The Singapore Free Press, 3 March 1950

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 394 1 EXPERT KILLED IN AMBUSH I Troops, SPC die with him Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. 0-N "w way to recover an Electricity Board vehicle which had run off the road, an Army recovery unit with a New Zealand hydro-electric engineer were ambushed by bandits at Cameron Highlands yesterday
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    16 1 ;>u M.u Donald I a hinpH^ Wo mi* 11 t al at Bukil M Free Press
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  • 15 1 15 NEW MINISTERS APPOINTED Th*» c ParS ■n to i' the 7, ho Mr and
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  • 133 1 LONDON. Fri. MR Jame« Griffiths, who replaced Mr. Arthur Creech Jones vis Secretary of State for the Colonies in the new British Cabinet, sent a message today to all Colonial Governors on taking up his appointment. Mr Griffiths said: The King has today entrusted me
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  • 54 1 Uprising in E. Sumatra MLDAN. Friday. INDONESIAN language papers in Medan are continously reporting incidents in various parts of East Sumatra Negara.' Mestika said yesterday that a crowd in Tegrilama village on Saturday tried to overthrow the present administration. The authorities, however, remained masters of the situation with the help
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  • 64 1 SOVIET HIT AT FINLAND MOSCOW yes'.erday renewed harges that Finland had i ted her treaties with R last! by evading a Soviet dnd for the return it 300 alleged war criminals Russia timed her new note of protest to coincide with the inauguration in Helsinki of President Juno K P&sskivi
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  • 43 1 RATIONALIST bombings have shrunk exports from Hong Kong to Red Canton from a daily average of 1,500 tons down to 500 tons Rail service has been cut and several truck convoys have been shot up by Nationalist planes. A.P.
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  • 165 1 LONDON, Friday. BRITAIN'S future nationalisation programme was generally believed to have been shelved in the first meeting of Prime Minister Mr Clement Attlees new Labour Cabinet. There was no official announcement but all signs hav e been pointing in that direction since the Labour Government
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  • 43 1 A "tired and overworked" bookkeeper in Dallas. Texas, decided to end ir all on Wednesday. He dived 35 feet into the Trinity River from a vlafiuct. Then he changed his mind :iml swam to the shore. U.P.
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  • 28 1 The Duke of Gloucester will stop in Cairo pn Much 12 on hU way to Nairobi. He- will be thr lnnoii guest of King A.P.
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    39 1 picture Celebrating her third birthday. Primes* Marijke. youngest of the four daughters of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (behind) and Prince Bernhard busies herself with two toy stock/ in thp library of the Royal Palace at Soestdijke. A. P.
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  • 152 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. THE Washington Star, in an editorial on Malayan Anti-Bandit Month. hope.s that the Communist -led guerillas who have been burning, looting and killing for the past 18 months will "now be hunted down and annihilated."' "Such a task is all the more
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  • 35 1 Mai -Gen. Weikart. of the U.S. States Air Force, has arrived in Saigon from Tokio snd Is due lo leave today for Bangkok on a tour of countries in South-East Asia Reuter
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  • 15 1 The Pakistan Government has denied concentrating troops along the Indian border. U.P.
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  • 155 1 LONDON. Friday. JAPANESE purchases of Malayan rubber and Australian wool and wheat may have to be suspended as a result of the delay in reciprocal buying by the British colonies under the current sterling area trade agreement, Takio Ota, chief of the Government International
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  • 66 1 MILLIONAIRE John La Porte Oivon. 42-year-old heir to the Heinz food fortune, testified in New York that he can drink two quarts of whisky without ill effects. It was not the bottle insidl him, he indicated, which hurt it was the one which hit him over
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  • 38 1 U.S. Representative Prince H Preston, Democrat, said yesterday that If France bars Coca Cola, "we should retaliate by taking proper action against cerntn French ■oMimodlties. n u j ly wine. ,-hi nipagne and perfume."— i A.P.
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  • 141 1 Peng Soon on way to title U/OM. PKNG SOON, thr Singapore and Malayan champion, entered the semi-finals of the All-Eng-land badminton championships in London yesterday when he beat Nils Johnson, the Swedish title-holder He meets Joern Skaarup in the semi-final, the other semi-final being between Poul Holm and Ole Jensen.
