The Singapore Free Press, 4 May 1949

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA o 17.464. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    ATTLEE TO TELL OF H.K. DEFENCES
    403 1 Check to Red encroachment LONDON, Wednesday. J»HK Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, said in the House of Commons yesterday that the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, would make a statement tomorrow on the steps taken to protect Hong Kong from any attempted encroachments
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    THOMAS CUP MEN HONOUR
    178 1 THOMAS CUP MEN HONOUR LONDON Wed. Malayan Thomas Cup B badminton team was in■t winced to the Duke of Edin■ur^h when with the Queen, ft Miry and Princess betli h*» visited the BriB h Industries Fair yesterft The Duke wished the (I u good luck. The > for home today.
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    CONFIDENCE VOTE
    19 1 f. Government yesvotc of confldP irUament by 224 i s to 47 with five absten- A. P.
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    CLAY RETIRING
    17 1 Lucius D. Clay, comof aO United* States Europe, will retire I post on May 13
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    CONDITION FOR AID TO BURMA
    136 1 Peace with the Karens RANGOON, Wednesday. IM'RMA'S near-bankrupt Government has been in- formed by the envoys of Britain. India and Pakistan that their government* harr agreed to grant financial "and other aid" provided Burma accepts conciliation in the Karen revolt, it is learned here. Burma
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    39 1 photo. Mr. Tom Jacobs. ne.vs editor of Australian commercial radio station. ZSM. who has arrived here to broadcast to thousands of Australian radio Hstener> descriptions of life today in Singapore and the Federat^im. Story in Page 5. Free Press
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    Federation will float big loan next week
    83 1 Federation will float big loan next week LONDON. Wed UALAYA is scheduled to float, next week one of 'he largest colonial loans ever negotiated In the United Kingdom Plans are almost completed for the Fedeiation of Malaya to rate a loan of £8.000.000 on the London market. The money will
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    PHILILPPINES MOVE
    23 1 The Philippine Senate yesterday passed a bill which vould prohibit foreigners, except Americans, from owning 1 land in the Philippines. U.P.
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    PALESTINIANS IN ARAB GOVT.
    60 1 rpRANS JORDAN'S new cabiX net will include three Palestinian Arabs, it was reliably learned in Amman yesterday. This move by King Abdullah, following the visits of Premier Huda Pasha to Cairo and Baghdad, suggests that the annexation of Arab Palestine to Transjordan is now an accomplished
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    DUTCH STILL HOPE FOR PACT
    108 1 BATAVIA. Wednesday. yHE chairman of the Dutch delegation, Dr. J. H. van Royen, said yesterday that he was still hopeful that th e beginning of an agreement with the Indonesian Republicans would be found in the next few days. Dr. van Royen talked with the
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    Turnabout in jail
    82 1 MR. MRS. AMOS GLOVFR, of Philadelphia, will take turns soinjj to jail two days a week, so that one of ♦hem will be at home to eare for their two small children. They were convicted for obtaining USftH in relief payment while Glover was e uplo/ed as
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    BELGIAN KING MAY RETURN
    55 1 IfING Leopold of Belgium made it clear yesterday that he wants to return to the throne. In a letter to his brother. Prince Charles, who is acting as Regent, exiled Leopold said: 'I am convinced you share my views that the time has come for a
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    ALLEGED RED
    19 1 Two Indian^, one alleged to be a Communist, were detained under the Emergency Regulations in Singapore yesterday.
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    70 1 During the day Shanghais famous Bund is a bustling thoroughfare, crowded with trishaws, carts, automobiles and pedestrians. At night it is quiet. This picture, taken from the Broadway Mansions hotel, shows the street after dark and almost deserted. In the foreground is Garden bridge across Soochow creek. The tall building
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    BLOCKADE WATTING A REPLY
    90 1 BLOCKADE WATTING A REPLY NEW YORK. Wed. 'IMIE three Western power* 1 are awaiting a reply from Soviet United Nation* delegate Mr. Jacob Malik to their inv.tation for a four- power meeting to discuss the Berlin question. No meeting I has so far been arranged between the lour powers. It
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    DURBAN DOCK STRIKE ENDS
    73 1 ALL 600 African stevedores in Durban docks who struck work on Monday to enforce their claim for a daily wage of 25 shillings returned to work yesterday without their demands having been met. Half Durban's 1.200 st« vedorex had joined in the strike after leaflet^ had
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    'US frontiers now in heart of Europe'
    230 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. ,'VUK I'.S. Army hief-of-Stalf, Gen. Omar Bradley, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday that America's defence frontiers lie "in the heart of Europe." He urged the Committee to approve th e 12-nation North Atlantic alliance Gen. Bradley said that the
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    THEY SAW RED
    36 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A POLICE party at the 32nd ±V mile Muar-Jemantah Road. Johore, yesterday tore down several Communist posters in Tamil and Chinese pasted on rubber trees, electric pylons and houses.
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    COUNCIL OF EUROPE
    27 1 Foreign Ministers of 10 European powers are expected to sign In London tonight a charter laying the foundations for a Council of Europe Reuter
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    US cruisers at Red-held port
    251 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. HPHE main force of the United States Navy's Western Pacific Fleet, two cruisers and 10 destroyers, was today anchored off th e Communist -held North China port of Tsingtao, the Navy announced. To the south, two destroyers and two landing craft were riding
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    JAP COTTON DUMPING
    115 1 LONDON, Wed. /CHARGES that Japan was v* dumping cotton goods in British colonies were made in the Commons today without extracting any comment from the Government. Mr. John Edwards. Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, replying to questions, said discussions were still continuing; between the United
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    Gurkha patrol attacked
    57 1 Gurkha patrol attacked KUALA LUMPUR, Wea. ONE hour after killing two bandits a Chinese and a Tamil in a camp in the Jelebu area of Negri Sembilan early yesterday morning u company of the 1/7 Gurkha Rifles were counter attacked. The bandits used Brens, stens. rifles and shot yuns, but
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    Siatn in World Bank
    18 1 Siam has become a member of the Internationa! Monetary Fund and Worlt Bank. U.P.
