The Singapore Free Press, 28 April 1950

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA erwerwer SINGAPORE FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1950. PKIC F TKN IttNVh
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  • 377 1 'Support our wage claims Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. TEACHERS from all parts of Malaya, meeting at the Methodist' Boy* School m Kuala Lumpur today, heard an attack on the Government for treating them "so shabbily" and a call for student support m the
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  • 42 1 Stall Reporter PUR, Fri. district > i'or the o! Negri ol the Malaya at Kuala Yang Di:day m B ibl! to vide •arils ■\1 order. %c\ .'.tlon of Abdul \fr. PoD Harr 1 of police ?>a\\<\ playKl
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  • 25 1 rOW F:i. s exports an 110 mii'.iuii half of rr.onthba of n Adi im- January Ago. "the de- of about
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  • 16 1 United i v.j es to id Ruma:i mv human ns of the;r peace Reuter
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  • 6 1 IR.ghts i dcv on A.P.
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  • 151 1 Dockers warned 'pay will stop' LONDON, Friday. TWE London Dock Board last nifht warned 14,422 unolticial strikers that, unless they return to work on Monday, they will lose the existing right to a guaranteed minimum wage of £4 Bs. weekly. The Board, whose decision was understood to have the Government's
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  • 17 1 San Francisco longshoremen voted to tab> a resoiiition ursln? United BtS with Red China.
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  • 78 1 POLICE SEIZE 36 MORE RED POSTERS Free Pres.s Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police last night idled another 36 Communist posters m various parts of the Colony, In addition to more than 100 found m Singapore. Mr Nigel Morris. Chief of the Special Branch of the CID appealed to the public to
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  • 82 1 It' s going to be hard climbing NEW YORK, Fri. RESIDENTS of 1.000 of New York* most fashionable blocks of flats faced the prospects of climbing 20 storeys Of more when the 15,000 service workers many of them lift operators went on strike at lunch time yesterday. Penthouse dwellers m
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  • 35 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Three uniformed Chinese with rifles, pistols and hand grenades robbed labourers at a timber konssi m Kota Tingv\ yesterday. About 50 bandits were m the vicinity at the Be.
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  • 28 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Bandits robbed labourers on several estates m the Johore Bahru area on Wednesday. At one kongsi house they stabbed one Chinese to death.
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  • 26 1 The following is a message received from a news 55 tinted a water ptetol »nd s:,uirted her f*c 4 She rrpotted to police.
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  • 30 1 Four Japanese have been st-lccted to attend as observers at the 33rd General Assembly of the International Labour Organisation to be held at Geneva on June 7. Reuter
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  • 169 1 CANBERRA, Friday. THE Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, yesterday named 53 Communists holding key positions m the Australian trade union movement who, according to the proposed bill outlawing the Communist Party, would be barred from their posts. They included leaders of the key unions m
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  • 93 1 WESTHAMPTON Long Is. Fri. A BRITISH Austin family saloon car smashed 22 I American stock car records here yesterday and went on to break others. Two men working m shifts I drove an Austin A4O Devon saloon I round the sharp bends of the
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  • 11 1 South Africa yesterday announced recognition of Cambodia. Vietnam and Laos.
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    28 1 picture. Bosuns Mate Ray Webb, of Rochester, New York, and Seaman Charles Kilpatrick, of Enterprise. Alabama, who were first ashore yesterday from the U.S.N. aircraft-carrier Boxer. Free Press
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  • 167 1 SAIGON, Friday. AGREEMENT on the distribution of American military aid to Indo-Chjna was announced m an interview heKe yesterday by the French High Commissioner, M. Leon Pignon. The agreement, he said, had been reached between the French Army and the state of Vietnam, led
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  • 62 1 TELEVISION may determine the next President of the United States, says Mr. David Sarnoif, Chairman of the Radio Corporation of America. "He will have to be photogenic, wear the right necktie and smile pleasantly," he said. But, most of all. the candidate will have to
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  • 29 1 Protesting that the United States is dominating the agency, Poland served notice yesterday that it is quitting the 63-member United Nation! Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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  • 23 1 Lieut -Gen. Rowell, Australian chief of Staff, wiil fly early next month to London to attend urgent British Commonwealth defence talks.
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  • 35 1 Dutch Communists lost nearly half their seats m Wednesday's provincial elections. They won only 31 seats, a i drop of 27 compared with the last provincial elcstians L"* I 1946. Reuter
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  • 118 1 MALAYA NEEDS MORE ARMS, SAYS GRIFFIN LONDON, Friday. r. Robert Griffin, American Minister instructed by President Truman to report on South -East Asia, described the Malayan situation as "out-and-out bandit warfare," when he arrived here by air yesterday. "More funds must be made available for war materials to dig out
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  • 66 1 LONDON, Fri. ■DRITAIN'S rubber slocks on Mar. 3 excluding Government stocks of natural rubber, were: 39,500 tons of natural rubber. 2.300 tons of latex and 1.100 tons of synthetic rubber. Mr. Harold Wilson. President of the Board of Trade, gave these figures m a Parliamentary answer
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  • 48 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Thirty bandits attacked a police station m the Mentakab area of Pahang on Wed- nesday night. Fire was directed at the station from three positions at 15 minute-intervals f rom 8.15 p.m. to 9.15 p.m. The police suffered ao casualties.
