The Singapore Free Press, 24 October 1949

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press ■LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I 17.611 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 1949 I'KII I* 111 IM S
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    RUSSIA HOLDS UP RUBBER BUYING
    254 1 RUSSIA HOLDS UP RUBBER BUYING Devaluation difficulties ut F ee Press Staff Reporter JHL sterling area devaluation has caused Russia to suspend temporarily all purchases of Malayan rubber. Russia has not bought any rubber m the last three weeks and the quantity of rubber awaiting shipment from Malaya is estimated
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    MATRON GOES TO BOARD
    49 1 MATRON GOES TO BOARD toe P pss SI ifl i: T Free ught lid do ntnt. I 'he tena: ad- an (or nancy t ol the situation is but. the now I shall prothe pen." -.son hart decided aid hwt as she ird to pay more H \K>H.\l TITO
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    Gunboat mutiny plot failed
    31 1 I HONG KONG, Mon. U rew of a lunboftt p.ot- outside harbour af'.-r f .he but werr tier hall duty wh< .hips and 30 sailors the Com-
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    Provinces renamed
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    'WAR AGAINST TITO NEAR'
    177 1 VIENNA, Monday. j Hi: clandestine Hungarian language publication, Magyar Kommunista, yesterday reported that Soviet satellites, spearheaded by Hungary, will invade Yugoslavia late this year. Magyar Kommunista said the plan to start a shooting war against Marshal Tito was drafted at a Cominform conference m Prague m
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    BIDAULT WILL HAVE A TRY
    97 1 BIDAULT WILL HA VE A TRY PARIS, Sun. fEORGES BIDAULT, leader "of the Catholic Popular Republican Party, tonight took over the Job of tryIng to pull the warring middle line parties into a new coalition government for France and put an end to the 18-day political crisis. M. Bidault takes
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    Move to beat Red strategy
    81 1 A LONDON. Mon. MERICAN "Iron Curtain" diplomats will open a two-day session here today to chart a strategy against Communist anti-West propaganda tactics and co-ordin-ate United States policy m Eastern Europe. Ambass:ido.s. or Ministers from the Baltic to the Black Sea. will sit down with
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    Bottles fly in attack on modern joget
    95 1 Bottles fly in attack on modern joget Free Press Staff Reporter MODERN joget hostesses at the New World Park platform screamed and panicked when beer bottles and chairs flew m all directions following an attack on the premises by about 50 Malayan Other Ranks on Saturday night. In the riot,
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    COMET FLIES 2,000 MILES
    60 1 LONIX)N, \ion. rE world's first jet-propell-pd airliner Britain's de Havilland Comet recently flew 2,000 miles m less than four hours the Sunday Times reports. The paper said the huge four-»mgined plane flew at an altitude up to 40.000 feet on a test flight over Europe at
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    RACING CAR KILLS 10
    29 1 A racing car went out of control m a 500-mile race m Santa Fe Province yesterday. 10 spectator; as. the driver and Injuring eight, A.P.
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    EGYPTIANS FIRE ON UK, U.S. PLANES
    83 1 LONDON, Mon. TWO British aircraft, carry- Ing passengers to Israel, were hit by anti-aircraft fire while flying over Egyptian territory near Gaza on Saturday, according to Tel Aviv reports. No passengers were wounded and both alrcrafi lanced safely. lAc British Foreign Office has received
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    Big Chungking fire
    20 1 Three thousand Chinese were made homeless yesterday when a fire destroyed 217 dwellings m Changpel. Chungking.— A.P.
