The Singapore Free Press, 22 April 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA h SINGAPORE, FRIDAY. APftIL 22, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    HMS LONDON FORCED BACK BY RED GUNS
    466 1 15 men die in vain bid to rescue sloop SHANGHAI, Friday. POCKMARKED with shell and shrapnel holes, the heavy cruiser H.M.S. London came back to Shanghai last night with 15 of her crew dead and 20 wounded after Communist shore batteries forced her
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    WHITE FLAG IN INSEIN
    102 1 WHITE FLAG IN INS EIN Friday. .:.surf?ent Wm- Peoples tion have to a 48- .;t Mangenta were the fight -V 'he city in na at In:'h of Ran- c'own since -.vhite flag a building /.ministraKarens. II sa:d «rmy k T o asc«rlal Kareii or of one ■dni ah n Apr.
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    41 1 Hub r£u ?k c alrman of th International Press th? rf-a? <i? vernor Sir Tranklin Gimson. at »k A mau «»'»l dinner at Raffles Hotel last night. On the Governor', left Is Mr,. Rajaratnam. In all. 15f> People attended the function.
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    U.S. military aid bill
    56 1 N\ Friday I lft« Secretary *&n Acheson r c^ign Relafc yesterday Jtft »ai Ht :.:a>d foreign tary aid will cost the crt Hates 400.000.000. Afhtfson talked with d closwi ia reported t« <roup that a out The proposed presramme l» 4 0.000.000 figure pwa T.ablv be
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    Federation arrests
    21 1 Ni hi* M4(T Kr porter 24 hm ended *»re 65 ar-F-i-ration, 32 In Selangor. ng and one each Malacca.
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    TRISHA MAN ROBBED
    63 1 Free Pit ss Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE detecivej came to the rescue of a Chinese trishaw rider, who was held up and robbed of $2 by a Malay passenger late last night in Palmer Road, a cul-de-sac off Anson Road. The Chinese alleged that the Malay pointed
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    FLYING CLUB HANGAR MOVE
    75 1 > r i\iit, erection or a $55,000 1 club hangar and workshop will bt* proposed at the annual meeting of the Royal Singapore Flying Club on Wednesday. I A resolution calls upon the meeting to authorise the committee to enter into negotiations for lease of the
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    IPOH WINNER DESTROYED
    51 1 Radiant Rhythm, a winner at the recent Ipoh races, fractured a shoulder bone in a fall at Bukit Tlmah railway station on Wednesday and had to be destroyed. The horse, belonging to Mr. S. H. Young of Singapore, had been entered for the coming races at Bukit
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    ROME'S 'BIRTHDAY'
    13 1 The 2.702nd. anniversary of the founding of Rome was celebrated yesterday.
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    30,000 Reds over Yangtse
    332 1 NANKING, Friday. THIRTY thousand Communist soldiers tore a 20L mile-wide hoU in the Nationalists' Yangtse defences today and swarmed across into South China. The breach is between Wuhu and Tikan, 60 and 80 miles south-west of Nanking. Communist troops also seized the north bank positions of
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    MALAY REGT. RECRUITING RE-OPENS
    111 1 MALAY REGT. RECRUITING RE-OPENS THE 4th Battalion oi ihe Malay Regiment is to become an effective force by next December, when train Ing of 300 Malays already enlisted and 450 more to be recruited have completed their training. Recruiting of the 450 additional Malays is to begin next Tuesday and
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    AUSTRALIA FEARS NEW JAP WAR
    154 1 MELBOURNE. Fri. MR. ARTHUR CALVWJX. Australian Immigration Minister, said here today that in the event of a third world war. "it seems probable that the United Statej will be forced to use Oreat Brttata and Japan as §I*nt aircraft carrier*." Addressing the. Royal Em- pire
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    42 1 Mr. Hugh Savage, a member of the committee of the International Press Club of Singapore, welcomes the G.O.C. Singapore District. MaJ.-Gen. D. Dun lop. and Mrs. Dunlop to the Club's inaugural dinner and dance which was held at Raffles Hotel last night.
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    Emergency arrests
    47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. TWO Chinese, suspected to be members of the Malayan Communist Party, were arrested under the Emergency Regulations in Singapore yesterday. Two Chinese were arrested for being alleged secret society members and another for assisting In the management of an illegal "chap-ji-kl."
