The Singapore Free Press, 8 March 1950

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i* '4 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1950. PRICE TEN I I NTS.
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    ASIA COLD WAR TALK TO OPEN
    372 1 ASIA COLD WAR TALK TO OPEN Big 3 parley m London LONDON, Wednesday. |Hh whole subject of the cold war m SouthEast Asia, including Indo-China and Malaya, is expected to be discussed at the highest level m London and Paris this week-end when Dr. Philip C. Jessup, T.S. roving ambassador,
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    46 1 Princess Ping-Peang Tukjnthor of Cambodia, who has been appointed to the \^«»mbly of the French I'nion. an Advisory house of the French Parliament that debates Colonial affairs. Her colleague* have twice elected her one of five a*>istant speakers, which entitles her to be called Midamt President."
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    WAR FEVER MOUNTS IN INDIA
    38 1 Wed. g hat an A i lmndlan n of L-ouard iiserrativc Eastern -> 3: •litive the t He > on t» 00* loan to i I m B ma he J or to a Reuter
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    Malaya troops praised
    139 1 LONDON. Wed. MR John Strachey, the War lfl Minister, said yesterday I that he was much encouraged I by the adaptability, keenness and military capacity revealed by young soldiers, especially National Servicemen, m operations against the ban--1 diis m Malaya "The way these men have met difficult
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    Johore bus fired
    72 1 A motor bus was set on fire by eighi Chinese bandits at the 12 1 2 mile Muar-Parlt Sulong Road yesterday The bus was completely destroyed. The bandits then robbed the driver and 'he conductor of their Identity cards and rash The passengers were not molested. 4
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    SIR PATRICK AT SHOW
    51 1 SIR PATRICK AT SHOW V the SinKaf>jre Repertory company's production "Present Laughter." last night, were Sir Patrick and Lady McKerron and Mr. C W. Dawson. retiring Chief Secretary. Sarawak and Mrs Dawson. Afterwards, they met the playen and told the actormanager, Mr. John ForbesSempill, how much they had enjoyed Mm
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    SKIPPER SHOT DEAD
    32 1 Members of the crew of an I'alian fishing boat reported yesterday that their skipper was shot dead by an offlrer of a Yugoslav patrol boat In the Adriatic- A.P.
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    22 1 picture. Turko Westerlin* is seen here manacled to a police officer when he was on his way to court today.— Free Press
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    Govt. hangs in the balance
    113 1 PARIS. Wed. 'PHE late o| Frances con--1 troversiai anti-saboiage j bill— and possibly that of M. I Georges Bidault's govern-; ment hung m the balance! jresterdaj as deputies gather- 1 for the climax of a tumultuous four days debate. Polite rtlnfnrrttiwittti pelted round the Assembly
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    To fight U.S. claim
    132 1 HONG KONG, Wed. THE China Merchants Si tarn Navigation Company has directed its Singapore legcu representative to take coun-ter-stepe In a legai action brought by the U.S. Government against its ship. Hai H.suan, now m Singapore. The US Consulate m Singaclainis that tbi Hai Hsuan ia
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    Liberals will back Govt.
    161 1 LONDON. Wednesday. *rHE tiny Liberal bloc of nine seats indicated yesterday that it will support the weakened Labour (iovernment m the first test vote of the new Parliament on the nationalisation of iron and steel The Conservative leader. Mr. Winston Churchill he would drop his plan
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    Today's 3 best bets
    39 1  -  ALLAN LEWIS From Wed Br>. nets for today's races here are Fountain Lady Batti II and Bonnie Grej. The «oin e it likely to be fast. Latest hints from the course appear on puge 11.
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    U .k. POLICY PLEASES U.S.
    72 1 'p\VO important policy 1 changes announced In the King's speech from the Throne at the opening of the British Parliament will easr U S Congressional opposr ion to the Marshall Plan programme Thes** are the decision not ro enlace m any new nationalisation nrojeers and
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    DUTCH REPRISALS
    26 1 A Netherlands government spokesman indicated yes; or day that swift reprisals vvilJ be taken for the expulsion of Dutch diplomats from Cz-> oslovakia. A.P.
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    Strikers obstinate
    32 1 Work m Bandung's tex il« factories has not been resumed and the trade union has Issued a sprond order to return to work after workershad ignored a first jrder— Reuter
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    Stirring pageantry for President of France
    195 1 LONDON. Wednesday. VHE glittering display a state banquet at 1 Buckingham Palace last night brought to a close the first day of the visit to Britain of M. Vincent Auriol, President of France, and Madame Auriol. It was a day of stirring pageantry, of
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    FRENCH PICK UP U.S. ARMS
    55 1 A FRENCH aircraft-carrier arrived at Norfolk. Virginia, yesterday to set into motion the US$l,OOO million aid programme for re-arming Western Europe against possible Russian aggression. The warship was the Dixmu<i<\ I former American escort arrier. It picked up France's Initial cargo —around 40 navy fighters
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    U .S. is building atomic submarine
    31 1 The Westlnghouie Electric Corporation has officially admitted it is building an atomic-powered submarine. U.S. scientists said it could virtually run for ever without refuelling.- Reuter
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    TRAIN SMASH
    29 1 Two men were killed and i >ht injured m England \vhon an express mall train running through fog smashed into the rear of a freight train. A.P.
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    Million § loan
    36 1 Million loan The United Mine Workers Union has offered a one million dollar loan to the U.S. Auio Wokers Union to aid their fight for new contract* at the Chrysler and the General Motor Companies.- A.P.
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    NAVY NOT READY
    36 1 Admirai Forrest P. Sherman said yesterday that the U.S. Navy is not ready for war and a curtailment of funds for the fleet has his approval only a.- a short term "calculated risk '<
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    CHIANG HAILED
    25 1 warm congratulations his resumption of the pudency was received by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek from Pre mier Lee Bum Suk of South Korea.— A.P.
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    US TALKS IN CAIRO
    32 1 American working level diplomats Irom 17 Middle Easl posts yesterday opened a five-day conference m Cairo and pledged the U.S. to an affirmative Middle East policy A P.
