The Singapore Free Press, 29 April 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA IT.J<W SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    70 DIE IN TRIPLE TRAIN SMASH
    213 1 Rail disaster m S. Africa JOHANNESBURG, Thursday. gEVENTY people, including two Europeans and 14 Indians, were killed today m a crash Involving three trains near a small station on the main line eight miles west of Johannesburg. Another 48 passengers were tonight m hospital
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    LINERS KEEP ON TO S'HAI
    68 1 LINERS KEEP ON TO S'HAI p^. > tiY Xt porter C mmunist ghfti, Bri•h and c mpanles r vessels Fat East- British Ben .er missed last few he Singapore I O line say :i call at there are and passenxpects the Glenorchy the United 5 a Co s pasKabodia Is
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    INDIES TALKS HANG FIRE
    42 1 HA Fri beiween and Re- settlt have mderother's wellsource I the side had principles (or he next hi United i -onference -i^d. weekly review m Indonesia of clashes bepki i CornIndonesia", ps m ht MesI Ea.v Java. Reuter
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    CHINA DEBATE NEXT WEEK
    19 1 MMI will s lation m ac Communist warship* t*i M next Herbert Morrl- Minister. "-rdav.
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    60 1 Two cub leader* attending a leadership oour.st ai tht Boy Scouts' Association castle camp site, Kuala Lumpur, prepare a meal. Doing their own cooking is part of the training programme which includes lectures and field work. Twenty -four leaders are m camp including two Gurkha officers who are to start
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    79 1 Mr. Tan Kah Ket. m whose honour a dinner was held last nifht at the Be Ho Hean Club. Mr. Tan Is leaving for Hoag Kong bj the Carthage on May 5 on route for Shanghai. If Shanghai is still not occupied by the Communists by the time the Carthage
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    12 ARRESTED IN FED.
    25 1 Twelve people were arrested m the Federation of Malaya ip the past 24 hours —nine m Porak and three m Selangor.
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    CHINESE REDS CUT THE BURMA ROAD
    187 1 CHINESE Communists have cut the famous Burma road into China. Burma Army radio reports that a force of 2,000 has captured Paoshan, about 100 miles from the Burmese border. Wanting, important Chinese customs outpost on the Burma border, has been isolated. Meanwhile Burmese Government
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    Explosion in Cairo
    16 1 An explosion occurred yesterday m the Cairo Laboratories of the Ministry of Health.
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    ALL HAD CARDS
    30 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore police screened 3.629 people m road blocks m the Bukit Timah and Dunearn Road area s last evening. All had Identity cards.
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    HANGCHOW THREATENED
    175 1 SHANGHAI, Thursday. f OMMI'NIST armies massed m a wide area round v Shanghai today sent spearheads south towards the lake city of Hangchow. key point m the new Nationalist defence line. Military observers here think it still too early to say whether the Communists will launch an immediate
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    SURPRISE UN TIRADE BY MALIK
    126 1 FLUSHING MEADOW. Fri. SOVIET delegate Mr. Jacob Mal.k charged before the the General Assembly yesterday that Britain and the United States were attempting to circumvent the United Nations through the North Altantic treaty and "'other aggressive actions." Malik, who is the chief Soviet negotiator In
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    WOMEN PROBE HANGING
    79 1 TEN men and two women are to serve on Britain's Royal Commission on capital punishment. The chairman will be Sir Ernest Gowers. Members include a novelist, a psychiatrist, a trade unionist and several lawyers Mrs. Elizabeth. Cameron i novelist Elizabeth Bowen > and Miss Florence Hancock, vice-chairman
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    AFTER SKULLS —TREASURE
    54 1 AFTER SKULLS TREASURE A LABOUR gang excavating ground for a new building m Clarke Road yesterday found a wrist watch, a gold tooth and a woman's Jade earring after five skulls had been earlier found. The articles are believed to be relics of people who died m the Japanese war.
