The Singapore Free Press, 24 November 1949

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    18 13 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA DSFDJDEIEUIRUE SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    MR. V. ATTACKS THESE PIGMIES
    648 13 Nationalists under fire T™ Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Yishinsky, m an angry altercation with the 1 ninese Nationalist representative, told the I nited Nations (General Assembly today that Russia "cannot consider these pigmies as a delegation." At the start of the Assembly's debate on
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    MALAYA TRADE JUMPS
    17 13 MALAYA TRADE JUMPS s ,Uti\ N I t»y LjjJi.W wn,lr ia(Je gpd up »r°m nearly .1 > ,'i-em-
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    PLEAN BANDITS
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    NO WITHDRAWAL
    26 13 Emanuel Shinwell, British Secretary of State for War. told a press conference erday that Great Britain had no Intention of withdrawing troops from Tripoli
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    UK GIVES HELP IN EMERGENCY
    177 13 LONDON. Thursday. \JR. DAVID REES- WILLIAMS, Under-Secretary f for the Colonies, said last night that the British (.overnment's recent grant of £3,000.000 to Malaya v.ts a contribution towards the cost of emergency mea>ures m 1950. In a written reply to a question m the Commons
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    Freeman widow refused entry into H'Kong
    107 13 HONG KONG. Thurs. MRS MAYA FREKMA N. widow of one of two men slain m a drinking brawl a: the Freeman home In Canton last September, was yesterday refused entry into Hong Kong. Her American husband. William Freeman, 41, and Harold Harris, 45. Shang-hai-born
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    U.S. invites Japs
    30 13 A ten-man Diet group will leave on December 16 from Yokohama m a 45-day tour of the United States at the invitation of the U.S. Government. U.P.
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    OSLO CRASH NEWS KILLS BROTHER
    125 13 OSLO, Wednesday. AS 12-year-old Isaac Allam, sole survivor of the Dakota crash which killed 27 other children and seven adults, told a nurse today that he wanted to be a pilot, when he grew up, the 18-year-old brother of three of the dead children, died
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    AIR COLLISION
    25 13 A mid-air collision between a twin-jet Meteor and a single-engined training plane claimed the lives of three British airmen at Kimberley yesterday. A.P.
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    JOHORE ARRESTS
    28 13 Free Press Staff Reporter Arrests under the emergency regulations m Johore Bahru from Nov. 17 to last night totalled 51 Chinese. 11 Indians and three Malays
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    JAPS FOR LONDON
    26 13 Five Japanese labour delegates to the London conference of the projected World Federation of Free Trade Unions, left Tokio by plane yesterday. Reuter
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    54 13 Boy Scouts of the Gan Ens Seng School delighted the audience at the school concert yesterday with an ageold Maori stick game which is played m rhythm with a chant which the natives of New Zealand have sung for over 1.000 years. The stick game was cne of the 12
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    Budapest silent to U.K. request
    110 13 Budapest silent to U.K. request BUDAPEST, Thurs. THE American and British legations m Budapest said yesterday that they had not yet received an answer from the Hungarian authorities to their request to talk with Mr. Robert Vcgeler and Mr. Edgar Sanders, businessmen who have been jailed on charges of espionage
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    SNYDER PASSES THROUGH H.K.
    50 13 Mr. John W. Snyder, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, who arrived m Hong Kong yesterday morning, left for Manila the same evening by plane. During his short stay m the colony Mr. Snyder paid a courtesy call on the Governor. Sir Alexander Grantham. Reuter
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    Now, isn't that nice
    68 13 SEVEN U.S. Congressmen, touring Pacific territories, talked with the 52 residents of the tiny island of \oulu m the Western Pacific and never received one petition. Everyone seemed happy. No one asked for anything. "These are the best adjusted people we have seen, said Representative Fred
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    PHIBUN TELLS YOSHIDA'Siam wants Japan to be free again soon'
    221 13 TOKIO, Thursday. r PHE Siamese Prime Minister, Marshal Phibun, wishes to see Japan become an independent country again as soon as possible because she is "a fellow Asian country," according to Mr. Taneo Miyahara, first Japanese post-war visitor to Siam.
