The Singapore Free Press, 6 April 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 17.749 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    KILLEARN URGES 'REAL' SUPREMO
    627 1 Position now much worse LONDON, Thursday. J)ECLARING that the bandit terrorist situation m Malaya is "worse today than it has ever been*' Lord Killearn last night urged the appointment of *'a sort of Supremo" to take complete control of the campaign against the Red guerillas. There
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    40 DAYS R.I. FOR 'TURKO'
    81 1 40 DAYS R.I. FOR 'TURKO' M:\ff Reporter j- Westerling I Singapore District Court I to 40 3 imprisondting an Haris Porkas. Iron P Feb- .res toy, ea -rung nth for m co he was ..:r i nt had is I ;a:d to pay for the intt to iay ;hat. if
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    SALUTE TO 'LION CITY'
    21 1 SALUTE TO 'LION CITY' tic Lion Mi T. I -esident ayor. is m re's contra C mmans robi Is grateColony's rood
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    34 ARRESTS
    13 1 M itf Reporter he Emer- Johore a rfl 5 ac In-
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    AGENTS SEUZED
    6 1 M.tfY Krporter arrested merits
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    'RED DEVIL' LED REVOLT
    227 1 JAKARTA, Thursday. LOYAL Indonesian troops yesterday put down the 1 revolt m Macassar (Celebes) after a *un battle m the centre of the city. Revolting East Indonesian soldiers were forced to return to their barracks. About 2,000 pro-Dutch Federalist troops, former members of th e Dutch
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    US FOOD FOR CHINA
    37 1 The US Government is considering the possibility of sending uriea: and rice to relieve famine on the Com-munist-held Chinese mainland, the Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Ach ocnn announc- I ed yesterday. Reuter
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    She picked wrong car
    60 1 She picked wrong car MKI.BOIRNF Thurs. A WOMAN stood m the centre of a Melbourne Street durin? the tram strike wavin? her arms and forcing cars to stop. The first nv e Ignored her request for a lift home but the sixth stopped and obliged. It was a police car
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    BROOKE BAN WILL STAY, —GRIFFITHS
    116 1 LONDON, Than. r rHE Colonial Secretary. Mr. 1 James Griffiths, declined m the House of Commons yesterday to reconsider the Government's decision not to allow Mr. Anthony Brooke, nephew of the last White Rajah of Sarawak, to return to Sarawak. Mr. William Teeling, Conservative, had
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    R.A.F. men on ground 'ops'
    103 1 94 and 95 squadrons of the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya > have been engaged m ground operations against the bandits for the past month, it is revealed m a RAF. communique. The biggest air strike last month, rt adds, was on March 27 m the Bahau
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    FERRY SINKS
    23 1 Many people were teamd drownrd when a ferry boat with 70 people on board, sank m the Douro River m Portugal.
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    95 1 Mr. John Thurman. (centre) the Commonwealth Boys Scout Camp Chief, who stopped overnight m Singapore yesterday on his way to England from Australia. With him are. from the left Mr. Michael Chong. Col.Godfrey-Faussel. Canon R.K.S. Adams, and Mr. N. Scharenguival. Mr. Thurman attended a tamp fire at Raffles Institution last
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    NO U.S. MOVE YET ON JAP PEACE TREATY
    58 1 LONDON. Thurs. •fHE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Kenneth Younger, told Parliament yesterday that America had not undertaken to submit a draft for a peace treaty with Japan. Mr. Younger added that America had made no proposals to Britain on
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    Red plane near Formosa
    58 1 HONG KONG. Thurs. a CHINESE Communist J\ plane was sighted over the Formosa Strait early on Tuesday the Nationalist Central News Agency reports. The plane, presumed to have been on a scouting mission, b~rf the Red nve-star insignia. Wh i. by a commercial al ci th«
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    BANDIT KILLED IN CLASH
    40 1 CECURITY forces operating In the Sungei Siput area yesterday morning encountered live bandits who opened fire on them. One constable was wounded m the chest and a military other rank was killed. One bandit was killed.
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    ROBBED OF $100
    20 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Malay special constable was robbed of $100 by bandits at Ipoh yesterday.
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    400 Reds killed in Vietnam battle
    170 1 SAIGON, Thursday. THE French High Command claimed yesterday that Vietminh Communist forces lost at least 400 killed and many wounded m their offensive m Travinh province, 100 miles south of Saigon. All French communicationv have been restored and all French military posts were again
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    EASTER HOLIDAY
    29 1 The Singapore Free Press and the Straits Times will not appear t o m o r r o w— Good Friday. Publication will be resumed on Saturday.