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    Top U.S. Keds jailed
    71 1 HENRY WINSTON and Eugene Dennis leaving the New York court m which they, along with nine other top U.S. Communists, were sentenced to five years' jail for conspiring to overthrow the Government by force. Below George Crockett, Harry S.*:her and Abraham Isserman. three of the five
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    89 1 V r L "»ita4a f s latest lightweight racing bicycles were exhibited at the dance organised by the Cosmopolitan Cycling Club at the Roof Garden. Adelphi Hotel, Singapore, on Saturday. From left to right: Huynh van Thuang, (winn" of the Singapore Best All-Rounder Open Cycling Competition). Sukim bin Haf< Naib
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    French meet little Vietminh resistance
    170 1 F UVKIgLM SAIGON, Monday. itbaiH and Vietnamese troops have met no serious resistance yet m their week-old combined operation to clean up the Red River delta area and to gain control of the roads between Hanoi and the sea. It was authoritatively stated that the
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    Call for 'will to conquer'
    183 1 ATTLEE SPEAKS OUT LONDON, Sunday. HPHE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, said A today that the nation could survive her economic difficulties only "if all people m whatever capacity co-operate with a firm will to conquer." He was speaking at the Cotton Industry Conference at
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    D.T.s a Ia Czech
    57 1 rE Communist youth paper Mlada FronU Mid today that the cold war made 80.000. 000 people m the United States "encourage themselves with alcohol." "Our latest successes and the uncertainty of U.S. hopes forces them more and more towards alcoholism which alone can five them a
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    Wife faces murder trial
    55 1 FRANKFURT, Mon." yVETTE Madgen, 22-year-X old brunette, will be arraigned here today on a first degree murder warrant In the killing of her U.S. Air Force husband. Her husband. Lieut. Andux C. Madgen. 32, was killed by one shet as he entered their home early Thursday
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    CASLON SAILS
    41 1 Rear-Admiral Clifford Caslon. Flag Officer. Malaya, sailed on the H M.B. Alert at 11 a.m. toiay on a visit to Malacca. Penang and other ports on the West Coast of Malaya Ho will return to Singapore on Nov. 6.
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    Vice round-up
    26 1 Free Press Staff Reporter An anti-vice raid on Stam:.;rd Road and Bras Hasah ;<oad over the week-end realted m the arrest ol 22 women.
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    Britain may quit Eritrea
    80 1 NEW YORK, Mon. :ITAIN offered SaturO day to get out of Eritrea within six months, handing over to Ethiopia administration of the former Italian Red Sea Colony. Federation of Eritrea with Eth 1 i had been proposed as a compromise by the United States. Iraq, Brazil
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    Reds' new knock-out big push
    102 1 HONG KONG, Mon. WITH the imminent fall of Kweilin, capital ol Kwangsi, the Reds m South-East Civna, the North-West and MiriYangtse are expected make a concerted atta on Szechuan to eliminate the Nationalists' la<t pocket of organised resistance on the mainland. The Reds are continuing
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    QUERY ON CHINESE AT E.C.A.F.E.
    129 1 QUERY ON CHINESE AT E.C.A.F.E. Free Press Staff Repot. er THE credentials of the Chinese delegation to <he ECAr'ii c n?°rpnce. which opened m S'^t-^v '>| morning, were found Incomplete, the Conf C man, Sir Flroze Khan Noon said at the first meeting today. The Chairman said he and the
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    SLAVS EXPELLED
    19 1 Yugoslavia has been expelled from the Communist dominated "World Peace Congress." Moscow Rartin <jilH last night. Reuter
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    Rubber prices
    57 1 SPECIAL Market Corr^pondent c^ves the prices of rubber (m cents per lb.) at 11 a.m. today as follows: Bayen. Sellers. No. 1 R.s.S. Spot: h>o«« 44Mi U% F.o b. In bales Nov. No. 1 R.S.S. 44 44 s No. R.S.S. ..42\ 42 7 N«. 3 R.S^. 40« i
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    Are You a Killer in a Car?
