The Singapore Free Press, 4 March 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA fgfgf SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    BIG U.S. DRIVE TO BEAT ASIA REDS
    418 1 Communism in quarantine WASHINGTON, Saturday. gAYING that success of the Russian bid to dominate South-East Asia would most seriously threaten United States security, the U.S. Defence Secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, yesterday announced, 4< We are trying to maintain a quarantine of Soviet Communism."
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    POSTAL ACCORD
    16 1 Postal telefraph and telephone agreements between Moscow and Peking came into effect last Wednesday.
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    Strachey denies Red sympathy
    199 1 LONDON. Saturday. OKITAIN S new Minister for War. Mr. John Strachey. said last night that it is "public know!**ds:e that I repudiated Communist policies i n 1940." Mr Strachey admitted that he had supported Communist doctrine" before the war. but said he broke with Communists over
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    KILLEARN IN SINGAPORE
    32 1 Lord Kiilearn arrived In Singapore from Jakarta this nlng afier a two-week busineag-cum- pleasure trip to Java and Bali. He intends to fly to Manila :e returning to Britain.
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    WHITE FLAGS OVERTOUNGOO
    38 1 white nags yesterday flew over all Toungoo headquarters of the Karen National Defence organisation in Lower Burma, indicating that t lie insurgents were fleeing east of the Sittarg Valley, according to official sources In Rangoon.
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    45 1 Lady Mountbatten. in her capacity as head of the St. John and Red Croat Society, is seen here as she talk* to a child patient of th» RAF Families Hospital at Abiad. Suci Canal Zone. Lady Mount batten will arrive in Malaya next w«ek. A.P.
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    30 1 pit tun l:tr-p number of buyers. stttevfted the St. Andrew's •iunhl,. sale, at the Victoria Vfemorial Hall yesterday. Kook lovers made their, selection of novels at thi* stall. Free Press
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    Buried for an hour
    44 1 AN Italian (iener.*!. CfticliHma Morgrii. was burial alive by saidrn n^liinchp of sutw w'.i!» witrhin-; m inopnvrps in the H rrsrw^ squid <tu£ <ll(n out Jp Sfl l oni> liour*> «(>tk. He was severely chilled but will reeorer A. P.
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    STEEL PLAN STAYS
    31 1 STEEL PLAN STAYS T- avc P of, itry. i >..* r.--:ing me 10. I g ru- ..eni I I der c I lU id* or a d« *:«e I i I ibi
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    No U.S. visa for 'Red dean'
    16 1 Ml Pablo aied >:rucU 8 State i A. P. picture
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    No probe for new Aussies
    77 1 MELBOURNE. Sat. AUSTRALIA will not probe the records of all its postwar European settlers. Immigration Minister Mr. Harold Holt said here yesterday. He was answering a state:nern. that London pre> ports said the espionage trial of Dr Fuchs revealed the need for further screening In
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    U.S. AVOIDS GREECE
    40 1 The U.S. Navy has ordered its warships to avoid Greek ports until after Sundays na--1 tional election in Greece as part of the careful "hands off policy which the United States is following towards rhe election.— A.P.
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    RED CHINA HALTS LAND PARTITION
    159 1 RED CHINA HALTS LAND PARTITION SAN FRANCISCO Sat THE Chinese Commuihrt Government today postponed its land distribution plan, affording to a Pelting oftVial broadcast heard h«>re today The decree ruled that In the 'newly-liberated areas."' winch includes most of China land distribution would nut start before the autumn harvest of
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    THREE IN A ROW
    23 1 South Korea has recognised Spain. Bao Dais government !n Indo-China and the independent Indo-Chinese kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.
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    £143,000 left by banker
    62 1 £143,000 left by banker LONDON. Sat IORD NORMAN, long-time j Governor of the Bank of England who spent a lifetime dealing in billions. left £143.800 when he died on F^b 4 The size of his estate was disclosed yesterday when his will was filed for probate He left the bulk
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    Today's 3 best bets
    41 1 From ALLAN LEWIS PKNA.Mi, Sat. MI three btbt b*U for today's races here are Grecian Prince. Court Jester and John. The going is very good. Strongest stable fancies arc Caravan. Jimmy Boy and Meath. See page .seven.
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    INDIAN RATIONING
    21 1 Some 112 million people about one-third of India's population are under food rationing of one form or another. A.P.
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    MORE PETROL
    18 1 The Australian Minister of Fuel said the Government has increased petrol reserves since rationing was abolished
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    U.S. Govts. big loss on tin stocks
    236 1 NEW YORK, Saturday. f PHE Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a I \S. Government agency, had a (rS)SIB.SOO.OUO reduction in the value of its tin stocks in the six months which ended Dec. 31, 1949. This was announced by the corporation's chairman, Mr. Harley Hise.
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    NAZI WANTS TO MAKE A DEAL
    53 1 A German war criminal in Frankfurt is bidding for parole by offering the Western ftlltafl "valuable information" about Russian potential, his American lawyer disclosed yesterday. The prisoner i* Friedric Flick. r«ne of Nazi Germany's bigg*** IrvlustrtalUti who Is servtPflr a leYen years' sentence lor
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    French strike wave worsens
    193 1 French strike wave worsens PARIS, Saturday. rKAMKS swelling tide of wage strikes engulfed more labour groups and new areas yesterday with a threat of worse to come. In Paris, where strike fever was cooling among steel workers, 70 per cent of the civil servants voted to stop work. Ground staff
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    NURSE PICKS UP £2.000
    36 1 CHEQUES and letter* of credit issued by banks in Hong Kong and Shanghai worth more than €2.000 were found by a German nurse on the mudflats of the north lilatid of Sylt.