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  • 266 1 MacDONALD TELLS BURMA- RANGOON, Friday. THE offensive against Communists who wish to turn into a "slavish satellite state of Russia will be maintained until they are utterly destroyed, the British Commissioner General fo* South-East Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald said here yesterday. Mr Mac3onald
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  • 37 1 Police ai rested six Communist agitator.s in Antwerp yesterday as about fi 000 of 16.000 striking docker* crified bark to work. Seventeen Communists have now been arrested slnre Ihe unofficial pod strike h> ]an.
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  • 32 1 Hone: Kong's Supremo C mi yesterday began hearing m the legal battle over 71 •.•ommercial aircraft belontiin^ to two Nationalist airlines which defected Tast year to the Chinese Communist Government.
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  • 113 1 LONDON LORD LISTOWEL Minister ot S' Colonies, last night advocated emigration from the West Indies to Borneo. In a debate on em m the House of Lords hi That m Borneo. Sarawak and Brunei there were great op>n spaces crying oat for dt mpnt while the
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  • 47 1 tokio. n •pHIRTEEN thousand angry JL spectators hurled atones at 'he track and rel v they shouted "fraoi/1 when the No. l bicycle raw fell and allowed a BMttoci racer to v. m. Taree thousand fan* b k a fence and storatd track.
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  • 42 1 BALLET DIRECTOR GOING TO TURKEY Ninette de Valois. dlrrrtoi* of London's Sadl^fs Wells Ballet Company, will uo to key. at the invitation id Turkish Governm°nt ar. B h Council, to produo 'o be oer.o^m" studen'-. of the TVrkttl N; tional Ballot School
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 516 2 Singaporeans N ot So Shy Now SINGAPORE WOMEN 1 Ruth Langdon interview* Mrs Celeste Amstutz \f RS. Celeste Amstutz, president of the Young Women's Christian Association ot Malaya and Singapore. Iras two homes— Malaya and the State of Indiana. Born and brou c h t up m the "booster" State
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  • 102 2 BEA UTY— BY TALKING fjiILM Director Michael Curtiz says that 'one enthusiastic, talkative male can do more for a woman's reputation of charm than all the beauty aids In the Curtiz who has put many a film actress through her thinks that most rnuuty is m the minds of those
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  • 246 2  - U.S. WOMAN'S DIARY KAY MURRAY By ANOTHKR a of European roy ill j aLd his samples m a transatlantic ire*! 1 jilars. grandson of X P:inre uit to commer As plain Mr. Bernadotte the T S h vdm 300 handloomed Swedish t signed by him In conjum v:/h a Swedish
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  • 254 2 US. FASHION trends indicate that m contrast to the simpler lines of 1949 emphasis is being placed on sleeves and shoulders. In general hemlines are 15 to 16 inches from the floor. The most popular spring an r j summer suits haic softly tailored. form-fitting jackets* slim-hipped
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  • 258 2 /iHRISTIAN I>' r taabl <n creations are anything but museum p> kl going to help Britain to lh a national muieun of fashion and dm ThLn museum o! costume will be built around the private collection Oj Mrs. i^angiey Moore of London, v.h:oh numbers about 1 (><>o
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  • 144 2 HHARTAN which is never 1 very far from fashion has positively, bounced back into the fashion news for spring, both m London and Paris. There are jackets, short coats and lull-length coats of it: many coats are lined with it; and there are dozens of handbag* rod tnm
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 47 2 MORNING AFTERNOON DRESSES In Lambskins, Jersey, Linen, Cotton, Seersucker, etc. NOTHING OVER $25/--11, D'Almeida Street (Off Raffles Place) Open 9 to 5 Daily Wednesday Saturday included. "Scapula Medals" Guaranteed Pure 22 Kt. Gold ::::at $22 each. KWONG CHEONG LOONG LTD. Jewellers HUh St. Spore Phones 7571 K3527
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    • 133 2 BIG REDUCTIONS I cessor, Es 278. Orchard Rd 1 f SHRIRO (China) Ltd.. In* ji m H h 1H KINCArOM FOR THfIT IRRITRTING THRDHT~ "Air '^R ?<S^B r /5/* I SmSfi Throat SOZS AGENTS THE EAST ASIATIC (0, LTj Now available Webb and I ENGLISH CRYSTAL WARE including complete Early
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 272 2 New Crossword No. 33 CLUCa A< Ross 1. Evening dress style for rider without saddle (4-4 1. 7 Hallmarked piece of dinner service, no doubt (6, 5». 8. Encourage a uager «4>. 9. So scanty as to make me rape round (6>. 11 of Hentzau" (6>. 12 A dull sort
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    • 207 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR I>OR\ toda.v >ou hu\e a tremendously determined will which, at times. can become dogmatic. However, since you are right mo*t of the time, you are apt to continue your tactics of self-deter-mination despite nil criticism or argument. Faithful to duty, you often forego personal pleasure* to get
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  • 345 3 WEST AWAITS LONDON TALKS General solution is hoped for the North At,knticTr^? d p he Unlted States and of an increasinrfw »I»i t l. Powers a PP roa d>. there is Wes crT Poi« 4 Ceab le tende ™y amonr the spec fie problem^ P 0 1^"* action on current
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  • 42 3 B, CALIFORNIA, Friday. AR-OLD Chinese \ime to Ameri.i*av on an army HA, was adoptOB Tuesday. is cleared (or taJ US. citizen- Ta-b. n. tbc adopted son -ird of Mrs. Jew of Pain: jk the name of A.P.
