The Singapore Free Press, 26 January 1950

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I B» SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1950. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    NEW REVOLT IN W. JAVA
    229 1 pit turr Muslimsbreak with U.S.I. JAKARTA, Thursday. JJRKAK-l P of the Indonesian republic into warring factions threatens as units of I "Turk" Westerling's outlawed army struck f •fain, this time nearer Jakarta, the anti-Repub-lic Darul Islam proclaimed an independent Muslim State and an extremist Indonesian
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    Soekarno's N. Guinea plea to India
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    HEAVY RAID ON SHANGHAI
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    3 BANDITS DEAD
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    U.S.I. GETS NOD FROM RUSSIA
    42 1 Russia nu.> ipf.dfd I lonesia as a -i\in. state and to es'ab::sh diplomat: :-...iions with The decision waj aiu Iterda; In Moscow by thp Soviet Depi'v I Andrei Groin- < to the Netherlands Am- adoi Mr. Vlsser Reuter
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    Hatta is confident
    51 1 MX DEAN lIKSON. the I nited States Secretary •I Mat-. >aid last Bight that Dr. Mohammed H.ita. th> Indonesian Prime Minister had told the I nit»*d Stat«*N \iiil):tssadiir m Jakarta that he miild liquidate the tontroi of "Turk' Westrrlim's guerilla f«»r« e s m Pasundan. West Java
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    'USI CAN CRUSH WESTERLING'
    201 1 Fre c Press Stall Reporter |>V hU attack on Bandoeng, Turk' Westerlinf has "made himself a separate entity from the Darul Islam movement and that being so. th«- Indonesian (iovemment ran now deal with him." Mr. John Coast, foreign relations adviser to the I .s.i government
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    SYNTHETIC RUBBER: NO U.S. CONTROL?
    96 1 SYNTHETIC RUBBER: NO U.S. CONTROL? NEW YORK Ti ACCORDING to the Jou of Commerce, leading rubber rompaiue* will submil at C i tgressionaJ b< •rrngi i rl i mop. h ials for J national synthetic productio which they b^ ievp ran iaf< iiuard national security witho! continu- r -,k' governmeni
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    Ran blockade
    35 1 Ran bloc kade The Elsie Moller. first British ship to run the Nationalist bltu'kad** of Shanghai since Britain recognised the Communist regime m China. returned to Hong Kons yesterday after an uneventful trip Reuter AAP
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    Survivor caught
    34 1 Free Press Staff Reporter GurkMas operating m the Segamat area *here 22 bandits were killed a few days ago. have arrested anothei Chinese, suspected of being i s-irvivor of the routed gant;.
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    108 ARRESTED
    36 1 Free Press Staff Reporter One hundred and eight oeople were arrested m Johore Bharu under th* Emergency^ Regulations m the week end- 1 lnc Weinesday. Two w«rr MaUyi, two Iwdlatw, «nd the remainder Chinas*.
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    T.U.C. BANS ALL RED DELEGATES
    57 1 T.U.C. BANS ALL RED DELEGATES Ti IK Genera] Council of the B: i i>h T adea Union Congress decided jresterday thai no Communisi will be allowed ;<> sit on the national committee which speaks for the 500 Hades councils. Nor will Communists be permit ted to aliend the annual conference
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    U.S. backs Tito
    36 1 Mr. George Alien Day. American Ambassador m Belgrade, told a press conference yesterday that the Unitpd States was m full sympathy with Yugoslavia's stand against the Cominform interference m her internal affairs. Reuter
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    Hunger and plenty
    83 1 MR. J. J. Singh. President of the India League of America, said m New York yesterday that it was a "shame" that millions m India, f^red starvation while millions of dollars worth of surplus foods was going to waste m the United States, Mr. Sfafh said that
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    61 1 Ph-tun* Mr Oscar State, manager of Uv British weightliftinj tram t «> th»- Empire (i.imrv r.'(fi\«'> a lesson m how to handle chopsticks from Mr I P V McN'eice, Pr»'siri«nt of the Singapore Municipal Commission at a dinner liven i>> ihr Singapore Amatnre MTeifhtlifttnc Feo>Fation List night. Mrs. B. L
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    Surma Reds expel Britons from estates
    84 1 RANGOON. ThUTS. J^L'RMLSE Communist* hav< .seized tin mines and rubber estates on the southeast coastal s'rip of I>nasserim a: id expelled the Britut) managers. rh« Communist* esci <.1 Ui« B: ::ons nr.d their -.'affs Ten miles from the larse flshing pwi of T.noy and
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    ACHE SON URGES CONSCRIPTION
