The Singapore Free Press, 2 April 1949

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1949. PKHE 10 I'KM*
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    NEW MUNICIPAL PAY PROPOSED
    850 1 Committees report Fre« Press Staff Reporter :||I(»HER scales of pay, with a bigger initial basic of $80 a month, rising in some cases to |sdo and $600 a month, are recommended for Singapore Municipal employees working in posts classified under a new Miscellaneous Division in the
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    106 1 I Frtv Prev> Staff Reporter Ltyrirlifst would-be voters this morning Ejc Indian woman who turned up at the Erf polling station only to be told that her I ton the- Municipal Electoral Register. I rar. she protested when she I >..p. whereupon the Supervisor I UM Hawkins, told her
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    The odd job woman
    81 1 After visiting several polling stations this morning. Mrs. Hawkins returned !o the election H.Q. at the Victoria Theatte to be told that the perforators used ta punch ballot papers with the official code had been damaged at two polling stations. Mrs. Hawkins immediatel> left m search
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    SUMMER TIME
    23 1 Reuter Summer time comes into force In Britain at 2 a.m. GMT tomorrow, when clocks will be Dut forward one hour
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    4 JEWS SHOT, ARABS BLAMED
    65 1 ALL four occupants of an Israeli military car ambushed last night 15 miles west of Hebron were shot dead. The car was found riddled with bullet holes m a ditch m an uninhabited area. There was an Arab Legion post two miles away. An Israeli
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    BANDITS FLEE FROM POLICE
    48 1 Kree Pre* s Staff Reporter SPECIAL Constables returnIng m a lorry last night from Senai to Roscote Estate, Johore saw six Chinese armed with Sten guns near the boundary of the estate. The bandits ran into the jungle before the police could open fire.
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    STOP PRESS
    112 1 KUALA II MPI R. Sat. Action taken against squatttrs under the "Black Area" Emergency Regulations has had considerable effect, declared the Commissioner of Police. Mr\ W. N. Gray at this morning's official press conference. Mr. Gray said that it was not possible to assess accurately the strength of
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    Russia may quit UN because of Pact
    234 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. IN SPITE of Russia's strong protest against the North Atlantic Pact, the West will go ahead as originally planned and th e 12 participating nations will sign the Pact on Monday. A firm possibility is that Russia, to make her objection
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    AIRMEN STRIKE
    39 1 PAN-AMERICAN World Airways flights from London to Calcutta and New York were delayed last night and inward plants were not expected to arrive as a result of a strike by the Airline's radio officers m London- Reuter
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    RITA'S ANSWER
    49 1 RITA Hayworth. watching Prince Aly Khan finish second last during a race for gentlemen jockeys at the St. Cloud race track yesterday, told reporters that she and Prince would be "married within four weeks. I wish it could be sooner but we have to wait." she added.
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    Sikh dies of wounds
    31 1 A Sikh ja^a who was wounded m Thursday's bandit attack on Union Estate *t Yong Peng has since died. In the attack, another Sikh was killed outright.
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    W. Union navies in joint exercises
    148 1 LONDON. Saturday. BRITAIN. France, the Netherlands and Belgium are to co-operate m combined naval exercises this summer "to accustom the navies of Western Union countries to work together m defensive unity." the British Admiralty announces. The exercises will be from June 30 to July
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    'SACK C.-G.' CALL BY UK UNIONISTS
    146 1 'SACK C.-G. CALL BY UK UNIONISTS LONDON, Friday. A RESOLUTION of the Ilford branch on the agenda for the annual conference of the 300,000-strong Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers— one of Britain's most powerful trade unions— demands the "immediate recall and dismissal of Malcolmn Mac Donald, th e
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    WORLD'S TIN OUTPUT DOWN
    277 1 THE HAGUE, Saturday. WORLD production of tin m concentrates declined sharply to 12,600 long tons m February, 1949 as compared with 14,900 tons m December 1948, says the March issue of the statistical bulletin of the International Tin Study Group at The Hague. This decline was
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    33 HELD IN DAY
    32 1 rree Press Staff Reporter There were 33 arrests m the Federation during the 24 hours ended last nigh', ten m Selangor, 22 m Perak and one m Pahana.
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    SHIPPING STRIKE
    20 1 The Canadian Seamen's Union called a general strike yesterday against all shipping operators on Canada's east coast. U.P.
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    PRODUCER COUNTRIES TO COMBINE
    580 1 PRODUCER COUNTRIES TO COMBINE HIGHER RUBBER PRICE LONDON, Saturday. Yf OVES by Malaya, Ceylon and other producer countries to raise the price of rubber, which delegates had pointed out remain s at more or less the pre-war level and is little more than the production cost, may follow th e
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    KING GOES OUT
    38 1 KING George yesterday left Buckingham Palace for the first timf since his operation on March 12. Accompanied by the Queen and Princess Margaret he drove from the Palace to the Royal Lodge at Windsor. U.P.
