The Singapore Free Press, 19 November 1949

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press JLARCEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAY A XT SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 350 1 Blockade break hopes Free Press Staff Reporter ACCOMPANIED by the destroyer Cossack, H iVi.S. Unicorn, a 20,000-ton aircraf-carrier and repair ship, will leave Singapore for lions? Kong tomorrow. H.M.S. Jamaica, one of the two cruisers at present on the Far East Station, left lor
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  • 30 1 JJiniIRNE Sat. ugration r Mr Arthur Calrday that peothe "alian *ould ntlng Olympic ssed surrefusal "i the G.. I Xber re- han ar.y trade Reuter
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    47 1 The <>m -month-old twins, Bannin and Bennetie. who, with their parents Newlin deft) and Jalle (right), were amonj the 162 migrating Cocos Islanders who arrived m Singapore yesterday on their way to Borneo. The twins are the youngest of the group of 70 children m the party.
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  • 15 1 QALANDSLIDE KILLS 40 MEN Linen i by a ?ortuI ed when n si irted U.P.
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  • 8 1 Princess Marnada, I n Ottawa A.P.
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  • 15 1 Postmen m Bandung went on strike yesterday for an increase of wages,- Reuter
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  • 115 1 ™uir NEW YORK Saturday. THE war m Indo-China 'was created, promoted kindled and fanned by the Soviet Government," hpr? e p?S C Fr ench delegate, angrily told the L.N. Political Committee yesterday This Is the first time France has directly accused Russia m the United Nations
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  • 123 1 LONDON. Sat. THE Air Ministry yesterday declined to divulge the name of the clerical officer sent home to England from Singapore because of his association with the Communist Party. An official spokesman said the man had gone on leave "to his home
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  • 19 1 The Soviets yesterday foreshadowed a purge of •bourgeois politicians" m the Com-munist-dominated East German Republic. U.P.
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  • 156 1 WASHINGTON Saturday 'THE Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field x Marshal Sir William Slim, is expected to inform the U.S. Government that Britain will defend Hong Kong at all costs against Communist aggression and that Britain will not reduce her military and strategic commitments
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  • 63 1 BOGOTA, Sat. /COLOMBIA'S conservative C> government ruling the country under a state ot siege said yesterday that it had foiled a vast terrorist plot with the arrest of more than 100 persons. The Government said that big stores of explosives were seized at Armenia, Western Colombia
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  • 25 1 The U.S. Senator, Mr. A. Willis Robertson. Virginia Democrat, says religious Intolerance m Spain blocks closer American ties with the Franco regime. A.P.
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  • 94 1 JOGJA GOVT. APPROVES HAGUE PACT T BATAVIA. Sat. •HE Indonesian Republican Cabinet has accepted The Hague agreement and will call a plenary session of Parliament on Dec 5 to ratify it, Jogjakarta radio said yesterday. The radio said the decision was reached at a special cabinet session attended by the
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  • 31 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese shopkeeper m Mentakab. Pahang. was arrested yesterday for offering a $500 bribe to a special constable for the release of two captured bandits.
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  • 36 1 The Italian community m Asmara has called a 24-hour stoppage of work throughout Eritrea to protest against recent terrorist attacks m which three Italians, a Greek and an Indian were killed. Reuter
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  • 65 1 4 68- YEAR-OLD Austrian farmer married on Thurs-* M day while riding m an ambularice to hospital. Conrad Klug. of stein/, had made all preparations fo. his wediin? to Elizabeth Muenzer. when he suddenly f'V'l ill. Anxious "<>.' to postp r the event, he asked a priest
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  • 63 1 B. Tim ah forecast By TRESPASSER THK weather forecast for today is: "Generally unsettled, with possibly some showers very late m the afternoon." The going is good at the moment. My Nap selection for today i s INDIAN HEATHER, m thp sixth race. Best outsider is ELALAMEIN m race two.
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  • 220 1 LONDON, Saturday UCOXOMIC experts of the British Trades Tnion Congress last ni^ht reached agreement o n a wages policy designed t o support the Labour Government's economic recovery programme. Details of the new policy, agreement on which wa s reached last Monday after
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  • 63 1 LONDON. Sat. THE Commonwealth Foreign Ministers' conference m Ceylon m January is expected to discuss economic aspects of mutual foreign policy as well as political considerations- according to parliamentary quarters here. It was authoritatively stated tonight that the British delegation which the Foreign Secretary, Mr.
