The Singapore Free Press, 3 May 1949

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 17,463. SINGAPORE, TTESDAY, MAY 3, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    'CHIANG DIRECTS S'HAI DEFENCE'
    360 1 Reds held up at Kunshan SHANGHAI, Tuesday. QENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek is still in Shanghai and is personally directing the city's defences, according to a newspaper report from Canton yesterday. Military officials in Shanghai would neither confirm nor deny the report, but the censor allowed its publication,
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    'QUAKE IN U.S.
    21 1 Part of Los Angeles was shaken early yesterday by an earthquake that rattled walls and shook pictures. A.P.
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    JESSUP & MALIK TRY AGAIN
    67 1 JESSUP MALIK TRY AGAIN PARIS, rurtd&y. THE American Roving Am bassador. Mi Phil.,> Jrssup, and Mr. Ja« <»b Malik In* Russian negotlat» r. are drafting a communique on 'hr 11ftiBg of (he Ber'.ln Mock.id' and the holdliiß of a frurpower meeting, it was learned from usually wt-11-lr.form ed quarters here
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    INDIA MAY REJECT KASHMIR TERMS
    151 1 NEW DELHI, Tuesday. INDIA will probably reject the United Nations' final truce terms on Kashmir, according to a Government spokesman yesterday. Under the terms India is required to withdraw her troops from Kashmir without waiting for a decision on the withdrawal, or dtsbandm^nt, of the
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    HAWAII STRIKE
    25 1 Sir major Hawaiian ports were tied yesterday by a strike of CIO longshoremen <dockside workers) demanding 31 cents an hour wages increase. U.P.
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    'MONTY' VISITS EUROPE
    35 1 FiHd Marshal Lord Montgomery, European Western Union Military Chief, left by plane yesterday for the continent. He will visit France and the Netherlands before his return to Britain about May 5. A.P.
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    Industries Fair opens
    77 1 Free Pre.v» Lonuon Correspondent. 110 DAY was trade buyers' day at the British Industries Fair and the Malayan >tand received a number of enquiries, mostly tboul rubber manufactures prices of which are lower thai last vear, and are competing with European-madr articles. The badminton team will visit
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    37 1 photo >h and \mrritan >ailors riiu < hi«*f Pdlv Officer Ht:r> (•rr'f-nnu Irom Ihe drt k of the drxtrtver on><»rt whi« h w.tN >hrlli*d b> < »mninniNts in thf V^nkl*^ m \\n\\ Stl tireenin? w^s of l»i iniart>d. A.P.
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    PMs TALKED OF AID TO BURMA
    157 1 LONDON. Tuesday. ri lIK Foreign Otiu-e yesterday confirmed that the que>tit>n of aid to Burma was discussed at the informal meetings of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers last week. Officials ssid. however, that they could not :irm the R.tr.gooi reports that the Comniontlth count n»s
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    Science expedition
    23 1 Iv internationally known 8 scientists will h«ad an petition to Sumba Island In II «rn part of tht tndoArrhipelago today. <* •-.> i
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    6 Nationalist warships sunk
    104 1 SHANGHAI. Tuesday. THE Chinese Air Force has sunk six of eight Nationalist warships captured on the Yangtze by the Communists after the fall of Nanking, according to an official Central News Agency despatch today. Another two vessels were «aid to be so badly damaged that they
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    37 1 photo Captain Peter CazaM. of London, commander tne cruiser London which *u> (l.un.ited in an Mgagem*Vfl with Communist arlillrry in the Yangtst iliy< r un April 20. The Captains 'et and hip were in.jurfd t.v shrannel. A.P
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    REBELS ATTACK TROOP TRAIN
    201 1 RANGOON, Tuesday. r P\VO hundred rebels attacking a troop train in 1 North Kurnia were given a running battle by troops aboard the train, said an official Burmese (iovernment comm unique today. The train wa.« en route to the road and rail Jum-tion of Kimi, from
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    Soldier spent $600 in 2 days
    161 1 Fri'p Press StaiT Reporter. A SOLDIER. Private D. B. S. McCulloch. told Mr. Justice Cox Evans, in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday that he had received $***** in six months from stolen military goods, and had spent the "whole amount in the same period.
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    U.K. CAR EXPORTS
    27 1 The 22.500 car« exported from Britain during March brought in a record £6.100,000: £600.000 more than the monthly target set recently by the Government.