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    Jap husbands 'feudal'
    76 1 JAPANESE husbands are still feudalistic and consider their wives as household effects for their convenience despite three years of Allied authorities' efforts to demo cratise Japan. Mrs. Yoshiko Tanaka, of Yokohama, complains m a letter to the newspaper Asahi. She vvn "Most husbands say that it is
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    SPLIT LINER: 'LARGEST LOSS'
    66 1 THE Royal Mail Line said yesterday it is abandoning its right to the luxury liner Magdalena. which split apart on Tuesday near the mouth of Rio De Janeiro Harbour. All but the stern section sank. She was insured for £2.500,000. Insurance sources said this probably would
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    KASHMIR TRUCE TERMS READY
    116 1 NEW DELHI, Friday. 'PHE United Nations Kashmir Commission yester- day presented simultaneously to the Governments of Pakistan and India its "final terms" for a truce agreement between the two countries. The Commission's communique presented to the Indians here and t6%he Pakistanis at Rawalpindi requested replies from
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    BANDIT kILLED
    21 1 A patrol of the Ist Seaforths shot and killed a Chinese bandit m the Segamat area. Johore. yesterday morning.
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    THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
    89 1 ANOTHER python. 15 feet long, was run over last night by a motor-car m Pelrce Road. Tanglin. The driver of the car. travelling towards Swettenham Road, saw m the light of the headlamps the python stretching across the road. After driving over it, the driver
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    Agreement on Ruhr
    22 1 Six Western powers yesterday signed an agreement setting up an international authority to control Germany's industrially rich Ruhr valley.
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    Acheson gives German pledge
    219 1 NEW YORK, Friday. rpHE United States is ready to "do its utmost' to reach agreement with Russia on the future of Germany, but she would not bargain away basic principles, Mr. Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State, told a meeting here yesterday. If new Big Four
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    U.N. AGENDA RESHUFFLE
    62 1 THE United Nations' General Assembly's steering committee yesterday postponed until tomorrow a decision on whether to reallocate discussion of the Franco-Spain issue, the Indian-South African dispute and other questions to it. s ad hoc political committee. The suggestion is that the regular political committee, which at present
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    Bandits get overseer
    20 1 A Chinese estate overseer was murdered by two Chinese bandits at the Kuantan area. Pahang. yesterday afternoon.
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    'UNDESIRABLE'
    28 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese namecT Tan Chwee Bah wa s arrested on a banishment warrant yesterday by the Singapore Police for "being an undesirable character."
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    DEPORTEES' ESCAPE BID
    50 1 IMVE Bulgarians, all refugees from the Communist regime m that country, yesterday escaped from an Egyptian ship at Hoboken Pier while awaiting"* deportation, it was reported m North Bergen (New Jersey). Four of the men were rtcaptured a few hours later, but one is still missing.- U.P.
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    CUP TEAM WON'T BE STRANDED
    432 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. A LTHOUGH the Malayan Agent m London, Mr. W. A. Ward, has been authorised by the Singapore Government to pay the return passages of the Malayan Thomas Cup team and its manager, I am assured that there was no
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    S'pore-bound hitch hikers
    84 1 CALCUTTA, Fri. AN Australian, Mr. P. Pinney, and a Londoner, Mr. Marchand. veteran hitch-hikers, arrived m Calcutta this week and are leaving for Singapore shortly by an overland route". Pinney left London 14 months ago with £9 sterling. Up to now he has travelled through Europe. Greece.
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    Rubber prices
    54 1 SPECIAL Market i-orrc*pon-dent fives the price* of rubber (in cents per Ib.) at 11 a.m. tidav a* follow*: Buyers Siller*. ■ft, 1 R.S.S. Spot. low 35', IS'« F.o.b. in bales May. No. 1 R.S.S. 2i l t ii\ No. I R.SS. 33S 33-, No. 3 R.8.S U% 31-;
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    Extremes Are Not Good In Tropics
    694 2 ]i|ON. "Gosh," i?1 said Judy, "It's hot. If the phone's rung once its rung 50 times this morning. I'm drenched. I wish I didn't perspire so much. Couldn't we get an air conditioning plant m the surgery, doc?" Judy, a mirror m her hand,
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    Woman's Book
    192 2 BEST-SELLING American novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes has turned from the Louisiana cottonfields of her River Road and Vail D'Alvery to provincial France with CAME A CAVALIER. Her new story, written with all the warmth and sympathy that have long made her books the first choice of women m
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    Don't Be Dumb-Be Beautiful..