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  • 45 1 The United States Army is setting up a new inquiry board on Negro manpower, the Army Secretary, Mr. Gordon Gray, announced yesterday The army has been under criticism for retaining segregation of Negroes m units uv to battalion size. Reuter
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  • 245 1 AMERICA CAN'T COMPETE' STATEMENT here yesterday by the U.s! Treasury Secretary, Mr. John Snyder. that he had not discussed loans t o Japan O r devaluation of the yen coincided with a warning m New York that Japan would attempt to wrest Asia's
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    42 1 S on p of the happy, but arriv^K 05 Islan d«*« who arrived here yesterday on their way to Borneo, getting ready for an afternoon nap m th« Social Welfare Department's Bushey Park Home where they are paying, story m Page 5.
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  • 32 1 The U.S. Reconstruction t inance Corporation yesterday announced the withdrawal of its price on grade A tin of 95 cents (US) per pouna for immediate New York delivery.- U.P.
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  • 19 1 The U.S. Air Force is to spend more than U5516,000,--000 on housing facilities on Okinawa. A.P.
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  • 51 1 UUGH D. GRAVITT, U.S. 11 taxicab driver, convicted of the involuntary manslaughter oi Miss Margaret Mitchell, authoress of 'Gone with the Wind," who was run over three months ago, has decided not to seek a re-irial. He was sentenced to j2 to 18 months' jail.
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  • 194 1 Red 'back door' cable to U.N. NEW YORK, Fri -THE United Nati- s x Secretary-Genera] Mr Trygve Lie, 'said today that the Chinese Communist Government "cannot get recognition by the Secretariat or Secretar y-General through the back door." He said this following the receipt yesterday of a formal request cabled
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  • 73 1 FLUSHING MEADOWS Sat THE report of the United Natlon s Kashmir Commission, which will deal vith the existing deadlock between India and Pakistan, is expecied at the United Nations headquarters early next veeK The Commission is at present In Lausanne, putting the finishing touches to
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  • 18 1 Albania has protested to Yugoslavia against persistent provocations carried out against Albania by Yugoslav officials." Reuter
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  • 24 1 Latest results m the Syrian Parliamentary elections showed that Independents will hold about half of the seats m the new Constituent Assembly.
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  • 230 2 ORETTY Barbara Ann Barry. 10-year-old heroine who rescued her 2-year-old brother from the path of an express train, ran talk today only because she is lefthanded. Barbaia Ann v.as hit on the side of the head by ihe train as she staggered off the railw-aj; line
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  • 175 2 baby. She wai thrown fifteen feet into a dit<:h and suffered a fractured skull. Surgeons had to perform a delicate operation over the left side of her brain As .soon as she recovered consciousness after the operation she amazed the doctors by asking for a sweet. They were convinced
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  • 200 2 By JOE MKKC KH (Kn<l.ind International pOR success m any career you've got to have a foundation on which to build. Football is no exception. So l advise you to develop three runda DientaJ qualities ntness; coaching (which means mastery of kiekln^, dribbling, heading, trapping, etc.);
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  • 1160 2  - Missing Prospector Mystery S.C.G.GEOGRE I ~By l THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF A MYSTERY THRILLER THE PAPUAN DEVIL-HOUSE' WHICH WILL APPEAR EACH WEEK. "LOOK OUT!" Ralph I) aws o n sprang on the shout at Patrol Officer (leorge Skinner of (he Xew (iuinea Constabulary. They hit the deck as a killing-spear
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    89 2 yyOILD you like a fhosl story? Try one b< Edgar Allan Poe. the master of strange and uncann tales. Edgar wag bom m America, son of an BngUsri actress, lie came to London and went to the Manor school, m stoke Mewin But he made few fr. and
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  • 140 2 JOE. a city lad. sp* nt summer vacation i ing on a farm. One da 1 farmer came on Joe beside a fence row m the blazim: slowly pouring water from a p v 1 over corked stnnJoe explained that the water was too
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    • 81 2 SELLING OUT FAST ORDER NC MALAYA COMES 10 MFi STRAITS TIMES" PICTURES 1949 The purple green of the vegetation on \i keb^ Penang Hill the daxxling colours of sarong an at a Malay sultans installation faithfully rep" COLOUR. TS tiMti Nineteen full-colour illustrations m STRAi -t C d PICTUPFS 1949
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 231 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD <11 B 8 v ROSS. 1, Oountrj 18, Dam m a river to vh'.fp tin- 1 ~"lBB~i ruler. 2, Jane was born m 1775. 3, A member of the House SOU TION of Iymis, perhaps 4. "World" m 'W»& '51 i«dN French. 5. The see«l of an apple
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  • 325 3 Islam wants own province ANOTHFR f h R k ANG OON, Saturday. dlsc ordant demand on a new Burma torn by fe Some 300,000 Muslims are seeking establishment of a new Islamic province admimstered by Muslims for Muslims on *he western seaboard of Burma. uslimh
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  • 79 3 IRAQ ha s issued a call for psychological disarmament as the first condition for attaining world peace. Speaking before the General Assembly's Political Committee which continued discussion of a Soviet proposal for a Five-Power peace pact, the Iraqi Foreign Minister Mr. FadhJlhaJ Jamali, said the ideological agreement
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    58 3 South Im flvt "«t any •ut. East Rl and Eaat covers J •nds :npB I B I nuinp. M< .>- and and Of If East re: jrni i w g a heart to North's ac«; if Eav. discards, North makes th<? diamond are, while If East ruffs th«
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    51 3 London h?m; if"/'* 1 111 uthor <^ here seen m her her bik «r J#?l fhe refused to accept royalties on rnotherwik y Remembrance," which, she claims, priest who i 8111 0*,!?. Was dic tated" by a ghost— a priest who died nine million year, ago on the lost island
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  • 25 3 The 1950 Congress of the "Jeunesse Musicale" an international federation for the promotion of music among youth— will be held m Vienna. A.P.