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    Ganapathy hanged in Pudu Gaol
    112 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A GANAPATHY, former president of the PanMalayan Federation of Trade Unions, was hanged in Pudu Gaol this morning, following the confirmation of* his death sentence for unlawful possession of a revolver and six rounds of ammunition. The sentence
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    STOP PRESS
    101 1 Free Press Stafl Reporter AN overturned kerosene lamp is believed to have been the cause of a Die which in fifteen minutes burned down a block of attap shacks in I>ora.sam> Street. Kuala Lumpur, last night leaving 95 people homeless. The block was razed before the Fire Brigade
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    Rubber prices
    56 1 A SPKC'IAL Market torrr>pondrnt fives the prices of rubber (in cents prr Ib i at 11 a.m. today as follows: Buver«» Sellers. No. 1 RS S Spot. loose 35'. 35't 100 in bales May. No. 1 R.SS. 35>< 184 No. 2 B.S.S. 33 ttfc No. 3 R.SS. 31
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    A Champion Cover Girl
    279 2 A Champion Cover Girl IS Terry Moore Hollywood's champion cover girl? Maybe not, but those who claim to excel her in this department will have to top a pretty impressive record Terry, who has the top feminine spot In "Mr. Joseph Young of Africa," an RKO Radio release, has just
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    Bridge Hands
    393 2 T'HIS hand caused a great deal of controversy between North and South, as well it might. West opened a spade and the best that North-South could do was take seven tricks, because as soon as a diamond was led, East grabbed the ace a« cashed ♦he rest of
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    Probing Into The Costs
    894 2 Probing Into The Costs BEHIND THE STUDIO CURTAIN By OUR LONDON FILM REPORTER GOVERNMENTappointed committee is going into the question of production costs in the British film industry. If the evidence it obtains is on the lines of the information given to shareholders of the British Lion Film Company recently
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    JANE SAYS, 'IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE CONSIDERED VERSATILE'
    412 2  - JANE SAYS, 'IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE CONSIDERED VERSATILE' RALPH DIGHTON By J^OW that Jane Wyman has an Oscar an Academy Award for her role in "Johnny Belinda"— she's glad she didn't win it for 'The Yearling." A lot of people in Hollywood thought Jane did outstanding work in "The
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    Hungry Yearning
    160 2 MICHAEL CURTIS. Hun-garian-born director, insists on his actor s looking hungry He believes that no matter how little an actor eats, if s too much. He is particularly worried about the cast of 'The Octopus and Miss Smith," his current romance at Warner Brothers Studio, because he knows
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      150 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you men and women may differ rather widely in the expression of your basic characteristics. This is merely because they are being used in seemingly disassociated fields. Being highly adaptable, friendly and v-'th a magnetic persona! #y you find it easy to fit into whatever
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      163 2 RADIO LISTENING SINGAPORE (BLUE NETWORK) 484 and 41 7 metres. Emergency news from Rl at 10 am TODAY 10.00 News from Kuala Lumpur; 10.55 Schools: Lefs Join In, World History, Singing Together 3; 1.00 Dance Music by Eail Sheldon Phil Moore;; 1.30 News; !45 Waltz Time; 2.00 to 500 Racing
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      296 2 Tune Mischa No*y His .Vel\?t Strings: 10.30 Dance Music THI'RSDW 10.00 News from KuaLi I umpm 10.00 Schools: Stories 1, Singing Together 2, Literature 8/9; 100 Lunch-time music by the Radio Orchestra including selections from "Music in the Air"; 1.30 News; 1.4."> Dance Music by Joe Schirmrr Trio;; 6.00 Progr.iwme
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      271 2 News Analysis (BBC); 11 45 Light Music. 12.00 CJose Down. AUSTRALIA IK 10 25 and 31 Metres TODAY 4.00 Music for Teatime George Melachrino and his orchestra; 4.30 Australian News; 4.40 Services Concert Hall; 5.15 Sporting Diary; 5.30 Forces Favourites; 6.00 Concerto Half Hour; 6.30 Overseas Australian News Mozart Piano
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    Austrian Jubilation
    31 3 BThe Austrian Communist leader. Ernst Fischer, confratulates Kuo-Muo-Jo. head of the Chinese delegation t the World Peace Conference in Prague, after the anouncement that Chinese Communists had entered Nanking.
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    Reds get grip on Austria
    328 3 Reds get grip on Austria f<>MMl vIST infiltration into Austrian organisaM tions and institutions is far more thorough and fej more dangerous than was that of the Nazis into •e-Anschluss Au>tria. according to a high official mt the Austrian police. •If ther e were a war or a Communist putsch",
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    Stowaway sought 'lost' husband
    200 3 Stowaway sought 'lost husband I! ftfo Norma Williams, an attractive folourrd pui. married an English seaman in timn Th-y hvprt together for only 12 days and never saw him again, i D rmined to nnd him. 29--yetfe'-old Norma left, her tjfll ob and. jvith only 10s. In Docket, slipped on
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    CHINESE REDS TRAIN 40,000 OFFICIALS
    319 3 CHINESE REDS TRAIN 40,000 OFFICIALS 'Ready for new territories' rpHE former Chinese Ambassador to Washington, Dr. Hu Shih, says the Chinese Communists have established four training schools and universities at Peipihg to turn out 40,000 administrators for the newly won Chinese territory. He said that 20,000 of these were expected
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    62 3 TIM tir>t women to he made King's Counsel, Helena Normanton. 64, and Mrs. Rose Burnstein. 24, who practises under her maiden name, Ileilbron. both barristers, outside the House of Lords after they had been sworn in. They wore Mark skirts to replace the knee breeches worn by «ien and their
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    JAPS DISSOLVE MITSUBISHI CO.
    56 3 THE Japanese Government, with the approval of American headquarters, has ordered the dissolution of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Company in another step toward breaking up Japan's pre-war monopoly system. In its place the Government ordered the creation of three independent companies to continue Mitsubishi's production of
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    52 3 The Duke of Edinburgh, opening the new residential club for injured and convalescing members and ex-members of the Army, Navy and Air Force at Rusting ton, Sussex. It is called the Newton Driver Services Club and owes its inception to Mrs. Newton Driver. M.8.E.. chairman and founder of the English-speaking
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    BOY IS SWEPT UNDER TOWN
    340 3 BO Y IS S WEPT UNDER TOWN FjMVE-YKAK-OLD Kevin Wilson fell 16ft. down a iiKinh >'r and was carried half a mile along a water channel under Blackburn's streets. One hundred neighbours, a police patrol car. an ambulance, and a fire tender turned out to sav e him. While men
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    JAP COAL STRIKE FEARS
    61 3 THE biggest miners union in Japan, comprising 500,000 men. is ready to go on a strike which would affect mines throughout the country. Allied headquarters have already issue i;i sL r T warning against any strike in view of Japan's current yearly coal goal of 42
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    FILM STARS MAROONED
    42 3 FILM stars, Tyronrie Power and Orsen Welles, are cut off by torrential floods from their Black Rose film unit) at Ouarzaearte. French Morocco, 20th Century-Fox announced. Torrential rain, the firat In 50 years, has washed out half the encampment.