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    The Saint tomorrow
    130 1 JH) MORROW 1 the FREE PRK.ss begins publication of a special story, translated into strip cartoon form, about a new adventure of 'The Saint/ world famous creation of Leslie Charteris, ex-Mala-y a n novelist now living in the United States. There is sure to be a big
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    RIFLE FOUND
    30 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. A Singapore civilian yesterday handed over to police an j unserviceable rifle, and 128 rounds of ammunition, which he found off Bukit Timah Road.
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    CAL WELL'S NO TO A FILIPINO WIFE
    346 1 SYDNEY, Friday. /COINCIDING with a Canberra denial yesterday v that the Philippines had approached Australia in connection with the exclusion of Filipinos, it was disclosed in Sydney that the Filipino wife of an Australian, Mr. Carlyle S. Elms, h:id been refused an entry
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    1,807 SCREENED
    18 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore mobile police patrols screened 1,807 persons in checks ending this morning.
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    Yangtse attacks add urgency
    155 1 C WEALTH PMs' TALKS LONDON, Friday. rpHE Chinese Communist attacks on British war- ships on the Yangtse River injected a new note of urgency into the opening of the conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers here yesterday. Although the conference is primarily interested in solving the question
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    Royall resigns
    20 1 President Truman announced tonight that Mr. Kenneth Royall had resigned as United States Secretary of the Army Reuter
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    Pole in UK spy trial
    198 1 Pole in UK spy trial MANCHESTER, Fri. A 40-year-old Pole, who gave his name as M. Kaczmarzk was charged in a magistrates court here yesterday with spying against Britain for an unnamed foreign power. Conviction can carry a death penalty. Kaczmarzk was detained in custody lor further hearii° on Monday.
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    MURDER PLOT
    39 1 SIX prominent PllmHat Arabs and two Syrians were alleged in Amman vesterday to have tried to kill King Abdullah of TransJordan last month by putting mines on a road over which he was expected to travel.— Reuter
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    Rubber prices
    53 1 SPLCIAL Market fortespo«dent riv«a 'he prtte. of rubMt in cents per Ih at 11 m fodaf M fellows: Buyer*. Settee*. Na. 1 S 8 Spot ■<*>•*« JSS IS*, tv l in bales Apr n«. i r.s.s. is- s mm. No. R E.S.S. 34 Zi\ 4 m.s.s SZ St%
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    Diary Of A Singapore Doctor
    801 2 Terror of alcohol TUES: 1 had to give a severe lecture to Henry B. today. I have been putting it off for the 12 vears I have known Henry and I was not surprised after examining him today to find that he has what is
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    Woman Of The Week
    296 2 BY OUR WOMAN FASHION EXPERT \JISS Yvonne George is in her way a saviour and preserver of women. She practises the gentle art of enhancing the female face, and works her magic in the Elizabeth Arden salon in Battery Road. Yvonne is small and slim with
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    The Gentle People
    960 2  -  S. C. GEORGE by Barker, a wastrel, has uiuid«-rm u nese who was betrothed to m.. 0Ii Smj v-^-^ marries two years later. l)/ in .I*" **bu become a successful trader, „T v t'm*' d, ll secret. Barker falls ill an! *"?.sj>» Cfc.^ been prepared for him
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    Bridge Hands
    379 2 COU'IHS opening bid was MMtf m ogh; but without kaOTrfßf a great deal more about North's two heart raise, he was in no portttoa to rebid his hand. If he had passed, Ea- 1 would be allowed to pl^y two spades. He would not have made it. how
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      343 2 SINGAPORE (BLUE NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from R.L at 10 am TODAV 10 to 10.10 a.m. News from K.L. 1 South American Way; 1.30 News: 1.45 Accent on MelodyRainbow Trio; 6 Programme Summary; 6.02 Radio Orchestra; 6.40 Dance Music; 7 News; 7 10 Share-, Annocts; 7.15 Film
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      184 2 ese: Programme Si News, 8.15 Siamese BBC" > 630 (English) News (BBC). 8.45 Dutch (BBC). 9.00 Kuoyu (BBC). 9.30 Burmese (BBC) 9-45 English: News; 10.00 Radio News Reel (BBC); 10 15 The Reader Takes Over (11); 10.45 The Production of 'Androcles* (BBO: 11 00 Music; 11 15 World Affairs (BBC);
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      267 2 Releases; 10.00 Australian News; 10.15 Australian Economic Review (Repeated); 10.30 Everyman's Music; 11.00 Australian News. RADIO CEYLON (S.L.A.C.) 19.84 Metres and 31.51 Metres. TODAY 4.55 Stauoo Open ng aiid Programme Summary; 6 The Week's Compoeer; S 30 rhe Mating of a Play; 5 45 Football Fixtur«s- 6 Thirty to One;
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    PtRCIVAL HITS BACK AT CRITICS
