The Singapore Free Press, 21 May 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 17.479 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAX 21, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    'REDS HELD,' SAY NATIONALISTS
    362 1 But shells fall m S 'hai street SHANGHAI, Saturday. J^S General Tan Eng-po, commander-in-chief of Shanghai's defences, last night told the Chinese press that the Nationalists had won the first round of the battle, the first Communist shells fell m Shanghai proper and killed she people
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    Whiskers cost life
    108 1 LOS ANGELES, Sat. AN unemployed machinist .A shot and killed a man m Los Angeles he had never seen before because he didn't like his chin whiskers, police said today. Sylveter E. Eaton. 45. killej the bearded stranger with o .38 calibre pistol, according to police who
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    HK 'OFFER' TO U.S. DENIED
    100 1 HK 'OFFER' TO U. S. DENIED WASHINGTON, Satur. A UNITED States Navy Department spokes/nan denied any taiowledge of a British offer to America to use Hong Kong as a base m China. Mr. Drew Pearson, the American columnist, had reported that the United States Navy had declined a British offer
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    TOTAL AIRLIFT FIGURES
    55 1 BRITISH civil aircraft supplied Berlin with goods that weighed more than the liner Queen Mary, during the blockade. The military Government saia yesterday that the chartered planes flew m 82.719 metric tons on 4,611 flights. More than half was liquid fuel supplies. Six British civil airlnes supplied
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    Federation arrests
    29 1 In the 24 hours ended last night there were 57 arrests m the Federation; 35 m Selangor, ten m Pahang. eight In Perak and four m Penang.
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    DEMANDS BY UK SEAMEN
    51 1 BRITISH seamen demanded yesterday that ships be equipped with washing machines for the use of the crews The National Union of Seamen also passed resolutions asking for constant fresh water m ships washhouses, facilities for keeping food and drinks hot. and a uniform price for cigarettes.
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    New Russian dynasty?
    78 1 oOVIKT vice-t*remier V. M. Molotov's daughter Svetlan: O and Marshal Josef Stalin's son Vasilij are to be ma ried, reports the London Star. The newspaper described Svetlana as "dark plump. vpica' Russian with the round features of her father rather thmn th*» fin^pr drawn Grecian beauty of
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    RED BID TO WIDEN PARIS PARLEYS
    191 1 PARIS, Saturday. oreUn Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, train last night for preliminary > with his Western colleagues, before ruiiul -Big Four" meeting on Ger- iv. it which Russia may seek at least i he global told war. a by Radio Moscow early yester'he Russians
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    Kashmir pact delayed
    23 1 Kashmir pact delayed KAI Sat. layed reNa- rnent gatioo I to due last I -i her vhicii md t the Prime A Khan.
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    NOW LEGATIONS
    6 1 I de- r Pa-la
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    URNS UNEARTHED
    30 1 Three skeletons and more than 200 cremation urns, possibly from thP time of the Saxons 1400 years aejo, have been unearthed near Illlngton. by a farmer's plough. A.P.
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    YARD CATCHES 'MAD PARSON'
    80 1 LONDON, Sat. SCOTLAND Yard has anO nounced the capture of the "mad parson of Broadmoor" after a manhunt of nearly two years. The fugitive John Edward Allen, aged 37, who had been detained m Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum for the murder of a child, escaped m
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    Roem for Banka
    35 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. DR. MOHD. ROEM, chairman of the Republican delegation, and delegation members Prlnggodigdo are leaving for Banka Island this morning to hold a political meeting with Republican leaders on the island.
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    FEW BRITONS GO TO TIENTSIN
    128 1 HONG KONG, Friday. BRITISH shipping firms which have been maintaining services between Hong Kong and the Communist-held port of Tientsin said today that only a handful of Britons and Americans who formerly did business there had returned to the northern port m the past few
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    BANDITS SHOOT THREE TAMILS
    47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A PARTY of five bandits shot dead three Tamils, two men and a woman, In the Jem am pong area of Pahang yesterday afternoon. Police who went to investigate were fired upon and returned flre. No casualties wore reported.
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    Drive on secret societies
    57 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE alleged to be a secret society headman was arrested under a banishment warrant m Singapore yesterday. Two other Chinese were also arrested In connection with secret society activities. A Chinese woman, alleged to be a member of the Malayan Communist
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    Fresh call to Asians for anti-Red pact
    199 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. rpHE President of the American-occupied South Korean Republic/ Dr. Syngman Rhee, declared m Seoul yesterday that Asian nations should proceed with plans for a Pacific defence pact even if the United States were not responsive to it. "Democratic countries must present
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    MASEFIELD ILL
    20 1 John Masefleld, 70-year-old British poet laureate who is convalescing from an attack of pneumonia, has developed heart trouble.
