The Singapore Free Press, 13 January 1950

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950. PKll't 111 I fr.MM
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  • 351 1 Acheson on Asia policy WASHINGTON, Friday. JJI'SSIA is taking large territories from China and attaching them to the Soviet Union, the T.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, charged yesterday. Mr. Acheson s;ml that the attachment of Manchuria to Russia is now virtually complete,
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  • 43 1 HEAVY RAID ON S'HAI KONG, Fri. Nationalneed last B heavy air mist-held d hit eleven waterfront .'.ames. to Ipa in the) me on fire. ships in damaged anmouth of the md set five er ind >ig s po; ick- I a. SO b
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  • 28 1 IS I j d in the last 24 ..jm the 40 Of i be ex gtrea f i I of is In J Reuter
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  • 12 1 BRABAZON'S TEST FLIGHTS too Bi I* irg< st comtlantic i M before
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  • 17 1 KONG, Thur- 1 that hinese t\ Lindfd in \m<-ko. pre--1 hi nor iII iv Reuter
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    22 1 Elizabeth McGee. elected at Spartanburg. South Carolina, as the 1950 Maid of Cotton. She is 19 and 5 feet 6 inches tall
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    34 1 pARTOdNS slogans \j criticising the delay of the Benham Committee in producing its report on revision of salaries were displayed at a meeting of Singapore Government Servants yesterday. Report in pate six. Free Press
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  • 218 1 £7½-m. Empire loan to aid Burma rice COLOMBO, Friday. BURMA would get a Commonwealth loan of £7,500,000 if the conference of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers carry out a project to aid her rice production, reliable sources »aid here last night. Burma would draw the money from the London fund of blocked
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  • 46 1 FURTHER DELAY IN REFERENDUM Sardar H. Malik. India's Ambassador to France, yesterday forecast a further delay in the referendum to determine the future of Pondlcherry. Karlkal, Yanron and Mahe. the four French possessions in India. The referendum, due last December, had been postponed for two months.—
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  • 209 1 71 ENTOMBED IN SUNK SUB LONDON, Friday. 4 T least 71 British sailors lay entombed this morn--11 ing in the sunken submarine Truculent, rammed by a Swedish ice-breaking freighter in the Thames estuary. Five men in the conning tower— including the commander— were rescued by a Dutch ship's lifeboat. The
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  • 170 1 CHURCHILL IS BACK TO LEAD FIGHT LONDON. Fri. MR WINSTON CHURCHILL arrived back in England yesterday, giving up the las: four days of his winter holidays in Madeira, to lead his Tory forces in perhaps the last big political battle of his lifetime. The 75-year-old Conservative leader wa s plainly
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  • 61 1 A CRIME wave swept over A Nanking during December 'due to the worsening economic situation," delayed reports from Red China say. Nankin^ police disclosed that during the past six months 2,500 persons nad been arrested as a result of 1.300 crimes. Many crimes were never reported
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  • 53 1 1 TWELVE of 22 Chinese naval cadets, who arrived in Hong Konjj from England after completing a threevear training course, have gone over to the Chinese Communists. Police escorted the 13 to the border wh?re they crossed over into Red China. The vUier cadets boarded a fhip
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  • 98 1 RICE TALKS TO BEGIN 'SOON' Free Press Stall Heporter THE Economic Adviser to the Federation Government. Mr. Heywood wa.-, dington. and the Fede:ation Controller of Supplies Mr. A. W. Nicholson, wiil represent both Singapore i and tht> Federation at the rice talks that will take place in Siam shortly. The
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  • 26 1 FRENCH dockers in Marseilles stopped work yesterday when they discovered they were loading arms and munitions for Indo-China on an Italian ship. A.P.
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  • 16 1 Senora Penon. wife of the Argentine President. was taken to hospital yesterday. Reuter
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  • 64 1 TWO Constabulary soldiers, looking for two missing American professors in the wild mountain country north of Baguio In the Philippines, have themselves been missing for three days and ground and air search parties are now looking for them too. The two professors are missing since December
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  • 49 1 A "SUN VALLEY" of the East on top Phu Khadung. Siam's highest plateau (1,300 ft.) in the north-east, with outside communication by air, is in the making. Complete with airport, the health resort is being developed by the Government to attract holiday makers.- A.P.
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  • 25 1 Police seized 40 grenades in a European quarter of Asmara yesterday. On Wed nesday they found 32 gren ades In a house.- Reuter
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  • 232 1 NEW YORK, Friday. THE Chinese Nationalist delegate to the Security Council. Dr. T. F. Tsiang, whose expulsion is demanded by the Soviet Tnion, yesterday agreed to step down from the Presidency M. Jacob Malik, the Soviet delegate, who walked out on the Security Council meeting on
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  • 61 1 y AKI HACHEM, an KgypIj tia.ii economist at the I'nited Nations who reportedly lost his fiancee to Kins Farnuk. said in Athens last night that he will become Egypt's Minister to Russia this spring. Hachem said recent ♦•vents in Cairo which led to the breaking of his
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  • 99 1 LETTERS THREATEN U.K. MEN TAIPEH Fri ANTI-BRITISH demonstiaJl tions in Nationalist-h-ld Formosa took a new turn sterday when anonymous letteri were delivered to the British Consulate branch ottice and to the British Immigration Office in Taipeh the capital. The letter to the Consulate ordered officials to haul down the British
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  • 82 1 NEW YORK. Fri. WALL STREET'S sevenmonth bull market had its first serious setback yesterday, taking the largest over-all loss in 14 months. About US$l,5OO millions was loppea off the market value of all stocks listed on the NewYork Exchange. The selling wave came with no warning
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  • 26 1 A Japanese fishing trawler is reported to have been machine-gunned and captured about 60 miles southwest of Cheiu Island, in South Korea.- A.P.