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  • 73 1 Gang kills American NEW YORK. Friday AIISS Selma Maxwell, American missionary nurse who was prisoner of Burrruse bandies for several years was killed on Tuesday In an attempt by villagers to release her. The U.S. Embassy fe Rang«-on reports that arran^emenis hfcd been completed |W Miss \laxwtll release when some
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  • 55 1 Eleven American sale executives will sail for Britain today to tell British business how to sell more goods in the United States. A.P. I.K. official loaned Britain has agreed to lend a Treasury official. Commander Robert Jackson, to Australia as temporary secretary to the proposed new Ministry
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  • 79 1 TWO young lovers in Bangkok, kept apart by their parents, went to the cinem i secretly and then walked to a temple. There before the temple deity they knelt and torether bemoaned the fate that kept happiness from them n this world. Vowing to be together
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  • 211 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. pHE U.S. State Department hinted to Congress yesterday that it might produce an aid programme for South-East Asia within the next three months. The department filed a statement on foreign aid with the Senate Relations Committee. It said (l/S) $400,000,000 is
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  • 185 1 A SPOKESMAN of the 1 Special Branch of Singapore C.I.D said U morning that there i 1 no question of any pohc^ officers dining wit "Turko" Westerling < i Saturday night as allege j. in a cable trom Sir. Lachie MacDonald. Singapore correspondent 1 the London Daily
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  • 34 1 the t] re A E .is principal medical offirer. r Fi-ir.- Air re C P O N has return- d t i the L' loin on t'» H ;r of ov- iiity.
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  • 12 1 The Malays who murlered the (iovernor *f Sarawak have been hanged.
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    • 31 1 For the bttt Food Win* in Town Visit THE SIN6APORE RESTAURANT BAR 79, BRAS BASAH ROAD. Reservations: Phone 4086 «I^\\E? KJ^h? fine tobacco nk A^i anil the cork-lip RipS^ cleaner smoking
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  • 394 2  -  Sarah Langton by LONDON: yOU can look "line in the rain" at lust! Rainwear designers have .now given the answer to tue business woman's persistent problem of how to go to work through pouring r»Mn, put in a full day in the office or shop
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  • 612 2  - Good shoes are scarce MARY DELANE h' LONDON: THE demand lor lightweight shoes, as well as for light-weight fabrics, \vas, I urn told, increased considerably lately. Women who have been able to travel either in Europe or elsewhere within the last year or so have been delighted with the shoes
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  • 117 2 The present fashion of wearing slacks Is in great measure a result of the new marriages and family laws which guarantee women complete equality with men. Czech fashions as represented in domestic magazines are simple and tasteful —1' not too original. Fashion designers go to the
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  • 268 2 \|HS. Marie King, of Singapore, has been helping the women of the colony to battle the ravages of tropical sun for some time now and has imported a new cream from London that seems to be her newest an d strongest ally. Mrs Kin f
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 207 2 VOUR LUCKY STAR youh y second look Sometime mainStT h Y™™ you do err in judgment and ?r?5»« I« h ften 11 t Well mi ht Chan^ e VOUr mf* vn t\ l TO wlt h" mind if you weren't so out your seeking it. Be «tnhhnni ahnn» it' guarded,
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    • 312 2 F.P. Crossword No. 934 JbSJBjtKjI&S fIUVi A Ti ~j jiQ 1^ I f^^^l P^^l P^^^ \t BKyi i 1 Lav- -X-. i H CMJn ACROSS 1. Being in ciiarge seems to have madr him jumpy (7); 7 Spac^ when there used to be a shelter? <6); 8 Respond by doing
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  • 392 3 MANCHURIAN REDS SUCCESS No middle class to eliminate HONG KONG, Friday. L^FFORTS to communize Manchuria have been more successful than in China proper because there was no strong bourgeois middle class to contend with, the Far Eastern Economic Review said in its mid-February issue. The Review is a conservative economic
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  • 259 3 WASHINGTON, Friday. IF you fear that a hydrogen bomb might set the earth's atmosphere and oceans on fire, take consolation from a scientist who conceived the theory behind the projected bomb. He is Dr. Hans A. Bethe, Cornell University physicist, who is on record as saying:
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  • 27 3 There have b^en heavy movement of cows, horses, mules, hogs and sheep from Central China to Manchuria. Inner Mongolia and Slnkiang says a Shanghai report.