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    Specials fire at lights
    39 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Early this morning, special constables on duty at the manager's bungalow at Elaies Estate Segamat district, fired at lights near the perimeter fence The lights disappeared. Following investigations, nothing was found.
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    30-YEAR JOB
    31 1 The Japanese Governments Mai it ime Safety Board yesterday revcaicd mat it would UKf about 30 years to clear out all mires f c.itimr m seas around Japan. Reuter
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    EX-P.M. LOSES HIS PROPERTY
    51 1 INDIA'S Custodian of Evacuee Properties has taken over property worth £225,000 belonging to Mir Laik Ali. former Prime Minister of Hyderabad State, who escaped to Pakistan last month. «,,i«. The Deputy Prime Minister Mr Sardar Patel disclosed this m Parliament yesterday m reply to a question.
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    KASHMIR DISPITE
    36 1 The Four Power Committee of the U.N. Security Council will place the nomination of Sir Owen Dixon of Australia before the Security Council next week as Kashmir mediator if India and Pakistan agree. A.P.
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    FORCED LANDING
    32 1 A big Mars flying boa; exploded and burned after a forced landing off Pearl Harbour yesterday. All seven of the cr^w aboard Tor a test flight escaped on life rafts-
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    H.K. reservoirs drying
    72 1 HONG Kong, where the water supply is already closed for ten hours a day. may soon enforce watrr rationing the Government warned yesterday. An R.A.I". plane yesterday dropped leaflets over the city listing conservation measures and warning against "criminal waste during this acute shortage. Waterworks engineers estimate
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    NEW DENIAL BY MISS FOSS
    203 1 RAWSON, CHINN AT INTERVIEW Free Press Staff Reporter LONDON. Thursday. MISS Josephine Foss, interviewed at the Colonial Office m the presence of Dr. H. Rawson, Chief Welfare Officer of the Federation, and Mr. W. Chirm, adviser on social welfare at the olonial Otlice yesterday emphatically
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    Briggs to plan attacks—but 'no command'
    443 1 Briggs to plan attacks but 'no command' LONDON, Thursday. £IR Harold Briggs, newly-appointed Director of v^ Operations against the bandits m Malaya, will br responsible for preparing general plans for off ens ?e action and allocating tasks 'o the security forces, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Jam-s Griffiths, told parliament yesterday.
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    Griffiths on grenades in Singapore
    140 1 Griffiths on grenades in Singapore LONDON. ThU MR. Walter Fletcher (Coon asked m the Com:: last nigtit what was bein^ done to aea] with the n»-w ious Communist attempts a f wreckage I Singapore." Mr. Griffiths lvpiied that he was aware that, m p weeks, a few hand grenad* a
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    Plenty petrol
    20 1 Australia, which recently lilted petrol rationing, has refused 30.000.006 gallons of sterling petrol because of plentiful supplies- Reuter
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    SUB SCRAPPED
    21 1 The submarine True sunk m the Thames E^ 1 with a loss of 64 lives, will be scrapped A.P.
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    A Genius—But He Was Hated
    841 2 A Genius— But He Was Hated ROBERT OTTAWAY ON BOOKS "I'LL do my life work, sticking up foi the love between man and woman.* 1 So wit>tc D. H. Lawrence. And this determination brought him up :uainst th e invincible guardians of public ala, Hi* books were :od. he was
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    IN BRIEF
    614 2 Book-t i>llectin£. Percj H In ni:> second jlume on booic- ±> H. Muir coutn.ues ..de him further along wier the first x..tstcnes tnCB passed. Book Ot Pro«e Selections, -Id. Heinemann. Poet Laureate here makes tfton of what he conis ;he best of his work m .Married To Charles,
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    WORLD HOMAGE FOR TWO BRITONS
    590 2 WORLD HOMAGE FOR TWO BRITONS This, month visitors from all parts of the world will tend Ui r Shakespeare's Birthday Festival at Stratford-on-Avon and the Wordsworth centenary m the Lak<> District /\N April 23rd Britain honours two of her greatest sons two men who have enriched the world beyond all
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    180 2 BORN today, you have tremendous talents, but must fuard against spreading them too thin. Your best success will come through careful specialization m one, definite field. Leave yoi"- v interests lor after hours! An artistic temperament accompanies your artistic talents. See that it does not become ovenlem.indiiig
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    They Still Ask For Sherlock Holmes
    388 2  -  Mr. Cf Mrs. Conan Doyle Jr. —Marcel Wallenstein meets THE eldest surviving son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle still gives some of his time to the subject of communication between the world of the living and the dead He is Denis Conan Doyle, who
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    Red Means Danger
    18 2 Red Means Danger Ml M NX.HI Ml* By In' M I i It Par one found ren and
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      185 2 New Crossword No. 15 am across i i_ BagS i and ba s of leit?rs (5) 4 Eastern lady of Utle. apt to De sticky (5). 7. In the mouth of the newly born child of m t^ 31 60^ (6> M 8 Wh re to Justice m the shire?