    664 2 Don't Be DumbBe Beautiful.. By A Special Correspondent. T WONDKH if :iny of you remember those days, that seem so long ago now; when very few women admitted to doing anything to their faces? Hidden away m a drawer might l>e a little powder even, if you were very dash
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      185 2 if it is maintained at tco low a temperature which it usually is wheres my appointment book. Judy?" There, under your stethoscope. But. what's wrong with air-conditioning, doc People can work much more efficiently m cool weather. When it's as hot as this rru brain feels drowsy and sluggish. If
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      200 2 jected an analgesic into the nerve and the pain stopped aimost immediately. More usually, the pains are m the neck and shoulders where there aie thick pads of muscles that can easily be upset by sharp, jerking movement Sometimes they last a few days, sometimes for weeks. An injection can
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      232 2 SINGAPORE (BLlifc NETWORK) 484 and II metres. Emergent-; news from XL at 10 am TOI>AY 10 to 10 10 News from Kuala Lumpur bouth American Way 1 30 News 1 45 Accent on Mtlody 8 Programme Summary 6.02 Radio Orchestra 6.40 Dance Music 7 News 710 Shares Announcements 7 15
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      214 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today you have a facile mind and one m wmrii intuition and locic are strangely combined. Thia makes for a strong force if wLselv used or a confusing condition if >ou. yourself, cannot distinguish between the two attributes and use them accordingly Your perceptions are very
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      234 2 Market Report; 4.45 Health lnt.l--ligcnce Bulletin; 5 05 Dance Music: 5.30 Picture Parade Th" Red Shoes'; 600 Ma-lc; 615 Sp.cial Dispatch (BBC). 630 News m Cantoaete (BBC); 6.45 Indonesian News St Programme; 7.15 News In French (BBC); 7 30 English: N°w. Commentary: Farm Sz Pactory— 'The British Indus- trl Fair"
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    A MURDER LED TO BURMA'S WOE
    245 3 THK New York Times says that Burma is now paying th e price m blood for the murder of her first Premier, Major Gen. V. Aung San, and most of his i ibinet. The Times says the suggestions that the Karens the chief cause
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    IMMIGRANT FLOOD STRAINS ISRAEL ECONOMY
    313 3 IMMIGRANT FLOOD STRAINS ISRAEL ECONOMY Premier warns: 'hard times 9 IMMIGRANTS have been pouring into Israel at the m. rat< L of 15 000 a m <> nt A since it was founded m May. This presents the new Jewish state with a social and economic problem twenty times greater
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    HIROHITO GETS A BAD PRESS
    203 3 ON the eve of Emperor HirohitoVbirthday General Mac Arthur's headquarters hav e published an analysis of Japanese magazine articles which shows that Japan's once god-like ruler is getting the worse oress Diiblicity since the surrender. F h j Hirohito, who Is 48 today. is becoming
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    Shanghai airport hysteria
    251 3 Shanghai airport hysteria *pHE Chinese National A Airways airliner rolled up to the loading apron through slanting rain at Shanghai's Lunghwa airport. Panic broke out among the waiting passengers. They rushed the plane. Crewmen slammed the door when it was rilled to capacity and the plane rolled off again. One
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    U.S. EXPORT BANS LIFTED
    62 3 rw\HE Un.ted States has 1 abolished export controls on more than 500 articles, the Commerce Department announced. This will permit shipment of these goods to Eastern European nations or any destination m the world without export licences. The announcement eliminates a ban on shipments to Eastern
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    They are friends now
    46 3 hi-f of the Israeli delegation. Reuven Shiloah and Colonel Sudki El Jundi. leader of the Murdin delegation shake hands m Rhodes before for Tel Aviv and Amman respectively. They took hem copies of the armistice for submission to their governments lor approval.
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    BETTER BEER
    40 3 Ultra-violet rays are being used to shave fungus off South Australian beer and wines.- Reuter Austrian treaty halt The four-poweT negotiations on the Austrian Treaty came In a halt yesterday pending developments m the EastVv'esc negot.ationsover Berlin. U.P.