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  • 84 3 'PACKAGE TOURS' TO EARN WASHINGTON. Fri. WESTERN Europe should develop a "Package Tour" for middle-income Americans to visit European countries Mr. William C. Foster. Acting Economic Co-opera-tion Administrator, told this to 15 representatives of the European tourist industry who visited the United Statesrecently. Mr. Foster said all-inclu sive package tours
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  • 52 3 Pakistan is building a U.S. $70,000,000 barrage on the Indus River at Kotri. 120 miles north of Karachi A British engineer, Mr. T A. W. Foy, is in charge of the project. When completed in five years, the dam. will irrigate 3.000.0WJ acres ot the Stud
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  • 109 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs. THE United Stales was urged yesterday to begin talks 1" Ms North Atlantic Pact .lilies to formulate a new approach to Russia for atomic peace. The call was made in the United States Senate by Se- nator Brien McMahon, chairI man of Congressional
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  • 35 3 Exploratory work on the proposed Kosi River dam in Nepal will be completed this ye*ar. It will provide irrigation water and electricity for a wide area of Nepal and Indian Bihar.- A.P.
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  • 61 3 WASHINGTON, rhOTS. THE Korean embassy spokesman, referring to invasion danger from Russiansupported North Korea, s?id 'The Iron Curtain which now bisects our country imposes a boundary that is as dangerous, if not more so, than any boundary in Europe.' He charged that Russia recently gave 30 fighter
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  • 29 3 An Indian scientist claims to have prepared a compound from Indian fish oil which, is effective in the treatment of patients suffering from high blood pressure.
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  • 30 3 A 10.000-tan tanker, the largest built In Japan since the end of the war, will be launched at the Kawasaki dock yard. Kobe, on Mar. 6 Reuter
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  • 83 3 LONDON, Thusday. PRINCESS Elizabeth, who became part owner of a race horse last summer, has helped youn* Ernie Pools toward his ambition of becoming a professional JOCk Fourteen-year-old Ernie, who had never ridden anythtnr but a plow horse on his fathers farm, wrote the Princess for
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  • 134 3 SYDNEY. Friday. IyINCiS, chieftains, and headmen of South Pacific islands wHI meet for a big conference in April. The meeting, to be held in Suva. Fiji, will be the first big get-together of these island rulers. But don"t get the idea they will
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    270 3 both itUlea ar« ruloeratl* »od you ar« North with tb« fuiluw« leg cards YTTHAT do you bid? You have already made one strong bid when you "reversed' by bidding the higher-ranking suit, spades, at the two level. Originally, you opened with one diamond because it was the natural
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  • 77 3 a SPECIAL bill has i\ been introduced in the U.S. Congress to permit Nicholas Drujinenko Nicolaie. 19-year-old youth without a country, to remain in America. He is at present free under a US $500 bond, in the custody of Mrs. Mary Levry of San
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  • 274 3 WASHINGTON, Friday. 'HlNfcSf: Communist acts directed against I'nited States citizens and property in China have hardened Congressional opinion here against any early recognition of the Chinese Communist regime. Some Congressmen who had been predicting privately that the United States would follow Britain's lead and
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  • 29 3 A Russian landlord I Shanghai has Med thfM Ch.*se tenants for back rent which, he claimed. thev h?» refused to Day for Mftßf months A. P.
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    32 3 photo Pedestrian and drueis were put to a *ti(T tr>t hi Syracuse. »w \orW rrvPHilv when a 24 -hour, eieht in* h deep, fall ot muiw degenerated into thi> *!u>h. A. P.