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    61 1 photo. Pali:*ctr. is holdtn n Aj. > .»vr i. i ;»u\r> of l*v v.< .i sailors killed on the II MS. London and the 11.M.K. i »a--sort when the ships wrre attacked by Communist arUllerj on the Yangtse River on April 2t. A total of l.i men uc.e killed on
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    New Asian Courses
    23 1 Columbia College, part of j Columbia Univt '--it;- will u,augurate survey courses on Asiatic peoples and civilisatiam ru'xt Sep: mbt <
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    BANDITS KILL 2 IN ROAD AMBUSH
    227 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA Ll'MPl R, Tuesday. BANDITS ambushed five civilian vehicles on the main trunk road 13 miles north of Kuala Lumpur shortly after dusk yesterday and killed two people a Malay motor cyclist and a motor car passenger. The ambush, which
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    THERE WILL STILL BE AN 'EMPIRE'
    231 1 THERE WILL STILL BE AN 'EMPIRE LONDON, Monday. WIIE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, said in ft Parliamentary reply today that there was no agreement to adopt or exclude the use of any of the terms "Commonwealth," "British Commonwealth/' or "Empire." "All constitutional developments in the Commonwealth, the British Commonwealth
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    Indonesia, Israel held over
    110 1 Indonesia, Israel held over NEW YORK, Tues. THE United Naiions General Assembly last night se| May 14 as the tentative datl for closing th's session and referred the quejtion of admitting Israel to membership to the ad hoc Political Committee. A proposal that the Indian complaint against Gouth Africa should
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    Troops for F.I.C.
    23 1 One thousand officers and men. mainly from Hit French. Foreign legion, embarked at Oran. North Africa, yesterdav for Indo-China Reuter
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    Rubber prices
    60 1 4 SPtl lAL Markrt t«-rrr>pon-d« m gives the pi ices of rubber (in cents per Ib.i at 11 a.m. i<-dj» as follows: Buyers* S«-lle»*. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot. loose 35 S 33 M 1.0.b. in bales Mav. No. 1 R.SS. 35\» 35 No. 2 R S S 34
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    NO 'INDIA DAY'
    89 1 WHE Prime Mtn si. r Mr. C 1 R. AUlee, rejected a gestlon In the Commons fci terday thhat April 27. the day the agreement on India's future status within the Commonwealth was announced should be commemorated in future. Mr. Attlee said "I agree that April 27
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    Emergency arrests
    40 1 Free Press Staff Reporter An Indian, suspected to be a member of the Malayan Communist Party, and an Indian described as "a habitual criminal and a danger to society" were arrested under the emergency regulations in Singapore yesterday.
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    MRS. ATTLEE ILL
    24 1 Mrs. Clement Attlee, wife of Britain's Prime Minister was ordered into a hospital yesterday for two v/eelrs 7 complete rest."- A.P.
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    A family or a career?
    886 2  - A family or a career? ROSEMARY ARCHDALL TOiM YS PROBLEM By I IFE for some grandmothers was so simple. They were brought up to read, write and do rudimentary arithmetic. They learnt too to sew a neat seam, embroider divinely, paint and play the piano. A few went to schools,
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    Focus on feet
    176 2 LANDING myself at the foot of a column to-day I thought a few words of them would not be out of place. I have to do a good deal of tramping around stores and shops and I have found these hints from a well-known chiropodist invaluable. CHOOSE
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    Polishing Pointers
    244 2 HAVE you ever tried your hand at French polishing? Large objects are better left to a craftsman, but it is not difficult if you start with small articles, such as a trinketbox or desk top. There is a tremendous thrill in this feeling of craftsmanship. And it is
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    Bridge Hands
    313 2 COUTH'S cue-bid of three dlaw monds was optimistic, but it seemed likely that he would have some play for game at whatever suit North could bid (He also had i» mind that by bidding with greater confidence he might coax the opponent* to save at five diamonds even
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    39 2 Studies in expression as the famous Bristol "Quads" make their first acquaintance Kith chicks, as a special holiday treat. The ten-month-old Good quads, Frances, Jennifer, Elizabath and Bridget, display a lively, although somewhat uncertain, interest in their fluffy playmates.