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  • 210 3 Govt. to deal with problem of stowaways LONDON, Saturday. ]V|R. Creech Jones, the Colonial Secretary, reveals that the Government is about to put up a plan to the Colonies to deal with the number of West Africans and West Indians who are stowing away m Liverpool-bound ships. A 26-year-old man
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 94 3 yp. Crossword No. 847 "n^" "18 19 < t -?j WJ&^ :^7| BHi^ 2 J7_U_ :mt J f J 1 L J CLUES ACROSS 4 8 Ancient (4): 10 Prominent (T): ::t (3>; 13 Dried fruit <6>; 14 MeasuI): 20 Counter-poibon (.8); 23 Teacher (3); 29 Excavated (3>; 30 Pet
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    • 583 3 SINGAPORE —2.00 English Programme (As, (BII'F VFTWn»I. Spore»; 2.00—5.00 Racing Com AUSTRALIA IUIXfc M.IIVOKK mentaries; 2.00 Malay Programme nuain/iLIM 848 and 41 7 metres oon° n 250 me Jt res 3. 00 Indian 16, 19. 25 and 31 Metres. at 10 a.m. metres); 5.15 State Hockey iSelTnnAV angor vs. Johore>
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  • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY Nov. 19. 1949
    • 600 4 pOBBLERS' children arc alwayi badly shod. And Singapore la about ihe lust cc In the world where the housewife can bi-y a tin of canned Malayan pineapple. For: aiately pi eapples, unlike boots ci shoes, avow on bushes and the fruit-loving Singaporean can always buy
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  • 1024 4  -  SELBY BRADFORD REVIEWS THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN MALAYA FOH about 18 months now well over a division of British troops have been fighting i\ war as strenuous and as nerveracking as many a North-West Frontier campaign of the old days. They are the units of that
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  • 548 4  -  EDWARDS BERLIN By DURING the last war Emil Ludwig, an eminent German living m exile, wrote of his countrymen: "Armed and under command, as a soldier, the German keeps his courage, but as a civilian without orders and superiors, he easily succumbs. Germans have often been anti-French, never
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  • 832 4 Painter Comes to S 'pore PEOPLE MAKE NEWS /|iHE painter of the portraits of Sir Cecil Clementi, Sir Hugh Clifford and other prominent Singaporeans, is now back m Singapore to do some more paintings. He is Mr. A. SHISTER, a Russian by birth but a naturalised Briton. He returns from
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  • 89 4 U.S. BID FOR BLUE RIBAND band. Present the Queen M j! c a crossing UII9S average speed knots. Keel p i ship still has to i>already claimed be able to maiit ing speed of 28: maximum speed mtr fore, bo considerabif cess of this. "Modem met] Unit ran 48.000 about
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    • 43 4 \if i^m 3 mm wk^W^l No Increase In Price But Better Quality And Style. For all Eye troubles consult Our Qualified Optician who is Aided By the Modern Scientific Phuroptnr Instrument. THE GREAT CHINA OPTICALCO. yu North Bridge Road, S'por* •Opposite Liberty Cabaret)
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    • 134 4 GIFTS I offer most acceptable a-.e c* You can always choose one and be sure you get it at the keerv<t price S. P. H. de SUVA 45, HICH STRFET SINCAPORE IPOH AML li. LUMfUR Baby's first year how vital it Is. In thw short period, what hopes and fears
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  • 541 5 'Landlords have vital role -SRA muv cc Press Staff Reporter |Hk proper housing of the people "depends on the private landlord, and it would be an evil day for Singapore if the Colony should ever be led to believe that Government alone is equal to
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  • 23 5 The Army Civil Service union will be holding a brains trust next Wednesday at 331 North Bridge Road from 630 p.m.
