The Singapore Free Press, 14 March 1950

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFT ERNOON SALE IN MALAYA V. i" SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 14. 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    S'PORE MEN WIN LONDON APPEAL
    250 1 Privy Council ruling LONDON, Tuesday. \IOHINDAR SINGH AND MOHAN SINGH, Singapore merchants, won their appeal before the judicial committee of the Privy Council yesterday from an order of the Supreme Court of Singapore enhancing sentences passed m the First District Court m April, 1949, for
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    43 1 Mr. Sandy G. Pillay was the solicitor for the defendants m Singapore and he retained counsel In London for the Privy Council Appeal. Pending decision on their appeal Mohinder Sinßh and Monar Singh were released on bail of $10,000 each on Nov. 4.
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    15 1 m »n uninhabited island off Singa- nurootied starring dog i> ju>t .ihout to be rescued.
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    THEY WAITED, WEEPING
    72 1 THEY WAITED, WEEPING CARDIFF, Tuesday. [OWING queue of Welshmen testified yesu the inque>t on 80 persons killed m the ;sli on Sunday. Dozens of witnesses the room, waited their turns, sitting and n folding chairs. stove with glowing coals took the Possibly the most tragic evid>:on of relatives came from
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    Petrol is freed on April 7
    128 1 Petrol is freed on April 7 A r ILK consultation with the Secretary of State, the Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya have agreed that petrol rationing throughout Malaya will end on March 31 In connection with this announcement the Officer Administering the Government, Singapore, and the High
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    SOUR GRAPES
    119 1 LONDON. Tues. BRITISH barrister John Platu-Mills and other delegates to the recent Peace Congress m Moscow visited a polling station m Leningrad yesterday on their way from Moscow to Stockholm for an international peace movement meeting m London. Moscow Radio said Mr. PlatlsMills lold a reporter "The Soviet
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    NEW AMBASSADOR
    12 1 Lnted new :o Sweden A.rX l been re- :.ess.- A.P.
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    FIREMEN SAVE 87
    15 1 many >rr.en, were m San ■a;, when a •rm fire mitted U.P.
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    KAMPONG MEN RESCUE BOY
    74 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KAMPONG guards of the Bukit Kepong area yesterday, morning foiled an attempt by 20 armed Chinese bandits to injure the small son of a Malay auxiliary policeman. The bandits waylaid the boy at 8.30 a.m., dragged him into the jungle and tied
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    Emperor's visit
    28 1 Emperor Hirohito landed at Takamatsu yesterday from a common ferryboat In his first visit to Shikoku Island since 1922. He will spend 17 days there. A.P.
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    BANDITS KILL BUS MAN
    33 1 BANDITS KILL BUS MAN Free Press Staff Reporter Bandits m the Sitiawan area of Perak stopped a bus and robbed 12 passengers of their identity cards. A Malay bus conductor was shot dead.
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    ONE FEWER
    21 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A police Jungle squad killed a Chinese bandit m the Tapah area fo Perak yesterday.
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    Talks about wheat
    17 1 Egypt Is nc~-. idling with Russia for the purchai* of 100,000 tons of wheat
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    KHAMA: LABOUR MP's IN 'REVOLT'
    186 1 LONDON, Tuesday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, will try to stamp out a smouldering revolt among Labour MPs angry at Britain's decision to ban Chief-Elect Seretse Khama and his white wife from the Bamangwato reserve m Bechuanaland. Qualified informants reported this soon after a meeting
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    Marked by waitress
    58 1 TOKIO. Tues. A2B-YEAR-old waitress yesterday bit the lip of a man who stole a kiss from her. The man became angry and smashed chairs and ashtrays m the restaurant and then escaped. Police did not have to search long for the man thanks to the deep impression
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    MORMON EXPELLED
    27 1 Mr. Wallace Toronto, head of the Mormon Church In Prague and its last remainlne American missionary in Czechoslovakia, has been expelled from the country.— A.P.
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    U.S. frees price on tin sales
    107 1 NEW YORK, Tues. 'THE Reconstruction Finance Corporation yesterday withdrew all fixed price quotations for the sale of its tin. It will continue to offer imported brands of tin accepted m US. domestic trade as "Grade A" at prices which will be subject to adjustment.