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  • 25 1 Indian Government representatives and a Persian economic mission have agreed that India and Peisia should enter into a Itetoy of r^mmerce and navigation.
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  • 20 1 More than 50,000 Hyderabad workers went on strike yesterday for higher wages and cost of living allowances.
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  • 128 1 U.K. may break blockade HONG KONG, Fn UfHILE reports in Tokio yesterday stated that British authorities were getting ready an armed jonvoy at Hong Kon^ t f > oroceed to Shanghai and break the Nationalise olockade. shipping lines in the Colony said they Knew nothing ol and strongly doubted this.
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  • 78 1 THREATS of a curfew uiui pos.-ibie press censorship were made yesterda;' by a Government officer in Aeei~, i capital of the British Go'.d rcoast colony in West Alntv. where a state of emergency came into force on Wecr.■ht. Steel-heimeted pol .'.ed Accra emergency powers to disperse
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  • 31 1 I ernal matters o: sation and adminis'r only were discussed at meeting of the Food aiid Agriculture Organic. Committee on comr. problems which was heir, In Washington yesterday Reuter.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 178 1 pfHVf YOUR RADIO BUSH V.6 a I PACK-UNIT A SIGHT RADIO Co. C I DtKLOPMiNT IN TH€ 7R€A7M€N7 Oj^ O INDIGESTION »iItOCOL' is widely prescribed by the medical profession. It Is generally -jgT^l J recognised that by the introduction of the principle of Acid Control Alocol' marks l?*Tt ry^N a
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    • 33 1 for the best Food G Wine in Tow Visit THE SINGAPORE RESTAURANT bAF 79, BRASBASAHKOAD Reservations; Phone 4Otit- ofe\ There's a/ways 1%l TIME I I mm FOR A TIGER in pints and quarts
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  • 392 2 THE BUTTON THATMATCHES ANY DRESS A CHAMELEON-LIKE plastic dress button, which will pick up and reflect any shade of its own particular colour, la being produced and marketed in Australia. Australian women like the Beutron Opal-Glo" button b cause it saves them the trouble of finding the cor- shade of
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  • 479 2  - '49 fashions' 50 won't oust IRIS ASHLEY —By— ll'f 1 are bey inning to feel like the little bird who flew ft backwards because he didn't care where s< he was going. He 8 only wanted to see where he had been. >> All because we fear a r> seen
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  • 223 2 A HOME NURSING CAMPAIGN *THE St. John Ambulance Association In Australia has undertaken a campaign to train Australian women in home nursing With the co-operation of the Australian Red Cross Society, the Association aims to train one member of everv family In home care of the sick to help relieve
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  • 199 2  - Mere man now sets fashion Amy Landreeth Says mjT for the war the drab-suited British business man in his colour range of navy, greys and bog browns, would be a thing of the past according to Robert F. Wilson. Art Director of the British Colour Council, whose colour lor 1950-plans
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  • 169 2 HERE ;ire DlOtt Worn ItMMti.*- A fibre d r mat that li worn at U ends ran b» repaired I t farther lease of I::--backing trlttl a piece Of cl I or hrsitin and bringing 11 (iv» r tu bind the edges. Broken gla^. A taf< of picking
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  • 107 2 Ingredients: BtCWed apples; stale brea<i one teaspoon or more of margarine: liule sugar; whipped cream (from evaporated mitt or tii rream > Method: Melt the margarine and add about a cupful of crumbs from crap oven-dried brea i Turn tht crumbs in the margarine over a verv \am
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 58 2 ********************11l Morning afternoon I dresses in a variety of I I attractive materials. I Still nothing over $25. I V 1 1 D'Almeida St-, Singapore. CATHAY HAIRDRESSERS MISS PEGGY HOPKINS BEAUTICIAN AND HAIRSTYLIST LATE OF MAISON "CORONET" is now with us and will be glad to welcome all her old
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    • 157 2 AFTERiJ Aif ANI) 0/ n |H e EVENING DRESSES,,, 6/">O V MATERIALS STyi[ 278. OROURI, TKL. 4748 V 1/ V o^/iilt PERFUMES MISCHIEF gay, tudaaout, Kvewtm MEAVEit ..the perfume men love women to u Ca r. )UME the soul oft thoj IMIUI riHiiMEi rtcC4»iiu the Si> J i vipiohc V
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 41 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR j^ORN today, you are fond of power and money. You will work unbelievably hard in youth to "make your pile" so that later on you may enjoy the kind of power you want. This may make you I
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    • 144 2 sound like a harsh person. You are. when it comes to business matters. Rut in >our own home, you are kind, loving and unit to give those you love the best there is in life. Your industry is the type that should be working for your own benefits rather than
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    • 262 2 F.P. Crossword No. 892 IE mr :|H 16 l7 n8 3^ S P* >p P»*;_ fe VJMZM^ 1 i b ?9 l n t am across l Helli&n (8»; < Rousts <6>. 9 Issue <6^; 11 Surpass i3> !n r; S rt (4): 14 Experiment is>. 16 Weaken (3.; 17
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    • 52 2 The same afternoon, Penny's father sees Kom playmit with a fountain pen. -Quick! Take it from him before he squirts ink over every* ihmK. 1 cries Penny t mother. wonder," says Penny's lather. whether he could (jell me wher« my cull l.r.hs are.' Do you set who 3 ■Mining at
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  • 216 3 Americans give their opinion A MERICANS do not believe that India can malatain her policy of neutrality for long, Sir C P Kamaswamy Iyer, former Prime Minister of Travancore and a delegate to th e recent Indo- American Conference in New Delhi, said here Most
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  • 48 3 BERLIN. Fri. ray you can ars that spit fire ravins, according Army newspaper. I dsrhau. was complaining on sale in ration-free the Soviet .:> real traini for prospective Run <ohau In full barmlesa specred with these i They spit the place and a A.P.
