film like this to be
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  • 165 5 MORE than 100 unqualified Chinese school teachers will sit for an entrance examination for the Teachers' Training Class at the Gan Eng Seng English School tomorrow under the supervision of Inspectors of Schools. The Teachers' Training Class course, the third of its kind sponsored by
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  • 225 5 PROGRESSIVE ATTACK ON LABOUR Free Press Staff Reporter rILE declining to participate m a debate proposed by the Labour Party, the Progressive Party through its president, Mr. C. C Tan, delivered a fighting speech at a campaign meeting at Yock Eng School yesterday. The speech was directed mainly at Labour
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  • 467 5 Anti-TB law in Colony is not enforced pictures. Free Pres s Staff Reporter IN and around the city square RafTle s Place, then are no fewer than 20 notices warning the public against spitting but nobody takes any heed. In th« laws of the Colony, there is a chapter itemising
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  • 65 5 AT eight o'clock tonight, representatives of the Progressive and Labour Parties will broadcast an eve -of -the -poll appeal for votes m tomorrow's Singapore Municipal Elections. The broadcast will be from Radio Malaya's Singapore station only. The results of the election m each ward will toe broadcast from
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  • 51 5 111. Tan Hock San. torm-r Singapore Veterans' Badminton champion, collapsed and Gita while playing m a friendly match m the Victoria School Hall last night. He wa* 48. Mr. Tan was one of the most active veteran players m the game and had helped to coach many
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    • 75 5 Airmails are due to arrive today from the U.K., Africa, China, the Philippines and the N.E.I. Closing times for posting airmails the 0.P.0. to-aay are: to Australia. Burma, Siam. China, the Philippines and Medan: 6 p.m. and to Batavia and Da bo Singkep: 4 p.m. Surface mails are expected to
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  • 657 6 Criticism m Council Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUiMPUR, Thursday. THE Mentri Besar of Johore, Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, m the Federal Legislative Council today, described the British gift of £5,000,000 as "a flea-bite" "niggardly" and "lousy" and expressed the hope that the High Commissioner,
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  • 122 6 JOHORE, BAHRU. Thurs. X^O special constables. Raja Othman bin Raja Sulaiman and Oeoh bin Othman, who were convicted at the Assizes on a charge of rape, were told by Mr. Justice Lavllle that their offence had been aggravated by the fact that each of them carried
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  • 279 6 'Should be grateful Newboult REPLYING to the criticism*' of the British gift of £5.000.000. the Chief Seer*, tary Sir Alec Newboult said, tnat the live million pounds wa s a quick spontaneous and unconditional gift with a promise that if things In the future "should not pan out as I
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  • 52 6 APPROVAL for the floating of a $100,000,000 loan was given at yesterday meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. The Financial Secretary, Mr. W. D. Oodsall, declared that It would probably be necessary to raise the whole of the loan this year, and not $60,000,000 as he
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    81 6 All the Unofficial members and several Official members of the Singapore Legislative Council attended a dinner m the Cathay Resturant on Wednesday night m honour of Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, Commissioner of Lands and Chairman of the Rural Board, on the eve of his retirement after 34 years' service.
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  • 112 6 Woman bandit shot dead in Muar KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. IN the Muar aiea of Johore yesterday a section of tht security forces patrolling the Buklt Dinding area taw a Chinese man and a woman running out of a house. The man was captured and the woman was shot dead when
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  • 345 6 LONDON, Friday. IT is less than one week to Britain's Budget day and the continued upward progress shown b\ prices m the London Stock Exchange results from hopes of some tax reliefs, says Reuters financial correspondent. Rubbers md tins made further gains yesterday. Leading industrial equities were
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  • 157 6 THE new Labour candidate for South Ward. Mr. ('Mean. Kirn Bee making -li* first election address yesterday criticised the current tales of deposits required by the Municipality for the supply of water and electricity as unusually high." Mi. Cheah originally 'ntended to stand as an Independent,
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  • 40 6 A 19-year-old Eurasian, Maurice Paton pleaded guilty m the Third Police Court yesterday to stealing a wrist watch from a room at the R.A.F. Changi quarters on Wednesday. He was granted $100 bail pending sentence on April T.