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    MUAR POLICE LAY AMBUSH
    67 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ACTING on information received, a party of army and civil police yesterday laid an ambush m the Muar area and fired on a black uniformed Chinese who escaped. They found one small camp nearby and two Chinese whom they detained. The camp
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    Pope's anniversary
    29 1 Pope Pius yesterday celebrated the 11th anniversary of his pontificate m a solemn ceremony attended by thousands of Holy Year pilgrims and the highest church aristocracy.- U.P.
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    'Be kind to public'
    58 1 THE public-owned British railways wants its employees to be kind to the fare -paying, tax-paying public. A new booklet for new hands— "British railways welcome you"— advises them: Try to treat members of the public as yon would like to be treated If you chanted places
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    SEVEN MEN SAVE DOG MAROONED ON AN ISLAND
    786 1 SEVEN MEN SAVE DOG MAROONED ON AN ISLAND Free f ress Man tteponer CEVEN men set off from Clifford Pier on a mission of mercy yesterday afternoon. They went to rescue a starving dog marooned on an uninhabited island. And at nightfall, they returned with the animal m their arms.
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    5 die as bandits ambush police
    175 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Rl ALA LI MPIK. Tuesday. GANG of between 20 and 30 bandits m the Kuala Kangsar area yesterday afternoon attacked a police party escorting a wounded Chinese to hos pital. killing one Malay lance corporal. MX Ma'ay police constable, a
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    BOMBS IN SAIGON
    16 1 Eleven persons have been wounded by grenades tn the streets of Saigon U.P.
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    The First Lady Of France
    231 2  - The First Lady Of France MARY DEL ANE -By- MADAME Auriol who last we*k th her husband. I -nt Auri' on a sfl rfl to I-on-don. is a gi elegant w. .man m her v fifties whr» V n her age. The rather lontc. pale i a somewhat repose, but
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    Scribbled lines made her famous
    19 2 IT i B t 9 CM t poea urufl e I i I 1
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    'Sales—But No Bargains
    54 2  - 'Sales— But No Bargains VIRGINIA By k 77 ESDI \G a -nuch advertised 'sale' m a Singaye -c recently I Kad -)t iccy nos: th 4 the g r eat mctch- '.0 vm| t£ m London but Ml I WAN}' :—:«j from an 0: eet sale a '•'Cry •>l<r i
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      278 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN t<Mi^\ m^u have an alert, enthusiastic and. at tirre-s. an experimental mind. You are usually milling to try any. thing once. If it work* then it will become regular procedure. If it failfM *»hrug it off: eet read> t > me thing new Thi'* talent ai-»n^
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      48 2 Solution To Crossword No. 942 Ipubl sT S A ,AG EJ|S A pC s mSMilFjs c s 2 C5TcJ|-Mrjl£ BO ac ag c ;I) r-. I I^l F.P. Crossword No. 943 JBBL- v^ J Ml- \t MM line •4 Rej 22 Not ft pit CLCEf I>«iuv 3 R-
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    63 3 A modern pithead at the Mosley Common Colliery at Boothstown. Lancashire, where completion of half the coal preparation plant marks the end of the first stage of the reconstruction scheme. When the new schema i s complete, coal will be wound electrically up the one new shaft now being completed.
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    MARIE LIKES LOW-CUT GOWNS
    54 3 MARIE LIKES LOW-CUT GOWNS D, Tue3 -.1 i.pvint on She's all for me a pio- unabash- .aheim. M I low-cut before they Paris. draughty. And I think .\re the with ?r deep- est G deep-cut her She's a bathh >:-tone. But r wants op of i h uvy- fa it-hini
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    RAIDS SHAKE CHINA REDS
    344 3 People losing enthusiasm HONG KONG, Tuesday. rPHE Chinese Communists must exert enormous efforts if they are to overcome the rapidly increasing problems confronting them. These efforts must be made m a changing atmosphere m which millions of people are losing their first enthusiams for the new
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    3 3 I INDII TOU
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    The Emperor is popular
    46 3 TOKIO. Tues. (~)NE sure-fire, sure-selling subject for Japanese writers these days Is the Imperial family. Novelists, newspapermen and scholars, turning out tracts on those two members of Japans royal family, are ..^ured of wide publication and good returns on their work. A.P.