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    UK move to end Tassimmunity
    213 13 UK move to end Tass immunity LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN accused Tass, the official Russian news agency, yesterday of "fomenting internal strife" m Britain and threatened to strip it of diplomatic immunity, which frees the agency from libel suits. Viscount Jowitt who, as Lord Chancellor, is the nations highest law officer,
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    No bookies, say Reds
    82 13 No bookies, say Reds PRAGUE, Wed. (CZECHOSLOVAKIA moved to liquidate another private enterprise bookmakers today by telling 11 bookmaking Prague firms that they would be put out of business soon. The Arras accept bets on football and other sports as well as the Prague and Paris races. The bookmakers said
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    WARD TOLD 'COME HOME'
    76 13 WASHINGTON, Thurs. THE U.S. State Department has ordered the American Consul-General m Mukden. Mr. Angus Ward, and his entire staff to leave Mukden "forthwith" following Mr. Ward's release from a Communist jail. A Chinese Communist People's Court had convicted Mr. Ward and four consulate aides of
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    VEHICLE FIRED
    35 13 Free Press Staff Reporter Fifteen rifle-carrying bandits yesterday set fire to and destroyed a lorry and trailer carrying logs near the Sega-mat-Labis Road m Johore, but did not molest the driver and attendant.
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    TAPPERS ROBBED
    31 13 Free Press Staff Reporter Two Malay rubber tappers on Voules Estate m the Segamat area were robbed of their identity cards yesterday by a gang of four armed bandits.
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    ONE LESS IN KEDAH
    31 13 Free Press Staff Reporter A police patrol operating m the Kuala Nau area ln Kedah yesterday shot dead a Chinese bandit who was armed with a pistol.
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    BRITISH RECORD
    21 13 One out of every five F"fsons m Britain is now a trade union member an all -time record. A.P.
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    Siamshuts Moscow Legation
    122 13 Siamshuts Moscow Legation BANGKOK, Thurs. "THE Siamese Cabinet yesterday ordered the closure of Siam's Legation m Moscow and the recall of the Legation's two-man staff on the grounds of "economy." Siam Foreign Office said it is unlikely the Sn*vt Union would reciprocally < its Bangkok Legation which is her only
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    BANDIT SPY NABBED
    71 13 Free Press Staff Reporter A party of 1 2 Gurk!. i Rifles had a skirmish wr.h rivr armed bandits on the Malacca border ytst* rday. The bandits fled after an exchange of fire. A Chinese named Tee St Ching was arrested on the scene. He was wanted
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    PENANG KILLING
    22 13 Frep Press Staff Reporter A Chinese was shot d'*ad oy unknown persons at E lik Pulau m Penan? last n
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    Rubber prices
    63 13 A SPECIAL Market Curtespu'xi ent rives the prices of rubt;« r i in cents per lb. I at 11 a.m today as follows: No. 1 R.S S Spot: loose 46 H> F.o.b. In bales Dec. Xo. 1 R.S S. 46' 4 lo'^ No. 2 R.S S 45 4
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    'Tiger of Malaya' Trial Queried
    806 14  -  GENERAL MacARTHUR MAURICE BROWN Reviews a book banned by The Case of General Yamashita by Captain A. FRANK REEL (Chicago University Press). MORE than three years ago Tomo\iiki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya" who captured Singapore and who later commanded Japanese forces m the Philippines,
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    IN BRIEF
    350 14 EREMONY OF INNOCENT F. •*th Charlote Webster. J. cape, This Is the story of Svb.l. a no\ice fresh from England who caused consternation at Bt Serapha's. at Geldersburg. Bouth Africa. She startled the nuns by exhibitions of clairvov mcc. Later, by performing an anoarently mlraculOUl cure, she had
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    3 MEN WENT TO WAR
    575 14  - 3 MEN WENT TO WAR PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m U.K. *THE sword shall devour thy voting lions," declared the prophet Nahum, not an author nowadays much m request, though his words are tragically applicable to the lost manhood and wasted hopes of the first and second world wars.
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    Story of the high seas
    82 14 Story of the high seas ROANOKE HUNDRED. By Inglis Fletcher. Hutchinson. 12s. 6d. 384 pages. JjERE is a fine, rattling. clattering story of the high seas and the American coast m the days of Elizabeth A story of the first of all the English settlements, on Roanoke Island, of! the
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    An America Rewrites The Bible
    165 14  -  GUY RAMSTY ■By The Greatest Story Ever Told by Fulton Oursler NINETEEN hundred years the story of the lift (.hrist was written down m Aramaic, l>\ eye-witnesses or those who had been told by eye witnesses. It was translated rapidly into Greek— the tongue of
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    QUICK LOOKS
    94 14 The Gaietj Queen Pope |W. H A livelp ace. famous theatre I heyday added a gr> to the gaiety of na' some magniticen 4 ipt of exuberant woma\ I Kilkf >I;<u and P<*'*t Wye. Lehmann. 18s. Illuminating and <. ly readable surrey career and eha r of i
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      27 14 I'NDER REVIEW The Young Lions, by Irwin Shaw. <Cape. 15s < White Stranger, by Harry Wilcox. (Collins, 16> > The Condor and the Cows. by Christopher Isherwood. 'Methuen. 215.)