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    REDS FORGOT 374,000 JAPS
    36 1 ALLIED headquarters m Japan were last night mystified by the Russian announcement earlier yesterday that only 95,000 Japanese pri-soners-of-war remain m Russian hands. According to Japanese figures 469,000 prisoners are still held.
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    BAO DAI MOVE
    36 1 FRENCH High Commissioner m Indo-China, M. Leon Pignon and his Chief of Staff Gen. Georges Revers will discuss the organisation of the future Vietnam Army with j ex-Fmperor Bao Dai of An- 1
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    Rebels proclaim Karen state
    210 1 RANGOON, Friday. INSURGENTS have proclaimed the area between 1 Daiku and Toungoo a Karen state. Daiku is 78 miles north of Rangoon and Toungoo 85 miles further north. The proclamation called on all political leaders m the area to report immediately to the Karen authorities "under
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    HUNDREDTH AIR STRIKE
    81 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. RA.F. planes based m Kuala Lumpur carried out their hundredth air strike against bandits yesterday, blitzing a jungle area where earlier bandits had ambushed a military and police party. The bandits had been reported hiding m the area after the
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    CARRIED 308
    27 1 The Navy seaplane, Marshall Mars, set a new passenger carrying record yesterday when she landed m San Diego from Alameda with 308 persona aboard.- A.P.
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    Berlin rail strike threat
    161 1 Berlin rail strike threat BERLIN, Friday. WESTERN Berlin mobif f Used its entire police force tonight m case a threatened midnight rail strike provokes violence. All reserves were summoned and placed m strategic spots along the route of the elevated railway to guard against clashes between Germans of the west
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    French 'MPs' and Vietnam
    75 1 THE French National Assembly last night approved Premier Henry Queille's proposal to debate today the proposed incorporation of Cochin-China m the new Vietnam state. The Council of the Republic the French Upper House adopted the proposal at dawn yesterday. The incorporation of Cochin -China ricebowl of
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    Government resigns
    30 1 The Hungarian Government formally resigned yesterday but agreed to remain In office until after a new parliament meets on June 8 and a new government is chosen U.P.
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    Rubber prices
    57 1 SPECIAL Market correspondent gives tbc prices of rubber (In cenU per Ib.) at 11 t.m today M follows: Buyer* >• Urn No. 1 X S S Spot loose 35 35' 4 F.o.b. m bales Jurw No. 1 R.S.S 35 3.V, No. 2 R.S.S. 33' i 33" 2 No.
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      Mouse-deer tricks the King Crocodile
      664 2  -  UNCLE GEORGE by MOUSE -DEER thought hard. He had escaped once from Tiger, and there seemed to be no way of trapping him again. And now Tiger sat behind him amid the crocodiles, and m front of him King Crocodile waited m the river snapping
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      65 2 Former merchant mariner, 25-year-old Renato Greco sends his ships to the sea m his apartment bathroom. After serving with the lta~ Han Merchant Navy, he decided that there was a future m shipbuilding on a small scale. Now his model boats are used by ship- vino hnes ftr aitr*J ment.
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      KEEP THESE STAMPS
      115 2 THERE will be no new stamps from Newfoundland, for that Colony has become a province of Canada. So don't trade away your Newfoundland issues too cheaply. They may become valuable. You may not be lucky enough to own any of the rarer ones, which are worth up
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      MAKE YOUR OWN RAINBOW
      431 2 Without terror, these seven phildren are led by their mother, with father guarding the rear, into a hospital USA, for a mass tonsil removal (Bottom).— A technician starts to test the children's blood before th' overntion. WHEN the sun comes out after a shower a rainbow
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      Flying Doctors
      292 2 IN the Outback of Australia people are few and widely scattered. For instance, Pine Creek, Just south of Darwin m Arnhem Land has Just a hotel, a tiny Chinese store and a few other buildings housing not more than a score of people. In the old days a
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      Scouts Saved Their Lives
      262 2 Scouts Saved Their Lives CHILDREN! here's your own WORLD SPOTLIGHT A SPECIAL Order of the Day of the 26th Brigade of the Greek Army announces "Seven soldiers will always remember that they owe their lives to the Scouts of the village of Dafnon." Dafnon is a tiny village six miles
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      HIPPO PETE TOO TIRED TO RELAX
      320 2 HIPPO PETE TOO TIRED TO RELAX r pHE case of the hippopo--1 tamus that won't lie down \s fascinating authorities at the New York Zooal Putk. The hippo is Pete, aged 45. the older, te captivity, and he is now so old that he hates 10 lie down because of