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    Arabs won't talk to Jews
    59 1 jsainur. saiuraay. ARAB coifntries have officially informed the United Nations Conciliation Commission that they will not attend a round-table conference with Israel, usually reliable Arab sources said here last night. The commission considered Arab replies which, It wa* understood, confirmed their earlier rejection of the
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    Rubber prices
    60 1 4 SPtCIAL Market coctw|H»ii. dent gives tht price* of rubber (m cent* per lb.) at 11 am today as follows: Burw» Seller*. No 1 R.S.B. Spot loose 3«< 4 M< t F.o.b. m tHlm Apr. No. 1 R.S.S. 2«« X<i', No. 2 R.S.S. 34 34 >j No. 3
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    She looks after people who fly
    607 2  -  JOYCE SETTLE By 8.0.A.C. Stewardess -i WAS born at a place 1 called Haslington, near Crewe", said B O A.C. stewardess •Tommy" Settle. "I went to school m Crewe and Birmingham and when I was 16 years old moved with my mother to Hounslow
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    Try anything once....
    152 2 Try anything once.... ST. MORITZ. SWISS hotelkeepers will do almost anything for a i guest. They even tried to make it snow this winter when visitors were stubbing their skis on Alpine rocks. After weeks of pleasant sunshine but poor skiing, Andrea Badrutt, one of the hotelkeepers, decided to act
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    USA NOW MAKES SYNTHETIC MICA
    271 2  -  THOMAS R. HENRY By A PILOT plant for production of synthetic* micavital war material which the United States obtains almost entirely from imports— has been set up by the Office of Naval Research and the Army Signal Corps m America. Successful synthesis of tni s
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    Bridge Hands
    209 2 r PHERE are no trumps. South z leads. North and South arc to win sir of the eight tricks against airy defence. South rn'kea the heart king. East must discard a club or a dWmond. If a diamond, South makes the diamond ace and North the diamond kin?.
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    650 2  -  ERIC MITCHELL Former House Detective ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST uy Raffles Hotel rpHE sartorial perfec- tion of Savile Row, the tact of a diplomat, the palate of a Parisian connoisseur, the sybaritic appreciation of an epicurean, the fawning flatteries of a sycophant, the deference of a slave and
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      425 2 6.4i> .oft Lighu- iV Swrct Muwc Where They Sing" 11 Australian 7 Radio Digest 7.15 Famous News. Overture* 7SO "In Quires D&TMO PPVTryiJ Places Where They Sing" 745 *U\UIKJ V^L. I L.KJI* "National Fair" 8.20 Talk: This (SE AC) Week m Australia B. SO World News 9.30 DX Programme 9.45
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    55 3 thr Duke of Edinburgh arrive m thf judsiine of tableaux made by r the Students through the ages" < irnival. Mrs. Nora Flynn. wife of Errol Flynn, the film star, and crooner Dick Ilaymes arrive m Los Angeles from Las Vegas. Nevada. They are expected to marry as soon
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    JAPAN 'A MASSIVE FAILURE'
    354 3 J APAN 'A MASSIVE FAILURE' Bureaucracy is blamed A^SL 1 a a two billion failure m articf tS'it c Ma azine m the leading article of its April issue, published yesterday The mess n l JaPa b describtd '4 bureaucratic and S S in A Up Fortu ne" says, "Most
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    MAROONED A YEAR UNLESS...
    93 3 rpHE Colonial Office announX ces that 11 members of the Falkland Island dependencies marooned on Stonington Island, Graham Land, will have to remain there another year if the rescue ship, John Biscoe, does not reach them by April 10. The John Bisco carrying a relief party
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    'LAND OF WOMEN' FACES A CRISIS
    293 3 'LAND OF WOMEN' FACES A CRISIS BALDING, middle aged dentist may become the next constitutional President of Paraguay if he can hold out until the general elections take place on April 17. He is Dr. Eelipe Molas Lopez who boldly seized the Presidency from under the Generals' noses at the
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    RED AIR FIRE
    35 3 The ihiee Western Allies have protested to the Russian authorities against the use of live ammunition by Sovie' Yak fighters manoeuvring m one of Berlin air corridors U.P. Did killer move it?
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    SKELETON IN HOUSE' POSER
    186 3 Ima> s >^W'li»m found under rubble m the I »i "hun-h Cottage, Whalebone Corner. I df^pf"**^ l »f mystery of Constance Ada I jj-vfjr-old former actress, who vanished ten ::mk it is Miss Kent's, out its I omplicates their proolem. M:>s Kent's disappearance I ttage has
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    Swiss reject arms ban move
    91 3 TIHE National Council Lower* 1 House of the Swiss Parliament, has rejected by 3.1 votes to 46 an indepen- <-<• nt member's motion de- r.anding that a complete ban on arms exports be written into the Swiss constitution. Karl Kobelt chief of the Federal Military
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    92 3 The Executive Committee of the Organisation for European Economic Coordination meets m the Chateau de la Muette m Paris. Facing camera (on the far side) are Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. Edmond Hall-Patch (Great Britain). The Belgian Premier. M. Spaak is presiding and on his left are the French delegates
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    Ex-Nazis writing prison memoirs
    289 3 former top-ranking diplomats are busy writing memoirs m Nuremberg's war criminals prison. Awaiting the verdicts m the "Wilhelmstrasse trial", expected thi s month (April), the 21 defendants m the last Nuremberg war crimes trial lead a life of relative luxury compared with other postwar Nuremberg prisoners.
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    Little Hitlers in the making
    56 3 lf/so«vfi\ (i,ii tin > i»- iiiiii it'i i German Confessional Church leader who spent eight years m Nazi contentration camps, said m Dublin that Germans were still trying to become "little Hitlers and big Hitlers" for revenge. Germany today is no better off than she
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    'Deadline' for IRQ suggested
    105 3 THE Director-General of the International Refugee Organisation Mr. William H. Tuck, has proposed that all refugees receiving aid from the organisation should be compelled to make up their minds on their future within one year. Tuck suggested to the IRO General Council that all refugees m
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    MUSSOLINI'S NIECE
    27 3 Mrs. Rosa Mancini. niece >f Mussolini, has been charged m Florence with being a nember of a gang of counerfeiters nf Allied military currency. U.P.