    926 2 Are You a Killer in a Car? THOUSANDS ARE, SAYS CONRAD PHILLIPS of peopie driving cars today are potential killers. Are you one? Test yourself and see. This is what you do. Ask a friend to hold a pencil vertically behind your ear and an inch or so away from
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    Bridge Problem
    316 2 The bridge player with th* mo6t finesse is quite often the player who knows when not to take cne. South took one too many m this d'al. West opened his fourth-best spade and East's ten was allowed to hold. South won the next spade and led the club
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    125 2 na K'P-ic who have brou :,it Penny and K. ni to the ftla* studio, think Penny it Gloria Greene, the ch hi Aim «tar. They tell t»»e him producer. "We found her. She had been kidnantrsd, so we brought her hack Here. We thought thert might be a reward." rcnny
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    10 2 "Actually. I have just arrived over here—how did you knoivl"
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    THE PERFECT ROMANCE
    266 2 ()NE of the last great Victorian romances has closed with two sentences m a woman's will. They were written by Helena Violet Alice, Countess of Stradbroke, of her busband, the third Earl, sometime Governor of Victoria, Australia. And they read: "Nothing that I can write can express
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    The Radio Stunts Get Crazein
    608 2  - The Radio Stunts Get Crazein C.V.R. Thompson THIS ASTONISHING NEW Y0r k By NEW YORK: A SEAL was sent over the other day by an American broadcasting company to swim the Channel. This seems to have caused some commotion m Britain and France. I don't know why. To us, who
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      182 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN on this first day of the incoming sign, Scorpio, you are courageous and aggressive. Nothing daunts you and you can withstand the criticism of others as courageously as you so often criticise them! Ruled by Mars, the God of War you Hill fight for what you
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      176 2 Solution To Crossword No. 823 F.P. Crossword No. 824 m* |ii 3 w? i p p i 7 1 _j_ p» E r ~~g i7 ~L~ ?"3* 19 20 B 55" 31 |||32 33 I 34 j CLL'ES ACROSS 4 Explosions (6>; 8 Corpulent (7); 10 Stain (3); 11 Eye
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    PROBE URGED INTO HANGING
    364 3 PROBE URGED INTO HANGING Special plea to Commission LONDON, Monday. (JIVING evidence before the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment here, Rev. Hugh T. Smith, Senior Chaplain of British Prisons, has urged that there should be a board of inquiry into every capital case. He made this declaration: "I have seen
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    66 3 life M it waj lived m Kent more than 1.500 is being revealed by students and week-end rider an archaeologist, are excavating at 1 Koman villa on the banks of the rDa it lulliii-stone, near Swanley. The villa I down m the fourth century A.D.. when the withdrew and their
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    'No comment,' says Winston Churchill
    123 3 EX-KING LEOPOLD'S STORY WINSTON CHURCHILL, war-time Prime ster of Great Britain, has declined to cornhe statement by the exiled King Leopold elgiuip that Britain's decision to evacuate the \rm; from Dunkirk m 1940 was taken ihe slightest knowledge of the Belgian Comrvuid." lose to Mr.
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    'BACKWARD PROGRESS'
    57 3 "WE are making progress backward" In proridIng our people wi.h adequate housing, a Japanese Construction Ministry official said m Tokio. Earthquakes, typhoons an i floods are destroying Japanese homes faster than they can be built. Before the war the annual total of destroyed house* averaged 50,000. the official
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    EASY DEATH FOR AGED
    105 3 yOLUNTARY Euthanasia for the a^ed Is suggested by Dr. J. Rushwort Lund, of Portsmouth, m a letter published In the current issue of the British Medical Journal. After stating that so many apparently live only for themselves. The doctor says, "the resources of the public, or
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    TIBET FEARS COMMUNIST INVASION
    117 3 TIBET FEARS COMMUNIST INVASION LOWELL THOMAS, Columbia Broadcasting System commentator, returning from a trip into the Himalayan mountains, said m New York that the rulers of Tibet want to know if the United States will help them m the event of a Communist Invasion. Thomas. 57, who was injured m
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    P.I. radio stations
    20 3 Plans are afoot to limit the operation of radio stations m the Philippines to Philippine nationals Reuter
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    BOY BLUES ARE LURED AWAY
    103 3 ITNLESS more "Little Boy Blues" start watching the sheep, Americans may go to the butcher shop one of these days and find there is no such thing any more as lamb chops and mutton. A shortage of shephprd.s has reduced supplies of lamb and mutton
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    Okawa 'crazy like a fox'
    77 3 MANY Japanese considered that their earlier suspicions that Shumei Okawa was "crazy, like a fox 1 were conflrinerl when the Japanese press reported thai the former Class A war criminal was translating the Koran Into Japanese. Okawa, charged with being the leading propagandist for the
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    BEGAN SEA LIFE IN A BARQUE
    69 3 BEGAN SEA LIFE IN A BARQUE A seaman who had voyaged In every type of ship, from u-nidjamrrers t<^ lv: ry liri^rs Captain George J. Whltfleld, of Bockenham Kent, ha-s died He began as an apprentice on a full rigged windjammer at £3 a year. He experienced fires at sea,
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    Formosan tea
    20 3 Formosa's tea production this, year Is expected to fall to 14,200,000 pounds, onethird less than last year.— A.P.