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    Thousands Walked
    33 1 Thousands of Parisian workers cycled, walked and hitch-hiked to work again yesterday though the Paris Transport Corporation reported an over-all improvement m the strike crippling the Frencl capitals public services. Reuter
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    Inseparable twins
    55 1 UAMESE twins— the girls have been born to Mrs Krskine Smit of Natone. Australia. They are joined h*»ad to head. The eirls weighed nine pounds ounte.s. Dr. J Starr, who attended the birth, said they were joined together firmly and there was no possibility of separating them. Mother
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    BANDITS FIRE INTO CINEMA
    113 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. BANDITS fired indiscriminately into a cinema tent m Kepong Village m Selangfor last night. When the audience rushed out. the bandits continued shooting indiscriminately. They also fired at a Chinese Club at the end of the village. As a
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    Bomb: hunt goes on
    40 1 SINGAPORE police were today still making an intensive search fo» the "shaggy -haired" young Chinese who yesterday threw a hand grenade into a Chinese newspaper office m Robinson Road not ft bank as first reported yesterday.
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    Hatta invited Red to return
    95 1 JAKARTA. Wrd. DARSONO. th^ Indonesian Communist exiled by the Du;ch nearly 25 years ago returned to Indonesia at the invitation of Dr. Mohamed Hatta the Prime Minis' «t. a spokesman tor the Foreign Ministry said yesterday Th« spokeanan added ih* f Di Ha r a
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    Turko: month's gaol
    234 1 Turko: month's gaol Free rress Staff Reporter nAYMOND Paul Pierre Westerling, alias RuU tenbeek, and leader of t to rebel Indonesian 'Army, of the Heavenly Ho was sentenced to i month's simple imprisonment m the Singapore Criminal District Court this morning for entering the Colony illegally on ahout Feb. 23.
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    ANTI-CORRUPTION
    26 1 A special tnti-corru committee is to b^ i,d i by the Siam^s^ d to deal ri| ruption Among inri and jrouos m the Government.'- A.P.
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    MONEY FOR HEALTH
    20 1 The British Pc •v uked to sanction nipple men: nail Hea amounting to £98 o no. 000
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    'Have I Got T.B.?' Query
    1126 2 'Have I Got T.B.?' Query THE SINGAPORE DOCTOR O\E night I coughed and spat out blood. Three hours later I coughed again and blood came through my mouth and nose. An X-Ray examination ihotved I had no T.B. I took Chinese herbs which $ucces6 fully stopped any bleeding. Two weeks
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    27 2 The final plastic coat is applied to the 3-pounder saluting guns of H.M.S. King George V. The "embalmed" battleship is joining Britain's "moth ball" fleet m reserve.
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    RAINBOW DIET IS BEST
    317 2  - RAINBOW DIET IS BEST WALTER FARR VHE only way to make sure that children eat enough is to serve their food In vividly contrasting colours. So, at least; says Raymond Paumier, French child nutrition expert. Each meal, he thinks, should contain foodstuffs m at least four different colours. To help
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    Soon—Painless Dentistry
    227 2 Soon Painless Dentistry NEW YORK: "pAINLESS" dentistry may be on the way, according to the dental scientists. Four big strides to make the dentists chair more comfortable already have been taken. They are. 1 The use of small duses of penlothal sodium by injection into a vein m combination with
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    When Germs Beat the Drug....
    327 2 When Germs Beat the Drug.... By A Special Correspondent A DRUG is found which kills certain germ diseases. It is hailed as a cure. The world rejoices. The extermination of the disease, whatever it may be, is forecast. So far so good. But then comes the day when the germs
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      112 2 (ft& £%J LUXURY L^j PERFUME within your reach always lh« rich fragrance of an expensive perfume is within easy reach nov. Goya puts his perfumes into tiny handbag phials. Warm, voluptuous No. 5 Great Expectations for your gay-going mood romantic bitter-sweet Gardenia SDarkling, I open-air Goya Heather. GOYA 141 NEW
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      267 2 Solution To Crossword No. 9)7 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today, you have an exceptionally strong personality. Your sense of justice is active and although you have very definite opinions of your own, you will change them with new evidence like an* wise individual. Your interests are wide and your career
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      183 2 F.P. Crossword No. 938 CUJE9 AIKOSS 1 Very useful to a soft-wwil candidate? tilt; 7 Make mown that I'm incomplete? (6): 8 Sounds made by a stone (5); 0 Ulack sailor? (3); 12 When I leave Nellie she turns into a diCerent »:irl vf>>; 13 Wake up (6); 15 Medium
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    AFRICAN NATIONALISTS GO RED?
    51 3 AFRICAN NATIONALISTS GO RED? photo Combined American and Canadian forces have been taking part m military exerriNes designed to protect North America m.iinst an attack from \hirtra Here Penguin snowmobiles' of the Princess P.itriiiu forces rattle alon| the IJatfca highway to t nine to grips with the ima^ineiy enemy A.
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    Russia showing much interest
    288 3 ACCRA, GOLD COAST, Wednesday. DADICAL African Nationalists may attempt to I*'1 embrace Communism m the next phase of any campaign for independence m British West Africa, according to many responsible Britons here. They say tha\ Russia, through her newspapers an.i other propaganda media, has evinced considerable
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    French clear delta area
    57 3 SAIGON, Wednesday. iiNiw- m lndo-China against the 1 lami.v.mM -.ed ietniinh forces today aims m winning full control of Cochin-China r-r delta of Tonkin. Vietnam's two elation and production. Tonkin are reported nearing ainpaign m the Red E*hulj regipn. 28 miles south of the delta, remains
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    Soviet advisers paid in U.S. $
    47 3 Soviet advisers paid in U.S. Siae.ignt on Sino-Soviet retatlons: Mr. James D. van Putten, en route home after cTosthe US Information centre In Peking, said m Seou: that the numerous Russian advisers steaming into the Chinese Communist capital are drawing their dot In U 8 rioila. A.P.
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    NO ATOM WORK FOR GERMANS
    14 3 i Holing ftrid of irch 11 >nai i— A.P.
