The Singapore Free Press, 15 March 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ■T3O SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    CHINA BETRAYED AT U.N. -TSIANG
    248 1 'Reds being appeased LAKE SUCCESS,' Wednesday. RATIONALIST China yesterday accused the United Nations' Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie, of betraying Chiang Kai-shek's government m an effort to appease Russia on the Red China question. The charges were made by the Nationalist chief Dr. T. F. Tsiang.
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    2 1 ADAM HOGAN-SHAIDALI
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    Adam liked the U.S.
    121 1 Adam liked the U.S. fr* SUIT Re P° rter S 19-year-old Ktoden: envoy to the Syed d Hogan.ed to KJ«o r e by air this ill of praise for 3f life and a better offing if Nations Orkeeps on as it Is doing rd Hogan- > n an I America
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    4 DIE IN LIFEBOAT
    69 1 4 DIE IN LIFEBOAT FOUR men died in an open boat in the North Sea yesterday after abandoning the steamer Cygnet when it struck a mine near the Dutch island of Terschelling. The 3. 700-ton vet el tailing from FT.rrn to England when the explosion occurred. Five men cook to
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    FIVE DETAINED
    30 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Five people, one of them a woman, were detained m Johore yesterday when 342 people were screened at the U mile Kluang-Ayer Hitam Road.
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    5 AGENTS JAILED
    22 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Five people suspected of being bandit agents were arrested m Johore by security forces yesterday.
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    39 1 photo. Britain's newest ga s tarbine Rover, streaks down the road at 90 miles per hour. This graceful tourer burns kerosene and has its power plant mounted just forward of the rear axle. It can seat three passengers. A.P.
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    U.N. MEDIATOR FOR KASHMIR
    223 1 NEW YORK, Wednesday. FHE IN. Security Council yesterday voted, by 1 eight votes to nil, with Yugoslavia and India abstaining, to liquidate its India-Pakistan Commission and hand the two-year-old Kashmir dispute over to a U.N. mediator. India had earlier accepted the Council's decision with reservations about
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    Telephone hut set on fire
    62 1 Fr^e Press Staff Reporter TWO police constables on duty n^ar the Lavender S:reet-Ja!an Bcsar police hut smoke and flame m the police telephone hut at 10 p.m. yesterc They put the fire out In a few minutes and found a small tin of burinig petrol
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    T.B. EXAMINATIONS
    25 1 More than 100.000 Isrealis were examined for tuberculosis m the last three months by six medical teams of the International Tuberculosis Campaign. A.P.
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    BEDS HOLD U.S. YACHT
    50 1 COMMUNISTS are detaining the :aptain and crew of the 50- ton American yacht Voldador at the former French concession port of Kwangschow-wan, South China, on suspicion of being secret agents." The yacht was reported missing two months ago on voyage from Manila to Hong Kong. Reuter
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    'Peace' banners
    25 1 Police were last night trying to find who set two banners reading "Peace" and "Ban the atom bomb" floating above Britain's Parliament. Reuter
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    ALLEGED GANGSTER
    28 1 A Chinese with a Singapore identity card was arrested by police m Johore yesterday. He was alleged to have been a member of a bandit gang.
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    Ex-S'pore leopard free
    55 1 Ex-S 'pore leopard free T^ROOPS and police with rifles yesterday hunted for a 1 half-grown leopard who had escaped from the Auckland Zoo. The leopard was brought with its mate from Singapore only a few days ago. It was last seen safely locked m its enclosure, and Zoo officials cannot
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    4 HURT BY PENANG GRENADE
    101 1 4 HURT BY PENANG GRENADE Free Press Staff Reporter PENANG. Wed. JN the first terrorist incident m Penang since the start of Anti-Bandit Month, four people were injured and taken to hospital last night when a hand -grenade was thrown m crowded Muntri Street. Hurled, it is believed, from a
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    TITO WOULD LIKE ARMS
    56 1 ]\JARSHAL TITO said yesterciay that Yugoslavia needs a strong army to defend itself, but nobody would send him arms. It was the first speech m which Marshal Tito lias mentioned the problem of arming his troops and observers interpreted it as a possible indirect bid for
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    Malaya welcomes reinforcements
    152 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. I AST night's announcement that a further brigade of troops and Lincoln bombers were being despatched to the Federation is widely welcomed. Mr. H. K. Dimoline, Secretary of the United Planting Association of Malaya, said today, "We welcome the reinforcements
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    Secret talk with Leopold
    80 1 GENEVA, Wed. THE Belgian Prime Minister. M. Gaston Eyskens. held a 90-minute secret meeting with King Leopold yesterday at Pregny, near Geneva. M. Eyskens arrived here to discuss Sunday's indecisive national referendum on the King's return. The result of his talks— never officially announced but obviously
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    INGRID'S PLANS
    29 1 Friends of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini said today that "they might get married this week-end if they are able to complete all formalities m time."- U.P.
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    CAMBODIA TRIP
    28 1 The American economic mission which will make recommendations on aid to Indo-China left Saigon yesterday on a one-day plane trip to the Kingdom of Cambodia.- A.P.
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    STRIKE ON THAMES
    22 1 Thames tug crews struck work yesterday, threatening tp halt food barges and lighters m the river estuary. WALK-OUT SEQUEL
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    Seretse may visit wife
    186 1 Seretse may visit wife SEROWE. Bechuanaland, Wednesday. OERETSE Khama, Oxford-educated chief-elect of the Bamangwato tribe, will be permitted to return to his native land to see his wife, who is expecting a baby m June or July, the High Commissioner, Sir Evelyn Baring, said yesterday. Sir Evelyn added, however, that
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    Planebomb man to die
    54 1 QUEBEC. Wed. ALBERT Guay was yesterday found guilty of his wife's murder. She was one of the 23 victims m an air disaster on Sept. 23. The prosecution alleged that the 32-year-old jeweller put a time bomb m the plane to kill Mrs. Guay. Guay was
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    REDS: NEW QUESTION TO ATTLEE
    109 1 REDS: NEW QUESTION TO ATTLEE LONDON. Wed. MAJ. Tuftun Beamish (Con.) is to ask Mr. Attlee m the Commons whether he Is now satisfied that noone sympathetic with the aims oi Communism, or known to have had connections with the British Communists or with any foreign Communist party." holds any
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    Superforts for R.A.F.