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    DEFINITION ON KASHMIR
    54 3 THE Constituent Assembly In New Delhi has now made a special provision defining India's relationship with Kashmir, pending confirmation of the state's accession by the Kashmir people. But meantime Kashmir will continue to be part of India and be counted as one of the 30 units comprising
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    China Red Govt. a dictatorship
    215 3 SHANGHAI, Monday. r FHE Chinese Communists have broadcast the text 1 of their constitution, disclosing their new "People's Republic" as a highly centralised dictatorship. This organic law calls for creation of an "AllChina People's Congress through universal suffrage" j at some unspecified future time. Meanwhile,
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    27 3 Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, shakes hand* with the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cieorsre Aylwen, at a function at the Mansion House London.
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    War state in Holy City
    303 3 JERUSALEM, Monday. LTOLY YEAR pilgrims to Rome m 1950 have only a slim chance of being: able to visit Jerusalem, the Holy City of Christendom. In 1938 the last Holy Year— thousands of the faithful flocked to Jerusalem and other shrines m Palestine either before
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    Red China mission to Japan
    121 3 Red China mission to Japan J± F'JUR-MAN Chinese Communbl trade mis. lon rived m August m Tokio Lo negotiate purchase 01 Japanese rail equipment for North China railroads, arconini Mr. Herman Yaras, Pre.si of Yara.s and who ha.s "Occupation authorities must have known they i j there, otherwise they would
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    CANTON MAYOR'S SON IN TEXAS
    38 3 I Liv Liang Chu, 17-year ukl son of Liv Chin-wen, lias enrolled at Baylor University, m 'i as mi ng student The elder IJu was formerly mayor of NtnUns I and Canton.- A.P.
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    ONE ON THE HOUSE
    51 3 A36-GALLON beer barrel was placed outside the local at Holme End, n^ar Burnley. England, recently. Villagers helped themselves, filling cans, buckets, and jugs —with water delivered Dj a brewery because the villaße well is dry. Reaction: "The water tasted slightly of beer and made toa seem
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      576 3 CfWfG/lpODp Programme (As 6'pore); 2.15 11.30 News News Analysis ,oi7rV HDTa'miVr Commentaries on the racrs from (BBC); 11.45 Light Music; 12.00 (BLUfc NtrwUKlk) tne Clangor Turf Club; 6.00 CLOSE DOWN. 484 and 41 7 metres^ Station Opening; 6.02 Light Music; Emergency new* from X L 6 .30 Dance Music: 710
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      124 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. ODEON: H.M. Pulham Esq. REX: The Corpse Came COX). MADRAS: The Untamed Breed. COLISEUM: The Phantom Rider (whole serial). CATHAY: Vinodini (Tamil). CENTRAL: Mayavathy (Tamil: EMPIRE: (Tharma Puthran (Tamil). PAVILION: Lassie Hllla of Home. HINDUSTAN: Chenchu Lakshml (Tamil). PENANG ODEON: Take Me Out To The Ball
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  • MONDAY. Oct. 24. 1949.
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      PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
      628 4 YALIANI campaigning and forthright speaking won j lor Singapore In the face ol stronuiv organised opposition the right to provtde free .<.: i m clpal r a advice on family planning. But the fluht is not finished. There is still much more to j be done,
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    Self-Government: A Bold Prophecy
    1222 4  - Self -Government: A Bold Prophecy HALL ROMNEY LONDON LETTER by E L F GOVERNMENT is bound to come m Malaya m about ten to 15 years. Thai is what Mr. Woodrow Wyatt, Socialist M.P. for the Aston division of Birmingham, told Pabian Society members M Lon (1 o n\s Caxton
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    63 4 Berlin i traditional victory highway, inter den Linden, saw the biggest rally since Hitler when German Communists gathered to celebrate the declaration of the new "Grrman Democratic Republic" with a police pro- I cession and a torchliyht parade. Women member* of the East Zone police block the streets of Berlin's
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    THE NEW HO USE OF COMMONS
    200 4 OY this time next 13 year the new House of Commons will be completed. The central chamber of the new House will be a replica of the old House, except that the north and south palleries will be enlarged, two new floors will be
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    Berlin Suicide Rate Has Doubled
    672 4 By a Special Correspondent BERLIN: HESPITE the airlift's v i ct or y o v c r the Russian blockade, the people of Berlin's western sectors face the most discouraging winter since the end of the war. The exhilaration which swept the American, Br 1
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  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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      Jap 'gambling farms' recalled