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  • 33 3 g a I Calwell. former ration and nent of the ij, Policy." was •nrest for the tve post of the ..our Party. He by delegates reh rt extreme rißht A. P.
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  • 11 3 turned 741 Madras ProJOO miles north- city, since U.P.
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    31 3 photo. fUuum exiled chief -elect of the Baman;wato huanaland. smiles happily a s his wife grans l lie of the truck which brought him for a da? visit to Serowe A.P.
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  • 193 3 CAIRO, Friday. v'MI astronomers have a date m Khartoum, >ud on February 25. 1952. to five the sun a r <*e «.v» hat date there will oc a total^eclipse ot the spheric conditions permit it the jh len able t 0 inspect trie
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  • 37 3 4 S TRIKERS ARRESTED with riMes and 'our arrests when d out m U^anay to deal with about 1.000 Afrl- I on the vast dam project. ins. carrying 'i- "s, wer f hreatPollce us«-d when called out.
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  • 54 3 Tke v S Army m Germany will start training officers and men of seven European countries m the use of U.S military weapons on May 8. They will receive instructions m the use. maintenance and repair of the equipment turned over them under the mutual
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  • 22 3 Mac West says she may co 'into television-"!! wiU keep Dad at home at least once a week.' A.P.
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  • 67 3 I»HE Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romanao has attacked a suggestion for birth control m depressed areas to improve living standards contained m a memorandum prepared by the U.N. General Assembly's j fifth session of the Popula- lion Commission m UNESCO. Osservatore said that only "atheistic materialism"
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  • 45 3 The former U.S. President. Mr. Herbert Hoover, proposed last night that the Western nations unite against Russia by closing the doors of the United Nations to Communist countries or by forming a new united front of all free-dom-loving peoples. U.P.
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  • 39 3 A Pan-Islamic Steamship Company has been established In Karachi with 100 per cent Pakistani capital The new company will opera it steamers between Karachi and Chittagong, East Pakistan, and between Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries. A.P.
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  • 26 3 Nearly all of Russia's Communist youth are against a church wedding, according to a flood of letters received by a Moscow newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda.- U.P.
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  • 33 3 The Israeli Army intends to put a rifle m evecy home m Israel. The Deputy Chjef of Staff says the army intends that everyone should know to defend themselves. A.P.
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    21 3 photo. President Harry S. Truman throws m the ball m Griffith Stadium. Washington, to start the American baseball league season. A.P.
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  • 170 3 LONDON, Thurs. MEMBERS of Parliament asked the Government last night to remind Gen. Mac Arthur that Britain played her full part m the Pacific war and the British Interests In Japan should be treated accordingly. Mr. William Teeling (Cons.) said Mac Arthu r's headquarters
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  • 20 3 The French Navy is carryIng out experiments on a submarine motor which would be powered by water. A.P.
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  • Article, Illustration
    363 3 A double of an opening bid of four to a penalty double unless the responder has a very strong hand or a weak hand with an extremeiy long suit. It ta possible that you may make a game at your best suit, but consider three factors: First, you
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  • 187 3 racketeers had big year WASHINGTON, Friday. (COUNTERFEITERS and treasury check forgers had a boom year m 1949 They made a lot of money and piled up a lot of jail time. The money racketeers, the U.S. Treasury Department reported, cheated gullible citizens out of millions of dollars and gave the
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  • 49 3 T'HE Burmese Prime Minis--1 ter. Thakin Nu. is expect- eel In London by air on May 9. He v. ill attend a Westminster Abbey service on May 11 In memory of the 10,000 Commonwealth soldiers, sailors and airmen who died m the Burma campaign. Reuter
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  • 60 3 rE General Council of Britain's Trade Union Congress on Wednesday stood firm m support of the Government wage freeze policy despite pressure from over i 5.000,000 trade unionists actively resisting it. At a meeting m London to review Sir Stafford Cripps' austerity budget the Council reiterated
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  • 41 3 The whole of the British Commonwealth is proud of the magnificent example which the British occupation forces have set for Japan, Lieuten--1 ant-General H. Robertson. Commonader-in-Chief of the British CiTnmonwealth Occupation Forces, told an ANZAC parade m Kure. Reuter.
