The Singapore Free Press, 8 January 1951

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i: SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1951. I'KKi its i :knts,
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    GERMAN ARMING PURELY DEFENCE
    76 1 British, French notes to Moscow RRITAIN AND FRAN( Kin notes published S^iS^oviet fiS^flft wS rr time cements' with Russia and iter-charged that the .soviet I m»n was maintaining vast military a'Su^SiSR l onsulta tion were handed in last Friday Sovtt no ll t thev n were
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    U.K. attitude is no threat to peace'
    143 1 The British note to Russia stated: 1) Britain* attitude towards the German remilitarisation eeatataa no threat to peace: (I) \W>t (iermaii participation in the defence of Western Germany is "purely defensive"; (3) The action of the North Atlantic Powers is consequently the responSibilitj
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    Ike starts on new job
    165 1 PARIS, Monday. pENERAL Dwifht D. Eisenhower buckled down 11 vesterday to the job of forming an international umy to defend Western Europe against Commu- ii ism. The General arrived in by plane yesterday morning and promptly began a crowded programme of conferences. One of the
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    U.S. arming Formosa
    28 1 I* s v• ent officials a in the last ten irms shipments worth about 10.000.000 dollars have reached Formosa to strengthen the Chinese Nationalist Reuter
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    England fights back
    303 1 The Test THE Australian captain. Hassett. and Archer, who had put on 109 run.s for the 'second wicket In the third Test at Sydney on Saturday were both back in the pavilion today for the addition of i orrly 12 more runs. England's attack was again handicapped
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    S.C. killed in Sepang
    63 1 F. P. Staff Correspond«Mit KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. i SPECIAL constable was killed in a battle between nolice and bandits in the Sepang district of Selangor yesterday afternoon. labourers' houses and a private car were set on fire and destroyed by terrorists on a Chinese estate In
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    'CHECK MacA.'
    32 1 Professor W. McMahon Ball, former British Commonwealth representative on the Allied Council for Japan, yesterday urged a limit on General Douglas MacArthur's authority. to prevent the bombing of Manchuria. A.P.
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    SLAV-U.S. PACT
    35 1 Yugoslavia on Saturday signed a formal agreement with the United States pledging among other things, a ESr and equitable distribution of U.5.570.000.000 worth of food which America is a Hino ah drought reilgX-Lzz-
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    CONVERSION TO TAKE 120 DAYS
    70 1 CONVERSION TO TAKE 120 DAYS Within 120 (lays, the new U.S. Defence Production Administration Will b«* converted into a full-fledged Central Industry Control agency, modelled after the War Production Board of World War 11. A new federal buiidir? with one million square feet of floor space, now being completed lor
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    City officials not affected by leave cut
    168 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rjINOAPORE Municipal emO ployees will not be affected by the new Government ruling curtailing all European Government officers' leave to rive months as part of the plan to end the Emergency this year. The President of the Municipality Mr.
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    U.S. FOREIGN AID PLAN READY
    165 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. IT S. ADMINISTRATION officials yesterday reportedlv almost completed plans for ia\ing before Congress a new multi-million dollar foreign aid and military assistance programme. Economic and military assistance proposals this year will be welded into a single programme, and President Truman will present to
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    More guards for Truman
    90 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. Strong precautions have been taken to protect President Truman during his visit to the Capitol Building today to deliver his annual State of the Union message. No standing will be permitted in the puolic galleries as last year. The Capitol police force will be
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    Gvobyu re-taken
    31 1 Government troops have recaptured Gyobyu waterworks Rangoon's main water supply. 75 miles northwest of the capital from the rebel forces which have occupied the area for three years. A.P.