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    KONI is a problem
    102 2 A small mischievous monkey is a problem anywhere. Even m the jungle where he was born Koni was a worry all the time to his family. 11 1 don't know what sort of a monkey he'll grow up to be," said his mother. Kom has grown
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      115 2 BHiliSjP f BHHt p j J-lte Gentile anX the T^J* limbs, firm flesh and scbones together with the happ of abounding health these are of the gifts bestowed by this famous toed. For there is everything your b-iDy nt I In a tin of COW AND Ga'E 1 «ne concentrated
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      279 2 Puzzle corner rpiIERE are five wild pig together m the jungle. If a hunter shoots one how many are left? Answer: None. They woudn't be foolish enough to wait. JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS.— I. Sur- Rockey Mountains area 17 name of the poet who WTOte Border of anything ir fiAw
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    MURDER Could not Kill
    1314 3  - MURDER Could not Kill GREGORY BAXTER •M Tte -lory >o far.—SherJoA Dexter, US -2£ is shot dead ichil* his daughter ter, near MarLondon at mid-Ho'o'-i Foster, an :ller run saloon to a fcrfm Unnusr.e but U off the running "ies to stop Ford is callI Laurette's ..etectives that -ed m
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    Bridge Problem
    92 3 HEARTS are trumps South leads. North and South a:e to win six of the seven tricks against defence. South leads the trump, North discarding ihr spade queen! West wins and leads diamond ten. East discarding a club. North makes diamond king and leads spade ■six. East covers with
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    UK, EGYPT TO BUILD HUGE NILE DAM
    162 3 UK, EGYPT TO BUILD HUGE NILE DAM ORITAIN and Egypt have agreed to construct a 13 giant £11,500,000 dam and hydro-electric station which will harness and control the waters of the Nile, lif estream of Egypt. The huge project, sited near Jinja, Uganda, m the heart of Africa's malaria-ridden jungles,
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    OIL 'FIND' IN PAKISTAN
    63 3 MORE oilfields have been discovered In Pakistan at Chakwal, In the west Punjab says the Karachi branch or the Burma Oil Company. A well which was drilled to a depth of 8,100 feet struck the limestone zone similar to that at another well which It already
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    MR. WARD 'NOT CORRUPT'
    34 3 A ROYAL Commission of Enquiry has cleared Mr. Edward ward, Australian Minister of External Territories, of allegations of corruption, the head of the Commission said, according to Radio Australia. Reuter
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      178 3 s -HdrSkG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya i** |*A(r DAD WAi 6HANOO THt GREAT. I a »V«f« tVE »V£« Otfl I I'll I fil\ '>'j I I N t Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya *=-'M Y WELL THREE A^iN THE FlRrr PLACeXI [/-BECAUSE THERE
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      601 3 a^^^^^^ n B K a^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_ SINGAPORE (BLUE NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from K.L. at 10 a.m. TOPAY 10. New.* from Kuala Lumpur 1 1 Programme Summary 1 02 Danca Music by Joe Loss and 111* 'Orchestra 130 News 1.45 Weekly Singapore Share Market Report 1.50 Interlude 2.
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      106 3 Market Report; 4.55 Grand Hotel (11); 5.30 Goodbye to All This (1); 6.00 Light Music: 6.15 World Affairs (BBC). 6. 50 News In Cantonese (BBC). 645 Indonesian: News Sz Programme. 7.15 News In French. 7.3 C English: News Si Commentary; Books and People William Plomer; English Lesson (BBC). 8.00 Siamese:
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      151 3 Solution To Crossword No. 693 F.P. Crossword No. 694 I I 12 1 pi |4 I IS I 16 I T~ 8 —p9~io II 12 5"26 "27 ~"«S"29 p~ 33 s p5 33 CLUES ACROSS 1 Warmongers (12); 7 Relativ* (5); 9 Agree (6;; 13 Snatch (4); 15 Bar (5);
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    The Singapore Free Perss Saturday, May 21, 1949. WATCH YOUR HAEMOGLOBIN
    634 4 The Singapore Free Perss Saturday, May 21, 1949. WATCH YOUR HAEMOGLOBIN DOCTORS nowadays are becoming regular chatterboxes. Hardly a cable comes into the Free Press office without some snippet, or more usually a good column, telling all about the latest miracle drugs that rure everything from weedy eyebrows to hammer-toes,
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    Water is their main problem
    1394 4  - Water is their main problem VICTOR STAINES LIGHT ON THE KAMPONGS by THE greatest problem of people living m the rural areas of Singapore is water. First of all they want piped water and secondly they want drains to take waste water away. Most people living m the Municipal area
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    The Bell Tolls A Welcome
    713 4  -  ROY FERROA by THE school bell tolled its welcome tune for hundreds of children another day m class was over. They packed up their books, slung satchels over their shoulders and trooped downhill out of gates of their school. The time was 11 a.m. and
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    THE MEN WHO WATCH THE MARKEY...
