The Singapore Free Press, 16 January 1950

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1950. I'KlCfc 10 CENTS
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    REBELS ATTACK NEAR JAKARTA
    289 1 Gangsters not identified JAKARTA, Monday. GANG of 300 heavily-armed men wearing Dutch colonial army uniforms have attacked Republican troops, 25 miles east of Jakarta, military sources here said yesterday. Five of the gangsters were killed, six wounded and 46 taken prisoners. The assailants were not identified
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    30 1 rouild- trip b\ .»ir |>r m.'m jt-d >Ir^. SpruigaVM, 1 Ht n :••> taggteg ■aa tn<» >m.- r from lifX in.i!) The* h»s would likr to < '»r and did the lmajcin-
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    TWO LOST PROFESSORS FOUND DEAD
    17 1 TWO LOST PROFESSORS FOUND DEAD \::.a Man d I nkltn and Plttxnan i -1 to return b»
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    'NO MARSHALL PLAN FOR ASIA'
    137 1 NAC;Pt R. Monday. V'O "Marshall Plan fo r Asia" was evolved at the Colombo conference of Commonwealth Foreign said Pandit Nehru. India's Prime Minister it Xagpur yesterday m the first Ministerial comment since the conference disbanded on Saturday. His tw 0 points about Asia— the
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    H.K. TRAM STRIKE DEADLOCK
    79 1 H.K. TRAM STRIKE DEADLOCK HONG KONG. Mon. THERE U DO end In sighr for the Colony's tram strike now m the third week of deadlock. Both workers and management are keeping io their original demands. Workers of the Kowloon Motor Bus Company held a. emergency meeting yesterday i Lscuta t
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    RUSSIA'S AIM IN MANCHURIA
    33 1 MR Angus Ward, rormer American Consul m Mukden said m Washington yesterday that Russia wants the mines and factories m Manchuria to supply her armed forces m Soviet Asia.
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    6 KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH
    47 1 people were killed ana >5 two seriously injured when I godds train was derailed at Hardoi. a bom SO miles south' east of Lucknow yesterday. The engine tell on a nearby rail workers" quarter and 13 wagons In the rear capsized.— Reu'er.
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    SOVIET GUARD KILLS PERSIAN
    43 1 THE Persian Government announced last night that a Persian soldier had boon shot d^ad by a Russian t'rontier '-4iiard m Julfa Perso. on the border of Soviet Azorbaidjan. A protpst had been made to thr» Soviet Government. I Router.
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    Finns vole today
    34 1 Finland gow to the polls today and tomorrow to deride her 70-year-old Julio ikivi. their Presidcn! tor the past four years, is to remain m office for -a further term. Renter.
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    STRIKE ENDED
    32 1 Officials of the Standard Vacuum Sungei Rung Oil Refinery Ln J..va has announced that the strike which had kept the plant Idle for a week has been se tiled.- UP.
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    Britain angry over submarine sinking
    231 1 LONDON, Monday. I ONDON newspapers, bitterly criticising the ij Admiralty over the loss of 64 lives m the rammed submarine Truculent disaster, are demanding an official explanation to I series of questions on "What went wrong." Questions being asked are why so many of thp
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    Asked to art
    37 1 Japanese businessmen at Shimoooseki, southernmost tip of the Japanese main island. wIU ask Gen. Mac- i Arthur to act following seizure of Japanese fishing boats by unknown <jiniboals m the North China Sea.- Reuter.
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    $400 HOLD-UP
    24 1 A Chinese family living m the Muar area of Johore WM up and :obbed of $400 last night by three masked men.
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    38 1 Four dance recitals preceded Tajjore play "Sacrifice" performed by the Indian Fine Arts. Society at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday and Sunday. Here is dramatic wetwttwm "Madan Bhasma" m which Dilip Kumah darned the putt of Shiva.
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    CURFEW IMPOSED IN ERITREA
    147 1 CURFEW IMPOSED IN ERITREA ASMARA Mon. THK British Administration j haa imposed a curfew m Asmara and Deramere. m the former Italian colony i of Eritrea, after Saturday I night'i riots. m which Eritrean youths killed an Italian woman and Injured child and six adults Outrages broke out simultaneously m
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    KEPT HIS HEAD
    68 1 ree Press surf Reporter A Malay .schoolteacher, who. while riding a motorcycle, uas signalled ♦< >top h\ a boy along the Muar>'nkimi; Road >esterday afternoon found himself the target of 14 armed bandits who in'-. in tiring at him from some distance aua>. Lnhurt. he turned his
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    Johore balle
    37 1 Security forces of the Yong Pt-ng area of Johore yesterday afternoon fought a 15-minute battle with 34 bandits, before the latter, firing Bren Runs. retired. The casualties of both sides have not yet been reported.