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  • 15 3 niment to have approved Coy lon r ia by Ail l> jrkm.
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  • 12 3 Hyderabad .01 office as •constitutional n India bri F Reuter
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  • 137 3 MUNICH, Friday. revolt is brewing in Bavaria a revolt insi the hick tax on beer. 'ins biu 9OUth German stato they brew and drink nv > hee r than an v place else in the world. Now. the Bav., crumble that they cannot afford enoueh
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  • 39 3 SYDNEY, F;i. QNE of the victims in the v recent heat wave over parts of Australia was a 70--year-old labourer who died while working in the Broken Hill cemetery The temperature was 120 degrees Reuter AAP
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  • 51 3 Hyderabad State and Indian* Union troops recently the maintenance ol essential services in the twin citiej of Hyderabad and Sc nderabad. Electricity and water supplier are atfect*»d by a Socialist -so. >r.sored gem-nil strike for higher wages in which 1")C()O municipal and other m "-k^rs arp participatinf.
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  • 71 3 TRIBESMEN IN PUBLIC DEB ATE GRIM -FACED tribt-a:: with heads swathed in flowiru turbans, voted with in and British In [zadan 3 t public debate of oce on Nlgj :on Fifty delegates from all parts of Nigeria, including two Britona took o:trt in the debate on a draft constitutional review
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  • 60 3 A STORM of United States r\ protest was developing over the possibility of Canada cutting into the American wheat markets in Germany and Japan, the Montreal Star says. Canada and Australia together may win the new market for 30.000,000 bushels Ifl the former enemy countries
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  • 99 3 BERLIN. Friday VOU have to have a lump of lead if you want to buy stockings in some Ea.st German cities. Guste Zoerner, an East Berlin housewife, complained to the Communist paper. Neuos Deutschland. that she could not i;et stockings without delivering some non-ferrous metals,
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  • 49 3 Manila studies defence plans r FHE Philippines armed A forces General S<aff met recently in Manila to Uiscuss streamlining the nation's lighting strength for emergency purposes. The meeting took up plans to revise the national defence structure in the light of the increasing danger to the Republic's security. Reuter
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    305 3 Wlvn you have a hand in which th*re ar«- many poesib;? choices, the only way to decldf which bid is be>: is to look ah»- id a* least one round. Ev< n then, thai part .<-';!ar rf^a!. sonvo;d rra; produe*- a superior re^'.jlt. but you canr.o' juck<- bv
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  • 123 3 LONDON, Friday. BRITISH housewives are searching shops for pepper to put on their tables. You can get it for two shillings an ounc<» if vou know where," said one woman who before the war dropped into her urocer's shop and bought an ounce for a
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    36 3 French Army officers Heft) talk with high-ranking Chinese Nationalist officers (centre) at Chimor. after the latter had crossed into Indo-China in flight from the Reds. The Chinese in centre suffers from a head wound.- A.P. pnoio
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  • 35 3 Pan-American World Airways lia.s said that 40 paasengetl had been marooned at the abandoned Monrovia. United States air force base in Liberia <West Africa*, while awaiting a new engine for their plane.- UP.
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  • 241 3 HOBAKT, Tasmania, Friday. 4 BRIEF radio flash, sent from the Antarctic waste will announce the success or failure— of the second French 'Commandant Charcot" expedition some time in the next few weeks. Heavily provisioned and with a band of 'expert*' passengers skilled t o undertake
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  • 58 3 HOLLYWOOD, Fri D ACK in 1942, Jack Beutel arrived in Hollywood to crash the movies Within three weeks he got a break He was signed to play Billy the Kid in the "Outlaw.** with Jane Russell Beutel rightly considered himself lucky Seven years later he is still
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  • 193 3 Neu tra lity, best bet for Japan TOKIO. Frida> I\K. Ryolchi Taoka. authority on international law. thinks that th P best piarantee for Japans future security is to be found in permanent neutrality, which should be formally recognized, approved and backed by as many of the bis powers as possible
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  • 29 3 The Korean Ambus.sad >: Mr John Mvun Chane asked President Truman f< r additional United BUtef a d to develop Korra"s Air V and Naw A P
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  • 24 3 Colonial officials of six nations bmft n\e\ in Par:> to plan means of exploi the untapped wealth of Af rica A.P
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  • 299 3 Scientist seeks new cure for Egypt's scourge CAIKO, Friday. A BRILLIANT young British research worker. Dr. D. G. Davey, is devoting himself to the task of finding a new cure for a disease which, at a conservative estimate, affects some 250,000 000 of the world's population. A 37-year-old Welshman Dr.
