The Singapore Free Press, 29 October 1949

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 439 1 v,. Giaetto Neve* the young French fkj- «ho died aMnt. with f rrnfr middleweight boiin; ihiinpion of the »„rid Marcel Cerdan, and 4* others when their plane h i peik m the Azores rii\ mornin?. This Press picture was llfeD when Mis> \even fl, M
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  • 45 1 SEOUL. Sat. 4 GUERILLA force estiA /.ed at 3.0C0 men atKorean _:atlon of Chlngju on ay, burning '.aval bill police and ?s housing municipal jvemment offices, lt ra revealed yesterday. A brief Government lament sale. fighting l m progress. U.P.
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  • 25 1 OS. Rubber Company reased the prices of ie tyres by 3h per BMt-f Bowing similar acrecentlj by the I -''stone com- A.P.
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  • 197 1 PARIS, Saturday. 4IR FRANCE headquarters received a message last night saying that there were no survivors among the 48 people, including the French boxer Marcel Cerdan, who were m a Constellation airliner which crashed m flames Into a mountain peak m the Azores yesterday.
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  • 144 1 She found her missing son and fell dead CAPETOWN. Fri. MRS. R. Levi, who looked fox her missing son all over the world and fell dead with horror when she met him. was buried here today. Early m the war, her sturdy. 19-year-old son Joined the Navy m Aden and
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  • 14 1 Eight deaths were reported m Itf» ,T yesterday after rainstorms. rt|
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  • 180 1 BERNE, Saturday. •yHE Swiss Federal Council disclosed yesterday 1 that Major. Bidwell Moore, assistant to the United States -Military Attache, has been recalled to the United States at the request of the Swiss Government. Major Moore, the Council stated, was found to have been
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  • 21 1 NEW U.S. AID Six Western European coun tries have received new Marshall Plan aid totalling more than U.S. $l9 million. A.P.
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  • 61 1 Free Press Staff Reporter More than 150 delegates and officials of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East attended a cocktail party and buffet supper given by the Pakistan delegation at the Sea View Hotel, Singapore last night. They were welcomed oy the Chairman
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    43 1 The F-84E Thunderjet, of the U.S. Air Force. This is a brand-new high-speed, long-range fighter bomber which carries clusters of 32 five-inch high velocity air craft rockets. This armament together with the plane's speed of 600 mph made it a formidable air weapon.
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  • 101 1 Free Press Staff Reporter BRITAIN and the United States strongly protested at yesterday's meeting of ECAFE m Singapore when, aftt'.- the R'.v. d i h e i maratnon attack, which took up 90 minutes inclusive of translation time, the chairman. Sir Feroze Khan Noon, suggested
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  • 95 1 THE HAGUE, Saturday. ALL committees of the round-table conference on Indonesia's future have received instructions to complete formal reports on their work by Tuesday next for tne conference's final plenary session the following day. The Steering Committee, with most of Its problems settled, gave these Instructions to
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  • 53 1 •THE Pakistan Government has accepted the principle of financial aid to Burma adopted by a Commonwealth four-power committee m Rangoon, it was learned (here last night. The shares to be paid the four powers— Britain, Pakistan, Indian and Ceylon have yet to be rieeldpri it
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  • 19 1 Sir Ralph Stevenson, British Ambassador to China, left Hong Kong yesterday for Sin gapore aboard the Carthage
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  • 79 1 A PACKED Prague musi. theatre audience laat night burst out with a storm of angry protests when a rogramme commentator criticized Bing Crosby as a 'greedy American money seeker who sacrifices his art for -old." The Czech audience, including many young girls, had tood m long
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  • 136 1 Bulgaria, Poland jail Reds Govt heads LONDON, Saturday. \l.\ss arrests, including 200 Communist Party members and several former government ministers, have been made m Bulgaria, according to "Borba", a Yugoslav Government organ. Three vice ministers and a former vice minister have also been arrested m Poland recently, a reliable source
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  • 271 1 NEW TIN ARRANGEMENT Free Press Staff Correspondent T f conomist >s strongly critical of the Ministry of Suuply arrangement with Malayan tin producers, declaring that the Government seem s determined to win both on the swings and roundabouts m its tin dealings before handing over to
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  • 55 1 THE Mayor of Kobe, has written to the Mayor of Madras asking an elephant for the Kobe Zoo. He wants an elephant despatched m time for the Kobe foreign trade industry exhibition m March. The Madras Zoo has been promised m return rare animals and birds
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  • 62 1 THE U.S. Finance Minis--1 ter, Mr. Douglas Abbott, said yesterday that Canada must look elsewhere than Britain and the United States to solve its trade problems. He said although the main trouble spots m Canada's international trade picture were Britain and the United States, bringing
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  • 86 1 SOURABAYA, Sat. (CLASHES, kidnappings and desertions were rt rtad from Blitar. 150 kilometers south of Sourabaya, accordto reports received here. A number of youths infiltrated into the town iast v.eek and left scores of dead after a clash. The Indonesians vainly attempted to blow up the
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  • 42 1 The Communist-dominated East German government yesterday asked the Western Federal Republic to negotiate for a unified Germany but the Western Social Democratic leader. Dr. Kurt Schumacher said that any compromise with the Red reeime was lm possible U.P.
