The Singapore Free Press, 3 April 1950

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA t n«* SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1950 PKIIE TKN (IMS
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    CORDIAL TALK BY NEHRU, LIAQUAT
    282 1 Bid to solve disputes NEW DELHI, Monday. THE prime ministers of India and Pakistan, meeting for the- first time for more than two! years, talked in New Delhi yesterday for two, hours and 20 minutes. The atmosphere was "most cordial", said official sources. j Pandit
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    21 1 pic- Thr actin? Colonial Secretary. Mr. i, D. M. Smith, receiving the C.M.G. from Sir Patrick McKrrron on Saturday.- Free Press
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    Extra troops are on way
    15 1 Mon. of the roops Brigade lfiu%yi m combat A. P.
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    S'pore arrests
    5 1 rday nree "-.bers
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    RICE AGREEMENT
    7 1 Ltit for 1960 .aese A.P.
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    H.K. MOVES ON
    9 1 IOCKS I a.m. the A. P.
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    HOUSE BURNED
    30 1 Free Press Start" Reporter Eight Chiiu-s*' yesterday raided Labis Estate in the Segamat district and robbed two Chinese of their Identity cards and then burnt their house down.
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    Malay teachers to protest to Govt.
    251 1 Free I'iess Malay Correspondent THE Singapore Malay Teachers Tnion is to send a memorandum to the Government protesting against the way transfers from on > school to another had been effected by the Relocation Department and the Inconvenience it entailed for the teachers UTected.
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    CHINA FORCED LABOUR
    52 1 THE Chinese Communists said yesterday that they were mobilising a quarter of •.nillion peasants to dig a canal 14 miles long from the Yl river to the sea in North Kiangsu province. Peking Radio described the work a» requiring "mobilisation of peasant masses of the whole area."-
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    French ban draws protest
    53 1 THE Riff Reader. Emir Abd ul Karim, President of the North African Liberation Committee with headquarters in Cairo has telegraphed to Mr. Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary General, .asking that Hubig Burgiza, leader of the Tunisian Destour (Free Constiitutional) Party should be allowed to visit Southern
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    JAPAN FLOODS
    23 1 After heavy rainfall all over north and eastern Japan on April 1, several thousand houses were inundated in many districts. Reuter
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    Both sides 'win' Vietnam battle
    118 1 SAIGON, Monday. FHE large-scale rebel offensive against the city of Travinh in Cochin-china has been repulsed with heavy losses io the attackers. French military authorities announced yesterday. They called the seven-da*. Vietminh attack on the Mekong delta town a "costly failure", in which hundreds of
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    Teddy Bear wins on KO
    73 1 'I'ONY (.alento, once 1 wnrld heavyweight boxing contender, "boxed three rounds with Teddv. a .V>o- pound bear, in New Jersey »n Saturday and ni knocked down twice. (■alento was not quick enough to avoid two right hand swings from the 23--yrar-old animal and hit the
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    BANDITS KILL 4 IN VILLAGE
    173 1 BANDITS KILL 4 IN VILLAGE Free Press Stall Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, lion. DANDITS attacked the Tillage oi D.iniansara, wren miles irom Kuala Lumpur last Qigbt. They opened fire and killed four Chinese and wounded four others. Down the road they picked on the Indian chief clerk of the Seventh Mile
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    MAN ABDUCTED
    29 1 Free Press Staff Reporter After robbing nine labourers of their identity cards on On? Chum Lam Estate Kulai. yesterday. four Chinese abducted Pai Chee. a 46-year-old Khek
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    POLITICIAN SHOT
    22 1 Ate Waldemariam, president of the Indeo ndant Fritrean Party, was wounded by shots fired by two native terrorists yesterday.- U.P.
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    2 AGENTS HELD
    25 1 Police at Pontian yesterday raided a Chinese hut and detained a Chinese bandit collector. Another bandit collector wa« detained *t Yong Peng.
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    TOWNS UNDER WATER IN AUSTRALIA
    75 1 SYDNEY, Monday pLOODS in New South Wales took a turn for the worse yesterday with the raln■woUen Lachlan and Macquarie rivers threatening a dozen towns in central New Sou'h Wales Flood waters surging down from the upper reaches or the two rivers enguifed the townships
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    Chiang army in N. Siam
    86 1 BANGKOK. Mon. TEN tlioussmd Chinese Nationalist troops have settled along the Mekong River, opposite Chieng Hsaen. on the northern border of Slam after fleeing from the Chinese Communists The troops were reported trying to cross the border to rejoin the Nationalist forces. They were said
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    HO CHI MINH SEES MAO?