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    S'HAI HAS BEEN BADLY CRIPPLED
    199 3 Will need years to recover iwSa^' s^^'ir^ m the quarterly review ofShanßhli Th'™ Englneers a Communists. The magazine, commenting on industrial conditions, said a number of factories have ™,K d n to i lose down P artl y or SJPJ J because of economic conditions.
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    The Dutch are satisfied
    41 3 IPHOL. Thurs. RE of tre first conference, Jakarta last even more .\n that nj •nces, Mr. f\ en. Nether- Union and Id on his reiay fessor Pieter inee Mid with him. .srU'd ••^sults of the con- A.P.
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    BATTLE IN KOREA
    11 3 progress m sector of Army ed 600 U.P.
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    JEWS REPAID FOR LOSSES
    149 3 JEWS REPAID FOR LOSSES FRANKFURT. Thursday. DO petitions have been filed for the iiirn tl property seized by the Nazis m what is l nited States zone af Germany. rea were mainly from Jews settled ol them for so long that until their 51 uted they had always regarded them—and
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    BABOONS ON THE LINE
    42 3 Kunning a telephone system in Bahrel Ghazal. remote part of Africa, has its little problems Grass fires melt the wires on a new line. Baboons have been stealing the butterfly nuts securing Insulator arm' to the poles. A.P.
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    RUBBER GROWERS' MEETING
    144 3 LONDON. Thtirt. 'pHE general meet- be Rubber Orowen Association was heid here lav I Iday. The Chairman. Char.es Mann after dealing with thp dangers arising frum Communism said thai production of natural rubber last year amounted to 1.483,000 tons and consumption 1.876,000, of Which 1,427.000 were natural
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    JAIL FOR LIFE —'SATISFIED'
    63 3 JAIL FOR LIFE 'SATISFIED' THE Sofia district court has now found 20 Bulgarians and six Yugoslavs guilty, of espionage and plotting subversive activities on behalf of Marshal Tito. The two principal defendant* were sentenced to life imprisonment. The others received terms from 15 years to two months. All 26 defendants
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    WHAT'S ON IN K.L.
    112 3 BEX: Bagdad. PAVILION. The Great Lover. ODEON: Thai Midnight Kiss. COLISEUM: Dick Tracy Returns. MADRAS: Flash Gordon. CATHAY: Mala ihe Mighty Hindi). CENTRAL: Ufa BIND V STAN: Gajre. VEM s The Sea Hawk. PENANG REX Hie Inspector GemvaJ ODEON: Reap The Wild Wind C\TH\V: A Strange
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    29 3 The Vickers Viscount, thp world's first turbo prop airliner, photographed as it was taking off from Northolt airport on a demonstration tour of Amsterdam. Brussels. Zurich. Rome, and Paris.
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    PAT. (JAP)
    21 3 The British Government will again permit Japanese to register patents, designs and trade marks m the United Kingdom. Reuter
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    May vaccinate all W. Scotland
    91 3 GLASGOW. Wed. ROYAL Air Force planes tit w over 300.000 units oi smallpox vaccine to Glasgow yesterday to help build up stock for possible mass immunisation m Western Scotland. a cargo ship, the 9.500 ton ion, bound for Philadelphia has turned round m mtd-Atl intic,
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    W. GERMANY'S NEW ROLE
    48 3 ly^* t-KN uermany Is among seven nations elected to the Executive Committee of the European Organization for Economic Co-operation. This is the first time that she has been welcomed to the leadership of an intern' I s 1 101 body since the war. U.P.