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    Fist fights in Paris Assembly
    44 1 Fist fights in Paris Assembly piST nghis broke out between Communist and non Communist Deputies in the French National Assembly yesterday and the session was suspended The brawl began when Communists attempted io delay a Government bill dealing with the war in IndoChina Reuter
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    THEY ELOPED
    30 1 Dolores Ethel Bly'.h. 19--year-old daughter ot the late John Barrymore and Dolores Costllo has eloped with Thomas Alexander Fairbanks. a 24-year-old writer, sa\s i Hollywood report from A.P.
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    PENG SOON IN FINAL
    64 1 PENG SOON IN FINAL A S !.< rallv exD A P<'iig Soon, rlv and Malayan titl*»Poul Holm. th« D:\nisi. pion ar' j to Beet In tfl itnclei of the All-i badmir. Earl> Co I Jorn Bkaarup 1 Holm 21-year-old comomt 7h« C Leone arid ang- wntt t> i I t
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    Attack on night mail
    121 1 Attack on night mail Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. ANE Chinese woman was killed when bandit* fired about 30 shots at* the north-bound nigh' mail train three mile* south of Layang Layan at 9.25 last night Another Chines? mamma and an Indian man were seriously injured an an
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    TSINSTAOSTILL PORT OF CALL
    56 1 TSINSTAOSTILL PORT OF CALL JiONK KONG S. IBBRANDTSEN UN yeslerday sain the i 1 dtsen ships. a1 Red-h< Id 1 month, a 1.l that po!i ;<: branrils*»n reswls fUt'i' |Mk Mirs o: A P. P Co. Iso: .<;.d -pi: »^«*ii sr«temen» e«ilif :n be nhirh he 6 UdMSMltoaa oaoi\ wfj'rt
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    31 1 Mi* l.im Koon Terk (hairman of ih~ hiriKsf Womfns Association, modelling a purple linrn t heons >am with a lontr.iNting ice-cream pink J.ickrt for tonight's (hine>e Kfstival of Fashioi Free Press
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    India buys Jap goods
    18 1 The India has sanctioned P> 050 .000 »r the purchase of J.ij: Ind U.P.
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    Vault full of gold bars
    127 2 LITTLE FORT KNOX Is what they call South Airica's treasure vault which holds K ld bullion worth £2.500 M Into Little tort Knox. which could ransom half a dozen kings and have some to spare, pours £525.000 worth of gold bars every day not only
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    Radio- Controlled Toys Now
    787 2 Radio- Con tro lled Toys Now —WORLD -SPOTLIGHT- AMERICA'S toyland. with its headquar-tt-.s in New York, has been surpassing itself this year with the variety of toys on sale. There is a toy washing nuu-hine that really washes toy dishes, a toy vacuum cleaner that *fl up dust, and an
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    Page For Children
    1117 2  -  S.C. GEORGE By- Flying Horse To The Rescue The story so far: Omar the Malay fisherman falls in love with the Princess but her father, the Sultan, declares that she must marry the suitor who finds the sword of Iskander Shah the mafic sword used by Alexander
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    HE BRINGS'EM BACK ALIVE
    482 2 QWISS-born Peter Ryhiner is a man with a most unusual occupation. He collects wild animals— from their native haunts. Shortly after the last war. he was employed on insecticide research In a Manchester factory, but his longing to see the world was such that during his
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      220 2 JUriOR CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS.— 3. Chine, e r- TBMBT~I4~~I fS dog with a black tongue. 6. LJBU— l^B^^ L^ Popular salad vegetable introdu. 7 _JHL_|BL_ rd into Bntain about 1548. 8 WE ]?5h Cathedral city of Cornwall. 10. tafffj ■HrM Flat food fish. 12, Measure of —^^^J length and aiea.
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    SAIGON TAKES ON NEW ROLE
    296 3 Its violent and colourful SAIGON, Saturday. I HIN queen city of Indo-China that resembles a provincial bit of France, today is the worlds newest capital, the seat of government for Bao Dais emerging state of Vietnam. t n autonomous Vietnamese government within the French Union
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    Missions medical role in China
    17 3 tde a j »nt conl vriopnent the Presme, told meI !1- d»S-
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    Hong Kong is overflowing
    49 3 HONG KONG. Sat /WRGO destined for Com- munlst China la now be■ed aboard "floating b* a i re cxamm- of four ships belonging to r he Communist-contro China Merchant* Steam ion Com pa ire not venture •< the Nationalist sea blockade, have beer, appn te Department.
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    Privy Council to decide
    46 3 Privy Council to decide WHOSE BABY' CASE MELBOI RNE, Saturday. famous '*w!mm baby' case will s<> to the 1 nDiuil iii londuii. M ton, who claims she baby a r Kyneton District ded to make the appeal. in 18 Of bv a mla 1 A. P.
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    GENERAL JAILED
    24 3 Turkish Gen. Mustafa Iftig- sentenced to 20 years' iry court "marAnkara yesterday for executor. <»! 33 near the Persian frontier in 1945 A.P.
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    Cut trees to find guerillas
    10 3 Cut trees to find guerillas -iiivO come out in Reuter
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    Reds plan big air surprise?