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  • 187 6 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE Unilever 45 3 Lyoiig "A 1 5\ Mcx Eagles M Mcx > 14 3 J P**rak Hydro 11 6 Roan Anielop <uu 1 i 3 Rolls Royc« ju M 3 Sh«ll 'uu i 3 3 16 —1 32 Turner New til iuu.) 77 I 3 SI'BBEK Anglo
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  • 35 6 £10 million from U.k. to dateGurney i I proposals f or JJ*** He til!* 1 I in:;> DDT m P i log:< i! fthCMJ ml' piarnlLf thi-i g-coun* T\i tm irintf to •nd for srholf
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  • 62 6 1,000 BAIL Bj c i z\ 000 WAi granite w>Go:.Hu S-ng. vta appeared k »l» s^v ad p Coon fcMli on a (.'hargp :*.it>i fals^ declaration to tb»- Coo- -<»ign ExctMfl n applying for hart «r- Ooh It *as a!W*d. «HW ed U. 5.51.380 for tin- M tation of hair
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    • 184 6 IfldnQrdKß Exclusive to tho Singapore Free Pr<>*> m Malaya I I BUT LJ WE FI6GEREO YOU'D CALL I I OUT OF U THE GUN'S EMPTY. DON'tI I AWFULLY NICE OF YOU 1 1 ARt-ARS t iJTur^r** WH> 3 MANOAAKE FIRST THING/ MY WAY-Jl THINK I'D LET YOU TAKE TO DROP
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  • 572 7 Too early now to gauge strength JHE first tournament m cricket history m Sinra~ni 1 r «i Wl !L S^ art *K On Sunday when four matches will be piayed m the first round; the fixtures wili be S.C.C. v. Johore on the Padan*
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  • 113 7 j :rt i cn> K.uing Correspondent i»mUing lush-bred mare, made her failure on Tuesday when she i win on the Malayan Turf at htiLumpur \t-Nterday. by Eilery, she was second i c field turned for home. She got the verdict after a photoI :i for. Another
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  • 52 7 I*HE Sinhalese Association crick. t team against Catholic Your.g Men's Association on the C.V.M.A ground on Sunday will [be: Wijewera leapt). C. Seneviratne. J. N. Fernando, C. Fernando. Bob Peiris. Mayo Pereira. Van Royan. O. de SUva, T. V. Brohier. L P. S. Rajasooria. "Leo Fernando. Twelfth man:
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  • 106 7 INTER -SCHOOL sport m Singapore- is m the charge of a -ommittee comprising 'he sports masters of the leading schools— I RafTles Institution. Anglo-Chinese S»hool. St Joseph's Institution. i St Andrew's School. Victoria i School. St. Anthony's School, and Ist Patrick's School. An observer from the English
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  • 58 7 ArEAM drawn from tfit Singapore Chinese Football Aaocnation will provide the oppposition for an SAJ.A. Malaya Cup Ulal side at Jalan Be^ar Stadium next Sunday. This will actually be the fourth tryout before the selection of the Singapore Civilians' XI for the opening fixture m
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  • 1353 7 Form guide for tomorrow Free Press Racing Correspondent BEST form selections for tomorrow, the fourth and last day of the Selangor Turf Club MarchApril Meeting, are Free Frenchman and Blank Spec. Punters generally shjiua fare better as all horses running have shown their current
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  • 26 7 "DOBBY Locke, South African golf champion. has entered for the British open golf championship to be played at Deal. Kent, m JIII3 Reuter
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  • 59 7 THE olicwir.g will repre.-ent the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club against Singapore Recreation Club 2nd XI at 2.15 pm. tomorrow, on the Padang at cricket Low Kee Pow (capts.» Lav Hock Chye. Eddie Fung. Chua Keo Meng. Oan Kee Tian, Ho Teng Bin. Uan Fook Chocn. Ong Torg
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  • 22 7 A meeting of th« Singapore Chinese Football Association Council will be held at the Garden Club, tomorrow at 2 pna
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  • 18 7 GLOUCESTER WIN 22- 3 pLOUCBSTER be»t Blackheath by 22 points to 3 m Ruabv Union fixture j-esterday. Reuter
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  • 259 7 B.A.F. Seletar 6; Tamil B.A 1. RA.F. Seletar, by scoring an easy victory over Tamil Brotherhood Association m their S.A.F.A. Senior League fixture yesterday moved up to second place m the League table. In fact they hav e the same number of points (eight)