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  • 26 1 A Singapore Malay postman had his pay taken away from him by three Chinese while he was walking home along Mandai Road last night.
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  • 144 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IJOLDING the E.C.A.F E 11 conference m Singapore will cost the United Nations about USS26, OOU, most of which is the expense of transferring the secretariat from Bangkok to Singapore, its accommodation and expenses here, and wages to local-ly-engaged staff. To
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  • 78 1 ROTTERDAM, Thurs TWENTY-ONE Dutch curscripted servicemen re lused to go aooard the Ui nesia-bound troopship Ziuderkruls today They are to be court martialled. The Zulderkruls leit tor Batavia with over 1,000 relief i troops aboard. They include i 1 161 conscripts who haa deserted from the military j
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  • 39 1 A nationwide chain of stations to dispense free information on birth control and marriage problems was recommended by the Population Research Council of Japan m a report submitted to Premier Shigeru Yoshida yesterday.
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  • 30 1 The Burmese Government 'is silent on a reported request from Nationalist China for the reopening of the Burma road. "It would rather not comment," a spokesman said.
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  • 402 3 New security precautions -hup m BANGKOK, Saturday. JHE Siamese authorities have moved troops to the northern borders of the kingdom m cCmin1 at,o ß.it a 7 tro K uble that m *y rSnS the disturbed borders of these two countries l On both these borders
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    29 3 ________H. way '«»ird a horse find no favour S Henry" the Bristol zoo's playful three-year-old At-oaUns Henrj reti hours of fun— and gives it to visitor with his playhorse.
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  • 194 3 BANGKOK, Saturday. If besi seller m the literary demi-world of this fabulous city is called "The Black Shadow." jives omplete information as to the ereabouts of houses of ill fame. It cites even value received. Presence of the book has aroused many Siamese citizens. One sent
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  • 32 3 ols to Tudem.s who never have had leneflt ol attending cla Worse yet, the Secretary ime education stud ire the "recipients of decrees vithout benefit of proper raining." Reuter
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  • 31 3 THO Japanese whaling fleets totalling 31 vessels are leaving for the Antarctic next month. Last season, the Japanese caught 1,645 whales yielding 56.000 tons of whale products. Reuter
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  • 118 3 'JAPS SILENT BECAUSE OF SHAME' OORIKATSU INAGAKI, 56, ,fl Japanese disciple of world peace, who is attending a conference of United World Federalists m Cleveland. Ohio, said the peace movement m Japan is supported by 100 members of the Diet and has a membership of 100,000. "We denounce war as
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  • 22 3 CEYLON SAVING Ceylon is to restrict nonessential dollar Imports and give preference wherever possible to goods available ln the sterling area. Reuter
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  • 21 3 German taxi drivers m Hamberg are striking at night because of alleged beatings up by American occupation troops A.P.
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    29 3 que PaJSr W 7 •'.'J 11 saiI thc Finnisl baraffeVhe?fUm^h PCtured ithin si ht England aner ncr four months' voyage from Port Victoria, Austraha, with a cargo of grain.