    49 3 Chi;ient and re .-replaceable sh:p> from cor. tir pounding This has meant a serious -loss of if the Reds. Nationalist gunboats too, are boldly enforcing a DloeI kade alone the southern n in a manner they would dare if the Reds had pin A.P.
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    U.K. Labour victory 'ruinous', says Life
    177 3 NEW YORK, Saturday. I IFF magazine calls the British general election "a ruinous victory for a party which has staked its future on further nationalisation of British lif e and industry and now finds itself with not enough voting strength to carrv through its
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    WAR FORESEEN
    35 3 Colonel Robert A McCormick. publisher or the cago Tribune, predi tv-nrual atomic war. He added that a meeting of President Truman and Generalissimo Stalin to patch up American differences would be futile.- A.P.
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    USED POST TO DELAY CHINA AID—CHARGE
    119 3 USED POST TO DELAY CHINA AID— CHARGE WASHINGTON. Sat. OtENATE tors are 0 probing cnu Michael J Lee, i Commerce D iil official born in Manchuria of Russian parent* thai he delayed shipI <• 101l pt'TP a N ition(orcea in China until they were driven out by the It was
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    POPE'S BIRTHDAY
    30 3 Pope Pius marked his 74th birthday and 11th anniversary or his pontificate on j Thursday by proclaiming a public holiday in his squareImile State with its 1.000 dU-
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    TIME CALLS
    16 3 h clay last year 35.000 Australians ran* telephone exchanges to ask rht> time. A.P.
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    Bridge Problem
    102 3 LJEARTS are trumps. ri leads. North and 8 are to win all seven tricks makes the clutL nine. Noilh discarding the diamond king. South leads the diamond ten. West coven and North trumps at West ducks. South leads I second diamond I North to ruff.) North leads spade
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    122 3 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor visited N>w Orleans. U.S.A., for the annual Mardi Gras carnival and attended the parades and the Kex and Comus Ball. In the general scene at top. the Duchess Ls curtsying deeply and the Duke bows low from the waist hefore the Royal Mardi (Iras
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    'U.S.LOSING WAR AGAINST REDS'
    204 3 'U.S. LOSING WAR AGAINST REDS' NEW YOKK, Saturday. 27-YEAR-OLD former IJJS. army captain who said he gave up a military career "to try to make Americans see we are losing our war against Communism,'' is pleading for all-out I'.S. moral, economic and advisory aid to the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa.
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    EXCHANGE VISITS
    26 3 A group of Italian university students will visit Egypt i his month In return for the recent visit to Rome of Esyptian students A.P.
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    SHAH IN KARACHI
    21 3 The Siiah of Iran has arrived in Karachi for two weeks of ronferenees witli his Pakistan government official
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    Industries fair
    19 3 \n Australian Industries Fair will b»* held in Melbourne from March 1 t< 17 in 1951. A.P.
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    U.S. tactics in H.K. resented by the British
    238 3 U.S. tactics in H.K. resented by the British HO\<; KONCi, Saturday. A STEADY stream of anti-American reports sent out by Peking and spread by all Communist propaganda mediums has cost Americans much of the popularity they held in China at the end of the Japanese war. The British in Hong
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    Swiss expel Vietnam Red
    40 3 BERNE. Sat. SWITZERLAND -rri3 7 expt !l»'d N| Lai. a Commuii student, who was on forbidden to land to s mun:iy in 0 Mr Lai w. i Switzerland In N »>n hit way to Ger Reuter
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      33 3 Have Yoa Seen Our $7/- fo $5/--j BARGAIN COUNTERS? Plain and Printed Cottons, and Rayons, Morning, Day, Afternoon and Evening Bags are being cleared at rock bottom prices. i DON'T MISS This Opportunity
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      118 3 WHAT'S ON IN K. L. rk.X: rhc Beautiful Bloode From Bashful Bend. MOO: Rachun Dum.i (Malay). ODKON: QhCKt Of Zorro. ATIIVY .^•raiige Brothers' (Tamil). 081 B!«od On th- Moon GKEAT WORLD: CENTRAL TALKIES: Prince of Thleves< MAJESTIC: Two IVxas Knights I (Matinee n.oo a.m.». MOUNT !M.F\s(RF. The Wicked Lady. WINDSOR:
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      378 3 CTMPaonDF lavourite singers orchestras; Bandbox; 10.15 Piane Playtime: OIJMVj/\rVJl\£i 10 .30 Rhythm on Records. 10 30 News Bulletin; 10 45 Singers (BLLt NETWORK) BFEBS [Singapore] aid Their BOW I1 Orchestral 484 and 41.7 metres. tlnrludmt: 8.8.t Ktlay) Kmersrencj news from K.L 19 Metres. 23. Metres. 31. pnl sporting Roundup; 430
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Mar. 4, 1950. IN PRAISE OF CRICKET
    348 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Mar. 4, 1950. IN PRAISE OF CRICKET FROM the padang neis have come the first sounds of willow meeting leather. signifying the approach of the cricket season. In England this sound has a peculiar magic because It is among the first harbingers of spring. Like
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    THE OTHER 9
    251 4 THE Singapore Anti-Tuber-caiosis Association is offering immunity agaiuoi the disease at 50 cents per head —and free to those who can't afford it. According to a World Health Organisation official, one person in 10 living in the hear* of the city has T.B. If ever modern medical
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    HK Too Strong For Mao