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    WARNING TO PAKISTAN EXPORTERS
    133 3 PAKISTAN exporters have A been cautioned to maintain quality m their shipments to the United States. L. Shaffl. Consul for Paikstan m the U.S.. says m his regular report that "even one instance of malpractice creates a very unfortunate impression of Pakistan products m general." He
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    BANGKOK BIRTHS UP
    90 3 BIRTHS m Bangkok have increased by 48 percent, while deaths have fallen by eight tenths of one percent, m 1948 compared with 1947. Recorded births m the city total 22,418 for 1948. 15,204 for 1947 Totals of deaths are listed as 8,484 for 1948 and 8,555 for
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    F.I.C. rebels shell U.K. steamer
    65 3 THE British passenger steamer. Pakhoi. was shelled and machinegunned, apparently aiy Inc'ochinese rebels on the Saigon river four days ago, her captain has said m Hong Kong. Captain D Wilson said that the Pakhoi was under heavy fire from the iungle bank of the- river
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    'SUSPECT' WAS POLICEMAN
    91 3 LAN MACLAREN, a South- ampton builder, takes an Alsatian *****, "Lass," on nightly rounds of his housing .site and the neighbouring 'Mount Pleasant School. In nine months she has disturbed only courting couples— until the other night when she leapt at a figure near the corner of
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    Reds name aggressors: 1.France 2,U.K. 3,italy
    217 3 Reds name aggressors: 1.France 2, U.K. 3,italy THE Soviet newspaper, Taegliche Rundschau, m Berlin has branded France as the greatest aggressor nation of this century with Britain second and the U.S. and Italy third. Russia "had worked for peace from 1910 to 1949." The Rundschau listed these "French aggressions." —1881
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    TRAVANCORE RULER'S DILEMMA
    207 3 WHO is the real ruler of the State of Travancore— the 37-year-old Maharaja or the Hindu deity. Padmanabhan? That question threatens to complicate a proposal by the Government of India's States Ministry to merge Travancore with its neighbouring South Indian state of Cochin. The Maharaja has offered
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    Mother 'was afraid to tell husband'
    234 3 A LETTER, said to be from a furniture firm, about £8 arrears of hire-purchase payments, was read at Hull when a 24-year-old mother was accused of murdering one of her two children. Patricia Ann, aged two. Mrs Elsie May Connor, the mother, and the
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    Frau Goering is poor, ill, lonely
    344 3 EMMY Goering, who led a luxurious life as the wife of Germany's flamboyant No. 2 Nazi, Field Marshal Goering now lives m a tumbled down shack by the old railway track m th e drab little village of Etzelwang near the Czech border. Ailing
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    30 3 Paul Robeson, famous Negro singer, confers with accompanist Helene Thierry before singing m Spanish. Russian and English to the delegates at the Congress of Partisans of Peace held m Paris.
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    5 3 Emmy Goering. a recent picture.
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    'Come to Japan'
    39 3 JAPAN expects a total of 18,000 foreign visitors to its shores this year m a revival of its tourist industry that provided a ma or source of foreign credits for Japan m its lush prewar davs.—Reuter.
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. April 29. 1949. INDIAN ROPE TRICK
    593 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. April 29. 1949. INDIAN ROPE TRICK ACHIEVEMENT by the Do- minion Prime Ministers at their London conference of an agreement which keeps India as a republic w.thin the Commonwealth is a remarkable demons'rat ion of the flexibility of the Commonwealth organisation. The intangible tie that
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    FAITH
    23 4 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. James 1, 12.
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    64 4 He drawing by Associated Press staff artist John Carlton, shows how such a bomb burst over 42nd. street and Fifth Avenue. New York City, would flash death-de-aling gamma rays through the city's tall buildings. Air-burst atomic bombs make many cities m the American North East obsolete, according to Dr R
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    Lynch Law Is Abating In USA
    894 4  -  VIRGINIA POTTER By WHITE and coloured students of American's "Negro problem? agreed today that the U.S. Negro has made a lot of social progress m the past half century but still has a long way to go, and often against heavy odds. They found
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    Civilisation Creeps Into Africa
    380 4 By PALL F. ELLIS. MODERN-DAY civilisation is moving m on an ancient tribe of Africans, m an area where m the past men had as many as 40 wives and killing your father was a requirement to become a king. The tribe is the Kuanyama Ambo
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    1949 Reno Of The Caribbean
    521 4  -  St. Thomas, Virgin Islands: IF divorce can ever be made pleasant; if there can be such a thing as "divorce without tears," then St. Thomas, m the Virgin Islands, is the place for it. For America's "Isle of Capri" has since 1944 been a growing
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    THEY ALL LISTEN TO HER
    933 4 People Make News WHKN a visiting dignitary gets difficult Radio Malaya usually sends an SOS to tall (sft Sins), slim, athletic, Miss RHONA CONNERY, a pro gramme assistant. The reason Is that she seems to be able to make anybody listen to her. Witness, they
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    DPs Thrive In Australia
    218 4  -  EDWARD BISHOP By Special Correspondent AUSTRALIA is planning a mass migration scheme including an airlift that will bring ixdisplaced persons into the Dominion this year at the rate of one thousand people week. Some have already arrived For others, air passage negotiations are being carried on.