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    OPERATION TODAY
    16 1 President Qulrino of the Philippines will undergo a kidney operation at Baltimore today. A.P.
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    It was drier last year
    71 1 Free Press StafT Reporter I VERAGE rainfall for 1949 m Singapore wus riiffctly less than that recorded m 15*18. Figures for the two cars were Riven b> the M«»'eoroloi;i« al Oitit c thi>* morn,.i; as: ru<>. q:;s inches: 1818. *>*.99 inches. last month's riinfall was
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    China Reds hit three nations
    229 1 WASHINGTON. Monday. 4T the same time that the Communist Peking Government seized the most important of the four American consulate compounds m the Red capital, it also arbitrarily took diplomatic properties of the French and Dutch governments m that city. Following the U.S. State Department"^
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    Eating own graves
    61 1 ALAEGI percentage of Australians are eating themselves into the grave. a< cording to the senior iletfeian of th»* s.vdnev Hospital. She sav<» th* overraters are slowly and surely poisoning themselves »ilh m;- digestible food which the body does not need anyvtav. Hundreds of ill people coming to
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    P.I. FLAYS ACHESON
    92 1 MANILA Moil Officials or the Philippine Foreign Office were reported yesterday to have characterised U.S. Secretary of State. Dean Acheson'i charge of the Philippines having misused American a.d funds as •"totally uncalled tori and represent inß a breach of the elementary mlei of' courtesy." They said that
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    Sequel to big robbery
    81 1 Sequel to big robbery Fr»r Press Staff Keporier d\F four Chinese rounded up by Singapore police yes terday after the $5,000 robbery m Blair Road, a youth. ased 18 is to b* charged with robbery. He wa s arrested at 11 98 m yesterday, four hours after the robbery. In
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    REDS' HOUSES SET ON FIRE
    41 1 j^IOTERS attacked the .houses of eight Communist leaders at Pondicherry (French India > on Saturday and pa illy burned the Communist co-operative. About 50 persons set fire \o< the house of the Communist leader. Sundbaya. A P.
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    GEN. ARNOLD DEAD
    24 1 Genera] H^nry H. Arnold. 63. who ivrnmanded the US Annv A:r Force during V Wai 11. d^d .-.vvp-day m tlii forma
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    EX KKK HEAD DEAD
    23 1 Dr Jmv Eclesool 53. former Presidpn: of th. Xt Klu\ Klan. has died In Flor;da followlnc —T ar-acw UP
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    Another ship goes to S'hai
    193 1 HONG KONG. Mon. rE Isbrandtsen freighter Brooklyn Heights left fo* Shanghai yesterday with an estimated US$lO,OOO,OOO worth of cargo. Capt. Dervin. the master, said before he sailed '•Sh<x>iing or no shooting I will g»-' through." The ship us due m the Yangtse mouth tomorrow evening.
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    ON WAY TO THE GAMES
    42 1 ON WAY TO THE GAMES MR VERNON MOKReuter's Bpoits' I arrived m Singap n London this morning < BOAC-Qantas C tion on his way to Empire 0 i T Kuf New Zealand. Also on a!- members ul the Rl Empire G I BtJU
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    P.I. TO GET SIAMESE RICE
    41 1 ONLY minor ti< emaiii to be negotiated In tht Sum-Phiiippines bare trad* agreement, now I .dm principle Tn c agreeing Sia.-n to barter ippradn 100.000 tons of In exchange P lippinea hemp p > rubber slioes Reuter
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    2 COUPLES KILLED
    24 1 A small pry a: crashed on an A i ta;n side v i ing two marr>d couple fiving home from Kanj
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    22 ROUNDED UP
    25 1 Fre*' Presv Staff Rop<»rtrr S.agapore C.I D ri weekend rounded up 2^ for alleged iecret locitt] Uritles Of \totm j se the
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    A Blow For The Bos'n's Pipe
    611 2  - A Blow For The Bos'n's Pipe FG Prince-White -By. ()NE of the Navy's List tangible links with the days when its Jolly Tars sailed In Hearts of Oak and NtLson ruled the waves will soon be broken or. rather, will end m smoke. The issue of duty-free tobacco, first made
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    Leopard Men' Killers
    100 2 RI IT7AL ii the. go with it ka -> < r I a :,p\» Co onial Office Brj IV h > WITH him M J c a rfiM.rt sh< -her.' have oppii 13 ritual in'. P. I i tnths. Checking 'he lor G D McCni mick 9
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    GETTING A DRINK IN INDIA
    759 2  - GETTING A DRINK IN INDIA A.C.S. Tebbitt By /GETTING a drink m f India or Pakistan is a major political business. Every part of the sub-continent has prohibition m some form or another, ranging from jne "•dry" day a week m Delhi to total prohibition m Madras Prohibition was thought
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    4 2 "Short back and sides.'