      277 4 I WAS very interest- ed to find, m a recent Free Press article under the heading: "Adventurous Tnwkays of Old Penang,'' a reference to the (Joraku Koshi, or gambling farm, of the Japanese occupation years. The writer of this Interest- ing article has, however, omitted to
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    Women Rule in Uruguay
    277 4  -  JACK TARVER By—. MONTEVIDEO: THIS is a woman's country. Having long had advantage of a free university system, the Uruguayan woman plays a prominent part m all the professions there are probably more women doctors, dentists, lawyers and architects m Uruguay per- capita lhan m any
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    GOVT. BUILDING TO COST OVER $8 MILLION"
    508 5 GOVT. BUILDING TO COST OVER $8 MILLION" Spore projects next year Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore Government's programme oi" new buildings and special works for next year, as set out m the 1950 estimates, will cost nearly $8,500,000 and include projects concerned with civil aviation, education, police, social welfare, housing
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    81 5 g picture AS a gesture of appreciation to Malaya s Buddhist priests, Ceylonese troops of the Royal Pioneer Corps 55X P resen ted bronze statue of Buddha to the BudS iJu Ten l?. le in Br *ckfields Road, K.L. The statue of ■g 1 < th small one on the
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    26 5 picture. THE Air CommaniU-r-iii Chief, Far East. Sir Hugh Lloyd, photographed inspecting the Singapore Boys Brigade at their annual review and display on Saturday. Free Press
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    Recruiting will begin soon
    325 5 MALAYA'S OWN AIR FORCE tree Tress Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. OECRMTING of key men for the Malayan Auxi- liary Air Force may begin this year. The main force, it is hoped, will be raised m the first half of next year. The governments of the
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    MYF drama contest
    70 5 THE Singapore District Methodist Youth Fellowship wilfhold a drama contest on '.ay at 7.30 pin at v Hi!!. Fort Car., Five chapters will take part m the contest Their sketches, written, directed and acted by members, are "Much Ado About Nothing" (Wesley MYF' "The Prodigal Son (Geylang
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    THEY PLAIN TO BREAK BLOCKADE
    91 5 THEY PLAIN TO BREAK BLOCKADE t p hinese Correspondent ARRANGEMENTS are oeing A made by Chinese travel ■ts In Singapore m cmshipping agenus m Kong for the restoration .ping service between I Ltal of Fukirn and Singapore, by the Nationalist The .service has ended since the was occupied by genta
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    MAILS TO CHINA SUSPENDED
    19 5 The Postmaster-General, Malaya, announces that all postal services to China are suspended until further notii.e.
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    'Asia unions are backward'
    201 5 Free Press Staff Reporter V T EW Zealand's Commissioner of Apprenticeship, Mr. H. C. McQueen, who was his country's 1.L.0. delegate to the Singapore conference last month, says that the greatest hurdle to be overcome m Asian countries is the backwardness of the trade union movement.
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    BIRTHS AND DEATHS
    19 5 There were 698 births and 13) death; m Singapore Muniapality m the weok ending O'jt 15.
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    Improvements in sailors' welfare
    187 5 Free Press Staff Reporter LWTENSIVE improvements m the general welfare of the British sailor serving m Singapore and the tropics m general are bring carried out by the Admiralty. They include the air conditioning of warships, the installation of refrigeration, ice cream plants and ice tanks
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    36 5 picture. IlilE ...air.ian oi the filth v.don of SCATS in Singapore. Sir Feroze Khan .Soon (seated) pictured last night at a cocktail dance at the Happy World in comtnemor?rion of rnit*d Nations Day today.- Free Press
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    BFTTER CONDITIONS FOB PILGRIMS
    169 5 F P Malay Correspondent pHooRESS towards modernisation of Mecca was scribed by Sycd All bin Abdul Rahman Al-Habshi, a R'eil-ImcJWIJ Arab 'leader from Java, m an interview. Syeci A!i, who is 81 years old, arrived by plane m Sin^npoi fn,m a pilgrimage m Mecca. Tni* year
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    AIR CHIEF GOES TO BANGKOK
    51 5 The Air C-in-C. Far Easi Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, left Tengah by air yesterdaj on a three-day visit to Bangkok where he is the guest ol Air Marshal Fuen Ronnatak-c Ridhagani of the Royal Thai Air Force. Sir Hugh will return to Singapore tomorrow
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    MAILS
    35 5 Surface ma-l-s sre expected to i i rive in Singapore today irom Sarawak < except Miri) and Siam dosing time for posting urface 'nail^ at the C.P.O. today i r *o Medan and S. Africa.