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  • 93 7 SELECTIONS, subject to scratching, for tomorrow's races are: CL. 3, DIV. I—6 F. FREE FRENCHMAN Hariman Kentucky Derby CL. 3, DIV. 2—6 F. LINKSHIR Silver Star My Bachelor CL. 3. DIV. 3— 6 F. GARNFAIR Chita Gypsy Boy CL. 3. DIV. I—9 F. BLANK SPEC The Grand Abbot
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  • 230 7 The Rest win Johore Bahru soccer trial Free Press Staff Reporter JOHOKE BAHRU, Friday. A VIRTUAL Prisons Department eleven met the Rest m the second district soccer trial here yes* terday evening. The Rest won 3 2. Dollah Don was again unable to turn out, owing to an injured ankle,
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  • 108 7 JOHN Carey, Manchester United and Eire rightbuck has been voted the Footballer of the Year" by members of lik- British Football Writers' Association. He will be presented with a statuette on the eve of the F. A. Cup final on April 30. Winner m
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  • 59 7 AT THE annual general meeting of the Golden Arrow Badminton Party the following wen elected office-bearers for 1949. President, Mr. Mohd. Yatim; secretary, Mr. Francis Tharmarajoo; treasurer, Mr. Jaafar b. Ritwan; sports captain. Mr. Joseph Pereira vice-captain, A. Raman b. HJ. Sirat; internal auditor, Mr. Ivan Scully:
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  • 77 7 pAIRYLITE Badminton Party have elected the following office holders for 1949: President, Mr. K. T Govindan; Nice-presi-dent, Mr. A. K. Pillay; hon-secre-tary, Mr. O. Balakrishnan; treasurer, Mr. M. R. Hider: convenor, Mr. Ismail bin A. Rahim; committee members: Messrs Yusoff Samat. Tan Teck Llm and Llm Bian San;
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  • 23 7 T'HE Middlesex County Cricket Club reported yesterday that j it had made a profit of £4.787 In the 1948 season. A.P.
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    • 167 7 LUNCH TIME PROCRAMME SATURDAY "^^iK^ THE HACKMAYER TRIO 1230 P. M. TO 3 P M. 1. Chinese Bodyguard Intermezzo T keM 2. A Flood of Waltits Selection 0. Fetrat J. Notte Sorrentina V. Monti 4. Raimond Overture P. Thomas 5. Chanton Triste p. Ttchaikowsky 6 Flower From Hawaii Selection P.
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    • 63 7 Today's Sport LfcAULL SCKCLK: Snr. On.. RE ME. SC-C— J Be sar; Jnr. A. Grp. 2. rjjet S.A v. Ind«ne>ia l>g* B Thomson Ed Jnr. B. Grp. I A.A.C. Sg*o» Gey lane; Jnr B Grp I. Roe* Ikes W. C\¥.M.A <*>7*-* MA. gmd., St. Georges M FRIENDLY SOCCER: J©IL l»ds
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  • 39 8 McILVEAN: At Prestwick. on 2«th March, to Anne, wife of Dr. Dowlas Mcllvean. a son. CLARK: At K. K. Hospital. r><\ March 26. to Betty, wife of R J. C. Clark, of 8.0.C Chauk, Burma, a Mn John.
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  • 126 8 THUBRUN: At, ie < General U .soital. Singapore. 31st March, fi vn malaria. Thomas James. de»rly loved husband of Mildred J. Thubrun. Interred at Bidad>ri 5 p.m. yesterday. \1« TAN HOCK SAN. age 48. oc the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, passed away suddenly and peacefully fti 9 .).m m
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  • 462 8 Atlantic pact] 'necessary 9 WASHINGTON, Friday. PRESIDENT Truman, at a press conference yester- day, insisted that Congress should provide the full U.S $5,580 millions sought by the Administration for the next 15 months of the European Recovery Programme, adding that the move by two senators
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  • 59 8 MOSCOW. Fri. fIiHE Soviet Union has an 1 army of 100.000 scientists, the president of the Soviet Academy of SciencesProf. Sergi Vavikov. told the Communist youth conference m Moscow. He urged the younger generation to supply new talented reinforcements." Science m the Soviet I'nion. he said, has
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  • 144 8 NKW YORK, Friday. THE omniunist conspiracy trial jury was told that American Communist leaders were re^ponsible for a 1941 strike at the Milwaukee Allis Chalmers plant and that Ui purpose was to shut off munitions for Great Britain. Eugene Dennis, General
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  • 49 8 HUNDREDS of West Berlin Germans were seized by Russian military police and Soviet controlled German police m sudden raids on Beriia suburban railway stations and trains yesterday. The roundups were con-ducted-ostensibly to rheck identification papers. But only residents of the blockaded Western sector were seized.