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    'BACCHUS' GOES TO SEA
    102 3 rE wine motor-tanker Bacchus has been successfully launched at Rotterdam. The Bacchus is being built to the order of the French Ministry of Public Works and Transport and is to replace her namesake, which was lost during the war she will be put on by a
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    'THE CROW' IS CAUGHT
    119 3 FOR -i fortn mu i tic lile of Belleville. SouthEast Fiance, wai undermined. One hundred and fifty husbands received letters of which thii is a typical specimen: "Open your eyes, poor fool, your wife loves another- -together they laugh at. you Perhaps the enclosed will convince
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    SMUGGLED JEWELS
    25 3 Magelang police confiscated jewellery worth $150,000 hidden in the luggage of two seemingly "poor" Chinese evacuees travelling by truck from Parakan, Central Java
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    25 DAYS FROM A FORTUNE
    150 3 IF tobacco magnate Lord Woodbridge had lived an- other 25 days his orphan j grandchild, 24-year-old Stella Woodman-Smith, would have inherited far mor* than the 5180.000 she is believed to get under his will. $h# ttplaintd "A lettlem§uu madt nvt years ago was within 25
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    MIGRATION POLICY ROW BREWING UP
    180 3 A ROW is brewing up in the Inner circle of the Australian Labour Party over the Government's immigration policy One section, led by the Immigration Minister, Mr. Arthur Calwell, wants to bring in as many people as possible. The other group, led by Mr. E.
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    Announcement soon on Burma
    66 3 T^HE Itinniiii h rj daily newspaper. My Bama Khit, says It expects an •important announcement" shortly on the outcome of the formal discussions in London regarding Burma The paper said the announcement would contain good news for the Burmese people High political sources told the Associated
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    5 May Day rowdies fined
    63 3 TWENTY-ONE men and a 1 girl appeared before London magistrates on charges arising from May Day clashes between demonstrators and police. Most of the arrests were made when Communists tried to stage marches in defiance of the Government ban on political processions. FiCe people were
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    Anti-Red letter campaign
    120 3 Anti-Red letter campaign ANT I-COMMUNIST Czechs hav e started a chain-letter campaign for "secret and free elections" under United Nations sponsorship. Communists have ordered a counter campaign demanding that the United States halt "warmongering" and stop the cold war. The chain-letter s ask the receivers to send on May 25
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    U.K. BALLET FOR ITALY
    80 3 THE Sadlers Wells Ballet Company Britain's "national" ballet which drawi capacity crowds to its home theatre, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. London—is leaving for Italy on May 15 to appear at th« "Magglo Musicale" festival Itt Florence. 1 1 During a two weeks' stay,
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    Singapore's Temple of fire-walkers
    571 4  - Singapore's Temple of fire-walkers S. Sivadas Story by Pictures by 'THE demi-god Aravan (extreme top left) one of the major characters in 1 the famous Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. This epic traces the history of two rival kingdoms and the destructive war waged by them for supremacy. One of the
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    USMAY ABANDON FE IN WAR
    379 5 USMAY ABANDON FE IN WAR Red China upsets balance AN increasing amount of attention is being paid in the IS. to the theory that in "abandoning Nationalist China" the United States may also have to "abandon" the whole Far East in event of war. It is feared that U.S. policy
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    39 5 rre is a plane with a view. |t is a product of the Bell lircraft Corporation, New k'ork. and is the first com■mW model to carry hree pav»en<ers. They can lave an uninterrupted view i« they climb the city.
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    37 5 These songsters of the London Policewomen's choir are right on the beat musically as they rehearse before the television camera at Alexandra Palace, London. Their appearance in the "Picture Page" programme coincided with the choir's first anniversary.
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    32 5 Princess Margaret in the doorwaj of the Viking aircraft of the King's Flight tmforr she flew to Italy on a month -long private visit. She in to visit Switzerland by car later.
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    51 5 Princess Fawzia (right), sister of King Farouk of Egypt, and former wife of the Shah of Persia, with her new husband (extreme left). Colonel Mohamed Ismail Cherine Bey watching the world's fencing championships at the Holiopolis Palace hotel. Egypt. In between is Mohamed Taher Pasha, chairman of the Egyptian' Olympic
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    'JUDAS TITO' IS ATTACKED
    64 5 IN the May Day issue of the Cominform journal. Gheorghiu-Dej. secretarygeneral of the Russian Communist Party, continued the Cominform war against Marshal Tito by calling him "Judas Tito." Oheorghiu-Dej attacked the Yugoslav People s Front third congress, recently held at Belgrade He said the Congress showed
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    Frank' sex talks urged
    151 5 Frank' sex talks urged €IKI S who learn the facts of life from their mothers are often given false and misleading formation, according to a report given to the Rational Conference on Health Education in Schools ■t Edinburgh. The report stressed the value of frank sex inKruction in schools. It
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    'Impoverished' U.K. teachers
    133 5 H J WEAVER. Lan> i I Mrt schoolmaster, lumpat the Bournemouth of the National A on of Schoolmasters Bi aM; i.d not sit here watchftu :his back patting, ihli wi »iai admiration society, Hhile .nen on my staff are ■*>.'•' enjoying their Ea»Uer H>;:.:u \v not in
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    28 5 W. Hewlett Johnson (left). '»nn of Canterbury, and Hl*-trop..lit m Nicolas Kr- 'ki of Moscow, applaud the ■ar^dp held by the Consr of Partisans of Peace in Paris.