    480 3 PtRCIVAL HITS BACK AT CRITICS Churchill view was 'nonsense AMONG th e critic s of the defenders of Singapore to whom Lieutenant General A. E. Percival, wartime G.0.C., replies in hi s book "War in Malaya" is Mr. Winston Churchill. He describes as "sheer nonsense" Mr. Churchill's assertion to a
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    The King understood
    66 3 rfSIKU roiral. writing of the Buckingham Palace it which he teceived a war decoration, s*>s :ltMlk war in Mala ya after I had passed by an equery said the Kin? wants „,.i i trr the ceremony/ T f9K a quarter of an hour the King talked with
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    US 'star' farmer Is 19
    141 3 rtMiE title. "Star Farmer of A America," has been given to Kenneth Le Wayne Cheatham, a 19-year-old youth from Greenville, Illinois. This title is a coveted one in American farming circles. It goes every year to the youth who has the most impressive record of
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    Indian states' anti-Red move
    78 3 AT a closed door conference between the Hyderabad military governor and top ranking Madras police officials, defensive steps against communism were taken, says a government spokesman. An authoritative source said •We still suspect that local Communists are being aided from outside." but he refused to say
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    GERMAN GOVT: 'FINAL PLANS'
    71 3 THE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, at a Washington press conference said officials of the German constitutional convention at Bonn, have arranged to see the Allied military governors on Apr. 22 or 25 and it was hoped an agreement would be reached on the
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    JAP MOVE TO GET REVENUE
    61 3 THE Japanese Government has begun a survey of its assets to determine what It can sell to raise revenue The Prime Minister. Shigerj Yoshida, ordered the survey in line with his recently announced policy to determine whether Government could profit bv selling some of the
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    Judge orders 'poor person' from court
    236 3 A FTER his "poor person's" certificate had been cancelled by Mr. Juctice Vaisey in the Chancery Division Mr. Angus Kilmot Kinslea was removed struggling from th e court by two policemen. He had applied through counsel to set aside a Judgment against him in
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    WHY REDS MAY BY-PASS S'HAI
    254 3 WHY REDS MAY BY-PASS S'HAI problems posed by Shanghai bring repeatedly quoted by observers as a lf jnal reason why the Chinese Communists, ori )U s »n the battlefield, have not so far enipt^ to P" sh into the city and assume control. thnuulit the Communists may not try to
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    VAST INDIAN AIR SCHEMES
    90 3 INDIA is planning a vast expansion of her air eognmunications with the Eastern and Western worlds. Work has started at India's three international airports at Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta on modern terminal buildings, residences, hangars, runways, and wireless and navigation equipment. Construction work has also started
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    PRINTER'S ERROR?
    41 3 -.vs en3orship '■nikolc was countered in oy the lrreppresV*ss S:am. ca^e of th# Siamese >paper "Kiatpical. When Its. Jf»» *ere ordered to ail ropy foe censorship raal ahead and i new paper K >aph." They a new editor- A.P.
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    Causes of war-RC view
    222 3 Causes of warRC view MODERN wars are ITI caused above all by economic conflict, according to Monsignor Evasio Colli, Bishop of Parma, writing on 'War or Social Justice", in a recent edition of the Vatican newspaper LOsservatore Romano" Once egoism comes into play, he safd. deceit counts more than law
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    THEIR FIRST FILM
    44 3 Rural residents in Siam's Sukhothal province saw their first nhn.s because the area recently had been visited by the plague. A seven-man public health team from Bangkok carried their equipment to improvised outdoor theatres where they showed an anti-plague film. A.P.
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    The ideal firefighter
    92 3 THE ideal firefighter is five feet nine inches in height, according: to a famous London fireman, Sir I Aylmer Firebrace, Chief of the Fire Staff and Inspector-in-Chief of the Fire Service for six war years. Sir Aylmer, who has written a book about his experiences at hundreds
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    Support for a 'greater Syria'
    80 3 ARAB offices in London and Washington, representing the Arab League, will mush the idea of a Greater Syria in their propaganda In the future. The decision was regarded by Middle East experts in London as indicating that a union of Iraq. Syria. Lebanon. Trans-Jordan and
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    IPI RAIDERS
    24 3 One hundred followers of the Fakir of Ipi raided ihe village of Mohammad, a report to the Karachi newspaper Dawn has announced.