    125 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. MX. DEAN ACHESON, the I ntted States Secretary of State, urged Congress yesterday to extend conscription to show the world that the Tinted States intended to remain strong. "Weakness invites aggression direct or indirect —and to remain free the nations of 'the free world
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    31 1 picture. Mr. J. Thivy. Representative of the Government of India, unfurls the jia« of the new Republic before a largecrowd m the uroundo of India House. Singapore. thi» morning:.- Free Press
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    Ho's men blow up Hanoi power plant
    66 1 HANOI, ThurMlav. MINKS blew up part of the electric power system m Hanoi. Indo-China. yesterday cutting the rity's electricity supply and stopping trains The mines were believed to have been laid by Vletminh insurgents. Radio communication wms cut for two hours. Seven transformers
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    Australia Day meeting
    72 1 Australia Day meeting lr»M» Prm StatV Kev«vrl»r \ir Malcolm MacDt the Commissloner-Oen- la g at the I.*:- 1 f All I Mi Mac Donald ixp: Malaya who h i 'PP 1 E m wtab cordial relattoiu between Malay* •c-.d Australia. The Conunlasionei -G«« Qy recalled 'he day Id years when
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    Senators resist
    30 1 A group oi southern UJB Senators have pb rJ^ed to resist to the end President Truman's fair employment practices legislation, banning discrimination against Neerot^ and other minor/ Reuter
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    FILM STARS TOO
    35 1 Hollywood police said v> terdty that the names of I ■'X!"'-at many" Urn celebrities have been found *n tlie apartment ot a man accused oi operating USSi.ooo-a-w.'. v marijuana drug ring. A.P.
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    JUNGLE SQUAD ROUTS BANDITS
    58 1 Free Press Staff Reporter BANDITS attacked a vehicle, carrying a police jungi* 5 squad returning from Aye; Kuning to Gemas. m Negt. Sembilan yesterday. The squad held the bandit at bay until the arrival of a second police squ^d. Th'» bandits were repulsed after ct 15-minute
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    SUSPECT HELD
    24 1 Free Press SUIT Reporter Police yesterday- $rreste* t Chinese nw. *u*pectr *found sleeping m t Mtity hut m I Ktmpgnf Babok, Masr.
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    More ships for repatriation
    12 1 HOLLAND WU ha home 82 000 D Lndo
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    Spore Indians celebrate
    131 1 Spore Indians celebrate Fret* Press Staft Ke|H>rtfr (SEVENTY thousand dians m Sinuapor celebrating the inauatiori of the Repubi: India today. All tod shops are closed, and tha Indian labour force <>* the Government and thi Municipality are on. holiday. Among the first was the Rep;> Government ofl India. M r
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    PAK, TAKES HER TIME
    14 1 PAKISTAN Da: or H Ho 4 tiC 1 tea Reuter
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    PEER'S FORTUNE
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    Outstanding New Novels
    829 2  - Outstanding New Novels Pamela Hansford Johnson WRWE rjLOOMY persons so accustomed to hunching jeremiads on !!k> poverty of modern fiction Dial Ihey would scarcely notice it" a Dickons. Thacke--1 or (.'luniolte Bronte 91 suddenly vj i:inii up fully-arm-ed beneath Iheir noses, mighl rouse themselves from lethargy to consider a recent
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    Adventures of a newspaperman
    94 2 IN "After These Many Gu» Macdonald Isa Leonard Marsland Qan- describes hla jrears on local pap«r experiences as a Dewspaperman m India and ai r.idio critic In London and Anally, his adventures aa a war correapondent. The climax la a finelywrttten ancj tensely dramatic account "i
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    LOVE LETTERS OF BYRON
    441 2 LOVE LETTERS OF BYRON 'PHK Last Attachment, h v Irtris Origo (Jonathan Capo 255.) is the story of Lord Byron's love-affair with Teresa Guiccoli. It la not only remarkable for thf wealth of ri»»tail which if contains ■mine the rompolon of Don Juan. I-1 for the amount of unpublished correspond-
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    Aged 11, She Wrote A Book
    77 2 pLAIMED to b«- the jroung- m child m the world 10 write and Illustrate her own book. Dagma Dawson, of Sydney is now writing h»-: second. Dagma called her first book Ladybird Garden" and it was published by the Australian Publishing Company Ltd She
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    Ballet Career Of Miss King