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  • 24 3 Tv o Chinese you apprehended on Fob; nary 24 while taki'is photographs of th^ Philippines Air F n-iain b«sf at Nk-h
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    • 463 3 SINGAPORE 4 47 "From the London Editorials' Bennie. 11.02 Melody on the Move; w (BBC); 4.55 "Composer of the 11.15 Famous Operatic Aria— from (BLUE NETWORK) Week"— Sir Edward Elgar"; 5.15 "Barber of Seville"; 11.30 News 484 and 41.7 metres. Special Dispatch" (BBC>- 5.30 Bulletin 4 pm. Music tor Emergency
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  • 392 4 The Singaprore Free Press FRIDAY. Mar. 3. 1950. 260 REASONS FOR CHEERING IT is good to be able to vrite on a piece of news for which there can be nofhiiig but praise. Letring or? steam about Commun- j s or debates on deputy! wmtflf engineers can be \\.ry pleasant
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  • 146 4 The Police are concerned at becoming the whipping boys on the question of hawkers in which they are only acting under orders. Part of the 'whipping" has been the accusation rhat members of the Police Force have stolen things from the hawker stalls they have been removing.
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  • 1086 4  -  Robert McMahon By VOVOSEL'S mind must have gone back to the hills of Croatia this week, when the snow was falling on Killearn and whiting the Campsies. It is many years since Xovosel left his own hills, and he hardly expects to see
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    16 4 "Tfic lady myt cam we fmd Kcr paptr. u$ ake thinks tke %**ed im ike wtmm."
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  • 229 4  -  LESLIE SMITH a COBRA makes a tasty dish in China. "Some snake broth for you, Madame?" Nearly every living crea- j ture is the basis of some succulent dish, and the local snakes, poisonous and otherwise, are no exception. Meet the Snake King. "Snake King 141m" is
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    28 4 Jennifer Jones in a scene from Gore To Earth, being filmed in Shropshire, England. Gore To Earth has been adapted <r Om the famous novel by Mary Webb.
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  • 960 4  -  HUGH CHEVINS By Well-known diplomatic corresponden t /X>MINFORM, international political instrument of Soviet imperialism, has found new pretexts and revived old tactics for spreading the cold war against democracy. The pretexts are the sending of men and equipment from France and other countries to the
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  • 399 4  -  Robert Shearer By TTALY today is the European country wuich represents the Individualistic way of living in its purest form. Since the end of the war she has moved only very slightly towards State Socialism. During the past four years the Government have abolished one
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    25 4  -  OSBERT LANCASTER by 'Sometimes t otn't helv wondering just How lono ifli be betor§ rather stmtlw stone* start appearing in tkt Martian Pro*."
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    • 13 4 ATTRACTIVE SILVER BRUSHES FOR MEN P. H. HENDRY, :8. North Bridge Bd., Spore
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    • 69 4 jj£ SAUSAGES J^ Our Delicatessen Departrrt selection of imported sausages is a list of some of them Orde r sliced by the pound. Of wh?\e I It's impossible to describe Ihfl M I o° s m flavour, so the best way is to try each in turn Bologna Ham ami
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  • 479 5 SPORE FIGHTS TYPHOID- NEW DRUG USED Mrs. Eu urges inoculation Free Press Staff Reporter CHLOROMYCETIN, which ha s been described by British medical experts as an infallible cure for scrub typhus, is being used to fight typhoid fever in Singapore, the Free Press was told yesterday. Dr. N. A. Canton,
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    50 5 .-ait hundred bandits the isolated •TJ fal h or uo.mding of Zi JZfr 3m t ci\ilians and JJJldoun the police staw Dato Onn far talkinf to the Adviser, SJJJ bac'i to camera) Jj p Hodekinson, at ir^a on their way to n| Bukit Kepong 14 i away. P R picture
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    63 5 picture. AN illicit samsu distillery wa s found by Ft/Lt. William George of the Jnngle Rescue Team, RAF Changi in the Bukit Panjang Forest Reserve on Sunday while on a normal jungle patrol. The camp was raided yesterday by the Customs and destroyed. Picture shows member s of the raiding
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  • 123 5 KUALA LIMPLR, Thursday. vernment has decided to orgaI nice in the country and has appoint- nerville. at present Selangor's it >!onth Organiser, as th e first Civil missioner. G of :he Civil '.va.s D C. Waihnld: "Exrcccni war > country can today hope to withstand
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  • 35 5 The Board of Directors of the Mercantile Bank of India have recommended a final lividend of six per cent, less income tax. making 12 per cent, for the year ending Dec. w 1
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  • 168 5 FEWER LOOK FOR JOBS IN SINGAPORE Free Press Staff Reporter CHINESE New Year saw a I** record decrease in the j number of people seeking l Jobs in Singapore through the Labour Department's Employment Exchange. The figure was 799 compared with the previous low figure of 986 recorded in December
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  • 71 5 Surface mail u» expected 4 n Singapore totlay from Western Australia, Siam, Hong Kong and the Federation. Latest times for posting urface mail today at the G.P.O. are: noon for Philippine Islands, U.S.A.. Canada. Palembang. Trengganu and Kelantan (last two places parcels only 5.45 p.m. for the Federa i
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  • 196 5 Free Press Staff Reporter \f OKE than 2,000 stray and mangv dogs have been taken off Singapore streets by Municipal Veterinary Department since January this year, when the dog-catching staff was increased by 50 per cent. Mr. D. H. Witherington,, L Municipal Veterinary Surgeon,
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    41 5 pictur THE Ceylon Minister of Transport and Works, Sir John Kotelawala (right) is seen at a Buddhist service held I recently at the Buddhist Temple in Outram Road, Singapore. Besfde him is Bikku M.M. Mahaw~rra Thera, the resident Buddhist priest. Mobile
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  • 351 5 Free Press Staff Reporter I KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE Federation Police have appealed t 0 volunteers to assist in locating wounded bandits who are known to be succoured and to recuperate in certain places, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. N. Gray announced today.