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    U.N. decides on its new postal address
    174 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. i'HK postal address of the l T nited Nations permanent headquarters m New York City will be: (nited N a lions. New York. Thar is ttie ruling handed down by SecretaryGeneral, Trysve Lie. He said there will be no street
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    111 3 ROBERT Victor France, 'The Pope of Absolutism.'" or "The Cyclamen infel** as he likes to Jx* < ailed, has appeared m a Paris court. charging defamation of character" against the French Manatee Flask, which published a picture of him kissing the i -heek of a xrmi-nude heaut> queen called M
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    CHINA TIGHTENS POLICE CONTROLS
    288 3 ■I D KONG Wed I r H*i china noH on H were M .ihe; Cornmu- nt. are nov beI h eB i B new I mt ntratka H similar to X have ,m? places, B at iniorB here by B the B S. :uation In Namnang.
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    Rubber group meets May 2
    50 3 LONDON. Wed. THE seYcnth. meeting of the Inieniational Rubber Study Group will open m Brussels on May 2 to review the world rubber situation, and examine production and consumption statistics. New members of the group will bt> Siam and the United States of Indonesia. U.P.
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    NEW US COMMANDER
    44 3 PiVMd' Tnr nominated Vice Admiral Calvin Durgin as Commander of the United Spates Fust Fieet m the Pacifu- Admiral Durain sneceeda Vice-Adnn Gerald F Bog.tn. v. hi. te after assailing U.S detvnor policies which he said w^re Crippltog the Navy Reuter
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    NO CHANGE IN TRADE POLICY
    83 3 'PHK Communist party or- 1 J. gan Pravda. say s the change from dollars to a gold basis for calculating the rouble value leaves the Soviet governmen; monopoly m foreign trade unchanged. The paper made it clear <ha' last week's revaluation of The roubles does
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    Bridge Hands
    360 3 Ea*l-W*tt vui;it>rab:« rl«aier 1 bidding Nor»h East South Witt Pact Pass 4« All Pan COUTH '6 I .md is a proper preemptive bid m any position; although fourth hand he might be content to bid only three hearts, for with all the other players having passed, the likelihood
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    64 3 photo Dr. Phillip C. Jessup, U.S. ambassador-at-large. talks with Maharaja Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana. Prime Minister and commander-in-chic* of Nepal, at a reception m the l/.S. Embassy m New Delhi. Dr. Je.ssup is «»n a special mission for the I.S. State Department. The Maharaja was on a state visit m
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    Man fears he'll live too long
    148 3 CHICAGO, Wednesday. A I AX'S fear of death has been complicated m the past half century by **a greater fear of living too long," a leading niedic.il research director said recently. Frank G. Dickinson head of Economic Research for m o American Medical Association,
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    MEN DEAF TO WOMEN CLAMOUR
    208 3 MEN DEAF TO WOMEN CLAMOUR LONDON A'ed > EITHER Labour Mf rortes rill take up their cause with enthusiasm but Bn'i.^i womfn ;*:<- rlifW fH ring lor equ ial pay for eqi; one group after anoth*i repeats like a chorus Vht us of Women Commi D worn organizations. demar.d ■orU
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      185 3 Million school less f\h the 2.193.000 m the (*taf a^»- smup tl x,\ t» v IT. more, thin 1.000.000 ai« not attrnding s »liu^ to the statist i« >ot the I. dm alion Depart nn-nt (♦>lon 1,, counter this, the Minist«r of Kdu< -alion. Mr I A Niuuw«la. has launched
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      105 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. PAVILION: The MllC r.H4'>-:i RKX: If Happenn Evmv Bpring. < Ol.lSt l M: Wild Beasts A' Bay. ODEON: The Advenaues of Icajbod and Mr. Tosd ar.d Seal Island double feature*. MADRAS: R<thu Dunia (Malay. C.AIHV* Rfijakuinaii (Tamil. HINOI TAN: Bari Beh?n (Hindus'Aiti' < I \TR%L: Krishna
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      377 3 SINGAPORE 4 4 7 From the L 0^ 011 Editorials" man's Music; 11.30 News Bulleun: (BLtfc NETWORK) < BBC 4.55 Composer of the Week 4 p.m. Grand Symphony Or--484 and 41.7 metres. —Sibelius; 5.15 Report from Bri- chesua; 4.30 News Bulletin. 440 Kmfrgencj oewi from X.L ta i n 5.30
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    SWEET TOOTH FACTORY
    426 4  - SWEET TOOTH FACTORY PETER HILL Story by Photos by N. COTTERELL I.X lOi)6 till eilltfipilMllg yuuilg om6«H wlv v^«.**^w^., named Chew Boon Lay, hit upon a new way of making money. He took two small shop houses m Park Road, near the police barracks m Pearl's Hill, and began manufacturing
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    ASIA UNEASILY AWAITS AID
    426 5 Vital role m cold war NEW YORK, Wednesday. yyiTH the conflict of the ideologies m Europe largely settled down to a holding operation the weight of strife has shifted to the Far Eastern theatre of the two-front cold war. The outcome of the fight between Communism
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    World peace move
    43 5 World peace move -fa- YORK. Wed. 0. Rogge, :ed States ,ev-Gene-ing by S co* said -d to make ippeal Parhat)e able Parlia- osals on wea.pons of and on 'he r. j i rna! ted In jecial Itcd Kar.eid m of en lid be
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    TORY RULE FORECAST
    54 5 NEW YORK. Wed BACK from Britain has come Professor James Pollock, a research expert, to report on the election to 5.000 U.S. business men who hired him to get the lowdown. report says. "There will be another election m from three to six months. The T ries
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    28 5 pnoio. |»i. one time Viceroy of Abyssinia. u\r minister m the closin? days of the i Romp n>urt where the 66-year^old mar- v ..f aidin; the Nazis- A.P.