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    Biggest rubber shipments ever
    96 1 FOR THE FIRST time in the history of Malaya, shipments of rubber, including 1 re-exporls, for a year exceeded one million tons in 1950. In December shipment! totalled 111,058 tons, bringing the total for the year to 1,106,485 tons, compared vith 899.'!12 tons in 194ft, December's
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    Sikkim backs India
    28 1 The Himalayan state of Sikkim sandwiched between India and Tibet would definitely remain with India whatever happened in Tibet said Maharaj Kumar Thondup Nameyal. Reuter
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    U.S. OPPOSED ON CHINA
    206 1 LONDON, Monday. THE Commonwealth Prime Ministers are understood to be opposed to the American proposal to brand Communist China outright as an aggressor. They are resolved that no such action should be taken until all plans for a cease-fire in Korea have been fullv exploited. The
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    Liaquat Ali arrives
    73 1 MR. Liaquat Ali Khan last night arrived in London for the Commonwealth Premiers' conference which has been in session since Thursday. He was accompanied by the Belgium and the Pakistan Foreign Secretary. Mr. M. lkramullah. In Rome he told reporters: "I have been assured that the Kashmir
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    Black Monday for 47,000 children
    128 1 Black Monday for 47,000 children Free Press Staff Reporter 'PODAY is "Black Monday* for more than 47,000 school children In Singapore, most of whom returned to their schools this morning after a month's Christmas holidays to new classes and new teachers. Among them are 6.000 children who took their seats
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    U.N. troops face new threat
    258 1 U.N. troops face new threat TOKYO, Monday. VANGUARDS of seven Chinese armies— 2lo.oo9 men are surging down Central Korea along thr valleys leading south in an effort to mi off Unitetf Nations troops withdrawing from Seoul, the lallei* South Korean capital. The threat of a break-through down the peninsular's mountainous
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    VISIT OPPOSED
    26 1 The Italian Communist Pary newspaper Lunita said today Communist youths havp begun .stagir.g protests against General Dwight D. Eisenhower's imoendine visit to Rome. A.P.
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    PORTUGAL JOINS
    32 1 rtugal and the Ui» States yesterrday signed an agreement of mutual as. ance for defence simlla; to agreements which th<--United States h signed with other North lantic treaty c Reuter
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    U.S. $10,000 FOR DEAD
    62 1 pian tur pu>itu a 1.5.510.000 death demmtv for all lomlul veterans killed smcr the Korean war started is to be sponsored hv s, ru(or \Va!t«r F. Ceorge it stated yesterday in Wa in^ton. The Cieor^ia Democrat said the new bill would dii fer sharply from one
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    Around Town
    1094 2  -  VEWS frun. Birmingham that Russian starlings are distinguishable Irom the domestic oird because 'they are thir.ner. more r resMve, and have pink legs', will be welcomed by M.I. 5, the F.8.1., and the other urity boys It will hem a lot of work. sum ing and why not?
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    THE STONE OF SCONE
    264 2 THE STONE OF SCONE THE Coronation Stone, stolen from beneath seat of the Coronation (hair in Westminster Abbey, is a block of red sandstone known as the Stone of Scone. It has been used in EngJUk coronation ceremonies ever siner it was wrested Irom the Scots in 12%. It was
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    Yard Is Outwitting the Crooks
    584 2  - Yard Is Outwitting the Crooks AT last thp police in the Metropolitan area of London, with their scientific methods plus legislation, have broken the hard-core of crime. Statistics will later show that villainy dealt with by Scotland Yard and the City of London Police has gone down to the pre-war
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    Religious revival
    126 2 A NEW-styie reiig:* vival. bon. ottf of the Korean crisis if America. Gone are the dm: corner preachers, mass meetings and banner* To thousands An church-goers 1. attract people to quiet way The heart o.' revival If the n of lowa where more thai thousand goers ha ral
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    164 2 DORN today, your poL teniialities are tremendous, but you must learn to concentrate on some one objective if you are to get your full measure of success. Co-ordi-nate your talents and grasp all opportunities the moment they present themselves. Force of character and determination can help you
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      21 2 Solution To Crossword No. 145 ;l ?O\ \rr*'s: 1 M I) i^\ 8 9 I 1 »n S i !one 6