    840 4  - HK Too Strong For Mao J. L. HAYS By SINCE returning from Hong Kong three questions have been repeatedly fired at me. They are: Is our garrison reallv as strong as it is cracked up to be? Now that the Communist threat has lessened, is the Colony's security worth the
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    UN's New Headquarters
    552 4  -  Frederick Cook By NEW YORK: I IFE is not as peaceli ful in my little topfloor flat in New York's skyscraper Tudor City as once it was. Bangs of an almost V2 intensity make sleeping late out of the question, except on a Sunday morning. But no
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    Chinese Fashion Champions
    861 4 Chinese Fashion Champions PEOPLE MAKE NEWS a COMMITTEE of five is responsible for tonight's Festival of Chinese Fashion organised by the Chinese Ladies Association at the Raffles Hotel. Chairman of this committee Mrs. LIM KOON TECK. She says, "This is the first show of iu kind in the whole of
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    'Crazy' kookaburra
    147 4 r>ADIO Australia received a letter from Mr. P.T. Ho, 81 Club Street, Singapore who wrote:- It is my inquisitiveness that nas driven me to write this letter. The puzzle which I now request you to unpuzzle has thrown me between tears and laughters. Why is it that before
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    Premier Who Hates The Press
    244 4  - Premier Who Hates The Press RICHARD HUGHES By TOKIO: PRIME Minister Shigeru Yoshida of Japan has never liked the Press. Personally, he is a brusque and irascible but likeable Japanese, who was a career diplomat before the war and who has the instinctive and abiding distrust for the Press of
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      16 4 THE PEKING CO., 81, HI6H STREET, SINGAPORE. CURIOS 6 CRAFTS YING'S 1 37, STAMFORD ROAO, SINGAPORE.
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      62 4 Yes, there >ou are old boy and wha make that pudding for tonight and per^xps to follow. could do with haff-a-dozer get them, but really you seem so pop* However, come along. It is nice of you to I and accommodating and I much appreci«te vc WHOLE MILK lOWW* I'nr
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    NEW MOVE IN WATER CRISIS
    82 5 NEW MOVE IN WATER CRISIS Pr Stafl Keportrr Water EnrHJ G. Hill, is and means iction in n <>f certain e Munici- n« b 1 yesterday. likelihood it ie unless a determin- peraU In vr e daily con-. i Free F me people umption hree weeks drop." oeen an apthe
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    Open air service
    7 5 Irch in open-air Parade.
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    'MAD COWS AND EVIL SMELLS'
    447 5 'MAD COWS AND EVIL SMELLS' Complaints to Commissioners A^ rree rress staft reporter SINGAPORE'S Municipal voters are showing an increasing consciousness of the calls they can make on their elected representatives— or any elected representative— on the Municipal Commission. Evidence of this is seen i n the steady flow of
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    Detention of S'pore ships alleged
    224 5 t,wi?i v/ r c. e SS Chllles e Correspondent L I Sln £apore-registered fishing boats were detained by Indonesian navaj patrols in waters off Banka Island during the last week, according to tion P re Fishing Boat Owners' Associa- On e has been released and
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    FAREWELL PARTY
    41 5 The Civics Club of St. Andrew's School. Singapore, gave a farewell party at Woodsville last night In honour of their civics master and vice-Principal of the School, Mr. Francis Thomas, who is sailing next week for the United Kingdom.
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    68 5 \2ture. \IR. Francis W. Klass, of the Sun Life Assurance [VI Company of Canada, receives a memento of long services (more than 25 years) from the company's associate superintendent of agencies. Mr. Rov C. Grant. Mr. Grant is on a visit to Singapore in th- course of a world tour
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    30 5 picture. PAMfcLA and Shirley, the daughters of Mr C W Such, of the Singapore Police, who returned to Singapore yesterday in the Charon after a holiday in Australia Free Press
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    They want to run new-type taxis
    425 5 TnTAI V** Fress Sta Reporter AKv ,h °1- a PP li^«ons have been received ™b> the Singapore Municipality for the 100 licences available to operate taxicabs of the ap- f tHeSe ap P lications so far asked *bv M?G al H e^ y w
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    17 CASES OF TYPHOID
    71 5 Free Pre^s Staff Reporter SEVENTEEN rases of typhoid, three of them fatal, were reported to the Singapore Municipal Health Department in the week ending F^o. 25, according to figures y. The week before, eight cases had been rted. s.\ cases being There were 803 births and
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    S'PORE WOVE FOR RED CHINA TRADE
    152 5 S'PORE WOVE FOR RED CHINA TRADE Free Press Staff Reporter IN a bid to further trade 1 with China, many Singapore Chnese merchants have contacted the Hong Kong agents of the North China Export-Import Trading Corporation, official buying and selling agents for the Communist authorities. This results from the growing
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    PAYMENT TO SULTANAH
    47 5 Fr<V Piws St.iH Reporter lOHORE BMIRI, Sat. THE Executive and State Councils, Johore, have approved the payment of 527.467 to the Sultanah of Johore. This payment represents an allowance of SI, OOO to her from September 17, 1947 to the end of last year.
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    LORRY CRASH
    22 5 An Armv 3-ton lorry ran into a ditch and overturned in Jalan Sultan. Singapore, late la* night. The occupants unhurt.