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  • 55 5 The application made to the Singapore Rural Board for permission to discharge sewage into the sea from Pulau Brani was not made for the troops concerned by the Master Attendant. Commander L. P. Lane, as reported m yesterday's Free Press. He merely forwarded the application which had been
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    37 5 SIXTY-FIVE boys of Standards six and seven of Chnon f.uan English School, Singapore, and their teacher, Mr. Tan Ken? Kmnff, pho'o^raphed outside the Fre< Press "lildine yesterday after they had been shown how a newspaper is produced.
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  • 59 5 Chinese art exhibition pi< ture p Chinese <m respondent Pug Tan the at ex-.->ore 4 ComDec. 4 colour 111 be on 11 be by th* CornMr. .>aintrsity prC.EN'I Thivj and r M.itir.<-ii IB M»f!,ri h»lk Danw which will L Mtsented by the Fine A Movemenl Icademy il the Vit torn
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  • 475 5 1 9th. CENT. MODES SET A PROBLEM WiNSLOW BOY' IN SPORE THE Singapore Stage Club will present a performance of Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy next Wednesday Nov. 23. and it will run until Saturday. Nov. 26. The Stage Club Group has been rehearsing lor the play for four weeks
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  • 29 5 There were 740 births and 163 deaths m Singapore Municipality m the week ended Nov. 12. Chief causes of death were tuberculosis 23 > and pneumonia <15>.
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  • 236 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PRINCIPALS of Singapore's eight Chinese middle schools are expected shortly to discuss with the Assistant Director of Education (Chinese) Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt, ways to improve English teaching m Chinese schools so that the standard may be raised to qualify students
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  • 28 5 A combined social, under the auspices of the Y.W.C.A the Chinese V M.C.A.. and the YM.C.A. will be held this afternoon at the V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road.
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  • 222 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r'ATALINA, a shy, smiling little Cocos Island miss of seven, who was named after the first Catalina flying-boat to land on the island m 1942, said to me yesterday that sh e was looking forward to her new home
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    93 5 picture Letters and parcels are due la Singapore today from India and S. Africa. Latest times fur posting at the G.P.O. today are: 6 p.m. for Java, Siam. Medan. U.K., Eire, Europe. Egypt. N. and W. Africa. West Indies and Ceylon. SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Catalina and 28-year-old Lipton (top picture) two
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  • 107 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A scheme to cut out the middleman m the Maj layan pineapple industry Is 1 being organised by small growers with the assistance of the State Agricultural Officer. Johore. The scheme will enable growers to deal direct with packers instead of through
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  • 111 5 'VAMPIRE' TENANTS THE principal tenant li ••vampire product" of the existing rent control leg Nation and should be eradicated, the Singapore Ratepayers Association submitted to the Committee appointed by the Government to review r.e present Rent Control Ordinance. It suggested that, m order to eradicate this "vicious creation of the
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  • 44 5 The Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson. will leave Kallang Airport tomorrow for Pen: \<; Before departure, he will inspect an RAF. guard of honour. After spendinu one day m Penany. he will (mDark on thf Olenea**** d leave for UK. on Ifo
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    • 73 5 For fhe /ody o/ f/ie moment this Christmas MAX FACTOR make up gift sets YA R D L E V make up gift sets ALSO PERFUMES BY CHANEL, LENTHERIC, EVENING IN PARIS, LANVIN COTYS 57* Se MITRE HOTEI KILUNEY ROAD TEL. 7193 I t V L" Jr J»N<APOKtS QtIET AND
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    • 32 5 X^" W^H/^ S^u^-fifli^Sl v V v v^ S; s available Cretonnes m Nursery £T Jn. ft Printed Linen fir Cotton at I^£s^s^^" fl $7.95 f 0 $9.75 per yard. RAFFLES PLACP SPORE
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  • 289 6  -  VETERAN By Veterans 9 final important matches m the Singapore badminton championships are scheduled to be played off this week-end. The first will settle the question as to whether Koh Keng Sianjr (Marigold) will be able to retain his veteran singles title? His challenger is none
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  • 488 6 islS 8I I I II i 1 1 Ir\ ro! LONDON, Sat. FJESPITE the usual week-end disposition not to enter into fresh commitments m the London Stock Exchange, there was sufficient business yesterday to maintain quiet firmness m most sections, says Reuter's financial correspondent.