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  • 164 3 STRATFORD-ON-AVON, Friday. IMPORTANT discoveries at Shakespeare's birth I place have been made during extensive renovations carried out during the past six months. Examples of Elizabethan ci af tsmanship hitherto hidden by plaster of a later age have been disclosed. In stripping the ancient, fireplaces of
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  • 23 3 The United States has told the Rumanian government to close down an official establishment m New York City.— A. P.
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  • 235 3 WASHINGTON, Friday. CITIES throughout the United States are pushing ahead plans to meet any Midden atomic attack. The main effort is being concentrated on civilian defence and mobilisation of medical facilities to deal with atom bomb blast, burns and radiation. But many military men. Congressmen and
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  • 35 3 Some of the Muslim population of the former Italian colony of Eritrea favour a return to Italian trusteeship according to Mirm Ziaud Din of Pakistan. Chairman of the U.N. Eritrea Commission.— A. P.
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  • 21 3 Twenty persons were injured when an explosion vrecked a four-storey suburban j apartment buiklint 'Rp-itth (U.S.) A.P.
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  • 36 3 The US. Supreme Court has quashed the murder conviction and death sentence of a Negro on the grounds of discrimination because only white men sat on the Texas Grand J'iry which indicted him A.P.
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  • 104 3 SYDNEY, Friday. T^HE future of flying txiats hi bright, according to Mr. E. D. Clarke, managing director of Saunders-Roe He said In Sydney recent ly that his company vas making three 140-ton 100-pass-enger Princess flying boas for British Overseas Airways and the route
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  • 63 3 A SWEDISH naval staff expert. Commander Stella n Hermelin, has estiou'ed the missing U.S Privatetr plane may have bee.i i down by the Russian* allies from the Bn!t <* B^pboffi 28 miles outside the 12-: limit claimed by Russia m the Bftltfe Commander Hermhe made his
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  • 25 3 The Queen and Pr:nr>> Margaret attended a ip private showing of I Dior fashions on WedfM at the French Embass London A.P.
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  • 20 3 Nationalist China si-nt a new minister to Cuba iday. H< was n with fu l diplomatic honou Reuter
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  • 21 3 A Philippine naval pi has detained the cou I Lt-pus, suspected ol war materials to I Kong. A.P.
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  • 26 3 Top German mining gineers are helpi: crews tap long doi I lignite resources as a r. of augmenting the cou. uower resources. A.P.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 18 3 Fir V A Pcrnanent jj^ > Wave to y< Jauityoyrhair 4Z onsult: MAISON MARC£IX£ M Door Phone lUS advice
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    • 111 3 MENLEY JAMES MEDICAL fir PHARMACEUTICAL SPECIALITIES. The range of M fir J medical specialities now available m Malaya consists of established products acknowledged by the medical profession of England and America as being outstanding m their respective fields. Stocks are obtainable and enquiries from Members of the Medical Profession and
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 417 3 SINGAPORE Indonesian: News and Pro- n?ws Bulletin; 4.40 Australian ,di 11V Wpwm>\t» grammes (BBC); 6.30 News m Dance Muaic; 5. Around the (BLUL NETWORK) Cantonese (BBC) 6.45 All Bandstand 5.15 Request Pro--4»4 and 41.7 metres. the latest; 7.15 News m gramme compered by Norma Emergency news from X.L p»rench (BBC);
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  • 519 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Apr. 28, 1950. MALAYA IS THERE TLIAI.AYA cannot compiain these days thai W.aster is not ctfKMgll time to the consideration of her affal at question time is traditionally set aside for the iking and answering of mailers concerning the Co- j lonia] Office and territories
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  • 817 4  - The Colonel- And the Indians Alwyn Tebbitt ewrwerwe DELHI: THHE man who nurses the world's greatest hatred of Britain and is r.aid to look under his bed every night to see jf King George is lurkitie there, Chicago newspaper baron Colonel McCormick, flashed through India recently m his specially-fitted private
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    17 4 Princess Elizabeth who is expecting a babu this year watene* gunners at an anti-aircraft camp in Malta
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  • 378 4 AMERICANS who still I imagine that all Britain can derm tlle car world \s build •cute' and "amusing" baby re— pretty to look at but unsuited to tough ne-man driving conditions had a shock when the first all-Bri-t i.sh Motor Show <*ver put on m the
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  • Letter To The Editor
    • 465 4 READ the article by Mr. John Doraisamy, In which he deplores that Indian girls do not have as much fi -is Chinese Indian women hai m all cti i\- rhap.s m llcentiousir frivolity. a> much as I nese I that we must move with the tfenes.