    61 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. THE U.S. Defence Department announced yesterday that Britain is to receive B-29 Superfortresses under the military aid programme. The Department said that the flrst flight of bombers will leave Andres Field, flear Washington next Monday, bearing R.AJ. markings but flown by American crews. They will
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    LABOUR WINS NO. 3
    66 1 LONDON, Wed. THE Labour Government last night beat the third consecutive challenge m the new Parliament by 19 votes. With a paper majority of only six on the full membership, it got 308 votes to 289 m a division forced by the Conservative on alleged Government
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    Hirohito in danger
    25 1 Japanese police are investigating the cause of breaks m the Tokio-Kyoto railway track over which Emperor Hirohito wai iudposed to traveL- A.P.
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    FIRE ON STRIKERS
    30 1 Five striking worK:: were injured two of them seriously— when police op. Ed fire m Venice on a demonstration again.- dismissals from the Breda er.^mecrine plant.- Reuter
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    Training College transfers
    175 1 Training College transfers Free Press Malay Correspondent pHANGES have been made by the Federal Government among the teaching staff of the Sultan Idris Training College, the Utusan M°layu reports. These changes are a result of the findings of the special committee appointed by the High Commissioner to investigate the recent
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    Refugees hold Germany back
    39 1 tl7fcST Germany's ec ff recovery is being I pered by ten million I Mr. John J M^Cl High Commissioner. sad yesterday The economic was good m terms of producbut baa ms unemployment. Mr. M t
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    U.S.I. AT VATICAN
    14 1 The United States < dones;a will establish d matic relations i A.P.
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    RIFLE RECOVERED
    20 1 Police o; m t Maar area of Johore y^ st day recovered one rifle and rounds of ammunition
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    As Old As Your Blood Vessels
    1385 2 As Old As Your Blood Vessels THE SINGAPORE DOCTOR SAYS YOU ARE WHAT is thrombosis? My mother seems to be suffering from ail merit. She has spells of physical weakness, tendency fainting and the slightest exertion tires C.S.K.. Singapore. Aitwer, Thrombosis irv:u slotting of biood a blood vessel during Normally
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    JOURNEY TO THE MOON
    751 2  - JOURNEY TO THE MOON John Ralph LOOKS AHEAD TO U/ITHIN 40 years man f should be able to fly to the moon m four days. Later, when more powerful means of rocket propulsion have been developed, travelling tim e for the 250,--000-mile-journey should be cut to about nine hours It
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    Human Sex Pattern?
    13 2 Human Sex Pattern? 1 I I n I 4 I hgjghjghjhr 1 NANA
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      320 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you have a fortunate date and should always make the ver> best possible use of your opportunities. Cultivate self-reliance and selfawurance for you are often too retiring uid tlnid for your own good. Do not. however, go too far m the other direction or \ou
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      161 2 F.P. Crossword No. 944 ll.ltS ACROSS 1 Pipe merchant? <7»; 7 Ride number <6>: 8 Clothes Of make <s>; 9 Sort of remark made m a hard voice? i6>: 11 He lands m confusion to find something to hold »7»; 13 Man uho knows <6»; 14 The artist is m
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      5 2 Solution To Crossword No. 943
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    SIBERIA IS A VAST ARSENAL
    320 3 SIBERIA IS A VAST ARSENAL Base for drive into Asia TOKIO, Wednesday. pHE iron curtain is today drawn just as tightly along the shores of the Pacific as across Eastern Europe. Reports brought back by Japanese prisoners of war recently repatriated from Siberia indicate that this great province which ten
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    18 3 ,h Ambassador m London, Mr. Gnnnar Haggi Mjdtme Hagglof at the Stat« opening of Parliament by King George.
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    'Zither man' has big U.S. success
    83 3 NEW YORK. Wednesday. »\L«»N K.triN who found fame m England as the A backs; ound music" for the Carol Reed-Graham •The Third Man", is enjoying more .n m the I'nited States. his arrival m New York, the Austrian has been the subject of many
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    FREAK EXPLOSION
    25 3 A freak explosion of a i cloud of low hanging gas has killed a woman and seriously burned two men m California. i
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    53 3 photo. Miss Janet Blair, the film stress adjusts I her hat a. she takp* th# witness stand at Los Angeles to testify m her divorce suit against Mr. Lou Busch. She was granted the ™ec£ after testifying "I Particularly cooking, bat he said he liked golf better than coming home
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    Japs, Aussies exchange flies
    66 3 TOKIO, Tues. AUSTRALIAN and Japanese entomologists recently exchanged live blowflies for scientific experiments aimed at halting damage to sheep. Sixty Japanese blowflies shipped to Australia last Navember proved valuable m diagnosing wool and mutton production problems under the direction of Australian entomologist, Dr. A. Nicholson. Australia
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    ASIA WELCOMES E.C.A.F.E. ADVICE
    296 3 \DRAS. Wed. >.inathan, Exe--etary of the welcomed the iombo conferv- ealth Foreign •ablish a coniJJ^; c '•••nmittee to prouic developin, a noted nomics said v here that he •tations with *ter of Ceylon GojJJJfwls of the Indiani the proposed! a nittee. He to say "de- new
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    Balloon bomb inventor dead
    74 3 lOKIO, Tues DR. Toshlro Otsukl, inventor of paper balloons used by the Japanese to try reach the United States and Canada with bomb loads, was reported a suicide yesterday. The Mmiriicfcl under the head line "Inventor of Balloon Bomb Goes to Heaven," said that Dr. Otsukl
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    BACK ON THE JOB
    27 3 The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, has resumed work after three days m hospital where he received injections for heart trouble.- U.P.
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    Bao Dai-Ho peace talk is only rumour
    180 3 SAIGON, Tuesday. REPORTS of negotiations between Bao l>ai. head of the Vietnam Government, and the Communist rebel leader. Ho Chi Minn, were based on rumours originating from persons representing only a small group without governmental responsibility, official quarters said yesterday. This had already
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    AUST. TO GET FIAT FACTORY
    56 3 THE Fiat Company of Italy has offered to build a 5.000,000 lira plant In Australia for making light cars, tractors and heavy commercial vehicles. An Australian government spokesman said that the j>lant probably would be located m Queensland. The venture will be financed by the
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    56 3 Princess Elizabeth, on a tour of the West Country, stopped at Old Sodbury. Gloucestershire, to fondle Cloudy, the 12-month-old black Shetland pony which has been accepted by the Princess as a sift for Prince Charles. It is hoped to take the pony, now just over three feet high, to Prince
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    Bridge Hands
    284 3 North-Boutb ruloerable tad to on vcore Soatb dMltr NORTH rpHIS hand was a case of confusion doubly confounded. North's ace-showlng response of three diamonds was not entirely expected, since they had not agreed to play ace-showing responses. When his partner's leap all the way to six diamonds came
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    Digging for ancient man
    243 3 Digging for ancient man CAIRO, Wednesday. AN American archaeological expedition is busy digging for traces of ancient Arab civilisations m on c of the least explored areas of the world the hot and sandy South Arabian peninsula. Large portions of this peninsula are nearly as much of a mystery to
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    Hid mouse in food
    37 3 GLASGOW, Turs. ALICE Cummins, 46. has been sentenced to six months m prison after she confessed to attempted fraud. She took a mouse to a restaurant and hid it m her food U.P.