    36 1 HO Chi Minn, leader of the Vietminh Communist -led insurgents, is in China negotiating a treaty with Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung, according to reports reaching Saigon from usually reliable sources
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    HIROHITO BACK
    19 1 Emperor Hirohito has returned to Tokio after completing a 20-day tour of Shikoku in the Inland Sea.
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    BANK CLOSES
    22 1 The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank has closed its branch at Hankow, Central China, because of a slump in business.
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    PoWs STAY
    23 1 Abont 15.000 German und 1,000 Italian former prisoners of war have bepn allowed to remain in the United Kingdom.- A. P.
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    Dehydrated oysters
    43 1 A HIROSHIMA scientist has perfected a dehydration process for oysters. Hiroshima oysters ar? no'cd throughout Japan for their size and flavour The scientist claims that his deMdrated oyster^ arn to normal size and flavour after *even Jiours in pure water.- Reuter
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    51 1 pi i" lures. The ja*a of the Lucky World Amusement Park, Kuala Lumpur, pointing to the place where the hand grenade fell on Saturday night. Twenty-six people were injured. Miss Wanna, danoer in a Ram von s party, was wounded in the finuer when the hand prenmle was flun?.- Free
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    Red leaders warn of war
    171 1 ROME, Monday. COMMUNIST leadeis in Western Europe yesterday opened up a torrent of word*; against the democracies. They warned of the dangers of war and civil war. In Italy, the Communist labour leader, Giuseppe di Vittorio, told the Chamber of Deputies that the arrival of
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    Cash & carry plan by U.S.
    62 1 Cash carry plan by U.S. KEY WEST lion PRESIDENT Trun night ordeieci the development of a plan to pu' U.S. trade on a ca carry basis by 1952. Concerned by the dollar gap between American ports and imports Truman ordered an extensive stud\ to find a way to belter international
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    5 JEWS KILLED
    17 1 Arabs killed five Jews in the .southern Negev desert on Friday night.- Reut er
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    Chennault to get 40 HK planes?
    209 1 HONG KONG. Mon. 4S the two turncoat Nationalist airlines olamed the Hong Kong Government for yesterday's bomb sabotage on seven of the disputed 71 1 grounded planes, reports *ere current in Washington that the British mitfh* turn over 40 of the aircraft to the
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    GOLD BULLION FOR FORMOSA
    30 1 A plane load of eoM bullion worth USsB' rivod In Taipei from Japan o: day The shipm^r.T i<put of tri" loot I Japan from I A.P.
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    S'PORE ASKED FOR DETAILS
    47 1 Manchester textile -k. their agenuMalaya tor lull the Sings Chamt Coo e tha f the printing and flnisl I Lancashire cotton plect g was beluu .standard. An official ol the Calu- i Priming A prepaid a van represen' they were inrlowi moi Reuter
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    CAMPS FOUND
    21 1 I n-c Pr«-x Staff Rep rlrr After 10 days' op> fungie oi Kluang terday found 1 destroyed two band;ihowed
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    AII The Nice Boys Love A Race-car
    743 2 A II The Nice Boys Love A Race-car THINK uuain. Man think about two Voting Men named N-vi' and John Lloyd wn had a bright idea, gvit>d on it ail their m>r?\. their energies. id i heir future -and rr u\r II work. NYvil Lloyd was a Desert K was
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    'Weather Man' Is A Robot
    207 2 a hobot weather man developed by a team of radio experts and physicists in the New Zealand Dtpartment of Scientific and Industrial Research. promises to revolutionise meteorological me- Ihods in that and perhaps other parts of the world. Alan Hardcastlc, in Wellington, say* that the
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    S'pore-born Architect Honoured