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    10 4 188 CUTTING THE COAT ACCORDING TO TIIK I OTH B
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  • 527 4  - Fewer Horrors At The Grand Guignol Carl Hartman by i PARIS: ()M* >1" the classic sights <>f Paris the Grand Guignol, theatre <>l nightmares come to life liiis gone "American II has given up plays b o v t eye-gouging apaches and jealous lovers who wrench out their mistresses' toenails
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 14 4 POPULAR HOUSE SPORT CUPS MEDALS P. H. HENDRY, S .'<-.velltr <} North Bridge Rd. Spore.
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    • 44 4 Sole agents m Malaya tnd I for Curtis C»n COLD STORAGE ORCHARD ROAD BRANCH Mullard^ li i jal>lii^ wop'" f* r Model Mat/ Mm. 230 $240/ Ca»li lets 10 h \«o*** ,> t nvlil Easy payment* can also g Q j \.Lth rl(i be arranged
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  • 585 5 MALAYA PLANS BIGGER AIRFIELDS Expansion over six years Free Press Staff Reporter DRAFT plans to develop three international airports, four existing: national airfields and 'one proposed airfield m the Federation over the tV I a i r^ from 1950 -1955 are outlined by them in a White Paper published nf
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  • Article, Illustration
    26 5 \Rf.(> LEE. Australian reen and stage ho will make perU appearances at the taj :n Singapore >lurin^ stopover. Picture bet on arrival at Airport from Au>--terday.
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  • 149 5 MAY DAY IN SINGAPORE Free Press StaiT Reporter £|NGAPOU Police have made plans "to meet any tuahties on May I) -.iv— labour's traditional which falls on Monday Police will not disclose their plans but a m told the Free Press yesterday "w e shall every nook
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  • 165 5 Free Press Staff Reporter DUTCH prestige has steadily gone down m Indonesia and the Indonesian Government today dislikes the ter/n "Federal" because it has been "tarred with the Dutch brush," said the deputy editor of the Times of India, Mr. Frank Moraes, who has arrived m
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  • 168 5 T*re.- Staff Reporter 'HL ...asters Quartet who give their first recital m Singapore tonight are particularly proud of the Amati cello that they carry, a 350--year-old instrument fashioned by one of the oldest Italian violin and cello makers known to the world today. It is worth hundreds
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  • 33 5 its annual general meeting last night, the Singapore Regional Indian Congress decided to demand autonomy at the annual session of the Malayan Indian Congress m Kuala Lumpur during the coming week-end.
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    35 5 mture. \[ISS Miwake Hama (19), Mrs. Mieko Higa and her son Hitomi, and Miss Yoshiko Shimafukuro, four of 37 Japanese immigrants to Argentina who arrived m Singapore yesterday m the Dutch ship Boisseyain. Free Press
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    81 5 picture. THE Commander-in-chief, Far East Station. Admiral Sir Patrick Brind (fourth from the left), with Lt. Commander W. Gordon Cornell. I.S. Assistant Naval Attache m Singapore. Commodore Burgshard. Capt. John B. Moss, commander of the l\S. aircraft-carrier. Boxer. Capt. Walter Winn. I S>. Commander of the Destroyer Squadron,
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  • 437 5 Free Press Stall' Reporter AT a holiday bungalow on Pulau Vbin. off Singapore, next month, university professors, trade unionists, teachers and others interested m adult education will discuss hou best to Tight mass illiteracy m the Colony. The discussion, organised by the Peoples Education Association m a
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  • 442 5 Cheaper flats for S.M.C. junior staff Free Press Staff Reporter /CONSTRUCTION of smaller and cheaper flats at Monk's Hill for the junior staff of the Singapore Municipality saving nearly $10,000 on each flat built has been agreed to by a committee of Municipal Commissioners investigating the possibility of cutting down
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  • 159 5 Fn i Pi i R» por.cr MEN ;n Singapore V ning than women, jac: Ir >m tha^e who were pn last mpht Sen-.' debate on the s Out of a total 150 people corr.pr teachers stud- trade far and barely one-third v And only six w from
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 114 5 All Fashion Conscious Women like BALLY SHOES with Their Fashion Appeal "CHERRY CALF" COURT. A Oass.c Creat.on .n the NEW shade, you will just love Decorative punched and Leather built heel $27.95 pa.r WINE GABERDINE BUTTERFLY BOW COURT. Gaberdine for Coolness and Comfort $24.50 pair PERSIAN CREY SUEDE SLIP-ON COURT.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 47 5 MAILS Surface «»II i- s expected ir. c gapore today from Siam. Ill Ceylon, and the Federatlor. Latest times for posting surfac mall today at the G.P.O are: noon Indo-China and Christma 5 45 p m. for the Federation: 6 p.m. 'or Eastern Australia. Medan and Sibu.