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  • 46 6 THE Commonwealth cricketers won the toss and put the Governor's XI m to bat first when they opened Their Pakistan tour at Peshawar yesterday. Close of play scores were* Governor's X 1 —213 all out; Commonwealth. 7 for no wicket. Reuter
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    • 240 6 Mandrake Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press mi n *s JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m \i Ars mr aeofton, A^x^l nl/^divi Mt tmatAl After o moment's I come Vn^\ miss- he's com* /sjAW oun— A«D jump l^W htsitation Giles fiEDR I BACK ANO WAHTf /^^l IllY INTO
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  • 337 7 GOOD GOING FOR RACES TODAY LIKELY No Regrets, RaLi gain favour RLGRLTS Ecliptic and Ra-Li have all re urned to favour with the prospect of *ood track at Bukit Timah this afternoon The sky was cloudy yesterday, but was bright and clear this morning. The track has dried up w"frbeTood.
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  • 39 7 Langton sold to Bolton lo B' 1' .it Preston N«rth itn w i'h. r M t da* J lv schedaled t<» ti'i- l"M mM Manchester P^ English Learn '•'"V 1 uuh loilay In rintrJduc* U. Hrstuitm.inn. a Shsac"- i
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  • 20 7 w r IC HINOB Vm I ln PA n«t«u* Mr. 'f ihe t D this iconta i
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  • 155 7 TH£ Singapore Harbour Bi-ara Boyi club jrattertftj wen «ii^ Challenge Cup m the Boys' Ctub-' t cup final on th? Paiiang by beating the Katong Boys' Club by ioui gcul> t<< nil. Chee Kiong opened arroun'.- foi file Harbour Board Club and the If ad
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  • 107 7 From JIM CHAMBERS IYERTOOL unbeaten leaders of the First Division c English Football League, should keep their tndai when tliev play their home same rrc.iru ll .rtinsi tsliin t H sis that it is unwise to change a n. Liverpool will retain Cyril forward and
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  • 180 7 Course for boxing referees lUVKNJVnVt Army officers and warrant i officers, four Royal Air Force officers and lour members of the Singapore Police Force are attending a two- week course for boxing referees conducted by the FAKfcLF boxing committee and the staff of the School of Physical Training. The eOM
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  • 62 7 I :u 223 v l-fought I ..lime Shot fti alter ick. n the miking, v efui liigh flick eaten cad a was gto«t, of the .tan s"S;h arried lhe Singh chfrted he Boa i. c <Mal%f») beat 1 by five teals Wan, Bave a 8
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  • 29 7 In the final of the Slam C p. pi. \«d at the Ifland Club on Thursday. Mrs. San '24. beat Mrs. Mayor <16» two and one.
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  • 250 7 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. BOY Brooks (156 lbs." the Orient welter, middle and light -heavy weight champion won a technical knockout decision over Golden Boy < 145 lbs.), the Malayan middle weight champion. In the eighth of a ton round nontitle fight
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  • 174 7 I TKESPASSEB »SOM m, CAM. BOY I PO1NT1!B ta»eil Alrnal Airmail Alrpal Pennyworth Pennyworth GOLDEN HARVEST LORD FRPnrnirir' nrv RACE I Lord Frederick Grand Tr£t RD RED E*«CK LORD FREDERICK 245 EJ-Alamein Colorado r rl** r Grand Trim <".'•■* Trim Golden Harvest RACE 3 ACTRESS I
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  • 149 7 NOVEMBER HANDICAP BETTING pOOD Taste maintained his VI position as favourite for today's Manchester November Handicap when the card was called over at the Victoria Club, London, last night. He was unchanged at 1U to 1 and was the best backed horse m a weak market. The odds against Sarda.
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  • 36 7 B ERNIE GRANT ot Victoria I night won the AnstralUtfi featherweight championship l\ defeating Mickey McD<jr.a;ci OV <i technical krtockout m the tenth round. Both boxers x^led g s; I 13'< It*. Reuter
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  • 30 7 QL'iHRIES SC. bettt Buiiwo Company sC. by three I goals to nil m a soccer friendly I at Geylang stadium vestrrdav. The scorers wei-p Foek K>f. .TafTnr and Sum Wine
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  • 735 7 B Tim^h I Card f cl ht raCeS a Bukit Clubwt 1 M y> J- he J da of the Singapore Turf Uub Winter Meeting. The double tote event will be on Race% the Bi Sweep wi be drawn 100 ifcJ£2*° 1 215: Cl. Div. 3— 6 F.