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    Pans smartens up for 2,000th birthday
    240 3 PARIS, Thursday. I>AKIS is to bp smartened up m honour of her 2,000 th birthday next year. One of the main tasks will be replacing most of the 140 bronze monuments, representing the city's total, which were melted down by the German occupation troops.
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    NEW GLASS HEATS AIR
    249 3 CORNING, NEW YORK, Thursday. i NEW glass is a transparent stove that heats air 1 or boils water for coffee. All you do is push a switch to feed electric current into the glass. The glass nas a transparent skin that conducts electricity, but resists enough
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    Bridge Hands
    423 3 North-Souta vulnerable. South dealer. NORTH 4 8 2 9Q t 4 OQn MH WEST EAST 4 K J 7 6 4 4 10 <v> K 10 8 I 2 OJ642 0*87 J7 ***** SOUTH 4AQIII <? A 0 A K 10 4 at Q 10 I The bidding:
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    Children see circus lion kill trainer
    308 3 Children see circus lion kill trainer I lON-TAMER SWAMI, at tne end of his circus act J at Evesham, Worcestershire, took his eye off Leo for five seconds. The slip cost him his life. Hundreds of children were watching. Swami cracked his whip for Sheila and Rita, the lionesses, to
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    Guerillas raid Canton area
    43 3 The Formosa Defence Ministry said yesterday that a lightning column" of antiCommunflt guerillas had raided the suburbs of Canton. They killed 27 Communist soldiers, destroyed several bridges on the Canton-Hong Kong railroad a"H wrprkprf a railway station. A. P.
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    SIAM KING TO MARRY APRIL 28
    124 3 BANGKOK, Thurt KING Phumiphon Aduldet will marry Princess Sirikn Kitiayakara m a civil ceremoney on April 28, climaxing a romance, which began while they were studying m Switzerland. The Royal Household Bureau disclosed that the wedding will take place m Srapathum Palace of ttM
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    Bridges found guilty
    85 3 SAN FRANCISCO Thun. HARRY BtMcm i «traJ born leader < 7S>ofl longshoremen, was coi yes i perjury rod c spiracy foi not. and neve a Commu!;. A jury of eight men women lound Bridges gu: a stormy trial I ur months Th^ liberated for 31 b The
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    Account settled
    24 3 Twenty-four Japaihad been tried and convicted by Netherlands military commissions were released from Tokio prison on com plr-tion of u sentences U.P.
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      409 3 SINGAPORE 4.47 From the London Editorials" Coffee Hour Favourites. 11 Master (BLUE NETWORK) tBBC»; 4.55 "Composer of the Pianist— Friedman; 11.15 Variety 484 and 41.7 metres. Week"- Grieg- 5.15 "Balance of Billboard; 1.30 News Bulletin; 4 Emergency news from X.1,. Emope (BBC) 3() Having a Albert Sandier oiolin>; 430 Nev.s
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY Apr. 6. 1950 IT'S YOU THEY CARE ABOUT
    558 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY Apr. 6. 1950 IT' S YOU THEY CARE ABOUT r^':OßßO\v ci yd Fri- 1 1 v y tAc-ryone knows that. Bi lev. people indeed ise thar Friday April the 8c »-eiuh is also World Ik tlth Day HealUi Day has been] arranged by an organ
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    Why Australia Wants a Pacific Pact
    922 4  - Why Australia Wants a Pacific Pact EDWARD BISHOP man who had thrust \|Y Australian friend Stan hangs his majors uniform m the office. I'm sorry, but I cannot reveal the surname of this Australian Patriot. Stan, you see, is an intelligence officer, and while he spends much of his spare
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    Jim Crow splits the U.S.
    399 4 Jim Crow splits the U.S. I>ECAUSE their skins "are black, ten Ame-i cans In every hundred may not go into most of their country's restaurants, however hungry they may be. In trains travelling through certain States they must sit m separate a race apart. They are barred from some universities
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    THE ROMANS HAD A CURE FOR IT
    337 4 THE ROMANS HAD A CURE FOR IT Letters To The Editor IVITH reference to the article headed 'Vinegar makes salads safe," m your newspaper, reporting the discovery made m New Orleans recently (that vinegar will kill one type of dysentery germ) th e following extract from Marshal Saxe's 'My Reveries
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    UNDERPAID CLERKS
    187 4 riROM tne recent press announcement I am glad to note that the Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers* Union is studying the problem of Indebtedness of mercantile clerks, but I believe that very little can be achieved if commercial employers do not co-oparate with a representative body. The principal
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    It Seems To Me...