    138 2 S 'pore-born A rchitect Honoured MR LEONARD MANASSEH. Singapore-born arrhitpct. who won 'he r.rst prize in the competition for designing the restaurant tor the Festival of Britain 1961. recently took time oil t r|| m his usual tasK of des;oning shopi and houses for Sie\< aye, ihe new model "ov»n
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    UNKNOWN
    456 2  -  JOHN HILL A BY Hy BEFORE a ntx ceMgn of merchantman or tanker slides down the stocks into the River Tyne. 01 the Clyde the chances are that it was tested near the I names on a strip of wat-r lit i bigger than a vilb pond. i «ent
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    'PAINLESS' ALARM CLOCK
    107 2 'PAINLESS' ALARM CLOCK ('ERMAN clock introduced p^ alarm clock* —p vake the soundest i without annoyance The sec;**. ritei Ai Terry. a ring which goes i I she: t period to b I sleeper baefc lo r. This la to i.tvkfd i minutes Inter bv a louder rin? wh!"h t
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      584 2 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore! 'STaS^-/"^ (BLI fc NKTWOKK) TOMAV Analysis «BBC K;rn!n? 445 pm. Programme fUfUtnary; serenade". 4k4 and 41.7 metres. 447 F rom lne London EditoEmertency newt from K.L rials tBBO 455 Interlude 500 AUSTRALIA Chapter *t no Vets* 1 5.1S Sver» at 19 a.m Serenade'. IjW Indoneaiac ihim> and
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      130 2 New Crossword No. 12 i| I KS AC ROSS 1. How the relay 1 ac»- oa.on i« passed (6, 2». 7. Just personal in i Drawn bj rassr i.h (5). 9- Clean way to iub ift) 10. The world, the .met the devil" (fi Peroo turned i 1.-- 14. Pari
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    TREASURE HUNT IN WEST ISLES
    222 3 British Navy aids in search CIGHTY Friri? iON'DOX, Monday. sUftfSßt fiim sandy seabed. Divers belipve they hav» r S^ ov w ered M the Spanish Armada galleon, Duque De Morencia and are now digging through 15 feet of mud ina sand and hope to get
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    FURS FROM CHINA SOLD VIA RUSSIA
    30 3 jfl RK Mon. Comreported that Cm* furs rted to Rtiito the firs oriDi shipped e valued I three lid these hird cf ri U.P.
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    Slowdown
    7 3 at .ay to Ith more U.P.
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    Is the Arctic area getting warmer?
    129 3 MO.NTKI AL, Mondav IS the An tii pelting warmer" Are the Arotk ice 1 tii- ating? Those are the questions which wif of the most comprehensive scientific parties ent If. the Canadian Arctic will trv to ar-swer ar. :n the amrmativc, scientists Bulling forecasts
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    28 3 photo. p HMI escorts Mrs. Marie Bernard of P '<- kj Nhe arrives at a Piris railway station. 114 p««Lso!i^d 11 persons, sh* was brought for psychiatric examinition.- A.P.
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    Hot air in Russia
    62 3 FOREST shelter belt more than <>»0 miles long L being planted aloiii,the I'ral Kiver from the < aspian >ea to the Vi>hnev.i i mountain Moscow Katlio >aid. The broadrast >aid the »> It w.uild 'forni a Kfeeß l»arri»-r in thp p.nh o| hot drv winds Mowing
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    BANK LOAN TO JERUSALEM
    64 3 Barclay* Bank of London has refused to lend i' 500.000 to the dtf of Jerusalem "owing to the uncertain political situation in the city" according to a Tel Aviv r.?wsDaper The n< wspaper added that It announced its readiness to lend £100,000 for a period of
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    USI Navy grows
    46 3 /°»OL Nazir Indonesian coml mander' at Sourabaya. said the Indonesian fleet is growing. He said the Navy now had 30 to 40 "FAD." ships in addition to two corvettes transferred by the Dutch. Two more corvettes will be handed over next month.- Reuter
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    8 3 photo. now the backbone of Sudanese economy.- A.P.
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    JAP EXPORTS
    24 3 The Burmese Government has agreed to grant licences the import of Japanese soods worth $1,250 000 by the end of April.- U.P.