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  • 304 7 pENANO Polo Club propose once again to hold a tournament during the Christmas holidays. It is hoped to make it on a bigger scale, with one team from Singapore, two from Selangor (possibly one to be made up from the Brigade of Guards), one or two from
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    • 254 7 9 Let— h LIFEGUARD 1 f; raise your child LIFEGUARD MILK CO., LTD. 55 36 Medeiros Building Spore y Telephone: 8Z172 0 RAFFLES HOTEL BOOK NOW FOR THE X'MAS AND NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES X'MAS EVE Special Dinner and Ball Crackers Novelties Noisemakers Balloons etc. Christmas Carols Extension to 2 a
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  • 67 8 The following are required to attend at the Revolver Range, Police Training School. Thomson Road at 5.30 p.m. on Monday the 21st: November 1949 to be instructed m the handling and use Of .38 Revolver. V.SCs. 1241. 1240. 1238. 1161. 1160. 1150. 1149. 1144. 1139. 1133, 1023,
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  • 358 8 Vietnam says no sanctuary HONG KONG, Saturday. WITH the advance Communist forces already within 60 miles of Chungking, the Nationalist emergency capital m Szechuan, and Nationalist withdrawal to Yunnan Province now imminent, ex-Emperor Bao Dai, head of the neighhouring state of Vietnam, is reported to have
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    95 8 The Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru (wearing white cap and standing fourth from left) is seen at the main table at the Lord Mayor's banquet m London. Standing on Mr. Nehru's left are the British Prime Minister's wife, Mrs. Attlee; the Chilean Ambassador, Senor don Manuel Bianchi; the Deputy Lady
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  • 68 8 Uuirino leads by 317,000 votes MANILA, Fri. PRESIDENT Elpidlo Quirino i Is now leading Mr. Jose P. Laurel by 317,680 votes m the Presidential race, according to latest results. The Commission on Election totals at noon today plu s still uncertified Manila returns Mr. Quirino 1,63*1.139 votes, Mr. Laurel 1.315.459
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  • 121 8 CUT IN U.S.NAVY FORCE WASHINGTON, Fri A DMIRAL Forest Sherman. i\ Chief of Naval Operations, today ordered 35 Navy and Marine air squadrons disbanded and operations halted at six air bases to conform to orders by the Secretary of Defence, Mr. Louis Johnson, to save U.S. $350,000,000 out of the
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  • 88 8 LONDON, Fri. I HENNING and Co., Lon- don diamond brokers, were charged today with having illegally exported diamonds from London to America by way of Tangier to evade currency regulations. The prosecutor said that the immediate charge involved 19.451 carats of rough diamonds, valued at k 2
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  • 65 8 H.K. not in Canton ban HONG KONG, Sat. ALL foreign currencies exn cept the Hong Kong dollar are now banned Jrom circulation m Canton,' according to an announcement by the Canton Military Control Commission. The H K. dollar will be allowed to circulate but transactions must be made at the
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  • 92 8 M ««J? fl RNA BA s^ Cl i 79 -y ear «»d elder statesman IFX and financier, said m New York yesterday that he ro U OOO le f aV r%t iSe J Ure f rtune estimated at Vs. $33,--000 000, for the advancement of physical
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  • 202 8 B1 NEW YORK. Saturday. FHfc Philippines told the Inked Nations yesterday that if it wants to maintain prestige amonc the peoples of the world, its General Assembly should approve a vote of censure against the government of South Africa for having refused four times
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  • 70 8 THE tin price again fell ru\r.i:> m London yesterday, with spot down £20 to £677 4. The turnover was small at 55 tons. Official prices at the close of tne morning market were cash £675 buyers and £680 sellers, with business done from £675 to
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  • 17 8 An unidentified plane has been reported lost m the Alps between Italy and France.
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  • 13 8 Guam suffered a property damage of $1,600,000 frorrTth?. recent typhoon. U.P.
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  • 55 8 NEW high levels for 1949 were recorded In the New York Stock Exchange yesterday as the market continued to advance. Gains up to U.S. $2 were general m moderate trading. The Industrial average reached the highest point since 1946. The market closed firm with quotations nt
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  • 38 8 Tin- U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labour. Mr. Philip Kaiser, warned yesterday that Communism would establish bases m the economically underdeveloped areas of the world if the democracies did not raise the standards of living there.
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  • 22 8 Russia has given notic*' that ■he will repatriate 10.000 more Japanese prisoners ot war by November 30. A.P.