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  • 100 3 THE PIG WAS DEAD DRUNK US» I i JTARMER Fonseca. oi 6 near Penao- farm with his 1 pick olives He 1 j.l h'.i pig in the melon**? i i minute the larm- back v »s turned the pi« mun open the door >f ihe store and wi'h ti: urned
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  • 43 3 U.S. MILITARY AID VOTED (IONGREBS h.. the Un.tf'd erameni to spend si.ioowi UOO on foreign m ii'arv iid between Jun- M 1950 Jon* :>,n 1951 Ol this $645 000 000 U North coij.itries From the rM55.*****0 aid and Turkf^v and •fuppl^m^ntarv all Reuter
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  • 16 3 QUIRINO GOING TO HOSPITAL PSIDENT 3 1 In gpj (j lirino 1 I ler tricks U.P.
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  • 28 3 dead '•rr-tr. .>: band i 1 r tnd Kabotmcc brought b\ band from France Barcekma polio ihe band tried untfu« bl'jw ui k overlaui cabl« > Reuter
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  • 20 3 The Australian Poi O i s preparing radio-te!ephon« j !*'sis with Indonesia and between Sydney and Bonib.iv Reuter
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    • 45 3 Nescafe j> i Cup <■ i Nescafe -CAPITOL-Td-norrow at MIDNIGHT COLUMBIA'S PAPERS FROM ENGLAND AIR MAIL 45 cts. h I Telegraph 45 cts. Weekly 1. 00 cts Weekly 70 cts Weekly 70 cts "s*s Review Weekly 1 00 cts KE^Y 4 WALSH LTD ■■We* Plurr Sin^npor*
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    • 36 3 PLAIN TABLE GLASS WARE n I < X CHAMPAGNE $18.00 per doz. i I CURET $14.50 m COCKTAIL $10.75 M SHLRRY S 9.50 &r^ m UQUEUR 9.00 M PORT 9.50 H w ]l MAIM CiASIT Hil« CRAMDACHI
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 122 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. PAVILION: Tul-a. KF\: Oi.e Down To The flea In ship Sundav Afternoon. ;>i»LO\: The Cay Lady. COUSIUM: Sky Haiders. CATHAY: Treasure Of Sierra Madre. MAUIIAS: Lilo and Death (Mandarin). J MPIKI- Chandraleka (Ta.n,l> HINDI STAN: Anmol GhuJl tHindi CENTRAL: Velaikarl i Tamil* PBNANC odeon: The Rorrincc
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    • 574 3 ciwr'ADr^PP Music of Bern?rd Herman; 00 AIISTRAI JA OlJM<j/\r<~Jl\£. What Governnunt Department V ttUOinni-i/^ BILF NtTWOKK) Ate Doin 8: 8 30 American Fav-, lODAV dm .nH II "Jm ountes; 9.00 Much Binding in the 1 I*l ana n.rf meire> Manto; 9.45 Music through the 10 30 a.m. News Bulletin; 10.40
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  • 521 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY Jan 13. 1950. PACT FADES AGAIN I|EOPLES living as we^do in isU under i C :on or i lmay be Isappoin Commonreign ministers at c «nt i h tve lecWed that Pacific Pact along Mie i s ol the Atlantic Pact la i tortune. Bu
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  • 1063 4  - When Stalin Dies, Watch Out For Malenkov ERIC BOURNE I By RUMOUR has buzzed persistently around some Mast European capitals these last lewweeks thai Stalin intends to retire from titular office. Those who profess to believe there might be something in this rumour reason this way: Stalin, they say, has
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    23 4 A portrait of beautiful Avouk. 17-year-old French film star utw plays the part of Anna in •Golden Salamander" which is coming to Singapore.
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  • 484 4  -  Clifford Hulme -By- oesides p laying pok e r and the piano. President Truman can play the patient tortoise that beats the hare. As a result, a year after his stunning election miracle, he has emerged from the smoke and dust of his first Congress
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    12 4 ,1 Fokkir named Burmah, known for his prolonocd fasts for several days.