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  • 83 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE new Dutch Club building at Adam Road, Singapore, is expected to be ready for occupation in July. The following officers were elected at a recent meeting of the Dutch Club. Mr. J. H. van der Laan, president: Mr. D. C. Kruysmulder deputy
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  • 640 5 SMC WORKERS WANT PAID LEA VE ABROAD Free Press Staff Reporter A SYSTEM of full pay overseas leave with return steamship passages for locally domiciled employees of the Singapore Municipality has been proposed to the Municipal Commissioners. This scheme is suggested by the Municipal Services Union in a memorandum on
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  • 83 5 FREE MEDICAL SERVICE SOUGHT THE Singapore Municipal Services Union has proposed to lhe Municipal Commissioners that free medical and dental treatment should be eiven to monthly-paid employees. On medical treatment, it says: "The existing system of medical attention is very unsatisfactory." It proposes that the Commissioner* should appoint a panel
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  • 73 5 The Labour Party of Sings pore will hold a dinner party at 730 p.m. on Monday at Siang Lim Park in honour their president, Mr Frai. Thomas who ls shortly u ing lor U.K on leave. Those who want to a the party should inform Mr. Hak
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  • 39 5 The Fail Moon Day cel-b--ration will be held at the Sinhala Buddhist Terrr- e, Outram Road, by Mr. G P. If. De Siiva. Sermon by Bikku M M. M;'havp"r- t' v at 7?t r» r^_ O
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  • 41 6 rtrtrt FjV\ST Midlands beat BarJ banans by fl\> points to thr^e in the Edgar Mobbs Memorial rugby union match at Northampton yesterday. In the second round of the Rueby League Cup Widnes beat Batlev 12-4. Reuter A.P.
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  • 1172 6 GRECIAN PRINCE BEST BET TOMORROW Prospects for Penang races From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Kriday. QBECIAN PRINCE should be the best bet of r the day tomorrow, opening day of Penang Turf Club's Spring meeting, at which Class 4 and 5 horses are engaged. Handicapped in rather a weak field over
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    32 6 picture England clearing from an Irish attack in their rugby union international at Twit kenham England won bv three points to nil. The game was played on Feb 11. Sport and Journal
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  • 199 6 T.B.A sports meeting r PHE Tamil Brotherhood A*sociation will hold their wxtii annual athletic men on Tamil New Year Day. April 15 The mw! is open to T*mil> only. An entrance fee of SI pe: entry for non-member? hi being charged Theie to no entrance fee fo: membeis of the
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  • 59 6 QROUP Captain A J Holmes Chairman of the England Test cricket selection committee, has resigned the pos due to ill-health. Group Capt. Holmes captained Sussex for several <eas»:>ns before the last WRr and managed M.C.C. team in. South Afri^ durirw 1918- 19. iik'e^ nre A. B.