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    It Was Good While It Lasted.....
    440 2  - It Was Good While It Lasted..... Ingrid Etter HAPPY THOUCH MARRIEDI -By- BREADWINNER wants to know why brother-in-law did not send eggs as Christmas present from country farm. Point out m weak defence of own family that virtuous brother sends all eggs to Government packing station, thus ensuring country's prosperity
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    A FANTASTIC FLIGHT ENDS
    172 2  -  Courtcnay Edwards By lIERE I am back m Ixmdon. at the end of a 26.000-mile trip round the world 1 h British Overseas Airways and other British, airlines. A refreshing swim at Waikiki. where Clark Gable If honeymooning helped me to get over the effects of
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      221 2 F.P. Crossword No. 594 < iiks %CBOM 2 111-s. t '9>; 7 Inter <4>; 9 Unit »3»; 10 Spirit *3>: 12 I '4»; li Hiding-plhCf <b<, 14 Fit lo eat (6>; 18 Pleader 'JO I RtK-ky (B>. 21 Cycle (•>; J4 Bertie <5«: 27 Measure of fish I 4»; Preedon
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      174 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOK\ toda>. >our inlui- Htm are highK de\«loped and >ou ha\e that rare capacity to forecast what is going to happeii You are a good nt human nature, have a keen sense of analysis and the ability to tixc up the true situatim inst with These chara«->.tTiM
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      26 2 To find uhat the stars have m store for tomorro select your birthdaystar and read the corresponding paragraph let \<>iir hirthday star be umi <l;iilv jiuiile
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    BRITAIN'S JET BOMBER GOES INTO PRODUCTION
    325 3 BRITAIN'S JET BOMBER GOES INTO PRODUCTION It will have no defence guns LONDON. Monday. DKITAIN'S first jet bomber, the twin turbo-jet Canberra, which stunned world air critics with a flashing display of speed and climb at its first publicappearance last summer, is now being produced m numbers for the Royal
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    Why America lost China'
    190 3 NKW YORK. Monday ,>Ji V,> >}>. vsritinu m The Saturday Fvening »:i \\\i\ We lost China" eharfed that the >i the end China" tanw m 194.'. when Jose-p Slilwell made three demands of i\ i-hck aid Stil time was nd commander of the had Just lost
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    MOSCOW'S GAME WITH FINLAND
    236 3 I I by luneni s ;e of Comking Party. :he lmn la de- I SO- 3 who con- i hostlte to b s and has on'y the "Met of 2^6. r parties. rs J I anc the Social Democrats <ma c nly Industrial workers) 54 The
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    6 men fall on a shark
    73 3 BRISBANE. Mon. Six Hfmwn were thrown from their boats on top of a grey nurse shark here recent iy. But the shark did not attack them as they scrambled onto the keel of their upturned boat. The men were trying to harpoon the fish
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    BOUNDARY REPORT
    29 3 The commission appointed >t j ttle the disputed boundaries betwevn East Bengal and India's adjoining p. vincfs will submit its report m about a month Renter. I
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    62 3 IMIE private plane of Dr. J. T. Gile*. fljini; ph>\iriail of Griffin, (ieor--1 ISA., pictured atop the home of Turner Quillian at Lagraagt, (ieorgia the plane had trouble before n\u -hin e the local airport, and l>r. (liles landed the pl.uie on the roof. Tlie dortor was slishtlv hurt, hut
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    83 3 Mr. Hirst h Teper. the London tailor who was a witness at the Lynskey Tribunal, snaking a riffJU as. accompanied b\ I.I), men. he landed from the Queen Marj at Southampton and walked to a polire car to he dri\en to London. Mr. Teper who wa» deported by the I'nited
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    FRENCH SICK OF ALL PROPAGANDA
    216 3 PARIS. Monday. \|i:.\TION America n aid to many a Frenchman A these days and the odds are you will rub him up the wrong way. '•It is not that I am an Americanophobe.' he will probably say. "Indeed quite the contrary, Cher Ami. But really,
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    WORLD TIN OUTPUT UP
    64 3 The world's tin mines yielded a total of 13.400 long tons last October a 200-ton increase over the previous month, the International Tin Study Group announces. The survey showed that Bolivia produced 2,191 tons during October. compared With 2.690 m September. Production m Malaya rose from
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    To dope oysters
    90 3 lIONOI I 1.1 Mom A N AKSTIIfcTH S are to be A administered to •ffteri t<t make removal of pearls pairriess ;iud thereby reduce the high mortally rate I Present methods of forcing oysters open kills about <•" p« i r tent, of them. Mr. Joseph (ioldstone.