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    Artist paints to scare humanity
    111 5 Artist paints to scare humanity P.aKIS, Tuesday. artist 1 1 u>ade to shock world opinion that an atomic war might mean f ham.mitv fa giving Paris art-goers a hair.%ith his first exhibitition which here. .s he was born at nia. refuser to give any permsell beyond saying that he for
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    New Red demand
    17 5 U.P. Rumania has demanded that Britain and America close their information offices m Bucharest.-
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    84 5 These members of the crew of the liner Ormonde acted as a human blood bank for two-year-old Peter Baldwin, of Rei?ate. Surrey, who. after migrating to Austra- lia with his parents, returned to England on the Ormonde to receive treatment for haemophilia (uncontrolled bleeding). Peter's illness was disr "r--ed at
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    THE ATOM AS A TOY
    55 5 pHILDREN m America can V now play with the atom Bt-anning R^pplier. A toymaker says that his firm his perfected an atom kit— Geiger counter, radio-active samples and all for the youngster from nine to 90. It costs £15, and, Mr. Repplier hastens to add
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    24 5 photo. Nawab Mustaq Ahmed Gurmani (centre). Pakistan's ambassador-at-large and minister for Kashmiri affairs, addresses newsmen during a press conference m Claridge's hotel. London. A.P.
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    REDS FEAR THIS NAT. AIRMAN
    401 5 REDS FEAR THIS NAT. AIRMAN HONG KONG, Wednesday. AMERICAN -TRAINED Lcng Pei-shu, a US S6O-a- month major m the Chinese Nationalist Air Force, is regarded as a ''terror" by the Chinese Communists. Last month with the help of another pilot. Doth flying P-51 Mustangs, he destroyed HK $6,000,000 worth of
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    U.S. urged to borrow Churchill
    133 5 U.S. urged to borrow Churchill NEW YORK. Wed. BOSTON, not always noted for its fondness for England, has asked Washington to employ Mr. Winston Churchill to run America's foreign policy. The idea came from Bill Cunningham, editor of New England's most influential newspaper. the Boston Herald. In a two-column article
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    33 5 Shortage of metals of all kinds m the Russian zone of Germany claims another victim for the meltin? furnaces a* the hutjp bronze statue of Kaiser Wilhelm is lowed by crane In Berlin.
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    REMOVING STIGMA FROM REDSKINS
    273 5 OTTAWA, Wednesday. A NEW Bill of Rights for Canada's Indians will be brought before the present session of the Canadian Parliament as part of a "new deal" which has already had some impressive results. The programme to "do right by the Red Man" started ten years
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    NAVY QUITS MIDWAY
    26 5 The US. Navy will leave Midway Island about' June 30 The present installations, remnant of a big wartime base, has 300 men.- A.P.
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    Wine is killing Frenchmen
    286 5 Wine is killing Frenchmen PARIS, Wednesday. WINE-DRINKING Frenchmen, long held up as models of temperance, are dying of alcoholism at a rate that is worrying their government. Pre-nar travellers hailed France with awe as the country where "you never see a drunk on the street," Apparently French alcoholics were drinking
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    A ROYAL FLUSH IN BROOKLYN
    149 5 NEW YORK. Wednesday. BROOKLYN, famous as New York's most boisterous suburb, blushed with embarrassment when it was told that it mipht have "British royalty" living m its midst. The editors of DebreU. hunting for the rightful heirs to the late Sir William Wolseley, eleventh baronet
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    POETRY BECOMES WEAPON
    94 5 POETRY BECOMES WEAPON JJOETRY became a weapon m a strike at a Neic York greeting-card factory. Employees are squatting on th>. premises to fight off their employer's decision to move to the country. The employer married up and down outside his factory with a card bearing this parody of his
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    COAL FOR JAPS
    19 5 The Japanese government p'nns to purchase 400.000 tons of coal from Red China during 1950.- U.P.
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    FASHIONS BACK TO 1920s
    178 5 FASHIONS BACK TO 1920s PARIS, Wed. ONE of the few replicas of the "straight up and down" style of dress worn m the 1920s is to be shown by prominent French designer. Maggy Rouff. Made m navy blue wool, the bodice falls m a straight line from underarm to a
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    SPIES FLOOD W. GERMANY
    54 5 LIEUT -GEN Clarence H lebn niander o; Army m Eui tiy that many is "honeycon Communist age: Gen. Hu» L follow« i d the r that important do had disappeared homes of Army or*../- rs and the arrest m Fra: 22-year-old Soviet I t-d of beins
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY Mar. 8, 1950. STILL PACKING THEM IN
    358 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY Mar. 8, 1950. STILL PACKING THEM IN I]P up and up goes SingaU pores population. Last II there were four births la tvcry death On December 31 1949, the Colony's population was 34,548 more ihan on the preceding Jany 1 I :he end of this
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    MOUNTBATTEN KI JAI!
    177 6 \Mt- H Mount- batten! It is good to j back with us. 'J c name of Mbuntbatten ka n throughout f] Asia In every town ai of India, the I d his consort are looked upon us personifying >od in human n i > They were beloved
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    874 6 Diary Iddon's Diary NEW YORK: JIIE British walked to the ballotboxes under Klieg lights. Every camera Wiis focused on Britain, and the American audience was prepared to cheer, boo, or even walk out on the per forma nee. People here helped to finance the production and they had paid admission
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    PITY THE COMPOSER
    662 6  -  Neville Cardus By [t|Y plea the other week on behalf of British conductors has brought a swift riposte from Joseph Holbrooke, who was m the advance guard of British music 40 years ago, quite as contemporary and renowned, Just as much a white hofce, as any Britten
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    HEW RECORDS
    309 6 ll.iydn S\ni|)hoiiv No. 100 m G Major (the Military" play»il by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hugo Rijjnuld. Col. I>.\ 8337-9. This is the second rerordu^ of this symphony we have bad m recent months. The van Beinum— L.P.O.— Decea ves'on ha* not been heard by ttolfl
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    49 6 June well-bred beagle ***** from Britain, nurses the seven two-week-old puppie* whelped soon after her arrival m Australia The officer -in -charge at the Sydney ,NSW> Animal Quarantine Station, Mr. W. Speers, said each puppy teas valued at lASO There is a growing demand for beagle hounds m Australia.
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    Harry Lauder Kept His Secret
    566 6  - Harry Lauder Kept His Secret SIR ALEXANDER KING liy HARRY LAUDER has reached the End of the Road, a road he trod for 79 years. A road he began, like many another Scots laddie, with nothing m his pocket, but with genius and grit m his soul. But atanf it
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    A MUSIC CHALLENGE
    396 6 By PRESTO I\O you want Singapore to have an orchestra of its own 0 Do you want to hear live" concerts regularly. If you do then bouk at Robinson s today for the concert which the Singapore Musical Society Orchestra are giving at the Victoria Hall on
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    Victims Of The Reds
    25 6  - Victims Of The Reds JUDY BARDEN By I i I I i X mar I I by I I I I 0 I 'I 1
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    SENIOR OFFICERS PROTEST TO S.M.C.