    263 2  -  Pigeon Crowle Moira Shearer by a DOZEN years ago a A few little girls, and no little boys at all, used to »v to their parents: •Mother. I want to be a ballet dancer But with the war *****- the lon provincial tours of the
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    A Brilliant Study of Crime
    352 2  - A Brilliant Study of Crime PETER QUENNELL Reviews newbooks m U.K. T>KHKADfN(iabook we have once enjoyed is like encountering an admired acquaintance whom \ve have not met for several years. Ihe same flurry of surprise and delight is followed much too often hv the same gradual disappointment. Books, like human
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    QUICK LOOKS
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      221 2 F\P. Crossword No. 90S rnFT~Fi fi 1 5 i b p 1 i__ I v 15 16 ~17 «j 1% I I i_Hjlil 30 3! JJT3Z 3TI 54 35 m wrr; 40 1 11 r 1 1 M y till S \< ROSS 4 Reptiles i 6»: Deadlock i 7-
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      130 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today. *ou are :m idealist and from earliest youth ha\e your eyes fixed on the stars Whether or not you reach your goal is up to you not fate The stars have given von the latent talent but M is i'|» to you to develop it
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    RUSSIA ALTERS CHINA'S NORTH
    191 3 M'churia points I the way Manchuria today is a miniature Russia econo- nnrfh ly^ aid the inform^nt. ho recently visited ?he north. He said that every branch of industry and :.merce has been nationalised, with the result tnat there is no such thing there as a
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    More babies being born in France
    15 3 I r I the 1949. 840.000 I year at
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    DELAY IN ROME
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    FLIGHTS SUSPENDED
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    26 3 prisoners undVr the supervision of a > di* for .i possihir tbc Vilional fiaUerv '1 r i i•- ifi.'n I it^ff it w:> estiblishod lh.it tfe ttonih.
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    Indian Army medals Given to Sandhurst
    49 3 LONDON. lhur>cla.v. i ot medal* from campaigns of the n m which the old Indian Army bee— If the property of the British Xtadriin at Sandhurst. i.edals were at GenDelhi One collection I Lord Birriwood. when I Department m 1913. i i re-
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    New Argentinians
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    Japan's Picasso
    78 3 I'OKIO. Thurs. JAPANESE modern paintclaimed a si year old l»o\ will be flf'i FVim when the boy exhibited ?0 oils at one of Tokio\ s must promitunt art gall'-ru > r. ien.l\ l Fading critk i s.iid he aihteved "vivid I ipitwi«|| of ihe modern sfiiM- which other
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    Baby hoots are family heirloom
    42 3 Baby hoots are family heirloom i >ND N v PAH i old •.■he I is i mdci twl of bli ties es m left to Wins .ard D. The bo< to X bei ho di^d m 1863 I ol e 18tl Reuter
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    Canada watches Jap dumping
    33 3 Canada watches Jap dumping 11HE dren's s marI official In O ar a has d unping be Imp 11 could latisfi Oov■rnmenr that the Jap v pnd:ins?- *h^ I inadiri!. il |1 U.P.
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    55 3 phot. Film star Richard Green lighta a cigarette at the Villa Bianra. Rome's luxurious hospital, after he broke his wrists and fractured two rib> when the horse he was ridm» crashed into a wall during the filming of a scene near tht- Italiari capital where London Pilau are producing. "The
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    London may get snow from Norway
    29 3 London may get snow from Norway LONDON u-a r RGETIC N an talk ski imp In Lot B New all Norwi In >sk It is a n A .P.
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    150 PRIESTS JAILED
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    PRINCE CHARLES
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    Bridge Hannds
    66 3 > Ea.si < -card tv k a::d 4 split b I piav must be i to give dec- fine ta»l Wesl by dn ppiJ I i heari I on tie fir^' With .ifa dealer \Y> U trump band) dumxn: ktog-eighl no* afforded po6itk>u Properly Rnlleci. ith's nexl lead
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    U.S.ARMSAID PACT SOON
    97 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. LMCRICAN officials said they expect a rms-aid agreement between the United States and eight North Atlantic powers will be signed here m a few days— possibly on Friday. The bilateral agreements will govern conditions' under which the United States will contribute 51. 000. 000. 000
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    AUSTI. TO HAVE STRONG NAVY
    24 3 AUST I. TO HAVE STRONG NAVY STRALIAN >;..• y Mil i Australia the B:: nd is plan nl Go 1 i is to U. P.