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    BRITISH PARADE WARNS GERMANS
    45 3 Four hundred men of the Durham Light Infantry paraded m full battle order inside the Herman Goering Steel Works at Watensledt Solgitter Monday to warn German demonstrators that further outbreaks of violence against British dismantling teams would not be loierated. U.P.
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    MacA's VIEWS ON ASIA
    115 3 MacA's VIEWS ON ASIA TOKIO V\ THE fight against Commun Ist aggression m SouthEast Asia is being wauhfd very closely oy General Dourlas MacArlhur who feels I America is not ttem enough attention to the problems and threats Ui Asi3 General MacArihur said to believe that the l States should
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    Hong Kong bars S'pore Chinese
    54 3 HONG KONG, Tues gEVKNTY Chinese passem»ers aboard a British vessel which arrived from Singapore yesterday were refused to land here by the immigration authorities The passengers were destined for an undisclosed Chinese por They wen* ordered to remain aboard until the vessel was cleared fgr
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    SHANGHAI-H.K. TRAINS RESUME
    62 3 fHE first through frei train, which arrived m Hong Kong from Shanghai on Sunday Aborning, left for Its return trip Monday. The train was carrying a con signment of 1,000 bales of raw cotton and 575 drums of lubricating oil. Peking communication* v i ties are planning
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    St. Patrick's day
    48 3 THE Kinj, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret are expected to attend the 50th anniversary celebration; of the Irish guards on St. Patrick's Day. March 17. Baskets containing 5.04)0 vprigs <»f shamrock will be handed out by the King m a ceremony at ChrtaM Barracks. London.
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      66 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. .'ones B < The Great. rtali i An HINDI SCIQf<- BB P\RK: PEN vNC OOCO8C: The 1 MH\> rhe Coun-.eai LIDO: H corpse C.ime I ID: S*a RaJ■fl), fPOH \ltn si V Xi B\ Till The OKQH: Gmg W»l The W'nslow Mt Au Carps KopoLE: Rama
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    R.A.F. CHANGI CALLING
    253 4 AIRMEN and airwomen at the RAF. Station, Changi. do not lac; wireless entertainment. They have their own broadcasting system which originated m a small room of a barrack block during 1947. Since then it has expanded, and ssea a. proper control room, <shop. and an efficient and
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    She sees lover 4 hrs. a year
    265 5 «,!>. soKA Me&EARNEY, 2b-year-old Belfast 31 handkerchief stitcher, who can have only four hour> i 5 with her lover— and never a minute of s rt pared to wait another eight years for L'r veddim day She has already waited five years. >4-year-old
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    49 5 p., ion excavators on a blitied site m Wal!,>n. lift out iwo kir^e Roman wine vessels. :i.n'k to the first century A.D. It is beIhal there are only four other vessels of this itence. The grab of a mechanical excavator r hid missed the relics by only three feet.
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    NO MORE BEATINGS
    61 5 P.ojrd of Film Hill ban any i ftbewUm people iten up 1 1 has told md British it wan t>» no more violence, <>r 9 idi^m. spokesman for the I <'. >u6 Britain is soinj? i wave of robberies i bi brutal attacks of 5 1 .h^
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    THEY SEE A NEW FUEHRER
    38 5 THEY SEE A NEW FUEHRER 0 Germans Gen West Ger.».no opoorr. derrocracy ar. Federal I about 12 Germany"* \oters. r and bting at« small ;> r csf»n\ iran lntela leader 1 o( unem>mtc demight find :ppcrtero, re officers A.P.
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    Fleets meet in China Sea
    40 5 I the British 1 I States Far made contact at South China due west of island. j of Vice--9 Berkey s U.S. a 17 -gun saal Sir Patrick Commander-in-Chief of I Eastern Fleet. rned U.P.
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    H.K. PROTEST
    15 5 Kong Tram vili loctee a Police Comthe cieporKeunp .Shiu;ce Chairman of the Reuter
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    SHIP FOR S'HAI
    14 5 m President Hon™ Kong cokings by »o Shanghai V'\nsH Genera] Reuter
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    Boy with nine lives
    64 5 J«- old boy riding a bicycle over a Melbourne ld S«> was burled by a truck into ihe path of an "n? car The car tossed him back across the !J2«;\into the path of ano her truck, which passed f lhi m Hithout a touch. L^oy's
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    TSE-TSE FLY WAR IS NEARLY WON
    168 5 DURBAN, Wednesday. LX)RTY men from various South African Govern- ment departments, are today winning the battle against millions of disease-carrying tsetse fly. Five years ago. this fly held undisputed sway over 7,000 square miles of territory from the Tugela River to Portuguese East Africa
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    HAINAN LANDING
    24 5 Approximately 1,000 men! of General Lin Piaos Communist 47th Army lar.ied last Saturday afternoon m the Wenchang area. In eastern Hainan- Reuter
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    39 5 Mr John L. Lewis, U.S. coal miners' leader, hangs onto his hat and bundles his collar about his throat, as he arrives m Silver Springs, Maryland, to resume the negotiations that led to an end of the coal strike.
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    S'HAI RUSSIAN PAPER CLOSES
    54 5 THE Russian Daily News most popular Russianlanguage daily m Shanghai has closed down after ar existence of 17 years, according to recent arrivals from the North. The exit of the RiwWM Daily News leaves the city with only the official Soviet New Life, believed to be
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    Officialdom beat him
    78 5 ALAUNCESTON (Tasi.^nia) suburban gardener has retired defeated by a tow and officialdom. When the cow broke into his garden he phoned the central police station. He was referred successively to the local police station, the pound ranger and the health inspector and back to the local police
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    He fishes with kite
    68 5 SYDNEY. Wed. Ma. G. W. SMITH, of King's Cross. Sydnej, fishes with a kite. He lets the kite out over 300 yards from a cliff top. and the line run s through a small pulley below the kite. A second rod and reel governs thr» string
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    Convicted spy to leave U.S.