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  • 751 4  - By 1957, Ten Million Australians Arthur Morley By F who writes the fourth outspoken Commonwealth survey. BRITAIN may be deprived of food by the dazzlingly-suc-cessful attcmpl of Ihe Australian Governmen! (o attract emigrants from the Hiilish Isles ;iii<l Europe. The emigrants are coming now. in immense numbers. More than 170,000
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  • 185 4 Letter to the Editor L we learn that the allocation for import of Japanese goods under the new trade agreement with Japan, which has already been discussed for a month by the Secretary for Economic Affairs and representatives of Singapore, Chinese. and Indian Chambers of Commerce,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements

  • 359 5 S'PORE HOLDS FISH GRAB INQUIRY A lleged buying for Services Free Press Staff Reporter INVESTIGATIONS into allegations that Singapore contractors to the armed Services are making a bid for fresh fish in wholesale markets are to be made jointly by the Fisheries Department and the Food Control Department. 1 The
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    36 5 picture SINGAPORE Government employers met in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday to protest against delay in mmpletini; the Bennam Committee report to pay revision. Picture shows a .section of the meeting. Report in Page Free Press
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  • 94 5 Kallang move a success Pna StufT Reporter in one month tir ConstelKalianu airport, ..orities said this re com- vrv wav. K.1.M.. I :f Mustard, said port time and exbeen rfduced. kence and comers have been tnutea from town re than one and irs difference to friends off catr bv KL
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  • 12 5 'LOST CARD IN COFFEE SHOP' •HE BAIiRL" I I t he 1
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  • 336 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 'IMIE sub-committre appointed by the Singapore Improvement Trustees to investigate "hlfh rents" charged by the Improvement Trust has submitted an interim report and asked for certain directions from the Board of Trustees. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, chairman of the Trust and
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  • 162 5 MEANS TEST TO DECIDE RELIEF SINGAPORE Social Welfare Department has founa 'the means test of great assistance in determining whether people seeking financial relief should be given help or not. The acting Secretary of the Department, Mr. T. Eames Hughes, said yesterday that it was expected in Singapore J that
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  • 173 5 Free Press Staff Reporter iii. Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce plans to spend about $250, 000 on a new building replace its 40-year-old building in Hill Street. It will not only house the staff of the Chamber Commerce but will probably house one or two Tires
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    79 5 iAMSERS of the "Malayan Peoples' Anti-Bandit KJ lonth" met in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday when I for the campaign were discussed. The meeting; was under the chairmanship of Mr. I). Watherston. the Secretary for Defence (top of table). On his left i^ Mr. R. G. K. Thompson, Assistant Secretary in
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  • 53 5 SEGAMAT. Thurr— "l have been ill for a long limn. I have i no money, and prefer gaol," said 53-year-old Llew Hln fined $K with the option of a day'i imprisonment a< Se- 1 gamai for failure »to produce his identify card. liew waa helped Into Cc \r\
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  • 19 5 .•-re today frrom the Yv l I GP < noon fur Palen-bang I 4=> pjn PMcraUon; and »j um.
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  • 11 5 The v.ar'v registration for tricycle* in Johore is $12.
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  • 104 5 Free Pr«'s> Staff Kepci i; r pHE Singapore Oovernmt 1 yesterday refuted rumours that there is a shortage of sugar in the Colony and that the position is expected to worsen in the near future. These rumours, says an official statement, •'undoubtedly originate from speculators." The Government say?
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    28 5 picture. IMIE Yanjj di-Pertuan Besar of Nesri Semhilan ipeiiol the Children's Home. Seremban. on Jan. 11. Picture shows him inspecting two crippled scouts of the Home. i P.R.
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  • 140 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rHE Commissioner for Labour in Singapore, Mr. R. P. Bingham, told the Fr e e Pres s this morning that he hoped recruitment of staff to enforce the Weekly Holidays Ordinance, would take )lace within the next month. 'Some firms are
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  • 80 5 'FHERE will be i ceremonial 1 opening of the Singapore Assizes on Monday. At 10 a.m. the usual service will be held at St. Andrew's Cathedral, which the bench. the bar and legal officers will attend. At 10.45 a guard of honour, provided by the Singapore Police,
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  • 311 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE and the Federation will soon be able to get all their supplies of BCG vaccine from Hie Philippines. A §450.000 laboratory is being built in Manila to produce this anti-tuberculosis vaccine for the Philippines and faf other Far Eastern
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  • 68 5 THREE of the h Chinese c^ubs in I eluding industrial; miHiona;- hold a dinner on Sunday to celebrate lomatic relationship be ihe United Kingdom and Uie Peoples Republic ot Ch. They are the Ee Ho I Club the Goh Loo Club ranjonj Rhu Club. Cover* wul
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 66 5 Whether it's a tete-a-tete or cocktails with the crowd fhese are truly fashionable Printed American Voile: In soft Greens with flowered patterns, In Blues. Pinks and Reds. In Spots and gay florals. In 38 and 45" widths. English Printed Crepe: In florals of all shades and designs 36 in width.