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    Polish coal for Pak.
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    COSTLIER A-BOMBS?
    27 3 Belgium Is exported t( '**k United Statei for nig prices for uranium ore tl raw mate] I atom bomb* at a conference openins m A.P.
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    STRIKE CONTINUES
    9 3 63 .Quo Ameri sol -c workers Reuter
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    They took the chance
    71 3 TWO vounc ".oldicrs railed at the Uhipsti.nl- t«,r hairs from the tail of the larjji»l fciratl- Ih l\»<» hair hunters were takini; part m an Army rxercise. Lanatica at Larfe." and t<»'d the Mperintcndenl of the 700 that »»cc<w meant li mirks. \l! riuht. hut remeniber
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    Russians best buyers of Hitler's busts
    154 3 Russians best buyers of Hitler's busts BERLIN, Thiw-o.iv. OISSJAN officers are the best customer* ot i mJJi who earns his living m Berlin to.iav by m* 1 nu bronze busts of Adolf Hitler. In an obscure cellar shop m Eullfi Boi sector works the sculptor Kurt Fall. trY man whi
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    S.A. NATIVES MAY REVOLT
    26 3 THE P Be Hen «::d opp the 6 I day r c A:: R [l I I b m South A Reuter
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    Robots for B.B.C.
    91 3 LONDOK ihui> ROBOT* in-tr id o| hum m tet hni i MM lor KiriniK «h n UMftMmi |«n wronij with a transmitted pr:» t.!inini* will shortly if used by the British Broadeasttag orpnration By the end of IMs<>. th-» robots will have rrleavrd 2*i Pimmeers'f roni ihrir
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    HUK LE^ER. MEETS REDS
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    CRASH KILLS 11
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      76 3 WHAT'S ON IN K. L. Xl <)|»M'N I tM \i iVII h.n 1 Va] i II DX <i IKU I: trTTO] Innata PENXSC XI M»J <»N M\\\ I- ili Ml n LIOO: I r I \M\D^OR: Kannlyin K. I Otl IPOH ki m bi -,1 Xl H\ ODEOX: GK%ND DLHEMBAM
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      366 3 nT^Knnor Metres and 4!» Metre*. SINCjArvJKr* iod.W (BLIE NETWORK p m Pr 4H4 and 41 7 metres. 44 he London Edi Bulletin 1.4 .bkc 4 ft S irday's Melbourne and Sydi Einersentj news from X 1.. 15 »colonla] Com- Races, r«ad v eed; 10 am. 'BBC': 5.30 "Ti 5 Music
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Jan. 26. 1950. SIGN TO THE WORLD
    486 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Jan. 26. 1950. SIGN TO THE WORLD t \V I ie 308 members of be OonsUtaeni Assembly I <* Urn Dominion of India -'en me new cooatitoD| IM SOYI L>» DIOCI a< i<- Repub k i B. I i. ay iM.l became v is the
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    A New Republic Is Born Today
    602 4 TODAY is v great day for India. And for Britain. Alexander the Great's sporadic raid into India left something; hut not much. The great Moghuls left the Taj; and the memories of Akbar who wus wise he fore his lime Bui il was lefl
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    THE SEAL OF INDIA
    286 4 »THE State Emblem and Seal of India is a replica of the magnificent Lion Capital at Sarnath near the city of Banaras, built by the greatest of India's Kin^s. Priyadarsi Asoka. Perhaps, the best extant monument o| Asukan sculpture, the Lion Capital consists of a stone
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    THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
    499 4 jnVEXTY years ago the Indian people pledged themaelves to win complete independence. This followed a long; period during which the country had successively struggled for a voice m the Government and for Dominion status. Today that pledge is redeemed and India becomes a sovereign, democratic republic.
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    It Seems To Me....