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      225 14 YOUR LUCKY STAR; ROEN today, your talents are many, hut they call for careful cultivation if they are to be marked with outstanding success. It win be easy for you to 'iust get along." for you are adaptable to many different types of work and can make a success of
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      393 14 F.P. Crossword No. 851 Hin&i 2 1 pi rir i i 6 ■i a. i ••<•*, Jai*< I 9 10 Vl 12 —-a..— iiuMii I i- i■ 13 15 16 ■fl id W Z0 t— _^l-__- ii mm-** 24 1 Z5 as <> 30 4 !r^n!2 3f— rprjf 1 i__£
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    DAKAR MAY BECOME 2nd PARIS
    375 15 DAKAR MAY BECOME 2nd PARIS Big plan by French Govt. m rio PARIS, Thursday. A™ reaching plan is under way for the modernisation of Dakar, capital of French nest Africa and turn-table for the traffic of three continents. thi.^! c«?e «?n C Ji.P. ov rnment,s aim is t0 transform this
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    31 15 the Lord Mayor of London's new roachiik a century or two as he pose s in uew ■•i knee breaches and buckled amient coach m which he drives the Lord Mayor.
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    A RED ENVOY GETS NEW JOB
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    TRADE TALKS
    11 15 B r and 3 trrnese t. are Loni aty.
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    Bridge Hands
    342 15 If you thiol, your parte er h a dope, you're entitled to you; notrump opinion. But it may be less costly to tell him so. m so many words after the ha no. is over than to announce youi conviction more subtly during the course of the auction.
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    YEMEN 'OPEN DOOR'
    37 15 Yemen officially announced a new "open door" policy towards foreign petroleum interests. Probably the lar?f s _L area m the oil-rich Middle East, the Yemen has never been explored for possible petroleum resources. A.P.
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    ISRAEL-U.K. SHIP DEAL
    49 15 ISRAEL-U.K. SHIP DEAL ISRAELI shipping n*pr» sentatlves are negotiating In London for the purchase flvf> pa.ssen^or-rargo ships v total price of about €2.000.000. according to the shipping correspondent of the News-Chronicle. It is expected that the vessel* win ply between Britain and Northern European ports and Isn el- A.P.
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    P.I. alarmed over nearby Red China
    202 15 MANILA, Thursday. IF the United States and Britain recognise Com- munist China, will they let Formosa— an hours flying distance from the North Philippines— pass inside the Red zone as an integral part of the new Chinese regime? Leaders m the Philippines, which is
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    41 15 One of three huge fish nets loaded aboard Pan-Ameri-can Airways Clippers m San Francisco recently and nown to the Fiji Islands for use m catching Tuna. The nets, made m Portugal, weighed 1,000 lbs. each, and were valued at US$l,5OO each.
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    Loan for India
    31 15 The World Bank is expected to grant India a $25,000,000 loan "within the next few weeks" to build a thermal power station ln the Damolar river valley Reuter
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    Danes' suicide, divorce rate
    287 15 HIGHEST IN WORLD: COPENHAGEN. Thursday. VI ORE people commit suicide and more people seek ITI divorce m Denmark than m any other country m the world, calculated per head of the population, according to Miss Marie Lindhardt, chief of the Ministry of Health's statistical department here.
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    Tito joke in Prague
    62 15 ACI/RRENT joke m Prague is Jiat of Czech Crown into jail for voicing pro-Tito sentiments. He meets his cell mate, who asks the reasons for his arrest. "Oh. I said something favourable al» >vi Tito.' muut the newcomer. "Why that's impossible. said the her "because I
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    METEOR CRASHES
    30 15 An R.A.F. Meteor let fls>! *> er. making a mock attack crashed into a column r»f army tanks and nubile rai l at Stamford. There were no casualties. A.P.