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  • 151 3 BANGKOK, Saturday. A *™YJ£ an visitor who purchased tw G silver--40 Su«W m ?i PcS aS CUri US was fined 4U Dam (US$2) the other day and the nirw>«. ing 2,000 baht (US$100). were cSonsettetT me tourist was charged— to his surprise— with possession
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  • 60 3 DR. R. L. HAROLD, who performed a caesarian operation to deliver triplets to Mrs. Henry Stenlund of Red Rock. Ontario, toll reporters that he believed it was the first such operation m medical history. The triplets, a boy and two girls, and their mother were reported to be
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  • 280 3 Afghans can be bulwark against Reds KABUL, Afghanistan, Saturday. tyESTERN observers here believe American states- men attempting to build a wall against Communism m Asia are neglecting an important corner the country of Afghanistan. Afghanistan, these Western technicians, teachers and diplomats point out, is not a country of barbaric tribesmen
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  • 68 3 THE Greek Minister for Public Order, Signor Contantine Rentis, has ordered the end of all "preventive arrests and deportation of persons, except those considered dangerous." Signor Rentis said that, with the civil war against Communist guerillas was virtually over, restrictive measures should be relaxed. He also
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    • 182 3 THE SINGAPORE MUSIC CIRCLE and THE STRAITS TIMES m ronjunction with Radio Mala/a D Present SINGAPORE MUSIC FESTIVAL with BATAVIA RADIO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR WON BAARSPUL and JACQUES GENTY pw_t) sunuay nov. c. GALA CONCERT Philharmonic Orchestra Jacques Ceuty Works include: Concerto foi Piano and Orchestia No. ***** m C
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  • 640 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Oct. 29, 1949. ONLY A PIPE DREAM DOWN to earth and right Into thc hearts of ordinary men— that Is where the Economic Conference for Asia and the Far East has at last succeeded In landing itsolf after a week of politics and bickering. The
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  • 607 4  - A Lis ten ing-Post To China gOME nights ago I heard two quite sincere European "experts" on China gravely discussing various members of the world's newest Government, announced m Peking, capital of Bed China. They argued for some minutes whether one Chinese with a brute of a name were more
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  • Letter To The Editor
    • 836 4 IN DEFENCE OF THE RUBBER PACKER J r HAVE read with in--1 terest the articles on rubber packing by your reporter on Oct. 25th, and by "Buyer" on Oct. 26th. At first glance, most readers will have the impression that "Buyer's" article is written by a rubber manufacturer, that is,
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    39 4 OLD SINGAPORE. The picture below taken abont 30 years ago is a view of Collyer Quay with (m the background Johnson's Pier mow Clifford's Pier). It was submitted by Mr. c K. Siong, 12, Monk's Hill Terrace, Newton, Singapore
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  • 630 4  -  JAMES CAMERON Says HAMBURG: dismal old man with thc brown suit and the glasses, the fussing, restless, peering residue of what was once a terrible tough character Field-Marshal von Manstein, is on the winning side at last. Fritz von Manstein, the old dear,
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  • 580 4 ACE BROADCASTER LIKES S 'PORE it People Make News JOURNALIST and radio commentator from San Francisco, Miss KATHERINE KERRY BRALY, is now m Singapore, writing and taking photographs. She will Rive her impressions on thc radio, on television and m the press when she reKatherine Kerry, known to millions of
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  • 88 5 I rresi Stall Reporter nswering a teen given Mr. C. A. Singapore rate's Court yes- fining Lee Chai S2r> for ii q took place at Joo Chiat 1 Still Road on June a school and the ambulance ver. -rate held that bad been proved
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  • 125 5 'Not opposed to Sultans' F P Malay Correspondent ADDRESSING a mass meet- ing of Malays m Parit Buntar, Perak, the Chief Publicity Officer of UMNO Tuan Syed Alwi Al-Hadi, 'Ipnied allegations that UMNO i was fundamentally against royalty. He denied that Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, was against the Malay Sultans,
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  • 44 5 The correct rale of post net •on Christmas cards ln unistalcd envelopes Intended for conveyance by sea to countries outside Malaya is. six cent* c or the first ounce and tnree !cnts for each additional :unce. says an oflicial statement Issued yesterday
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  • 462 5 Free Pres s Staff Reporter r FHE Singapore Association has asked the Governx ment when it is expected that the necessary orders will be made to ensure that double taxation will not result from the present Income Tax Ordinance m relation to the business of
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  • 297 5 TEN AIRLINES USING SINGAPORE French service to start here ™uo Fr e Press Staff Reoorter lib increasing importance of Singapore as a great international air centre m Asia is shown by the fact that Air France, the famous French line, is starting a weekly service between Saigon and Singapore. The
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 5 picturt \ORIS Shaw (8) and Cystine Turze (9) who will do a Hungarian dance at a r ecital to be given by Taylor nance Studio m aid of Poppy Day at the Victoria Theatre on Nov. 2.- Lido
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  • 224 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r pHE Singapore Municipality proposes to introduce by-laws for the control of manufacture and sale of ice-cream. A sub-committee appointed by the Commissioners to draw up the by-laws has submitted its report. The report states that 'r»'-rream manufacturers will have to
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  • 145 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. THE Federation Oovern--1 ment has evidence that bandits m north Selangor are In a sorry plight. Their food supplies have been seriously disrupted and their lines of communication disorganised. Thi? was stated by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr.