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    RIOTS IN FOUR CITIES
    175 3 photo photo. photo The market plate in Saigon. Indo-China, was the centre of rioting in protest against the visit of two U.S. warships to the city. The market buildings were burned out and a police van suffered the same /ate. A. P. photo. In Tokiu. Japanese
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    Monks enter 'production'
    237 3 Monks enter 'production' HONG KONG, Monday. I 'HiNKSr! Buddhist monks and nuns are discarding their flowing yellow and red robes for the darkblue uniforms of New i'hina's labourers and farmers as the New Democracy philosophy of President Mao Tse-tung penetrates into the dim, dank interiors of temples and pagodas. In
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    Reds watch for carrier
    84 3 PARIS Mop. /^OMMUNIST-LLD worker* V and the French Government are prepared lor a showdown on the Red-p:o--mised fight to stop delivery of I American arms aid to Fraiv. e The Commums'a were M 1 to discover the whereabouts of the French aircraft earner Dixmuae. •■vir.'h is
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    ARABS DISCUSS FULL ALLIANCE
    70 3 DISCUSSIONS have begun in Cairo on the draft of a collective security pact bind- ing the seven member states !of the Arab league Into a military and economic alliance. The proposed pad la said to have United States approval Discussions started in the League's political Committee
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    'Vision' for millions
    38 3 SEVENTY per cent of Britain's population of almost 50,000.000 people should b*> able to get television pro- m grammes by 195'J. The Postmaster-General. Mr. Ness Edwards, made this prediction in the House of Commons. g«
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    CEYLON GETS CHEAPER RICE
    53 3 BURMA has agreed to sell 350.000 tons of rice to Ceylon this year and another 400 000 tons in both 1951 and 1952 the Ceylonese Minister to Burma. Mr Susanta de Fonseka said in Rangoon. He admitted that Ceylon had I ceived a concession, nrpsnrnablv a
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    EGYPTIANS NOW
    21 3 Iffr SUfvsldv DrVJbfiy'anfl }&r Vladimor Cernic, self-exi!ed former Czechoslovak Davis Cup players, have been grant- I ed Egyptian nationality.
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    WAR WARNING
    33 3 Sir Harold Butler. Chairman of the Economic Section of the European Movement, said in New York that it Western Europe were overrun by the Russians 'Britain could not hold out."- Reuter
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    Bridge Hands
    337 3 WEST opened the heart ace. East, after some delibtration, played small and West shift was "not because We^t uad shirft was not because VVes* uad East's follow-suit play on the first trick as a suit-preference signal; it was simply obvious from seeing the dummy that the setting tricks,
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Apr. 3, 1950. SALUTE THE VOLUNTEERS
    609 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Apr. 3, 1950. SALUTE THE VOLUNTEERS hev I*HE Month has ended. Fiv e hundred thousand volunteers- one In ten of 1 the lota, population of the I ..lion nave nuii. IheUr h td block and checked their last h < trd, at least until the
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    The Malayan War Is 'Hot' News Now
    1625 4  - The Malayan War Is 'Hot' News Now HALL ROMNEY \london letter By jyjALAYA hns certain Iv been in [he headlines this week, as you will sec from the accompanying photographs First came the news of the •troop and air rein forcements for the anti-bandit campaign; news which became really "hot"
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    INTERVIEW WITH A WHITE ANT
    448 4  - INTERVIEW WITH A WHITE ANT BERNARD WICKSTEED IN I>\|{Klnl KK I NAIROBI pOLLOWINd in> exclusive inter \uw w i 1 1 1 an African elephant 1 have now obtained nother scoop by inten Uw ing an anl white ant A < yOU probablv know. •a is a white ant's country.
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    Million 'Surplus' U.S. Women
    215 4 WASHING ION: aIJCMEN will be found to outnumber men by a good 1.000.000 for the first time Ui America's history, according to cariy estimate! by the United States Biueau of the Census And. the census bureau says this trend will continue, provided there's no big flood
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    GURNEY IN PENANG
    56 5 r |MIE High Commissioner of the Federation. Sir Henry J. Gurney. speaking at the third anniversary dinner of the Penang Municipal Services I'nion last week. On the left is Mrs. R. P. Bins ham. wife of Penang's acting Re>ident Commissioner, aiid on the right is Mr. Tan
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    Too poor to bury their dead
    111 5 Frff Tres.s Staff Keporter t;i(iHl ptoplt- wtTf niirifd in Singapore last niunth it lh#" e\pens» «>f tht Social Welfare laenl fMa was the highest number of jjitermnHx e\er paid lor by v Department in any l(ne mom* sine* it started gMtt| m »ney to
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    24 5 puturr y Margaret and Mr. Mrrdith Cole :,.r of the I irestone Tire Rubber Co. re Married .it the Hesle> Methodist Church Free Fress
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    600 TO GET JOBS IN NEW FACTORY
    367 5 600 TO GET JOBS IN NEW FACTORY Can-makers to expand ee Press Staft Reporter nib new Si njrapot '"-based factory on whose land excavations have already started —will he completed bv August this year and will be capable, within three years from then, of annually producing 120,000,000 cans tor Malayan-grown
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    29 5 picture 'pHK Municipal Treasurer, A Singapore Mr. John Hnl.iiul Hill, receiving the insignia of the 0.8.K. from Sir Patrick .Mrßerron. Officer Administering the Government, on Saturda>. F ree Press
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    'Fight bandits instead'
    70 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. DURING the present emergency it would be better if you stopped fighting amone; yourselves and went out to fight the bandits the Magistrate told Saminathan and Sellathurai when he fined each of them $5 in the Police Court today for attaulMnf Syed All. The
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    Detainees to get help
    112 5 Detainees to get help F.P. Malay Correspondent M ALAYiS and othei IfUi IBM A detained under ihe Emergency Regulations are to receive help under a plan now being considered by the Singapore Malay Welfare Council. This was ciecicied at the general meeting of the Council in Onan Road on Saturday.