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  • 1490 6 Prospects for third day of K.L. races From ALLAN LEWIS KUALA LUiMPUR, Friday. WELL represented m the majority of the races, Jack Spencer should have a successful day tomorrow, when the Selangor Turf Club conclude their April meeting. Clonagh, one of Spencer's candidates, Tvohoon and
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  • 46 6 INDIAN K»'cr.-,i:ion Club s<x-cer players wi!l meet at Uie Indian A.vsoiia' r:d^y at 9 30 a.m. for a dtxrusslon and players' meetSorcer pra«.tl es arr lield a". Farrer Park every Sunday at 6.30 a m Th* ooadl is Mr S Narayanar s.juii
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  • 69 6 PINOATOKKS H I h i,. Army a; Jalan Bes.tr stadium on Bnoday will be the &ame as that v. KA P •■-nil In UM Clip l.is- s :rd.iy. Thr SlriKajv-re XI vOi DC C Seng Morton, Sal' Harlth, H**f Jnni?; Sharif Uitl^ Awaii* Bakar Buanq Tumlfl H enros:
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    33 6 Jaunty (Flannery) rets op m the last few strides to beat Lusan Maid (Charles) by a neck m the third race at Koala Lumpur on Wednesday. Jaunty completed a double for the meeting:
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  • 298 6 JJDDS against American -owned Prince Simon m the 1y Epsom Derby plunged to nine to four last night m an official callover at the Victoria Club, London. William Woodward's handsome bay colt had been favoured at 13 to 2 m the previous betting on Monday.
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  • 63 6 FILLD of 16 runners is go to the post ihe 1.000 Guineas, the I of the fl. \s to be run over one mile at Newmarket tod P.-.oab;*' runi r.eys. Twr. A P. 1 ■O d>. Don Dv C:rl W v I S:: <(i R. lords'. Stella
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  • 414 6 Singapore won 5-2 but had to fight hard SCHOOLS' SOCCER I^OK Pcow's fine opportunitum and 1 pore defence made th c Johore wnbir I bow down to a 5-2 defeat to thr d V^ 1 bined Schools m their annual soccer T (otn I at the Johore English College ground
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    • 152 6 I I Chang's Promotions THE COMMENCEMENT OF A GRAND NEW WRESTLING ENTERPRISE AT THE HAPPY WORLD Tomorrow Night SATURDAY 29th APRIL 1950 A SENSATIONAL OPENING PROCRAMME m i Rom < i\<. to <is<. \r TRE UOFID RIAiiWM P SAM BURMISTER THE FAMOUS JEWISH HI WIPION HAS THRILLED THE FANS OF
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    • 99 6 m3Vidrdk6 Exclusive to the Singaporo Free Pros* m Malaya §I|^] SW| [^PEH Igpis JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya SSURPRi<B at tuc TV 1 >U OPENED WITH THE JEZEBEL' 7 &MRFKISE AT THE N. YOU /ASYMBAir DC<;Taik*Tir>N x^^"^. S^ SPECIAL MEETING J W__L^f V! V! OF ?M4n?^oS^
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  • 664 7 ROUGH PLAY DRASTIC ACTION BY S.A.F.A. Clubs to be held responsible gINGAPORE Amateur Football Association,! controlling body for soccer m the Colony, decided at a Council meeting at the S.R.C. last night to take drastic action to stop rough play. The action followed a recommendation by the Commission of Inquiry
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    24 7 and irwan »cads m Alpha (Lansdownt. winner •I the fifth race at Kuali Lumpur on Wednesday. I.ansdown rode two other winners Maintain Jade Princess
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  • 83 7 SIDWELL K.O'd BY VOLLEY SIZZLING volley hit !i i: Sidwell. the Auskan tennis star, below bell m the doubles m Rome yesterday. 1 .looked him out. Kay vith his legs led up on the court for 1 ief and was assisted sing room He was resume play. ■Mfttdi and doubles
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  • 33 7 Kg C to a S AF A GeyX first ■wd their lead by .j h hsa and •■-d the fourth goal ♦'c of '.he second soon after I c-»nrre-
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  • 125 7 BASEBALL RESULTS A weird fifth innings, m which Bostort scored five runs on one hit. enabled the Rea Sox to defeat the New York to 2 yesterday m the American Base Bail League. The Boston pitcher. Ellis Kincer. scattered eight hits for his first hurling triumph of the season The
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  • 115 7 I rr. Pr»ss Staff Reporter fOM MAGUIRE. manager Inet of Dave Sands, the British Empire micd.eweight champion confirmed before hii departure fox Syd"oday tha: Dave WIU meet Boy Brooks of Manila m a return match In Singapore next month. going to Australia on business, told cr.e Frr»e
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  • 123 7 HAROLD LARWOOD. the man »h« took "bodyline" bowline to Australia 18 Tears a*o, left for Australia a«ain yesterday—as an emigrant on the liner Orontes, which sailed from TilburY. With the e\-En«land fast bowler were his wife. Doris and their five daughters. Aflion* the family's b*ti*£r Larwood*
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  • 89 7 SINGAPORE Amateur Football Association has decided to have m W team, similar to Selangor Authentic*. This will serve as a feeder to the Colony side. Singapore "A" will meet a team drawn from the business houses competition at the Police Training School ground m Thomson