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  • 61 5 MR. W. Walton Butterworth who was American ViceConsul to Singapore ln 1929. has been appointed the flrsr U.S Assistant Secretary of State lor Far Eastern AH'alrs. Mr Butterworth ts a student of the Far East and a specialist m internatlonn" economics. He contributed to tl formation
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  • 66 5 AIR DISPLAY IN KLUANG Free Press Staff Reporter Aircraft of the R.A.F. will contribute two items of the programme of the Kluang Flying Crafts Air Display tomorrow. Three Dakotas will a demonstration of supplying ground forces from the air when containers with and without parachutes will be dropped within a
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  • 131 5 SINGAPORE importers who C 5 reported German demands for an additional per■entage on outstanding contacts to cover the diffeiences suiting from sterling deal uation have been advised v the Singapore Government resist such demands. \ny losses already incurred a result ol acceding to German demand!
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  • 261 5 Seeks AustraliaMalaya ties Free Press Staff Reporter Vf R. Charles Salisbury, of the British Council, who iTI after 15 months m Singapore has been transferred, sailed yesterday for Australia, "where I hope to establish relations between Australians and the people of Malaya." "This perhaps will result In reciprocal exchange not
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  • 35 5 Free Press Staff Reporter There were 679 births and 177 deaths m Singapore Municipality m the week ending Oct. 22 Chief causes of death uere tuberculosis (25), pneumonia (20. and enteritis <i7>.
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  • 299 5 Parking fee scheme for S'pore backed Free Press StaiL Reporter THHE Singapore Traffic Advisory Committee holds A the view that a parking fee should be imposed, but not necessarily m all motor-car parks, and that the Municipal Commissioners should be asked to suggest what a fair and reasonable fee should
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  • 73 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THERE has been no change m the regulations governing family remittances from Malaya to China. Remittances continue to be allowed at the rate of $45 (Malayan) each family a month to any destination m China or Hong Kong, and they can be made
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  • 32 5 The Mentri Besar of Keiar.tan, Dato Nik Ahmed KarrH. will speak oyer Radio Malaya at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday r i what the University means 1 the people of Kelantan.
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  • 385 6 SBA HALL: NEW DRIVE FOR FUNDS Flag Day to be held shortly T»HE Singapore Badminton Hall Committee has decided to launch a new drive to swell the fund, which now totals §11,681. Donations are coming m slowly but steadily, Mr. Lim Chuan (ieok, a member of the committee and the
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  • Article, Illustration
    49 6 Dave Sands (left), the Australian and British Empire middleweight champion, neatly evades a left by Pete Mead (United States) and counters with a punch to the head. The fight, which took place at Harringay arena, London, on Oct. 11, was won on points by Sands. Sport and General picture.
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  • 195 6 •T*HE following donations to the Singapore Badminton Hall Fund were received up to Oct 25: Mr. John Laycock $1,000; Mr M J. Namazie $100; Useful BP. 150: Mr Claude da Silva S100; Mr. Philip Hoailm 5250; Mr. J. A. Gagan $50; Peiplng Store $50; Mr. W. W. Duncan
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  • 289 6 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE LONDON, Sat. TPHE London Stock Exchange ended on a quiet note yesterday, with British Government stocks fractionally lower where changed but there was no repetition of the heavy selling of previous days, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Rubbers were unchanged and tins irregylarly
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  • 316 7 MARTIN' S HORSES ARE FANCIED Going at X.L still heavy P>ee Press Racing: Correspondent K I J L^, LUMPUR Saturday. |KAINLR Martin's horses— Penso, Cross of v V.° ,d v. Some Brani > Mac Scott and vYilloughby--will find strong support at Kuala Lumpur today the third and last day of
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  • 205 7 Irom JIM CHAMBERS q/OLVEBHAMPTON Wanderers, who lost their n unbeaten" tag: against Manchester United a k ago, will probably play even better football .j,,t the strain is off. The leading First Divik,l dub of the English Football League is the numinous choice of experts to
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  • 70 7 THE draw for the second 1 round (quarter -finals) of the Singapore Amateur Football Association Cup competition resulted as follows (dates of fixtures also shown) Rovers S.C. v. S.R.C. •Nov. 2); Royal Navy v. R.A.F. Changi (Nov. 4); 8.0.D. Civilians v. Chinese Casuals (Nov. 10);
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  • 38 7 T'HE Australian touring cricket team were dismissed for .'75 m the first innings of their .natch against Natal at Durban ve-ster-day. Natal were 29 for no wicket fcf the .-lose of play. Reuter
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  • 25 7 FRANK BROOME, veteran Derby County and fiigland left-wing forward, was transferred yesterday to Notts County In exchange for their gcalke*per. George Brown.— A.P.