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    WRONG PARKING
    30 5 Johore Bahru Sun Wee Thye Foo. of Kota Tinggi. was fined $10 In the Police Court tor parking his car within 20 feet of an unguarded road junction.
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    NEW 80-FT. ROAD FOR SINGAPORE
    209 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ill \NS by the Singapore firm of Credit Fourier tti build an 80- ft. widt roa t reserve leading from Changi Road to East 1 oast Road haAe Ven approved bv the Improvement Trust. The load which will take the place
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    NEW C.I.D. OFFICE
    21 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. A permanent c.I.D office is »to be built ai Segamr.t at a cost of $32,000.
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    No more wild goose chases
    223 5 No more wild goose chases Free Press SLtfl Reporter TO protect the Singapore Municipal Architects; Department from being sent by the public on what might prove to be a wild m>ose chase, a committee of Municipal Commissioners has agreed that the Building Bylaws should be amended to permit of a
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    5,500 more mouths
    62 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WITH 7.452 registered births against 1.916 deaths. Singapore's population rose l>y more than r >,500 in the first two months of this year, according to latest official staBiggest increase was among the Chinese; 5.726 were born and 1,398 died. Next came the Malays
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    59 5 THE Johorp Postal Club held a farewell dinner party in honour of Mr. R. C. Edyvean. Controller of Posts .lohore. before he left for Britain on leave. Seated (from right) Inche Ma h mood bin Mahdan. Haji Latift hin Amar Inche Aishah blnte Kadir. Mr. V. L. Smith, successor to
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    JOO CHIAT GETS ITS OWN CO-OP
    194 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Co-operative Stores Society opened a new branch stoie it No. 171 ,!oo Chiat Road yesterday. This is the first shop house owned by any co-operative store in Mat.iva. Mr. C. M. Soosai. Co-operative Officer, who declared the branch
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    Commissioner to look into textiles charge
    225 5 Commissioner to look into textiles charge Free Press Staff Keportei THE United Kingdom Trade Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. K. E. M -tcKenzie. is inwstigatinj; charges of deterioration of the quality of British manufactured tt xtiles imported into Mala>.i Mr. MacKenzie said to th.: Free Press yesten that during the past
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    RICE RATION
    34 5 The iwo Malayan Governments are to step out ol the rice trade in May. except as bulk buyers of Siamese ru-e The rice market v.ill hen be completely freed and rationing dropped
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    Grand fun at the Rep
    173 5 r\ESriTE evidence oi been unciei eho:-< Bed. j "Charleys Aunt", the Singoporc Repe: esi production, vas ur; fun v hen 'it opened on Batu I" *ill be even funnier when the players have warmed to their work- and warm work H The evening WMM Phil
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    66 HOLY YEAR PILGRIMS
    150 5 66 HOLY YEAR PILGRIMS Free Pre»s Mali K»-p«»rl«*r SIXTY-SIX Ruir.;:h CadlOlfct, Including 18 from B and Macao, will leav ajx>re by the Suriento on May 23 foi Um pilgrin to Italy which has been ranged by thr Singapore man Catholic Committpp of the Holy Year The pilgrims will b° I
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    MAILS
    22 5 c rfacc f •>dH!l Hot: iwak *>* Federattoft. latent times ;<n i II H the G F.O todl Tfi>"iip.--ip:iiceis ni.i\ 1 Tut
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    FOUR O'CLOCK A 'DERBY' PROSPECT
    540 6 FOUR O'CLOCK A 'DERBY' PROSPECT Indian Heather also pleases Hy ALLAN LEWIS TWO sound trials by Indian Hrather and Four (VClo<k 11, in preparation for their engagements for the "Prrak Derby", tj be decided on the last dav of the meeting, were the main features of the opening day of
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    Pat's Fancy a most promising stayer
    534 6 rilK IVrak .i>c, L)n. "B 1 the fiiM i;uc t«» h«- run under weight for-agt c«»nuition- in Malaga went t 0 Pat's Fancy. Fat s I ancy had won over 9 f ;it Kuala Lumpur. irrwng "1?. she defeated Antic Lord, who went on
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    Upset, fall in 1st race
    602 6 RACING opened sensationally on Saturday dl and an up in V: tor horses 2 Div 3 over six fur Athlett- was igly installed rourite, and he flattered his supporters at any stage of th- race. berty Flag, h i hii firs* intry, y i xit'ndfd