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    W. GERMANY TO AID EUROPE RECOVERY
    115 3 W. GERMANY TO AID EUROPE RECOVERY WESTERN power negotiators have concluded an agreement aimed at harnessing West Germany's industrial might to the European R» rovery Programme As a series of meeting! between high American. British and French officials ended, the powers were reported to have agreed to: Reprieve between 150
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    Burma rebels hold Prome
    76 3 the White Band Pc pies Volunteer Organisation and mutineers from the B'inr.ii Rifles have joined lores m middle west Bur.r.a and n< W control an area of 300 square miles They have established *h«ir own military adminlstraii(-n and have dismissed Goveniment employers and JolUe, the report
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    NEW CHAIRMAN FOR DUNLOP
    63 3 NEW CHAIRMAN FOR DUN LOP AUSTRALIAN-BORN. Sir i\ Clive Baillieu. has o. n appointed chairman (if ie Dunlop Rubber Company. •which manufactures m U different countries and >"M--ploys a: 60.000.000 capi.al Sir Clive. at present \oo\nf chairman. hucceed«d Sir George Beharrill. who has resigned after 26 yeaj.s vitii the company
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      174 3 mdndrdkC Exclusire to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya 2?^^^^Ss^sE"^s^ IHE SAIO YOU WERE Ir l OH. WHAT I I THAT YOU M IS THAT ALL? I'M l »I I NAROA'S WAITING AT THAT FARM 7^**^^^^^ TH£ BRAINS BEHINO ELSE 010 HE WERE VERY pj ACTUALLY QUITE FOR US. THOSE
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      15 3 NAAOA'S WAITIN6 AT THAT FARM fO* US. THOSE KIDNAPPERS MAY BE J b^^^bl Br* '•B
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, April 2, 1949. FOUNDATION DAY
    635 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, April 2, 1949. FOUNDATION DAY rDAY Singapore goes to the polls. The phrase ought to evoke pictures of tens of thousands thronging the polling booth* eager, wellinformed and conscious that on their decisions depends the good domestic government of Singapore City for another year. Instead
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    India takes on the role of protecting S.E. Asia
    805 4  - India takes on the role of protecting S.E. Asia STEWART HENSLEY THE situation of virtual anarchy In Burma, con-tirmed'anti-goremm«nt activity In Malaya, lack of pro- By QNE of the outstanding impressions visitors to South East Asia get today is that India, during her 18 months of independence, has assumed the
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    This machine plays chess
    209 4 IF you can't find anybody to 1 play chess with, you might try one of those jew electronic computers developed to solve complex scientific problems. Dr. Claude E. Shannon, Bell Telephone Laboratories scientist, told the Institute cf Radio Engineers a computing machine can be set ud
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    Its beautiful but so dangerous in Saigon
    702 4 By MILTON MARMOR SAIGON: QNCJK the tropical sun has sped, this city of mingled charm and sorrow can hear the knocking nt the door. When dinner is done and most of the people who reside m this piece of France transplanted m the
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    FAITH
    29 4 U> iimHwi. and pray one for another, that ye may he healed. The effectual j fawMl vrayer «f a rlgfcti <»m nn availeth mm*. 1 JAMES. 5. _iq
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    Communism does not spell food
    1105 4  - Communism does not spell food DR. E. H. G. DOBBY by fIAMES do matter. For rases they make little difference. In pbiitics they soften facts. Political argument has evolved a most elaborate language to disguise hard facts from us. There is something more remote and therefore more soothing about a
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    3 4 SINGAPORE VOTES TODAY
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    Looking anew at China
    139 4 Looking anew at China S2.SO* a ri RBde.*cc i;" iH >B rS Harbour. Ifcnk l aM nB A rici were h££» the Japanese* s^£ I r.'< kA oO I reailv bi£ about ihe Ciaaest .va? •eidom dianoHc v: hac beec ma» fcL; khH at the an* BijtM helped the W«t?rr.
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    Free Press Saturday Magazine
    7 5 APRIL 2, 1949.
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    WHY DIDN'T HEY ASK THE VOTERS?
    782 5 WHY DIDN'T HEY ASK THE VOTERS? IH IA POTKIK Li\ Till- las! hectic ■rush ot r;»in|>;iignLfor flu Municipal Cjoos wlm-li take F^ |oiby. m a n y >v is were C| eici t >u maniEjpg m 1 Mill. To mutters, oamtis i»n the enLfcpcswru" m niany oelt wrongly. lygY km]
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    Books The Rural Folk Enjoy
    395 5 by Marian Wells ALONG the pavements of villages m rural Singapore, you may chance upon portable bookracks propped against some wall or pillar with interested passers-by glancing through the books. A page from the history of old China, a glimpse into a kingdom of the
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    Solution To A Big Problem
    707 5 QF the seven authorities who were asked for their opinions on the article by Mr Eric Mitchell about Singapore's neglected children, published m last Saturday's Free Press, only three responded. The three who have replied are the Director of Social Welfare, Mr. T. P. F.