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  • 72 8 WASHINGTON, Sat. WITH a broad pun on his own name, former Senator James Mead of New York produced the capital's laugh of the week. .Mr. Mead, bracketing: his o:\th-taking as a Federal Trade Commissioner with the current visit of tinShah of Iran, tossed m a
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  • 209 8 America seeks super A-bomb WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE new atomic bomb tested at Eniwetok last year is "six times more potent" than the model used on Nagasaki m the war, Senator Edwin Johnson, a member of the U.S. Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee, said yesterday. Senetor Johnson also said that progress is
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  • 77 8 YOKOHAMA. Sat. WITH the growing rodent population m Yokohama rapidly getting out of hand, the city authorities used 40 lb. of sugar and caused the destruction of M.oou rats m two days. The authorities made a two-day offer of a free raffle ticket to any citizen
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    • 7 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, Nov. 19.
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    • 441 1  - A woman speaks her mind on Singapore LUCY TAN by '\W\\ female of the species is reported 1 more observant In nature than the male and as I am a newcomer to Singa- I want to tell you flu- glaring differ between this driving metropolis ;<'! me Federation of lava
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    • 89 1 Goats go on show in London GOATS, some of which have been brought from the Scottish Highlands. Devon and Cornwall, are on show at Olympla for London's annual Milk Week. The Milk Marketing Board will take over all the milk from the cows on show, but as goats' milk is
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    • 468 1  -  KATHARINE SIM by encountered this cheerful little group of musicians recently m one of Penang*s markets. They were Teoh Chiew people and the performance they were giving was peculiar to Swatow. They sat around a common kitchen table accompanying themselves on their various instruments and
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    • 469 1  -  RUTH LANGDON by JIIK girls at the Mount Hosie Hostel, students at the University of Malaya, are almost unanimous m their enthusiasm for botli hostel and University. One third of the girls are freshmen. Many had never seen Singapore until they entered the University this
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    • 409 1  - Gay Malays brighten K.L. fair NELLA FAULKNER by IJT was difficult to get the car through the crowd. Bicycles and trishaws rode hither and thither with no respect for oncoming people and if one didn't side-step quickly enough it was just too bad. Malays m brilliantly coloured sarongs and bajus
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      • 68 1 \> WHY H IS OIFFERENT s^^Lm+S ylf iy a t ru California jT design modi for ititun lf|%J or busmen luear^X 'JS fflatrnal Is first qttJe Scamj are JcuibU-- X^^ stitched. f«Ued and rc\/l^\ N intorvc'J at points o+ strum m j Buttons are* seivn io Stavj en biitton hdUs
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      • 63 1 REFRIGERATORS (Electrical or Kerosene Operated Models) i a RADIOS (Mains Battery Models) <md RADIOGRAMS of Leading Makes are on display at I VAN HIN S SHOWROOM 136 ORCHARD PD we also have on Display Automatic Record Changers Vacuum Cleaners Floor Polishers Cookers Air Conditioners All Electrical Appliances Electrical Accessories Lamp
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    • 103 2  -  Max Factor j* Hollywood —If \om\c bren lro iMed h\ youf liprtict "ruMwn| from the bowkriinff <>t its appln.ition on UB into the HUCrOKOBK skin lino aiouinl the mouth, pro Icmmmml Hollywood make-up anlot* pam on a lock which will overcome Midi "Meeding App!\ lace p<>w»lci vci\
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    • 521 2 RANK STARS ARE ANXIOUS By Our London Film Correspondent LONDON: 'THIS is not the place to discuss all the serious implications of the recent disclosure by Mr. J. Art h v r Hank of the colossal financial loss which has been incurred by his organisation during the year. One of
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    • 239 2  -  Humphrey Bogart By > rTAKE it from me, nobody m Hollywood knows how to have fun except myself and Errol Flynn. Trouble is everybody s being dignified. Nobody knows how to play any more. Look at the old days. Stars did plenty of brawling then, but they
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    • 793 2 Will O'-The-Wisp Fi Ims i i LAN GRANT OA LOCAL STAGE AM FILM SHOWS QXH of the more disconcerting features of Singapore's entertainment world is the way m which films are whipped on and off local screens sometimes they are off before one knew they were on. Most of the
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    • 247 2 At the Cathay:— Red-Skelton, Eleanor, Powell and Tommy Dorsey m "Ship Ahoy." This might have been entertaining when it first came out but it has "dated" badly. The dancing of Eleanor Powell Ihe noisy trumpetings of Dor^ey's band, the soulful wailinps of Prank Sinatra (unknown when this