    17 4  -  GILES by "O.K. Nou'j the time to «dl them -all b*ck-co«plu*."
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    New deal for inventors
    482 4  -  J. W. Taylor By IT is just 500 years since Henry VI granted the first patent for an invention to John Wyman for the manufacture of stainedglass windows and by a strange coincidence the quincentenary is being marked by th e passage through the present Parliament
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    FAITH
    23 4 Let all bitterness m wrath, and anger vi clamour, and evil sprak Ing. be put away from y with all malice. E
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    UNKNOWN
    78 5 UN KNO WN Free Press Special Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. fls m Johore Bahru ..sing at the I 100 a I ir.ent Labour >tered unemi <_<7 m Jan- bruary, 516 In I :n April. i Labour Ex>bs for 54 this n.omh 60 iced m Jobs. -r progress s :i".o lo
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    DINNER PARTY
    25 5 i Id at the Maj 28 by the bers of the preConstabulary Police Reserve; t B" Division. their former Mr. J. M BE.
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    ASSIZE SESSION
    18 5 A session of Aasise will be held on Tuesday. June 7, at the Supreme Court. Singapore.
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    Penghulus for college
    55 5 )< i« to send nine p<.nghulus and one ketua kamponj to the College of Agriculture, Serdang, to fiem knowledge and experience m the theory and of agriculture, which will help them m guiding "-ri people m their charge. For this purpose, the finance Committee of the State
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    34 5 SIR Franklin and Lady Gimson who left Singapore yesterdaj In the Dutch ship Maetsuyker for a three weeks' holiday m Australia. They are due to return to Singapore on June 6— Free Press picture.
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    Penny-pinching Govt., says Tan
    354 5 regard this country as their permanent home will be greatly appreciated." On housing, the Progressive Party would give the Government two months m winch to irtroduce a Bill for the creation of a housing trust. Mr. Tan said. "If Government doe* not produce the Bill m
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    New bill to validate convictions
    114 5 New bill to validate convictions Free Press Staff Reporter A BILL to validate the imprisonment of persons m Singapore, convicted by Australian military courts, after the Peace Treaty with Japan is signed, was published In a supplement to the Government gazette yesterday. Under "objects and reasons," it is stated that
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    GUNNY BAG CONTROL TO STAY
    198 5 F. P. Chinese Correspondent FE Singapore Economic Affairs Department has told rhe Chinese ImDorters and Exporters Association that complet* freeing of restrictions m re-export of gunny bags is beyond Ite control of the Government. The quantity ol iute products import?d into Malaya is governed by
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    60 5 picture. MR. D. Robertson reading the minutes of the last annual general meeting of the Progressive Party when the Party met yesterday for its second yearly conference. Seated on the right is Mr. C. C. Tan, who was re-elected president of the Party, and on the left Mr. John Laycock
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    RURAL LAND SOARS IN VALUE
    498 5 Building drift from town Free Press Staff Reporter STRONG demand for vacant land m Singapore, especially m residential districts, is sending up the price of land m rural areas by as much as 40 to 50 per cent., Mr. Cheong Thiam Siew, a leading auctioneer
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    THE VOTERS HAVE THEIR SAY
    207 5 BIRTH CONTROL DEBATE Free Press Staff Reporter. ONE week before the Singapore Municipal Commissioners debate birth control, many voters have told their Commissioners that they favour the introduction of a birth control service. .One voter has written letters to three Progressive Party Commissioners— Mrs. Robert
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    ROYAL BETROTHAL IN KEDAH
    56 5 TENGKU Abdul Malik, second son of the Sultan of Kedah. was betrothed to Tengku Rowdah at a ceremony on May 8. Ten^ku Abdul Malik, who :s 19 years old, went to England last March to read law together with his elder brother. The marriage will take
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    Test plane sent on mercy flights
    172 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ABOAC Hythe flying-boat,- which was scheduled to leave Singapore this week and return to London after completing several cloud tests with a special radar equipment, has been taking part m the evacuation of Shanghai. Shortly before leaving Kallang for the
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    A.C.S.U. WOMEN'S GROUP FORMED
    71 5 THE Army Civil Service Union, Singapore, has formed a women's group with a view to promoting trade union consciousness among women workers, and enabling them to put forward their point of view as a collective body within the Union. Miss Wee Kiat Neo was elected chairman
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    TALENTIME CONCERT
    56 5 picture. T ARRY Fenton and his "Tin Can Toledoes during a Vj performance given by Radio Malaya's Talentime artistes at the smokeroom concert at the Singapore Cricket Club last night. There was a very large turn-out at the S.C.C. to hear these entertainers, whose broadcasts from Radio Malaya
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      192 5 Airmails are dut to arrive m Singapore today from the U.K.. Aden. Africa. Arabia. Canada. Europe. India, Iran, Iraq Pakistan, Palestine Australia. New Zealand, Ceylon. Burma, and Medan. Closing time for posting airmails at the 0.P.0. today is: to the UK., Aden. Africa, Arabia, Canada. Europe, India, Iran. Iraq, Pakistan.