    77 5 NEY YORK. Tues. MR. Valentin Gubitchev. convicted Russian spy. formally notified Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan yesterday of his desire to leave the United States on March 20 aboard the Batory. Mr. Gubitchev's attorney notified the judge of this In open court Mr. Gubitchev was sentenced
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    Stabbed Peke by strangled mistress
    130 5 Stabbed Peke by strangled mistress BESIDE the body of his mother m a London home a man found her Pekinese dog, stabbed to death. In the next room nis father, Mr Kingsley WWana Stead, OB.E C.B.E lay dead. He had his ht>ad m rhe g£u» oven. Hi* wrist vai slashed
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    S'HAI FACTORIES MOVING INLAND
    224 5 S'HAI FACTORIES MOVING INLAND Blockade is a cause HONG KONG, Wednesday. J 1 HE exodus of Chinese industrial plants from Shanghai to inland cities is beginning to assume a wholesale character partly because of the electric power shortage and Kuomintang blockade and partly to be nearer the sources of raw
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    66 5 R.S.M. C. W. Rodgers looks at some of thp bullfinches which were among the 4150.000 worth of birds on show at the Kensington Drill Hall. London, the home of the 11. A. A. Regiment, T.A. This was the first cage bird show ever organized by the Territorial Army. R.S.M. Rodgers
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    35 5 The Welsh Guards celebrated St. David's Day m traditional manner with a special parade m Wellington Barrack*. London. Here men of the regiment are seen fixing the "Leek Emblem" In their caps during the parade.
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    ANTI-KMT FIGHT BY FORMOSANS
    97 5 ANTI-KMT FIGHT BY FORMOSANS TOKIO W AFORMOSAN underground revolutionist m Tv>k: > toid the Kyodo News Ser that formation of a Form<>san exile political par; Japan is plann<*d for Ap::' aimed at winning back independence of Forr from the Kuon The informant who cently arrived from H Koni; c^'osed that
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    40 Japanese return home
    45 5 TOKIO R CORTY J nals. vho have COOtp i their priseed m Kc»b--8,000-ton Briu hana" T) -re IMP Singapore. Formos i. H Kong. Penang tad X Lumpur. The repai the former Cusnmi Imperial Kary 10th fleet, miral Shigeru Fuk n Reuter
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    U.S. PARROT GETS £14,000
    64 5 U.S. PARROT GETS £14,000 1 CLBKK r FUng X can, Mr G^oip. Blair share of £14.000 he h ed to hi* p?t par: I Bob Mr. Biair i <i 3 tired p plied that Bob. now 50. sh live another 50 years I he wanted to bf sure the p
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    TUNG OIL CARGO
    20 5 More than 2on Oil ha.s arnv«d m Ik X by a through fre ci from Chanssha.- Reuter
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    ISRAEL A TOWER OF BABEL
    136 5 JERUSALEM, Wednesday. ONLY very few of the 12,000 to 15,000 Jewish immigrants who enter Israel each month know the old language of their re-born homeland. Most of them speak only the language of the country from where they come, ranging from French to Serbian. However,
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    MICA INDUSTRY
    42 5 The Australian government will keep expanding the country's mica industry to help ease a world shortage. The mica field m central Australia, one of the most important In the world, is still being worked only m a small way. A.P.
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    Girls who seek to save face
    341 5 LONDON, Wednesday. A JURY of five men and two women trying a breach of promise action m the King's Bench Division were told by Mr. Justice Hilbery that the> should not blind themselves to the morals, or lack of morals, m people today. "Do
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    33 5 The treasures of the Vatican library will be exhibited later this year to mark the 500 th anniversary of the library's founding *m 1450 by Pooe Nicholas V. A .P.
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    Girls fitter than boys
    87 5 MEDICAL examinations at 11 schools m London have shown that girls. In general, are fitter than boys. This reverses the position shown by previous raiPtfi The report showed that poor f quality shoes were the cause of an increasing number of foot ailments. It was found
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    SENATOR HITS AT JESSUP
    65 5 PRESIDENT Truman's living ambassador. Dr. I Philip C. Jessup. ottered jto fly back to Washington j from Paris immediately to answer a Senator's allegatton that he "was friendly towards Communism. Dr. Jessup is m J ans to end a prolonged special study of Far Eastern ailairs.
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Mar. 15, 1950. MORE MAY YET BE NEEDED
    548 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Mar. 15, 1950. MORE MAY YET BE NEEDED UuATiON today that Royal Air Force I are beini; sent out I Malaya to help the i In their drive i.. the bandits and that ground forces are to be strengthened by the 26th < i intry
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    942 6  - The Phantom Terror Of The Skies RICHARD NORTON By gACK-HOOM boys of British Overseas Aii wnvs Corporalion are well on their wa.\ to finding an answer to the greatest natural hazard m aviation—the dreaded cu-mulo-nimbus clouds. The thunderstorms linking m the hearts of these ominous, black, anvil-topped monsters, often towering
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    West Africa dam scheme
    175 6 ACCRA. Gold Coast: piVE Mulberry Har- bom engineers from! London have begun work (,n the plan to harness the turbulent 900-mile Volta River and build the biggest hydro-electric dam m West Africa. The Plan: Dam the Volta and create a 250 ft .-deep lake at Ajenu;
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    A MUSICAL 'MYSTERY'
    658 6  -  PRESTO By SUBSCRIBERS to a lending library invariably want to read the latest books. Subscribers to a music lending library invariably avoid the latest music. W: As one mv.sic critic put i;. "I utten wonder what the music public would be listening to nowadays if Beethoven had
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    316 6 Saint-Sams I,e Kourt I) Om phale (Omphale's spinning wheel) played by the Royal rhilharmon c Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beechatn lI. MV 1)B 6498. Here is Sir Thomas once more interpreting spinning wheel" music and once again recording 'winner. His recording of Dvorak's "The Golden Spinning Wheel"
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    685 6  - '.....BOMBS THROWN IN CALCUTTA Hector Watt TELLS THt A\ INCIDENT IN 77/ A CITY WHICH FA SUIT NEHRU, ANXIOUS TO E\D THE DISTl'RBASCES. HAS RECENTLY VISITED i.CUTTA MANY say life in this *'l g rea t Eastern city would be unendurable without that great central open space we call the
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    20 6 Princess Margaret dancing with ballet star. Robert Htlpmann, at a dance m air] of the SatiU's WeL I Benevolent Fund.