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    Reforming teen-age wildcats
    689 5  -  PETER HILL by |JO\V would you like the job of continually having to reform teen-age wildcats—^ h i 1 d r e n between the ages of 14 and 18 who are taken off the streets and put into your care for refitting into Singapore society; children
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    An Effective Rough House
    678 6 *y Our London Film Reporter •pX M ALAYAN--4 planter David !M;intonald has just been concerned m what he describes as one of the most effective rough-houses ever screened. It had nothing to do with clashes between Fascists and Communists tn London, but was a diggers" fight
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    A Film About Malays In Love
    398 6 gHAVV Brothers have just completed their fifth film since they started making their own m Malaya last year. This one, 'which will have its premiere at midnight on April 9 at the Rex, i s called "Noor Asmara" (Light of Love) and tells the
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    African Safari For Stars
    427 6 IS there a Clark 1 Gable on the Gold Coast, a Korda m Kenya, or another Jean Simmons m Sierra r .eone? Ten British film technicians of the Colondal Film Unit who have just arrived In Africa may find the answers. For the next three years
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    TEACHING SIAM
    105 6 TEACHING SIAM 3 OIAM is to see 12 G.B. m- I I O structional films, m- i eluding Latitude and Longitude." M The Seasons," I Fishing Grounds of the I World," and "Story of a J Disturbance." They were ordered by the I Siamese Under Secretary s for Education when
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    Film slang made easy
    365 6  -  BOB THOMAS By T»HIS i s the first 1 edition of th e Hollywood language made easy, or film talk m simple translations. Here is an illustration. A so-called friend tells the producer of an epic: "Your picture is magnificent contribution to the annals of the
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    A warning to unwed mothers
    156 6 AT first she did not succeed, but Bri-tish-born Ida Lupino is trying again. A year ago she tried being a movie producer: the deal gained her a continual headache and no picture. Today, she is at it again, this time on a saner basis She
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    Joan of Arc breaks ban
    146 6 Joan of A rc breaks ban THE British Broaric;.. Company will bro^c. to the United Kingd r. the Royal Premiere Sierra Pictures Joan of Arc on April 8. together with excerpts from ihe film, Mr. Davy Jones, RriO Radio Director of Advertising and Publicity In the UK ha reported. This
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    PROUD POPPA
    29 6 I INDA D..: "talktac il fitly i Lola, I 20th-C t D t v the san: c promptly brought out the :uste Mikele. Vicar; ■"CV TYRONE POV..
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    Baptism Of fire In Sleepy Mandalay
    809 7 Baptism Of fire In Sleepy Mandalay .Edward Ellis f.) THOSE sentimental Burmese like to dwell £ng)v on thatcong&n of shadows Jffi the past, the Ef Mandalay must causing a heartJ- a k as well as a "jSf World War ft 55b of ftre. In large Sihe was consumed r*e smoke
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    Weapon Against Disease
    147 7 Weapon Against Disease EXPLODING GOLD" Is proving a potent weapon against dreaded leukemia the production of white corpuscles which U closely related to cancer and which almost invariably ends m death. Success m producing remissions of the disease is reported by Dr. Paul F. Hahn, Director of the Cancer Research
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    A CEYLONESE FAIR COMES TO TOWN
    404 7 by Kenneth Tan THOUGH to Malayans the amusement parks throughout the Federation and Singapore are very ordinary things, the people of Ceylon do not have any permanent amusement parks. Only temporary ones exist. And when there is one, the proprietors employ bill-board men who
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    The Road That Was Made For A God
    454 7 NEW light is thrown on the grandeur of the ancient city of Thebes by the discovery at Luxor, Upper Egypt, of part of a broad avenue of human headed Sphinxes believed to link the Temple of Karnak earthly palace of the Theban
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    When Grandmother Chased The Ghost Away
    809 7  - When Grandmother Chased The Ghost Away K. S. Chia by QHOSTS can be most obliging. They obliged my grandmother by providing her with experiences for a wealth of weird stories. There is a Chinese belief that only unlucky 'persons see ghosts, but not my grandmother. She was lucky with a
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    Empire team to tour India, Pakistan
    206 8 Empire team to tour India, Pakistan 4 CRICKET team 4 composed mainly of Dominions' professionals now playing m Lancashire leagues is getting ready to tour India next winter. It will take the place of the orriciai England team whose projected 1949- j 1950 tour of India and' Pakistan was cancelled
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    LADDIE HAS THE 'RANJI TOUCH'
    998 8  - LADDIE HAS THE 'RANJI TOUCH' JIM CHAMBERS WORCESTER By business and family reasons, invitations are also, being sent to Tom Pritchard the New Zealand fast bowler now playing for Warwickshire, Leicestershire's two Australian allrounders. Jack Walsh and Vie Jackson; Laddie Outschoorn of Worcestershire who was born m Ceylon; Ken Grieves
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    JOE IS UP AGAINST IT
    407 8 MECCA-BORN Joe Diamond, well known Malayan welterweight, intends to run a chicken farm. This is no sudden brain wave of Joe's. He probably understands more about chicken rearing than th e 'manly art" and that's saying a lot. But there are a couple of problems
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    SPORTING Chit-Chat