    651 4  -  POLITICO By yyoRK for works s:ikc is i doctrine horn m temperate /ones where man has if) struggle for liis livelihood. Jt has nevef found ready accept* ance m these more favoured parts of the vn\ ih where man < ;*u IQei ;m easy li\ mg
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    BANDIT FIGHTER MAY NOT LOSE FLAT
    335 5 BANDIT FIGHTER MAY NOT LOSE FLAT S.I.T. committee to review case imu xt F Jn ee Press staff Reporter VI K. Ng Tong Nam, the Singapore banditngntar who has beep asked to quit his dead atner s Improvement Trust flat m Tiong Bahru toad, may not have to do so.
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    POOL IS THEIRS 2 HOURS A WEEK
    136 5 I Press Stiff Reporter v N wimming 000 l will be reserved for ■9C of schoolchildren on Tuesdays I 4"> p.m. They will each pay an tfn cents. I Singapore Municipal Commis- a application by the Deputy asking for the free use of
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    'Spying from ditches' is criticised
    225 5 Free Press SUIT Reporter POLICEMEN could be much better employed on applying the Emergency Regulations than "spying from ditches to catch speedsters," said Mr. Sandy G Piilay. acting chairman at the annual meeting of the Singapore branch of the A. A.M. yetterday. Mr. Piilay .said
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    YOUTH OFFICERS
    62 5 Mr. L Rayner was elected president of the Singapore Youth Council at its annual general meetlne on Tuesday night Other 1950 officers are: vice-presidents. Messrs. G. V. Santhou and A. M. Chc-rlaii; hon. secretary, Mr. Charles MacCorm ack Committee Mr Pan* Ah Leong. Miss M. Pereira, Mr. M.
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    R.A.F. hits bandits
    131 5 picture. CONTINUING the offensive against bandits, the R.A.F. bases m Singapore and the Federation last month carried out 30 air strikes involving 133 sorties, and dropped mow than 250,§00 lbs. of supplies, it is officKjly announced. The total amount 01 supplies dropped Dy RAF. Dakota* since the
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    Passport rules bypassed
    109 5 Free Press SUIT Reporter MACAO is now a pof"t of call for the American President liner General Gordon on route Hong Kong from Manila for the purpose ol discharging and embarking passengers going to and coming: from the interior o! China The Disirict Passenger Agent of the
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    Campaign to fight mass illiteracy
    215 5 Campaign to fight mass illiteracy A CAMPAIGN to fight mass illiteracy m Singapore on a large scale is being planned by the Peoples' Educational Association. This was announced by Dr. D.J. Price, of the University of Malaya, when he spoke for the P.E.A. last night on 'Mass Literacy Campaigns" at
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    MAILS
    71 5 Surface mail is expected m Singapore t<x!ay from 3outh Finite, North Borneo. Labi: an. Brunei, Marl and the Federation. Latest times for posting :urfice mail today at the G.P.O. are. neon for Japan and Slam (parcels) only>; S p.m. for Egypt. Ceylon, Gnat Britain, N. Ireland. Eire. Europe. North
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    NEW COLONY J.P.'S
    41 5 The following have been appointed Justices of the Peacr for the Colony of Singapore: Mr. T. J. L. Leijisslus. Mr. Yong Yit Lin Mr. Jee Ah Chlan. Mr. C. W. Warren. Mr Nonce Sen and Mrs. M. Lobo.
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    Youth Council seeks Government grant
    196 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T»HE Singapore Youth Council is to ask the Govern- ment for an annual to enable it to employ a full-time paid officer to help with the secretarial work of the Council. This was decided at an annual general meeting of the
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    20 suitors seek hand of bullied woman
    399 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Hj/J. W. S. Woon, head of the Singapore Social Welfare Department's Public Assistance Section, is a very Itarassed man. More than 20 vien from all over Malya have inundated him with requests for the hand of the 40-year-old Chinese
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    TRAINING CENTRES FOR ASIANS
    201 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T'HE Governments of Australia and New Zealand hate asrreed to make their countries medical training centres for students from under-developed Asian countries. Dr. Brock Chisholm. Director General of the World Health Organisation, said m Singapore He said that students at these centres
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    TEMPORARIES TO SIT FOR NEW EXAM
    163 5 INSTEAD of a second cha. to Ml lor a special examination the non-qualified temporary clerks of the Singapore Municipality who failed a qualifying examination Id September last will be permitted to sit for the Clerical Division x scale b^: xamination at $00 Non Qualified
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    HAWKERS FINED
    24 5 MUAR. Wed. Yean X: Tsai and Ng Tong Kee, mtoa were found hawking In prohibited areas at Muar m each fined $5.