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      115 15 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. pfx: Ba Daar To Mv PAMLION: The l**\ On-. ODEON: Romeo and Juliet. (OEISEIM: LUTt Ol Rtt Manris < ATHA* Nava Jr« ■Tamil*. MAMAS oyon [HINDUSTAN: Sanwaria IM PIRi Mietj CENTRAI Arya ma la. PENANG ODEON: IMp Ahoy uiiw Chadiat El Wadi (Egyptian' KEX: The Gi:l
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      539 15 SINGAPORE '»w (Bl.lt NETWORK) N i^ ln 11l w«u ,«-i 11- BBC .io News »48 and 11.. metres Si iciße alld Ind bt:V Bllll]) fcmergeno news from XI. Tractor Industry* 'BBC* 8 Jack at Simpson and Hi rODAI Thai: News Programmes (BBC 10 bj from Kuala Lum- 8 -4-3 Dutch
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Nov. 24, 1949. TRIAL—OF STRENGTH
    604 16 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Nov. 24, 1949. TRIAL— OF STRENGTH (COMMUNIST trial of Mr. Angus Want United States Consul-General In Mukden, has made a lot Americana hopping ma 1 'I >erious enough 11 sell because the n 1 V d tngei oi war m the world lies m either
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    Australia Faces 'Needle' Election
    863 16  -  ARTHUR MORLEY -By BRILLIANT, literary-minded Scots-Australian and a blunt earthy IrishAustralian have begun their political light for the Prime Ministership of Australia. The Scotsman is Robert Gordon Menzies, a former barrister, who confesses to a "reasonable amount of bigotry" m favour of things Scottish. He is
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    A CONTINENT GIVES THANKS
    653 16  - A CONTINENT GIVES THANKS Colin D. Edwards By ♦TODAY is Thanks- giving Day for all Americans. Almost everyone acquainted with their literature and their customs knows that it is an important American holiday. Not everyone, however, seems to know the reason for giving thanks. For instance, a British officer recently
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    38 16 Vincent Hitchcock "El Ingles to the Spaniards— who is Britain's only matador te on holiday m South- end with his family. Here he is dressed m the finery of the Spanish bullring, with his parents and sitter, Patricia.
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    It Seems To Me
    855 16  -  POLITICO By IT OUGHT not to be long now before we hear of the changes Communist ideology has wrought with China's innumerable festivals. News from Canton is thai foreign-made clothes and the age-old long gown of the Chinese gentleman alike have given way to the short
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    JAP REPARATIONS ARRIVE THIS WEEK
    219 17 Final shipment to Malaya coiom*^ Press Staff Reporter SHIPMENT of between 300 and 400 tons of th material, representing the final delivery to Malaya out of the British bmpire allocation, is due in Singapore this week by the Ben Wyvis. chiJ^fl ?*}S P o mPS
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    30 17 picture. I EXTENSIVE damage was _i suffered by this car which was m headlong collision with another car m onnaught Drive near the Singapore Recreation Club w^terday afternoon. Free Press
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    EAST-WEST SOCIETY
    28 17 At its meeting tonight at the British Council Hall at 8.30. the East-West Society will discuss "To dance or not to dance." The public is invited.
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    RED FLAGS ON RUBBER TREES
    48 17 IPOH. Wed -Two Communi.it flags— the old ham- 1 mer and sickle one and the new Chinese Communist Government emblem— were today found tied to rubber trees m the Kampong Koh area of Sitiawan. Th? area was also strewn with Communist propaganda leaflets.
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    Payment tor tiger killings
    65 17 Free Press Staff Reporter MAN-EATING tigers m recent months have killed or injured workmen m Kuantan area, Pahang. says the Federation Government's labour report for October. These cases have been dealt with under the Workmen's Compensation Enactment. The report says that Kuantan area, once a thriving
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    38 17 r PI!E percussion band of Gan Ene Seng school in WaterX loo Street, Singapore, goes into action at the school concert which was held yesterday. The school al,o held an exhibition of art and handwork Free Press picture
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    Elections: Singapore consulted
    97 17 Elections: Singapore consulted PENANG, Wed X HE Federation Government is setting up a committee on elections and is asking for information from Singapore m view of the Colony's recent elections experience. This was disclosed m the Penang Settlement Council today m an official answer to Questions asked by Mr. M.
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    Didn't pass on tea money
    114 17 THE Singapore Third Police 1 Court magistrate, Mr. S E. Teh, yesterday bound over 41 -year-old Chia Chin Hock, of Jalan Besar. for one year, for criminal breach of trust of $350. The $350 was "tea-money entrusted to Chia to pass on to a tenant
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    3 art shows in Singapore
    90 17 3 art shows in Singapore Fre»« Press Staff Reporter THREE ail exhibitions will be opened m Singapore today. Sir Roland Braddell will open the V.M.C.A. Art Exhibit lull at the YM.C.A Orchard Road., at 5.30 pm Chinese paintings by Professor Chang Tan Nung wili be seen at the Chinese Chamber
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    JUNION CHAMBER
    43 17 A meeting to form the Singapore Junior Chamber ol Commerce will be held at the Washington Cafe m Bras Basah Road at 5.30 p.m. today. All working men between the ages of 21 and 40 are welcomed to attend this meeting.