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    Promotion grouse by clerks
    243 5 Promotion grouse by clerks ALLEGATIONS are Deing made by some senior Municipal clerks that the Singapore Municipal Commissioners are Inconsistent in their treatment of employees. Their complaints are reasonable and understandable, a spokesman of the Municipal Services Union, Mr. Lira Toh Nee. told the Free Prest yesterday. The clerks say
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    Injection makes birds tender
    257 5 In j ection makes birds tender Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Municipal Veterinary Department is using a new British injection which can change the sexes of poultry so that the flesh will become more tender. A small injection into the neck of a cockerel will change the bird's male characteristics.
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    H.K. ALUMNI
    30 5 The Hong Kong University Alumni Association (South Malaya) will hold a Chinese! New Year dinner at the City Club. 19-C, Cecil Street. Singapore, next Friday at 8 p.m.
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    WAR DAMAGE
    29 5 WA R DAM AGE Copies of the War Damage Commission Ordinance ar* now on sale at the Publication Bureau in the General Post Office. Sino^pore, at 50 cents each.
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    BUDDHISTS TO CELEBRATE
    79 5 SINGAPORE B'.iddm> O making e!a*>nn»tc rations to celebrate Vi Day. Buddha's birthday. May 1 The proposed ream the forthcoming celebra. 1 will be the Victori;. .1 Hall, but it is nbject 1 1 change if the eho«cn is not available. Buddhists last \\-ar p;i:tioned the Goven. ik
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    MAILS
    46 5 Surface mail is exp-v n\ ia »pore today from J .4 Konp and the Federation. Latest time* for po&tin^ mail today at the G.P.O noon fo: Indo-China :<nd Palemb:i:ig. p.m. for Siam and the Fee. tion; 6 p.m. for Norhern Jr Pakistan. Burma, and Java.
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    C.A. GIVEN A HARD FIGHT
    303 6 C. A. GIVEN A HARD FIGHT SRC beaten but not disgraced a period in yesterday's league game between the Chinese Athletic, last year's Senior League champions, and the S.R.C., it looked as though the champions would he held to at least a draw, but they ran out 3 l winners
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    HAYDN THOMAS TURNS 'PRO'
    54 6 HWDN THOMAS of R |by Union i one of the b |C1 lim--1;. sa onal foi ind rst >od tha I to T! i u a reI for a Welsh plaj I is! iraa rei Haydn Tanner and h^ played in ill Welsh trials this season
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    20 6 I >SI BEHV i Hinci.c .1;) and MMM :.ed by Jark who ai<*o ha* Fair Jodfinent IB Reuter
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    Neil Harvey equals Compton's record
    149 6 AUSTRALIA'S young left-hander, Neil Harvey, scored his eighth century of th^tour to equal the record of Denis Compton (Middlesex) during the first day's play in the fifth And ""al Test au«n»»st South Africa at Port Elisabeth yesterday. Harvey made 116, which included 14 fours, in
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      268 6 Mandrake Exclusive to the Singapore Ine Phttt /w/ I H«/-- IS YOU A DUMMY--? Si T BACK j^*^ I ft/M /S.'Jr- AVOIO p=^T r S!APJL£D,LOU!ARWATCMSW> ;^-J j f /§sr\ |MYGO:tf- I J^^jf Exclusirp to the Singapore Frpe Hr^ss i n \j tl^ |Tlt YOU REALLY AHKSB S^ JAhE, ISN'T IT
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    CARAVAN, JIMMY BOY FANICED TODAY
    207 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS yieath to score maiden win From PENANG, Saturday. IVAN is a very strong stable fancy for the on the opening day's card of the nrf Club Spring meeting here this >le jockey. Wally Bagby, will ride erence to Dark Romance. Another Jimmy Boy
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    220 7 ALLAN LEWIS TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER "TL) 1 ALABAMA CHUMS CHOICE ALABAMA n yde Alabama Caravan Loch Clyde h c P"k Romance Dark Romance Laurie Alabama Chum's Choice BA 3 F io* JSShi M i OH N i° H N LENA DEAR ioliS g
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    S.G.S. to run Malaya-wide badminton
    41 7 S.G.S. to run Malaya-wide badminton 1 1 storage M a lent In the Cold icpti centre etc for general M ifaLaictilUL r.r.ua! eo Wharf i tr soccer tarpc "-.arpe ComM i office Willmott: E D H Djnlop; Soo; E sports con-
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    S'pore's part in Thomas Cup
    136 7 fHE part played by Singapore in sending Malaya's team to England for the Thomas Cup tournament last year Is mentioned In the annual report of the Singapore Badminton Association, which will be tabled at the annual general meeting. The report states that Singapore contributed $26,771.75.