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    SCHOOLS TOO FAR AWAY FROM HOMES
    338 5 SCHOOLS TOO FAR AWAY FROM HOMES Free Press Staff Reporter ANY future development of secondary education m Singapore must be outside the present congested town area, an official of the Education Department said to the Free Press yesterday. He said that opportunities for education were so limited at present that
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    SOCIETY TO PERFORM 'THE MESSIAH'
    132 5 SOCIETY TO PERFORM 'THE MESSIAH' Free Press Staff Reporter 'THF Singapore Music Society wil; perform "The M islar> m St. Andrew's Cat dial or two evening! m the first week m January next year FUns are alh-o being made to p'lfoim "Elijah" with full orcLestrp m addition to a symrhom
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    CO-OP UNION SCHOLARSHIPS
    57 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Urban Coi perative Union Comitjtee has decided to award two secondary school scholarships fc- 1950. Sbth scholarship is worth SiOi- tenable for a year while jthe holder is studying for the j Cun.bridge School Certificate examination. L»r.ij children of past and
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    PERAMBULATOR TO SCORE
    3198 6 Form guide for K.L. races 7 furlongs will suit Dale Vixen Free Press Racing Correspondent DERAMBULATOR and Dale Vixen, both of whom were beaten on Saturday, should make amends today, second day of the Selangor Turf hub October Meeting. Perambulator has nothing much to beat, while Dale
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    27 6 HTED Broadribb's Fighting is my life hat been unavoidably held over until next Monday owing to the pressure on space of sporting news.
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    JOLLILADS WIN
    61 7 T'HE Jollilads jmlotl and Seniors won their soccer matches at Keppel Haroour yesterday. ■Tollilads Juniors beat the iH B Boyr' Club oy two f*Mli tc one Rahman scored both goals for the winners while Kirn Chow <?"ored for the Club. The S.H.B.R.C. went down 5-0 to the Jollilads
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    heaVY GOING AT K.L. AGAIN
    294 7 Latest hints from course tree Press Racing Correspondent murDr KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ["HLKh was heavy rain m the early hours of this morning and the going for this afternoon's races here will again be heavy. More upsets are likely, but two safe bets are Bullring
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    Harris breaks world record
    71 7 REG HARRIS, of Manchester, who is world professional sprint cycling champion, yesterday broke the 1,000 metres standing start world record with a time of 1 mm. 9 4/5 sees. The previous record was held by an Italian, Fabio Battesini. who m 1938 covered the distance m
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    5,000 see Muslim sports
    302 7 5,000 see Muslim sports MORE than 5,000 people attended the annual Muslim New Year Sports which were held at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. The full results were: 100 yds.: 1. Safarin bin Hajl All; 2. Ibrahim Falli. 100 yds.: <B Div.i: 1. Osman bin Abdul Hamid; 2. Kamjsir bin Taib.
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    PRINCE ALY KHAN'S HORSE UNPLACED
    102 7 pRINCE Aiy Khans French-breu three -year-old Fastone. whu h is trained m England by F. Armstrong, failed to get a place m the £2.000 Prix de Conseil Municipal, run over a mile and a half ai Longchamp yesterday. The race was won by Mr. I-».
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    NEW RECORD FOR MARATHON
    85 7 "VTATTI URPALAINEN (Finland; won the Kosice marathon yesterday, covering the course of just over 26 miles m 2 hr^. 33 mins. 45.6 sees. Urpalainen's time was 1 mm. 6 sees, faster than the time with which D. Cabrera (Argentina^ won the Olympic marathon m London last
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    DANES BEAT SWEDES
    33 7 .iKKfc> national iocc< i team yes*, rdav beat Bw< den by three goals to two m Copenha before 45.000 spectators, including Kinp Frederik and Queen Inr^rid o r Denmark.— A.P
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    R.S.G.C. FINAL
    21 7 R. J. ISIIERWOOD yesterday won the Royal Singapore Golf Club championship cup beating S. E. Beavis m the iin.il
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    HOLKAR LOSE TO EMPIRE XI
    213 7 THE Commonwealth cricket touring team beat a Holkar Cricket Association XI by one wicket In their match at Indore yesterday. Final scores were: Holkar 86 (Cecil Pepper six for 33) and 300 (C. S. Nayudu 57. George Tnbe four for 86). Commonwealth team. 197 (John
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    First-minute goals decide
    124 7 FIRST-MINUTE goals went a long way towards deciding the i-su"s m Scotland's two most important league soccor games on Saturday. Pind'.ay Ravo Rangers a quick load against Hearts, but Ranger? thereatter wpr«- hard pressed to keep out the lively Hearts forwards. There was no further score and
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    Snooker results
    55 7 WILLIE SMITH Leeds > be.'i W. A. With rs (Mountain A. ld by 28 frames to 7 m their world professional snooker ehumoionshlp •natch m London on Saturday. Peter Mans, the South African champion beat George Chemer. th»« Cmadian champion, by 23 fram"." 5 *o 14 In the
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    MARIGOLD B.P.