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    9.13 WILL NOT STOP NO REGRETS
    556 6  - 9.13 WILL NOT STOP NO REGRETS ALLAN LEWIS Prospects for 2nd day s races B> T O Regrets should add to his imposing list of successes if started on Saturday, the second day of the Perak Turf Club's Easter meeting. Marinus Van Breukelen has a strong second string m Greybloom
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    'I'm tired of waiting,' says Solomons
    277 6 I X Solomons tile I-ondon pro«mott'r, will make application for the European bantamweight title fi^ht between Luis Romero (Sjain), the holder, and Danny O'Sullivan. British champion, at Harrlngmjf on April 25, to b t recognised as for the world title if Manuel Ortiz does
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    Rubber futures boom in N.Y.
    72 6 NEW YORK CjTOCKS Advanced n 1 .mo on the New V :k Exchange jresterday b of 1,400.000 kble dallj Umll ol ti ■r s i {Humd. Kutj^-r bu I for the past th: I .mrt nld U dv»» to i supplle both hCK and .i!j:
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    All-India rowing regatta opens
    102 6 r |"HE first post-war All-India towing regatta started at Madras yesterday with three preliminary' heats of the 1.000 yards event. Bight boat clubs one from Colombo. four from Calcutta from Bombay, one from Madras and one from Karachi entered fir the ihe finals of which will
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    10 6 LONDON TIN PRICES HUM and I three and £584 I*l'
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    BABA BEST BET OF THE DAY
    506 6 BABA iJ I the In the Saturday. h.iv. jnd ran for i Div 1 hoi the most difficult on the programme. Tudor Pride, 1 Spithead. < i 7cm Olen, Tmn Street. Gaucho and Gold Meridian miiM all b«* considei I In m>; bones on
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    GOOD GALLOPS BY PERAK DERBY HORSES
    516 7  - GOOD GALLOPS BY PERAK DERBY HORSES ALLAN LEWIS Four O'Clock best worker Prom pAin n rT nrilr J p OH, Thursday. POl R O CLOCK II (Wadsworth), who is gainin* steady support for the Perak J)erbv, figured m a splendid gallop with Happy Tiavell.>r KUery) and Happy Quadrant (WVods> on
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    S'pore boys' cricket XI win again
    140 7 S' pore boys cricket XI win again CINGAPORE Combined English O Schools cricket team now touring Western Australia »>eat St I Udephonaus College. New \o>cia last Saturday and Muresk Agricultural College on the following day They ana made their record m Western Australia seven wins und one defeat. Th Singapore
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    Unicorn XI to play in Tokio
    57 7 FOOTBALL team from the Br: ish aircraft-carrier Unicorn will play two games Inst Japanese teams on April 20 and April 21. The g*mes, which will be held m Tokio. mark the first post-wir international soccer match m Japan. The last British football team to
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    Teachers win 3-1
    40 7 THE Victoria School StafT XI cc- feared the Teachers' Training College by three goals to one In a «occer match played at Vic'.ori.i School yesterday. orers for the School Staff were Dg Kee «2> and Roy Jansen.
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    Rangers in Cup final
    133 7 A CROWD of 70,000 saw Rangers win through to the rmal of the Scottish Cup competition by beating lowly Queen of the South three-nil m their semi-final replay at Hampden Park. Glasgow, yesterday. Queen of the South made a game fight, but Rangers asserted their superiority
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    EWELL MAY RUN IN BRITAIN
    73 7 rrlE American coiound sprinter Barney Ewell. who claims the world professional sprint championship, said yesterday that he hoped to run m England and Scotland this season. Swell, who has just finished a season m Australia m which ne finished first m a series of races
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    England picks team against Scotland
    176 7 PHE English Football Association selectors yesteri day picked the team to meet Scotland at Glasgow o n April 15 and made only two changes from the Football League team which beat Scotland 3 l last The England-Scotland match will decide the British representative side for
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    Nee Soon win 3-2
    45 7 IN v S.A.F.A. Jnr. A. Group 1 soccer match played at Geylang yesterday R.A.P.C. Nee Soon) defeated the Customs S.C. by three goals to tv:o. Cheetham scored all the goals for the winners while Aziz scored both goals for the Customs.