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    WALKER CUP DATES
    85 7 WALKER CUP DA TES T'HE Royal and Ancient Golf Club has announced that the data of next year's Walker Cup match has been changed so that US. golfers can return and compete In the American cpen championship. The Executive Committee of the US G.A. had requested the change Original date
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    Y.M.C.A. cricket
    58 7 The following will play cricket for the Y.M CA. in a friendly match against H.M. Dockyard on the Y.M CA ground at Balestier Road todav Suratta (Capt). Hooper, Delilkan; Scharenguival, Fernando, Worstencroft. Tan Huck Chuan, Edward Fung: Lee Joh Ming, Ou Siew Leng. Alfred Kang. Reserves: Teo Kha
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    R.A.P.C. FORCE 3-ALL DRAW
    20 7 R.A.P.C. FORCE 3- ALL DRAW R A PC. Nee .'.l with pcmtioa Club Tie Hospital Ismail, the scoring -son .ee-
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    INTER-VARSITY WONING
    10 7 Cambridge by In the boxing; las: night. Reuter
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    Jagir beaten
    11 7 a:herwelght igh. was Spencer Driver, 12 rounds In Reuter
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    Peng Soon and Holm win
    443 7 U r ONG Pengr Soon (Malaya) and Poul Holm (Denmark) qualified for the men's singles of the All-England badminton championships at Earls Court, London, yesterday. After being extended in the first two sets, Peng Soon inflicted a "love" set on Jorn Skaarup, who was too
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    Results at a glance
    229 7 MEN'S SINGLES Semi-finals Poul Holm (Denmark) bt. Ole Jensen (Denmark) 18-14, 15-13. Won*- Penj Soon (Malaya) bt. Joern Skaarnp (Denmark) 15-11, 12-15, 15-0. MEN'S DOUBLES Third round: Nils Jonson and OUe Wahlber* (Sweden) bt. A. Barron and A. Hor den (Britain) li-15. 15-6, 15-8; Rnut Malfrem
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    DOUR STRUGGLE IN FIRST 2 SETS
    656 7 WONG Peng Soon beat Jorn Skaarup In a very hard fought match. The Dane fought bitterly for every point In the first two games, but Wong's cleverly-placed shots sent him travelling all over the court. Almost exhausted by his exertions, he could pull out
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    WIGHTMAN CUP
    25 7 The Wightman Cup women's tennis match between Britain and the United States will be played at Wimbledon on June Io and 17, A.P.
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    Seletar take R.A.F. boxing honours
    212 7 'THE R.A.F. Seletar won the team cup, in the R.A.F. x (Malaya) Open Boxing Championship finals at Seletar, Singapore last night. Seletar had 14 points. Changi had six, Kuala Lumpur, two, Tengah^nd Butterworth one each. Air Vice Marshal Mellcrsh gave away the prizes: The results
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    RING, IVERSON BOWL WELL
    59 7 A FI'ER dismissing Canterbury In their first innings for 143 the Australian touring team in New Zealand lost five wickets for 97 runs before the close on the first day of their three-day match at Christchurch. yesterday. Doug Ring (Victoria) took five for 55 in Canterbury's
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    Victoria School score big win
    42 7 VICTORIA School's first team trounced Serangoon English School's first team by eight «oals to nil on the S.E.S. ground vesterday. In another soccer match. Victoria School's second team beat S.E.S. second team by four goals to nil.
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    FA Cup quarterfinals today
    269 7  -  JIM CHAMBERS By QUARTER-FINAL ties in the Football Association Cup tournament dominate todays English football. Derby County who meet Everton have dropped McLaren," the outside left, who in partnership with Billy Steel, had played well enough to suggest he was the best club left wing in
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    P.I. BASKETBALL TEAM WIN
    45 7 AR ELLANO University basketball team beat the Twa Kong A. A. 58-35 in a basketball match at the H ppy World arena last night The visitors wilh play I>ng Kong Sports Club at the Happy World stadium at 8 p.m today
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    Archery Club
    40 7 THE Singapore Archery Club will hold a Weekly Handicap Shoot at 41. Malcolm Road at 4.30 p.m. tomorrow. All those interested are asked to attend Instructors will be available and equipment will be supplied to rw w members.
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      493 7 OELOW is given the card of events for today's races at Penang. Carefree, Francelene, Tiestone, Kinta Valley, Streatfield and Whispering Sands have been scratched from all engagements. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race 8. Race 1—2.30: Cl. 4, Div. 4 si Furs. 040 Dark Romance Woods 9.00 000
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    ENGAGEMENT
    23 8 An engagement is announced If Barbara Spence Cameron, hrer of Mr. James Cameron, ■or,. Fife and George Thomas U V:--oria. Australia, j
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    DEATH
    20 8 KC QIEE PHIAU. ased 30. j peacefully at 10 i Much 1950. FuneraJ >:v>ng 33. Geylang ith March 1950.