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    COLONY FORWARDS DISAPPOINT
    614 6  - COLONY FORWARDS DISAPPOINT CRUSADER Johore concede only 2 goals Singapore 2; Johore 0. JNSTEAD of scoring the expected runaway victory, Singapore merely scraped through their Malaya Cup encounter against Johore at Jalan Besar Stadium last evening. Their forwards were never comfortable with the slippery, heavy ball and countless scoring chances
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    54 6 picture. The Johore soccer team -which lost o—20 2 to Singapore m their Malaya Cap fixture played last evening at Jalan Besar Stadium: from left to right back row. Jamak Aitken. Sin Chew; second row: Beng Kirn, Mohd. Mahat, HaSsan; front row: Syed Hassan, Dollah Don, Jalil Majid, Sek Hon,
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    SINGAPORE PREPARES FOR ECAFE
    122 6 TLANS are now being draf- ted to make provision lor accommodation of 140 ne legates and •members of th? staff of the Economic Commission for Asia ond the F\v East when it meets m ih? Victoria Memorial Hall fan October. Arrangements with regard to the equipment
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    INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION
    116 6 »TKE total amount paid m wages is 3155., and this represents three days' wages for all five. So one day's wage fur all five is 105s. Now we have the following scheme of payments: Monday: B D E 63s Tuesday: A C D 66s Wednesday: B C
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    INDO-CEYLONESE S.C.
    31 6 MEETING of the Indo-Cey-lonese Spores Club, Johore Bahm will held at %7, ,ia!an Ibrahim, on Monday, May 30, at 5.30 p.m. All ImKsm and Ceylone<=e are requesv-d to attend.
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    MAYFLOWER B.P.
    21 6 'THE Mayflower B.P. is holding a committee meeting tomorrow at 10 a.m' <U the President's residence m Moulmein Road.
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    GAOLED FOR EXTORTION
    60 6 An extra police constable formerly attached to the Johore Police, who extorted 40 cents from a coffee and cake hawker, left the First District Court yesterday to serve two- years' hard labour. He was"2l-year-old Ali bin Moha.med, who pleaded guilty to two charges of extortion and one
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    71 6 SHIPS m port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves y sterday (godowus m brackets) were: Main Wharf: Friesland < 31-32). President Vsn Buren (33-34), Dt. Lyles '36-37), Trewelland (38-39 >. Dondin Narasanio (40-41), Bolssevain (42-43). We«t Wharf: Marudu (3). Benavon (4-5). Asphalion (6-7>. Talabot (8-9), Anterior (13-14). Oluf
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    $3,000 GIFT IN MEMORY
    96 6 "IN memory of Mr. H. O. Luetchford," a Singapore firm, Soon Cheong Ltd., has given $3,000 to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, which now totals $24,962. Other recent gifts are: Dr. S. Seevaretnam $1 000, Tongku Amman of Seiangor $1,000. Tengku Laxamana of Klang $500,
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    JOHORE PROMOTIONS
    28 6 Messrs. C. D. Westwood. R A. Logan, Gurdial Singh. Ng Ah Ow, and Chelllah John have been promoted to the post of Education Officer In Johore.
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    $5,806,202 for Malay Regiment
    177 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Federation Government will spend $5,806,202 this year on the expansion of the Malay Regiment. A total of over 1,700 men will be recruited. To accommodate the new recruits, semi-per-manent barracks will be built at Port Dickson. The 1949
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      Easier tendency develops
      463 6 LONDON, Sal EXCEPT for a few isolated instances, the Stock Exchange was quiet yesterday public and professional investors showing ii?. 1 ence towards dealing m front of the *fi*Jj Reuters financial correspondent. Some selling took place and a slightly easier tended veloped. Rubber and tin shares were
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      59 6 Net proceed c: film snow An Met j band" at the Pay m aid of the Hospita! Fund on May 2 aaoaa $6,068, an organise: i function, Mrs. Fr son, said yeste: Donations from 3fc Starr. Messrs W .V ?s and Chew X Pavilion F Mitre
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    AIR GEE IS GIEN AS BEST BET
    298 7 AIR GEE IS GIEN AS BEST BET Latest track pointers Free Press Racing: Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. GEE and Sunny Valley were the most fancied horses on the course this morning for this afternoon's opening races of the Penang Turf Club Summer Meeting. The track is still m good condition despite
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    19 7 B. K:m Johore's right ilf m a heading duel with v.tru md Kamlan \esterdays i i up MKcer match.