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    JAPS SEND SHIP
    20 3 Japan has delivered her first ocean-going cargo ship for export to a Danish shlp- ping company. Renter,
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    Master of 200 cocktail secrets
    145 3 Master of 200 cocktail secrets LONDON Mon A MAN who holds the secrets ol more than 200 cocktails Who has tasted all 'he world's best liqueurs and wines is beginning a now ]jfe now -drinking water Mr. William Criadale, finold chief bartender In the Cunard White star Uner Queen Mary.
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    Bridge Hands
    309 3 YOU are entitled to suspect the moans «»f the player who complains about his po<»r cards; it ls very likely that he is taking losses on hi-> good hands as well. The trouble with many players who are convinced that luck ia against them is that thus very
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    P.I. MAY PROBE U.S. AID
    103 3 P.I. MAY PROBE U.S. AID MANILA. Mon. THE Philippines Congress which opens on January 23, may conduct a full scale Investigation of us Secretary of Stare. Mr. Dean Aeheson's charges that American post -war aid has been misused here. There is also a feeling unions Filipinos that Congress make an
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    14 EDITORS HIT HACK
    63 3 14 EDITORS HIT HACK EDITORS of 11 daily ntWB- papers and three weekly newspaper* m l«n have derided to omit a^ lialiy inspired news aboui Pakistan's North-wesi Frontier Province from their columns. The decision wai ret I at a meeting called to protesi againsi th<> North west i- tier Province
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    MacA to crack down on drug traffic
    149 3 TOKin. Monday. \MERICAN narcotics agents employed by (ieneral Douglas MacArthnr arc Matching their wits against some of the biggest traffickers m the Orient m an attempt to break the back ol drug addiction m Japan before the Occupation ends. Hand-picked Japanese Investigators are
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    ETHIOPIA SEEKS A DEVELOPMENT PLAN
    41 3 ETHIOPIA has plans for t S $91,000,000 development programme. An Internationa! Monetary Fund mission, returning from Addis Ababa, said it had studied the programme as a preliminary to a possible loan from the World Bank. AP
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    41 3 photo. Mr. Marcel Kardri.iux. a 3*:->ear-nld Frenchman, and m»n 30-foot sailing boat which he luiilt himself and with which plan> to .sail alone round the world Ills rout* will enter 75.000 mile*, and hf »»\pects to he three at >ea. A.P.
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    H.K. SHIPPERS LOSE HOPE
    93 3 HONG KOMi. .Mond.iv PAILI T RE ol the Hying Arr«nv (<» run tin- bl«u kad< 1 into Shanghai has eMivhwei H«m Kon s s hipp« there is little hope of tralTu resoatlac into the Yangtze soon. The Flying Arrow's down on the blor-kac blockading Nationalist navy
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    8 Japanese quit jungle
    63 3 8 Japanese quit jungle BR I SB ANT Eight Japanese i en irti»j lived m the Heve Guinea jungle for foui the v.a; have up They are ai I iiun after i journey hew If) ntU Island. Aji Army spokesman t hey had taught the na methods of agriculture fishing
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    FLYING ARROW IN TSINGTAO
    26 3 FLYING ARROW IN TSINGTAO IMIK Plying Arrow am a nmuntst p fcingi i soon bidding destroyer ph For the Am* undereoing i b N itionalis! nun-
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Jan. 16. 1950 OVER TO THE OFFENSIVE
    584 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Jan. 16. 1950 OVER TO THE OFFENSIVE N. :> that the common-wt-alth Foreign Ministers i:ave ended their Colombo lerence with a recommendation that Britain and the Dominions take steps to develop the economic reaoucei of South-east Asia is the most titting climax that we m
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    If Churchill Won the Election
    1459 4  -  Hall Romney London Letter > < by •'I MUST be about the only person m the room who lias not hnd the privilege of visiting Malayan said the Secretary of State for the Colonies when he addressed a gathering of more than a hundred people
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    Beautiful Britain—6
    37 4 Beautiful Britain 6 Heythrop Hounds meet under the historic 'Hopcrofft Holt' sign on the Banbury Oxford Road. The spot was notorious as a meeting plice for th* Claude Duval The sign s*iows a 'road agent' and gibbet
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    Germany's Real And Immense Grievance
    1017 4  -  ALEXANDER CLIFFORD By FRANKFORT. THE old nil -raid shelter was heated only by the bodywarmth of crowded human beings. The smell, as you came m from the clean, frosty ail of the street outside was hard to bear. It caught at your stomach There were
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    Telecolour Secrets
    214 4  -  JOHN HALL by I'ELEVLS is the poin| -even th. upwards r before l.< colour How does experimental en with Rffl process thai Radiolympia called colo ed dis^ tv used for Bp theatre did o Ma television < receivers m segments— red blue, There ii television ■MM I by