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    PAK. DENIES PRESS BAN
    85 8 KARACHI 8a 1 THE PaKisian Information Ministry yesterday denied a statement by the Indian Premier Pandit Nehru, that 1 Indian newspaper and Qtwi agency correspondents in East Pakistan had been disarcredited «t spokesman &aid the Ea*; Pintwgn go-.ernment wan.ed all Indian correspondent* to become edited to
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    FORMOSA WARNS OF RED INVASION
    299 8 Ousted leader to retire HONG KONG, Saturday. RATIONALIST leaders warned yesterday that, despite severe air poundings and anti-Red guerilla warfare on the mainland, the Communists are already well advanced with their preparations to invade Hainan and Formosa. Meanwhile, the political crisis over Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's
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    59 8 photo A team of three women, drawn from the Women's Voluntary Service, the Red Cross and St. John's Ambulance Brigade, took part in a demonstration of atomic defence techniques at Winchester Riven by naval personnel from the Atomic Defence School, H.M.S. Phoenix. The women are seen using equipment to detect
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    Loosening controls on world trade
    140 8 WASHINGTON Sat 'THE U S Commerce Department announced yesterday that efforts to loosen government controls over world trade will be stepped up this year. It said that 'limited progress was made Kh 1949. The use of government mtric--1 tions to control trade has grown ro
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    British meet Reds in Peking
    79 8 LONDON. Sa' MR J C Hutchison, Br: Charge D Affaires In P yes'erday paid his d visit to the Foreign Ministry of the Chinese Peoples Republic, the Foreign Office announced today. Mr Hutchison met for the first time Dr Chang Han-fu. V.i- Minister for Foreign
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    Burma asked to stop hate
    61 8 RANGOON Bftt \|R w T Mclntyre, P: dent of the Burma Chamber of Commero pealed to the Burm^sf P >' -lister. Thakin Nu, to his influence to stop a ct paign aimed at itlrrlng np ill-feeling and ha'red towards BrKish employers in Burma Mr Mclntyre
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    SEVEN KILLED
    21 8 A house collapsed ait nighl in the Embabeh district on the outs&rts of Cairo, killing seven and injuring tluee.—
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    MISSIONARY TORTURED, THEN SHOT
    162 8 RANGOON, Sal. OFFICIALS of the U.S. Embassy here said yesterday that Miss Seima M. Maxwell, abducted American missionary nurse, was torture i by Burmese bandits befoie she was killed on Tuesday. The officials said the 67-year-old nurse had been beaten with nfle butts when she failed
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    Doll saved, baby dies
    71 8 OKLAHOMA CITY Sj CAROLYN Thompson, aged tv.o. di**d In a file here while a smoke-blinded fireman mistakenly pushed her large doll to safety Carolyn was alone in ihe house. Fireman Bob Coiey said I could not see a thing br crawled on the floor to the
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    Austrian talks to be resumed
    57 8 Austrian talks to be resumed RUSSIA hai lormaliy approved reconvening AusIA peace treaty ta,ks In on on April 26 The Depiry Ftoreif of Russia. B United Stales and Frame me* on Wednesday and adjo 1 ed until April 26 'o await a Russian tti unliaeral talks frtth A itrta on
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    FRIENDS FOR ITALY
    25 8 The Turkish Foreign Minl--1 ster. Necmeddin Sadak. is to t visit Rome shortly to sign a I friendship pact with Italy Reuter
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    Sets example to world
    69 8 MAYOR Jean <iarein of sunny little Vaucluse la Fontaine, in South-East Fr.mce. yesterday decided to set in example to the world bv promulgating a Municipal order in the village forbidding the mat or cirrvins; of hydrogen and atom bombs. The onus of enforcing this ban is
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    NEW S.A. RACIAL WITCH HUNT
    199 8 CAPETOWN. Saturday. f PHE .second reading of the immorality amendment x bill m the House of Assembly yesterday has according to observers, brought South Africa one step nearer a national racial witch hunt. This bill which is soon to be enac'ed into la*, prohibits sexual
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    New bids to halt Indo-Pak. strife
    243 8 NEW DELHI, Saturday. AS fears grew among millions of Hindus and Muslims of fresh communal massacres, like those in 1947. when 1,000,000 persons were estimated to have been killed, reports said that the I'nited Nations and Britain are planning fresh bids to mediate between
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    SHE RODE TOO FAR
    50 8 M:.s Mary O'Connor, ai elderly Englishwoman. gol stranded in Melbourne the other day without money, when the lmer Oronte.s sailed for Sydney without her. She had left *he ship for a tram ride, but rocie too far. Thp ship was sailing away when she returned. A.P.
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    Dual control motorbike
    36 8 MKI.BOLRNE Kri A DIAL control motor- < >clr. suitable for instructing beginners. is being demonstrated here. The second set of control* enables the instructor, sitting on the pillion seat, to correct the pupil > faults.
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    Operators are still marking time
    202 8 LONDON Saturday QFERATORS on the London Stock Exchange continued to mark time yesterday, awaiting declaration of (iovcrnment policy at the re-opening of Parliament on Monday. In the absence of interest i»r icUvttf most price movemen's vert to lower levels fllit fHifrtt were widely oneeighth down
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    Women crowd jumble sale
    126 8 r pHE Victoria Me Hal j 1 was crammed with bar- gam hunters a* the St Andrews jumble sale jrese-.:a\ afternoon. Many women anxious it secure the best possible bargains were already m the Victoria Memorial Hall at half past one. nearly two hours before the
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      63 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris "OKA" 65£-AO«vel r^'s OQToSFTVI OPL< Of:J N^ J^' 0 w| 3'SBEUCVC m-m AT L A&T ug iA D mh|i« t) TONIGHT j \C'&' *y JvOQGAS *h\<sl-An I TO«ru9EpMiS VAMTV iDiOTOQ h£ WOULD shOv\ m£ m.j L AfIOBATO«> V> APu ->3E3 Y/ 4 Z{r,E~ SOAS T
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      14 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 10.39 a.m; II 48 p.m. Tomorrow 1 1 20 a .m
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      7 1 Free Press Saturday Magazien Saturday, Mar. 4.