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    Archery Club
    67 7 THE Singapore Archery Club will hold their first international tournament on Monday at the Clubs new grounds at the University of Ma'.aya. at 10.30 *-m. There will be a Flight Shoo' competition and for non-archers, there will be a pool bull shoot. One of the events wh eh
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    40 7 picture. with Prosed hammers prominent on their jackets, W*st Ham speedway riders roar round the first bend during prac)l- h f£ tht on?lZi mSttai at the London track tomorrow*. Left to rigrht: K4d Curtis, W«IW Green and Cliff Watson. Reuter
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    KOTA RAJA WIN TOUGH TUSSLE
    512 7 INDIAN Recreation Clv 1 although they were beat the stadium yesterday. football and had as much < Raja, but their finishing w It was LR.C.'S best dis Rovers fpur weeks ago and to crow about their win ye fielded eight past and pr that one
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    Chinese YMCA team for Malacca
    64 7 /CHINESE V.M.C.A. are sending v/ a team of six table tennis players to Malacca to play two matches there, against Beng Yew Association (tomorrow) and Menu Song Association. The team, which will leave tomorrow, comprises: Mr. M. Hassan (manager), Loe Meng Kong (captain), Kok Kwai
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    CEYLON XI DRAW
    58 7 r £HE cricket match Vtv.een Montomery District sports Association and the Ceylon touristended m a draw at Montgomery Punjab y« sterday. The home team were ail Kri for 224 m their first fnningi yesterday. C-ylon had scored 236 or\ Tuesday. Cejrl d scored 105 for five wickets
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    Rugby results
    21 7 \"ESTERDAY'S Rugby Union resuits were: Camborne 10. Captain Craw- I shays XV 11: Penryn 8, Cross Keys 14. Reuter
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    Selangor team may beat Colony
    371 7 A TTENTION will be focussed on the annual inter- State cricket match at Kuala Lumpur during the Faster holidays. In Singapoie there will be no cricket tournament fixtures as almast all the clubs will be without the services of their stalwarts who are travelling to
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    SAFA inquiry into Sunday's 'incidents'
    295 7  - SAFA inquiry into Sunday's 'incidents CRUSADER By /COMMISSION of Inquiry of the Singapore Amateur Football Association will meet shortly after the Easter holidays to consider the referee's report on incidents which occurred during Sunday's Senior League matcli between Chinese Athletic and Casuals. An official of the S.A.F. pointed out yesterday
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    YMCA tennis results
    150 7 Y MCA tennis results RESULTS of yesterday's ties m the V.M.C A. open tennis tournament are: Women's singles: Mr* A. hill wo. Mis* J. Tan; M Sewell beat Mi*s Dowdeswell 6-4. 6-3; Mrs J F. Pearcey beat Mim Nutall 6-2. 6-0; Mrs. Dorothy Roper bear Miss L. Smith 6-2 6-3;
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    52 7 :-:and:cap run over two miles and r I v Fed^r Cbi SKcnd 9 Never 8 :3. Parker's Peac» 8 m. Courier 8 Le H r.- 1.4, Fol Ami 8 3 8.0. Bouqlni«t£ 7.13. C Phalcr: Querr; ci Blup F": 7.8, hXat 7.6 Noble Bill and Tsaka 7
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    BIRTH
    16 8 ON IST APRIL. 1950. at cm General Hospital, 'o Mr. and Mrs. Teoh Kirn Whye,
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    83 8 THE ENGAGEMENT took place <1 3.50 between Soh Chuan third son of Madam Chi\ \o, and the late Mr. Soh Dorothy Tan Ah B «n fourth daughter of Mr. and Tan Teng Scan. »Penang -s please copy rHE ENGAGEMENT U aned between Major Henry Ifai m, M.C.. the I
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    41 8 MRS. ALICE W. J. Burns o thank all friends who ded the funeral of her hus- hind. Mr. Arthur Burns, sent ktbft telegrams or letters »f ■••>athy. or helped her at this hopes to write them at a later date.