    505 7 SENIOR OFFICERS PROTEST TO S.M.C. 'Blackmail talk at debate Free Press Staff Reporter ■JHE Senior Officers' Association of the Singapore Municipality has protested to the Municipal Commissioners on statements regarding "blackmail" and "booking a passage" made at the recent debate on the proposed appointment of Mr. P. C. Urn, Assistant
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    38 7 picture. THE Officer Administering the Government. Sir Patrick McKerron. inspected Singapore Improvement Trust bou^rs yesterda*. Picture shows Sir Patrick m a flat m Sago Street. With him is Mr. J. M. Fraser manacer of the S.IT.— Free Press
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    No rush for Jap goods
    101 7 it! Krportrr it circle* Bat lmI ded to hold rden for the pre-*>ver-stock- .i because D .s^d to rling rat were Malayan Gov;ionth. -a here the goods i $10 600.000. X .as so p and pl.ed Xor. so I :atlon for i ler» large j
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    NEW C.P.O. FOR TRENGGANU
    22 7 NEW C.P.O. FOR TRENGGANU m w M.tfT Krporur rMPUR ::ner 1 r s .irjgor. I R nu H the ,-avi» r has
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    MAILS
    59 7 Burface Oi<*. Singapore today from Eastern -ibu. and the Federa b>n. M for posting sui:a?e mai! Today at the G P.O. are: noon for North Borneo. I.abuan. Brunei. Great Britain, N Ireluid Europe. Eijypt. North »n4 :ica Weal Indies. Cevion. Australia 545 p.m. for tl.e Federa'ion: 6 pm for
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    73 7 picture. LADY (iurney wife of (he High Commissioner, Federation of Malaya paid a visit to the SeJaW Children's Home at Klang *oad, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. Picture hows Lady Gurnov talking to one of the children who had gathered around h, while she was admiring som of their needle-work. Left (bending
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    BLOOD APPEAL TO CHINESE
    502 7 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 X appeal to the Chinese m Singapore to register "as blood donors was made through the Free Press yesterday by Dr W. J. Vickers. Director of Medical Services. Singapore. Dr. Vickers said that Chinese formed one third of the 2.946 people
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    Y.W.C.A. TO REPAIR BUILDINGS
    223 7 Y.W.C.A. TO REPAIR BUILDINGS Free Press Staff Reporter 'pHE Singapore Y.W.C.A. plans to renovate its buildings with money collected m a campaign which be- j gan on Feb. 22 and officially ends today. Mr. D. C. Greene, the secretary, said yesterday that the target was $30,000. So far more than
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    NEW METERS FOR J. BAHRU
    68 7 Free Fress Staff Reporter JOtIORE RAHRI Wed. Iy.ATER meters m Johore Tf Bahru are to be replaced as they have been found to be under-register-ing, resulting m loss of revenue These meters have been m use for the past eight or ninr years and are
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    55 7 picture Countess Mountbatten admirinx m piece of embroidery by L (pi Maurice Weller 'right* R.A.S.C. GHQ.. at the British Military Hospital yesterday. Picture shows (from left) Brigadier J. C. Collins. Director of Medical Services at fIHQ. Miss D. Aplin Chief Hospital Welfare Officer for FARELF. Col. Chambers, Commandant RMH VBmm
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    TAMIL SCHOOL
    59 7 Free Kress Staff Reporter The Umar Pulavar Tamil School which owes Its establishment mainly to the efforts of a group of peons, will be officially opened by ih^ Director of Education. Singapore Mr. A W. Frisby. on March 17 at 4 30 p.m. Built from donations by I
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    New president for Chinese Chamber
    216 7 Free Tress Start" Reporter I IK. Tan Lark Sye was elected president of the A Singapore Chines" "'amber of Commerce yesterday, succeeding: Mr. Yong: Yit Lin. Mr. Tan Sink Yew was >d V nt. Otiier officials elected were: I The Finance Committee were elected as
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    32 U.K. SEAMEN STRANDED HERE
    288 7 Free Press Staff Reporter THIKIV TWO British seamen who are stranded m Singapore are living m the Marine Hostel at Anson Road. They are "desperate" and are looking for help to get passage to Britain. Stanley Nicholson, of South Shields, told the Free Press yesterday.
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    R.A.F. NEEDS RECRUITS
    87 7 A RECRUITINQ team com- > l\ posed of an officer and .hre€ Airmen of the RAT. Regiment < Malaya', will rl- rtt Province Wellesiey. SelanIfor and Negrl Sembllan be- :ween March 15 and 24 to! •nlist 90 Malay recruits tor Lhe RAF Regiment *MalaEnlistment is open to
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    RELIGIOUS DEPT. FOR NEGRI
    219 7 RELIGIOUS DEPT. FOR NEGRI Free Press SUIT Reportrr SEREMBAN f STEPS are being taken appoint a suitable per.- n a$ administrator of the R« llglous Department m .NVgrl Semtoilan. The Department is expected to function n»>t month or early m \!iv a Government spokesman ""Id the Free Press The Department
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    MINIMUM PAY DEMAND
    325 8 Govt. men to discuss action KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. REPRESENTATIVES of the Federation's 50,000 daily-paid Government workers will meet m Kuala Lumpur next month to decide what action is to be taken to re-open negotiations with Government on a $2.30 a day minimum waere rate, rent-free quarters and
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    GIRL SENT FOR TRIAL AT ASSIZES
    92 8 Fre« Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Sixth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. C. F. Seston. yesterday committed for trial at the next Assizes, a 10-year-old Indian girl. Tanamani Perumaiyi, on a charge of murdering the 20-day-old baby daughter of her foster mother. It was alleged
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    N.Y. STOCKS DECLINE
    54 8 N.Y. STOCKS DECLINE npHE NfA- York Slock Exch.. vfs.rciay morning ltMW«d declines of up to U.S.SI due to pro-fit-taking and nervous liquid cu»n While pressure tended toe times during the afternoon, most sections failed to produce much, if any. rallying power. There ffll some late covering m Industrials. The close
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    54 8 Free Press fill iui r COrNTESSS Mountbatten of Burma, head of the St. John Ambulance Association, arrived m Singapore yesterday from Ceylon. She b pictured here being welcomed at Tengah airport by Miss D- Aplin, who is m charge of welfare services m Malaya run by the joint Red Cross
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    6 S.J.I. boys in side for Perth
    473 8 6 S.J.I. boys in side for Perth Free Press Cricket Reporter IJ'OXG Weng of St. Joseph's Institution has been selected to complete the Singapore Combined Schools* cricket team, which leaves for Perth tomorrow on the Charon to play series of games with Western Australian schools. Fong Wens: is the sixth.