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    AIRLIFT'S 1½ MILLION TONS
    52 5 AIRLIFT'S 1½ MILLION TONS DLANES of fhr Allied air I lift hav^ passed the one-and-a-half million ton mark In supplying blockaded Berlin. Airlift officials said the 8.789 4 tons brought in by yesterday s 961 flights broughi the total tonnage flown since the blockade began last summer to 1.540.969 4
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    ISRAEL WILL FOLLOW UK AUSTERITY MODEL
    315 5 ISRAEL'S one year battle against the armies of five Arab powers is over and she won. But her fight for economic survival is only beginning. And it Is going to be the longest and hardest of the two. First: the state is not self
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    'AGGIE'—THE TEMPTRESS
    78 5 'AGGIE'— THE TEMPTRESS AMKKK V\ troops, driven back in spring nvanveuvres in Germany heard the broadcast voice of "Aggressor Aggie" telling them to *'desert" to the other side where there were plenty of prett/ frauleins. "Aggie's" broadcasts, designed to show the kind of propaganda the troops would have to fight
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    'Missing link' solution near
    199 5 'Missing link' solution near A N 82-year-old anthropoloi\ g st. In a "race with death" to prove the existence of the "missing link." said in London that he was only a foot, and a skull away from the solution Dr. Robert Broom, who spent 14 years looking for the last
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    RADAR USED TO WEIGH ATOM BOMBS
    175 5 RADAR USED TO WEIGH ATOM BOMBS DADAR, Which WM Mtd in the war to spot onemy airplanes, is now being used to weigh atoms. A group of atomic scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory told the U.S. Physical Society they expect to weigh atom*, to the accuracy of one part in
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    GETS JOB IF HIS GIRL IS SACKED
    135 5 GETS JOB IF HIS GIRL IS SACKED \N t»x-Servlce.man gets his job back if the girl lie is courting gets racked. That in effect, was the decision of FVJgeley Uuban Council Staffs'. Their establishment c.omj mittee reported that they had decided to offer the man a former employee a iem-
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    LOIN CLOTH SHOCKED THEM
    140 5 ANDRAE BALINT. 26. a student from Hungary, wore only a loin cloth and hair net when doing physical jerks in the garden of the Bloomsbury boarding-house where he lived, the Clerkenwell. London, magistrate was told. And that shocked Bloomsbury. Balint. put on probation for using insulting
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    22 5 Nineteen nations in 'he European Recovery Programme voted in Paris to give the championship of their group to Belgium for another year.
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    'ARM THE WEST' SENATE URGED
    68 5 I^HE United States Secretary of Defence. Mr. Louis Johnson, recently urged the Senate to ratify the Atlantic Pact and back it to with arms for Europe. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. Johnson Insisted that the Pact should be backed up by military
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    GOVT INQUIRY SUPPORTS BIRTHCONTROL
    191 5 GO VT INQUIR Y SUPPORTS BIRTHCONTROL rpHE Royal Commission on Population has decided 1 that knowledge of birth control methods can be an aid to a better family lif e and should be available. This is the most controversial opinion expressed j in a 100,000- word report which has taken
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    MAY REJECT MEAT OFFER
    62 5 nUENOS Aires newspapers have predicted that Argentina would reject the latest British meat price offer which is reported to be oniy slightly higher than the 95 centavos a kilo previously rejected. Argentina was reported* lo have told Britain that she wants 1 90 pesos a kilo
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    GENERAL DEAD
    28 5 Major General Sir Fabian Ware, founder of the Imperial War Graves Commissioft, has died in a nursing hvme at Ainb^rl^y 'Gloiu' stershlrei ag-d 30 A. P.
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    Farran to go on world tour
    273 5 Farran to go on world tour DOY FARRAN. the former British Army captain whose brother was killed by a letter-bomb from Palestine terrorists meant for himself. If to %o on a world tour us a Journalist Farran came to settle in Southern Rhodesia six months aRO. and took up a
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    Roem sees Hatta and Soekarno
    201 5 •THE Chairman of the Republican delegation, Mohammed Roem, has visited Republican President Soekarno and Premier Hatta in Banka Island for consultations on the political position. Dr. Roem. who was accompanied by several Republican ministers and members of his delegations. returned here later together with Jogjakarta
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    Beery cuts child from will
    106 5 AYEAK-OLD baby whom a court may ru.c is the »ou <>I Wallace B-ery. was rut out of the film star's C125.000 viH. The will said that in no ciicvmstADcei was the loy Jobann, soi ot aotres* Criorim 'Vnitnev— to inlier: 1 any parUon or receive
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    JAP PRICE LOWEST
    29 5 The Indian Government has derided to buy telephone cables from Japan because Hip price is about 20 per cent lower than that of British manufacturers. Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, May 4, 1949 WANTED A LEAD
    650 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, May 4, 1949 WANTED A LEAD RESPONSE to the appeals to fill the endowment funds of the about-to-be-born University of Malaya has been disappointing. No official announcement has yet been made of the total amount subscribed although the campaign has been going on for some
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    THEIR MAY DAY TEA PARTY WASLEGAL
    864 6  - THEIR MAY DAY TEA PARTY WAS LEGAL Sit Yin Fong Weekly Labour Column i h 1 I AST week the^ tide turned at last in favour of the Singapore Government in its ideological war to win the support of trade unions. In clear ringing tones came a May Day pledge
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    JAPS WORK FOR AUSSIES ON ISLAND FORTRESS
    736 6 JAPS WORK FOR AUSSIES ON ISLAND FORTRESS CANBERRA: \USTR A L I A is using approximately 2,")() convicted Japanese war criminals as a labour force at M anus Island, where naval and air installations are being established. The Australian Department of the Army willingly provided United Press details about these
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    The Alley-way Is Their Banqueting Hall
    1107 6 The Alley-way Is Their Banqueting Hall VISIT TO BANGKOK This is the third 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. §AT: I am still terrified of this crazy traffic. It must
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    30 6 No camel ever smelled sweeter than this prize-winning specimen made entirely of flowers a prize-winner in the flower parade held last month in the Dutch bulb field centre of Liese.