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    • 441 2  -  MICHAEL RODDY By TfIFTEEN pounds m the wrong places almost cost Judy Garland her starring role m 'Summer Stock." She was told to diet and quick. She did. But only half a stone came off. She was given a week to dispose of the rest. Judy made
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    • 323 2 HOW does actress Joan Crawford retain her zest for Hollywood after all these years? When Lucille Lesueur from San Antonio became Joan Crawford she was the symbol of flaming youth. She now outranks her sister stars by years of stardom, and even nears the record of
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      • 149 2 MtealM J.L JIIiHIWH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT l ilKill iBl] II Ings I viTiiffitigfffifHii gflk. &f~ w fr *«4ifr i* -Km i j TECHLAB LTD. PRESTCOLD REFRIGERATORS INSPECI OUR OISPLAY AT MALAYAN MOTORS SHOWROOM ORCHARD RO H P TERMS ARRANCEO PHONE 7295 WRITE OR CALL FOR I ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE REDUCE SAFELY If
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      • 337 2 SOUTHERN CABARFt (off New Bridge Road) TO-NIGHT EXTENSION i a.m. O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O- 1 Come and see the finest of beautiful Chinese Arts dance with V Singapore 1949 100 ckanZ] hostesses t 9 4 IfIIIIIIUIiniIIIIUIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIICSHIIUIIIIIICIIIIHUUIIICJIIIIiiiiiiiit],,^^^ i VICTORIA THEATRE! THE STAGE CLUB'S j FOURTH BIRTHDAY play "THE WINSLOW BOY" j by Terence Rattigan
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    • 331 3  - Where sleepy gossip gave way to excitement MARIAN WELLS I Saturday. Nov. 19. by THINGS were happening m the yen heart of this Bovanese knmpong. Sleep> gossip had way to excited whispers. Would Ihey be removing to new How much Government prepared to pay them? were they to Some had
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    • 443 3  -  Kenny Kave by LOT of native women in Sin^npore arc having the jitters. They have been hearing a lot of talcs about headhunters from Hitneighbouring islands being on the loose in I he Colony. Malay women, It is reported, have had their heads cut
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    • 413 3  - THREE MEN WHO WORK TO GIVE US PLEASURE Kenneth Tan by the interesting people m our town are the StringHoppers Man, the Odd Jobs Man, and the Flour Animal Man. Coffee may mean breakfast to many but to many others it is but a warming up for what the String-Hoppers
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    • 290 3  -  A.S.Lee by |N Singapore the übiquity of Chinese posters is astonishing. These black and white affairs glare at you from house supports, telegraph posts, tree trunks and from walls, both prohibited to bill-sticking and otherwise. An interesting point is that they are sometimes hand-written, and so
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    • 126 3 They drive engines on week-ends A DOCTOR, two dentists and a bank official are among Sutton, Surrey, professional men who are sparetime engine dnvTheir locomotives are coal-burning scale models which they have built themselves as a hobby. The week-end engine drivers belo n g to t c 80-strong Sutton Model
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    • 540 4 F.A. plan 1951 'Festival of Soccer' SOCCER'S contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain will be to stage a series of international matches against some Continental countries instead of undertaking a foreign tour. This is the suggestion put forward by Sir Stanley Rous to the Festival of Britain Committee, and,
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    • 513 4 THOUSANDS of Singapore a. soccot enthusiasts, Dartlcularly the Indians, are greatly disappointed at the refusal of the S.A.F.A. to *lye the Indian tourists more than one game on their return visit to the Colony. The request was for three games, and after a lot of fuss, one
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    • 622 4  -  C. ALEXANDER By COR the second year m succession Venice has run a first-class master's tournament: it Is hoped that it will become an annual event and that next year there will be a tournament for teams representing all the great cities m Europe. Venice is to
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    • 483 4 ENGLISH FOOTBALL TACTICS ENGLISH Association football tactics are slowly yet surely changing More emphasis is being placed on attack than defence. With the 1949-50 soccer season only a few weeks old, there is plenty of evidence that most professional footballers are altering their tactics to beat the "third back" game.
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    • 329 4 FRED PERRY SAYSU.K. needs new tennis blood BACK home cfter coaching Britain's Davis Cup team, Fred Perry, triple winner of the Wimbledon and U.S. championships, now an American subject, says that Britain's only hope of recovering prominence m world tennis is to field a new set of players. Candid, but
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    • 151 4 CIVE men from Scotland are planning to introduce miniature pon England Thrv prepared to spend tIO,(HMj i.» j.,t it going Names of the are not dlsclos ut s spokesman told a Pr>», conference m Birminr. ham. "We feel that the Sbflland ponies, New I ponies, and ponies
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