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  • 137 7 Chinese Casuals 1. Tigers .0. I(ICK-and-.u_.h tactics were 11 employed on a waterlogged ground when Chinese Casuals beat Tiger Sporting Association m the first round of the S.A.F.A. Cup competition last evening at Jaian Besar Stadium Tigers were the better side but the wet
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  • 62 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat PERMUDA CLUB, the holders, defeated Prisons Club 3-2 m the annual soccer match for the Moharram Cup on the Istana padang on Thursday. Doilah Don <2> and Latiff scored for Perm uda. Lee Sze Tat netted both goals for Prisons Club. Having won
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  • 585 7 Eleven of the 14 Indian players picked from various parts of Malaya. from whom the team to play the All-India touring: footballers at Jalan Besar Stadium tomorrow will be finally selected. The tourists are confident of winning. but the AllMalayan Indians will give 'hem a
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  • 100 7 ™EBPASBE» EPSOM JEE P CALL BO J POINTER BACE ESS° STAB SSJE" to M'p l,nor RiiSio^ r as£,qa, Err asn^r*" RACE I UgJIgB jgWTIHMB LLCKY THREE LUCKY THREE Tu* E:i-°" S5«" as— Pam Gre «n Cross of Gold Trousers Atfe HSL*iJSr n SSffST 1 SOME BRANI
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  • 540 7 A CCEPTORS for today's Kuala Lumpur races are given below. The Double Totes will be on races three and four, seven and eight. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. KACE 1—2.15: CLASS 5, DIV. I— s*F. I 101 (.old.-,, Gate Mawi 9.04 002 Virtuoso j.
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  • Article, Illustration
    40 7 Marcel Cerdan. former world middleweight champion, who was killed yesterday m an air crash over the Azores. He won the world title when he knocked out Tony Zale m September last year, but lost it to Jake Lamotta last June.
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  • 59 7 HORACE LINDRUM. Australia's champion, and Sidney Smith continued their keen tussel m their heat m the News of the World snooker tournament yesterday. They were 12 frames all at the end of the day. Sydney Lee (London) increased his l r ad to 15 frames to nine over
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  • 37 7 RONNIE RCOr_E. player-manager of Crystal Palace Football Club, received a 14-day suspension from the Pootball Association yesterday. Rooke was sent off the field by the referee during the recent Millwall Crvst__J PnlnM* i.m.m. game. A.P.
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  • 21 7 THE postponed Singapore 1 civilian rugby trial will be held on Monday on the Police Training School ground m Thomson Read.
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  • 255 7 THE National Boxing Association of the United States has re-asserted its recognition of Ezzard Charles as the undisputed heavyj weight champion of the world lin its Quarterly ratings. Lee Savold. Bruce Woodock and Jersey Joe Walcott are named logical contenders. Mt. Abe J. Greene, commissioner of the
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  • 97 7 SWALLOW TAIL FOR U.S.? It became known In London iast. night that Lord Derby is likely to sell his three-year-old thoroughbred. Swallow Tail, for export to America. Swallow Tail was inspected Hy veterinary surgeons at Newmarket yesterday on behalf of a bloodstock agency which is negotiating the sale. Swallow Tail
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  • 154 7 Beasley to ride in Britain Other racing, news T^HE Australian jockpy, Arthur Beasley, said m Melbourne last night that he had signed up as first jockey for Mr. J. V. Rank for the next English flat-racing season. 'Scobie' Beasley. as he is known m Australia, is tne leading jockey of
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  • 18 8 President Truman yesterday signed legislation authorizing U*****,500,000 ln defence construction work In Alaska and Okinawa.— A.P.