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    29 6  - More workless in U.S. FREDERIC COOK MIO,O( more L. ibli 4.800.(, 1.000.00 11 total ended. i h 56,947 I b W HIG pc: mllii -Bi: I I I 61.000
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    SINGAPORE BEAUTY SPOT MENACED
    333 7 SINGAPORE BEAUTY SPOT MENACED Council move to stop quarrying Free Press Staff Reporter RESOLUTION by Mr. C C. Tan (Municipality South-West) to stop all quarrying at Bukit Timah Hill, m order that this natural reserve may not be destroyed, will be one of the main items on the agenda of
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    ST. PATRICK'S DAY DANCE
    21 7 picture A GROUP photographed at last night's St. Patrick's Day dance at the Singapore Y.W.C.A. Free Press
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    54 7 PRIZES to be awarded to winners of the 1950 Singapore Flower Show at the Happy World covered stadium on March 31. The big trophy m the centre is donated by the Officer Administering the Government. Sir Patrick McKerron. and the one below by the President of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners.
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    Petrol move welcomed
    47 7 Petrol move welcomed MmM Krporlcr Mi Tan bet n the U vern- CounI hen -pect U m H has fe?r i ran- In now •I •vil be and tei where tely 'o b^ wasted > Ol *o pay etrol rationing were had be*n the I It B to
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    ANNIVERSARY
    31 7 IPOH. Tues.-Ipoh Rotary Club is to have an anniversary dinner at the station Hotel tomorrow night. The club will celebrate its 20th anniversary and the 45th anniversary of Rotary International.
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    25 7 picture. \IR. and Mrs. Chew Pin Wee with their daughter. i?l Fiona Chew Ti.it Khin, after h«»r rhrist<nin? at St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore.- Free Press
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    STORE SCHOOL OFFICIALS
    116 7 Ofri« ;a ls of the SingapoM National *f? Bchool committee are as follows: Secretary. Mr Lte Kh\e Huat: aaftia MCfitirj Ml I -ir. I.eong G»Or". treasurer Mr Teoh Pheng H auditor Mr Heng Kwang Hoclr; committee members NU I.ian Wee Tan Kwang Joo. Tto We*» Hong and
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    Banishee was 'not asked'
    98 7 'IiON'G HON KHIM alias Ch'ng Hui Hin, who has U-t-n living at Kuala Lumpur without lawful authority alter being banished for life liom the Straits Settlements on Dec. 6, 1940, was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Taylor m the Selan«or Assizes. Admitting
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    Gamblers fined
    27 7 KAJANG Mon —Nine men. five women, and four children, all Chinese were <:ich fined $15 at Kajang for gambling at 24th mll.e Ulu Langat road.
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    ART LECTURE
    38 7 Mr. Roy Morrell. the artist, will lecture to members of the East-West Society and friends on the Singapore Art Society's exhibition at the British Council Hall 'where the exhibition is being held> on Thursday at 8.30
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    CENSOR PASSES 'STROMBOLI'
    163 7 Free Tress, Staff Reporter THK controversial Italian film Stromboli has been 1 passed for exhibition m Malaya by the official film tensor. Mr Jack Evans. Mr. Evans t<V-» jss yesterday that he mcd the film entirely merits as it complied with the Malayan censorship code and not
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    SECURITY CHECK IN STORE
    90 7 SECURITY CHECK IN STORE r'rer f*i«-ss Staff Keportrr SINGAPORE POLICE assisted by members of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, carried out a security check in a rural area of Singapore on Sunday. Strong sections of the SVC. under the command of an officer and accompanied by uniformed Police and detectives entered
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    Malayans can visit Red China
    138 7 A I ALA VANS wishing to visit Communist China are at liberty to do so without special visas provided they have passports or travel permits endorsed for Hong Kong. Guarantors for visitors cr passengers m transit to Hong Kong are still necessary before passports or
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    Malaya to produce air-coolers
    269 7 Malaya to produce air-coolers Free Press Staff Reporter MALAYA Will soon produce air-conditioning equipment for its own use. A Singapore firm of engineers announces that a.s from June it. will btgin producing, on a commercial basis, a specially tropicalized room-type airconditiont i. Malaya spent nearly $1,000.000 last year on air-condition-ing
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    'NEW INDIES REVOLT UNLIKELY'
    195 7 F.P Malay Correspondent THE possibility of another armed revolt by discontented elements m Indonesia was discounted oy Dr. A Oetoyo, Representatives of the United States of Indonesia m Singapore, m a talk to members of the All Malaya Muslim Missionary Society m Geylang on Monday. Dr.
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    MAGICIAN ASKED FOR AID
    370 7 Free Press Staff Reporter BACK m his native country today is an Indian magician who was forced to appeal to the Singapore Silver Jubilee Fund to repatriate him. his wife and their four children to Madras. Both the magician and s wife, a Berlin-born artist, performed
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    CHINESE P.C.S. TO BE PICKED
    76 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuts RECRUITMENT ot Chinese for the regular police force m the Federation will begin this month. Hitherto. Chinese have been accepted m the force only as officers and detectives The Chinese Constabulary will perform the same duties as uniformed Malay constables and pay
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    Storytellers help patients to cheer up
    280 7 Free Press Staff Reporter yOUNG Malay soldiers and Chinese and Indi. v students have volunteered to read books and t 'I stories to bedridden children m the Singapore General Hospital to help lighten their long: mont > of convalescence. But Miss Janet Grant, assistant
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    Johor function
    23 7 JOHORE BAHRU Tuet. There will be a St. Patrick* Day dance at the Royal Johore International Club on Saturday. Mar 18
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    IGNORANT OF MALAYAN CONDITIONS
    166 7 IGNORANT OF MALAYAN CONDITIONS A LARGE section Ol th< British people is still lgno- rant about Malaya. This was slated by Inche Mohai mcd Yusoff bin Mohamed Noor, Labour representative m the Federal Council and 1 one of the three Malayan laboor observers to the recent International Labour Congress m
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    Johore land survey
    58 7 Johore land survey Fr«-e Pr»*s> SUIT K«-pi»r*»r JOHORE BAIiRU. W t INVESTIGATION Into th pioxn dat present < n Johore without autito ricultun at i !lav, at no Tim- mium to I revenue. Approxim.i of this Illegally- occupied are urn under coconut*. 1.000 <. under fruil p*j 2000 di under
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    BOMB-THROWING: PUBLIC WARNED
    383 8 BOMB-THROWING: PUBLIC WARNED 'Tell suspicions to police Free Press Staff Reporter PALLING on the public for help to exterminate bomb-throwers, the Singapore Police last night said that strange people seen hanging around houses, or m the streets should be reported to the Police immediately. Mr. C. W. Byrde, Superintendent of
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    38 8 MEMBERS of the visiting basketball team of Manila's Arellano I'niversity were entertained to dinner on Sunday by the Singapore C hinese Amateur Athletic Federation. Seen addressing them here is Mr. Goh Chye Ilin president of the Federa tion.