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    Don't be a rabbit... make one
    392 2 Don 't be a rabbit make one EDNA McKENNA explains how to make a simple toy that will delight any kiddy. VI AKING toys for the children is a fascinating pastime. Many readers hate written asking for details about toy making. Here are simple instructions for making Peter (or Rita)
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    Keep these tips in mind
    213 2 WOMEN who are stocky as well as short should avoid vtv long bobs which make the neck shorter. Short tailored hair-do's are best with some height over the forehead. Rough looking olbov.s are an unattractive sight on any woman St oc/«;sh up your elbows once
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    Baby teeth must be kept
    98 2 BLTTER teeth tn life result from tr mem and preservatl the first or "baby" vspecialist ta cl ildren's tistry said B-cause.a "baby Infected or broken U, n son to extract it. Dr nard Z. Rabinowitch ciate professor of dren*s Dentistry School Dentistry. University Southern California
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      296 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are one effering work opportunito go out after what you ties through productive want and get it no ques- channels. tlo £l. asked You very likely will atThis self-determination tract people of equal always can be put to ex- energy and bring them cellent
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    UK RECOVERY DEPENDS ON FOUR 'IFS'
    435 3 UK RECOVERY DEPENDS ON FOUR 'IFS' Plugging that dollar gap WHEN Marshall aid ceases in 1952 Britain will still be $291,000,000 short of paying for the food and raw materials she must hav e from dollar areas. To plug this gap Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's economic chief, is depending on
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    IRAN-U.K. OIL DISCUSSION
    36 3 Mr. Mohsen Rair. Iranian Ambassador who saw the British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Bevin has discussed current negotiations between the Government of Iran and the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company, usually well-informed circles reported Reuter
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    'TRY DUCE'S KILLER' PLEA
    52 3 A REQUEST has been made in Italy's Chamber of Deputies for the trial :of Benito Mussolini s killer —Communist Deputy Walter Audisdo by Deputy Giorgio Alrirante. leader of the Pro-Fascist Italian Social Movement Party. In various chinrhes j throughout Rome, masses are I held for the
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    Russian schoolage is raised
    211 3 Russian school age is raised FIS year sees the introduction of universal compulsory seven-year education for all Soviet school children. Previously, after four years, the child if he wished could go to work or to trade school. Now the limit has been raised by three years. Soviet primary school consists
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    U.N. FUNCTION 'IMPOSSIBLE'
    68 3 U.N. FUNCTION 'IMPOSSIBLE SENATOR Warren Austin. chief United States delegat* to the United Nations, has said that Russian abuse of the Big Power veto had made impossible the United Nations function of assuring world peace. Referring to the Atlantic Pact. Austin said it would provide the United Nations with a
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    'Med' dope racketeers
    341 3 'Med dope racketeers THH'RISTS who dislike French cigarettes encourage the Mediterranean smuggling racket in the opinion of most officials whose work brings them into contact with the racketeers. Touts who sell the visiting holiday makers packets of American cigarettes in the night club areas of Montmartre and Montparnasse are the
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    31 3 The Duchess of Rent, commandant of the W.R.N.S. taking th« salute at the march -past of recruits while on a risit to W.R.N.S. Training and Drafting establishment at Burchfleld. near Reading.
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    In U.S. they 'kill' machines
    278 3 -SAVE THE MEN RESULTS of a month's study of American production methods by 16 British steel industry men were summed up as: "Americans have more machines to handle operations. They believ e in killing the machine— w e kill the man." The speaker was a
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    NEW AIR RECORD
    31 3 Pan American World Airways have announced a new Trans-Atlantic air speed record of nine hours 46 minutes from New York to London, by its strato-eru'ser "Clipper America.' U.P.
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    Jap-Pakistan trade
    21 3 SCAP mission leader, Mr. Edward B. Blatchley, has announced that a Japan Pakistan trade agreement waj signed In Karachi.
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    47 3 The Spanish Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, an order which dates from the times of the Crusades marched again during Holj Week ceremonies in Toledo. Spain. Some of the knights are seen after they had been robed by the Primate of Spain, Cardinal Playdeniel, Archbishop of Toledo.
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    CHINA UPSETS RICE SHARE-OUT
    179 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. VI EMBERS of the International Rice Committee, which is responsible for recommending a division of world export supplies of rie e among importing countries, will begin meeting in mid-May to determine allocations for the second half of the year. One of the hardest problems
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    NAZI SENTENCED
    34 3 Richard Vendler. former Nazi S.S. governor of Krakow and Lublin and brother-in-law of Heinrlch Himmler was classified as a major Nazi offender and sentenced to three years in a labour camp. U.P.
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    JEALOUS, HE SCALDED WIFE
    86 3 MANILA police are still looking for a male "hot bath" specialist In a fit of jealousy Nazario Crisostomo. aged 30, poured boiling water on his wife, Pilar Tuazon -Crisostomo, also aged 30, and fled from their i home as his wift writhed in pain. Yhe woman
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    ALL FOR STATE
    28 3 President Juan Peron of Argentina has announced that all public utilities, not already in Government hands, would b» nationalized under the new Argentine corvstitution. U.P.
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    RUSSIAN HINT OF REPRISAL
    116 3 A LEADING Russian expert on international law says that the Soviet Union is entitled to take reprisals against Americans in Russia for the arrest, on spy oha rg s in New York of Valentin A. Gubitchev. Bitterly denouncing Gubitchev's arrest as violating tht elementary and universally
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    25 3 About three hundred Communists detained in Bombay prisons are to go on a hunger strike In sympathy with tasU Ing West Bengal political prisoners A.P.
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    18 3 These grotesque characters are taking part in the "inarch of the dandies" during a festival at Zurich, Switzerland.