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    • 44 5 TEASETS! Decorated 22 piece Pea sel^ of he^t qualit) earthenware, in Powder Green Pattern, are no* available* Composition of sets 6 ("iips and Saucers <> Plates I each Sugar Bowl, Milk Jug. Tea Pot and Cake Plale. Price $21.50 per net ROBINSONS RAFFLES PLACE S'PORE
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  • 496 6 MASS RALLY ATTACKS GOVT. ON PAY Speed-up in report urged Free Press Staff Reporter A BOUT 3,000 members of Singapore Government employees' trade unions rallied in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday and protested against the "unsympathetic, inconsiderate" manner in which revision of their salaries had been handled by commission and
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    65 6 ASCEME from the play "Sacrifice" to be presented by the Indian Fine Arts Society in Singapore this weekend. Miss Eugenie Thivy. (the beggar girl), is distressed by the slaughter of her goat, while K. P. A. Menon (King Govinda) and A. M. Cheriam (the temple servant) look on helplessly. The
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  • 136 6 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs C^HONG CHIN NAM com- mander of the 26th Ini dependent Company of the MPABA. was shot dead yes- terday by a patrol of the 1 1 10th Gurkha Rifles in the vicinity of Kuala Krau in Pahang. He had a reward $10,000 on his
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  • 482 6 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. F^LECTION uncertainty in the London Stock J Exchang resulted i" only small business being done yesterday in domestic issues, movements being generally to lower levels. This trend is likely to ontinue until after the polls. Some observers are expecting a revival
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  • 55 6 WANTED RUBBER 'TO MAKE FIRE' JOHORE BAHRU Th irs. Charged under the Emergency Regulations with unlawful possession of five kattles of rubber at Swee I. am Estate Chin Cheon? was rin^d 150 In the Sessions Court today. Chin Chfong told the court that he lathered the rubber for making a
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  • 90 6 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (fodowns in brackets' were: Main Wharf: Lan«!«?sot (S5-M1 Bencruachao (38-39i. Chart! P:bul i4O-41 Tegelberg (42-43*. Wml Uhaif: Bendoran lf-7), Taksang 9 Tamerlane fll). Olenyyle 13-14 >. Empire Dork: Mande%ill« (17- -18 1 o/arda '19-JO>. rantalui '2'28' Shrris Whatf M.* E
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    58 6 FLOATING crane with a JO- ton lift owned by a Singapore stevedoring and transportation company, loading cargo from ibe wharf at Teluk Aver for Pakan Baroe yesterday. The crane has facilitated the loading and discharging of heavy cargo from vessels in the Singapore Roads which cannot be handled
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  • 239 6 ryUE chief instructor of the Kuala Lumpur Flying 1 Club. Mr. Anthony Glassborow. who piloted the Auster aircraft in which he crashed to his death near Kuala Lumpur on No\. IS, last year, changed seats in the air with his passenger Mrs. Barbara Cooper,
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  • 98 6 f pHE Reprvsenta 1 I I 1 G' v^rnir.ent of Ind;a J. A. Thivy. has askfd a!i Indian Chambers of Commerce associations and firms to fly the Singapore or FVderu alongside r)^ Indian nag <-n Jan. 26. irheo the Republic of India comes Into being. Is
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  • 98 6 Free PNh MafT Reporter KIWI A U MIMK. lhiMxd.o 4 1 THE invitation wi the Fedtration a (io\ernments, the .Win Educationa I to the Secretary of State for ttw oloiit- M i H. Clwilliam. will visit MaUyj this month Miss Gwilliair.. who is at present
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  • 17 6 HELP FOR ORIENTAL STUDIES Free I'm-*-. Sta KUALA THE B PIJ I Mu!u\ »n by One n
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    • 241 6 m3ndr3KG Exclusive to Uw Sin^upore tree Press in Malaya r 1I TH£ DRinßr -A TOUGH- L 00KIN6 I[* TAT TOO." SAYS MANOAAKE.*THAT I f NEVER MINO I I I'VE A MUNC«~" I BIRO WITH TATTOOING ON HIS MUST BE THE MAN I HAO A FRACAS THE ShAALL WEtl HAV* TO
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  • 674 7  - SERVICES XV FANCIED TO WIN FINAL CRUSADER But Selangor can surprise By ALL-COXQUERING Combined Services are no doubt favourites for the final of the H.M.S. Malaya rugby competition tomorrow against Selangor at Kuala Lumpur but, having once been bitten, I would not dare venture a prediction as to the outcome.
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  • 438 7 fdsgdfs ALFIE Sands, who arrived here by air from A^ Australia yesterday fo r hi s fight against Bobby Njoo at the Happy World arena on Jan. 20, looks a little different from his brother Dave, but the two brothers have the same
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  • 61 7 A MENDMENTS to tootball .eu&ue fixtures for tomorrdw are: In Third Division t Northern» Doncaster Rovers meet Stockport County. These clubs met at Stockport on i Sept. 10. 1949 owing to the St. Leger being run that &a\ at Doncaster Midweek fixtures: Wednesday. Jan. 18: International match
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  • 83 7 JOL DAVIS, retired world sno k- r champion, playing against George Cbenier, Canadian champion, in an exhibition match in Newcastle yesterday had a break of 137. This was only lour points *>rf his world record ma tie last year. Davis had one visit to the
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  • 111 7 THE great Citation, one Ol the worlds leading thoroughbreds, returned to th«- n esterdaj at Bants Anita, Califoi ua, altei «n absence from the lurl or 13 month! and flashed U an length-and-a-half irtcton iro.u a field or four, for a >5 '.eO purse The champion took
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  • 60 7 TJIV1Y MONAGHAN Will neea about three monhs before defending his world's ftrweight title, his manager said >n Wednesday Monaghan has oeen ordered by the European Boxing Union to meet Honore Pratesi of France. The champion has been .'.ui f ering from cataarh and bronchitis. Jack Cappell
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  • 317 7 '50-50 CHANCE'. SAY S K.L. Free Press Staff Torres undent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. prospects for tomorrow's rugby final might be put into two words "fifty-fifty." though there will be scores (outside the State) ready to make it ten to one on a Services victory. The low rating Selantror Will get
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  • 58 7 THE Commonwealth tourist.s arrived in Kanpur (United Provinces*, by air yesterday from Benares for the fourth unofficial Test against India beginning tomorrow. Ray Smith and J. Pettiford taken ill in Calcutta did not accompany the team. They are expected today but 1t is doubtful if thev will
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  • 34 7 VyALTER Donaldson led Kin^sVV ley Kennerley by 30 frames to 18 at the close of play yesterday in their world professional snooker championship quarterfinal. The match is being playea 1 1 Bolton. Lancashire.- Reuter
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  • 137 7 1 >KI 101 S .-suits of II MS Malaya tourney finals »<ie: 1921-22: Selangor i>t. Singapore 5—3. 1922-23: IVrak bt. \ttgri Sembilan 3—o. 1923-24: Selangor v. Spore (rain stopped play). 1924-25: S'pore bt. SeUngor 30—13. 1925-26: S'pore bt. Perak 18—3 1926-27: Perak bt. VS. 13—0. 1927-28: S'pore bt.