    1082 4  -  POLITICO By PEW of us have an idc;i of the incidental worries tli<i t can beset the birth of a new state. We can imagine the trouble thai :i man like Turk Westerling is causing m Jakarta, the conferences11 1 111« 1 1 musl be lu*l<l
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    ISLAND LIVES IN DREAD
    70 4 ISLAND LIVES IN DREAD INGRH brotu bath t,,: isle oi B Strom he antF c. All 1 r oft tta isle livp forth In truf F. the pu>* living on T! M crn When quick B x erup tidal their r boll ir F the abr unwr ra and I
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    FLYING HIGH
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    TWO CHANCES TO EARN HIGHER PAY
    375 5 TWO CHANCES TO EARN HIGHER PAY Proposal for S.M.C. exams Free Press Staff Reporter £|INGAPORE Municipal employees will have two chances of passing the examination to qualify for increments over the bar m their salary scale, according to a recommendation of the Municipal Salaries Revision Committee due for confirmation at
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    Admiral's daughter married
    27 5 Im ,H Kevorter I Sir nder- O n S -.tpore. W 8.. Hid t^e Bg of The dral la i B I T O<!orP
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    NEW VAMPIRE IN SINGAPORE
    8 5 NEW VAMPIRE IN SINGAPORE Stafl Rrpartet last by
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    24 5 picture. DMMANDKR Peter Gerald Charles Dickens and Mary I \<i\ Iwvsdfn photosru phed leaving St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, after their wedding yesterday.— Free Press
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    8 FRIGHTENED FAMILIES
    302 5 Free l'ress .Malay I'orrespondent II'IVFS of Malay and Indian labourers at the Singapore Harbour Board quarters m Nelson Koad woke up \esterday mornins m a bad teniptr. They had spent a sleepless night, disturbed and frightened h> bricks which were thrown into their homes by some unknown
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    POISONED
    28 5 A 19-year old Singapore Chinese girl, the daughu-r of shop proprietor was found vi v ith caustic .ing m her father's shop In Robinson Road terday afternoon.
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    USI BUYS RELIEF GOODS IN STORE
    248 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rHF. Indonesian (iovrrnme it has set aside S7 50.000 (Malayan) for purchases from Singapore oi essential 'commodities for relief m Sumatra since last December. Shipments valued $300,000 consisting of textiles medicines agricultural implements, chemicals, nmrc stationery, and motor spare parts
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    HAWKERS PLEAD FOR REPRIEVE
    195 5 F. P. Chinese Correspondent SINGAPORE Chinatown hawkers at a meeting yesterday decided to make a last appeal to the Municipal authorities for ar. extension i of six months for them to 'wind up and move out o! ♦hei-- present stalls. This follows the refusal of the
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    WAITED TEN YEARS FOR TRIP TO U.K.
    180 5 WAITED TEN YEARS FOR TRIP TO U.K. Free Press StalT Reporter AFTER a delay of 10 years through war and illhealth, a 35-year-old Siueapore doctor Wong Kirn Yip. is leaving the Colony today on th° Carthage for studies In London on a Federal Queens Fellowship he won before the war.
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    DANGER TO CHILDREN
    212 5 Free Piexs Staff RrportiT THE Singapore Municipal Lady Health Officer, Di Mar, Tan, yesterday des|cribed whooping rough »nd measles as the two most damaging diseases of shildhood. Dr Tan told i\n- Free Press thai these diseases we a child's lungs weak through excessive coughing and vomit tint:
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    DINNER PARTY
    40 5 More than 600 people attended the annual dinner given jointly by Messrs. Gutwirth Trading <M> Co. Ltd.. Clipper T r A din g Co Ltd infi Champion Motors, at the Wing Choon Yuen Restaurant. Great World, last, night.
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    QUEEN'S SCHOLAR
    19 5 picture. T)R- Wong Kin Yip. Queen's Scholar, who leaves Singapore for the United Kingdom today.— Free Press
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    When mayor was a weight lifter
    293 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO comrades of th c Burma-Siam death railway met m a Singapore restaurant yesterday. One was the acting President of Singapore Municipality. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, and the other was Britain's famous wcightlifting star. Jim Hulliday, who is on
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    JAP PRISON TERMS CUT
    88 5 I 8 a result ot the r< commendations of Wai Crime* Sentences FBoard recently held In I don. the Secretary of for War has ordered the r. v.sion of sentenoea ol cci Japanese v.ar criminals, heid m tarlc prisons te F. a- This Bo;»rd Ml 9t*
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    Britain's 'iron men' learn chopstick art
    292 5 Britain's 'iron men learn chopstick art Free Press Staff Reporter ORITAIVS husky four-man weightlifting team t the Empire Games were defeated at the New World last night by local "iron men" m a contest they never bargained for. It was at a Chinese dinner arranged by the Singapore Amateur Weight
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    BAILIE'S TALK
    35 5 BaiJie Me Asian, the visiting Glasgow Councillor, will talk on The Local Government and the Citizens,' at the Orchard Road V.M.C.A. Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow. The talk la open to the public.