    47 7 ITNTRIES for uu IfarlfOld badminton Party's open singles and doubles championship jvill dose on Wednesday. Members who have not yet .uhmitted their entries and who would like to compete are requested to contact the Hon. Sports Captain, Mr. N* Chia Hene. 451 A. Balestier Road.
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    LATEST U.K. SOCCER LEAGU TABLES
    1081 7 LATEST U.K. soccer league pi n"- following Saturday's nre: ENGLISH LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION P. W.D. L. F. A Pis Wolves 13 9 3 1 28 16 21 Liverpool 13 6 7 0 20 11 19 M?nch°ster U. 13 7 4 2 24 13 18 <
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    Struggle for the lead
    56 7 picture. The start of the thread and needle race m the Christian Brothers Old Boys Association sports at the St. Joseph's Institution ground on Saturday. The winners were Miss de Silva and partner. Lloyd Valberff won the high jump (5 ft. 10 1 ins.), 120 y?rH«
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    Unlucky 13 for leading clubs
    515 7 ITNLUCKY number thirteen lived up to its reputation m no un^""ta»n manner on Saturday, several of the leading English league soccer clubs being beaten m their thirteenth match of the season. Wolverhampton Wanderers, after 12 successive games without defeat, went down for the first time;
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    Bedford sustain first defeat
    302 7 I ONDON Scottish, with a late try by D. Reynolds, i^beat Bedford 6—3 In a keen Rugby Union game on Saturday. This was Bedford's first defeat of the season. The Scots, who were without their international winger, T. G. H. Jackson Just about deserved to win
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    SINGAPORE WIN M.H.C. TOURNEY
    120 7 IPOH. Sunday. OiNGAPORE won the Mala»3 yan Hockey Council quadrangular hockey tournament held over the week-end with Selangor and Perak tying for second place and Penan* finishing last. Singapore's only deteat came from Perak by two-nil. Setting the pace right trom the start. Perak cut through
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    NEW RECORD
    67 7 L^MIL Zatopek, Czech Olympic J runner, on Saturday covered 10,000 metres m 29 mins. 21 2 sees, during an exhibition run at Vitkovice. Northern Moravia. ihLs time is better tiian the world record of 29 mins. 27.2 sees, put up by the Finn, Viljo Heino, at Kuovala, Finland,
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    Alimat found Peng Soon irresistible
    535 7 By VETERAN a single upset was registered over the weekend when the Singapore badminton championships were continued. All the favourites woo their matches and quite convincingly, too. Wong Peng Soon was m irresistible form m his match against R. Alimat and disposed of the Malay
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    IRISH LEAGUE CITY CUP
    37 7 gATURDAYS Irish League City Cup: soccei results were. Bangor 2. Glenavon 1, Crusaders 2, Ballymena United 2:DerryCitv 3. Coleraine 1: Glentoran 2 Distillery 0; Linfleld 3, Ards 0; Pcriadown 2. Cliftonville 2.— Reuter.
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    INTERNATIONAL POLO
    26 7 Argentine civilian polo team on Saturday defeated a British civilian team 10-7 m the penultimate pame of the international polo tournament (American style). U.P.
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    ALL INDIA TEAM
    18 7 THE All-India soccer te*m 1<? arrivine Pt Teneah :>ii > field at 6 30 tomorrow morning.