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    WOMEN'S SWIM RECORD GOES
    55 6 r VHK women's world record for tho 2(K) meires backte wma Improved ysterir.iy by Geertje WlekSßt who. Hiiv.-rsum, returnee! a B Of 2 mins 35 3 sees The world record a! present on the books is 2 nuns. 38 8 by Cor Kint, another Dutch swimmer,
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    WEIGHTS FOR SECOND DAY
    209 6 WEIGHTS for ail eifht racr* on Sa: for one race on the last day Monc irriven below CL. I. DIT. I—4 F»n. CL. t. DfV I— C fwrt. lit K^*^ »M 23- §Sfl asc£ a Grey Blmbb o««mrt«*lr« UN k KiBX Arth.r M B*rth*«y Gift t«
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    CEYLON S.C. AND GHQ DRAW
    56 6 DRAWN game oi l the Gil Q. ground and G.H Q. 150 run* tor eiglU I s:ngam was I h scorer. 31. Cooper Key I best of the GHQ bowlcn v.ith vlckeU U 3 la reply. GHQ c 13U for -»v. n top-scorer with 43
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    NO REGRETS MAY COMPLETE A DOUBLE
    170 7 NO REGRETS MAY COMPLETE A DOUBLE This morning's track work iakpitl J: ro1 A| l-AN LEWIS [)t>i lib his stiff impost <,f •>.!:}, x 0 R egrets av s to J: e Saturday, second dav of the Perak Turf Club iWIn" meeting. This horse is i n peak form. With
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    30 7 pt.llll Of R i i Kidrr> p.tturrd aftrr mile i lr road rif lull. >\>'rrd the -.»od lime hi mix told thr th.it mprtteg in ts «»f the \II-Round-lompeti- :::.> veiir.
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    IRISH LEAGUE RESULTS
    6 7 IRISH LEAGUE RESULTS I 4 G.--
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    1956 Olympic Games site decided
    181 7 1956 Olympic Games site decided I'HE organising committee for the 1956 Olympic met, to be held in Melbourne, have unanimously decided to recommend that the Melbourne cricket ground shall be the main arena, subject to certain conditions. The committee chairman, Sir Frank Beaurepaire. who announced this, added lhat December 1956
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    Ewe Leong wins triple honours
    251 7 I HonV, Fur l.eonjj. former junior badminton impion of Penang. won triple honours in the French international championships in Paris \estf re .va\s of the men's singles the Malayans were successful beat Ron- I e :.i deIcfad he 5-9 15-7 and EW. Barker eliminated D
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    S.C.C. NETBALL
    12 7 CINGAPORE rv.tr. r.rtba.: team pracuces tomonv* and on ds v
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    Soars wins 30-m. race
    168 7 STARTING bt| final sprint, one hundred yards out and Jumpinc to a quick threelength lead. Garth Soars, captain of theSelangor Rough Riders Cycling team, won the 30-mile massed start cycle road race held on Lim Chu Kang Road yesterday. He did the distance in the good
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    LONDON ROWING CLUB WIN
    60 7 I ON DON Rowinf Club won tbi i head of the rher race for the I2:h 'ime on the ruer I'hame.« on Saturday w imf of 18 mms. 52 «ec? Ladv Marji^nr' Cambr v ere second in 18 m:ns. 57 rt nd Je«M College idmbridge* and
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    Triple Crown winners
    115 7 THE Welsh rugby sidr which won the triple crown heating England. Ireland and Scotland and also accounted for France at Arms Park. Cardiff, on March 25. taking the international championship. Back row. left to right: < Mr. I. Jones. G. D. Robins > (Birkenhead Park>: Don J
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    Breaks one more record
    209 7 JOHN Marshall, the 20-year-J old Australian Olympic swimmer now at Yale U: sity. shattered the wo: id swimmhi" record for 440 yards fr f ee-style by over seven seconds on Saturday night to complete the greatest individual triumph in the history of the National Amateur Athletic
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    R.E.M.E. AVERT DEFEAT
    70 7 R.E.M.E. AVERT DEFEA T JOHORE BAHRL'. M. RE.M.E. 'Singaporre) suc- ceded in playing out time yesterday, thus averting defeat by Johore C.C. in a friendly game of cricket in Johore Bahru. JCC. declared at 162 foi nine. <J. Harrison 50' R.E.M.E.. after a shaky start, pulled the game round after
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    SIDWELL TO PLAY HERE
    58 7 SIDWELL TO PL A Y HERE BILL SIDWELL. Geoff Browns, partner for the doubles at j Wimbledon this year will arrive in Singapore from Sydney bv Qanta« tomorrow. An exhibition will b<" ananged i Singapore tennis fans at the Singapore Cricket Club courts on either Wednesday or Thur*l*y. Seats will
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    15 7 ENGLAND on Saturriav beat Holland one- nil in a women*! hockev international ai Nottingham- A.P.