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  • 66 8 OUSSIA and its Cominform satellites have quietly withdrawn their ambassadors and ministers from Yugoslavia m a diplomatic boycott of their former ally. The boycott came to light yesterday when a poll of Soviet. Bulgarian. Czech. Rumanian and Polish Embassies and the Hungarian and Albanian Legations revealed that
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    79 8 pholo. Princess Margaret is o«*rr s»*en wearing an Mifbcfl trimmed off-the-fac* bat with a corduroy coat when she paid her second »isit to the House of Commons last month. She has visited a number of British institutions recently, including Scotland Yard, a juvenile court, and the Old Bailey. A. P.
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  • 54 8 THE Frencn National Assembly last night -"ailed upon the Government to put petrol on free sale from July 1. The Assembly adopted on a show of hands a resolution requesting increased p 'trol rations for April. May and June and to do "everything possible" to end
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  • 71 8 LONDON. Thursday. BRITISH medical chiefs have mapped out a large-scale campaign aimed at wiping out tuberculosis m Britain m nine years. The first step will be to inoculate thousands of volunteers m "black spot areas with BCG vaccine which, tests m Europe hare indicated, will
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  • 216 8 BONG KONG, Friday. \f ACHINE gun fire from the shore prevented the i? Butterfield and Swire ship Hanyang from reach ing Tangku, the port of Tientsin, last Thursday. The captain of the ship which returned here yesterday, said that the firing was due to
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  • 53 8 JV£W YORK, Friday. iRSOLD KARKOWER, a 33-year-old lawyer, said last night that he is to marry Kathleen Windsor, author of "Forever Amber" within a week. He first met her when he represented her m arranging a property settlement m her divorce from Artie Shaw, the
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  • 39 8 1 GROUP of Senators has called on the U.S. Senate lo investigate charges against Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director Df the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that he has /iolated the law by taDDine elephone wires. U.P
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  • 193 8 ORITAINS food m 1950, according to a Govern■^J^S? will cost the nation £36,220,000 Tood trading Urrent yeai S deflcien cv m state The estimate shows that Ministry of rood purchase!, freight and storage will coat £1.521.006,000 m 1950 The Food Minister Mr. John Strachey,
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  • 27 8 MOSCOW. Fndai r THE Leningrad Zookn Institute report* second discovery within a month of a huye fleshed prehistoric mammoth m Rusmin krHuuaste* U.P.
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  • 52 8 U.S.-IRAN ARMS DEAL THE first shipment* ot surplus arms which Iran tf buying from the U.S are m being delivered to Persian Gulf port*. More than 50 planes and a "few" light talks are mi m a $26,000,000 (US' dea! to supply shortages of the Iranian army and force of
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  • 22 8 X proved the am. i agreement with Tran> and the signing ceremony viU take place at Rhodes w week-end- U.P.
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  • 64 8 INTERNATIONAL TRADE BODY THE British Board of Trade President. Mr. Harold Wilson, yesterday predicted that an international trade organisation would be set up by the end of this year. He said that the organisation might be preceded by a meeting of 35 nations to be held at Annecy, (France i
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  • 13 8 ixewiouncuand, Britain's oldest colony, yesterday became Canada's youneest Drovincf A.P. A.P.
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  • 69 8 THE Greek Communist, leader, Nicolas Zachariades, m a broadcast over the guerrilla radio, said yesterday: "We are informed that the United States Is preparing to send troops to Greece. Let them send them We are not afraid." The Communist leader added, however, that 'his troops were
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  • 72 8 THE head of Britain s largest sugar company said yesterday that its board of directors would "not meekly rtmain m office" if the industry is nationalised. Lord Lyle. president of Tate and Lyle Ltd.. said, "I shall say nothing about rumours except that we will never
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  • 50 8 THE chairman ol the British 1 Cotton Board, Sir Raymond Streat, recommended yesterday that a joint AngloAmerican cotton industry deputation should visit Japan's cotton Industry and propose action m relation to it. Sir Raymond was speaking at a luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce. Reuter
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  • 146 8 OCEAN CITY (New Jersey), Friday JOSEPH BOWLING, 75, was a J frugal man, his acquaintances said. He ate one 80--cent meal a day until he died of starvation three weeks ago -with U3. $500,000 In the bank. Even his relatives were astonish ed at
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  • 46 8 MARKED lack of follow -throufn demand and modest profit taking In the New York Stock Exchange yesterday easily depressed prices fractions to one dollar Pressure was light but buyers were reluctant and prices fluctuated narrowly around the day's worst. The market closed easy.— Reuter
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