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    MANY IN CHINA WILL STARVE
    120 3 MANY IN CHINA WILL STARVE WASHINGTON, Tuesday, indication a great many Chinese will iimn by the time the next crops come may be appalling by Western the Chinese map. farmers have; ly their trade m peace. There is no ,v how much they were able to fall In the best
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    To compensate hurt workers
    51 3 To compensate hurt workers POMPULSORY monetary compensation for workers sustaining injuries m discharging their duties are soon to be incorporated m the lav.s of Hong Kong. The Labour Department of the Hong Ken? Government Is said to' have completed the draft of a bill to be presented to the Legislative
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    U.K. IS SAFER
    22 3 Honii Kong's population. 1.800.000 nine months ago. now exceeds 2,000.000. due to the recent Influx frr>m bomb--•d Canton. A.P
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    'No special privileges'
    85 3 'No special privileges CAIRO. Tuesday \f R Jefferson Caffery, United States Ambassador to Egypt, told a conference of American diplomats from Middle East countries that the United States should not seek special privileges m <he areas for which she was proposing help schemes. In a communique summing up the work
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    REDS REVAMP CURRICULUM
    69 3 4 FTER "'a one-week bnehng A TOO teachers of political subjects m Tientsin and Peking colleges have revamped the political curriculum. Emphasis is on "materialistic! dialectics and history of materialism." otherwise the jects break d '\vn into charact* "i Chinese revolution, history ol the Chinese revolution, the
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    Bridge Hands
    315 3 North South vulo«r*bi« abd 60 o'ti «oor«. Kant <i«al«r Tb« blddlmf B«»i to«tb W«M Nortk Pat* 3^ ip <♦ Übt f»w Am ly Paa« t^7 Dbi All P*m SOUTHS »ix heart bid initfht have turned out well if We*' had not hsppsned to hold both the missing aces,
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    RETURN TO WORK
    33 3 French gmi and electricity foremen and engineers hvrt <i»vid»»d to return to work to; prevent gas supplk-s passing the danger point as the result of a four days' stnke i
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    58 3 Phoio. Some of the 706 Germans who were recently expelled by the Polish authorities from th» former German territory east of the Oder-Neisse line. They have been found temporary shelter m the British zone. They are expected to be followed by 25,000 other Germans whom th c Polck have said
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    Bad business in obscenity
    211 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. A UNITED Nations group reports with satisfaction that business is bad among the obscene picture pedlars and publishers of erotic works. "Not like it was 20 or 50 years ago," says Adolphe Delierneux, the chief anti-pornography campaigner m the U.N. Social Activities Division.
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    Last D.P.s in Germany pose big problem
    204 3 Last D.P.s in Germany pose big problem FRANKFURT. Tuesday <3EVEN hundred thousand of Europe's war-, •^displaced persons have found new homes m new countries since the war. Germany's once crowded "DP. camp" are almost^ emptied now. The relatively few displaced person*) still remaining, however, present a problem even more difficult
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    Suspicion confirmed
    38 3 LO SANGELES, Mon A MOTHER who suspected that her three-year-old son and his playmate had swallowed some ant poison tried to confirm her suspicions by tasting the stuff herself. All three were treated at hospital. A.P.
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    CALLED LIAR
    40 3 UJS. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged recently that Miss Dorothy Kenyon. former United States delegate to the United Nations, had been affiliated with 2S Communist front organisations. In New York, Miss Kenyon promptly called Senator McCarthy an "unmitigated iiar."
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    U.S. TIGHTENS EXPORT RULES
    21 3 X the gOCn: otht r p tats fi might b 9 for *re The on Ma; Reuter
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    SKIPPER MAY LOSE LICENCE
    59 3 SKIPPER MAY LOSE LICENCE THE I Arr i U.S. shelled by C'nil 1 warships off Shani month, laid he had »tioned by the U.£ I Guard m what might a lifting of his :.cpnr« Hh said his l.cence -ould bf revoked U :t was I that the BheUinc occurred rx?cau*e
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      285 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. PAVILION: Patrick The Great, md Oun Town. REX: House Of Strangers. ODEON: They Pasted Thw Way. COLISEUM: Adven:ur^s or Oon Juan. MADRAS: I Uneajy Terms. CATHAY: Kadnmbam (Tamil*. HINDUSTAN: BaH Behcn < Hindustani). PENVNC CATHAY: The Count Ofi Monte Cristo. ODEON: All Over The Town. RliX:
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    Another French Scandal?