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    VIETNAM WANTS NEHRU MEDIATION
    342 8 VIETNAM WANTS NEHRU MEDIATION His neutrality proved here SAIGON, Monday. "pHE Vietnam Government headed by Bao Dai, ex-Emperor of Annum, would welcome any attempt by the Prime Minister of InHia, Pirdit Nehru, to bring about peace m Vietnam by mediation, it is learned m Vietnamese circles here. The attitude of
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    29 8 tdiidit ttftfcni (ligfctj >miles as visitors and Capitol employees applaud the Indian Prime Minister outside the House Chamber on Oct. It, when Mr. Nehru addressed both houses of Congress.
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    NEHRU LIKES CANADA
    80 8 NEHRU LIKES CANADA OTTAWA. Mon. PANDIT NEHRU, the Indian Prime Minister, told Canadian newsmen yesterday that he waa "very glad to be m Canada and very much impressed by iv parks." The Indian statesman was given an enthusiastic welcome when he arrived here from the United States on a three-day
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    18 8 Some 2.200 Dublin bartenders have threatened strike on Nov. 5 m protest against a proposed reduction of pay
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    Co-operatives to be expanded
    86 8 VT LUCKNOW, Monday expansion of the co-operative movement m n!? 1^ of Asia and the Far East is sought by li^^JZ^* A llculUlral 1 Dr. Horace B'.lshnw. who will act as Secretary-General said the meeting will recommend what member g<#ernments themselves might do to strengthen and
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    Aged parents' plea for killer
    83 8 THE aged parents of Nathu--1 ram Oodse, who was condemned to death last February for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, have petitioned the Indian Governor General. Mr. Chakravartl Rajagopalachari, to spare their son's life. Oodse's father, who Is 74, and his 69-year-old mother, described him
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    200 Anti-Reds reported held
    63 8 U7ESTERN diplomaU said ff yesterday that they had received "reliable lnformathat Polish political oolice last week arrested between 150 and 200 partisans near the Polish -Soviet frontier. The diplomats said their reports defined the arrested partisans as the "so-called anti-Soviet freedom heroes" styled along the lines
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    Arab unity plan
    31 8 The Arab League Council meeting: m Cairo, has decided to study unification of all national postal communications, railway, navigation and civil aviation administrations Into one International body.— A.P.
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    WINDSORS FOR U.S.
    18 8 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor will go from France to America m December A.P.
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    Reform group backs extra-marital unions
    140 8 DIVORCE LAWS 'CRUEL' LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN'S Marriage Law Reform Committee has 13 announced that it will "encourage extramarital unions' between persons unable to get divorces "because of inadequacies of present divorce laws." "Owing to the committee's work," the group says, "public opinion is becoming Increasingly
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    FLOOD, GALE HIT SOUTH ENGLAND
    109 8 FLOOD, GALE HIT SOUTH ENGLAND LONDON, Mon. UOMES were flooded, sea defences breached and coast roads cut off yesterday as high seas, lashed by a southwesterly gale, broke over promenades, buildings and seawalls on the south coast of Britain. Kent and Sussex, towns facing the Straits of Dover, took the
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    Fed-up girl hits 4 cops
    65 8 f\\E thin girl attacked four policemen because she was thii Z??, he clo ?L n X d *y «he campaign when th<thm girl jay- walked on a main thoroughfare One policeman came up to fln e her. politely She hit him Another came up. She
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    'ASIAN WOMEN WORK FOR REDS'
    167 8 WASHINGTON, Monday. T<HE House of Representatives Committee on un-American activities ha s branded the "Congress of American Women", and its parent organisation, the Women's International Democratic Federation, with its strongest following m the Red regions of Asia, as Communist front organisations. The Committee said m
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    REDS REFUSE ISRAEL
    25 8 Israel's Foreign Minister. Mr. Moshe Sharett. said yesterday that Israel has applied to Russia for a loan "so far without Miccess."- U.P.
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    BRITISH FORDS 30 PC CHEAPER
    53 8 THE new prices for Britishmade Ford cars are 30 to 34 per cent, lower as*a result of devaluation of the pound, it was announced m New York. This puts the prices of British Fords well below those of any other competitive foreign makes m the
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    'Tyranny of the majority'
    63 8 NEW DELHI, Mon. A Christian member of the Indian Constituent Assembly characterised as the tyranny of the majority a proposal to hold the session on Sunday. Mrs. Annie Mascarine of Travencore said that Sundays were meant for going to Church. The Assembly President. Mr. Rajendra Prasad,
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    LEOPOLD IN PARIS
    20 8 Leopold 111, King of the Belgians, arrived In Paris Saturday by plane from his Swiss exile.— A.P.
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