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    Acsu protests on Army jobs
    314 8 rHE 6,000-strong Army Civil Service t'nion claims, m a letter to the Brigadier-in-charge of Administration Singapore District, that "the policy adopted by the War Department m the matter of higher appointments is m contravention of previous agreements made between the I'nion and the Army authorities."
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    Acquitted of kidnapping
    119 8 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA KANGSAR. Tues. IN the Kuala Kangsar Sessions Court. Mr. E. A. Burton, last Thursday, acquitted and discharged an Indian Kumarasamy (27), on a charge of having kidnapped a minor (under 16 Indian girl. Kuthlamah. on Jan. 17 from the Perak River Valley
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    Perak and Kedah Bar
    83 8 KUALA KANGSAR. Sun The following Advocates and Solicitors have been appointed members of the Local Bar Committee m Perak Kedah and Perlis for the current year:— Chairman, Mr. S. N. Veerasamy Sec Mr S P Stenivasakam Mr. M S Mahendran, Mr. H T Ong, Mr. Chin
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    MORE TROOPS FOR MALAYA
    190 8 T*HK Commissioner-General's OMice last night announced that more aircraft and troops are to be sent to Malaya for operations against the bandits. Aircraft reinforcements will include a Lincoln bomber squadron from the United Kingdom. The 26th Gurkha Infantry Brigade from Hong Kong is to rejoin its
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    ROME BROKERS ON STRIKE
    61 8 ROME BROKERS ON STRIKE "TRADING on Italy's two biggest stock exchanges m Rome and Milan, stopped yesterday as brokers protested against the Government's refusal to abolish a requirement that all slocks fhoulc carry the names of the owners. Financial circles said this re qulrement greatly facilitates the collection of taxes
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    ENTERED FED ILLEGALLY
    59 8 TAIPING. Tues. Nayahaya bin Haji Mat (22 1 and Nang Babungar binte Ismail 20 pleaded guuilty before the Taiplng Magistrate, Inrhe Ismail bin Jamil to entering the Federation from Siam without a passport or valid visa. At the request of the Court Inspector, sentences were deferred to
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    Sentiment is improving
    316 8 Sentiment is improving London Stock ExchaTn LONDON vwJHE belief that Britain's *nl<i d n^ x are on the upgrade i im *mj sentiment on the London Stoc k I says Reuter's financial corresi Trading was restricted b. influences; nevertheless sm spread. Tin shares declined wl rubbers were firm. Pritish Government
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      165 8 IT?3Rdr3k6 Exclusive lo the Singapore Free Press m Malaya ~*^m_ |P^^l ThE .6*: l I W^ A COIN, MANDRAKE REMOVES] I SOT MUCH LONGER y^^s r WMrjfT^ ■omy^jr/ QASWAY A BOLT IN THE. FLOOR IN Tht TAXI- NOW, MANDRAKE— ryV^^ IN THE REMOTELY GtTTiNG l NOT f Ail TO t<X
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    LETTER FROM SCARLETT
    458 9  -  D.B.N. y)ed«e*et*f £Ae*t £te*y by .i IRRO W," v il Trmlie, k *wc i weekh Scarlett. I I .ok for S tin days no her ;s Brunei. m we have s letter to to. Not much. ,c is kid cm d I terned. :ng r s. _:rl
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    GADGET SAVES LIVES IN CRASHED PLANES
    294 9  -  JOHN LOUGHLIN by 4 NEW airport re»- cuv device designed to release hupped crush survivors was tested m Melbourne recently by governmenf engineers. It w;js :i "mobile canopener" consisting <>l a giant spearhead mounted <>n an armoured patrol cur. Engineers propose to incorporate the
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    The clue of the pointed nose
    1682 9 The clue of the pointed nose by FABIAN of the YARD WITHOUT removing the £27 from his pocket, William Rutland sprawled luxuriously m a Hyde Park deck-chair and counted the banknotes with practised lingers, by sense of touch. It was as much a caress as an audit. The £27 had
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    AWANG BAKAR JUSTIFIES SELECTION
    735 10  -  CRUSADER Certainty for Colony XI By THERE cannot be any doubt now as to recognition of Awang Bakar's claims to a place m the Singapore Civilians' Malaya Cup team for this season. After his feat m scoring all four goals against first-class opposition m the Combined
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    49 10 picture. -Cpl. J. J. Pu*h, the R..VS.C. goalkeeper, makes a vain attempt to save R.A s fourth goal m the Army Soccer Cup setnlBaal played at the Military Stadium. Aldershot The 64. h Training Rejriment. R.A.. beat the Depot Batialion. R.A.S.C., by seven goals to nil.— Army News Service
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    Jews plan their own 'Olympics'
    303 10 JEWIoii athletes from all parti of the world are t-x--pectrd to In T»M Aviv, cany next Autumn for the thiru Mucrabiah < Olympic Gani' The World Ma«"cabi Union, a Jowish sports organisalion. has announced that it expects 2 000 entrants from 40! countries. The gUMI
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    Make more use of the throw-in
    193 10  -  DAVID JACK I SCIENCE IN SOCCER^ By A THROW -IN rarely creates any real danger to the opposition because invariably the ball is directed to the head or feet of a colleague and usually returned to the touchline. Then comes a gambling long ball
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    Promoters say 'No'
    103 10 Promoters say 'No' THE British Boxing Promo ten* Association representing 54 of the 75 promoters m active operation m Britain, have decided on a virtual ban on television at their tournaments. In future, no member will be able to arrange for his show to be tHovised without permission of the
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    RSGC WOMEN'S FINAL
    50 10 MRS w G c Gass beat m Mrs. W. McMullan 3 and 2 m the Royal Singapore Golf Club women's championship final on Monday The Ne« South Wale s Qoli Cup played at La Perouse, i won by A. O. Thomson With rounds of 71 and 73
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    George Marks may never play again
    476 10  -  ARCHIE QUICK By A SIMPLE accident during a friendly" match has brought stark tragedy to (ieorge Marks. Reading's English international goalkeeper A kick on th c inside of the thigh while playing against Rotherham m a "fill-up" gam c has resulted m Marks suffering
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    Australia may break U.S. stranglehold
    472 10 tMfcLDiMj a young, virile lawn tennis team. Aus--1 tralia this year might well break the United States stranglehold on the Davis Cup The wide tennis gap which existed between the two nations m the immediate post-wa r years now appears to have narrowed to a
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    93 10 Temporary absence VISITORS to Kennington Oval to see England beat Scotland at womens hockey were surprised at the absence of Mrs. Russell Vick, a brilliant inside-left who has been the terror of England's opponents In recent Internationals. Her disappearance from the game is only temporary. A daughter was born to
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    393 10  - Not one good heavyweight since Louis JACK CUDDY By -THE major mystery m sports t<M x x can't the world produce at n young heavyweight? And when wt .JN lhp J*^ we mean all the nations o n the globe with millions of brawny and ambitious men is the No.