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    34 17 picture NEARLY 2.000 people attended the Singapore Methodist Girls School annual exhibition of art and handwork yesterday. In this picture, visitors are seen inspecting: some of the very fine exhibits on show.— Free Press
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    Mt Emily pool open soon
    102 17 Mt Emily pool open soon Free Press Staff Reporter I MOUNT Emily swimming pool is expected to be open for public use aboui Dec. 1. ii was announced yes terday. Repairs are now near completion. An official statement say [that it was very difficuli keeping the pool clean m tht
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    LONDON TO SINGAPORE IN 40 HOURS
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    CONVOY PRACTICE
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    Winslow Boy on Colony stage
    525 17 rHE Stage Club gave their first of four perform--1 ances of Terence Rattigan's play, "The Winslow Boy", at the Victoria Hall last night. This is a stirring, heart-warming drama of a fathers fight for justice against the apparently heartless, impersonal and all-powerful State machine. If
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    SCHOOL HOLDS PRIZE-GIVING
    331 17 T^HE annual prize-giving ceremony of Outram School, Singapore, was held yesterday. It was followed by a drawing and handwork exhibition open to parents and guardians. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, nominated Legislative Councillor, addressed the school and Mrs. Lim presented the prizes. Prize-winners were: II A: Ist Lim
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    ALLOWANCES: S.M. C. DECIDES
    270 17 Free Press Staff Reporter r pHE cost-of-living allowance of Singapore Muni- cipal employees will remain on the present scale until the end cf the year, the Finance Committee of Municipal Commissioners has decided. Continuance of payment at the present rate has been unanimously agreed to "pending
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    KILLED BY HIS OWN ELEPHANT
    104 17 Free Press Staff K;*p.>ri r ALOR STAR. W«-c HAJI Bakar today told the Baling Coroner. Tuan Syed Mahadzir Fadaak. how an elephant keep r. V was killed by his own task* r. "I was riding w;th hin the elephant when fits :1 was caught by
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    BENG CHOON KOK ASSN.
    151 17 MR. Yeo Hock T-IJN been elected pres!J*-ru i the Beng Choon K;k U«s .<*._*.- tion. Singapore The \.<-- presidents are Ht Mf_ X* 1 Beng Sum. Lim Ban H. Chua Tiong Wah Chan 6 Ann Tan Hock San ran F H Kia. Tay Teng Hoe. md
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      39 17 MWllKm Letters and pared- an Singapore today from Siam. W. Ua, N. Borneo. Labunn. Brunei. Mm. India, and X n trom Java. Noon Is the closin*. time for mail for S. Africa. Hong Kon;: and China ma Hone Kong. >
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    111 18 —A.P. picture THIS is a model of a tower which is to be built m London a** part of the site for the Festival of Britain 1931. The summit will be devoted to a fantasy of the future. On top will be mounted an umbrella-shaped aerial for a radio telescope.
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    NG REVEALS TRAINING METHODS
    648 18  - NG REVEALS TRAINING METHODS PETER HILL Malaya's hopes for Empire Games.... 1 Concentrates on 440 yds hurdles By \JOST good athletes believe m training daily, whether or not they are m the pink of condition, but a man who does not force himself to do so is Malaya's hope m
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    University research into Malayan fruits
    121 18 pKOFKSSOR J. W. H. l.ugg of the biochemistry department of the I'niversity of Malaya, said yesterday that the department is continuing research on nutrition problems m Singapore, which was begun many years ago. Research workers have ■stimated the calcium and -xalate contents of many '.ocal
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    Empire Games series
    38 18 THIS is the first of series of articles on Malaya's six-man team to the British Empire Games to be held m Auckland. New Zealand. next February. Thr second, on Lloyd Valberg. will be niblished tomorrow.