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    Ceylon likely to accept U. S. aid
    215 3 /^EYLON i s likely to accept the offer which Presiy dent Truman made in his speech on January 20 when he took his oaths of office. He than pledged American aid to develop countries which were in need of United States money, personnel
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    TRANS PACIFIC CABLE MENDED
    87 3 AN eight months task of reparing a cable line 3.4 miles under the surface of water has been completed by the Commercial Pacific Cable Company 450 miles east of Guam. It was one of the deepest repair projects ever undertaken, Manila company officials said. Crews of
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    How police got to work
    417 3 BANK MURDER HUNT I|URDER has been committed. What Happens behind the scenes? Mr. A. E. Barker, Bristol City coroner, said at the inquest on George Black. 50-year-old bank manager, murdered by an unknown man: "For the satisfaction of the public, and m justice to the
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    CHINESE REDS SEIZE IS ARMS
    70 3 CHINESE REDS SEIZE IS ARMS CHINESE Communists. «*n route to the Paris "peace .congress," said in Prague tftat their armies had seized Mrh large quantities of ArrKricin weapons in China that Communist soldiers go around saving that "America is our arsenal and Chiang Ku-sh<«ic our supply officer." The delegation's spokesman
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    ALY HURT
    28 3 PRINCE Aly Khan aa* slightly injured one t»e in an accident but this will not delay arrangements for his marriage to film star, Ritx Hayworth. Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, April 22, 1949. HALF-A-DOZEN OF ONE...
    580 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, April 22, 1949. HALF-A-DOZEN OF ONE... QUIETLY and without publicity the Dutch and Indonesian Republicans are meeting in Batavla under the auspices of the United Nations Commission for Indonesia, trying to reach agreement on the restoration of the Republican Government at Jogjakarta, on bringing about
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    Japan plans to grab world's markets again
    862 4  - Japan plans to grab world's markets again G. WARD PRICE by OSAKA, Japan: IN about live years British industries will again be faced with serious competition from Japan. That is the impression left by a three-day inspection of manufacturing, shipbuilding, and steel plants in the Osaka and Kobe area, which
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    Fun in the sun
    266 4 CORNER FOR WOMEN VOU have seen ardent golfers whose noses peel on the first really sunny day of the season. Wf nave all winced in sympathy for blistered shoulders of enthusiastic sunbathers who fail to realise that tht damage Is done long before they actually feel
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    110 4 Four years ago, 22-year-old Patrick Milne yearned to leave his father's cottage and sheep in lonely Aberdeenshire for London but he still wanted to be a shepherd. Surprisingly enough, he has fulfilled both ambitions. After earning a living for a while minding sheep on golf courses and in parks. Pat-
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    Paratroops would soon invade Britain
    687 4 Paratroops would soon invade Britain And if war should come again SAYS GENERAL KURT STUDENT Ace German Air General who took Crete with Paratroops, in an interview with BRIAN CONNELL HAMBURG: AUDACIOUS Kurt Student Hitler's air general who captured Crete in 1942 and wanted to assault Gibraltar, today took a
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    TO TAKE OVER DIMITROV'S JOB
    63 4 TO T AKE OVER DIMITROV'S JOB THE Bulgarian Foreign 1 Minister and Vice-Pre-sident of the Council of Ministers, M. Vassil Kolarov, will discharge Prime Minister Georgi Dimitrov's duties dur- ing the latter's absence through illness, it was officially announced. The 66-year-old Prime Minister and veteran Communist has been granted leave
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    HE KNOWS HIS ONIONS
    571 4 HE KNOWS HIS ONIONS People Make News QETTUNCJ down in Singapore after eight months now that his wife has joined him here is Mr. ALLX SIMPSON, the Colony's Assistant Trade Union Adviser. Along with his* wife came their two daughters, Dorothy (9) and Joan (7), both now attending St. Hilda's
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    MILLIONS MAY POUR INTO MALAYA
    347 5 MILLIONS MAY POUR INTO MALAYA But they are generally agreed that any largescale transfer of funds from China to Malaya would not be altogether to the advantage of this ojuntry. Giving an impartial, view, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, managing director of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, said that the establishment of more
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    34 5 picture. or ot Melbourne. Councillor James S Disne, -raphed in Singapore last night with a farmer I »-rd Mayor, Sir Frank Beaurepaire (left) and the !lin Commissioner for Malaya, Mr. Claude Mm»t Free Press