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    Samba Follows The Sun To Sweden
    419 6 Samba Follows The Sun To Sweden STOCKHOLM: LONGSIDE home and foreign politics, two major preoccupations of the Swedes just now are sunshine and the samba. After the long Northern winter the first days of spring's cold, thin sunshine have brought out the Stockholmers. bareheaded but still In overcoats, to lean
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    FAITH
    21 6 With what jud^ni ye jud^e. ye 6hall judged: and with w measure ye mete, it be measured to you —Matthew
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    'STAY DEMOLITION' BID IN COUNCIL
    410 7 'STAY DEMOLITION' BID IN COUNCIL Sardon backs rural petition Free Press Staff Reporter £N effort will be made in the Singapore Legislative Council to save villagers from haying to pull down dwellings which they had built without approved plans. Inche Sardon bin Jubir (Rural East) will ask the Government at
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    56 7 picture. BOYS of the Primary Class of the St. Joseph's Institution getting: into the van provided by the Health Department for taking them back to their school after treatment at the School Dental Clinic at Tan Tock Seng Hospital yesterday. The St. Joseph's Institution sends 10 boys a day to
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    Big explosion next week
    230 7 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO tons of explosives, certified to be in a dangerous condition, will be exploded at Mandai Quarry, Singapore, next Tuesday at 1.30 p.m. The quarry is situated off the 11$ milestone, Bukit Timah Road. People in the area are warned to remove
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    33 7 picture. MR. Austin Coates, son of the famous British composer, Mr. Eric Coates, who has arrived in Singapore on his way to take up a Colonial Office appointment in Hong; Koni Free Press
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    CHEAP AIR TICKETS FOR YOUNG
    125 7 CHEAP AIR TICKETS FOR YOUNG Free Press Staff Reporter QANTAB Empire Airways announce that 50 per cent rebate excursion facilities for school children who have attained their 12th year but not their 18th birthday are now applicable between Malaya and Australia, and Malaya and Hong Kong, for children visiting their
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    CHINESE ART EXHIBITION
    95 7 THE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, will open the exhibition of paintings, sponsored by the China Society, at 5.15 pjn. on May 12 at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. The paintings are by Mr. Chen Wen-hsi, regarded as one of the leading younger artists of China, and
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    C.G. AT RAFFLES REUNION
    68 7 rIE Commissioner-General and Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. will address the gathering at tonight's reunion dinner of Raffles College Union at Raffles Hotel. Others expected to attend are the Governor and Lady Gimson, the Colonial Secretary and Mrs. McKerron, the Chief Justice,
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    Air chief for U.K. talks
    108 7 THE Commander in Chief, Air Command, Far East. Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, will leave Tengah in his special aircraft on Saturday for the United Kingdom to attend the conference to be held by the Chief of the Air Stan* Lord Tedder, at the Air
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    GRADUATES CLUB WIDENS SCOPE
    183 7 Free Press Staff Reporter MEMBERSHIP of the Stam- ford Club, association of Raffles College in Malaya, will now be open also to grad*uates of the College of Medicine and of the University of Malaya. This decision of the Club to expand the scope of its membership
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    27 7 picture. MR. Alex Lowsiewkee, a 19-year-old Singapore boy, who after a year's study in Australia, is shortly going to Europe for higher studies in music. Free Press
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    AUSSIES TO HEAR ABOUT MALAYA
    167 7 Free Press Staff Reporter rpHE news editor of an Australian commercial radio station, Mr. Tom Jacobs, arrived in Singapore yesterday to gather impressions and material about the Colony and the Federation for broadcasting to a million Australian listeners. Singapore is the first leg if a
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    Chinese YMCA to raise $500,000
    233 7 Free Press Chinese Correspondent rpHE Chinese Y.M.C.A., Singapore, is launching a campaign with the object of raising $500,000 for the building of a modern structure as headquarters. The new structure will house an auditorium, a library, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a mess room and
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    WESAK FESTIVAL
    43 7 The Singapore Buddhist Association Is arranging a twoday programme on May 11 and 12 for the Wesak Festival Members of the association will visit the Leper Hospital on May 11 and will call a meeting of all Buddhists en May 12.
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    Medical College makes headway
    254 7 Medical College makes headway Free Press Staff Reporter rE biochemistry laboratory of the Medical College. Singapore, is today one of the best in the East despite the fact that only 60 per cent of it is rehabilitated, said a College authority yesterday. He was commenting on the College's report on
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      37 7 RADIO DOCTOR The Radio Doctor will be answering listeners' questions over the Blue Network of Radio Malaya tonight at 8.00 p.m. Questions for the Radio Doctor should be sent to him at Radio Malaya, of Cathay Building
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    ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: NEW CHECK
    278 8 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: NEW CHECK Special powers for police Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesdav. OFFICERS Superintending Police Circles in U Johore have been given special powers to combat illegal immigration along the Johore coast Thi officers, wtio are stationed at Johore Bahru Muar, Batu Pahat/Seffamat, Kluang and Knta Tinwi
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    PETITION FOR DIVORCE TO PROCEED
    221 8 PETITION FOR DIVORCE TO PROCEED *Frec Press Staff Reporter ffiHE Chief Justice. Mr. 1 Justice Murray-Aynsley, In the Singapore Hish Court yesterday dismissed the application made by Mr A F. Tli.irne, on behalf of Mr. ueorgf Oauron, to have Mrs. Vivie Gladys Gauron's divorce Petition set aside. Mr. Thome* application
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    BLIND PEOPLE LEARN BRAILLE
    97 8 INCREASING attention il being paid by the Singa(rovernmem to the wel--1.1-h of the blind Thirteen blind inmates of B ej Park, social welfare centre havp been sent on to N mnna Home where on M >ndays. Thursdays and St'urdays. they are taught Bruille by Mr. Reuben
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    13,745 HOMES GET HELP
    58 8 IN the ttn>t quarter of this 1 year, no f»»wer than 13.745 families tn Singapore were assisted by the Relief Section i of the Social Welfare Department, the Silver Jubilee Fund and the Far Eastern Relief j Fund, according to the latest j official statistics The
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    Public's advice on liquor sought
    417 8 ONLY on e suggestion has so far reached the committee appointed by the Singapore Government to review the present 20-year-old law regarding the sale of intoxicating liquors, the chairman, Mr. E. P. Shanks, who is the First District-Judge, told the Free Press yesterday. The committee
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    'AGAINST MY RELIGION'
    100 8 Free Press Staff Reporter PENANG, Tues. "I AM a Muslim and it ■is against my religion to lend money on interest. declared a registered money-lender, S. K. Mohamed Rawther. in the Sessions Court today. Rawther wa* complainant m a case in which a former Chettiar clerk. K
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    600 pages on census
    67 8 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, tues. THE 1947 Malayan census report by Mr. M. V. Del Tufo is expected to be published within the next three months. Mr. Del Tufo. who was the superintendent of the census and who Is to be Deputy Chief Secretary,
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    $500 fine on Editor
    144 8 CHUA HIAN BOON, editor of Screen Circle, a Chinese monthly cinema magazine printed" in Singapore, was fined $500 by Mr. M. H MacDougal in the Fourth Singapore Police Court yesterday for circulating obscene literature on Jan. 15. Chua pleaded guilty. It was stated that the defendant,
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    Rubber industry 'browbeaten'
    249 8 v Free Press Statf Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. "\UE are giving away our produce for a mere song, and our valuable rubber estates become nothing much more than a place of employment with mounting and unlimited liabilities/' said Mr. J. S. Ferguson, the new vice-president of the
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    FIRST YEAR
    57 8 picture. fflU Jrd Kuala Lumpur Kover Scout Crew held their first 1 anniversary celebration on May 1. Picture shows Rover Stout Leader M. Phillips, Assistant Rover Scout Leader T S Victor, and two of the Rovers with the new crew flag which was handed ov«»r by the State
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    Gaol for consorting with bandits
    183 8 Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH. Tues. IMPOSING a sentence of I seven years' hard labour on 24-year-old Yow Kt-an Kee for having consorted with bandits. Mr. Justice Thomson remarked "If you associate with bandits and assist them in their purposes, you must lake the consequence."