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      I had a monkey in my garden
      693 1  -  BEE WICKERSON bj H\\ |XG kept pets kinds urse of nee, pets from goldfish cats, MS. I o il it would g t idea to monkey Is habits. come to > i d the diiis wore direct was by a text dly it
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      'Wives who err should pay costs'
      114 1 'Wives who err should pay costs' A PROVISION that erring wives should pay costs In divorce actions is a forward step in Australia, according to Mr. Monty Stafford, a Sydney divorce lawyer Mr. Stafford commented on a "Matrimonial Causes and Personal Status Code" proclaimed in West Australia under which a
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      THEY BELIEVE IN MAGIC
      537 1  -  E. C. Janardanan by \yHKN cases of polio broke out in Kuala Lumpur recently, a tuan living there alcng Circular Hoad one day observed unusual activity in his Malay syce's quarters. The cause of the change in the placid atmosphere of the place, he learned, was
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      MALAYA HAS ITS MEDICINE MEN
      511 1  - MALA YA HAS ITS MEDICINE MEN P.S. MARKANDAN by THE folk-lore of Malaya is so abundant and so varied that the "Medicine man" must of necessity be a specialist. The sea, with all the lore of deep sea fishing, and navigation is the department of a specialist in magic, called
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        148 1 You can fly by Clipper' ROUND THE WORLD from Singapore <J^k E^b vi/\ a VIA BANGKOK MANILA BRUSSELS HONOLULU LONDON LOS ANGELES NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCC You fly westward to New York via Bangkok; Calcutta, Istanbul, Brussels and London. Eastward to San Frandsco or Los Angeles via Manila and Honolulu.
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      Frustrated Bridegrooms
      400 2 FILMS TO COME pARY Grant and Fred MacMurray may be seen soon in two new comedies taking almost identical roles both are frustrated bridegrooms. Cary Grant in I Was a Male War Bride is frustrated by Armv red tape, Fred MacMurray in Family Honeymoon by three unattractive stepj
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        STROMBOLI': A DENIAL
        180 2 IN your Issue t* l the "Free Press" j day, there appeared a statement made by Roberto Rossellini, under the caption of hollywood. BRUTAL AND uncivilized. repudiating the Hollywood version of his picture "Stromboli." In this connection, we enclose cutting from the Feb 17 issue of 'The
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        THE DEVIL'S CAMERA'
        95 2 THE DEVIL'S CAMERA THE cinema treats love 'as* if all that has to be said can be summed up in the word sex." says the Rev. W. F. P. Chadwick, vicar of Barking. Essex. In his Church News. The "devil's camera," he says, "fails to distinguish between passion and holy
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        SUB-TITLES, PLEASE
        129 2  -  ARU. POPULAR (.pinion of the cinema going public In Singapore and Federation la that the Hindus pictures produced at prc.xt nt arc equally food, if not better than, some of the Hollywood pictures. But the general public except the North Indians, arc unable to ernoy them to the
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      Miss Lockwood Back To Films
      391 2 By our London film correspondent LONDON: MARGARET Urk wood will Ik- back in films ;ig;»in shortly. But she is nol deserting the stage, <>n which she h.»s been enjoying great success in recent months, fit s( in "Private Lives* 1 in the provinces and more
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      at the Cinemas
      280 2 Cathay In Ichabod and Mr. Toad Walt Disney. Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone gel together to tell the two tales of Washington Irving's famous Ichabod Crane and Kenneth Grahame's egotistical, unpractical Toad. Kind parents might tell their children to hide their eyes when the Headless Horseman comes
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      THE MARTINET THEY ALL LOVE
      548 2 Repertory Personalities.. 2 jYL V I A Fenwick, v^ Singapore R«l turys actress, producer, and set designer, was born in Alton Hampshire. She became Int in the evi thing theatrical at lender age of three and was to be seen in all of Alton's amateur
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      Rehearsing The Rep
      368 2  - Rehearsing The Rep Ruth Langdon By A PERSON accustomed to the smooth performance* given by the Singapore Repertory would be surprised to slip Info the theatre during anv one of the rehearsals. They are chaotic. I watched the Rep. players rehearsing for Noel Cowards Present Laughter which has a cast
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      GUARDIANS OF THE DOCKS
      787 3 Special pondent rs CJ routes i Um world's rkets conn the Port thut great i ommercc stretches 26 ,n Tilbury lo idge and beships of :ill ded with of every v, iheir wa> swirling of Ihe nd find their oi Ihe .locks. I business -e ships.
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      CURIO DEALERS FACE NEW HEADACHES
      715 3  -  KENNY KAYE by (Jl HIO dealere, after ;i post-war boom when the Malayan tourist trade received a new lease in life, are Facing new headaches indfiv. for on e thing the uncertain political situation In China has affected replenishment of supplies. For another the blockade
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      Madame X gives a birthday party
      640 3  -  LUCY TAN by r £HE concept of life among the Chinese makes no great emphasis on youth, for growth from birth to adolescence and from adolescence to manhood is regarded as natural. Tradition makes a Chinese aspire for old age, as it is only
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        99 3 Warm |m ApcmMwal contact with nil yourtiaU A LOUDSPEAKER [NTEROFFK I OOMMUNH A lio\ ski Ask BORNEO SUMATRA TRADING CO., (M) LTD. Jvi«*Dli^hpd h l >rars in v <>u.:> last \sim SINGAPORE Kl ALA IAMIHK PENANG TO. ***** A: 8V149 ff m w JJ SINGAPORE ==z: BAGGAGE j TRANSPORT AGENCY
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      Biggest sports epic in 50 years
      779 4  - Biggest sports epic in 50 years MURRAY ROSE By n^HE world's heavy- weight champion was sprawled out. apparently helpless, in the laps of front-row newsmen A wild swing, exploding like a bomb, had sent him catapulting through the roDes and out ol the rinij. The 82.000 spectators, who jam-packed the
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