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      489 3 SINGAPORE Metres and 14 Metres. (Bl I fc NETWORK) today IK4 «.<ri til m*tr#»« 44S p m English: Programme W and 11.7 metres. Summary; Newo Headline Share nnerj:eni-j news from K.L Market Report; 5.00 'Paul Teirple tm m A Steve' (2); 5.30 All the Latest'; at in a m 5.45
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, May 3, 1949 Family planning: what it is
    662 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, May 3, 1949 Family planning: what it is BEFORE the time comes for ttM Singapore Municipal Commissioners to debate birth control the subject is< one so vital to the city's future economy and town planning that it cannot be allowed simply to be referred to
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    Concern in UK over Malaya's self-government
    1036 4  -  Hall Romney < LONDON LETIER By THE assurance given by the Prime Minister that Britain has no intention of leaving Malaya until it has completed the task of preparing the country for self-government has been welcomed in London by all who are interested in
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    36 4 Holidaymakera who visit Kew will find the lovely gardens looking their very best, with a magnificent display of Spring flowers and blossoms. Photo shows young girls amid the lovely show of daffodils now blossoming at Kew.
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    42 4 Little Carol, daughter of the racing driver, Tony Crook, give* her daddy's car an Alfa-Romeo-a last-minute dean before he took part in an event in the Ooodwood car races where many wellknown British racing drivers and foreign entrants thrilled the holiday crowds.
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    Africa Is The Melting Pot
    475 4  -  DEREK MARKS NAIROBI: By BEFORE he enters the exclusive Nairobi Club for his "sundowner" at the end of the day's work, the Kenya businessman sometimes stops for a moment to refresh himself with a glimpse of distant, snow-capp-ed Kilamanjaro. On a clear day the mountain,
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    A mixture of races makes Bangkok fascinating
    1041 4 A mixture of races makes Bangkok fascinating This is the second of a series of articles written by NAN HALL, Free Press Staff Reporter, who flew by courtesy of the Malayan Airways over their route to Bangkok. \yED: 9 p.m. I am sitting in my balcony room at the Trocadero
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    Prefabs Displace Thatched Tops In India
    374 4 Prefabs Displace Thatched Tops In India NEW DELHI: T*HE Indian Govern- ment has planned to build one million houses to relieve countrywide housing shortage. This programme, which the Government hopes to launch immediately, will be completed in ten years. The plan envisages the construction, on a "rentpurchase" basis, of cheap
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    ATOMIC RAYS TEST ON SHIP
    70 4 *pHE Royal Navy's pig" cruiser. Ar^ was moored in a v guarded target area Portsmouth yesterria/ lor week of pounding hy a rays. The test* are due begin early next week. Purpose of the vests which gamma r.iy c;cn< on floating pontoons wiJ bombard the
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    FAITH
    24 4 The Lord on high K mifiitier Unto the noise of many waters, yea, than the mifhty waves of the sea. Psalms, 93. 4
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    MORE JOBS FOUND FOR WORKLESS
    362 5 MORE JOBS FOUND FOR WORKLESS 6,000 register with exchange Free Press Staff Reporter 'pHOUGH unemployment in Singapore is generally believed to be on the increase, nearly 100 fewer persons registered for work with the Employment Exchange of the Singapore Labour Office last month than in March. The Exchange found jobs
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    45 5 picture. VtfE King and ot laos, French Indo-China, who passed through Singapore yesterday in the French liner Champollion on their way to France. They were taken on a tour around the city in a car provide a by the Singapore GoTernor. Sir Franklin (iinison F.P.
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    53 5 picture. MISS Nellie Tan, who is head* of the women's croup in the Tionjf Kahru Branch of the Army Civil Service Union. She is on the Stiff of the RASC Supply Depot in Tionjf Bahru. Miss Tan told the Free Press yesterday, she would work for the welfare of her
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    Singapore export talks are on
    253 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent TRADE talks aimed at facilitating the export of certain kinds of goods from Singapore to Indonesia are now in progress between local officials and representatives of the Indonesian authorities. Repeated appeals hav e been made recently by Singapore traders to devise
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    Speed limit plans for Singapore
    173 5 Free Fress SUfT Reporter. STRICT enforcement of a general speed limit of 30 miles an hour in built-up areas in Singapore will begin as soon as the selected road areas are published in the Government Gazette. It is understood that discussion is still taking plac*
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    HIS TOOTHACHE ALIBI
    79 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ALOR STAR. Monday. A Malay, Mat Zain, who, according to his wife was having a toothache at home lon the night of an alleged robbery, was acquitted and discharged by Mr. Justice G Callow In the Kedah Assize Court today. Mat's wife, Teh
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    52 5 A PORTUGUESE sloop, Joao* de Lisbao, lying in Singapore on its way to Macao, will today celebrate the discovery of Brazil 449 years ago. The vessel will fire guns at noon and be dressed throughout the day. In the evening, lights will take the place of flags. The sloon leaves
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    Sugar from Formosa
    69 5 F. P. Chinese Correspondent THE first shipment of Formosan sugar, totalling 8,550 tons, nag arrived in Singapore by a Chinese iteamer for transhipir to Penan* The Formosan sugar was ordered by the Ministry of Food in IK. for rationing purposes in Malaya. Two more shipment-. «.l Formosan
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    4 BILLS ON LIFTING OF MORATORIUM
    217 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. rE four bills relating to tUe lifting of the Moratorium, which were read for the rtrst time at the lasi meeting of the Legislative Council in Singapore, will be referred to a select committee when they come up for second
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    RICE PRICE DOWN
    35 5 It was official!} *uir.ounctd in Singapore yesterday that the retail price of rice will do reduced from 30 to 28 rents i per katl with effect from May 4 until further notice.