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    "Great Dissatisfaction " By Government Clerks
    126 8 "Great Dissatisfaction By Government Clerks Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH. Monday. THE Government salary scales recommended by the Court of Reference and Mr. J. V. Cowgill were attacked at the annual meeting of the Perak Government Clerical Services I'nion in St. Michael's Institution Hall yesterdav Among the four resolutions passed
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    Oil shares make good showing
    528 8 lLomdon Siouiis Exchange LONDON, Wednesday. OIL shares made a good showing in th e London Stock Exchange yesterday, writes Reuters financial correspondent. Firm conditions wei> widespread in this section and resulted from bear covering. Anglo-Iranians gained 5 32nds at 8-5 32nds. Elsewhere, quiet firmness ruled,
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    41 8 QRICES on 'he Ne» V< I chang* yMtfrday h■ around rrxtn level* ir quiet de.i The rall\ lend^d to spieaa n* dealings notably h^rr.:' -> r( *P and rhe niaric<- looed very i> shov.nig a p 1 fraction! gains Reuter
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    WOMEN'S $575
    24 8 The Muslim Women's Maulud I Religious > Celebration Committee in Singapore has raised $575 to assist poor Muslim students to further their education.
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    Ships returns after fire
    64 8 I^HE Dutch .siup Van Riem^dljk wjiirh recently caught tire during a voyage from Singapore to China ports. arrived In Singapore yesterday after being overhauled in tn*» Hong Kong dockyards A fire which broke out In one of the vessel's holds caused damage to some of the
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      243 8 TALK ON CHINA Mr. lan Morrison. Far Eastern correspondent cl The Times, will talk on 'The Pre- sent Situation in Chiaa' to the East Wen Bocieup at the Briiish Coandl Hall to- morrow at 8.30 p.m. Rn^ndr3kG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya E" E I I THERE'S
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    Fingerprint Sleuth
    947 9  -  Sydney S. Birch A FORGER CHALLENGED THE YARD by Chief I Inspector 2 \yilKN I joined the Metropolitan Police at Peckham, very proud of myself, in 1919, another \<»uiii4 ex soldier was deciding to be a burglar. I will call him James Robinson though that was not liis
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    Singapore's own fingerprint experts
    1720 9  - Singapore' s own fingerprint experts W. KINGSLEY ORD -by J)II) YOU know that in the Centra 1 Cfiminil Registry in Kuala Lumpur, the police of Singapore and the Federation have between them filed away nearly 300,000 fingerprints in o t h i r words, an infallible method of identifying one
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    SELECTORS MAY MAKE CHANGES
    791 10  -  CRUSADER S 'pore XI not strong enough By ALTHOUGH the performances of the Singapore A Civilians in th e Malaya Cup soccer competition against the R.A.F. and the Army-Navy Combined do not warrant pessimism, ther e is no denying the fact that the S.A.F.A. selectors must
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    FRIDAY'S CUP FIXTURE OFF
    114 10 FRIDAYS Maiaya Cup soccer fixture between Johore and Army-Navy Combined has been postponed to June 24. It will be played in Muar. Cup fixtures for ihe southern section are: May 7: Negri Sembilan v. Malacca, at Seremban; May tO: Johore v. Singapore at Jalan Besar: May
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    KELANTAN SOCCER
    17 10 IN a soccer friendly on Friday Lslah School, Kota Bharu. beat Kelantan Wanderers (Europeans* 2-1.
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    Guess where this is...
    118 10 NO. it U not Bukit Timah but Bangkok. wher© horse racing is as popular as it Is in Malaya. The Siamese Government recently decided that there wan too much gambling and banned racing except for one day a week. Most of the horses racing .are country-bred
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    Jalil's omission a 'costly blunder'
    422 10 Free Press Muar Correspondent TOHORE'S overwhelming defeat by 6—2 by the Malaya Cup holders, Negri Sembilan, at Muar on April 23 might have shocked most of the 5,000 spectators present, but to those who had followed closely the selection of the home team the result
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    B. Timah course
    57 10 Two bird's-eye views of the Singapore Turf Club racecourse at Bukit Timah taken by a Free Press photographer from an aircraft last Saturday, when the first day's racing at the current meeting was being held. The stables are to the right of the upper picture. Note the
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    Viji started at the age of 10
    271 10  -  KEN JALLEH By IN 1937, on a playing field beside the railway track in Kampong Bahru Road, a boy of ten, sturdy and energetic, made himself the star player of a team of lads older than he and nearly twice his size. The
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    B.P. ROVERS IN THE LEAD
    257 10 I Pre*» Batu Pahai S ports orr«-p<>nd« nl THE Bar; Pahat Soccer 1/ ague i> well on its way. and the Rovers, last year's dual champions. .mil top the table with five points, and 12 goals for and two agan>t Tluy made a ml tak"
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    SOCCER STARS....7
    199 10 When tne Malaya Cup competition was revived after the liberation he became Selangor's star forward and No. 1 goalgetter. His bag last season was ten lout of the 21 which Selangor registered They comprise two each again* the Combined Services, Perak and Kedah. one against Penang. one in
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    N. TEBAL POLICE WIN
    24 10 Free Press Correspond* n. NIBONG TEBAI. Police beat Trans- Krian Indians 2-0 in a Province Wellesley South Football League fixture
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    PERAK GET READY FOR CUP-TIE
    97 10 I roe I*r«*>& Staff Reporirr IPOII. Tu.iciy. TN preparation fo; Perak s next Malaya Cup fixture against the Combined Services in Ipoh on |t«y 7 the lollowing plavers have been asked by the P. F A. to turn up for morning prat tires on the
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      Civilian side total failure
      202 10 AS a keen follower of soccer, I am sure all who were present at Sunday's Malaya Cup match between the Army-Navy Combined and Singapore Civilians went away disappointed with the home team. The Singapore side were a failure in all departments. They played like novices. Inclusion
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    THE INDIRECT FREE-KICK