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    280 11  - PORT O'GOLD READY FOR 1ST WIN ALLAN LEWIS Most impressive this morning By pORT O'GOLD drew attention to the improvement he has made and his chances at this meeting when he went easily alongside Bull to run three furlongs m 40 2 :> sees, this morning. Though this was not
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    236 11 1 > -round ntjht for the Orient welterweight rn}uoM>hip between Boy Brooks, the holder \nul> of Australia which is to take place lay, may turn out to be- for the middleI ih.unpionship instead, subject to the ap- of the Singapore Boxing Board of Control. -.>.
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    256 11 Basketball gaining favour in UK INTEREST m basketball, which first developed m England during tne Olympic Games with the populany of Philippine and Chinese teams, is to be brought to tinfore again this summer when crack American teams begin a European tour at Wembley, London, m May. Especially pleased about
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    Plucky display by Town Rangers
    85 11 HANDICAPPED by having to play with only with nine men, the Town Rangers were unlucky to lose by three goals to four m their Junior Group 2 League SOCCtr match with Catholic Young Men's Association Portuguese Mission' at St. George's Road yesterday. Town Rangers aitacked
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    WOMEN'S GOLF AT ISLAND CLUB
    73 11 MRS Bromley-Dau-npori won ::uid Club L.O.U. competitifi with score of 94—33 61. Next best scorers were by Mrs HOdfklnaoo 89 20 69 Mm. Wheeler '87—17 -70 and Mrs Jones 106—34-721 The woman captains prize was a 12 "hidden hole' competition and W43 won by Mrs.
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    94 11 MOVIE director Raoul Wash, one-time cowboy actor who made Tom Mix a star, is apparently not goin? to get a chance to ride m the Grand National steeplechase this year Now m England directing a picture, he made a "substantial offer" to Mrs.
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    385 11 KOTA Raja's four-nil victory over Base Ordnance Depot Civilian Association m the S.A.F.A. Senior League last evening was the result of good football under wretched conditions. The Cup holders surprised even their most ardent supporters by the manner m which they adapted their play to the
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    44 11 JIVERSON. Australia's newest bowling star, took mx wickets for eieht runs m Invercargiil. New Zealand yesterday The Australian touring team dismissed Southland for 50 Rain stopped play when the touristr had replied with 86 for one wicket. Reuter-A.A.P.
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    TRIBUTES TO CHAMPION JOCKEY
    423 11 BRITAIN'S champion jockey Gordon Richards was yesterday presented with a pair of golden spurs to mark his 22 years of lliceesi M champion jockey m the British Isles. Everyone of note m the British racing world was present at a lunch given by the leading sporting
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    TABLE TENNIS TOURNEY
    57 11 ENTRIES for the Singapore table tennis championships *M close on April 15. Events are: inter-club le.«t?ue. junior inter-club league. .a'prschool league, juvenile Inter-team league i under 14 years*. men's singles, junior men's singles. women's singles, veterans/ singles, juvenile singles < under 14 vrarsi. do'ibles. junior men's doubles,
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    Donaldson leads
    38 11 lI 'ALTER Donaldson, former ft title-holder, took the lead against the present champion. Fred Davis, m their world professional snooker championship flnal at Blackpool yesterday. At the Close Donaldson led by 26 frames to 22. Reuter
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    'Unknown' heads batting averages
    261 11 'Unknown heads batting averages aOI'TH Australian all-rounder Bob McLean, with an average of 50.77. headed the Sheffield Shield batting: averages for the 1949-50 Australian season. McLean, who rose last season from a low batting position to that of opener, and is also a useful slow bowler, was unlucky not to
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    Chelsea v. Arsenal on Saturday
    488 11 PKIDK of place m next *alurday s tngiisn iooiDan programme belongs to the Football Association Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Arsenal at the Tottenham Hotspur ground, London. The teams have met m five Cup-ties, and Arsenal have won only once In 1946-47 after two drawn
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    47 11 picture. A MERICAX film at tor Allan Curtis congratulates i\ Gussie Moran after one of her victories m the Egyptian tennis championships at Gezira Sports Club. Cairo, on March 6. Gussie has changed from lace panties to tennis shorts. Curtis is m Egypt making a picture.- A.P.
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    Wyatt heads selection committee
    192 11 Wyatt heads selection committee RE S. Wyatt ol W< shire has been appo. chairman of the England Test selection committre m :e of A. J. Holmes of Suswho resigned owing to L E G. Ames, ot Kf:it nil* the vacancy on the com. tee. Ames is the first pr«> sional
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    Perak team filing to Kola Bharti
    75 11 Perak team filing to Kola Bharti ipoh Wed. pERAKS four-man badminton team to met- X tan m the opening tie o! tn? Foong Seong Cup n competition w ill fly Tr» Ku ti Bharu for tht- for March 24 and This is the m wfcich Kelantan ing The winners o'
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    Not arresting
    32 11 OOMPOUS w:ll Ml .n .n I the Lin( dnshi: cap on Saturdax I i met with an ac I training. Pompous ua? c, 40-1 for the e\en. nights official callow
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    Test umpire's lament
    124 11 FjMiAXK (HESTER, the English Test umpire, said m Derby last night: "I never enjoyed one match m the Australian tour of 1948 and I do not think any other umpire really did. The Test match at Manchester was too had for words. Even when our batsmen never
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    DEATH
    25 12 S. D. AMERASINGHE (formerly of A.M.DG.W.. Sime Road) at General Hospital, Spore. 14 3.50. Cortafe leaves Hospital at 4 p.m. today for Buddhist Cemetery.