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  • 545 6 I^HE other three races tomorrow will be contested over seven furlongs. I pick Grecian Prince, Bonnie Grev and Court Jester to win In their rwpectift dtvistoni Cl. 4, Div.l-7 F. Ci.»"-ian 1 i lire i» up a dJIMM n:id 1> nu-e ing bonei -U-- ln.ni
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  • 113 6 From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG. Kn BKOOKIMi «Spowart» r» wal^ti excellent form on tne training track tliis BMOling. She did the beat workout, running three furlongs in 39 sees Alabama 'Lansdown went three in 40$. and Bon Ami Spowart' three in 43. Jimmv Boy < Bttgby >
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    • 149 6 Lr3nnr?KG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Pres* in Malaya W> jj I i ~^m y 1 |B i w 1/ > JANE Kxclusire to the Singapore tree Hrese in Malava V\ MUST WARN MR BLUE- A /EXCUSE ME, $l«, Bufi /oh, I SAY, THANKS^ /REALLY ?\/l KNOW '-AND I'M >
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  • 1098 7 PENG SOON, HOLM MAY CLASH IN FINAL EweLeong beaten by Jensen in 3 sets \yONG Peng Soon, the brilliant Malayan badminton champion, took his challenge for the men's singles title in the All-England championships at London as far as the semifinal stage yesterday. He won his quarter-final in stylish fashion.
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  • 240 7 YESTERDAY'S results in the 1 All-Kn-land badminton championships were: MEN'S SINGLES (3rd round) Choong Ewe Leon* (Malaya) bt W. C. Regan (England) 15-1, 15-4. Ole Jensen (Denmark) bt. Jon Mygaard (Denmark 15-6. 15-2. J Hammergaard Hansen (Denmark) bt. OUe Wahlberg (Sweden) 15-10. 15-8. QUARTER-FINALS Wong Peng
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  • 100 7 H.K.'s bid for FARELF boxing titles v rees Hj aim s i the Far A ::ig finals pv World Their team men, very the to do Craze al the He ■s and r:t Is was ACF ■!.<ss In in 1945. In r .inaateuf d division. i his boxDB the cud
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  • 8 7 Cynhree go*2i to IuJJ round
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  • 45 7 MANCHESTER. Thurs.— Britain's snooker star. Joe Davis reired his world rd last night with a break of 146. F^b. 3 Canst i m born Cbonier beat Davis' record of 141 Witt 144. Davis made his new rd against Chenier. A. P.
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  • 127 7 WORLD bantamweight champion Manuel Ortiz said in Lee Angeles that he It undecided u*x»jt a title defence against D.tnnv OSulltvan in London on March 28. Ortiz is weighing offers to defend his crown in Manila and Johannesburg, South Africa as well as the London offer. He said
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  • 84 7 'THE SMC. will play a home-ai:d--1 home cricket match on the pa&mg a: 11 a.m. this Sunday between the Captain's *nd ViceCaptain's teams. The teams are: Captain's XI: J. Sanderson, R. Bain. B. Barker. C. Collins:. J Oalistan. R. Jansen, R. Perry J. Maries, B. Ross, O. de
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  • 257 7 THE two day match at Colombo between the Commonwealth and a Ceylon XI ended in a draw yesterday, when torrential rain caused a stoppage of two hours before the close. It was estimated that IV2 I •ftiches of rain fell during the night,
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  • 798 7 WONG Peng Soon and his English partner, Noel Radford, were surprisingly beaten in the third round of the men's doubles of the All-England badminton championships last night by an unseeded Danish pair Arve Lossmann and J. Nygaard. The Danes won 17—16, 11—15, 1»— 14. This
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  • 207 7 A USTRALIA make no change in their team to play A South Africa i n th e fifth and final Test starting at Port Elizabeth today, the side being the same which won the first three Tests and drew the fourth. Retention of
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  • 39 7 SECREI ARIES and convenors for volleyball for Singapore .chools and clubs wishing to arrange friendly matches against the Y.M.C.A. are requested to communicate with Mr. E Thian H.in c/o The Vehicles Registration Office, Middle Road. Telephone No. 5117.