    210 10 CAPT. L. Roberts, who refereed the S.A.F.A. Senior League match on April 27, has written to the Free Press to explain his decision in awarding an indirect freekick against the Chinese Athletic, who beat the Royal Navy 2—l. He writes: "For the benefit of all football enthusiasts
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    '100 TO ONE CHANCE'
    179 10 '100 TO ONE CHANCE' I DO not agree with several of the decisions ruling the Singapore forwards off-sidt in last Sundays mat' h against the Army-Navy Combined. I am sure many of the spectators agree with me. Another thing As Chye Hee was taking a pot-shot at goal well inside
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    MAYFLOWER B.P FIXTURES
    107 10 yHE l'ii(j\Mi\u ties m thr M flower Badn tournam<nt will be pl«yed oft on Sunday at 9 am •B" tournament: Lini K::. v lam Joon Shu Bit H Mak Lini Hong. '•<"' tourmmrni \\*v S<k I v Ijim Joon Ngtar; Slow Penp Choo Pern. K Lam Jota
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    41 10 yHE Austrian team 10 plav Yugoslavia in the second round of the Davis Cup venim competition in Vienna thU wctrkend will be Hans Radl Alfred Hubei. Haiis Hartwig and J Cajkc the Australia Tenrris Federal i»>u announced on Monday. A P
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    TOBOGGAN BEST BET TODAY
    426 11  - TOBOGGAN BEST BET TODAY TRESPASSER Latest hints from track By QAUCHO, Astivel and Toboggan were given on the course this morning as the best bets for the second day's races of the Singapore Turf Club Summer (Governor's Cup) Meeting at Bukit Timah this afternoon. Gaucho has been training like a
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    38 11 picture. Trow Kens. Rovers' outside-left, scores the equaliser against R.A.F. Seletar in yesterday's S.A.F.A. Senior League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium. Currie, the Stletar goalkeeper, puts out his left foot in a vain effort to save Free Press
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    M.C.C. defeat Essex easily
    398 11 rE M.C.C. completely outplayed Essex yesterday to win by 183 runs with an hour to spare. On a wicket responsive to spin, Essex lost six wickets for 59 runs in under the hour after tea. Barry Howard, younger brother of the new Yorkshire captain, Nigel, hit
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    T. BAHRU RANGERS
    36 11 rpiONG Baluu Rnnpers will meet Singapore Harbour Pa aid In a soccer friendly at Raeburc Park tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. Rangers players are to meet at Sepoy Lines Po»t Office before 5 pra.
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    NZ tourists draw with Yorkshire
    369 11 NZ tourists draw with Yorkshire rE New Zealand touring team yesterday made a complete recovery from their disastrous second-innings start to draw the opening match of the tour against Yorkshire at Bradford. Thanks largely to a faultless century by vice-captain W. Wallace, they were able to declare at tea with
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    CHAMPIONS TO MEET
    43 11 gTELLA Walsh a famous Ainercan woman rthlete. Will compete against Fanny B-ankres-Koen, neet-footed Dutch housewife, at the Coliseum telays In Los Angeles on May 20. Mi-.s Walsh was *he 100-metre dash and broad Jump champion at the 1932 Olympics. A.P.
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    Freeman invited to play in Malaya
    282 11 NEGOTIATIONS are in progress between Mr. Urn A1 Chnan Geok, manager and non-playing captain of Malaya's Thomas Cup team, and Dave Freeman, the all-England champion, for a proposed tour of Malaya by Freeman and Miss Aase Jacobsen (Denmark), the all -E riff and women's
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    2,000 guineas tourney opens
    133 11 ■^ONE of ihe many celebrated golfers comp<'tiner broke 70 In the first round rf the Dunlop 2.000 Guineas professional tournament. which Ix-^an on the Wentworth courses. Vlrgini.i Water. Surrey, yesterday. Ken BousfiVd, ihe 29-yeur-old assistant at Commbe Hill, just back from a tour of the United
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    R. TURPIN WINS
    49 11 RANDOLPH Turpin of England beat William Poli (Italy) last night' in a middleweight bout, the Italian being disqualified for holdIng In the fourth of the scheduled eight rounds. Honore Pratesi of Fra-.ice outpointed Terry Allen, British cantender for the world flyweight boxing title, over ten rounds.
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    YESTERDAY'S DRAW FAVOURS C.A.
    446 11 Rovers 1; R AF Reletar 1 DOTH Rovers and R.A.F. Seletar conceded a valuable point in their quests for the B.A.F.A. Senior League championship when they clashed at the Jalan Besar Btadium last evening. This means that Rovers have now d r opped five points and
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    All the latest selections
    181 11 TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER MOST FAVOURED SELECTION 1 K? 00 OAN TOBOGGAN PATHFINDER PATHFINDER .f^"* I**1 Pathfinder Prlncedale John 801l PATHFINDER Abbj Kay John 801l John Bull Toboggan raanriniM SOLTABA SLICKNESS NORTON DEMARATUS ».«5 Demaratos Norton SUckneas Norton NORTON Colorado Ballymar Demaratos Slfcknesa m
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    Today's acceptors at Bukit Timah
    865 11 OELOW is given the card of events for today's races. The double tote will be on races five a/id eight and the big sweep will be drawn on race seven. Race 1: 2.15 Cl. 3, Div. 5 6 Furs. 5 Yds. 000 Pathfinder Woods 8.11
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    'Varsities athletes for U.S.
    96 11 EL. B. Phillips, the In- dian Olympic runner at Oxford University, is one of the 22 members of a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities athletics team which is to visit the United States in Jane for two meetings against combined American universities. Phillips will run in
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    29 11 gANKARAN scorui a goal 1:. each half and thus helped Johore Rovers to a 2-0 victory over 221 Vehicle Battalion in their League soccer match yesterd?y.
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    116 11 PED ("Fanny") Walden, former England, Tottenham and Northampton footballer, Northamptonshire cricketer and Test umpire, died in Northampton yesterday following a seizure. Ke was 61. Walden was one of the smallest men to play professional soccer. It v/as said that when he first reported at the
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    25 11 CAPTAIN A. P Barlow of tne Coldstrcam Guards won the Army golf championship at St. Annes yesterday witti a 151 total lor 36 holes A.P.
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    BIRTHS
    42 12 COX: On the 26th April. *49 .r the Candang Kerbau Hospital, to Barbara, wife of V rnon Cox, a son. ROGERS— On May 3. 1949, at Kuala Lumpur, to Betty (nee S"nnle>. wife of Major P. Rogers, MV.-iy Regiment— a daughter.