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    Italy's estates to be cut up
    241 12 ROME. Wednesday. ASOCIAL revolution m Italy a widespread redistribution of land was announced yesterday by the Prime Minister, Signer Alcide de Gasperi. While thousands of peasants m Southern Italy squatted grimly on vast areas of land they had seized m the last two weeks,
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    NAVAL CLASH OFF MACAO
    212 12 Shells land m colony HONG KONG, Wednesday. gHELLS landed m the barracks of the Portuguese garrison m Macao when Chinese Communist gunboats and a Nationalist gunboat engaged m a gun duel m Macao's territorial waters, according to Macao reports received here today. The clash, which occurred
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    33 12 Dick Button, of Inglewood. New Jersey, who won his third straight world figure skating championship at the Empire Pool. Wembley, by defeating his nearest competitor. Ede Kiraly. of Hungary, by a wide margin.
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    'TRUCULENT' IS RAISED
    67 12 salvage ships yesterday lifted the hull of the British submarine Truculent from the river bed In the mouth of the Thames, wnere it has been lying m ibout 50 feet of water for two months. The submarine— weUhlng about 1.000 tons -was hauled up at about 20
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    24 12 photo. Emperor Bao Dai. chief of state of the Provisional Vietnam Government, inspects a unit of the new Vietnamese army at Hanoi. A. P.
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    Burned wife's clothes
    67 12 FREDERICK SEYMOUR of Sydney burned all his wife's clothes because she refused to cut wood for the stove to prepare his meal. In court yesterday Seymour was sjiwn three months' jail for malicious damage, fined £5 for assaulting the police and £2 for -esiatint? arrest. He agreed
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    Greek centre controls Parlt.
    60 12 THE Greek Ministry of the Interior yesterday estimated that centre parties will have 137 seats out of the 250 total m the new Greek Parliament when counting Is completed. This would ensure a sufficient majority for a coalition which centre party leaders Intend calling the "National
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    Parlt. bans newsman
    70 12 Parlt. bans newsman FOR hinting that certain Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament might be of mixed race, Etienne Malan. political correspondent of Die Suiderstem. a I'nited Party newspaper m Capetown, has been banned from Parliament f«r 30 days. Malan. a distant relation of the South African Prime Minister, resigned
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    Govt. blamed for Malaya
    95 12 LONDON, Wed LORD Mancroit, who visited Malaya some time ago. In an interview yesterday blanu'd the British Government for failing to win 'he confidence of the Chinese population m Malaya. He said: "I am told there Is complete confidence m the Htgli Commissioner m Malaya. but
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    RICE EXPERIMENTS
    16 12 India is experimenting with Chinese and Russian rice to augment her food production.- A.P.
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    Witchcraft in U.S.A.
    60 12 A YOUNG American woman, arrested m Delaware, U.S.A., on witchcraft charges m accordance with an old colonial law still m force, has been temporarily released to seek a lawyer to defend her m court. She was arrested after several persons complained she put a curse of them
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    Synthetic: Truman plan opposed
    110 12 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. AMERICAN synthetic rubber plants should stay under Government ownership, the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee declared yesterday. American security will be better served that way, the Committee added. President Truman recently asked Congress for authority to begin disposing of U. 5.5700. 5700
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    LORA LEE, HUNGRY, RAN AWAY
    143 12 LORA LEE, HUNGRY, RAN AWAY HOLLYWOOD, Wed. THE child screen actress Lora Lee Michel, said yesterday that she ran away from her foster mother who is accused of starving her to keep her small enough for film roles— "because I was hungry all the time." Nine-year-old Lora Lee disappeared from
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    16 12 Trade between India and Australia has increased 500 per cent, m the last 10 years A.P.
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    54 12 Like thousands of other Londoners. Princess Elizabeth was a spectator when President Vincent Auriol and Mme. Auriol drove m procession from Buckingham Palace to the City Guildhall during their recent state visit. The Princess is seen at the garden wall of Clarence House her London home. With her is her
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    'ACCENT LED TO MURDER'
    52 12 Mrs. Yvette Madsen admitted m a Frankfurt court yesterday that she had shot her husband. Lt. Andrew Madsen, after a quarrel over her Brooklyn accent, last Oct. 20. She said she was out of her mind. Madsen was shot at point-blank range with a .45 calibre
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    REBELS FIGHT REBELS
    145 12 REBELS FIGHT REBELS RANGOON. Wed lighting has broken oat at Prome. communications centre 160 miles fr Rangoon, among rebel ruling the town. Thl i. brought by I ped civilian who arnwei In Rangoon lasi night, that Communi. Wi PVOS (Peoples Voiuntter Organisation* and army m > were locked m a
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    7th FLEET CHANCE
    43 12 'pHE U.S. Navy said yesterday that Vice-Admiral Arthur Struble, deputy Chief of Naval Operations, will relieve Vice-Admiral Russel Berkey as Commander <>f the Seventh Fleet In the Western Pacific next month. Berkey will become the Navy's chief of information. U.P.
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    MAGICIAN'S BID TO CALL SPIRIT
    124 12 CHICAGO, Wednesday MAGICIAN Claude Noble's attempt to contact the if spirit of Clarence Darrow has failed fo r the tenth time since the famed criminal lawyer's death on March 13, 1948. Intoning the Lord's Prayer, Noble, a 60-year-old Detroit businessman, knelt on the lagoon bridge
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    18 12 The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester arrived In Nairobi by air yesterday on a fortnight's visit to Kenya
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    Neutral Asia to ensure peace
    179 12 LONDON, Wednesday. SAYING that all idea of welding South-East Asia and India into an armed alliance with Western countries should be dropped, the Manchester Guardian urges, instead, the formation of a very large Asian neutral bloc to act as buffer between Russia and America. Otherwise,
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    STRIKE GOES ON
    37 12 A mass meeting of Melbourne tram and bus employees yesterday decided by an overwhelming majority to continue their 20 days old strike for an increase of i 1 Australian) weekly for maintenance men Reuter
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    Bigger us Pacific carrier strength
    60 12 Bigger us Pacific carrier strength ASHINGTOX T HEUS ***t fourth division ore; move war." the con. expansion m the Pa expansion sary." The new sr The M VaUey Porg. Division I carrier Be «hip of Car: re f urn to The thir tion In the P consists t: carr v.
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    UN-CHRISTIAN
    16 12 The Rev J ed m Melbour' banning the J the 1956 Olyir m Australia A.P.
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