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    Colony Chinese rush to register
    107 5 Colony Chinese rush to register tree Press Chinese Correspondent 11 :H the registration H Chinese nationals conducted by the Chinese j at e General m Singapore due to end tomorrow, huge crowds of c men and women I been going to the :nese Consulate-Gen-eral daily applying for la*- rr.inute registration.
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    £33.000 FOR STATIONERY
    376 5 Kree Press Staff Reporter. .E stationery requirements of Singapore Municipal •Mrtments during 1949 v.ill :ount to more than $33,000, a: a orders for these have p proved by the finance ittee of the Municipal missioners. The orders go to 11 flrma, of which Rets the biggest c
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    VILLAGES QUIZZED ON SCHOOLS
    488 5 VILLAGES QUIZZED ON SCHOOLS Farmers reply with crosses Free Press Staff Reporter \yiTH a cross or a thumbprint, many Singapore Chinese farmers and fishermen have signed statements that they prefer English education for their children, but that they cannot pay the monthly school fee of $2.50. Their children are among
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    43 5 picture. nELEGATES and observers from several countries including India, U.S.A., Britain, Malaya, Indonesia, Australia and Indo-China pictured m Singapore yesterday attending the Phy toSanitary Conference. They have been studying- and making recommendations On the prevention of plant diseases m South-east Asia. Free Press
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    50 5 picture. j% |K. and Mrs. M. T. Leong, who were married at the Trinity College chapel m Singapore yesterday. Mr. Leong is on the staff of Diet helm Co. and is an administrative officer of the Malayan Air Training Corps. His bride was formerly Miss Lee Kwai Yuen.- Free Press
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    New ship on Malaya run
    120 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. Anew B.L :argo liner, the 7,000-ton Carpentaria, is to be Dlaced en the am between Australia. Maiaya, India. Ceylon and Pakistan Trials were completed recently of the vessel, which was built on the Clyde. The Carpentaria is the first of a
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    Posts, telecoms workers meet
    127 5 rE third annual conference of the Posts and Telecommunication Workers m Singapore elected the following office-bearers for the year: President (Mr. Yeo Meug Scan), Vice-presidents (Mr. Woug Hong Wing and Mr. 6. Rajuoj, Secretary (Mr. Q. Kandasamy.i. Asst. Secretaries (Mr. Kartar Singh and Mr. E. Rajaretnam)
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    ANNUAL R.E. DINNER
    76 5 The annual iioyal Engineers ulllcer's dinner for past and present officers Is being held m Singapore at the Mountbatten Club on Wednesday, June 29, coinciding with the Corps dinner m London. Past officers of the R.E. who would like to attend should send their names and addresses
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    Boy Scout body finds a home
    56 5 Free Press Staff Reporter (XSE of the Singapore Boy Scouts Association's main problems has been overcome. The organisation has been given the old St. Andrew's House m Armenian Street as headquarters for its activities. The building is to be repaired and furnished out of
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    'BARTER TRADE IS GOING ON'
    227 5 Free Tmm Start Reporter BARTER trade between Singapore and non-federal areas m North Sumatra is continuing despite reports to the contrary, and ships make regular sailings from Singapore to ports m the form or residency and dependencies of Acheen, and to Sinabang, Goenong Sitoli and
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    CO-OP GAINS MORE MEMBERS
    190 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rE Singapore Co-operative Stores Society's membership rose by 463 from 4.236 to 4.699 m one year, but over the same period sales dropped from about $482,000 m the previous year to $373,000 last year. This is stated m the Society's report for
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    BRIDGES TO GET WASH
    89 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FIVE of Singapore's main bridges are to be cleaned and re-painted by the Municipality this year. They are Elgin, Cavanagh Coleman. Ord and Clemenceau bridges. Work has already begun on Elgin Bridge, this being the first time on which main- I tenance
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    COLLEGE TALK
    38 5 Mrs. Richardson, represen-' tative of the International Students' Society, will speak on "Student Life and the* Community 1 to Raffles Col- 1 »ege Btudents' Union tonlgnt In the College Hall. The meeting begins at 8 p.m.