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    'Pro' tennis tourney
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    Glamorgan win in last over
    697 7 yESTERDAY'S play m the county cricket cham- pionship provided some exciting finishes m the victories of Glamorgan, Yorkshire and Hampshire. Wilfred Wooler, Glamorgan's dynamic captain, won the match against Worcestershire for the champions m the last over. Wooler went m after Glamorgan, needing 151 to
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    VICTORIA CUP RACE TODAY
    67 7 JLJ R. R. FOSTER s seven-year-old Combined Operations, the former Indian champion sprinter, is among the 14 probable runners for the Victoria Cup, to be run over seven furlongs at Hurst Park today. Combined Operations, *ho is due to carry the same vr eight <9ct. Tib-
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    CHESS NOTES
    172 7 CCORES ir the Singapore Chers League after the fifth round are: Chess Club I 5 points: ACS. 4".: Johore E.C. 3V. Colleges I 3; Che^s Club II 3: Swimming Club 2; CV.M A. 2: V MCA. 1; Colleges m I; Colleges n 0. Owing to the difficulty of
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    MOTORCYCLING FOR OLYMPICS?
    68 7 HPHE Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Australia, Mr. James S. Disrey, said m Birmingham yesterday that he intended to make a recommendation to the International Olympic Committee that motor cycling should be Included m the Olympic Games to be held m Melbourne »n 1955 He added th^t he
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    RONNIE WHITE WINS
    33 7 13ONNIE Whit*, English golf ctompion, won the Illustrated Gold Vase yesterday with two rounds of 71 for a total of 142 over the 8,600-yard Dollymeunt golf course, Dublin. A. P.
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    GOOD ENTRIES FOR TABLE TENNIS
    508 7 EXCELLENT tntries were received for the Singapore Table Tennis Association tournaments for this year. The junior singles attracted 86 competitors and the Junior doubles 28 pairs. Twenty-seven entered for the senior singles, eight pairs for the senior doubl s. nine teams for the inter-school league,
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    Sinhalese sets up new record
    62 7 DUNCAN White of Loughborough (Leicestershire), the Sinhalese runnerup m the Olympic 400 metres hurdles, set up a new record for the Universities Athletic Union championships at the White City, London, yesterday when he won the 441 yards hurdles final. In a heavy downpour of rain
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    WOMEN'S GOLF
    64 7 ENGLAND, by defeating Scotland and Ireland at Harlech, Wales, yesterday appear certain to win the women's international golf championship for they should account for Wales In their remaining match today. Yesterday England won by five games to four against Scotland and by seven games to two »gain- t
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    S.R.C. TEAM PLAY IN K.L. TODAY
    74 7 THE Singapore Recreation Club cricket team left Singapore for Kuala Lumpur by train last night to play against the Selangor Eurasians for the Conrad Clarke Challenge Cup. The game will be played today and tomorrow. The following players will represent the S.R.C.:— V. C.
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    AMPON BEATEN
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    BIRTH
    17 8 BLSBRIDGE: To Vivienne. of John Busbrtdge a c rjghter. on May 19th at Kant -><? Ketbau Hospital.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    36 8 THE ENGAGEMENT is anB uiiced between Marius Josephus QhefmtM, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. S van Huystee of Heem&*dg and Jacqueline Anne E'imee. daughter of J. E. Graaf rid Gravin de Hochepied of
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    39 8 M. S NG TECK PAU, and family wish to thank the d .vclors and staff of Messrs. EH^read Co., Ltd.. for their b^BWOIaM contributioii towards f v n c r a of the late V v« reck Pau.