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    EMPLOYERS AID FORMER CONVICTS
    383 5 EMPLOYERS AID FORMER CONVICTS But clerks are a problem Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE employers are showing more sympathy towards discharged prisoners now than before, the secretary of the Singapore After-Care Association, Brigadier F. VV. Harvey of the Salvation Army, told the Free Press today. The association, he said, had
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    City's 3 biggest killers
    67 5 City's 3 biggest killers press Staff Reporter :.OSIS, pneu-. and enteritis 1 hree biggest uit order inj Municipality > figures publI lpal Health j be een Dec*. 27, 25. 1949. there lasis dearhs. j 1.002 t b cases had d m 'hat period j ia claimed 1.089 of enteritis -:a:h
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    VISADVENTURE
    18 5 BAHRU. Sun.- I hrenture was 1 Ktaaßf Hard iv Mnng was killed as :nt branch J ate
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    45 5 picture. MISS Kate D. Ferguson, Chief Regional Library Adviser of the British Council, seen making a presentation of books donated by the British Council, to Che Abdullah bin Masood. Secretary of the Bedok Rural District Committee, on Saturday at the Rural Board Office. Free Press
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    BAUXITE SOUGHT IN JOHORE
    343 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. 4 COMPANY which has been prospecting m south Johore for bauxite has applied to the State government for 2.500 acres of land m Pengerang, Kota Tinggi district, for the purpose of mining for bauxite. The application is under consideration
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    Call to streamline canning industry
    230 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Xl AI A LI'MPUR, Sunday. rHK Federation Government has been toid the Malayan pineapple industry needs to be streamlined and that other Malayan f nuts and vegetables can be produced on a plantation scale and canned satisfactorily. This view is expressed
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    35 5 DM IP Kumar and Geeta Majumdar is an Indian dance recital at the Victoria The-»'r over the weekend. On 'he same programme was Tagore's drama "Sacrifice" which was staged by the r.idian Fine Art* Society.
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    M.C.A. APPEAL FOR GOODS
    37 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. liHE Malayan Chinese Association has asked Chinese .shops and associations m Selangor to help Mjuatters now living m Taiping Yuen Resettlement Camp. The settlers are short of many household necessities.
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    CABBIES TO PROTEST ON NEW TAXIS
    194 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE taxi and hired car associations will hold a mass meeting to make a formal protest to the Government against the introduction of the London-type taxi m the Colony. At a meeting of the Singapore Hired Car Association yesterday, car
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    S'pore sees Tagore play
    149 5 Prec Pr»-vs Staff Reporter /^ROWDtD hoasa ittended 1 performances at the Victoria Ball over thf week end by members of the Indian Fin.' Arts Society of Rabindranath Tagore's drama, "Sarrticc" and foOf (lance recitals Three ol the dances were group dances and the other Partha Parakram.
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    CREMATORIUM
    40 5 A HALF acre plot of land at the 4i 2 mile Gunong Rapat m Gopeng Road, ndi joining the "Lion's Head*' I Temple, has recently been acquired on Government ilease for the conduction of [a modern crematorium lor Ipoh.
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    31 5 BRIGADIER F. W. Harvey of the Salvation Army, who is secretary of the Singapore After-Care Association. He was a member of the five-man Commission which inquired into prison conditions m Singapore.
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    THEY HUNT FOR MITES
    287 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. I U X I Mi its two years at work m Malaya the British Scrub Typhus Unit has identified about 130,000 mites and examined over q .OOO animals, the leader of the Un»t. Dr. J. R. Audy, told the
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    S.M. C. MEN MAY BORROW TO BUILD HOMES
    363 5 S.M. C. MEN MAY BORROW TO BUILD HOMES Free Press Stall* Reporter DV a recent decision of Singapore Municipal lorn missioners, Municipal employees of local domicile will be able to borrow money from the Municipality to build or buy houses for their own occupation on terms more advantageous than those
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    NEW MOON DAY
    43 5 The New Moon Day Celebration will be held at the Sinhala Buddhist Temple, 263 Outram Road. Singapore, tomorrow by the Singapore Buddhist Association offering merits to the late Mr D D. L. Gunawardhana. father of the Rev. M. M MahaweeraThera.