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    FEDERAL JUDGE
    31 18 Mr F A Briggs, Regis Supreme Court has been appointed a Judge of the Ferieration Supreme Court with fleet from Nov :>8 He will be sta'ioned at Kota Bharu
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      385 18 LONDON, Thursday. THE London Stock Exchange was dull and stagnant yesterday, with a moderate amount of business bringing only a handful of price changes, says Reuter's financial correspondent. British Government funds were irregular but movements did not exceed a quarter per cent, m either direction. Once
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      French art Show for Singapore
      141 18 .< l m itv Rrportn VliOl'T 250 repcoduct famous French paintings Mid a collection ol rare .t: ancient b tokg aril] be soon In iblic exhibition sponsored by the^ Alliance Franc; Raffles Institution m B p >re n-^xt month The collection ol pair.' tons! >:
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    J.R.C. REDS' FANCIED TO WIN HOCKEY
    258 19 J.R.C. REDS' FANCIED TO WIN HOCKEY S.H.A. tourney 2nd round draw Free Press Hockey Reporter THE first round of the Singapore Hockey Association knockout competition indicates t^, at t o e _f tron gest side is Singapore Recreation liib Keds, who yesterday eliminated a formidable combination m University of Malaya
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    23 19 picture. Hobbs repulses an Army attack with a timely kick. On the left is Anderson and second from left Is Wildman Free Press
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    Ban on open road races to continue
    79 19 lion of a proposal that they should il w sseti start races on the open road next jm the .iti.uial Cyclists' Inion (Britain) have i ban uhiih has been m existence since the licule v m about the fastest thing on the road.
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    I.R.C. v. ROVERS CUP SOCCER
    141 19 INDIAN Recreation Club Rovers Sports Club '.earns meet on Saturday at Fa-re: Park for the V. O. Chida:: Memorial Cup. Teams will be selected :*->m: 1.R.1, i players to turn up adressing room by 4.45 p.m>: K. Narayana. A. Razak. S. Veloo. M. Garu. S.
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    Swedes win in Saigon
    60 19 THE Swedish football team, Halsingborg. left Saigon yesterday for Hong Kong, where it will play three matches. During a five-day visit to Saigon, the Swedish team easily won its two matches, defeating an Indo-chinese team s—o5 0 and a FrancoVietnamese team 2-1. From Hong Kong the
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    R.A.F. defence decided issue
    744 19  -  CRUSADER By R.A.F. Combined 14 pts; Army 3 pts. A RESOLUTE defence, featured by accurate kicking to touch by the outsides. decided the issue m favour of R.A.F. Combined when they met Singapore District (Army)* m their encounter m the quadrangular rugby competition last evening at
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    171 ENTRIES FOR IPOH RACES
    84 19 IPOH. Wed. A TOTAL ot 171 horses of Classes 3 and 4 have entered for the Perak Turf Club's December meeting to be held here on Dee. S, 7 and 10. Owing to this big entry, the Committee has decided to run an extra race
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    Varsity go down 2-nil
    41 19 Varsity go down 2-nil I p Istfefl Reporter %v R-<K In.vrrsiU keenly- matches the S.RL. ersity of ml m n :i <~v A>> -r.ament yes••::j*' I :.d In nd, the it to bell best D d show i-i i S Clarke
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    250 HORSES FROM U.K.
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    PLAYERS NAMED FOR DEC. 3 TRIAL
    87 19 CIINGA ORE'S hockey team O for the State games m the middle of December will be chosen after a trial on the SRC. ground on Dec. 3 at 5 p PI rs are: Browne. R. Barth. A. Clarke ii H'*n Yam. P. Coulter. B
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    Dutch XI held to 3-2 margin
    210 19 Dutch Club 3; S.C.C. Women PLAYING against a reshuffled Dutch Club side. Singapore Cricket Club women lost by the odd goal m five m a hockey match on the Padang yesterday. Most prominent, m the Dutch XI were Tresling. MathJt aud Kuiper. who kept
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    Soccer friendlies
    49 19 GUTHRIES S.C. bea' Charlton Rangers 2—l In r friendly at G- US Stadium last evening. Fook Kee and Chun Hoong scored fOC Guthries. and Ah Yap foi Rangers. Chinese Sports Association meet R.A.F. Sembawang at ng Stadium today. Tomorrow Guthries p. ay 1.C.1. XI at Farrer Park
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    WALES BEAT BELGIUM 5-1
    30 19 WALES BEAT BELGIUM 5-1 WALES beat Belgium m a .soccer international at Cardiff yesterday afternoon by five goals to one after leading by four goals to nil at half-time. -Renter.