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    EXAM RULES MAY BE STRICTER
    126 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. BECAUSE the results of private candidates in the last Cambridgr Examinations were poor, the advisability of strict regulations regarding their admission to future *<?n imtions is being considered This is stated in an official survey of Singapore results issued yesterday. In
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    It's not romantic, brides complain
    311 5 bitt Press Woman Reporter PROSPECTIVE brides often complain when they go to th e Singapore Registrar's Office with their fiances to arrange their marriage that the place is nn* omoitio enough, I was officially told yesterday. Many of the Chinese brides want to wear a
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    College frees Dr. Silcock for Uno
    122 5 Free Press Staff Reporter IVAFFLES College Council has approved of Dr. T. H. Silcock, Professor of Economics, serving on the I'nited Nations Organisation as Social Welfare Adviser for South-East Asia for nine months. The United Nations Organisation asked for Prof. Silcock's services some time
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    Used chopper on woman
    63 5 Used chopper on woman IPOH. Mon. ¥X)R making a savage midF night chopper attack on a woman, a 45-year-old poitman, Kuppusamy, was today sentenced to flve years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Thomson in the Assize Court Pleading guilty. accused said. "I did It under the influence of liquor." Accused
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    TAXI-DANCERS AID CHARITY
    56 5 •THREE hundred dance hosI teases are selling admission tickets to cabarets at the New World and Great World for tonight'* charity dance in aid of the Hospital Week fund, in Singapore. Gross proceeds from the sale of the tickets at $1 each will go to the fund
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    Stamford Rd treasure hunt banned
    421 5 Stamford Rd treasure hunt banned Free Press Staff Reporter VO FURTHER excavation in quest of treasure at the junction of Stamford Road and North Bridge Road may be carried out, Singapore Municipal Commissioners have decided. They have unanimously confirmed a decision to turn down the application by a Chinese syndicate
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    Warning on tinned food
    74 5 SINGAPORE Municipal authorities have warned the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of the danger from lead poisoning by certain canned good? imported from China. Large quantities of canned goods have been found to have contravened the food and drugs regulation which prohibits importation or sale of tinned
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    SULTAN'S TOUR
    22 5 The Sultan ot Kedaii toured Kulim and U)e- Smth Kedah districts on Sunday and was enthusnstica'ly greeted by al* villagers
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      105 5 Airmails are expected to arrive here today trom: the UK. Arabia, Canada. Europe, India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan. Palestine, Africa, Australia, Ceylon, Burma and Palembang. Latest time for posting airmails at the 0. P.0. is: to the U.K. Aden, Arabia, Canada. Europe, India, Iran. Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, U.S., Central and South
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    ANTI-T.B. GROUP TO BUILD HOUSES
    227 6 ANTI-T. B. GROUP TO BUILD HOUSES 440 homes for sale at cost Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis proposes to build 440 houses at an average cost of $3,000 each on a site in Cheras Road, Kuala Lumpur. Plans have been
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    46 6 picture MR. MRS. ANTHONY LOH, married in Singapore recently. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. Mrs. Richard Loh and his bride is the former Miss Sung Siew Yin, eldest daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Sung Khi Fong, both of Sandakan, North Borneo Raffles Studio
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    Sex talks to young advocated
    270 6 Free Pijess Staff Reporter MRS. H. B. Amstutz, addressing the Fortnightly Club in Singapore yesterday stressed that children should be taught sex and physiology in the home if parents did not want them to get a sordid and distorted conception of sex. Mrs. Amstutz said
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    Mosquito destruction hampered
    137 6 Mosquito destruction hampered LACK of funds is hampering the extension of antimosquito work to tne whole of Singapore rural districts, the Chief Health Officer, Dr. G. H. Lowe, told the Free Press yesterday. The Health Department is concentrating on the eradication of malarial mosquitoes l.i the more populous areas This
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    SENTENCED TO DEATH
    157 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. AFTER his third trial, Liu Kok Nam was today found guilty of carrying a Japanese automatic with intent to cause physical injury to Abdul Halim bin Haji Makmeed and two others. He was Isentenced to death by Mr 'Justice Russell. On a charge of
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    SCOUTS HOLD A CAMP FIRE
    49 6 SEREMBAN, Mon. About 500 people attended a camp fire held at Port Dickson when 115 Senior Scouts and Scouters of the King George School, Seremban, camped there. The camp fire was declared open by the Chief Scout Commissioner, Federation, Mr. E. M. F. Payne.