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    Fed. expels 188 aliens
    115 8 Fed. expels 188 aliens KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. i[O one was deported from the Federation during January, but during February approval was given to deport 138 aliens and 10 British subjects under the Emergency Regulations. This brings the total deportations during the Emergency to 6.082 aliens and 116 British subjects. The
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    H.K.F.A. ALSO LOST ON BURMESE
    57 8 NOT only Singapore, but Hong Kong also lost money m soccer matches against the Burmese touring team. This was revealed by thr Hong Kong Football Association yesterday They also lost on the series of matches with the Manila team. The serlei against the Swedish touring
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    HOSPITALS CUP RUGBY DRAWN
    49 8 QT. THOMAS Hospital and Muidl.v.x Hospital, drew live points all m a semi-tinal <>f the Hospitals Cup nmby union competition vester. The replay has been fixed for Tuesday. The winners n:cf <-i: Mary's or loiuion. Hospital m the final on March 29.- Reuter A .P.
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    DR. W.M. CLYDE'S EXHIBITION
    579 8 DR. William M. Clyde is exhibiting his watercolour paintings at Robinson's. The Free Press publishes below a notice of the exhibition, which is open until Saturday. Most appreciations of exhibitions of water colour paintings dwell upon hose qualities particular to ih^ skilful use of the medium
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    Marts watching political fight
    354 8 ajf afja f LONDON Hednesdav f FHE London Stock Exchange is watt h x ments m the political fi^ht m Britai n f o i the Opposition's challenge to the labour r« ment. Trading m all sections yesterda scale, but most prices were mainh:. closing levels.
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    TIN MAY STAY AROUND £600
    13 8 1 Tiit Ih. £600 85 toi. I U.P.
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    685 9  -  COLIN D. EDWARDS by- ..a t h a t's ng said w lips on his o. lies the You an you, He 'he I Nad he s of skiiful. 'ica:ion nad been v only suits. the us hat the ike him m > He cap B he highs. L
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    285 9 OLAND 6ft. 3in. 1 1 e a v w e l gh 1 Robert Morl c y, ramous English play-wright-actor at present touring Australia m -Edward, My Son," has tinned floWi pros pector. He aims to take out of Australia something more than the very fine
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    The clue of the dirty glasses
    1885 9 The clue of the dirty glasses fka gagag gKlLLEDintheart of smiling deceit, the confidence trickster slaps his victim's shoulder, buys champagne sappers, lends his Rolls-Royce. Sometimes a OJ.D. officer has to chafe the victim's wrists and pour cold water down his collar before convincing him that he has just been
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    4 SCHOOLBOYS PLAY FOR S.R.C.
    712 10 4 SCHOOLBOYS PLAY FOR S.R.C. C.A. fail to impress By CRUSADER SINGAPORE Recreation Club's socco relec°tors are doing: the right thing: m trying out several youngsters m their League engagements. They realise that the old-timers have to make way for newcomers some time or other, and are doing everything they
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    26 10 picture. Mrv J Manning Irads m Ramillies (Po*hni>. vtautef of thr fifth rate at Penan* on Saturday. Ramillie.i paid S7O for a win.— Scoop's Amateur Service
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    Etiquette on the golf course
    534 10  -  HENRY LONGHURST \u THOSE wln> knew the ryles of jjolf, tliose who thought thej did, and those who cheerfully knew they diiin t. ma: all »t«rl level on the first tee this morninf, the Den code, over which the Rules of (i«»lf committee laboured fOf
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    South Africa wants Hassen
    134 10 Teh j ith AfI ma: weight champion been app. I about by promoter, Mr J B IPanday. McQullli M tha' I not be pn pared jto iskr }\assoi< to the Union I unless he were p:*^ nooo In South African cw i for !wo fight fl
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    SULTANS' CUP COMPETITIOIN
    64 10 ENIRIF.S are tiow invited ft«m all Sute Malay tOOCCr :eHi»i> for the Sultans' Oold Cup i*ompi»iuon for 1950. The closing date la March 11. The competition is scheduled to start In the las! week of Ap "il Only KdftHtan has entered ,*o far Entries w.ih fe>\s should
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    Start the game with a kick-off attack
    121 10 VOOTBALL matches usually start tamely. At any rate, there seldom seems much danger when the ball is fiist set rolling, possibly because there has been no "get-together" among the players bat an attack can be immediately instituted if there is intelligent co-operation. The
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    SCIENCE IN SOCCER
    8 10  -  DAVID JACK By Middlesbrough nanager
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    Newcastle F.C. resent F. A. action
    368 10 By AKCHIt: QI'ICK r rili: accusation that the tail is wagging the dug is 1 soon to be levelled publicly at the Football Association of England b.v League club representatives For a long while, differences have been boiling under the lUlface like a suppressed
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    Captain to be chosen before each game
    171 10 Bj A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE skipper of the Xegri Sembilan State cricket XI will not be picked at the outset of th< season, but a captain will be named before each match This procedure will be followed by the Negri Sembi- Lan Cricket
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    NEW ERA STRONGLY FANCIED
    232 11 Latest hints from track From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Wednesday. Era, Musketeer, Sheffield Plate and Bonnie Grey are strong stable fancies for the first, second, third and fourth races respectively here this afternoon. New Era is m excellent condition aaft was given on the course this morning
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    25 11 picture. ih*> IRC inside right heads the ball v the Rovers left back during their Senior 11 J»!^n Besar yesterday. IRC. won 1-o.— Free Press
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    I.R.C. in impressive League debut
    353 11 ltlM Club are a team to watch i av'A the manner m which thty much-f mcied Rovers Sports Club yesd that they are a side with very bright i the Senior I.eaeue. The result was a I—o the IRC. an RC. play soccer after a
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    Plea for Cup date change
    135 11 EFFORTS are being made f> hare the date of the F.A. Cup semi-final between Everton and Liverpool changed from March 25, because it clashes with the Grand National, world-famous steeplechase. Tophams, Ltd.. lessees and managers of Liverpool racecourse, have sent a letter of protest to
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    CHEERFUL LADS BEAT SOCIAL A.P.