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    SCOTLAND v. REST GOLF
    263 19 POLLOWING are the draw and starting times for the Royal Singapore Oolf Club's Scotland v. The Rest competition to be played at Bukit Timah on Sunday morning (Scotland players mentioned first): 8.00 GO. Cruickshank m J. Crichton v. J. H. Phillips W.H. Day: 8.05: R Craik
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    Penalty-bully rule enforced
    168 19 By A Special Correspondent THE enforcement of the penalty-bully rule by all A states and Settlements this year, after receipt of instructions from the Malayan Hockey Council, is behi£ watched with keen interest by followers of the came m this country. In fact the Malayan Hockey Council
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    TENGAH WIN 3-0
    32 19 In a rugger -natch played al on Road yesterday. RA F. ih) defeated the Police by brec points to nil. A C Jonea scored midway through the d half.
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    'My ribs still ache'—Mead
    115 19 'My ribs still ache'— Mead i>ETE Mead, the American middleweight who says he is giving up boxing, left Southampton for home yesterday aboard the Mauritania. People here have been "cry kind to me," Mead said. "I put up a good show against Dave Sands, but Randolph Turpin was a different
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    U.K. Rugby results
    44 19 \"ESTERDAYS U.K. Rugoy Union results were: County championship: Kent 31, Berkshire 0. (played at Blackheath); Sussex 3, Hampshire 16 (played at Hove. Other matches: Oxford Universtiy Greyhounds, 8, St. Thomaf Hospital ti: Devonport Servioei 16. Royal Naval Engineering Colletu 20. A.P.
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    C.S.C. CINEMA SHOW
    17 19 C.HN'ESE Swimming Club. Singapore, will hold an open-air cinema show tomorrow at 8 p.m
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    BRITISH BOXERS OUTCLASS BELGIANS
    170 19 A BRITT^H :unat I l> fcing team crushed Belgium vith eight straight victories n an int**rn;' f i<>nal itch li London last night, About H)00 spectators saw the Brians beat a game but thoroughly outclassed Belgian side. In the opening banJ '■>■■ Lewti a hard-htun-r Neg
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    Can Marjan account for 4th champion?
    421 19  - Can Marjan account for 4th champion? VETERAN By I THIN a period of four weeks Ismail bin Marjan, the Singapore Malay champion, has accounted for three national champions. He started with a two-set victory over S. A. Durai, the former AllIndia champion, when they clashed m the quarterfinal elf the
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    Droby wins in Sydney
    146 19 THE Czech, Jaroslav Ir**bny. won his way into tne semi-finals of the New S. _,th Wales tennis singles n.nplonship yesterday at Svdn* v. He beat the former itrerState player. Bob McCain-/, but was taken to five sett The match was larg» it battle of services. Tne
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      66 19 Today's sport HOCKEY TOURNEY: Customs B v. P.W.D., Farnr Park WOMEN'S Si: VIA -A -SIDEHOCKEY, SRC. ground: It A S«-letar v. R.A.F. Changi It* team. 5.15 p.m.: S.C.C. 3rd tram v. S.C.C. 2nd team. MS p.m. HOCKEY FRIENDLY: 8.0.D. v. Harlequins. 8.0.D. giound. RUGGER: St. Andrew** School. Past Boys v.
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    Catholic-Islam joint front?
    137 20 CatholicIslam joint front? VATICAN CITY. Thurs. POSSIBILITY of the world's 200 million Muslims and 400 million Catholics forming a joint front against Communism is seen by the Catholic news agency Fides, mouthpiece of the Congregation for the Propagation of ihe Faith. Saying that the isolation of the Muslim world is
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    MURDERED THE GIRL HE LOVED
    79 20 WAHN (Germany). Thur_. ROYAL Air Force Cp Douglas Ingray of Luton England, was convicted by i rouxt-martla] ol murdeiini his German sweethi beautiful Eufrier Blerschwhom the 34-year-old rai said he M loved very nuch." The death senttno In_*ray— mandatory on of murder— Ls sub.'er' ;on
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    KWANGSI CAPITAL FALLS TO REDS
    363 20 Pres. Li rejects Chiang 'splea HONG KONG, Thursday. If WEILIN. the capital of Kwangsi Province, fell to Communist forces yesterday, according to Chinese reports, as the exodus of Communist-threatened Chungking, the Nationalist emergency capital, continued apace. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's emissaries have evidently failed to sway
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    62 20 picture. Italian artist Ciro Rogusa is wen preparing his painting. which will be exhibited along with 70 others including the works of other Italian painters such as Gatti, Emanuele, Domenici. Natali and Gragnoli m the Grill Room of Raffles Hotel from 11 a.m. today. The exhibition will remain open from
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    U.S. WOMEN FOR PEKING
    65 20 A GROUP o! American Women headed by Mrs. Paul Robeson, wife of the Negro singer, has left New York for an Asian Women's Conference m P*kin« capital of the Peoples (Communist) n .o'.i 1 M.> Robeson Is vice-chair-man of the Congress f a me rican Women
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    19 20 A Pakistan delegation is expected m Frankfurt on Dee. 1 to negotiate a hade agreement with Western Germany. Reuter
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    Muscovites wonder
    85 20 JLSCOVITES' minds turned to Russia's series of '▼-.claims m recent months to being first" m discoveries inventions and sports, when the Communist newspaper. Pravda. yesterday attacked party and state officials for falsifying accounts and statistics m an at-S-u create an appearance of prosperity. These abuses were possible "because
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    N. BORNEO TALK
    31 20 Mr. J. D. Coiebourn will sive a talk on "North, Borneo as seen by a District Officer" at the Atlanta Club St Margaret's school, at 5 pm today.