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    RUSSIA BUILDS RAILWAY INTO CHINA
    313 8 RUSSIA BUILDS RAILWAY INTO CHINA Chiang seeks Red planes HONG KONG, Thursday. NATIONALIST China's protest to the United Nations against Russian participation m the Chinese civil war and request that the Organisation send a naval and air observation group to China have been followed by reports that Russia, m agreement
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    39 8 Film actress Linda hristian who is now m Manila with her husband. Tyrone Power, will make a short visit to Hong Kong. Bangkok and Bali, next Wttk. Tyrone is now making the movie. "American (iuerilla m the Philippines." U.P.
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    Japs eating awaySiam's rice surplus
    135 8 BANGKOK. Thurs BOOMING Slamese-Japan-trmde is believed to be causing concern m SouthEast Asian countries. M Japan is making considerable inroads into Siam's exportable rice surplus. Japan last year purchased I 200,000 tons from Siam. diverting nearly 20 percent of the country's exportable surj plus from
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    ARAB PACT
    24 8 The Arab League Political I Committee yesterday approvI ed a security pact between the Arab nations pattempri nftpr the Atlantic Pact. U.P.
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    MURDERED 55
    44 8 Heinrich Baab, former Gestapo leader was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for the murder of 55 Frankfurt Toti-c A TJ A U.S. jet fighter plane exploded with a blast "like thunder" and disintegrated over Oklahoma on Tuesday. The pilot was killed.- U.P.
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    Victims are consulted
    58 8 rpHE Japanese National Railway Workers Union yesterday decided to ask the train-riding public whether the Union should go on strike or not. For three* days beginning Monday Union workers will hand out slips of paper asking. Do you approve a railway strike." The UniQJl Will determine its
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    Eurasian fools Reds in escape to H'Kong
    244 8 HONG KONG. Thursday. 4 EURASIAN oil company worker reached Hong 1 Kong yesterday from Kid China, but had to travel as a Chinese because the Keds at the time of his departure would not let foreigners leave the city b\ rail, he said.
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    TEN PRIESTS SENTENCED
    62 8 1 'JHE Prague State Court has convicted nine rankinc Catholic priests of high trea- son and sentenced them to j Jail terms ranting from life I to nine years. A tenth priest, found mii nocent of high treason but guilty of knowing about the i crimes of
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    Serowe waits for Seretse
    224 8 SEROWE, Bechuanaland, Thursday. BAMANGWATO tribesmen are streaming m hundreds into this mud-hut capital to greet Seretse Khama, their chief-designate, who is waiting at Lobatsi. i*oo miles away, for official permission to rejoin his wife here. His English wife, Ruth Williams, who expects a baby mi n
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    Brisbane snub for 'Red Dean'
    69 8 BRISBANE, Thurs 11IIK I.ord Mayor of Bri>- bane. Mr. A. Chandler, \:i\d he will refusr to give a civic reception to the Dean of anterbury, Dr. Hrwlrtt 1 Johnson, nor will he re--1 crivr him. Dr. Johnson, known as thr "Red Dean." is due to
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    St. Peler's tomb
    36 8 Osservatore Romano, the cal newspaper said yesterday t Mat the ♦'xravatlons In fhe Vatican grotto had confirmed with rich archaeological documentation the existence of the t<>mb of Peter m that place. "—A. P.
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    World cruise in small boat
    46 8 BBBUN, Thun. A NORWEGIAN family ,r\ making a world crimr m a former lifeboat has put into Cuxhaven to seek shelter from a North Sea storm They had sold everything they owned to buy and renovate the little craft— A P.
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    JET SAUCERS 20 YEARS OLD
    140 8 CANBERRA, Thursday. PLANS for jet-propelled "Flying Saucers" have been lying m the Australian Patents Office, Canberra for 20 years. The first "Flying Saucej patent was taken out Ito 1930 by Charles Edmund Johnson, a Tasmanian inventor. Since then, applications for similar patents have been filed
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    World has 80 million refugees
    210 8 GENEVA, Thurs. rnHE President of the International Red Cross Committee, M. Paul Ruegger, said yesterday that the world contained more refugees now than at any time m human History— from 60,000,000 to 80,000,000, he estimated He told a news conference that only a small proportion
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    Women see flying hoops
    59 8 LONDON. Thurs. rREE women reported to the police that they saw a strange object fly overhead from the North Sea last night They said it resembled two large hoops one inside the other, moving inland at a i great height. It made no sound, they said,
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    FEWER IDLE IN U.S.
    42 8 The unemployment situation m the United States is showing improvement after sinking to its worst condition m eight years. New York Bureau figures show 561,000 fewer jobless In March than m February. The March total was 4,123,000.— A.P.
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