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    INDIES LINK WITH MALAYA
    106 5 F. P. Mala* Correspondent THE contributions made \o the progress c,t Kelantan jby early Indonesian settlers 1 were recalled by Nik Ahmad Kamal. llentxl Be>ir Kelantan. m a Koccch at a reception held by the Persaiuan Indonesia at Kota Baliru to celebrate (he transfer of $r»vereisntv
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    MAILS
    57 5 Sui .t aU l- »-x, > t: Magapora today from livi'aiiC. fkimralr i except MM), lieu [Kooff, Clrißi tad the Fedi tasei for pmfint i nail today a' the g.p O I nrvon ftr Gmt Britifn. N. 1. Eire, ■■rope, F vpr North WB6 Africa. Wesi Inr Kriantao c^rrp;«
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    98 5 BROTHER una MM participate m a double vedding at the Church of Our Laciy of Ixiurdf Ophir Road ..t 630 am next Montia: They are Mr Emmanuel Baiaraj Doreti and ICm (Theresa Thannvathee Dorer.,. children ol M: and Mrs. A J» j Dore't ol Cwnberlaad I Singapore
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    FIGHTING IS MY LIFE
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    983 6  - Farr's gameness amazed Louis TED BROADRIBB by IN his 12 years' ivi^n i«s heavywt i^ht champion of t lu world only Ihrec nun stood up to the full fighting fury of Joe Louis for (he championship distance of 1.") rounds. They were Aiiuro (iodoy, Jerse> Joe Walcott, and Britain's Tommy
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    Little Nene back for fresh laurels
    114 6 IWOSE who have followed boxing m Singapore and m other parts of the Orient will remember Little Nene. one of the most colourful Filipino fighters to come this way. He is back m Singapore alter an a •.^..is during which he travelled to aim
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    Record score by Worrell
    61 6 4 BRII 1 I renlu;Indies sfc rell. feati. monwcalr pore cond TV B. < Inci:. SCOREBOARD KMM'AUI U llltOUfipld M I Pla< c < H i Il\■t l H nteffvH t Frcci b i. hi. l I life) I !'u 1 111. 1 I <.. i
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    HORSES TO FOLLOW AT IPOH
    1043 7  - HORSES TO FOLLOW AT IPOH ALLAN LEWIS Prospects for Ist day 's races By IPOH, Monday. pERAK Turf Club, with the splendid total of 179 entries, should be able to provide interesting racing at its coming three-day meeting, which will start the new racing season m Malaya. Among the 97
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    NORTH INDIA TENNIS FINALS
    62 7 S ol flxals m thej X bern Tndia lawn onships a: New 1 gtaK r. Anipon bc.G Poish I^Sbi 6-1. *mi Ampoxi »od C PI bt. OMiti: »nd M. v .igosla 6-0. 6-1. PaTiCi» r-jdd «-l. double*. Mrs B«tty Misa Kay Tuckly M.'S Tr»dd and >fiss
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    RACE WEIGHTS
    18 7 I Atlantas is j I 89 m the I race over s'^ .r a: Ipoh nex:
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    2 big upsets in U.K. soccer
    342 7 From JIM CHAMBERS I I^H football form went haywire on Saturday, two major upsets were the defeats of Liveri Tottenham Hotspurs. Liverpool, beaten 3—2 M Wanderers, lost the Div. 1 leadership, and tn fell 3 o to Leeds I'nited. spurs' first away defeat of
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    Njoo, Sands for radio interview
    126 7 TH£ two boxers, Bobby NJoo and Alfle Sands who clash m a It-round main event at the Happy World arena on Jan. 2«, will be introduced to each other at Njoo's training camp m Goodman Road at 4 30 p.m today when Radio Malaya will
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    Foo Hee Jong for Hong Kong
    32 7 LXX fw- Jong, the Singapt Chmw footballer will lea\e foe Hong Knng tomorrow wltfc th-- 1 MM Fo«tDaii A~ Choo Kwai Inn. hoB. MC M CFV
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    26 7 THE OMBINFD RKfWM XV irlM were defeated by 17 points to nine m the H.M.S. m*U\a "final played at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday— Free Press picttite.
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    S.R.C. MEETING
    35 7 A general sporti meeting <>t the Singapore Recreation Club for the election of o!fK-H- bearers to thp football cricket, athletics ;uid tennis sections will be held on Frid.iv at 6 30 p m
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    Farr denies reports
    65 7 1 am no 4 moving to Australia or anywhere else." Tommy Karr declared at Brighton on Saturday. He said reports from Sydney Ui.it he wanted to open a hotel business there wi'rr "pure nonvense Farr. the rirst man to hijht Joe Louis after Louis won the heavyweight
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    Services took defeat smiling
    511 7 H.M.S. MALAYA RUGBY Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. DBLANGOS'S win m Saturdays H.M.S. Malaya tour- j nanient was as fully deserved as it was unexpected. Once again it drove home the moral that no same is won or lost until it is over and
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    SCOTLAND BEAT FRANCE 8-5
    55 7 SCOTLAND BEAT FRANCE 8-5 OCOTLAxMD beat France by one Koal and one try 18 points to one goal <5 points at Mm rayflcld on Saturday. At half-time ScoUand led 8-0, Mao Donald and BUge scoring trie*. Bruce Lockhtrt convctinj Bidge'K. Marques replied fov France m tbe j>etond i»alf uith p
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    South hockey XI named
    111 7 rfiK South tide to inert the North m their annual encounter at Sertmban on Jan. 28. was selected last night at the Malacca Club. The team i*: B. Manuel (Negri): R 11 Barth (S'porei. Capt.. P. Kumarasamy f.Nesrh: P. Pennrfather (S'ptffe), i f'hons Kok Hen* (Nejsrit.