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  • 18 8 Major-General Sir F. R. Roy Bucher. last British Com-mander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, hai retlred.
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  • 308 8 REDS MOVING TO ATTACK FORMOSA Heavy damage m S'hai raid HONG KONG, Saturday. THE Chinese Communists have opened a drive to occupy all key islands off the Chinese coast opposite Formosa m preparation for a water-borne assault on Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's island stronghold. Nationalist bombers razed Communist installations m and
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    74 8 photo. !GENE HOLTER, 27, cattle showman of Jamestown, North Dakota, is here seen with Aye dwarf cattle which he says he captured m a lost canyon m the United States and flew out with a helicopter. He declined to say where the canyon is, but contends that it contains more
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  • 184 8 NEW YORK, Saturday. REPRESENTATIVES of under-developed countries including three m Asia, insisted again yesterday that measures be adopted by the Inited Nations General Assembly regarding the question -of full employment, taking: specifically into account problems of the so-called backward areas. They continued their
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  • 135 8 NEW GUINEA WANTS TO STAY DUTCH BATAVIA, Sat. TWO representatives from Irian (New Guinea) have given three reasons why their territory does not wish to come under the future United States of Indonesia Republic but remain under the Netherlands Crown, says Aneta, the Dutch news agency. The representatives. Mr. Nicolas
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  • 51 8 A JAPANESE trade mission will depart shortly for Slam to work out further means of expanding trade between the two countries, lt was learned yesterday. Departure of the trade mission will be the sequel to a recent conclusion of a trade agreement between Japan and Siam.-
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  • 68 8 Arabs may unify forces CAIRO. Sat. 1 SENIOR Arab statesman disclosed yesterday that seven Arab nations are contemplating a mutual defence treaty, calling for a unified command and Integrated armed forces. Other sources point out that establishment of common Arab defences— if the step could be divorced from the Palestine
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  • 92 8 THE Honourable Peter 1 Beatty, 39-year-old younger son of Britain's naval leader of the First World War, threw himself from a sixth floor window of London's Luxury Ritz Hotel on Wednesday because his sight was falling, the inquest disclosed yesterday. The present Earl Beatty told
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  • 86 8 Girl saw mother abducted PHILADELPHIA, Sat. POLICE of 11 states are looking for a man believed to have abducted a forty-year-old Philadelphia woman from her bedroom while her nine year-old daughter looked on. The woman. Mrs. Dorothy Forstein, was dressed m her pyjamas. Her husband is a local magistrate. "The
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  • 47 8 THE children of Burhan. the Kuomlntang Governor of China's Slnkiang province, are with the members of the U.S. Consulate staff which has arrived ln Srinagar. Kashmir Burhan Is reported a prisoner of the Chinese Communists, who seized control of China's largest province recently.- A.P.
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  • 154 8 NEW YORK, Saturday. OIR Thomas Beecham who plans to conduct m ■y several American and Canadian cities intends going to the Broadway Night Club "Bop City" to learn about "bebop". J When he arrived here aboard the Queen Mary, Sir Thomas first asked
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  • 41 8 R MONTREAL, Sat. EV. Joseph Taillerfer. Roman Catholic priest who had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to sell narcotics, was sentenced yesterday to two years' m ?li sonment nd fined CS 53.000 or an addition., year.- A.P.
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  • 39 8 India has nominated Salvador P. Lopez of the Philippines to serve as a neutral observer of referendum voting on the future of four small French colonies In India. The referendum will be held on December 11 A.P.
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  • 31 8 Siam s Interior Ministry h: sent circulars throughout the nation ordering that air raid shelters that have not already been demolished be retained for possible future use. A.P.