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    Talks on trade with Indonesia CLERK ACCUSED
    384 5 Talks on trade with Indonesia CLERK ACCUSED Free Press Chinese Correspondent REPRESENTATIVES of th e Singapore, Chinese and lXr Indian Chambers of Commerce are to meet again shortly to decide on recommendations for submission to the Government as a basis of negotiations with the Indonesian authorities to overcome the present
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    GOYT GAZETTE IN CHINESE
    196 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r\ >mii4por e Government Gazette has been published in the Chinese language for the first tiji,, and the first two issues dated Apr. 10 and Apr. 18 arc now available. This translation of the Gazette is being carried out, with the approval
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    Scouts will celebrate
    88 5 Day. tomorrow, J :?brated by Boy j i pore. On this reaffirm their God and their I- r >pecial services r.. M St. George's v.ir.dsor. and the Bng the salute at the Chi^f Scout. .as sent a message Commissioner of Cbwk^ Jy PUlay. will Radio Malaya on
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    MANY MADE WRONG CHOICE
    266 5 Raffles College Report MANY Raffles College students made the wrong choice when they decided to read mathematics last year, with the result that ther e was considerable "wastage," says the acting Professor of Mathematics in 1948, Mr. J. C. Cooke, in the annual report of the
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    Flag Officer off fo U.K.
    57 5 REAR Admiral Caslon, Flajj Officer, Malayan Area, left Singapore for the United Kingdom by air on Wednesday for the naval conferences in London. Travelling in the same aircraft was Rear Admiral Collins, Chief of Naval S.aff of the Royal Australian Navy. Rear Admiral Caslon expects
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    Expert wanted for TB clinic
    104 5 THE Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association Clinic in Tanjong Pagar Road will shortly advertise for a medical officer who has sjjecialised in. tuberculosis work to take charge of the clinic'- new treatment venire. The treatment centre is expected to be functioning in about two months, the clinic's
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    ANZAC DAY
    75 5 DAY will be observed by the Australian and New Zealand communities in Singapore on April 25. The traditional dawn service of remembrance will be held at the Cenotaph in Singapore at 6 a.m. The short service which has been arranged by the Australian Commissioner will include the laying
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    Leper Welfare
    166 5 The Leper Welfare Committee, consisting of representatives of the public, churches and Medical Department, provides certain amenities to the inmates of the camp, which the Government cannot reasonably be expected to provide all at once. Through the Committee about 70 children in the camp have been "adopted" by
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    'NO FREE EXPORT OF RICE'
    155 5 AN official statement points out there is no free export of rice from Siam but stocks of damaged and infested rice do accumulate and are free for export outside normal allocations. Some rice becomes seriously infested with weavils and maggot, or is damaged by fire
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    NO LICENCE, FINED
    42 5 A fine of $35 was yes'^er- day imposed on Mrs. Lee Hai Yan, of Eng Watt Street, by the Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr. R. J C. Wait, for not having taken out a licence for her radio set.
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    NEW RADIO ITEMS
    161 5 THE first of a new series of programmes called Saturday Night at Eight will be broadcast on the blue network of Radio Malaya tomorrow from 8 to 9 D.m The series will continue every Saturday at the same time for approximately 12 weeks. The programmes will be
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    Airways trainees do well
    191 5 A irways trainees do well Free Press Staff Reporter rE 12 Chinese and two Eurasian boys, who are being trained for responsible engineering posts by the Malayan Airways, arc now learning their trade from en Australian instructor. Mr. V. F. Kendall, ground engine :t of Qant as Airways All the
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    MAILS
    64 5 Airmails are expected to arr.vo in Singapore today from thr UK. Aden, Arabia. Canada. Euro;*', India, Iran. Iraq, Paki.st;.n I tine, Africa, Burma Crriii.. H'hir Kong. Mac. Japan, Indonesia. Palembang. Sourabaya and Pad c. The latest times of posting mails at th*» G P.O. an Bat-aviu. 4 p.m. for
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    VILLAGE POWER PLANTS 'A DANGER'
    337 6 Rural Board 'can m do nothing 9 rpHE Rural Board will discuss with the Municipal A Engineer the possibility of recommending to the Government the introduction of legislation to regulate and control private electric installations In the rural areas. The Board Chairman, Mr. J. A.