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    JAP IMPORTS 'BAN' RAISED IN MALAYA
    160 6 JAP IMPORTS 'BAN' RAISED IN MALAYA THE Malayan Governments have now lifted the "ban" introduced last December on Japanese imports, and additional imports limited to essentials will now be permitted. Imports of Japanese textiles, which hitherto have been held up, will also begin shortly. The ban on Japanese imports was
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    Malaya oil for Russia
    51 6 PENANG. Mon. RUSSIA has not yet bought any coconut oil from Penang, according to leading oil millers, but one added: "We are ready to sell to any country which onVrs attractive prices. "At present, however the Russians have not nv*de any inquiries from Penan?? mills," be
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    FLEPHANT CARGO
    28 6 Four Siamese baby elephants, two for the London Zoo and two for a zoological gardens in Holland, have arrived in Singapore in the Danish ship Meonia
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    Move to cut out radio noises
    196 6 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Telecommunications authorities are considering amending the Telegraphs Ordinance to suppress interference with household radios caused by motor car ignition systems. "Considerable interference caused to radio sets by passing vehicles may be eliminated to a great extent by fitting high
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    R.E. SERGEANT IS ACQUITTED
    185 6 Frt-fA'res* Stall Reporter 4 SERGEANT of the Royal Engineers left the Singapore Assiz e Court dock a free man yesterday after having spent over six months in the remand prison. He was Sgt. Sylvester Hall, who was acquitted after the Crown had withdrawn two charges of
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    NOT REGISTERED
    49 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.Ong Swee Poh, employed on Tong Chuan Estate, Gelan Patak, was today fined $15 for entering Johore without registering himself in the Federation He told th« Court that he had a Singapore registration card and did not know he had to re-register in the Federation.
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    U.K. SEAMAN ON ARMS CHARGE
    46 6 A Britisxi seaman. W. A. W. Jessen, appeared in the Third Police Court yesterday on a charge of possession of a .32 automatic Distol and seven rounds of ammunition. The case was postponed a week. Jessen being offered bail of $200.
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    Gilt-edged in better vein
    528 6 Gilt-edged in better vein B 1j)b?^& *¥^l^^L 'J i. *1~9 K *^H» LONDON, Tuesday. A PREMIIM of one per cent was established for new British gas stock when this was introduced on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The issue was three per cent at par 1990-95 and to holders of
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    114 6 FE divergent trend continued with mild gains in industrials offsetting small losse> in rail" and utilities on New York stock ex change yesterday United Btate* steels, com mot, and preferred, at fractional advances were occasional spots of activity in mostly higher steels with operators noting stock hold? approval
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    DONATIONS FOR WELFARE
    108 6 Doi.aucmi t l€*l«f fare Fund 0»K l leceivt-d irom the following. Dato Onn bin Ja'»far $50; Mr. John F. Ebert $50; Far East Oxygen Acetylene Co.. $50; Mr G. H Kiat $25. Tuan Sved AWullah bin Yahya $20: Mr Ram Deo $20 The Governor of Singapore $15;
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      125 6 SINGAPORE SHIPPING CHIPS in port aloittside the Smgapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets* were: Mala Wharf: Charon 1 31-32 Sunnyville (33-34). Sangola (38--39). Loksang 1 40-41 New Echo i (42-43). West Wharf: Campaign" il-I*, Kampar (4-5». Citv o» Poona (8--7), Meonia (11-12). Astyanax (14--15-. Mangola (18). Empire Dock:
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    Ra-Li wins
    33 7 picture. The finish of the six- furlong race for Class 1. Division 1 horses at Bukit Timah last Saturday, showing Ra-Li (Healey) winning from Cabaret (Woods) and Glorify (Tait). Free Press
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    Gaucho, Bright House should win
    1489 7 FORM GUIDE FOR TOMORROW Free Press Racing Correspondent GAL C HO and Bright House are the two best form selections for the second day's races of the Singapore Turf Club Summer (Governor's Cup) Meeting at Bukit Timah tomorrow. Another with a good chance is Race*
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    HUTTON PUNISHES N.Z. BOWLING
    579 7 HUTTON PUNISHES N.Z. BOWLING Yorkshire all out for 346 £^EN Hutton, England opening bat, and Ronald Aspinall, burly Yorkshire pace bowler, took the honours on the second day of the march between Yorkshire and the New Zealand touring team at Bradford yesterday. A sparkling I*l7 by Hutton helped Yorkshire to
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    MANCHESTER U. WIN 1-0
    50 7 YESTERDAY'S U.K. soccer results were: First Division: Manchester United 1, Middlesbrough 0; Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Preston Northend 1. Third Division Northern: Southport 1. Stockport County 0; Tranmere Rovers 1, Chester 1. Other Matches: Leyton Orient 1. Queen's Park Rangers 2; Crystal Palace 2, Sunderlarrd o.— Reuter.