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  • 134 7 PORTSMOUTH and Hull City yesterday qualified I for the fourth round of the 1 Football Association Cup with victories over Norwich and Southport respectively in replayed third-round ties A record crowd for the Norwich ground of 42,624 watched the home team hold Portsmouth in a scoreless
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  • 93 7 AUSTRALIAN HOYS WIN TN the cricket natch bel Australian School boyi ;<nd the st Andrews' School at WoodsvtOa >«-- terday. the Australian schoolboys beat the home team by 14 rur.s Batting first, the IStrtliftD bo*s made 48 for nine declared, i Akkermani Kortng double Qgun with 10. G. Menzies made
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  • 47 7 TONY Janeiro. <;51}> butpointeu hard punching Charlie Fusari. <14B) in Detriot yesterday m a bid for a shot at Ray R;binscn wclterweicht. A crowd of 12.283 *a u lanebo the usually rugged olows of Irs younger ad versa rv sad completely out box Fusari.- U.P.
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  • 76 7 IMIE Australian schoolboys' cricket team which defeated St. Andrew's School hy 14 runs yesterday will be the same team which will meet the Singapore Combined Schools in their annual Willow Shield match to be played on the S.R.C. Padang tomorrow. The Australian s< hoolfooys' team will
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  • 134 7 L^AST Midlands and North Midlands drew three point* all in a Rugby Union county championship group deciding match it Moselev yesterday. In another fixture the Army trounced Glo-it^ier 5. SOITHfcKN nH i-k.n P W L D t' A,' I Ices 6 6 u it .11 ib j2 B'POI
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  • 394 7 British team to train in Singapore ARRANGEMENTS to provide training facilities when the remaining members of Britain's contingent to the British Empire Game s arrive in Singapore by air on Wednesday, Jan. 25, were discussed at a committee meeting of the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council last night. An advance
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  • 31 7 THE annual general The Colonials Crickei Club be held at the Colo;, -V mery. 939 Serangoon Rnnd. ar fi pjn on S:«.urday, Jan. 11. Menken •re reoaesred to attcid.
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  • 53 7 NEI ROLE FOR MAURICE TATE A will b*- tenev^u .<ri > rm tc the Kiiie Arms ?u- F:om :his mcr.ih ICatnior Tate the fon am: iod b has supcpcl d •!> |Mr Fred Baa Tlie King'r Arm I has mativ uwp dl.ci |fl I I th* i r! Althouhelr! :i
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  • 35 7 ITMGH7 bj I Jockey R..\ CUvc C league footoalfc How til i Australian r.:>s I N >rni G» 1. cycUt Bt ■•-.lete John Ifanl n Conv (four-v- Reuter AAP
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  • 116 7 Top women sprinters may clash \NE of the himhli(,nts of M»fi Empue Games' in Auckland m February niay be ihe cltt.-n I between Har New South Wales I woman sprinter Marjorie J»' k and the New Zealander U Pufett. M;s>jb Jackson conside:ed ov i Australian aihieuc expti s hi i»«;
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  • 354 8 Early fall is forecast HON<; KONG, Friday. INTENSIFICATION of fighting on invasionmenaced Hainan Island, where Red guerillas have seized a 30-mile beachhead and a port on the west coast, coincided with pessimistic forecasts that the large invasion force alerted on the mainland, 12 miles away, will encounter no
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  • 35 8 SIX-NATION conference of jurists of the Western I Allied Powers will meet in March to consider the possibllity of ending the state of i war with the West German I Federal Republic- Reuter
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  • 77 8 LONDON. Friday. PORTUGAL is opposing efforts by Britain. America and France to free U.S. 856,000,000 worth of Nazi German gold locked up in Portuguese vaults. Portugal holds that the Nazi wartime transfer was a "legitimate" deposit. Portugal has denied that the gold was loot and therefore feels
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  • 98 8 DAVENPORT, < lowa > Fri. A MURDER charge has been filed against a woman patient who is reported to have admitted setting fire to a hospital where 41 women were killed last Saturday. State Attorney Bernard Moran made the announcement and identified the
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  • 59 8 LONDON. Kn. 'PHIEVES Itole a mail van JL and kidnapped the driver In the city yesterday, while another postman was collecting mail from offices Soon afterwards the van was found on waste gr.umd and inside was the driver, bound, gagged, unconscious and badlv hurt The police
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  • 193 8 HON(i KONG, Friday. THE unprecedented stay of Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung, in Moscow indicates that h e is finding the Russians tougn bargainers. Four weeks ago he left China for his historic conferences with Premier Stalin. Customary pro- cedure for a high level
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    31 8 A.P. hoto. This huge carnival head, which is neinu sent from Nice (France) to London, seems to be pleased witti the apne:ir:inre of the Diane which will carry it to England.—