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    NO UK GOVT CHANGE THIS YEAR
    516 8 Bitter charges by Churchill LONDON, Saturday. SPECULATION on the possibility qf a British general election m the autumn and an early Cabinet reshuffle are discredited by authoritative quarters here, who say that the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, is not contemplating either possibility. In
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    'History will tell'—Bevan
    69 8 'History will tell'— Bevan LONDON, Saturday. "II7HEN the history of the V? present century comes to be written, the settlement of the Indo-British problem will be described as the most outstanding event of the century," said the Minister of Health, Mr. Aneurin Bevan. yesterday. Mr. Bevan also said that the
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    RUSSIA ACCUSED BY TITO
    116 8 BELGRADE, Sat. MARSHAL TITO, speaking on Yugoslavia's relations with the Eastern bloc last night, declared that "the responsibility of the present situation falls m the first place on Soviet Russia. "Russia must realise she has made a mistake and repair it," he added. Tito was addressing
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    Love letter monk disrobed
    77 8 RANGOON, Sat. k BUDDHIST monk was pub- licly disrobed here by a congregation of Reverend Sayadaws, Buddhist divines, from surrounding monasteries because of misconduct. The monk was charged with "eating a second meal m the evening," dabbling m business, and being m possession of a bundle
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    SOVIET INVITES JAP
    40 8 Akahito Kurahara, member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, has been invited to attend the celebration m Moscow of the 150 th birthday anniversary of Pushkin which begins m Moscow on June 6 Reuter
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    CLASH NEAR MILAN
    27 8 One man was killed and another severely injured when Communist and non-Commu-nist farm workers clashed at Mediglla, nine miles south of Milan, yesterday. U.P.
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    UK's vast new coalfield
    31 8 THE Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Herbert Mnrri«^» iih*" d S fi C '?H sed have discovered a Tew production m the British Isles at the vZ£rtirt£t£Z. A.P.
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    Govt forces revolt in North Kwangtung
    272 8 CANTON, Saturday. OFFICIAL Nationalist admission yesterday that Nationalist troops m North Kwangtung had revolted and gone over to the advancing Communists was followed by a report that United States authorities are making plans for the evacuation of some 400 Americans from South China. The
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    Saved IS times from the 'chair'
    82 8 MONTGOMERY (Ala), Sat. A 22-YEAR-OLD Negro, who has been aved 15 times from the electric chair by reprieves or ourt action, had his death sentence commuted yesterday to life imprisonment. No reason was given. The Negro, Samuel Taylor, who had been convicted m 1946
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    6 'dangerous' men at large
    88 8 MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia, Sat. CIX long term prisoners. described as "desperate and dangerous," overcame their guards yesterday and escaped with a small arsenal of guns ana ammunition. The men. who were workIng on a building at Sote hospital, grabbed four automatic sho suns and three revolvers.
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    66 8 QN THE New York stock Exchange, cautious raJlyinjr attempts appeared as soon as pressure abated yesterday afternoon. The maikets were left with a mainly fractional loss on balance to close barely steady Rubber shar«s drew no comfort from a belief m one quarter that a riOUS decllne ln
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    12 8 Princess Margaret ha* arrived In Venice to continue her Italian holiday A.P.
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    SEAMEN FOUGHT FOR HIDDEN GIRL
    68 8 Captain Herbert Scott, masrpn sOf5 Of i he tanker British Captain Soott. who brought his He added that he might not have known about the girl if thTthr^ men had not qua^rrellfd over hei so much that they ended up m n wm buckets at
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    AIR SHELTERS TO STAY
    71 8 BRITAIN'S remaining air v raid shelters will stay for the time being, the Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, told the Commons yesterday. Conservative M.P. Mr. Martin Lindsay, asked that shelters still standing on private property and m back yards should be removed. "I do not feel
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    'Must cut prices of our goods'
    242 8 'Must cut prices of our goods' DECLINE IN U.K. EXPORTS LONDON, Sat. BRITAIN is "doomed to economic disaster" unless she can slash the price of her products m world markets before United States aid ends m 1952, the Conservative Party chairman, Lord Woolton, said m Liverpool yesterday. Lord Woolton's warning
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    U.N. tried to visit N. Korea
    85 8 SEOUL, Saturday. rpHE United Nation* ComJ. mission revealed at a special press conference yesterday that It sent a request for admission to North Korea In March. The letter was addressed to Kirn 11-sung, the North Korean leader. The commission said it was not known
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    ITALIAN REDS' BIG TOTAL
    68 8 THE Italian Communist Party yesterday claimed that its paid-up membership reached 2,000.000 by the end of April and predicted that last year's total of 2,225,000 would be passed m July. The party statement appealed to members to step up recruitment m an effort to set a
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    Labour conference
    29 8 Delegate* from 61 countries will meet m Geneva next month to consider an international treaty to guarantee the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. U.P.
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      7 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine MAY 21, 1949.