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    Scoreboard
    164 7 NEW ZEALAND Ist. Inns S7O for 7 declared. YORKSHIRE— Ist Inns Hutton c Cresswell b Rabone 167 Halliday c Cave b Crewswe 14 J. V. Wilson b Burtt VI Yardley b Cowie 4 W Watson b Rabone 11 E. Lester c Sutcliffe b Burtt 50 Coxon c Cowie b
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    THIRD DAY'S WEIGHTS
    114 7 WEIGHTS Xor three more racrg fw on the third day 'May 7) of the Singapore Turf dub Summer Meeting are: CLASS 1. DIV. 2— t»F. Sc 5 Vd*. King Arthur 9.00 Ouranos 8 09 Everest 812 Pharmlnda 809 Liberty Man 8 11 TaJ-Oa 806 Ir.dtin Hign Street
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    CHAMPION BEATEN
    26 7 JAN SNEYERS, the Belgian lightweight champion, outpointed Norman Lfwis, Welsh flyweight and bantamweight title-holder, in a ten-round bout in Abergavenny, Wale*, last night. A.P.
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    35 7 photo. E. Fright, the Bromley captain, being carried off the field holding the Amateur Cup, which his team won. Bromley beat Rom ford one- nil in the final played at Wembley on April 23 Fox
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    SERVICES XI
    56 7 rwMIE Singapore Combined JL Services team against Civilians in a game of soccer in aid of the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association's Fund on Sunday at Jalan Besar stadium has. been chosen as follows: McMahon (R.N.); Sharpe (R.A.F.), Cargill (R.A.F.), White (R.N.), Bainbridge (R.A.F.), Shea (Army); Hill (R.A.F.), Todd )Army),
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    HORSES SPURTED IN THE STRAIGHT
    289 7 Bv TRESPASSER HORSES were not sent out to make time at this morning's training at Buklt Timah. The track was "dead and the best time wan returned by Hambrion (E. Donnelly) and Christmas (Lansdown), who galloped three furlongs neck and n°ck in 38 seconds. Horses
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    Mayflower B.P. juvenile final
    173 7 'T'HE concluding match in tha Mayflower Badminton Party's juvenile championship between Pang Ting Kin and Wee Moil Stun v. Henry Lim and Ronnie Chanwill be played on Sunday at the Party's court in Moulmeixr Road. The final will be lolloped by exhibition matches, afco by children:
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    Jenkins takes 4 wickets for 16
    262 7 U'llll.L Len Hutton was scoring a century against the New Zealanders at Bradford yesterday Roy Jenkins, the Worcestershire spinner, also showed a glimpse of his South African form when playing for the M.C.C. against Essex at Lord's. After Essex had amassed 293 for four,
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    BRITAIN SENDS SOS TO PERRY
    327 7 BRITAIN yesterday sent a message calling home Fred Perry, her greatest lawn tennis player, to coach her Davis Cup team in its bid to win the European zone championship. Britain plays Czechoslovakia in the second round at Wimbledon from May 14 to 17. If Britain
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    MACAO BEAT SERVICES
    64 7 THE Macao table tennis team beat the Combined Services five nil at 'he Great World last night. Results: Raul beat Lewis 3 o; Lau Sek Kong beat Behenna 3—o; Kun? Weng Pou beat Carr 3—o, Lo Kam Sam beat Coulthread 3 -G: Ma Hong Veng beat Higgin
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    RUGBY IN U.K.
    19 7 nONTYPOOL beat Risca by sbi I points to nil in a Rugby Union fixture yesterday Reuter
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    NEW DERBY FAVOURITE QUOTED 7-1
    124 7 HAJ R. MacDonald Buchanan's Royal Forest wu made favourite tor the Derby when the card was called over at the Victoria Club. London, last night. His price was cut from 10-1 tc 7-1. The first six horses quoted in the betting were all well backed
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    KOTA RAJA BEAT SRC
    207 7 Kota Raja 1; S.R.C. KOTA RAJA gave a very uocr exhibition of finishing in the Senior League game against S.R.C. at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The game threatened to endTn a scoreless draw when Amir netted from the goalmouth off 8 low centre from Sharifl Mador.
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    U.K. SOCCER FIXTURES
    204 7 nOLLOWINO are foo.bail ixures I for Saturday, May 7: FIRST DIVISION Arseiul v Chartton A. Aston V. T Middle- 1 ron jb Blackpool t Burnlp\ Bolton W. v Everfcm Derby C. v Stoke C. Huddcrsficld T. v Manchester t Liverpool Preston NX. Manchester I*, v Portsmouth Sheffield
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      24 7 Today's Sport LEAGUE SOCCER: Snr. Div., Rovers RVF. Seletar— Jalan Besar; Jnr. B Grp. 1, Halkowyu S.C. v. Cosmos Geylang. TENNIS: S.I.T.A ties— S.CC.
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      36 7 $2 tickets for Sunday's game IN response to the public demand for $2 tickets for admission to Sunday's Combined Services vs. Singapore Civilians soccer match, the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association are printing 4.000 tickets at $2 eaeh.