    356 8 SPORTING Chit-Chat THE squabble which «he Singapore Malay Badminton Associa ion is having with the Singapore Badminton Association over a couple of rules is like a spoilt child squabbling with Its father. The Singapore Badminton Association, has been established as the controlling body of all badminton m the Colony. The
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    Clear up this woodshot rule
    452 8 17 is time a definite ruling was madr regarding woodshots. Thousands of players In Singapore are now asking whether this stroke is going to he faulted m the forth coming Singapore championships. So far woodshots have never been faulted anywhere In Malaya, neither m friendly
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    Billy is off to win the Derby
    474 8  - Billy is off to win the Derby JUSTIN ARTHUR By OYDNEY jockey Billy Cook is sailing with his wife and four children for England. home of the world's greatest racing classics This small, dark, keei,. featured rider, who has six times led the list of winning Jockeys m Sydney, and
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    four Id cbess tourney
    29 8 I I to I M m weir I ore C:.a.T.piooiM •I N s X i m I H- *fl k m X all thi fl
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    CHINESE TRADE TALKS BEGIN TODAY
    410 9 CHINESE TRADE TALKS BEGIN TODAY Indonesia to be discussed 688 Chinese Correspondent REPRESENTATIVES of more than 140 Chinese trade associations are meeting at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce today to devise ways and means of boosting trade. Emphasis will be laid on trade with Indonesia. The Chinese Importers and
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    69 9 ERTERS The Gwi i mi, Sir Flankiin rhaiiju *9ea*4 the StngiP*re FWwcr Shew jester day f^ftif. He praised Chinese gardeaers, and the Singapore Gardening Society which ipwmfid the thmw. Picture shows Mr. Low Chen? hiant mi N&m Kce Nursery. recetvtec the championship cup for the highest umber of yoioU m
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    Few have asked for tax relief
    220 9 Free Press Staff Reporter rpHE Singapore Ratepayers' Association told the A Free Press yesterday that many charitable institutions, dependent on contributions from the public for their support, had not yet made their applications for relief under Section 33 (2) of the Income Tax Ordinance.
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    FARES MAY RISE WITH ROAD TAX
    112 9 FARES MA Y RISE WITH ROAD TAX Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, FrL nOUBLINO of tax for each seat m road passenger petrol vehicles Is expected to result m higher fares The Commissioner for Road Transport has told companies that the department is prepared to grant an increase In
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    BEER IMPORT A 'MISTAKE'
    62 9 KUALA LDMPUR. Fri.— The recent Importation of a consignment of German beer was the res alt of a misunderstanding It was stated In the Federal Legislative Council yesterday. Mr. V. U. N. Menon, had asked why the beer had been imported when Import houses who bad
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    GOVT SEEKING $9 MILLION
    50 9 rE Government of Singapore will Invite tenders for an Issue of $9 millior by Treasury Bills on April 7. Copies of the conditions together with the form* of tender may be had from the Financial Secretary. Singapor?, or from any member of the Exchange -Basks Association
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    32 9 Charles Gibson and Pamela Titheredge (Qantas ground hostess) m a scene ia "This Happy Breed" which Is beClub at the Theatre from ing staffed by the Sta April 7.— Mobile Poto picture.
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    KIAN PENG SHOOTING: RELIEF
    207 9 KIAN PENG SHOOTING: RELIEF rnHE Singapore Mercantile X Marine Fund has made a grant of $743 to the relief of dependants of three Malay seamen who were killed by Dutch machine-gun fire aboard the Singapore ship, Kian Peng, at Pekan Baroe, and to three other Malay members of the crew.
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    P.A. TO DATO ONN
    27 9 JOHOKE BAHKU, Frt— Inche Ahmad bin Hussin, of the Johore Civil Service, has been appointed Personal Assistant to the Mentri Besar of Johore.
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    QUESTIONS ON SUGAR FOR COUNCIL
    77 9 QUESTIONS ON SUGAR FOR COUNCIL t», Prt* >uff R*P*rter TmSm mating of the StL Mr Balwant Singh iWest -i tne Cnz: Sir^b ir*vinf M :mpon«n ioore ut t*om m Slnth a^Jcs at .ssrs :r.| re»aed to Cj^:- I -Timf-at tup- ru«»r at :or the l-r Tb r bt hlßli I
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    SIX MONTHS FOR THEFT
    100 9 AYOUNO nousebreaker said m the First District Hourt yesterday that force of circumstances drove him to cnme. The accused. 21-year-old (Jr. an Hal Swee. was arrested after he had broken into i house and stole articles vaiued at about $280. Chan told the court that ne
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    MALAY JAILED
    52 9 IPOH Fri. Twenty-year ola Othman bin Dollah. convicted In 1M« of murder and sent to the Selangor B<-ys' Home, was today sentenced to rive years' rigorous imprisonment m the Assize Ourt for voluntarily causing grievous hart to an Indian youth named Narayan at Gloucester Estate, Teluk Anson with
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    MOUNT EMILY WORK TO BEGIN
    214 9 T ACK of staff and more L pressing needs are to blame for the delay In reopening the Mount Emily swimming pool to the public the Free Press was told yesterday. The pool cannot be opened until the nitration plant is completed, the Municipal Water
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    Top posts for local men: action wanted
    285 9 Top posts for local men: action wanted Free Press Staff Reporter A MOVE to ask th e Singapore Legislative Council to adopt the report of the Select Committee on the Public Services Commission will be made by Mr. N. A. Mallal (Municipal South-West) at the j next Council meeting on
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    PENANG HAS 10,000 CASES OF T.B.