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      Did the Municipal
      613 1  -  CHIA POTEIK voters make the right choice? by Singapore "'Municipal voters he i ii^ht choice :u IDC persons I !o represent t the new Cbmmisanswd came Yap Pheng nominated on the Com.ilthough when the statement m reply to j or direct Whatever mag have said ire of
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      WATER PROBLEM IN THE KAMPONGS
      453 1  -  Marian Wells by THE recent spell of hot weather m Singapore has caused some inconvenience to villagers who depend on their own water supply. Water m wells has sunk very low, and streams have dwindled into mere ribbons. This means more hardship for those living
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      LOVE POTIONS TO HEAL THE HEART
      665 1  -  Kenneth Tan by I OVE, to most peo pie, is considered blina. In some respects this is true. To cure people who sit and mope over a brokenheart or over the unattainable is the worry of people who advertise themselves as "healers of broken
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      When the flicks really flickered
      828 1  -  K.S. CHIA by pLICKS were really flicks m the good old days, when our fathers cheered and clapped their hands when the heroes bashed the bewhiskered villains on the jaw. They jeered and booed when the leering rascals strutted across the screen. But then there
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      56 2 Amencu film actor, Louii Haywaru. dances with Mis* Burna Scalera at a Film Ball held m the Grand S^UH Rome Miss Scalera has little difficulty m man- dyinj ooth nayward ana he vilu ni i ma bustle to her rocK. She is the daughter of Mechele Scalera Italian Jilm producer
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      Why Jane went to England
      641 2 Why Jane went to England fpHERE are three reasons why Jane AY v man might wish to visit the Rovai Academy of Dramatic Art, nursery of many of Britain's leading film actors and actresses. One is to learn something about acting— which is an absurd suggestion, of course, m the
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      Who Said The Chinese Didn't Kiss
      664 2  - Who Said The Chinese Didn't Kiss RALPH SHAW By **pHK amazing thing nlxnit Chinese films/ said the American, "is that nobody wants to kiss anybody. Do they make Jove m China, or do they not?" My dear American friend, of course they make love m China. But they don't make
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      POWER WAS LOST
      214 2 L^ILM stars Tyrone 1 Power and Cecile Aubrey, and scores of British technician, were marooned by floods m the Moroccan desert recently. Half their encampment ai Ouasazazarte, 200 miles from Casablanca, was washed away when torrential rain brought the first floods there for 50 years. Seventeen-year-old Cecile
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      Age Means Nothing To Swanson
      433 2 By 808 THOMAS A.P. Correspondent BEING old, remarked Gloria Swanson, with perfect logic, merely means that you have lived longer. "I think It's a crime," the ageless movie queen continued, that m America ape is treated as something distasteful a burden which people carry on
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      ANTIQUE FAIR
      97 2 TVHE Antique Dealers' JL Fair, now m Its ninth year, regarded as one of the leading events of the 1949 season, will be staged at Qrosvenor House. Park Lane. from June 9 to 24. The Duke of Devonshire, a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, will
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      Familiar face was Janet Gaynor's
      298 2 Familiar face was Janet Gaynor 's QUESTS at Claridges Hotel W., a couple of weeks ago looked twice at the forgotten face m their midst, wrinkled their brows, and went about the business of the evening. It was tantalising. They had s^n the small, dark woman with the demure gmiling
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        263 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, there i* little you may not accomplish provided you make the best possible use of the talents which the stars have bequeathed to you. Your nature is. however, a rather restless one and unless you are engaged In some energetic activity at all times, you
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      Japs out to rebuild M.N.
      471 3  -  RICHARD HUGHES by OFFICIAL Occupation support has been secured for an undercover Japanese proposal to charter or buy 91 idle "Liberty" ships from the United States. The proposal, with Occupation blessing, has gone to Washingu*u, ..xiere it is being handled on top levels with proper
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      Seeking good 'tips' from the gods
      697 3  -  Kenny Kaye by A LARGE Flame of the Forest tree which has seen some bloody clashes of gang warfare and some very peculiar happenings during its lifetime, is now being worshipped by believers who think that it is the abode of spirits. It stands
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      England must find 'shock' bowlers
      1083 4 England must find shock' bowlers DENIS COMPTON, England Test player writes of two new 'hopes 9 ENGLISH cricket needs youth, and needs it quickly, or else But young talent all over the country is being 1 stifled by the call up I A county discovers a promising young player, only
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      SPORTING Chit-Chat
      343 4 SPORTING Chit-Chat THE Singapore Cricket Club is again fielding four separate teams this weekend and has still not exhausted all the talent available some members, for instance will be playing against the club for the Non-Benders. It is a pity that the shortage of opposition occasioned largely by the shortage
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      913 4  -  Percival Soke By IT may be asserted that 198 lbs. is too heavy for a jockey, but it is all a matter of distributing the weight evenly, and, naturally, of finding a horse that knows what the rider is doing and can readjust
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      The 'sticky dog', terror of batsmen
      445 4 The 'sticky dog terror of batsmen Yardley on wicJm] RAIN Is such a feature of the English cricket season 4,hat it is not surprising that it has endowed the language of the game with such rich and descriptive expressions as "sticky dog" and "glue-pot". It will simplify explanations If all
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