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  • 46 8 PRINCESS Elizabeth hopes to fly to Malta on Nov 20 to Join her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, now serving m the destroyer Chequers She will stay a few weeks, It was announced yesterday Prince Charles, their son will remain m Britain
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  • 101 8 M «5 J JSJ!2S K °<>^VELT, m the latest instalment v v *»«r wartime memoirs m McCall's Magazine, says her husband once told her: "General de Gaulle if a soldier-patriotic, yes, devoted to his country-but on the other hand he is also a politician and a
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  • 104 8 Sino-USSR clash in U.N. NEW YORK. Sat. NATIONALIST China said last night that its continued presence m the United (Nations depends upon the speed of Russian aid to the (Chinese Communists and ■warned that "we cannot fight a world conqueror singlehanded." The Chinese denunciation of Russia came m a sharp
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  • 145 8 NEW YORK, Sat. THE former U.S. Commandant m Berlin, Brig-Gen Frank Howley, says the Russians are "colossal liars and I swindlers.* And he does not expect them to change. Gen. Hem ley recalled his constant battles with the Russians m the German capital m
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  • 52 8 THE East Indonesian Government's education policy came under Are when the provisional Parliament debated the 1949 budget yesterday. Almost none ot the day's speakers had any words of appreciation to say for the Government. One member said too much use was being made of the Dutch
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  • 24 8 A man najned R. U. Innocente pleaded guilty m Los Angeles to stealing a car. He was jailed for ten months.
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  • Free Press Saturday Magzine
    • 8 1 Free Press Saturday Magzine Saturday, Oct. 29, 1949,
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    • 740 1  - OUR POST-WAR PLANTERS ARE DIFFERENT ERIC MITCHELL By 0j rubber have Ltered this c< untry Eicethewar ire diffJ*t m many ways to bctypeofy img man do sought his form the East during he decade or s< pi or [939. rins is .itinitted both bj the junior nts hemselves and by
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      24 1 A ravibong m progress at a public celebration m Alor Star. Behind the Malay youth is the flower table which the dancers must circle.
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    • 453 1  -  MARIAN WELLS by WHO could tell you more about the gossip of the countryside than toothless Wong (.'hoon or old Ah Peh who are up when the nightjars cease their chorus and who swing their empty baskets homewards as the long
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    • 574 1  - Justice is done in a Singapore Traffic Court BEE WICKERSON By IT was tlie same; and yet it was different. It had been a lon ft time since I last set foot m a British Police Court That had been back m England, m Bow Street off the Strand where
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    • 283 1 Rambong a big challenge to the ronggeng by Free Press Malay Correspondent modern ronggeng is not by any means the universal rage of young Malays today. Its popularity seems to be confined for the moment to big cities like Singapore and Kuala Lumpur where Malay youths, like all young men
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    • 466 2  - These Stars Are Too Gentle LEONARD MOSLEY I Says there's not a he-man among them fHE bright, pretty wife of the famous film star was talking to me at a first night recently, and she had something on her mind. "For heaven's sake don't rupture AngloAmerican amity by mentioning my
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    • 259 2 At the apitol: "Joan of Arc" ls an ambitious technicolour production full of colour and Incident and super-charged with emotional drama. Iny id Bergman a»^ the Maid of Oorraine gives a beautiful performance. Jose Ferrer plays the Dauphin with skill and restraint and Barry L. Sullivan as
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    • LETTER TO THE EDITOR
      • 227 2 THE other day 1 visited a local cinema knowing nothing of the film that was to be shown but hoping for the best and prepared for the worst, I saw "All Over the Town," an unpretentious story of a small-town newspaper editor's fight for the right to
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    • 235 2 Vivien Leigh in sex- laden drama A NEW stage smash hit has been born m London's West End. It is called a "Street car named Desire." Nothing can harm this kind of play with actor., of this kind. It is rough stun, but they handle it with a junior's dexterity.