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    56 6 picture Bernard Wlcksteed. feature writer on the London Daily Express, who is travelling on 8.0.A.C. Round-the-World Ticket No. 1. "My mission is to write about the things an average Britisher would decide^ to see If he were suddenly riven a round-the-world air ticket." he said. His trip round the world
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    NO CARD, FINED
    40 6 An Indian, Rao Pati Bai, and his wife, who left Singapore shortly before the Japanese occupation and who returned 10 weeks ago, were fined $20 each in the First District Court yesterday for having no Identity cards.
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    Rubber shares firm, tins irregular
    512 6 I LONDON STOCK I EXCHANGE SHARES of Imperial Chemical Industries. Britain's largest Industrial concern, rose from 465. lid. to 465. 9d. on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, the reason being that the net sterling and total dividends have been maintained at 10 per cent., says
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    63 6 QN the New York Stock Exchange yesterday Union Pacific* tailored a setback during an afternoon of feeble rallying attempt*. Utilities relinquished mild ground. Selling finally increased and losses ranged to US $2 with a ftw wider fall* such is US 13 in Allied Chemicals. The market 'closed easy
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    DRIVER FINED
    28 6 JOHORE BAHRU Thun. F ound guilty of driving hit car negligently on Ayer Hltam P.oad. Yeo Soon Ten. wa» today fined $40 In the magistrate's court.
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    HEDDLE'S & FOX'S HORSES IMPRESS
    379 7 HEDDLE' S FOX' S HORSES IMPRESS Good gallop by Polish Bride ¥lm/IIXTn By TRESPASSER JUDGING by the form they showed at this morning's workouts at Bukit Timah, SingaJ°« r horses will more than hold their own at the b.T.C. Summer (Governor's Cup) meeting opening on Saturday next week. The strings
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    24 7 picture. LI oh k. r. H. DrrteBrockman leads in No Regrets. winner of the Sprinters' Cup at Ipoh last Monday Scoop' s Amateur Service
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    Colony Schools XI outplayed
    638 7 Johore Schools 7; Singapore School s 2. SHOWING far superior combination in both attack and defence and fielding better players in practically all positions, Johore Schools were full value for their overwhelming victory over Singapore Schools in the junior soccer "Test" played on the Victoria School
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    SCC UNLUCKY v. NAVY
    192 7 B.C.C 2 Royal Navy > OINGAPORE Cricket Club were unlucky only to share point* with the Royal Navy in a Senior League match at Jalan Besar Strtdium yesterday. Following an early goal by B McCulloch, who had McMahon beaten with a fast grounder the result of
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    BARROW WIN 19-0
    21 7 BARROW beat Liverpool Stanley by 19 points to nil ;n a Rugby T mih fi ture yesterday. Reuter
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    23 7 R\, L VVONO VVENG lIN LFONG'M»V VTTN LAO SIK FCVv, LOhTvTsAN KtNG WtNO FON MA HON M*NQ WONG WENO ON WONG S« TIN
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    S.M.C. SPEED HILL CLIMB
    76 7 THE Singapore Motor Club will hold a speed hill climb on Sunday, May 8, on Bukit Batok (Japanese monument hill) at the Bth mile, Bukit Timah Road. The distance will be about half a mile. The race will start at 10 a.m. and all competitors must
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    47 7 MANCHESTER United lost to Sunderland I—2 in a First Division fbcture in the English Soccer League yesterday. Leicester City beat Blackburn Rovers 3 l in a Div. II game. In an Irish League eame Belfast Celtic beat Cliftomille 4—3.— Reu t er and A.P.
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    Soccer may be omitted from Olympics
    107 7 Soccer may be omitted from Olympics THE Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee and representatives of Id international sports federations decided at a meeting at Lausanne yesterday to cut the number of events in jsome sports for the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. It was provisionally decided that the Games
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    CUSTOMS S.C. XI
    39 7 'T'HE Customs Sports Club cricket team to play Khalsa Association on Sunday at 2 p.m. on the Khalsa ground will be: Reutens. K^rlm, Ghanl, Arii; Hale, Selby. Klllick, Hassan; Rozali. Samy and Mavor. Twelfth man: Hrtrun.