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    Hong Kong Land Forces boxing
    227 7 Hong Kong Land Forces boxing FOUR knockouts and two technical knockouts were the highlight* of the preliminary round of matches for the Individual boxing i championships of the headquarters Land Forces. Hong Kong, on January 10 The k.o \s served to enliven a rery poor exhibition What promised to be
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    U.K. lour off
    32 7 WITH no free dates available this season, the Royal Dutch Football Association has been forced to refuse en invitation to play ,evefr' matches m Hong Kong Ihls season. Reuter.
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    New jockey
    51 7 JACK WHITE. Australian jockey who has ridden with success m India, will apply for a licence to ride m Malaya. White has been m Singapore for the past week. He told the Free Press that subject to his application being approved he would ride here as a free
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    Italy v. Russia?
    23 7 Italy and Russia may meet m a football match, at Bologna m Italy, next year for the first time --Reuter
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    AUSTRALIANS 425 FOR 4
    43 7 AUSTRALIANS 425 FOR 4 I^HE Australian- i 425 for four wickets 'Ha.vcti 106 not out, Morris 106, K. Archer 93. Loxton 8 first innings against Border XI on lirl opening day of t lieir three-day match a: E London. South Afrlra, on Saturday
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    ARMY BOXERS WIN
    21 7 A BRITISH A.n.\ defeated s srhi >d combination ov six bouts '.o thr»e tn Jonkoaing law nieht AP
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      52 7 SUPPOR.T6RS: /OT f/^ y I MT3) 'mlwWl^ Thc»wmth£« ae»?K 3^ prised jmTHeiAY £V<fRY6ODY BY RROVIDINCi'A WQ?AOondl^U.|XnC«. O«Y'O4tL. ROR^THE MATCH laV U--CSis^^-t)oWss SURPf?IS£D '*"'^2wl^) B£nn£TT SuKPRISCD Hi^stur L6VI6CUR SU«PR«SCD M»%MDMiRSi?S» »M 0 -^UT PCRH/9P3 NOT SoRPf?! StN C IV WrOr^LYricoJwJi TWO T«KeS arC^y.Ne K-.WH K.L.POAK,M,ss,NC -Th£y exPgCTdPT^ALF-A^ DortMj^ g(y SO LONQ^^^
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    BIRTH
    17 8 INMAN: To Maureen, wife of Douglas Inman. the Devunsh;'rc R< daughter, Linda Pixie), on 13th Jan.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    35 8 ISI ENGAGEMENT was announced on 13tr. Jan., 1950. between Mi. Urn Keng Teck. third »on of Mr. Mrs. lim Kheow Bong, and M:ss Chua Mul Keow, fourth daughf.fr of Mr. Mrs. Chun Hock Chai.
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    49 8 photo. Serious rioting broke out m Mexico City when armed polire attempted to break up a strike meeting or taxi drivers and, m the ensuing clash, two drivers were killed and 80 drivers and police were injured. Picture show.s police draguin? an arrested driver to a patrol wagon. A.P.