    72 11 /CHEERFUL LADS beat SoC cial Athletic Party by five goal* to one m a Junior "B" Group 1 League soccer match at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The scorers for Cheerful Lads were Cheok Hye (2), Toben and T. Conceicao. The other goal came from one of
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    Rough play in H.K. soccer
    71 11 A WARNING that rough and ungentlemanly play on th« football field would not be tolerated and that drastic action would be meted out to offenders was made by Mr. J. Skinner, chairman of the Hong Kong Football Association, yesterday. His warning followed an outbreak of
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    'GUSSIE' IN CAIRO FINAL
    233 11 |JMSS Gem Houhing (Britain < HI beaten 6-0, 6-4 by Miss, Gertrude C'Gussie" Moran (United States) m Urn women's singles semi-finals of. the international lawn tennis championships of Egypt at the Gezira Sporting Club. Cairo, yesterday. The pair met for the first time at Wimbledon last
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    DICK BUTTON KEEPS TITLE
    180 11 DICK BUTTON, of the United I States, won the men's world figure-skating championship for the third successive year at the Wembley pool, London, last night with 1.419.47 points and seven placements. Ede Kiraly. Huogarian run-ner-up to Button last year and recent winner of the European title,
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    Hatton's Grace repeats 1949 win
    221 11 Hatton 's Grace repeats 1 949 win IRISH-OWNED and trained Hatton's Grace, a ten-year-old gelding, repeated his success of last year m the Champion Hurdle Challenge Cup when the three-day National Hunt festival began at Cheltenmm in e a t te l rrm'c finish to the two-mile £2,000 event, Hatton's
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    OXFORD STROKE OUT OF BOAT RACE
    261 11 OXFORDS hopes of breaking Cambridge's winning sequence m the annual university boat race received 3 set-back yesterday with the announcement that Christopher Davidge, their brilliant stroke, would not be able to lead them on April 1. Davirlgc, this year's Oxford President, and regarded by
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    204 11 ALLAN faftMlS TRESPASSER EPSOM JELF CAIJ BOY POINTI* R 1 C M l m^ ERA MISS LIN °R Mlss LINOR NEW ERA BARONESS Miss Unor Baroness New Era Baroness Rainbow g r p< New Era Baronesr Spotlight New Era Ej 4 C L MUSKETEER MUSKETEER MUSKETEER
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    428 11 f>ELOW Is the card for today, second day of the 13 Penang Turf Club Spring meeting. Only six races *'»H be run, starting at 3.30 p.m. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race six. Race 1—3.30: Cl. 5, Div. 2—6 Furs. 000 Eastern Girl Flannery 8.12 030
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    FARELF boxing results
    163 11 EIGHT semi-finals m the FARELF boxing championships were decided at tunglin Gymnasium last night. More semi-finals will be decided tonight and on Friday night the fln;iS will be ?taged at the Happy Wrrld. Results last night were: Hjrwetfht: L Cpl. Megbahadur Rai (7.G.R.T.W. Malaya Dist) k.od LCpl.
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    AUSTRALIANS 233 FOR 3
    71 11 rHE Australian cricket team touring New Zealand gave a bright display of batting at Timaru yesterday m scoring 233 for three against a combined Canterbury -Ash burton team. Previously, they had dismissed their opponents for 96. W. A. Brown. the tourists' captain, made 88. P. Riding
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    46 11 COSMOS AND TENGAH DRA W /COSMOS Sports Club held \j R.A.F. Tengah to a twoall draw m a Junior "B" Group 2 Leagur game on the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. Jaffar Abdullah scored both goals for Cosmos S.C. while the Airmen got their two goals through Stanworth.
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    50 11 rVHE Straits Times Cricket Club A would like to arrange fixture* this season The club at present has no irr^und of its own. Secrecies of rluba with \acanr dates (Sfturdays only) are requocted to write to:" Tho Secretary, Straits Times Cricket Chib, Strait* Times, Cecil Street, P.;;:gapore.
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    53 11 OWEDEN beat England by seven matches to nil m an international badminton contest m Sussex last night. The match consisted of three singles and four doubles- Reuter O\G BENG BKE. captain of the Singapore Combined Schools' cricket team which is leavin? for Western Australia tomorrow. Story
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    Euwe keeps off
    52 11 THE refusal of the Duun ex-world champion, Max Euwe, to take part In the coming Budapest international chess tournament has caused much comment m Moscow. The Budapest tournament brings together the wonti s best players to decide the challenger for the present world's champion, Mikhaii Botvinnik. m
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    118 11 WORD that two of China* outstanding long-distance runners. C F. Wang, and Law Wcn-ngau. planned to enter for the 54th marathon on April IS has D received from H Kong by the race director, Mr. Tom Kanaly Mr Walter Brown president of the Boston
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    41 12 POSTLETH W AITE-CANTRELL The engagement is announced between Barry Vincent, youngest •on of Mr. <fc Mrs. R N. Postierhwaite of Beckenham, Kent. and Gillian Gertrude, youngest daughter of the laic H at. Cantrell and Mrs. A. M. Cantrell of Singapore.
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    MARRIAGE
    17 12 LOXDALE-BADENOCH. At th«r Presbyterian Church. Singapore t 3 50. Hubert John Loxdaie to Matgaret Isobel Badenoch.