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  • 94 7 THE Welsh Rugby Union selectors have left open The fullback position in the team to meet Ireland at Belfast on Mar. 11. The team is, lui'baefc To be chosen: Ken Jones, Newport: Jack Matthews, Cardiff: Lewis Jones. Devonport Services; Malcolm Thomas. Devonport Services: W. B. Ceaver, Cardiff:
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  • 31 7 Town Rangers Sporu Club will play a friendly came of WCfIW against the 4th. Supply Reserve Depot R.A.S.C. at C.Y.M.A ground 'St. Georges Rd> at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow
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  • 111 7 THHE Art-llano University 1 basketball team. Philippines Universities' A ma* Champions tor 1949. ma their Singapore debut at the Happy World stadium tonight in a game against Twa Knn% Amateur Athletic Association. This is th? first of a series of games in Singapore and
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  • 113 7 r[E SH.B Aus p to fight hard o HOR I ry over Ki/a Raja A Junior A <2> league pan:r at the Geylanp Ftadium y The Aux ■s throuch their r:gh T -v. :cr —on. Three pdnntct befcr^ th« val, Kota Raia oqua'^eri their insiae-riphl Ra?h:d
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    • 45 7 Today's Sport SOCCER: Senior league: S.R.C. v (hinese Athletic, Jalan Bes;tr stadium. Junior Ise: Mental Sosp. R.C. v RAPC Nee Soon at Geylang: stadium. Friendly: 1.8.C. v Malayan Airways, Farrer Park. BASKETBALL: Arellano University (Manila) v Twa Konf A.A. at Happy World stadium, 8 p.m.
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  • 42 8 ORUT. On 22nd February, at Penang Maternity Hospital, to Rorhe.v wife of R. L. Grut a son. SHEPHARD: On Feb. 27. 1950. nt the British Military Hospital. Singapore, to Stella, wife of Capt. J. Shephard. R.E.M.E., a son. B -a ell.
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  • 43 8 TTe engagement is announced he -ween A. L. McCorkindals of the Malayan Education 3ervice and Mathilda Smith of DumbArtor.. Scotland. An engagement is announced between Barbara Spence Cameron. daughter of Mr James Cameron Thornton, Fife and Geocge Thomas wav of Victoria. Australia.
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  • Article, Illustration
    48 8 Bananas, strangers to Berlin for many years, have made a welcome reappearance in the former German capital. Here an enterprising fruit hawker cashes in on the combined drawing power of his stock and his elegant headgear to find ready sales among passersby on the city's fashionable Kurfuerstendamm. A.P.
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  • 267 8 CHIANG' S AGENTS ACTIVE IN CANTON Unify order to Nationalists HONG KONG, Friday. fEN. Chiang Kai-shek's resumption of the Presidency has been accompanied by intensified bombing of invasion craft along the South China mainland, stepping up of the anti-guerilla campaign in Hainan and reported infiltration of 3,000 National secret service
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  • 121 8 PRAGUE. Friday. of one of the top men in the office of Czech Prime Minister and Ihe existence of several groups of "Titoists" in the Czech Communist Party were offlcb revealed here yesterdav The news agency Ceteka ported tha' Milan Reiman, v tio was
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  • 32 8 I.<»nd'»n y\> >' tin nw as at £599 15s bid and £600 asked yesT erday PUtUTC* r">f- 17s. M. t" £iB6 bid and £586 asked. Turno\»t was 70 tons. A. P.
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 8 photo Police ridnij; oxen maintained tviet during the 100th annual carnival oxen race at \ising Villas in I pper Bavaria. The animals and their riders, mostly farm ho\. ;uid xirN appeared masked for thr traditional event A.P.
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  • 175 8 LONDON. Friday. DREVAIUNG domestic political uncertainty 1 checked the usual flow of business o n the London Stock Exchange that accompanies early days of the new trading period, says Router's financial correspondent. Tins advanced ftllfhtl? while rubbers were firm. with buying 01 Kaffin ended, a
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  • 174 8 WASHINGTON, Friday. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday said that he will never go to Moscow as long as he is president but that h e will co-operate in any move for peace. At the same time a British spokesman told the International Court at The Hague yesterday
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  • 25 8 The Variety Artists" Federation in London has voted to continue a ban on performances by German and Japanese "eniertainers in Rrita!n A.P.