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    • 107 2 pUTH ROMAN, unmarried unattached Hollywood brunette, has no fear of male "wolves." She would like to meet one of those aggressive Holly woodsmen who, according to legend, lure the ladles with champagne and convertible coupes. Just to satisfy her curiosity, of course. "I have lived
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      154 2 PRECIOUS JEAN << I£o4-V Simr7ions is ove << g British film star who << ll unlikely to be under- << worked. She /ias only just begun ?< >> work at Pineuood on ftcr >/ >> /!rsf picture since an un- >; £> happy stage episode—is Jj /> playing a bustled
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    • 86 2 HE CAN'T GET 'DATES' HANDSOME actor. John Derek, insists that goor. I )oks can be an awful llab! !ity. "It's actually hard to get dates." he complained. "The think you're conceited They think that you think you can have any girl yon want." Now working m the film Rogues m
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    • 589 2 Life of Christ to be Filmed By Our London Film Correspondent ANGLO-American co-operation m the making of films m Britain has become such a matter of course that it is almost with relief that one learns of another international film enterprise m which the Americans will not be concerned. This
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    • 181 2 FRENCH GLAMOUR STARS CLAMOROUS foreign M players who have just arrived m Hollywood include: MICHELLNE PRESLE, now working with John Garfield m Tiie Big Fall." her first Hollywood picture. She was born Micheline Chassagne m Pans; is slim and poised with candid blue-grey eyes and curly light brown hair f
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    • 61 2 months ago film O actress Teresa Wright aid producer Samuel Goldwyn had a bitter feud when Teresa refused to "uake personal appearances with her latest pictures Goldwyn suspended her. Ultimately they severed their association completely. Miss Wright now i s making "Daybreak"— and she A'ill make all
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    • 487 3  -  4 24- YEAR- OLD Australian abor iIU is winning acclaim as a tenor at concerts all over Australia. He is Mr. 1U)) Blair who rose spectacularly m three iis from labourer [o singer. yi: Blair has been deistrallan au;ith the drama- quality of warm tenor
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    • 493 3  - 'Tonic' dishes on menu tomorrow K. S. CHIA by MALAYAN Chinese devotees of Kin Ong Yeah, who have been undergoing a nine (lav fast si nee Oct. 22, will take plea sure m a full supper of "tonic" dishes of pork and poultry tomorrow night, when this festival ends. They
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    • 306 3  -  A.S.LEE 'Business isn't what it used to be' by FAMILIAR iigure whom one often saw before the war m any Chinatown was the tattoo man. Carrying a small wicker basket containing all the paraphernalia of his art, viz: needle, indelible ink and design book, he would
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    • 602 3  -  DEREK DRABBLE by A LIGHTNING raid by the Singapore Police, resembling Chicago's Chinatown under attack by the law, took place m Telok Ayer Street last night or any night. At 7 p.m., at the cornc* of the street where Boon Tat Street Intersects, a
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    • 643 3  -  C.F.J. HANKINSON by JTEW can imagine the encyclopaedic knowledge which an editor of Debrett is expected to possess and the variety of questions to which he is expected to know the answer. Not only are these questions put by letters, telephone, and
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      37 4 Heres an unusual soccer m ix-up.At the Arsenal v. Kverton game recently I. Sager, the Everton goalkeeper, looks round to see Lewis the Arsenal inside-left make an acrobatic attempt to back kick the ball Into the goat
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    • 577 4 AUSTRALIA HAS BIG RACE FEVER ...MELBOURNE CUP AGAIN... A.P. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AUSTRALIA has cup fever again. It's a yearly complaint "down under." The cup is the Melbourne Cup, richest and biggest horse race m these parts. It is run over two miles at Flemington race course, Melbourne, always on the
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    • 70 4 CCOTLAND'S number one soccer referee, Willie Webb, whistled the end of a match between two amateur teams, but only one eleven was allowed to go horne the other was marched off to prison. Mearns .Vnateurs won s—l5 1 against a team of prisoners from
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    • 549 4 /"%UR soccer visitors from India will have to improve a lot before they can hope to beat the Combined Services or a representative Singapore side. This was no doubt the general opinion of the huge crowd that watched the Sino-Malay side hold the tourists to a two-all
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    • 451 4 WORLD CUP RULES 'TOO LOOSE' SAYS RAYMOND GLENDENNING ALTHOUGH the World Soccer Cup competition does not take place until next July, Britain's F.A. have received a request from the Chileans for the release of George Robledo to play for them. The F.A. and his club, Newcastle, have agreed. This request
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    • 306 4 U.K. Cheered Speedway King TOMMY PRICE, 28--1 year-old Wembley star, won the first postwar world speedway championship before a wildly cheering crowd of 93,000 at Wembley stadium, London, recently. Finishing unbeaten m each of his Aye rides, he became the first Englishman to win the title. Price was No. 13
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    • 361 4 FRANK BUTLER ON... NEW FISTIC CHARACTER USUALLY at a time when the British boxing fan is enjoying a healthy grouse about the shortage of good heavyweights, a new flstic character arrives on the scene, and before you can say Joe Louis, the fight bhoys are agossipin* and a-specu-latin'. But for
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    • 73 4 THOUGH Ru Amateur and. Indeed, h eda; that athletes took pa:* 1948 Olympic Gan.one k: be prAugust. European held. In recent Cl pionshlps a: results show they numb fine athletei This shouid occas;. prise. Russia is net a is a C athlete? took their i serious..
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