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    BIRTHS
    65 8 RUSSELL. At Batu Gajah on 30' h April to Joy wile of E. F. L. Russell. The gift of a brother for Patrick. MACDONALD— At Penang Maternity Hospital on April 30. to J*an. wife of Captain A. J. D. McDonald, a son, Andrew. AT PENANO on April 30, to
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    'WE ARE TIED BY NO PACT' -NEHRU
    394 8 Rumours are 'nonsense LONDON, Monday. INDIAN Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, denied that India had secretly agreed to become a party to the Atlantic Pact, when he addressed Indian students here tonight. He said that these suggestions were "complete nonsense." "Much has been said
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    53 8 The 17,500-ton luxury Royal Mail liner. Magdalena, sinking by the prow near the entrance to Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro's harbour. The Magdalena was making the return trip after her maiden voyage to South America when she struck a reef. She was being towed back to the harbour when her
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    ISRAEL ERECTS WIRK DEFENCE
    70 8 ISRAELI forces in the newly ;M. occupied area south of Jerusalem are erecting perlmeter wire defence position, an Israeli Foreign Office spokesman said in Tel Aviv yesterday. He said Sundays fighting In this area began when Israeli troops under last week's Israell-Transjordan armistice Commission agreement were
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    CHILDREN KILLED
    16 8 Four German children were killed when an unexploded shell exploded near Augsburg yesterday A.P.
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    INDIAN PLANE DELAYED
    39 8 Free Press Staff Reporter AN Indian Overseas Airlines plane which was due to arrive in Singapore yesterday to open a regular service between India and the Colony has been delayed. It is now expected until tomorrow.
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    U.K. OPPOSES SPAIN
    37 8 The Foreign Under-Secre-tary, Mr. Christopher Mayhew, told the Commons yesterday that Britain would oppose any move to admit Spain to the Atlantic Pact, the Lnitod Nations, or the Organization for European Economic Co-operatior. U.P.
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    Chifley was annoyed
    73 8 M^rri J °H LP H n C KLFY Australian Prime Minister. il«™ *i r Darwln y es i«day by plane on his return from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference in London. A member of the Prime Minister's staff said he was very annoyed" when Darwin customs officials
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    COUNCIL OF EUROPE
    110 8 COUNCIL OF EUROPE LONDON. Tuesday. TEN European Foreign Ministers will attend a conference opening at St. James's Palace here today to plan a Council of Europe. Representing the five Western Union partners, the three Scandinavian powers. Italy and Eire. The Ministers will j work on the basis of recommendations from
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    Jew D.Ps quit West Germany
    95 8 PARTS. Tues. U7EST Germany should be clear of Jewish displaced persons by th? end of this year, according 10 Mi. Herbert Lehman. The former Governor of New York, who is now a member of the Economic Cooperation Administration, is touring D.P. camps on behalf of
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    STATE OF SIEGE IN BOLIVIA
    82 8 LA PAZ. Tuesday THE Bolivian Government yesterday decreed a state of siege and said it had thwarted an attempted rrvolution after five persons were killed and 47 injured in bloody battling connected with Sundays parliamentary elections. Government troops put down the revolt by members of
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    WON'T LEAVE CHINA
    38 8 Church missionaries have I no intention of 1 avmg China. I even though the country is overrun by Communists, the' Reverend Harold B. Rattenbury, Secretary of the Methodist Society, said in London yesterday. A .P.
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    'Consort could have had air support'
    239 8 LONDON, Monday. TnilF. Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, told Parliament today that the Naval Commander in the Far East could, if he had desired, have had air support for the passage of British warships up the River Yangtse after the Communist attack on tht>
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    Amethyst to stay
    102 8 Free Press Staff Reporter. HM.S. AMETHYST is capable of returning to Shanghai down the Yangtse in charge of the remnants of her crew still aboard her. a high naval authority told the Free Press yesterday in Singapore. She would stay where she was. however, until both sides
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    AGA KHAN LEAVES
    18 8 The Aga Khan will leave Cannes on May 14 for a threeday visit to Switzerland.
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    298 8 It's up to U.S. to decide' WASHINGTON, Monday. AN ATTACK on London, Paris or other European capitals would not automatically require an armed response by the United States under the Atlantic Pact, the former Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Robert Lovett, told th e Senate Foreign Relations Committee today. Mr. Lovett
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    NEW U.S. ATOM SMASHER
    43 8 The General Electric Company in New York yesterday announced the construction of a new type of atom smasher capable of producing X-rays of 300 million ?!ectroon volts. Scientists said the machine may untimately produce 1.000 million volt X-rays U.P.
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    NEGROES WIN RACE-BAR CASE
    187 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. T*HE Supreme .Court yesterday turned down an appeal for a hearing by a group of Maryland householders who wanted to evict a Negro family who had moved into their neighbourhood thus reaffirming its 1943 decision that the courts cannot enforce racial covenants in private
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    16 8 Anglo-Israeli financial and trade talks started at the Treasury in London vesterf'ay. U.P.
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