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    SOUTH HAVE EVEN CHANCE
    373 6  - SOUTH HAVE EVEN CHANCE CRISADER Rugby finale on Saturday By 1 UKCAI'SK Selangor's magnificent victory oxer Combined Services m the final of the H. M.S. Malawi rugby final proved that the prophets had been wrong, there appears to be solid support for the North m Saturday's finale of the season
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    Past results
    59 6 I9ti North II Iftl South 1930 North 11— 3. i«::i N«rUi i 3— h. i >»»uih o. 19.: i South 11— 1!*34 North I i— I. 1935 Noiih »2- 0 IH;{»> North ll— 5. m: North .'3- 11. J'.KiS South H— 7. l^3« .South 1..— b. IMI7 North
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    MAXIM AFTER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
    25 6 lACK i "Doc Keai us, J M R X i hei B r. B j 'I", f UA Naij Boxi.ig p
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    Owners have eye on season's big races
    110 6  -  TRESPASSER By IN view of the \«*ry open racing and better Nt.ik<> ahead this season, owners are coing with thn, >|<>^^. Of tin* well over 100 Class I horses registered onh til have hern entered for tin- Singapore Inn Club's Sorini Meetini lo
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    TORIES' MANIFESTO BOOSTS PRICES
    293 6 LONDON, Thurs. r PHE Conservative Party election manifesto assisted domestic issues m the London Stock Exchange yesterday, says Reuters financial correspondent. Sentiment brightened and a fresh spurt by British Government funds and Industrials. Undated itocki made Rood headway throughout the day to close with uam.s <>i
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    DERBY WINNER SOLD TO N.Z.
    38 6 m AlUn D winner, has been ptmhased b\ sit Jam. i«" their All on odge itiid m v: W\ id liuJ l i».d be- fore l 150 kmoq. ranacb i !!fl. A.A.P. Reuter
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    OXFORD WIN 13-3.
    17 6 QXFORD Lvfnrfty V United Efotpltab by 13 to 3in a Rugby ii Reuter A.P.
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    WIDE LOSSES IN WALL STREET
    6 6 WIDE LOSSES IN WALL STREET Reuter
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    LONDON TIN MART QUIET
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    MINOR UPSETS AT IPOH
    378 7 From \l I W LEWIS i the racing yesterday, second day i Club's January Meeting, were the Mn«ev N of Singapore traine r Yong H.l < m lereral minor upsets. sc finishes came m the v k htegaal and Briany passed aineragraph recordeat. r qu'CKiy <
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    S.C.C. WIN 14-0
    45 7 S.C.C. WIN 14 -0 THIRTEEN SCO. prayers had Uttlc difficulty In beating the Singapore All Blues 14-0 at rugger on the Padang yese (iay. Tne SCC lent the Blues two of their players. Scorers were: Sykes, a try converted by McVicar: Gurtsitie. Kiilick and Goldie.
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    Grecian Prince & Blank Spec best
    262 7 Grecian Prince Blank Spec best From ALLAN LEWIS IPOH. Thursday. 'PIIEKE was rain last nij;»»t and the going was a little soft when horses went out for work this morning. Best gallops this morning were by Blank Spec (Charles) and Grecian Prince (Harper), who covered 3 f. m 38 2
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    $15.000 offer to 'Gussie'
    72 7 $1 5.000 offer to 'Gussie' Vilss GTtude i "flnaata"! Muran ai.e. Mr? Pattkia Todd. the I S lennw «tar. said m Madias Ijastaffday: Well never be<ome Drofes*ional>. i l« ■tatawMDi came after offer? by Bobby Ri^gs prc»moter of the professional trout)** *hirh bt-en playing m Tendon. RiZgs promised Miss Moran
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    2 S. Africans still in Karachi
    77 7 T*HI B< itta African wrestler Vlartin Joaste who vas tndfd m Karachi \fter bung released from quarantine at Kiwarhi airport on TlWdiy, «<*■ rjle -o a seat vi plan* i flying iv Ausiralia last niem. An effort -w. ill br- marie to put u**te
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    S.H.B. XV WIN
    45 7 •THE Singapore Harbour Board 1 bt-ar the Police XV yesterday by 13 points Co nil m m r-gger match played at Thomson Road. Trips were scored by Scaife f.nd Bird with Scaife kicking a penalty as wrll ms converting the farta. ture.