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    LATEST U.K. SOCCER LEAGUE TABLES
    902 7 11 K fooiiool <6 lb 13 1 5, 42 4* Si 8 i 3?»SSSS sgissgss Dercy Co. Ml* J« S Cre'-c* J5 12 13 10 M 3 !1 aVUU «liJOI3 46 51 4 d n; M 10 13 Jj 3^ 40 33 B C it,
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    Scoring feats in U.K. rugby
    394 7 intei-club Rugby Vnion matches produced some excellent individual scoring performances. For London Scottish at Richmond, L. Bruce Lockhart, the Scotland stand-off half, obtained 12 points in a 21-14 win over Bath, kicking two penalty goals and converting three tries. Bath, who have not won away
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    British army XV beaten
    145 7 'pHE British Army team, 1 this season's inter- Berried rugby champions, went down for the second year in succession to the French i Army, who at Twickenham won by 12 points to eight on Saturday The Frencnmen played a fast but cool game throughout and to
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    H.K. TEAM WIN
    32 7 The visiting Hong Kong Collegians last evening beat La SaDe College by three goals k o m! a* Manila, thus maintaining their 'unbeaten record for (heir loeaJ series. Reuter
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    An example of bad sportsmanship
    308 7 CA. v. CASUALS PRACTICALLY all the 1.000 fan* and twent>-two players at .lalan Besar stadium yesterd a> were ready for a free-for all It *as sportsmanship at its worst and the result of the .natch a 2 l victor> for the Chinese Athletic over the
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    Ratnayake shines with bat and ball
    523 7 Ratnayake shines with bat and ball LIKiHLIGHT of Ihe HCMMi week s Singapore Cricket Association tournament niaUh<*> wertthe remarkable performance of Ratnaxake. who knocked up 89 runs and tn»k four wickets for 31 runs for .'oloni'ils against K A.F hanjji at Changi yesterday. The only outright victory in the senior
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    SPAIN BEAT PORTUGAL
    68 7 <pain tot p, rtagal b\ goals to one u. iheir V. Cup soccer match in M. yesterday ifti 3—l •a- h;-. There tion at the result ai are hopeful of dm«ta| w:nn:ng. the return en, ter in Lisbon n^\: Bund The I id for the oppo- ;-.i
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    Rawalpindi game drawn
    56 7 \SL'RPRISL lai decision a:t«-; |1 had beer. mmde known that the Match abandoned b*-cauj>r- i I late of the wk Ceylon v Pakistan Oommander-. tt'§ XI cricket ::iued ftl K pindi after Lei Th* 1 match e. lon did DO! «\;ntinut ;nn:ng^ home >:de ba^t^d :*.»r 45
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    Leopold to return this month?
    127 8 Leopold to return this month? BRUSSELS. MOfl "THE Social Christian Parly plans to return Kin«4 Leopold to the throne within next- three weeks, it us learned here malton of a one-p mn dedicated lo th< K.ny s return n sourr •iew c*-> •men: a i for a traditional onfldenre followed
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    LARGE RED INVASION BID SMASHED
    281 8 Hainan army reinforced HONG KONG, Monday. NATIONALIST claims of a new big victory over invading Communist forces who attempted to )<ind in Hainan on Saturday have been followed by Chinese dispatches saying that big-scale Nationalist reinforcements are due to reach Hainan from Formosa. The reinforcements,
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    91 8 picture. Among those who received their awards, made in the Kins's Birthday Honours, at a ceremony held at Government Houv on Saturday were (from leftc Mr. Thomas Heppell. 0.8.E who has since the liberation been concerned with labour relations and welfare matters in the Singapore Harbour Board; Miss Matilda Antoinette
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    DRUG-CONFESSIONS BAN CALL IN U.N.