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    Macao table tennis stars play tonight
    407 7 SINGAPORE'S table tennis fans, when watching the Macao visitors play against the Colony's stars tonight and the next eight days will at once notice a constrast in styles. Th e Macao boys use what is called the ''standard grip" (same as in tennis), as
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    Premising youngsters
    51 7 TYTRYTRHY The Johore Schools' soccer XI which beat the Singapore Schools 7 on the Victoria School ground yesterday: Back row, from left to right: Nasir, G. Oth man, Ismail Rahman; second row: Cheah Cheng Kok, Majid, Rashid; front row: Woodhull, Mat Noor, Daud, Eng Choon, Ismail Othman Free
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    SCC HAVE HARD TASK ON SUNDAY
    234 7 npHE third round of the Singapore Cricket Associa--1 tion tournament will be played on Sunday, when main interest will centre on the Padang match between the leaders of the competition, the S.C.C., and a strong Ceylonese team. Fixtures for this week-end are: S.C.C. v.
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    New Zealand side improve
    88 7 THE New Zealand touring cricket team showed improved form at Eastbourne yest>rday in the second of their one-day trial matches. But the match, between sides led by W. Hadlee, the < apt am. and W. Wallace, vice-captain, produced little eventful cricket. Brightest batting feature came from
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    TABLE TENNIS TOURNEYS
    112 7 "PNTRIES for the Singapore Table Tennis Association's annual championships will closo on May 14. The events and entry fees are: Inter-club leagues (senior and junior, both $10 per team). Inter-school league ($5), men's singles and junior men's singles (both %2 per player), women's singles <$1), veterans' singles
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    'Lawther should be selected'
    248 7 Letter to the Sports Editor IHAfE deferred my selection of the Singapore Civilians XI against R.A.F. Combined in their Malaya Cup match until after the C. A. v. Rovors game. My S3lection is: AbkuUla: Leembrusgen and Lawther; Morton, Vass and Harith flci Merrg, Tee Siang. Vijiaratnam,
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    42 GOLFERS QUALIFY
    110 7 rkNLY three overseas p] qualified for today's final 3 5 holes In the "Silver King* p<i tournament at Rickmansworth. Hertfordshire Forty-two players with 147 or better qualified Ricards de Vicenzo. the South American, and W Forrester of Belgium Just scraped In with 147 for the* first two
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    J.C.C.XIv. S.R.C.
    52 7 n^HE JOHORE CRICKET CLUB wgftipst Singapore Recreation Club in their S.C.A. tournament game on Sunday at Johore Bahru will be: R. Van Schoonbeck tcapt.) W. Harffey. R. West A.B. Barthelot, W. N. Moore. C. J. Lowe. A Nadason. FT Cropley. Abdn! Ghani. A.E Oxley. RS May Twelfth man
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    19 7 ITALY won the worio s team title yestc-day o^: c M HelipolLs Palace H< tel. France was second. A.P.
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    BIRTH
    19 8 CALDKRWOOD: Cn i'Oln Apnl, H49 at Bung*ar hospital to Sheila, wife of W Calderwo,»d. Malayan Police Service a
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    97 8 TIIONSIDE-LAU: The engagen'^nt is announced between Mr. Jijn?s Alexander Ironside and M- Lau Pui Chen. A tea-party r>e held on Fridav, April 22nd. Kuala Lumpur. MR W P. GRIEVE MISS P \1 ALSTON-ROBERTS-WEST T" •nsseeinrnt is announced. t!,» marria*'* will shortly take p in Spore between Walter Fr» er
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    GOLDEN WEDDING
    21 8 KRAAL CARLOS: Stephen Stmuel Kraal to Annie Winifred Carlos at the Church of the Good Sl'-nherd Sinstapore. April 22nd.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    34 8 MPS M A FERNANDEZ and f. utv tendrr their grateful thanks i I hose who attended the funeral of !Mff son Harold Anthony and *'>> to thos*» who sent wreaths a:ii letters of rondolenCe.