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    Vietnam arms 'sabotaged'
    267 8 Vietnam arms 'sa botaged FRENCH REVERSES PARIS. Monday. COINCIDENT with reports of French reverses m lndo-China m the face of a growing offensive by the Viet Minn rebels, the French Cabinet has begun a new inquiry into the leakage of a secret and highly critical report on lndo-China by the
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    NATIONALISTS START AIR BLOCKADE
    70 8 TAIPEH. Mon. TH E Cliine.se Nationalists have officially announced "closure" of Kunming Chengtu and Nanning c mci national airports. These three towns v.e\? the only international airports rerognised as such after the loss of Shanghai and other major airports. Observers believe (he ar.nouncemen; may mean the
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    Home rule for Guam, Samoa
    75 8 WASHINGTON. Ifon y HOUSE of RepresentatWes (•(jmmittee. which recently returned from a tour of United tea islands In the Pacific v legislation to p^• Ush ti govern ny greater home role m < :i wm\ American Bamoa. The residents of tlie two Is•s should be
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    STALIN SEES INDIAN ENVOY
    34 8 Ttu* Indian Ambassador In I Moscow. Sir Sarvrpalli Radha- kri^hnan. was received by Marshal Stalin i»n Saturday. night The visit was of a j courtesy character and lasted! 30 rninutei
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    Predicting earthquakes
    55 8 I APANKSh .seismologists, who hay«- for the pa*t ">0 >oars »l sought ways to predict eavth»|ii:»keN— believe tint Lhty are now within sight of their To test their new theory that tracking of ire over frozen lake presages an earthquake htve set up instruments around l.ak.- ll. inin.i
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    U.K. traders look more to Malaya
    129 8 HONG K()\(i, Monday. 4 STRIKING feature of Hons Kong's post-war trade has been her diminished dependence on China due to an Increasing proportion of the colony's total trade being taken by Malaya and other j South-East Asian territories, says an article m the weekly
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    ANTI-T.B. DRIVE
    21 8 The World Health O Ration win launch measures io combat venereal disease and tuberculosis In Burma this wri -Reut<
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    62 8 photo People of Italy observe the Feasfl of the Fpiphany on Jan. as a day of gift -miking, and the Italian Automobile Club has made it the occasion for presentation to traffic cops of wine, cigars and other tokens of motorists' goodwill. Picture shows a passing motorist m a Rome
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    Sikhs will boycott Indian Republic
    140 8 AMRITSAR (Fast Punjab). Monday. THE Shironiani Akali Dal Party of the Sikh Com--1 munitv has urged all Sikhs to boycott celebrations on the day of the inauguration of the Indian Republic on Jan. 26. The Working Committee of the Akali Dal met here and passed
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    Arms for Arabs
    33 8 Tiit- üB. S«-. f o/ 81 Mr. Dean Acheson hat flrmed thai B. [tain ha .siim^d anna shipmen Iraq, Hashemlte Jordai Egypt under he: irealie> those A;;ib count i:e.> AP
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    Cabinet presented
    19 8 j Persia's Prime Minister, Mo j hammed Baed, lias presented I his new Cabinet to the Slu.h.
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    PILGRIMS HIT BY SMALLPOX
    49 8 N T epidemic of gmallpox ha.> broken out among 1800 Moro Muslim pilgrims from Southern Philippines, stranded a; Jedda, Samii Arabia Reliable information rearh- Cairo said that a*boul 300 pilgrims en route to Mecca had foem stricken to fai and aboti' mo have died.- -UP.
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    MOTHER SOUGHT FOR 'KIDNAP'
    205 8 S\\ FRANCISCO, Monday. MRS. Yolamla Packet!, the daughter of the YiceiTl President of the Philippines, Mr. Fernando Lopez, and Mr. Ted Lewin. a wealthy Manila sports promoter and casino operator, were sought by San Francisco police yesterday on charges of 'kidnapping" Mrs. Pucketts four year old
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    'RED CHINA AIMS TO CONTROL S.-E. ASIA'
    329 8 Formosa tells of new Moscow pact HONG KONG, Monday. THE Nationalist Prime Minister m Formosa, Marshal Yen Hsi-shan. 1 yesterday accused the Communist Peking Government of having reached an agreement m Moscow whereby Red China, m return for [he handing over to Russia
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    H.K. assets taken over
    69 8 HONG KONG. M •the Chinese Communist Govern has au'horised I to lake eminent organisation* m :i Kong. They are the Bank of China, the Ba Communications, the China National Aviation ano Central An Transport Dotations. The appointees to 'ak^ o^: tssei c repor'.ed ;<> be th*
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    BARTER OFFER
    31 8 Tin Philippine Goven. 1 ll considering an offer to exchange the islands' entire output of iron-ore for semiprocessed Japanese i text ilo s on a strictly barter basis AP
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    Millionaire's suicide
    59 8 Millionaire's suicide LOS ANGtLES. Mon. r pHOMAS LEE. 4.°.. ment--1 ally incompetent heir to the V.S. 59.500.000 radio and car fortune of the late Don Lee, leaped to his death from the 12th floor of the Wiltern Building. Lee had kWB derlared incompetent by a L«i> Angeles court and had
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    TRADE MISSION
    14 8 An East German trade delegation will leave B- Lil .shortly for Peking,
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    U.N. URGES STRONGER TRADE TIES
    38 8 U.N. URGES STRONGER TRADE TIES EXPI.i- Na:i(M full emplc closer ur tion and i directioi. loping no:. Thf nr America] and A emph. pation n and c ed na me world In t) expert <■ ni for ?fn»-h prof
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    13 8 ITALIAN FISH BOATS SEIZED boa T The 1 > I "■■•l era!' of Rovigi
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