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    MALAYANS ARRIVE IN AUCKLAND
    196 7 THE Malayan Empire Gamts party of six. wilh their manager, Mr. E. Strickland, arrived m Auckland by flying boat shortly after seven o'clock last night. They travelled m the same craft af Mr. Arthur Porritt, chairman of the Empire Games Federation. Mr. Strickland told Reutcr: /The
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    'MALAYA NEEDS LIFTING COACH'
    898 7  -  PETER HILL Oscar State expresses views By p«c- YIR. Oscar State, 38-year-old founder and secretary of the British Empire Weighlifting Federation who arrived m Singapore yesterday m charge of Britain's Empire Games weightlifting contingent, was astounded that Malaya had not sent a weightlifting coach to New
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    DAVES CUP ENTRIES
    170 7 ti'iTH less than week to g<> tt before -nt rlei close. Ausl ralia, CiecnosloTtkla, Greece, Denmark. Portugal. Argentina. Chile, Turkey, 8 ith Africa. Cuba and Mcl co have not jrei entered f<>r the > c ip competition Canada is the only entry ;< da?- r the American
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    INDIAN HAM REACHES U.K.
    121 7 INDIAN HAM REACHES U.K. THK Indian table i«*i!ii:s tcwn fui the world championships m Budapest .Manias on Jan 28. arruNl at Ix>ndon airport yes'^:dav from Bombay. Aftri the world chHmpionsh.pt.. the Indian team m due to lour Yugoslavia and Sweden, reiurnintf to England for the Kngii^h v\*n championhsips lti Manti
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    MAYFLOWER B.P.
    25 7 Mayflower B.P. will celebrate their 23rd anniversary' at a dinner at 357 East Coast Road «8' m s >>. on Saturday at 8 p.m.
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    Czech 'crusher arrives
    6 7 KMIL K()KOS( KNKO
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    I.R.C. WIN SOCCER
    45 7 YHE Indu.n Rerr'-ation Club Ivar Kotn Raia by t*o Koals to nil m <• fast Kt-ni? of soccer played at Farier Park on Saturday. Salahudin scorea m tht- flrst half and S Y. Ally pur 'hem further m the lead after fh* interval
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    Local athletes fight shy of U.K. stars
    344 7 Local athletes fight shy of U.K. stars fiUNDREDS of sportsmen m Singapore were given n the opportunity yesterday afternoon of v first-class athletes, boxers, weight lift its. fenoei rowers and one swimmer m art ion Empire Games team worked out In Singapon A lar^e crowd gathered at Rallies In ground,
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    J. Bahru CYMA
    45 7 JDHOfi I THE i_\ ktolii I ■OCM t ;he I Mr Be i beer »>> m mi\h the re v I i.ir.ui. 33 Jr.:,;: Bahrj pic- tnrr Donald Kiih;h Brit tin's :nt hurdler, m training .ii Ih* K.ifflfv Institntio.i <;r>uind >?Nterda>.- Free Press
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    RUSSIAN WAR AID TO RED CHINA
    282 8 Formosa tells of alliance HONG KONG, Thursday. JJTSSIA is to supply Red China with bomber and fighter planes and warships and "volunteers" to man them for the invasion of Hainan and Formosa and, later, Indo-China and Siam, according to intelligence reports reaching the Nationalist
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    Macao gives CNAC goods to Reds
    87 8 Macao gives CNAC goods to Reds HONG KONG, ThUTS. 4 USUALLY Miabl<« Amenr\ can lource last night said that the Macao authorities have handed over to the [Chinese Communist* abuu USS2 000.000 worth of radio and other equipment belong- to the China National i ton Ownership of this prope I
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    SEER IS IN TROUBLE
    74 8 SEER IS IN TROUBLE MANILA. Thursdi I*HE 17-year-old seer ol Sair.paioc. ox -boo" black i Armidilla. is to appeal before a Manila court today •<j face four charges filed by In connection with hi* ition and prophecy In Manila suburb II "I! M bank a< i Ve«IU o'. as been
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    'Evangelist' deported.