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    DEATH
    66 8 O'JEK nO KHIANG passed bs iv peacefully at 12 p.m. on Sunday, ITth Ipfffl 1949. at his Nov 20 2t Circular Rd a-.* SS. He Vive* behind his be-; 1 i wife, four sons. Quek Soo K Soo Joo. Soo Giap and Soo I■» two daughters, two sons-in- hiv,
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    BIG DUTCH PUSH IN SUMATRA
    442 8 Peace parley deadlocked BATAVIA, Friday. AS the United Nations-sponsored Dutch-Indone-sian Republican negotiations for restoration of peace in Indonesia reached a critical phase yesterday and belief grew that the talks would fail, Indonesian quarters charged that Dutch forces in Bencoolen had launched a large-scale operation toward
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    5 KILLED BY DOPE
    104 8 COLOGNE. Thursday. A GERMAN waitress accused of murdering five women admitted in court today that she doped them and then robbed them— "but I Intended only to steal. I never wanted to murder," 37-year-old Irma Swinka Insisted. Swlnka Is accused of robbing 40 women In many
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    US professors may come to Malaya
    228 8 Fre e Press Staff Reporter IT is expected that a part of the l'Ssl. ooo,ooo Fulbright Fund, set up by agreement between the United States and Britain, will be made available for educational purposes in Malaya and other British Colonies, the head of the
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    Atomic crops this year
    87 8 CROPS in the United States this year will show results of atomic research applied to agriculture, the chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Mr. David Lilienthal, says in an article in the magazine, "Successful Farming," published In Des Moines yesterday. Mr. Lilienthal, saying atomic research
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    VIETNAM STATE TALKS
    145 8 VIETNAM STATE TALKS SAIGON, Friday. pOCHIN-CHINA'S Territory al Assembly met yes- teiday for its second plenary i session without reaching a vote on the decisive Issue of participation in the new Viet- nam state. Ex-Emperor Bao Dai of Annam has made Cochin- j China's agreement to particl- j pation a
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    'BIG 3' TALKS ON GERMANY
    102 8 WASHINGTON. Friday. THE United States State Department has begun dUcysaions with the British and French Foreign Offices on methods to be adopted if the Western German political leaders reject the Allies' proposals for a separate West German Government, diplomatic officials here said today. They may
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    BE SENSIBLE
    47 8 Dr. Jose Arce of Argentina told Britain, United States and Russia in the United Nations Political Committ" 1 vesterday that the second World War was now over end It would be more sensible if they now "stopped exchanging epithets which are bitter and wounding." U.P.
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    20 8 The Czechoslovak Government has announced that It preparing measures to put to work all able-bodied persons who habitually avoid It."
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    RACE BIAS: US DIRECTIVE
    152 8 THE United States armed services have been ordered to present their plans for ending racial discrimination, by May 1. The Secretary for Defence, Mr. Louis Johnson, has released an April 6 directive which laid down a policy of "equality of treatment and' opportunity" regardless of race,
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    Year's study leave for professors
    124 8 BASLE, Friday. UNIVERSITY professors from 20 nations gave universal recognition yesterday to their right to one year's holiday every seventh year in addition to the ordinary annual leave. The Congress of tht International Association of University Profttton and Lacturars has recommeitttod "that a sjsttm of
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    Snoring hubby went 'haywire'
    59 8 KANSAS CITYr Friday. A 67-year-old housewife was shot dead because, it was alleged, she woke her husband and told him he was snoring. Earle Newby, 68 told the Sheriff s deputies his wife had been "nagging me" for years about snoring, and added, "This last time,
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    ASIA CAN RAISE ENOUGH FOOD'
    197 8 P nrtnTlT WASHINGTON Friday ROPER use of present technical knowledge could make all nations of the Middle East and Far East self-sufficient in food production, according to the chief food expert of the United Nations Mr Norris E Dodd. But this self-sufficiency could come only
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    Reds charge Britain and US
    256 8 Reds charge Britain and US LAKE SL'CCESS, Thursday. niSSIA today accused Britain and the tinted State s of seeking to "dismember" Italy's former African colonies to "allocate one fragment to the I nited Kingdom, one to the Tinted States, and gi\e some crumbs to Italy and Ethiopia." M. Andrei Oromyko,
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    56NAT1ON RED CROSS TALKS
    65 8 A FIFTY-SIX nation conference Including delegates from the United States and Russia opened in Geneva yesterday to revise Red Cross conventions in the light of the new dangers presented by atomic weapons The delegates will also consider a new convention on protection for civilians, which would
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    160 HOMELESS
    25 8 A CRUMBLING mounain which threatens to engulf an entire village community in th- Fukubh:n.a prefecture. 150 miles north Toky*>. has made 160 U.P.
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