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    $5,000 trishaw rider will seek a new life
    258 5 $5,000 trishaw rider will seek a new life Free Press Staff Reporter OHOPT. 22-year-old Singapore trishawman Kadin bin Yunus, who was awarded $5,000 m a court case on Tuesday as damages against a lorry owner, is going to bank it *jii-,il the political situation m Sumatra clears up. Then he
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    TECHNICAL ASSN
    40 5 The Singapore Branh of the Technical Association of Malaya will hold a special general meeting at 6 p.m. today m the British Council Hall to discuss the formation of sub-committees for sections such as automotive and mechanical engineering.
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      62 5 an; are due to arrive to. ay from the U.K., Burm< China. Japan, the Philippines, and the N.E.I. Clo ing times for posting airmails at the g.P-O. are: to Australia, C?ylon. Burma Slam, Philippines, Batavia and Medan: 6 p.m. and to Dabo Singkep 4 p.m. No surface mails are rxpocted
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    Trading down prices steady
    496 6 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. m ALTHOUGH trading was down to the bare minimum m the London stock exchange yesUrday prices generally remained steady. Interest was selective and produced scattered firm spots. Brazilian rails were again m demand. Speculative buying resulted m advances In most issues
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    39 6 |)U uiir. ijTTDENTS of the Singapore Chinese National Language O School are seen being shown how picture blocks are made m the Free Press plant yesterday. The students were on a "study" visit to the Free Press.- Free Press
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    Masked Men Tortured Man & Wife
    112 6 Masked Men Tortured Man Wife PARIT BUNTAR, Thurs H CHINESE, his wife two sons, aged 10 and 12, are m hospital as a result of injuries sustained when they were beaten up by five robbers four of them masked. The gang br^ke into the attap house of Chng Chak i
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    AT THE SINGAPORE WHARVES
    118 6 SHIPS m port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board vharv** yest-rday (godowm m bra-.-kets) were Main Wharf: Charon (J3-34>, Bidor <35«. Brua.s <35». Benl«-dl (38-391. Rirhmond Hill (40-41 Tarakan 42-43 > Weit Wharf: Molenlcerk 1-2 Agapenor (4-3>. Socotra (6-7 1, B^ncruachan (8-»i. Ore&t (10--11). Mongola (15-16). Empire
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    'PAY CLAIMS OR ESTATES CLOSE'
    887 6 Palmer warns on war damage Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. ITNLESS war damage compensation is paid soon, large rubber areas m Malaya will go out of tapping and estates will close down, declared Sir Sydney Palmer, the president, addressing the annual meeting of
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    Fielding 'cradle'
    87 7 Photo. Fox Essex County's cricket team began their official training for the U.K. cricket season on April 19, when W. H. Ashdown. former Kent batsman and now a first-class S? 1 11^' took np duti *s as coach to the side. Picture shows Essex cricketers getting their fielding
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    Ra-Li, Advantage best
    1716 7 Form guide for tomorrow's races tX)RM guide for horses running at Bukit Timah tomorrow is given below: Best form selections are Ra-Li (class 1, div. I—6 fur- longs > and Advantage (class 13. div. I—6 furlongs). CLASS 1, DIV. I— 6F. i 5 Yd*. 314 Kinder Gold
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    PYE TO LEAD WOLVES' ATTACK
    183 7 PYE TO LEAD WOLVES' ATTACK Changes m Cup final team gCHOOL-TEACHER Denis Wilshaw, who has been Wolverhampton Wanderers' leading goal-scorer m recent football games, will not play for the Wolves m tomorrow's Cup final against Leicester City. Wolverhampton manager, Stan Cullis, who announced his team for the Wembley Stadium match
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    Navy men's claims
    305 7 Navy men's claims i THE Army-Navy selectors will I choose the combined side to meet Singapore Civilians In their Malaya Cup fixture, which will be played at Jalan 3esar Stadium on Sunday, after today's trial at Nee Soon. Like the Army, the Navy haa several very good players whose claims
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    SOCCER IN U.K.
    32 7 RESULTS of yesterday's U.K. soccer were: Third Division Southern: Newport County 0. Aldershot 2; Walsall 2, Leyton Orient 3. Third Division Northern: Trail mere Rovers 2, Darlington I.— Reuter
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    TEAMS FOR WEEK-END CRICKET
    353 7 SINGAPc Cricket Club 's team i affair n-Bcuders C.C to- morrow i m on the Padang will be: A Baker (capt.). Rev. Browne, A. W. Hayes. 8/Ldi Winton. N. Bradbury, J. Mills, O Stewart, O. Darke and J. A. K. Gould. G. E. Mumard. K. I.