    512 4  - Another French Scandal? SAM SWITE HE RETIRED... nnHE President of France, M. Vincent Auriol. has been away on a state visit to Britain at a time when the widening eddies of a political and military scandal threaten to reach the gates of the presidential palace itself. This is not to
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Mar. 14, 1950. TURNING IN HIS GRAVE
    496 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Mar. 14, 1950. TURNING IN HIS GRAVE SIX STAMFORD RAFFLES, tounder of Singapore as a commercial station io force other countries operating ir. the Far East to adopt ■ion liberal trading policies, must be turning In his lit. So trammelled and bewildered by controls, rej.
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    980 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK: THE Republic is still restive several days niter the British election. I did not expect to see so much hand-wfinging among Americans over the photo-finish at the polls. Yet almost everyone is twisting himself as if he were practising Yoga and the theme song is
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    Mirror Dazzle Banished
    348 4 4 NOTHER night-driv- ing problem has been tackled. You know the sort of thing. A powerful car rushes up behind you, the driver signals dangerously by flashing his headlights, and your internal mirror promptly blinds you with its reflection. Some motorists get over the difficulty by turning
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    74 4 Weigh-in for a tortoise conducted by two-year-old Peter Palmer, son of a Camden Town (London), pet stores proprietor. Avoirdupois is important to a tortoise for his value ts worked out at the rate of £1 a pound (weight). Peter s father received a consiqmnent of 2,000 tortoises from Cape Town.
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    Labour Must Win The 'Useful People'
    631 4  -  MAURICE EDELMAN *By* M.P. FOR COVENTRY NORTH. ANE thing k Mrtain about the next general election. It is that the Labour Party does not want another victory like the victory of February 1950. Labour seeks a mandate to govern, not the r«spon»4bility without power,
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    CALLING ALL P.O.W.
    161 4 gILL JAMES, of Penygraig m WaJefc. was one of the prisoners of war of various nationalities who clustered together m the darkness of their prison hut m an island camp In the At^nina Group of islands of New Guinea and decided to form their own radio club
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  • LETTER TO THE FDITOR
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      PEN PALS, PLEASE
      77 4 1 SPENT two years of my Army career in Singapore and in different parts of Malaya. I now find that I miss it very much and should be very happv to get news of it from girl pen pals of any age or race. Photographs will be
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    57 5 fIIMJC lIWH lighting is f extended to the Uc fpper ltn Road, where this *a* taken showing nir n erecting lamp ard> IP to Mi juncttlth veo (hu Kan f l pper Serangoon fc^d lit by fluorescent rhe new lamps will tight up the stretch this motion to the lilßft
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    U.S. MISSION DUE HERE
    33 5 Sin6.u<on on e-daj vuit. I r.sulate Gejrestcrday. headed by touring Uj prepare be *t expev ;ent use of .^;s:ancp c available ki part of tbi smgaoore it a. Rangoon
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    RUBBER GROUP DELEGATES
    39 5 RUBBER GROUP DELEGATES d the ni 'h? Rub- Brussels a ill sit as) Colonial w ie Sec re Malayan km and Ml J A E MOTSecre- Mr H E E C Thur Mr Sir John Sir Sv G Gee.
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    BOOK SHOW
    33 5 The Vice-Ch the Dr. G. V. Allen, will open a Book Exhibition m :h:- BriCoui In 8 pore at 10 30 a.m. on Mar. 26. The n will until April 1
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    Welfare recruits will be trained
    225 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Social Welfare Department has drawn up a plan to give specialised training: to 53 recruits it proposes to engage to cope with the work under its programme of expanded activities. The course, to last two years, will include training m
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    PEASANTS' $3000,000 RICE MILL
    158 5 PEASANTS' $3000,000 RICE MILL Free Press Malay Correspondent A plan to build a $300,000 rice mill is being launched by Malay peasants m Perlis, the Utusan Melayu reports from Kangar. The plan has the support of the State Government. The Mentri Besar, other high Government officials and Malay chiefs are
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    SPEED TRAPS: ARE THEY RELIABLE?