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  • 144 7 TIBERIUS NOT A CCEPTING From ALLAN LEWIS Xl ALA LI'MfTR, Friday. piBERH'S, who won his second race from three x starts last Saturday, will not be accepting for his second engagement here tomorrow. Another firststart winner not accepting is Best Wishes. Other horses which will be taken or* ff*m tomorrow's
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  • 20 7 SWANSEA beat Redruth by six point* to nil m a rugby union match at Redruth last evening.— Reuter
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  • 216 7 MANUEL Ortiz, world bantamweight champion, was suspended yesterday by the National Boxing Association of America. The NBA stated that the suspension would be m effect until Ortiz fulfils a contract to box for Jack Solomons, the London promoter. Abe Greene. Commissioner of the ff.B.A.. said the
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  • 47 7 'T'HE following will represent 1 S.H.B. Recreation Club m a friendly soccer game against Auxiliary Police at Keppel Harbour ground on Sunday: Ah Mun, J. Lawther. Beng Huat. Saod. Haniff. Amat Kupeh: Moktar. Zaman, Amat. Awong. Omar. Poh Seng. Reserves Ah. Kassim and Sre Kvtang.
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  • 304 7 A SUGGESTION b 7 Mr R B. I. Pates that the Singapore Amateur Football Association tackle the question of crowd control at matches played at Jalan Besar Stadium was accepted by the S.A.F.A. Council at their meeting last night. Mr. Pates m a letter
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  • 4 7 CRAZY SPORTLINE
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  • 196 7 Selangor Polo Club tourney THE draw for the Selangor Polo Club Challenge Cup. T to be played efT today and on Sunday, is: Today: Ipoh v. Selangor Civilians: Selangor Army v. Outcasts. Winners of these two games will meet m thermal on Sanday. There will also be a consolation match,
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  • 125 7 ONE of the biggest upsets of form wai produced yesterday m the first two rounds of the English amateur golf championships at the Royal Cinque Port of Deal. Five Walker Cup players, two of them former holders of the title, and another former holder, were
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  • 299 7 Refereeing of S.A.B.A. bouts criticised SPORTS LETTER IF Mr. A. R. Anderson, President of tfce Singapore Amateur Boxing Association referees any of to night's finals of the amateur boxing championships he would well advised from the spectators' point of view to desist from his usual custom of persistently addressing competitors
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  • 30 7 I3ESULTS of yesterdnv soccer ma'ches w English League. Dh n«, ii.- Uerni .%'«,■> Cm::, ton Town 0. Div. 3 Northern): Barr< v Storkport 1 Friendl> Hull Cit} 2 C
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  • 19 7 IN a friendly soccer rr.au on the Military Hospir: on Tuesday, ss Ben!awer« Bencruachan by four
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    • 193 7 1 VISIT OF U.S. NAVY I G R tAT World A r^ n 'a BASKETBALL j l'o)ii>!ht at S. 3o p. m. i U.S. NAVY versus TENG KONG BASKETBALL TEAM Runners-i p m Last ears I'hamp o'mi ;> Tomorrow at 8.30* p.m. U.S. NAVY vermm IHO HO BASKETBALL TEAM I
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  • 22 8 de MALM AN CHE. To Marjory v.tfe of E. V. de Malmanche, at Kmdan; Kerbau Hospital, on April 27th. a son.
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  • 315 8 Forcing Soviet into open HONG KONG, Friday. AS the Red forces continued consolidating; their position on Hainan and prepared momentarily to launch an all-out attack on the i Chusan islands m a bid to end the Nationalist blockade, London reports said that Gen. Chiang j
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  • 114 8 INDIA, PAK. PROTEST UK PLAN LONDON. Fri. TOT British p r oposal to cancel part of the sterling deb* mmonwemlth coujireturn for direct dolM leceivert a cold reception from India and P-ik. the .lUori i»f Britain. of Im Minister. Dr J^ thai, complaining m Bomu..v Imiij h. niltMl o\ Britain
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  • 121 8 Continued from Pa?e 1 :n Sydney a* extremely la I to 6. •*e it »t in the eeononie and i coi interested tn the d m So.. East A^la. Tljf ne ad r-o-(»pcrat«oti ut :ion- this end datini the Bur:v. ry Cfirnpai o ::e added that he hoped the
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  • 66 8 I^HE US Senate's proposed stigatlon into Immorality of film stars and Ihr motion picture Indus caiied off yesterday after a confen'nee b^twotn tup film executives and Senator Edwin Johnson edtng with his bill to licence actors and prod Johnson .-aid he would give film industry leaders—
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  • 56 8 BRITISH opinion on th<* Russian question seems incredibly ralm compared with the feeling In America said Professor Geoffrey Sawer m Darwin yesterday after a tour of America and Britain. In some American cities, he said, especially New York concern was caused by a real terror of the
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  • 15 8 The Philippine government prohibited The exp-rt "f 'iimunnion and other -v:i: rvaterlals. U.P.