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    67 7 picture. A highly successful apprentice jockey is Emanuel Lionel Mercer (above). Now 20 years of age, Mercer was working m a Bradford textile mill at 14. He then joined a racing stable at Mablethorpe. Lincolnshire, and is now apprenticed to George Colling at Newmarket, Mercer won the 1947 Lincolnshire Handicap
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    SCOTTISH LEAGUE FIXTURES
    46 7 CCOTTISH League soccer fixtures O for tomorrow are: "A" Div.: Albion R. Rangers; Falklrk v Dundee; Motherwell v. Aberdeen. "B" Di?.: AUoa A. v East Stirling; Ralth R. v Dunfermllne A. Other matches are: Chester v. Tranmere R Fverton v Third Lanark. Reuter
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    1956 Olympics in Melbourne
    133 7 THE 1956 Olympic Games will be held m Melbourne. This decision was made by the International Olympic Committee when after a secret ballot Melbourne received 21 votes to Buenos Aires' 20. This will be the first time that the Olympic Games have been held m Australia
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    SLOW WORK THIS MORNING
    57 7 SLOW WORK THIS MORNING APART from a few spurt* m the home straight, only slow work was done on the Bukit Timah track this morning w The course is m excellent condition, and if the weather remain*? fine the going tomorrow should be very good. Likely non-acceptors include Fairwood, Oriendal.
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    RUGBY RESULTS
    21 7 YESTERDAYS Rugby Union re--1 suits were: Weston Super Maie 3, Bristol 5; Cardiff 8. Captain Crawshay's team 0.- Reuter
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    W.Jones hits 114 v. England XI
    202 7 OPARKLING, aggressive batting by left-hander W. E. Jones was the feature of yesterday's cricket m Cardiff, where Glamorgan, the County champions, drew their two-day game against an England XI. Jones took the utmost advantage of the England team's poor fielding and smacked their bowling
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    Tamil B.A. register second victory
    259 7 Tamils 2; Chinese Casuals 1. T»HE Tamil Brotherhood Association yesterday registered their second win this season by beating th c Chinese Casuals 2—l m a Senior Division League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday With both teams markedly weak m all departments of the game,
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    CUP TENNIS STARTS
    146 7 pUROPE leads olf ioday m the annual battle lor m. 1 iX\>-. Cup. The Caechs are exoected 1 survive the 22-nation flgM )n European «one, is they nid m 194. and 1948. •Argentina has withdrawn, givirs Epypt a wp.lko\\?r m? he ser or. round. Turkey nas also
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    Armycricket team to play in Hong Kong
    181 7 Armycricket team to play in Hong Kong SINGAPORE District <Army> which recently sent a soccer team to play f hree matches m Hong Kong is planning to follow with a cricket side, which is scheduled to make the visit later U season. It is holding a trial at Nee Soon
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    New opponent for Cerdan
    84 7 Ttf ARCEL Cerdan. French bolder of the world middleweight championship, *s to fhM at |i Polo Grounds, Ne-v r ->rk, on Tur.t 21 against one of three onr>onrnt> Jatee la Motta. Strvc Be!'oise oi Rocky Graziano. It was annojticcd tha* Lem Burston. one of Ceii:»n'r, American
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    BIRTH
    18 8 vtvptt.t.- To Pauline, wife of G. D. Vinell. a daughter, on April 12th at Kuala Trengganu Hospital.
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    79 8 A KSMAN-GLOSZ-DAVY The en isjoment Is announced between P;.il Patrick Aksman-Glosz, Stmon Officer. Fire Station, Ipoh, and Miss Daely Davy, eldest dargrner of the late Mr. Frederick John Davy tnd Mrs. Davy. MILLER-CRAWFORD: The en r cement is announced at Ipoh. Malaya, between John Mclntyre Miller, younger son of
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    MARRIAGE
    24 8 LOW -WILLIAMSON: At the "W -loy Church. Singapore, on April. Mollie Williamson of r ice. Scotland, to Raymond f Low of London. England.