    358 5 Sardon query m Council Free Press Staff Reporter QUESTIONS about Singapore police speed traps will be raised by Inche Sardon bin Jubir (Rural East) at the next meeting of the Legislative Council on Mar. 21. He will ask if the instruments used are "absolutely reliable
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    BANK DIVIDEND
    34 5 The directors of the Ba Bank Ltd. recommend a final dividend at the rate of 3s per share less income t.*x. Transfer to premises £30,000 and to contingencies £50.000. Carried forward £88.434.
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    COUNTESS' TALK
    29 5 Countess Mountbatttn ol Burma, Lady Superintendent of the St John Ambulance Brigade, will b^ interviewed over Kadio Malaya betwet-r 8.30 r m. r\v.6 9 p m Tt.day
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    N. BORNEO GOVT. COSTS ATTACKED
    233 5 N. BORNEO GOVT. COSTS ATTACKED I^HE -enormous increase" m Government expenditure m North Borneo, out «f proportion to the size of the population, "has given rise to serious misgivings," said Mr. V. H. Bentham, outgoing chairman of the North Borneo Chamber of Commerce, at its annual meeting at Sandakan. "It
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    40 5 picture ior me SIX of the seven men who went to rescue the marooned dog yesterday. Left to right: Muratia, Sellers, Pratt, Chief Inspector Rozario, the Free Press reporter and Suppiah The seven'h man, Norman Cotterrll. took this Free Press
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    ECAFE MOVE TO PROMOTE TRADE
    262 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A N effort towards developing i\ a clearing house of trade and economic information In Asia and the Far East is be- j ing made by the Trade Promotion Division of ECAFE (United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far
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    MAILS
    44 5 Saiface mail is expected In Singapore today from Terimpa.j East Australia. Siam find the Federation. Latest times lor posting surface mail today at the G.P.O. are: 5.45 p.m. for Siam and the: Federation; 6 p.m. for North j Hor re©, Labuan, Brunei, Miri.
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    FILM RECORD OF JUNGLE OPERATIONS
    150 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CAMERAMEN of the Crown V> Film Unit of the Central Office of Information London, have arrived m Malaya to make a film record of the daily life of the Army and Royal Air Force and how they fight the bandits. Trie
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    War claims to be paid soon
    75 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Initial payments of $M5O under the War Damage scheme to be gazetted on Wednesday are likely to begin before the end of this mouth, it is understood. The scheme has been approved by both the Singapore and Federation Executive Coum About
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    C.G. TO OPEN YOUTH RALLY
    46 5 C.G. TO OPEN YOUTH RALLY THE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, will open a Youth Rally at 4 p m. on May 13 on the Singapore Padang. This rally forms part of the Colony's Education Week, which begins on May 8 and continues till May 13.
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    Sheer delight at art show
    605 5  - Sheer delight at art show MARA ZYWOLT By rpHE controversy raging over Roy Morrell's arrest- ing yet repugnant "Grey Dancers" and whimsical "Boat Stations" and C. A. Gibson-Hill's cynically I macabre but well-executed "Man with a Flower m his Mouth" should not cause Singaporeans to overlook the artistry and sheer
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    DANCING FURY
    51 5 DANCING FURY 0N the ground that dancing and other revelry into the yj late hours of tht night would disturb their horses' rest, owners and trainers are protesting to the Penan g Turf Club against its decision to construct a dance floor m the Turf Club's tea pavilion near the
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    Call for flat water rate
    169 5 Call for flat water rate A CALL to the Singapore Government to take st to introduce a uniform wa charge for the Municipal fc rural areas is being made Mr Balwant Singh <Rur Wesi» m questions he table at the em r the Legislative CouacU March 21. Mr. Balwant Hngh
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    CATTLE BREEDING
    47 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Among the bills to b€ Introduced m the Kelantan I cil of State on Thursday is one providing for the selective breeding of cattle m the State. Without legislation it has been found impossible to control more than 80.000 head of cattle.
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    Girl in accident
    20 5 A 21-yeai-old Chines*- I cyclist was m collision v a motor-cyclist at Paya L^bar Road. Singapore, yesterday
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    Australian Cup goes to Bold John
    133 6 MR. P. Stewarts Bold John, by John out of Vulgar Verse, yesterday won the A £4.000 < about 3,200 > Australian Cup m record time over two miles, one and a half furlongs at Flemington, Melbourne. Starting at 12-1. Bold John, ridden by R.