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    T.U.C.'s conditions to Government
    179 20 LONDON, Thursday. JUL General Council of the powerful Trades Union Congress yesterday approved the Government \s wage freeze policy but asked for special "incentive payments" for increased production for low paid workers and insisted that the cost of living be kept down. The TUC. whose 8.000.000
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    Labour plan toned down
    54 20 Labour plan toned down LONDON. Thurs. BRITAIN'S ruling Labour Party yesterday tonea down its plan to force state ownership of the nations large insurance companies. It will demand only mutual ownership by policy holders of such concerns if it wins the forthcoming general election the party's National Executive announced after
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    Red Tibet would threaten Nepal
    186 20 LONDON, Thursday. THE declared Communist intention to invade Tibet is seen* here as a threat to Nepal, the land of the fighting Gurkhas, designed to cause Gurkha troops now m Malaya. Hong Kong and the Indian Army to demand their release and repatriation m order
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    Attending to women
    63 20 BERLIN. Thurs. WHEN a barber cuts a woman's hair. he should hide all mirrors and not let her see the cuttings on the floor. Thi s advice was given to Berlin beauty parlour managers at a lecture given by Josef Broenninghaus, a travelling expert. He explained. "The
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    MORE SOVIET MOM EXPLOSIONS?
    47 20 Th.- London Daily Graphic reported yesterday that "tnere have been four Soviet trial explosions of atom bombs between July 10 and October l. The report which gave no source added that the Russians are now manufacturing one atom bomb even six weeks. U.P.
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    ALARM FITTER WAS BURGLAR
    104 20 TOKIO, Thursday. yOU just do not know whom to trust these days indignantly said Kazur 0 Fujii as h e filed suit for %.000 yen m a district court here yesterday against Yoshikane Nakamoto. Fujil said that he had hired Nakamoto to instal a burglar alarm
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    Unrepentant private
    31 20 LONDON. Than. A PRIVATE told a court- mart i. 1 1 at Farnhorough. Hampshire. "I am corrupting the army far more rapidly than the army is reforming me." Reuter
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    Dutch top men going to Indies
    134 20 Dutch top men going to Indies THE HAGUE. Thiiis THE Dutch Foreign Mai Mr. U. Stikker. and th*Deputy Premier. Mr. J. VV. R. van Schaik. are expected to leave for Indonesia on s day According to an ufHci_U spokesman the purpjs* of their trip was "to stand b> when sp^dy
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    '5% MEN' PROBED
    89 20 LONDON PftUH BRITAIN is investigating ti;.- "fhv percent contact men who earn sovernment .avourt for private interests.. A report On quiry will be published so >r The investigation p of charges made at a public j inquiry m: i alleged orruption among a few novenir* officials early
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    CYCLONE ALARM
    28 20 India ts Installing a powerful modern radio-sound sta. tion at Port Blair, m the Andaman Islands, to give warning of cyclones Ln -he Indian ocean. Reuter
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    RED & DROPS
    39 20 RED DROPS THE Jen mm piao (Communist China dollar) on the unofficial market m Shanghai is reported to have dropped to 1.400 to HK$l while the price of rice has risen to 95.000 jen mm plao per picul. Reuter
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    FESTING BETTER
    36 20 The War Office ln London disclosed yesterday that Lt neral F w. Festtng, commander of the Hong Kong forces, is recovering from an llnesi which forced hi;.-, to urn home seven weeks .go. A.P.
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