    96 9 PENANG HAS 10,000 CASES OF T.B. Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANG. Frt '▼THE tuberculosis situation 1 In Penang jj serious declared Mrs. Cheah Inn Kiong at the Settlement Council meeting thte afternoon. The Chief Medical Officer. Dr. C. H, Williams said that there were nearly 10.000 tuberculosis cases m Penang
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    She prayed for death
    117 9 A FEW months before Kbong Sim Heng, 28. a former second-year undergraduate of Raffles College died, she was heard frequently by her mother praying to the goda to take her life away. Tills was stated at the Coroner's inquiry held yesterday into her death, which occurred
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    POPE'S GOLDEN JUBILEE
    103 9 TOMORROW the whole Ca- tholic world will celebrate Passion Sunday and the golden jubilee of His Holiness the Pope. Fifty years ago today, Don Eugenlo Pacelli was ordained a priest at the comparatively young &ge of 23. Tomorrow the sam Pacelli— now the Pope Plus XII will
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    DR. G. V. ALLEN
    30 9 Dr. G. V. Allen has been appointed the first Vice Chancellor of the University of Malaya for a period of one year from April 1, 1949.
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    CITY'S BIGGEST \FLATS PLAN
    321 9 CITY'S BIGGEST \FLATS PLAN The retiring members of the existing Singapore Municipal Commission, which will be replaced by a newly constituted Commission of dfeectly elected and nominated members, are pictured above: Standing (from left) Mr. Ahmad Ibrahim, Mr. L. Cresson, Dr. C. L. Tessensohn, Mr. Sin Man Vow. Dr. C.
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    168 LEAVE FOR CHINA
    71 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. ONE hundred and sixtyeight people left Port Swettenham yesterday on repatriation to China. Fifty-three were sent under Regulation 17C, 23 were squatters departed for actively assisting m "black areas," another 23 were voluntary repatriates while 69 were dependants Another batch of 200 Chinese
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    'ATTACKS ON CHINESE MUST STOP'
    330 10 'ATTACKS ON CHINESE MUST STOP' The bis jest indoor audience of the Singapore Municipal elections campaign more thin 400 members of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association* (flO per cent ol them registered voters) lust night heard the president of the Progressive Party. Mr. C. Tan. promise that the Progressives
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    40 10 Master Tan Tuan Hot k. one of NenTi boy scouts, who attended the recent Jamboree m Australia. He addressed Negri Rotarians, including several teachers. ia>t Wednvsday night, talk about the Jamboree. He is a pupil of the AiigloChine>e School. Seremhan.
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    Contempt allegation dismissed
    342 10 THE application for a urit of attachment for alleged contempt of court against a Singapore solicitor. Mr. N. A. Mallal. brought by two litigants on the ground that Mr. Malial had entered on certain legal proceedings m their name without their authority, was dismissed by (he Chief
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    NUNS OFFER TO WORK IN T.B. WARDS
    195 10 RLLIGIOUS nuntaf sisters may shortly be working m the fan Tock Seng T3. hospital. The Bishop of Malacca (the Right Rev. Micha-1 OUoinendy has offered to c pirate wirh the Medical Department m arranging fvr the nuns to come to Sin<;a- j pore
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    Free schooling for Malayans in India
    103 10 Free schooling for Malayans in India I^HE Government of India has decided to award six scholarships to Malayan students for higher studies m India this year. Two of the scholarships are for non-Indian students and the other four for students of Indian origin domiciled m Malaya. Courses are available m
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    WINDSOR TO VISIT KING
    54 10 T Duk, 01 Windsor will visit London on Monday and will see his brother, the X during his wtek's stay. The Duke will also see his grand nephew Prince Charles I the first time. He will stay v. h his mother. Queen Man,', Oil il Thlll>dfiv
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    MAINTENANCE TO BE RAISED
    53 10 i* draft ordinance which s -ks .o increase the maximum amount that a court i .»y order a person to pay towards the maintenance of an illegitimate child from $10 to MO a month is to be introduced at the next meeting of the Legislative Council
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    S.H.B. MEMBERS
    41 10 The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P A. B McKerron. has been appointed a member of the Singapore Harbour Board for a further term ol three years. Mr J Cooper \s lerm on the Boird has been extended by one year.
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    PISTOLS FOUND
    39 10 A Singapore Malay gardener. Bakar bin Taha, yes- terday afternoon found two rusty .38 pistols and 37 rounds of ammunition m the compound of a house m Jalan Ampa.s. A police spokesman said they were war relics
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    VISITING M.P. CRITICISED
    151 10 VISITING M.P. CRITICISED /CRITICISM of Mr. Walter Fletcher. Conservative M.P,. came from two sources yesterday, from Mr. C. C. Tan for his remarks about self-government, and from th e Netherlands Consulate for his reference to trade with Indonesia. •W> know fully well thai one ofl the main reasons why local
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    FEDERATION A SUCCESS
    86 10 TMt federal constitution has been a success and It is now open to all people to take part m the administration of this country', the Sultan of Kedah stated on Thursday, when replying to an all-community address presented to him' at the Sungei Patarfi Club on the
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    WILL RESIGN
    33 10 AuminiMiaiive officials m Washington said yesterday that the Attorney General Mr. Tom C Clarke, had Informed the White House hp .ntendod to leave the Cabinet Dy July I— U.P. U.P. A.P.