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    CUP TOURNEY FOR JUNIOR CLUBS
    66 6 SINGAPORE Amateur Football m will run i C (or jurr.or groups "A** and *B In the months of A ber and October. Sport* secretaries of Jun. •tl entries today. Entries close tomorrow Entries for the Busli H .vhich will be he.d from August, abo cloijt
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    C.S.C. SWEEP
    42 6 THE cash sweep run by Chinese Swimming Club, Singapore. for their New Po<)l Fund was drawn as lollows: First prize. No. *****; second prize: No. *****; third pr;z^ N *****. Starters: Nos. *****, *****. *****. *****. *****. 28.37, *****. *****.
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    ROVERS RUN RINGS ROUND RECS
    406 6 Yin Kee leads 9-goal riot fHIN Yin Kee has probably set a goal-scoring record for this year's soccer season, for in yesterday's Senior League game, he scored eight of the nine goals for the Rovers in their 9 1 victory over the S.R.C. The Rovers'
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    UNCERTAINTY IN RUBBER SHARES
    423 6 LONDON STOCK I EXCHANGE LONDON, Tues. AFIRMEK trend was shown by domestic stocks on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, with small gains fairly widespread m Bri- j tish Government funds! and industrial groups, j says Reuter's financial correspondent N- vt-rthclf'ss. the market lacked life or driving
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    UK SOCCER FIXTURES
    230 6 FLLOWINO are U.K. soccer fixtures lor Saturday March 18: Hirmtnfbaoi f MwffcnUr C. KoiLon 1 h^r 11-.n Harn'tfj w HuddrrtfMld ChrKra M lr.br uU( h I>rro» v I ulham Urerp«M>l tVolvc* M»n< hr»irr I t Blackp^»l >i.ik»- Kvrrion >nadrrlanJ NrUnoSk \\r>l Krunouh Nr». A»tir kECOND DI V
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    Czech team barred
    131 6 CZECHOSLOVAKIA, world I* and European ice hockey champion*, withdrew at the last minute from the 1950 championships, which opened m London yesterday The Czechoslovakian Cabinet decided not to permit the team to travel to London to compete. The championships < period with a colourful ceremony at Empress
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    Sprint rerord
    44 6 BARNEY Ewell. United States holder of the world professional sprint championship, yesterday beat the world record for the professional 220 yards by one-tenth of a second at Melbourne. Ewell returned 21 sees. In his semi-final heat of the Bendigo A £1.000 sprint.
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    S.C.C NETBALL
    17 6 Netball practices for Sinuapoic Cricket Club women will bogln en 17 &day at 5.15 p.m.
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    Weights for first 2 days
    455 6 BUKIT TIMAH RACES fITEIGHTS for 14 W me*, aft Mdt neafay. March IW fir* aad mmM day* rar-? CTVs Mart* n*eeUi»i CX. 2. DIV 1-IM. Brlltaat Mars f.H Raheca S.M GMM SUea. I.M Blue Print S.M UtUe Ned US CL. 1. DIV. 1-4 rmra. SB»
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      153 6 mSindrdk6 Exclusive la tin* Singapore Free Press m Malaya HHHfIH|^HIHH| I THE SLEEPING GAS ft STAP^G I ||niiru--»ll AH--YOU Ta.EDTOBIOC*] I YOU CANT ESCAPE, MANORAKE. YOU ■■■■■■■aaa^^PMHIMB NOW. YOU WILL FALL ASLEEP IN The GAS P;?E? f.WNf KNOW THAT. YOU'RE HELPLESS. SO AND WntN 00 YOU RIGHT NOW, I A
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    LA-WAN DOES WINNING GALLOP
    868 7  - LA-WAN DOES WINNING GALLOP ALLAN LEWIS This morning's workouts By RUNNING fairly wide out on the No. 2 grass track, which was fast, Raj Mahal (Dunwoodie) and La-Wan (Healey) were the best workers at Bukit Timah this morning when they covered three furlongs m 37 2/5 seconds. La-Wan, who was
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    46 7 picture. «m nr* irifnu nndi his way barred when trvirw tn manoeuvre into position for i ,hot at f oal lS yesterday* JIV 8 1 "t* 1 m *i ch in v whlt h Rovers trounced >X < 9—l. Yi n Ree scored eight roaK Free Press
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    Dutch girl sets record
    48 7 GEEETJI Wielema. 15--year-old Dutch sirl. last night beat the world record for thp 100 yards backstroke at Ililversum. She clocked 1 mm. 4.ti *»ei>. The •IBcial world record i^ 1 mm. S.l WCS., *et up n\ another Dutch uirl. (or Kint. m 1!>39- Reuter