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    DEATHS
    46 12 RS YEE FOOK LOY Alias Anna Chan Ah Teng. 76 years, mother of Yee Cheolc Wan. passed awa> at the General Hospital 1.43 a m 7 3.50. Funeral 9 3.50 m. m Sacred Heart Church <fc Bidadari Cemetery. Hongkong. uion and Sarawak papers f copy.
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    The stranger didn't return
    56 12 MELBOI'KNK. Wed \STRANGKK who t<H>k his shoes to 4 connkr for mending v now il 4o richer. The cobbler. A. Raulston had stuck a wallet containing the money m the toe of .mi,, shop and forgot to remove it when the strancer called for his shoes
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    H.K. faces a record budget
    55 12 UoNG KONGS Legislative 11 Council today will be asked to approve the colony's record budge' of HK51 19.031.037. The new budget will be the highest m the colony's 109 years of British rule Expenditure for police goes up this year to HK51 5.500.000 three million
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    RED LANDING ON HAINAN REPORTED
    336 12 U.S. hints at fresh aid HONG KONG, Wednesday. JUE reported landing of 1,000 Red commandos on Hainan Island yesterday either to test the No. 2 Nationalist bastion's defences or as the beginning of the long-awaited invasion coincided with a hint by the U.S. Secretary of
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    70 12 photo. Tippy Ann, 3-year-old Boston terrier owned by A. D. Boggs of New Orleans. Louisiana, seen with nine of her litter of 11 pups. Two of them died at birth. This is Tippy s second litter; the first was a litter of six about a year ago. Dog experts say
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    45 12 photo. Miss Moira Shearer, star of j the ballet film "Red Shoes. seen with. her fiance, ludovic Kennedy, at his home at Hampton Court. l ondon. after the announcement of their engagement. Thp wedding took place recently at the Chapel Royal. Hampton Court Palace.- A.P.
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    Arab world won't side with Russia
    162 12 BAGHDAD, Wednesday. Vl'KI -tS-SAID, lormer President of the Iraq a1 Senate, said m a speech here yesterday, "If war comes. Russia will not find the Arab countries on the Communist side.'' He told several hundred leading chizens that the Arab League Council resolved at
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    EXPERTS FOR INDIA
    34 12 Three US. agricultural experts, led by Dr. Rose Moore will come to New Delhi study and report on India's requirements for agricultural aid under President Truman's Point Four programme.- A. P.
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    £10,000 to cover loss
    91 12 £10,000 to cover loss LONDON Wed 1 FURTHER £10,000 is re- quired for payments to certain members of the Indian and Burma Civil services for lost of personal property m Burma. Hong Kong and Malaya as the result of the Japanese invasion and is inclu(tod m i he British Government
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    SWEDES CONCERNED
    25 12 The Swedish government :s taking an 'extremely serious" view of the capture by the Russians of Swedish fishing ships m the Baltc- A.P.
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    Seretse's wife defies Govt.
    244 12 SEROWE Wednesday. OITH Khama, white -Queen" of the Bamangwato tribe, announced yesterday that she would not leave Bechuanaland. She is pregnant. Referring t 0 her husband, Seretse Khama's statement m London that the British Government had "exiled" him for five years, she said that she had
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    The life-saving bomb
    86 12 4 urc-aAYiNU BOMB was shown at a radio exhibi/Y tion m New York yesterday. It is designed to be dropped by an aeroplane, ship or submarine m distress at sea to give its location if its radio breaks down. J^ut.-romdr. Frank Bahry. of the I. S. Navy's
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    BIG RISE IN WORLD SHIPPING
    129 12 LONDON. Wed THE world increased its total shipping tonnage by 2.27 1,977 during the pasi year, according to 'he 1949--50 edition of Lloyds Rprister. Issued yesterday. Si^am tonnage increased uv 111 lorn and motor tonnage by 2 160 boy ions, while tueit- aas decrease In
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    Seat for Hyderabad
    24 12 Hyderabad state will be represented In the Central Indian Pariiamen; as soon us the necessaiy laws have been promulgated.— Reuter Reuter
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    Two guilty in U.S. spy trial
    94 12 NEW YORK. Wed. A Soviet engineer, I l*|* GubKchev. and an exUnired S'a'es goven.menemployee, Judith Coplon. wer* found guilty yesterday of conspiracy and attempted espionage. A Federal court jury ruled hai ihey had met secretly In New York and plotted to spy for Russia.
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    REDS PROTEST
    25 12 Brazilian police have broken up a series of Commui demonstrations called to protest against the Rio de Janeiro conference of U.S. diplomat* U.P.
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    SURPRISE IN AIR MURDER CASE
    155 12 MANCHESTER (New Hampshire). Wednt d. 4 HARVARD pathologist. Dr. Richard Ford, appear- ing for Dr. Herman Sander at his murder trial here yesterday, testified that the injection of 40 c c of air could not have killed his patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto Dr. Sander is
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    96,000 Germans die in Soviet camps
    169 12 BEKIJ.V Wednesday. VI ORE than 96,000 inmates of Soviet concentration kfl camps m Eastern Germany have died since 1945, the West Berlin League of "Fighters against Inhumanity" alleged here yesterday. Since the camps were ordered closed by the Soviet commander, Gen. Vassily Chuikov 37
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    'Anit-Fascist' mayor
    16 12 U Them Maung an antiFasciM Peoples Fneikun League councillor ha elected mayor of Rar.goun
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    Advice on Asia
    37 12 Tii«' four-day meeting or the governing body of the In'♦•rnational Labour Organisation, which starts m Geneva today, will also discuss (he establishment of a special committee to advise the •rniiiK body on A^ Reuter
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    Red threat to South Korea now checked
    93 12 WASHINGTON \w (l TW IS. Secretary of State. Mr h« ln L the Senate Foreign Relations < omnmt day that the Communist threat to Soul been checked temporarily but that unless x a aid continues, there was no hope for K.,t '^^jua He
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    SWISS SAY 'NO'
    54 12 OWITZERLAND has turnec down a French request v recognise the new IndoChinese states ol Laos Cam bodia and Vietnam Diplomatic officials said that UM Berne government bound constitution to eternal neutrality m the cold war. did so oi. ground* that Indo-China ha* become a subject of Ea.v
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    EAST JAVA QUIET
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