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      507 10 LONDON. Sat THE usual week-end influences were at work m the London Stock Exchange yesterday and quieter conditions prevailed, although prices were generally steady with occasional firmness, says Reuter'a financial correspondent. Rubber and tin shares made further advances. Firmness was shown In oil shares,
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    COLD WAVE BEST BET TODAY
    226 11 COLD WAVE BEST BET TODAY Going likely to be yielding Free Press Racing Correspondent a v™ K^ALA LUMPUR, Saturday. HOT favoonte for this afternoon's races here is Cold Wave. The Fresco gelding was given on the course this morning as the best bet for the day. There was a scattered
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    M.C.C. TEAM RETURNS
    146 11 A LARGE crowd welcomed the MCC team at Waterloo station London, yesterday on their return from their Victorious Soutn African tour. O. Mann, the captain, said: We have had a really wonderful tour. There was very little between the two Test sides. Our batting was on the
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    U.K. SOCCER FIXTURES
    248 11 pVDLLOWINO are U.K. football fixtures for today: FTSST DIVISION Hii Bin (ham Vr^^r. «l Itaralev 4si*a Vllt* CharlUa A. t H«lT*t (Mm v Radd«r*AeM Enrtaa v MaacWtlcr I. M«n tae.ier C. f R«lu>n W. Mxidle%!>roagli Dcrky C. r«rt«BM«th f Li»erpo«l Proton NX f SkcSeld I Skkf C.
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    Sunningdale golf
    52 11 rr»HE professionals Bob French 1 and Stewart Field yeaterday won the Bunningdale open golf foursomes tournament, the popular spring handicap event at the SunnlngdaVe Club. Conceding six strokes, they beat the team oC Mia Janqueltae Gordon, an amateur, and professional Jack Knipe. one up m the eight -hole
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    'TOO OLD TO FIGHT'
    37 11 BILLY OONN. the PltUburgn fighter wfao tried twlce vn successfully to dethrone the heavyweicht champion Joe Loui«. yesterday declared himself de^^Jg through a« a filter. He told friends that to fight acymore. U.P.
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    United at full strength today
    121 11 From JIM CHAMBERS uv it-UH Inited, FJL cupholders. will be at h for their semi-final replay against ulkoo the Everton ground today. Jack Rowie* and Harry Cockburrv ..sland against Scotland on April d from injuries sustained m last United make one change. lit entre- :-aci
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    25 11 •Picture J>y I i Tiotonr (Flanncry), winner %t the t jli KuiU Lumpur on Tuesday. Tiestone oaid JSiindfnd af the day. $154. C. F. Larm
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    KIWI SOCCER SECTION
    39 11 KIWI Members" League < Singapore »ectiorr> are holding soccer practices eyer> Mor.dav at Farrer Park. Clubs and paruea who wish to arrange friendly fixtures tre Jo oommimicat* with Mr. David Rang .soccer capuin\ 48. Monks HUI Terrace.
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    RAF fielding strong teams
    155 11 rE Royal Air Force stations on the bland are fielding strong teams m the Singapore Cricket Association tournament, which opens tomorrow with four games. R.A.P. Ctonfcl have the services of F O Bowman, who played for Selangor last year. The RAF Seletar Xl against Xcdiftn Association
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    All chances missed In League game
    322 11 S.C.C 0 R.E.M.E 0 THE handful of soccer fans who turned up at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday saw a game of missed chances when the S.C.C. and R.E.M.E. shared honours hi a S.A.F.A. Senior League game. Though both sets of forwards had countless opportunities
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    THRILLING BOXING AT CHANGI
    218 11 H/INNING more fights than W either the RAF. or Royal I Nary, Singapore District. with a 12 points total, won the India Cup at Changi last right m the lnter-Servlces boxing championships. RAJ, the holders, were runneW-up with nine points with Navy trailing with three points.
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    All the Latest Selections
    203 11 TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL EOT POINTER M SELECTION RACE 1 POWER CHIEF POWER CHIEF POWER CHIEF TIESTONE S.SO Tiestone Young Lucius Tiestone Power Chief POWER CHIEF Azad Kannan Yoanf Lucius Axad RACE I DEMARATUS COLD WAVE ENTERTAINMENT COLD WAVE t.OO Cold Wa*e Entertainment Demaratos Entertainmem COLD
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    Today's acceptors
    523 11 BELOW are the acceptances ror today's liuaia Lumpur races. The Double Totes will be held on races three and four, six and eight. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1-2.30. Cl 4, Div. l-s»i Furs. 022 Baba Bagby 9.00 000 The Mario Lamp Healey
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    KRAMER GAINS 3rd VICTORY
    52 11 JACK Kramer registered Ms third straight win over Bobby Riggs 6—3, 6 B, B—6.8 6. m their professional tennis show last night before more than B.OCO people. including the Prime Minister and Mrs. AUlee. Pancho Segura gained nit third straight win over Dinny Pails 6—2 6—3.
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    GREENHAM STAKES FOR STAR KING
    135 11 GREENH AM STAKES FOR STAR KING CTAR King, second choice m pre-race betting on the 2 000 Guineas for April 27, came through a warm-up race yester day with flying colours. The colt beat the Aga Khan* Nizami and eight others by five length* m the seven -furlong 60 yards
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    SCFA SELECT 16 PLAYERS
    134 11 rE Singapore Cnin< Football Association XI to play the Singapore Civilians' trial team at Jalan Btsar stadium tomorrow will be chosen from the following 16 players: Chu Chee Seng (Casual*.', Foong Wai Mun iCA.). Patrick Ye« i Casuals >. John Hon (Siong Boo», Soon San <C.A.