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    AUSTRALIANS TROUNCE OTAGO
    95 7 'T'HE Australian cricket tourists m New Zealand beat Otago by an innings and 356 runs In their three-day match at Dunedin yesterday. Replying to the tourists first innings total of 568 for 7 wickett> declared Ota^o made 116 and 9t>. Ben SutchfTe. *ho toured England last year,
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    NS give chances to new players
    439 7  -  AUDAX B, SEREMBAN, Tuesday. Sembilan State soccer team is getting into shape for the Malaya Cup competition. The first official State trial will take place tomorrow on the Seremban Station padang. The selectors are giving promising young players chances of showing their worth. After
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    49 7 Photo by Highlights of Sunday's speed trial m Ipoh were the sprctacular motor-cycling of H W. Price of Penang (right) on i Norton and Perak's "Reggie" Trevor, who won the unlimited event and also did the fastest time of the day Price won the 350 c.c event Johnny Wong
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    Tennis trophies
    26 7 (CHALLENGE CUPS and other trophies for the V.M.C.A. open tennis championships are on display at the clubhouse m Orchard Road The tournament opens tomorrow
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    English team to use canvas boots
    301 7 ONE of the many problems confronting the Football j Aaodation m connection 1 With the England team to compete m the finals of the, Wor!d Cup at Rio de Janeiro j In June is the type and weight of equipment to be worn. It
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    Life Guard Corps
    89 7 ABOUT 15 more swimmers have come forward to offer their services to the newly formed Singapore Ufe Guard Corps, which undertakes to supervise five major beaches m the Colony Bedok, Marine Parade, Changi. Pasir Panjang and Ponggol. The total number on f he list is now about
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    INDONESIANS BEATEN 3-0
    57 7 'P'HREE goals to nil was the margin by which Kota Raja beat the Indonesian team m their Junior A. Group 2 League soccer fixture* at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Kota Raja scored two of their goals m the first half through Amir and Ibrahim Fatah. The latter scored
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    R.A BEATEN
    62 7 SINGAPORE Royal ArtiUwere unlucky to tote twonil to Tuan Mong OB. A In their Junior B. Group 1 League football match at St. George's Road yestenli Tuan Mon tf Old "Boys, a: being hemmed m their own area during the first half. broke through twice m the ■econd
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    Poor form shown in Selangor trial
    212 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent Kr ALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. COLOURS drew one-all with Whites m the first v Selangor soccer trial played on the Selangor Club padang last evening, on the eve of the opening of the State's Football League. Altogether. 32 players were tried
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    Rugby League
    38 7 JHE draw for the semi-finals of the Rugby League Cup, held at Manchester yester- day, resulted as follows: Widnes v. Bradford Northen or St. Helens; Leeds v. War- ri^gton. Ties will be played on Apr. 1.
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    NEW CHIANG SUCCESSES OVER REDS
    316 8 Govt. forces stage raids HONG KONG, Tuesday. AS the new Nationalist Government led by Gen. Chen Cheng prepared for its inauguration tomorrow, reports came of mounting opposition on the mainland against the Red regime, fresh Nationalist successes against the Red guerillas on Hainan Island and
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    49 8 The King and Queen with a Sovereigns escort of Household Cavalry, returning to Buckingham Palace from the Hous« of Lords after the State opening of Parliament. On right of picture is one of the symbolic figures of the Quern Victoria Memoorial. which is situated m front of the Palace.