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    30 12 SIAW-FOO Stephen Siaw Wee ■M| eldest son of Mr. Mrs. Chen Fo of Batu Pahat to Miry Josephin Foo Chow Lan. draghtcr of Madam Yoong g of Kuala Lumpur.
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    45 12 MRS. C. DOURADO and o! 127. Brewster Road, wiih to thank all their ives and friends who sent ths. messages of condolence, pud Yisit.v offered masses, rendered assistance and atI -ndtxi the funeral of the Mr. C. Dourado on the 30th of April. 1949.
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    'MALAYA FALLS IF REDS WIN'
    414 12 Chennault warns U.S. WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE chief Of the wartime "Flying Tigers," Gen. Claire Chennault, told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday that if China is 'swallowed up" by the Communists, Indo-China, Malaya, Siam and Burma and Indonesia would also fall. Communist occupation of South-East
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    Arms sabotage suspected
    34 12 Montreal police were last night investigating a fire which earlier yesterday threatened the strike-bound freighter Trh-.ape loaded with ammunition for Pakistan and the Nationalist forces In China. Sabotage is susne"»pH Reuter
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    NEW VIET MINH ATTACKS
    88 12 PARIS, Wed. RENEWED activity by Viet Minh insurgents is disclosed by French Army communiques claiming reverses inflicted upon insurgent attackers. In a clash between French troops and 300 insurgents in Uang Yen, a town about 50 miles east of Hanoi, the Fren< a drove of! the
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    199 12 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. 4 I'.S. State Department spokesman said yesterday A that the spread of Communism in South-East Asia would be less likely if the "legitimate interests" of Nationalists in Indo-China and Indonesia were realised. H? was replying to queries about reports that the Tnited States was
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    U.S. failures
    42 12 Business failures in the U.S. Increased to 204 last week compared with 106 for the corresponding week in 1948. Dun and Bradstreet reported. The total waj substantially below the pre-war figure of 326 in the comparable week of 1939.- A.P.
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    46 12 photo. Marshal Owmr Frago/o annona. 7M. waves to the people of Lisbon from the balcony of the Sao Bento Palare (National Assembly) after hi s inauguration as their President. He has held this offire since 1928. and is beginning his fourth term of seven >ears. A.P.
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    110 12 OTTAWA, Wed. MR. LESTER PEARSON. Canadian Minister for External Affairs, said yesterday that the Commonwealth conference in London may have prevented the Commonwealth's break up. He said that had a formula not been found by which India stays in the Commonwealth It might have proved impossible also
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    116 12 SIX- foot- four American Private Edward Touhey. 19, was released yesterday morning from hospital In Vienna, where he had been undergoing psychiatric examination, and walked into a Russian officers" hotel. Touhey tried to take a picture of the Soviet officers lounging in the lobby, but
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    CHILE ENTERS 2ND ROUND
    67 12 CHILE beat Ireland by three matches to two in the first round of the European zone of the Davis Cup tennis competition at Dublin yesterday and thus qualified to meet Egypt ir? the iecond round. Yesterdays results were: R Balbiers i Chile, beet CCA Kempt (Ireland*
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    106 12 D n f TC CHICAGO, Wednesday. ULATS do more harm by killing birds than good by* a •J e J tI S. yi f 4 J ats and mice? The "Knois Legislature decided that they do. So cats will live a dog's life In Illinois hereafter
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    69 12 photo. Mr. Robert Hoelzle. U.S. Marine veteran, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.. who lost the use of his legs at Okinawa, sits in his invalid chair (in foreground) while he and his fiancee wat< h members of a painters' union paint his house in 2 minutes 32 seconds claimed
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    POLICK ROUT HUK KILLERS
    59 12 A REPORTER of the Ameri-can-owned Manila Bulletin says a constabulary company routed the Communistinspired Hukbalahap band responsible for Central Luzon's massacre last week. Dismounted constabularymen chased and routed what was believed to be part of the dissident band that had taken part in the ambuscade of
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    Elephants for cigarettes
    44 12 CALCUTTA. Wednesday. A DISGRUNTLED party of North Burmese tribesmen has set out for home after trekking to the Assarn township of Ledo to trade three elephants for cigarettes. Ledo merchants did not have enough cigarettes for such a big deal. A.P.
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    REQUEST TO F.A.
    38 12 X T EWCASTLE United Football club turn mM the f. a to release their centre-forward Jack Milburn. I.om the Engl.ind team to tour S. mdinavia Newcastle have oontniciad to tour ts*e U.S. and Ti—rti A.P.
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    24 12 I ANCASHIRE beat York&hue by L 12 points to three la a Rueby League rounty champ ioi\s\ip fixture yesterday. Reuter t-nd A.P.
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    FORD STRIKE VOTE
    23 12 About 600 United Automobile Workers in Detroit voted unanimously to strike today at Ford Motor Comj>any'6 River Rouge plant. U.P.
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    G.I. REPAYS JAP BOY'S KINDNESS
    169 12 OSAKA, Wednesday A JAPANESE boy befriended a hungry American P™ oner -of-war working in his father's factory in 1944 and th e American did not forget him. Today. Haruo Kassi 17 needs only formal approval by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to permit him to go to
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    PRIINCESS IN ITALY
    18 12 Princess Margaret of Britain arrived at Sorrento at noon yesterday on her Italian tour. A.P.
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    'Give Libya her liberty soon'
    247 12 LAKE SICCESS, Tuesday. ORITAIN proposed formally today that Libya be given independence in ten years, that Cyrenaica be placed under British trusteeship until then, and that five power commission consider a mandate for the rest of th e former Italian colony. The British Minister of
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    55 12 WASHINGTON. Wed. BRITAIN and the tutted State** are negotiating for a joint guided missiles range in the arihhean area, the I.S. State Department announces. The project, designed to tiack the flight of missiles, involves setting up launching sites in Florida and constructing radar tracking iftlttonf in
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    241 12 LONDON, Wed. A SIA is today mor e im- portant than Europe from the viewpoint of war or peace, said the Indian Prime Minister. Pandit Nehru, when be London by plane |> Switzerland yesterc Unfortunately h some countries in I seem peculiarly blind fact," Mr.
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    HUBS, JEWS IN SKIRMISH
    56 12 ONE Israeli soldier wai ed and wounded on Sunclav Israeli troops met A resistance while in< v::.< the village of Bei: Sat.^.i accordance with. :h^ A Her Commissions terms A communique j-jid *hArabs onenea uniU movtd into the tory but flrine v<; afier an hours sU
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