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  • 187 8 I*HK London Stock ExehanffC was m subdued mood yosterdav and trading: was small, says Keuter's financial correspondent. Rufobei shares lost ground on proflt-takinjf. GUi-t'i were widely one-elfhtii I i iiairier pet i<>wer. Qnitnf BSMdlt pri< of »eKfted «to<Jts as tupolled to tht Free Pre«
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  • 84 8 THK I ondon tin market cnntinued I dull yesterday although prices tiiicher. Spot at £588 2o ed Hn Improvement of 10s. and three months at £.i 33 7.v 6d. was up 12s tfd. Closing prices wrre Spot £588 buyers and £588 5s nell^rs with nr> business;
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  • 54 8 Early trading on ihe New tfork Slock Exchange jresterdi featureless v; h operators sh< little interest, During tip noon buy rs entered thr market m fair numbers and with little ivnoe rnrount^red ftalni up to II wrr» fairly general The I market closed firm at ot ;ir<>und I
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  • 19 8 'NO TO FRANCO I The U.S. Senate rr fused erday to bring Spain into I the Marshall Plan. A.P.
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  • 182 8 BELGRADE, Friday. MARSHAL Tito yesterday pledged Yugoslavia's friendly co-operation "on equal terms" with its Western neighbours but said a similar attitude towards Russia and the Cumin form satellites is now impossible because of their "stubborn hostile attitude." In a three-hour State of the Nation address he
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  • 89 8 LONDON Fri. BRITAIN yesterday officially r»T<>gn'*s»»d Jordan's annexation of Arab Palestine and at the same time aco>rd»'d full de jure recognition to the state of Israel. Mr Kenneth Younger. ICnlstcr ol State, announcing this In the House of COBUWMM, said thai Br.tain's rceopattkn of Israel whs
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  • 32 8 FOUND SHOT ON RACECOURSE Dr. L. Nemeyi, adviser lo the Pakistan Ministry of Finance, was found dead yesterday on the grounds of the Karachi racecourse with a bullet hole through hig head
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  • 192 8 WOMEN BEHIND MEN IN SEX NEW YORK. Friday. IyOMKN reach the peak of their sex life about 14 years later than men, according to I magazine preview of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey'fl new book. "Sex Behaviour m the Human Female." to be published next year. The preview is i<iven by
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    29 8 Sir Zafrullah Khan (centre), Pakistan Foreign Minister, was met on arrival at London airport from New York by Mr. Rahimtoola. the Pakistan High Commissioner m London, and Mrs. Rahimtoola.
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  • 105 8 BRITAIN SELLS URANIUM SHARES TO U.S. LONDON. Fri. THE United States will get part ownership of the r'.rft Belgian Congo uranium minf\s, which supply 60 per cent of worlds urani'im, under a sale of shares In the Tanganyika Com i Lim;ied. announced by the British Government last night The US
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  • 39 8 NKW YORK Fri STANDARD Ausun car established 18 new res m ihe lint 370 miles of a 24-hour test 6 :fTolic i inty air^rt track yester- j igM 67 mph m the first hours A.P.
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  • 23 8 Senator O Su Ausi han Minister for 1 hat Qovernmem would ;:ft all controls, tncludinf butter rationing, as soon as p.
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    • 148 8 4 I LUNCH TODAY IN 1 RAFFLES BALLROOM LUNCH TIME MUSIC 1 TO 2 p.m. t IjUiSl— COCKTAIL MUSIC 7TO BPM8 PM LIGHT MUSIC 8.30 TO 1030 p m CASTILLO HIS I I ORCHESTRA y ♦♦♦44»»» 4 Special Announcement I sr v j^j ;i S Tea Dance Cancelled > Ballroom
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    • 50 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris tsjM^' rv\g.TE>APLAg lAMAPA.g I DO IT, I O*L> 1V i C SAiP yOu ChT 1 3H^T^ /EXCUSE NNE IP I PSYCHOLOGIST. I COULD JUST 'H HAVE TO MURDER HAVE T O <iLL I WM ScE* A T"LE s^^ S^f^f^J A PEOPLE U E AM TT^v/
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    • 13 8 HIGH TIDES Today: BSS a.m., 8.46 p.m. Tomorrow: R. 15 a.m.. 9.20 p.m.
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