    163 8 i.AKF sic i5l Meniij THE Inited Nations (ammission on Human Rights I with the Soviet bloc delegation absrnt. yesterday unanimously adopted artid-s outlawing torture *nd "cruelty, inhuman or dc'radiug treatment The Commission also discussed broadening the article to prohibit Uie n« ol drugs to obtain
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    Wedding march
    21 8 v young v .-d ihese da\ I The son is that maniec are exempt f:<mi I Dlilit A. P.
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    Dope libel damages
    74 8 A FRENCH soccer club was awarded 150.000 francs (L.5.5430) damages at DiMM for being accused of serving "bromide soup" to a rival team. Three newspapers that made the accusation are to pay 50.000 francs each. The "soup" w:is reported to have been served to a team of
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    GUBITCHEV IS WHISKED AWAY
    54 8 vaunt tin GUBCTCHEV, Russian emplovee of the >na who was dei from America after rvreiving a sentence of 15 imprisonment for rspionagf arrived at Gdynia yesterday He was taken to an unknown destination No sp«>~Lators \v°re allowed 11 dock at the Polish Dor when his ship
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    JAP, SWEDEN TRADE
    20 8 Japan and Sweden have :ied a new trade agreement for goods valnprf *t. ti q {$18,450,000. A.P.
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    'Pox outbreak: 200 hospitals isolated
    210 8 GLASGOW, Monday. pVO HUNDREDS hospitals over elffht counties of Western Scotland have been barred to all visitors as doctors marshal foices to combat an outbreak of the dreaded "Eastern smallpox". The death of a 25-year-uM woman doctor. Janet Fleming, on Saturday sparked an all-out drive
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    NEW GUINEA: REPORTTOU.N.
    147 8 JAKXRTA, Monday. 4 JOINT Indonesian-Dutch Commission is to report to the United Nations on the future of Dutch New Guinea, described bv the Indonesian Prime Minister, Dr. Hatta, as the only issue causing friction between the two cou:it-ies. The Commission, lo prepare for final discussions on the
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    The betting Britons
    62 8 LONDON. Mon. BRITONS .spent almost V1 50.000.000 betting on footh.ill pool s in 1949 an average of about VII for every man. woman and child. Mr. Douglas Jay. Financial Secretary to the British Treasury, said the (iovermnent had collected UlSiKiu: in taxes on pools last year. This
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    No dance girls for Chris?
    102 8 LOS ANGELES, lion CHRIS J arias may not |el those Egyptian dan girls after all Janus. 39. a Chicago Importer, t"'.d reporter! that aunt is contesting the will under which his uncle left him one-third ol his estate. Uncle, was a wealthy WtfP" lon plantar.
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    JORDAN ASKS FOR A PORT
    74 8 Jordan's declsl >n t<> the other six Arab I who voted to xpti from the Arab anv member it which signs a separate peace with Israel has aroused ronsiderable speculation In Cairo. KiriK Abdullah is said to "Insist" on having a p«>r* the Mediterranean, possibly
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    VINEGAR MAKES SALADS SAFE
    259 8 NEW ORI EANS Monday. I'^OMMON Vinegar will kill in 10 or 15 minutes the tough organism lhat causes amediasis- a form of dysentery, report two tropical medicine researchers. Dr. Paul C. Beave.* and Dr Guillermo Deschamps. This discovery is important because contaminated green vegetables are one
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    CLOUDS HID ECLIPSE
    53 8 ntl a) I ondoa had a perv.ew of the I :ii s irlipf of moon, but right mmut'-s lai» c the moon had di red behind cloud. A piled vip mass of hid the rest of the edlp the Royal Observatory Oreei Ich out its plan to
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    U.S. FACES CRISIS IN GERMANY
    240 8 U.S. FACES CRISIS IN GERMANY WASHINGTON Monday RUSSIA has stepped up its pivvsui.- v forces in Germany to a point m I crisis" seems almost inevitable the I v missioner, Mr. John J McCh\. irarned a testimony made public \esterda\ Th< i High Commissioner for c closed door ses.sicn of
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