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    PRISONS BEAT 221 V.C XI
    87 11 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Saturday. PRISONS beat 221 Vehicle ComI pany 3-1 m a L agu fixture here la~t evening Yunan put Prisons tv.o up before the interval. Hali-way through the second half Sz a Tat incr-ased the lead. Brennan reduded the arrears
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    NON-TITLE BOUT
    32 11 WORLD VCM i weight champion Ray "Sagui Robinson haa agreed to fight a ten-round iiontiUe bout with the California welterweight champion Earl Turner m Oakland audltoriuir. oo April 20 A.P.
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      130 11 Week-end sport TODAY LEAGUE SOCCER: Sw. Di».. P. Brani t C.A J. Besar; Jnr. Grp. 1. Chinese Uarricaae* Shell SC(jfi.lH|. KrieadlT Soccer: RAP. Charnr. v. Rovers Sport Club. it Chan«i. FRIENDLY CJUCKET: SCC •A" PoHce— S.C C; SR.C. I 1 S.C.IC. »«d— S.R.C.; S.R.C v RODCA— St. Geor;e't I Rd
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    DEATHS
    68 12 no HON FAI. passed away po«- -fully at 10 a.m. on *riday lal April, at the a?e ot 47. The cort?ge will leav^ 27. Sago I on Sunday morting 3rd. m "HIE FUNERAL of the late M Tan Hock San. will take at 4.30 p.m. from 16 c h:ll
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    U.K. LINKS ASIA WITH WEST-BEVIN
    496 12 U.K. LINKS ASIA WITH WEST-BEVIN Union to keep world free WASHINGTON, Saturday. STRESSING the connections between the North Atlantic community and Asia through Britain the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said that British comradeship towards, and connections with the peoples of India an<J Asia would assist the North Atlantic peoples
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    AMERICA FEELS PINCH
    190 12 WASHINGTON, Bat. BRITISH budget surplus and her reported loan to Russia inspired a h«aied debate m tne U.S. Senate yesterday during discussion of the Economic Co-operation Administration. Senator E. Johnson 'Democrat I said prospects Were that the U.S. Government would spend more than it* income, and that
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    CHINA PEACE TALKS OPEN
    134 12 SHANGHAI. Sat. IN the face of mounting 1 pessimism m the United States and Britain over China and reports that the United States had finally "written off Nationalist China as a potential ally against Communism, peace talks between the Chinese Nationalists and the victorious Communists were
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    15 12 Dr. Wellington Koo. Chinese Ambassador to Washington, will head China's delegation to thf U.N. Assembly.
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    DUTCH-U.S. PARLEYS
    62 12 DR Herman van Royen. who has been named Netherlands delegate to the DutchIndonesian negotiations m Batavla, Is expected to arrive m Washington tomorrow to confer with the Dutch Foreign Minister. Dr. Dirk Stikker. Dr. van Royen, who has led the Dutch delegation at Lake Success, may also meet
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    Hirohito's son-in-law
    17 12 Emperor Hirohito's son-in-law yesterday went to work as a clerk In the Bank of Japan
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    Briton urges more research
    376 12 DEVELOPMENT OF ASIA CAMBRIDGE (Mass) Saturday. f OKU HAILEY, former British Governor of the Punjab, yesterday warned against large-scale economic planning for under-developed areas without the scientific and technological knowledge essential for the purpose. He told the Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation panel here that he
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    BAO DAI, 'A WAR CRIMINAL'
    49 12 THE radio station of the Viet Mlnh (Indo-Chinese autonomy movement yesterday denied Mia* Chinese Communists were fighting with them. The radio also named exEmperor Bao Dai of Annam as a war criminal who had •••rtiH v\ e tnam to France.'' Reuter JOHN GEORGE HAIGH
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    Books for Asia libraries
    103 12 CiARE Inc. has informed the U.N.E.S.C.O. conference m J Cleveland (Ojiio) that it will begin sending books to Europe and Asia to feed hungry minds. This programme will start on May 15, and libraries and other institutions overseas are being asked to submit lists of their
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    ACID MURDER— HAIGH DENIES IT
    222 12 ACID MURDER HAIGH DENIES IT LONDON, Friday. JOHN George Haigh, central figure m a case which has aroused nation-wide attention, was alleged at Horsham today, to have admitted shooting a widow In the back of the head and then dumping her body m a sulphuric acid bath. Haigh. a 39-year-old
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    PHILIPPINES MOVE
    8 12 The Philippines yesterday to Israel. A.P.
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    10-year blackout ends in London
    151 12 LONDON. Saturday. HUNDREDS of thousands of 11 people are expected to flock to London's West End tonight, when the city's neon and electric signs will flash to life again after 10 years of darkness. The wov'ime ban was fol- lowed by a post-war ban because
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    Call to US for anti-Red aid. in Asia
    263 12 Call to US for antiRed aid. in Asia BOSTON, Sat. 4N appeal for a U. 5.51,000 million-a-year "Mac Arthur Plan" for Asia to combat Com munism was made here last night by Mr. Harold Stassen, candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination last year. Mr. Winston Churchill was among the listeners.
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    11 12 Mersing police yesterday recovered 423 three-inch mor- tar bombs near Jemalaung.
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