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    Non-aggression pacts not needed—Nehru
    122 8 Non-aggression pacts not needed— Nehru NEW DELHI, T, The Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, said jret- it India does not lign I on P Ith any country though )ulrj flcome" -rnments. lnclud:r_ a. and R<?d China, v a.d In Parliament that I Lun^idered separate ,ion,;resMon pact's unnecessary In I her
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    'No orders from Li Tsung-jen'
    55 8 'No orders from Li Tsung-jen' ti£i\. Chang Fa-kwri. former I Cninese Nftttonalist C-in-C. yesterday denied that he had received orders from acting President I i Tsuni?jen to begin v >und activities m Canton against the Communists Gen. Chanfc. who is Irving m Hong Kon?. a lid he had detached himself
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    NO TRANSPORT IN MELBOURNE
    80 8 \f ELBOL'RNE'S one and a quarter million people were entirely without public transport from midnight yesterday when suburban railway guards decided to strike for hit^h^r wages. Public road transport has already been at a stand-still for 19 days since tramwaymen went on strike lor weekly wage
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    LINER TO SAIL
    25 8 The 20,000-ton liner Johan van Oldenbarnevelt will leave Amsterdam for Indonesia on schedule today des§ite a fire on board last aturday.- Reuter
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    CAVIRO HAILS GLOUCESTER
    50 8 'PHE Duke and Duchess of 1 Gloucester Wt Cairo by air yesterday for Nairobi after an overnight visit which Egyptian newspapers hailed as a strengthening of AngloEgyptian ties. The entire press prominently displayed the appointment of King Farouk as an honorary general m the British Army. A.P.
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    'AMETHYST' WILL RETURN TO EAST
    39 8 The British frigate Amethyst, seriously damaged last year when she ran the gauntlet of Chinese Communist artillery In a daring dash down the Yangtze River, will hejoln the Far Eastern n>*»f In April.- U.P.
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    City of 'millionaires'
    54 8 rn'ERY second resident m Shanghai today ii a million Hi aire In terms of jew mm plao— and the People's Bank of China has agreed to issue casaier orders for a minimum of a million Jen mm piao which will h* fr«*lv transactable. A million is worth
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    Russia seeking deal with U.S.?
    99 8 NEW YOKK, Tuesday. DELIEF among I'nited States officials that Russia is making a new effort to arrange a "spheres of influence' 1 deal with America has been strengthened by Moscow reports. Foreign observers m Moscow say that Marshal Stalin might be willing to meet President
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    CEDE A UST. CAPE TO U.S. CALL
    75 8 MELBOURNE. Tups THE Victorian Returned Soldiers League journal proposes that Australian cede Cape York to America and make it a second Alaska. I* is far b»*uer to give son.to a friend In peace." the journal than to have X taken v by an
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    Newspapers protest
    83 8 DAMASCUS. Tues. TJAMASCUS newspapers and five periodicals stopped publication yesterday m protest against the new Syrian press laws Th« laws require newspapers to appear six times a week In issues ■I six pages and not le&s man 1.500 copies a day. They must earh employ at least three
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    Jap women criminals
    45 8 TOKIO. i«e« JAPANESE women are now committing nearly three time* more crimes than before, particularly murder and burglary, the Police Department reports. Conservative Japanese, who oppose dtmocratisatiiui of their women, say thi s trend is just what they had expected.- A.P. U.P.
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    COSMETICS LURE INDIAN WOMEN
    116 8 NEW DELHI, Tuesday. INDIAN women are overcoming old prejudices and buying cosmetics m increasing quantities. A survey here shows that the sale of cosmetics here has trebled m the past five years. The demand for beauty preparations imported from Britain and America Is marked and cosmetics
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    Asia needs Japanese goods, says India
    168 8 TOKIO. Tuesday INDIA wants a peace treaty for Japan quickly "and with as few restrictions as possible", the chief of the Indian mission to Japan. Minister K. K. Chettur, said here yesterday. 'India believes m setting Japan on her feet It is to the
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    75,000 U.S. Reds
    40 8 THE founder of the Communist Party m the United States said yesterday that it has a membership of around 75,000 and that near ly 600,000 pel sons are C>m munist syn.pathizers or ?up port Communist policies. U.P.
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    3,500 killed in East Bengal massacres
    141 8 3,500 killed in East Bengal massacres BOMBAY Tuesd,. AS Hindu-Muslim riotinf flared up A Bombay yesterday, New Delhi official. that "about 3,500 persons" had been killed < February m communal clashes m the Pal Vl vince of East Bengal. M n A curfew has been imposed m the mixed Hi
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    U.S. FLEET TO AID S'HAI EVACUATION
    21 8 U.S. FLEET TO AID S'HAI EVACUATION T»HE US sident 10 th< bring off R a \6 said m Adrr group A.P.
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