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  • 108 8 U.S.I. may get quick loan WASHINGTON. Fri AN Indonesian application for a loan from the Ex-port-Import Bank will n csirt "sympathetic consideration," a Bank official said yesterday. Indonesia had not yet m i le a formal application. bu f prei hminary negotiations open d last week, he added. Bank officials
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  • 74 8 ASMARA. FTi. THE British destroyer Cockade yesterday 'showed the flag" off Massawa port in Eritrea as '20 British troops reinforced the local police fighting a small terrorist group. British troopa moved la ogau*it .\n armed terrorist group raiding an Italian farm three miles frcm Asmara. The
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  • 24 8 Thf* Japanese Government is working out a scheme to ensure foreigners are not taxed both in Japan and their home countries. Reuter
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  • 17 8 Britain's first Ambassador to Indonesia, Mr. Derwent Kermode, will leave Britain today Reuter
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  • 34 8 Film star. In^rid Bergman. U to seek a divorce from her i husband to marry the Italian t Him director Mr. Roberto RosI si- Hint, her lawyer said in Romo yesterday. A.P.
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  • 26 8 The Honij Kong Governi ment has lifted an embar^ on the import of cotton yarn i j from India for local contump- Reuter
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  • 28 8 The 40-nation International Wheat Council, which met privately in London yesterday, Is considering applications by Germany and Japan to join in the international wheat agreement. Reuter
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  • 131 8 HAMMOND (Virginia), Friday. I EVIDENCE of murder, arson and suicide have been J found in a fire-damaged house in which lay six charred bodies, including those of three children, according to the deputy coroner. Mr. S. Bridlaw. Police said they found blood in the
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  • 65 8 A 47-YEAR-OLD self-styled "living goddess" was summoned by Tokio police yesterday charged with inciting a farmer to violate the nation's food laws. Police said the "goddess,"' Mrs. Ryoko Najtaoka. convinced an old farmer that, according to holy oracles," there was no need for him to fulfil the
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  • 97 8 FRANKFURT. Friday. THE Catholic Church yesterday threw official doubt on a woodland "vision" of the Virgin Mary, which I has been drawing thousands of pilgrim^ to toe small 1 Bavarian village of Thurn Tlic Archbishop of B.imberg. after an investigation of the stories of six young
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  • 187 8 'Pool economy Europe urged WASHINGTON. Friday. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday submitted to Congress a report urging Europe's Marshall Han countries t 0 weld their economies into a "single producing and trading area" of 270.000,000 people. Americ-an dollars had nrensthened Europe s economy to the point where the 16 aid nations could
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  • 217 8 Continued from Paife 1 cause it was confro:iu*d with «n overwhelming mtllU: force He said Gen. Chiang •came into power with gTeater milr. strength than any -uler in Chi: hlstorv. He had tremrndo: American backing and four years later, his armies and suppoi i had melted away and he
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  • 43 8 THE Public Prosecutor of Macedonia yesterday demanded the "most severe punishment" for 10 Albanian Oominform agents whose spy trial closed in Skoplje. The Prosecutor's blistering speech was an accusation more of the Albanian Government than of the defendants. U.P.
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  • 23 8 President Elpidlo Quirino spent a restful night yesterday and had a quiet day in prospect in Baltimore's John Hopkins Hospital. U.P.
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  • 69 8 Britain's leeogntttoo of the Chinese Communist I regime in Peking -paral} I the United Nations Security Council, the French Information Minister. M. Pierre Henri T *en said yesterday He told a press lun that Britain should have discussed the question of recognition with h^r Western allies
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  • 24 8 BRITISH meet finai. Hang inu Br. cording cial here "Trade trod 1 trade 1 The barv: se«
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    • 12 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 5.10 a.m. 6.23 p.m Tomorrow: 6.09 *.m 9.15 p.m
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    • 137 8 Reso/o*«on <f:-^ O/ne .A Wine /^f^ one/ Donee in The Singapore Airport Hotel Reservations Ring 3351 <f COLUMBIA > MU.'Ali: >.:..^!. H 36 in C I>inr"t K 42d til 1 rr conductinf the London PRillunr Orchestra \fOZAßT— Sympfon? No M in D Mi "Prague 1 K 504 Sir Thomas Bee«
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    • 57 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris I'D HAT! TO M155 ThS 1 /DOSS THC SAJNT^ q^| TViANK YOU "OP COUBS£ I CDN-T THINK V^ >v C-^AXi C» 5Cf S5 OW JSAiD ijBI I fVEfI R£fU6l A J V f:R V >^^>*\ NO-'/^W^ XX < UL£O HIM OR I? 10U TH6N A
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