    104 8 'Evangelist deported oadhu Lam Jeeraratnam, a 57-year-old Indian mgeliiit/ wai deported yesterdajF to Harwich by Dutcn police for practising hypnotism on sick people a' public nic^tinji^ He had obiaint-d a Outdl vi.sa :n lladrai 'o siK-.<k :n vartom Dv b Umai for a month n PTans^Unn ;n India and arrtved
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    NO CHOICE
    28 8 Israel had no choice but to r an armament race m View ot the heavy rearmament of Arab states an Israel spokesman said yester day. Reuter
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    HONGKONG BANS A 'DELICACY'
    166 8 HONG KONG. Thursday of doK or cut meat, which many Chinese, particularly m Kwangtung, consider a delicacy, is now prohibited m Hone; Kono under a new ordinance, which makes it illegal to slaughter or sell such animals for use as food for humans or animals. Meanwhile,
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    U.S. backs up China charges
    140 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. rilE State Department yesterday produced documentary information to support the Secretary of j State. Mr. Dean Acheson's recent charge that Russia Is taking over huge areas or northern China. The document was an answer to the Soviet Foreign Minister. Mr. Andrei Vyshinskys statement
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    SMOKING BAN NOT LEGAL
    38 8 NEW DELHI. Than 11HE Delhi Municipal Count il considers that a han on smoking is an encroachment on personal liberty and rejected. In II rote* tti 9, a resolution to han smoking m cinemas.
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    VISIT TO MALTA
    11 8 Pi ncess EMza ti I I A. P.
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    Want to earn more?
    99 8 II you want to Increase your imomr. sell to your boss ;in idea that will help him nakf more money. The (icneral Motors Corp. of Detroit (Michigan) has had surh plan m operation for ei»;ht years, daring which it has paid out U.S. 55.000.000 for employees'
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    Italy sues for U.K. fortune of ex-king
    145 8 LONDON, Thursday 11 \l suid a British bank yesterday for the late Kmy Victor Emmmimel's r554.200.00U fortune m Britain. The Republic brought the action m the Chancery COuri against Hambros Bank, administrators of the Kings estate In Britain, and Sir Hpn rv Oregon'
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    41 8 photo A feu hours after fir** had destroyed a I.SSiOO.OOO Krain Hrvator m Aberdeen South Dakota), sub-zero weather caused the gutted remain** to be covered with ire. Picture shows smoke and steam still issuing from the smouldering grains inside.- A. P.
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    AMI-RED ARMY IN RUSSIA
    60 8 AMI-RED ARMY IN RUSSIA MI'NICH. Thursday. L'KRANIAN liberty army numbenr.y bttwctil 100--000 and 200.000 men operating behind the curtain, according to D Hirschun. spok* if the I.eanue of Ulomni m I er Qeratration ("amp Priaooen The Munich Ab< d Li D: H di.^- d :ha 4 the main operaf The
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    Rumania Hants no inquiry
    20 8 RUMANIA tui a V g -..iv proposal to U P iofin (j Into month Iron:: Reuter
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    Hiss gets 5 years jail
    105 8 NEW YORK. T. Hiss young l S Depa cpei m- advised President Elooseveil ai the Yaiia conff was sentenced to fm In prioo.: yesterday for lyini aboui hi 4 1938 rooperatio" with a Communist spy ri Tht- 15-year-bkl former P-o--side- o| tlie Carnegie El ment
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    YOSHIDA ON RED MENACE
    47 8 YOSHIDA ON RED MENACE THE Japanese Prime Mr Iter, Mr. Shitjeni Yoshida «aid yesterday iha, the! enormous threal of Communism to oOQttnentii] China and South-But Asia constitutes a menace to Japan" This. Mr. Yoshida told the House of Councillors, should expedite a peace conference for Japan- U.P.
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    MENZIES'S HOPE
    24 8 TJu> Australian Premier. Mr G t Menzios. said yesteniav «i»at he hopes to make a Australian ,^troi rationing within a wwk. A.P.
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    16 8 Anancial ais'unions for the relrase ot Twarti utwUng bftla«c« ot^ti. I fd In London !w*fcrday.- U.P.
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