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  • 67 8 MONSON (Maine* Fri. FMCiHT members of a j famih including >ix children, perished and the ninth was rritUallv burned yesterday when an expludiiu oiKtove burned down their home. Klwood Smith, who fled from the blaring house with his wife died as he fouKht hi* way into the
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  • 143 8 LOS ANGELES. Friday. 'p\VO 14-year-old schoolgirls accused a professional magician here of exercising Svengali-like powers to induce them into sexual relations with 17 vouths The magician. William van Berkel. 63. was alleged by !he district attorney to have con- fessed that "something came over
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  • 22 8 Queen Mary had an outing yesterday for the first tim*» since slip suffered from sriatica a month ago. A.P.
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  • 80 8 r rilK former Australian Immigration Minister Mr. I Arthur f'alwell. who has amazed evervbodv by the distress he has shown over the defeat of the Labour Government, clashed with newspapermen in Canberra demanding that they be confined to the press gallery and the King's Hall in
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  • 103 8 NEW DELHI Fri THE Deputy Prime Minister. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. lold the Indian Parliament that in the last two mon there had been an increase in the number of cases of murder arson and robbery In Hyderabad Btmtc by &u>pected Communists Mr Pa!e! oandit* h*n ample
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  • 61 8 HONG KONG Fm IMIK American yacht Y.'iadwr with 15 per> aboard was taken tody by the Chinese munistt when it reached 'he Chi>.' mainland from Hainan on Liurhou per tho6^ aboard »tre bejr*g dt-rau.ed :r. the inuin Ho^; a ing good food and ti. The two-masted
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  • 73 8 WASHINGTON. Fn |>RESIDEN T T Truman said yesterday ;hat plans for stale seizure of the strikeparalysed coal mines were ready, but he did noi indicate when or under what circum".ces they might be used. Meanwhile. the federal court has found the Un. Mineworkers Union not
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  • 37 8 Premier Pandit Nehru disclosed in the Indian Parliament yesterday that he planning to visit Bengal to investigate the recent communal disorders on both sides Of the Fast nnri W»et Rcnaal border A.P.
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    • 237 8 KATHRYN CRAY SON fcL THIS IS MY LOVELY DAY r wP' (From Bles» the Bride" t I?A> SHES MY lOVELY (From "Hide V kM2 and Se«»k Hijj Sung by Johrr- ,J.>nr. V^ifli MOM 249 "jKf JUDY GARLAND I DONT CARE From film I Summertime PLAY THAT BARBER SHOP CHORD DERRYFALLIC
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 1710 9 Jimmy Martin looks back As told to ALLAN LEWIS I CONVERSATION during his internment on Banka Island gave Martin the idea of becoming a trainer. A successful rider 1,0 waa prepared to carry on in that vocation for some time, i talk "ith
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    • 660 9 FNGLIS H-BRED horses won 17 of the 27 races decided at the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting. I notice English horses were successful in nine of the 12 races for Class I. horses, filling the first four places in the Gold Cup.
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  • 8001 10 DELOW is the complete form guide for the Penangr Turf CJub Spring Meeting to be held tomorrow, Wednesday and Saturday of next week. HORSES CLASS 4. ALABAMA MCCOND 111 started) 35-1-50 Ipoh 8-4 6P iLansdowni Special Race; lit Duke San 10-7: 3rd Laurie 8-10;
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  • 617 12  -  TRESPASSER By AL L indications point to the peak of post-war Malayan racing being: reached by the middle of this year, most probably at the Singapore Turf Club's Governor's Cup meeting in May. By peak, I mean the highest standard attained since the
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  • Article, Illustration
    36 12 Briany (Lawler) being; led in by Capt. 11. F. Bloxham after winning over the 8i furlongs at the last Ipoh meeting. Briany scored a double, having dead-heated with Nachtegaal over six furlong.s on the first day.
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    10 12 "Hurry up. Mabel, they'll be needing the scales any time."
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  • 287 12  -  AILEYNIAN By 4MONG the recent arrivals on the Malayan turf is Contract, a six-year-old English gelding. One glance at his pedigrtr Is sufficient to convince any one that Contract would be a stayer and. as such, is a welcome addition to our first-class horses.
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  • 268 12  - When Seremban had race meets SIMPANG LIMA By 'INHERE whs a time in the not too distant past when Seremban had its own race day. The event appeared in the Malayan racing calendar. Sponsored by the Nefli Bembilan Sporting Club, this amateur meeting used to be held at Ampangan. where
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