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    WE WANT INDIA TO REMAIN'
    554 8 Churchill happy over new status LONDON, Thursday. M R. Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister, today described to Parliament as "historic" the Commonwealth agreement which keeps the future Republican India within the Commonwealth as a full and equal partner. Mr. Winston Churchill, leader of the Opposition,
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    URANIUM RING
    32 8 The US Army reported m Frankfurt yesterday that American agents had smashed a ring trying to sell $3,000,000 worth of uranium from prewar German stockpiles on the black market. U.P.
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    46 8 picture. VI K. and Mrs. R. Low after their wedding at the Wesley i»l Church m Singapore yesterday. The bride was formerly Miss Molly Williamson. Mr. Low is on the staff of McAlister's. and the bride Is a secretary on th#» Commissioner (ieneral's staff.- Free Press
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    SMUTS DOESN'T LIKE IT
    204 8 CAPETOWN, Thursday. GEN. Jan Smuts. South Africa's Opposition leader, today expressed his misgivings about the way India claimed full membership of the Commonwealth. "Despite the general chorus of approval with which the declaration on the Commonwealth Prime Minister!' conference on India has been received." he said
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    Syria builds defence line
    117 8 BEIRUT. Frl CYRIAN troops are 'hrowIng up extensive fortifications on the Transjordun border. Thousands of Syrian soldiers at Sheik Maskln are digging trenches along a vast area and numerous heavy guns and tanks are scattered about. Two defence lines have now been established, the first at
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    OLD-TIME STAR FOOTBALLER DIES
    90 8 JiHE Rev. Rennet n R G. Hunt, 65, famoa.) old-u.nc Eru\Uh footballer, Jied yesterday. Hum played right half r ur Wolverhampton Wandeitn und scored a goal m U:o Wohev 1-1 Cup final win over Newcastle United m 1908. Ho t v.cc played for England against Scotland
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    UN Tower of Babel proposal opposed
    238 8 NEW YORK, Friday. STRONG opposition by the United Kingdom and the United States to the adoption of Russian and Chinese as working languages of the United Nations General Assembly has arisen In the Assembly's budgetary committee. China and Russia had proposed the adoption of
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    Found—a P.M's leg
    98 8 Found a P.M's leg The amputated right leg of a former Premier. Marquis Shlgenobu Okum.i. who survived a Rightist bomb attack 60 years ago. has just been found m Tokyo's Red < ross Hospital. The discovery came about when official! of the Waseda University, planning to celebrate the university's founding
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    ROYAL MARRIAGE
    17 8 Brazilian Prince Joso Orleans Braganza Is to be married today /to Egyptian Princess Fatima. U.P.
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    SIAMESE QUEEN
    41 8 Former Queen Rambhal Barni of Siam will take the ashes of her husband, ex-King Prajadhipok, to Slam when she returns from London to her homeland on Sunday. Her trip will mark the end of a 14--year exile. A. P.
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    Blockade: drama in five acts
    245 8 BERLIN, Friday. A "BABY blockade" flared up and was settled m a brief five-act drama m Berlin yesterday. SCENE: West Berlin's canal system, technically under 80--viet administration as part of the Eastern zone waterways network. ACT ONE: Soviet lommygunners occupied thrqe locks m the British
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    Uganda parties outlawed
    93 8 TWO native political parties were declared illegal by the Uganda Government yesterday. They were the Batata Party and the African Farmers' Union. The Bataka Party, which Is alleged to have been behind most of the political trouble m Uganda for several years, is said to have Communistic
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    DEBATE ON NATIONALISM
    62 8 BY 71 votes to 21. the proposition "that nationalism wai the greatest menace to world peace" was lost m tht debate between the EastWest Society and the Stamford Club, held last night at the British Council Hall. The proposition < East- West Society! was led by Yen.
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    AIRLIFT COSTS U.S. $149,664,200
    120 8 BERLIN". Thursday T»HE U.S. spent $149,0(34.200 for the first ten months of the airlift operations. American and British airlift planes combined flew almost 180 000 fliehts and carried 1,427.893 tons of food coal' and other supplies to Berlin up till Apr 26 The Americans began tht
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    U.S. SPIES' ALL OVER FINLAND
    58 8 TWE Soviet nress yesterday L prominently displayed a report from Helsinki charging widespread American esMonage through an agency of Mormon missionaries. It said that the ring was nanaged by 36 ministers who arted m the north of Finand and then spread over the whole country,
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