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      156 2 New Crossword No. 246 _____JBH H I ~r^^^H L^Mii HiIJH MM ■^^Mrf~~~""~ (LIES ACROSS L 1 D n train on this course? if. 7». 8. Where th L Q'- 1 i' child <6). 9. What they announ-e Is the result of di\i«ion 17). 11. Apes have swallowed their ftnftgraoi <8»
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    EXPLORER TO TALK
    15 3 t a veteran of expedil i pJormUon*. will N rway under the
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    ANIMAL-MAN FOUND EN PIGSTY
    471 3 ANIMAL-MAN FOUND EN PIGSTY Police seek identity VIENNA, Monday. rilE police of all Austria are seeking to discovei L the identity of a wild animal-man who was found sleeping in a pigsty at Kleemay^r HofY neai Leoben, in Styria. The man is dumb and almost dcat eats bark, roots and
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    Missions convert Formosan tribe
    146 3 HONG K()N(i, Monday. ill how Christianity had converted a tri. Formosan head-hunters into civilised > of Hfc and brought them into friendly contact II >ide world was told in a lecture by ProOti at Hong Kong I'niversity. numbering 150.000 are the rt Formosa. Profess Skinsr.es 'deci
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    Thefts open death-traps
    88 3 strollers in Tripoli. Libya, can now walk down the streets with more abandon. For months the> had to be careful about falling: into open sewers Manhole covers disappeared as fast as authorities installed them. Police recently replaced them after finding a junkN.ird dealer had them on -.lie
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    TAX ADVISER
    41 3 Professor Aoy JastiY.n. as- 1 at dean of the University of California school of bnsi-* aciministrati >n. lias left I for Manila to serve a; tax adviser to the U.S. Economic Co-operaUon Adminlstiatioi*. I as Mr. J. K. Hall.
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    PASHA BARRED FROM PALACE
    36 3 PASHA BARRED FROM PALACE ol Morocco Pn t of Ifanra- > refused to pay December. Royal PaR i: ear-old P^.sha. sein power to the Sultan. lp to the throne on -3 and accused the Sulxini Communism Reuter
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    Paper shortage 'possible'
    45 3 Paper shortage 'possible print Association i predicted a "very supply and posof newsprint if American consump•Aues to increase. Dotted Slates now k a 60 percent of total itipply, compared with a re-wai proportion of 44 the Association said. ia produced 54 percent :i exports. Reuter
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    26 3 USIS Fleeing North Koreans crossing the icy Taedong River near Pyongyang, former North Korean capital, as Chinese Conimunst hordes move southward against the fTnift#d Nations forces.-
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    FEES INCREASED
    21 3 Various fees which have to be paid by all aliens entering Indonesia have been increased from Jan. 1. 1951.
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    Hardwoods may rival teak
    137 3 Hardwoods may rival teak RANGOON, Mon. 'THE famous Burmese teak may .soon find itself In competition with other Burmese hardwoods if plans by Austrian-born Dr. F. A. V. Monroy materialise. Mr. Monroy, a forestry ernert with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, has come to Rangoon to help the
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    GOING OVER OLD GROUND
    76 3 GOING OVER OLD GROUND Universal -International reports that in digging up ground for an '"Up Front" battle scene, workers uncovered more than a ton of emoty cartridge cases used dunng the filming of "All Quiet on the Western Front" 20 years ago. The two pictures were made on the same
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    REDS WATCH REDS
    50 3 The China Union Press of Taipeh alleged that the Rus- sian« last October set up a military organisation at Chang-Chia-Kou in Chahar Province, ostensibly to super- vise the training of the new Red Army, but actually to watch the movements of the Peking Government's military strength. Reuter
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    SHIPS WANTED
    31 3 The Australian Government lias sent representatives of the the shipbuilding and shipping boards to Britain and Europe to try to buy more ships for the Commonwealth shioping line. Reuter
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    LOWER RUBBEH CONSUMPTION THIS YEAR
    147 3 LOWER RUBBEH CONSUMPTION THIS YEAR AKRON. OHIO. Mon. JJUBBER consumption in 1951 might range anywhere from 1. 000.000 to 1.200.--000 tons compared with a record use of 1.240.000 tons In 1950, Mr. John L. Collyer. president of B. F. Goodrich Company, estimated recently. At any rate, he pointed out. consumption
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    RED PLAN
    22 3 Chinese forces now in j Chamdo, Eastern Tibet, may I be planning a spring offensive lon Lhasa, the capital. Reuter
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    BUCKLEY
    8 3 'HEARD ANY GOOD MURMURS tMiMfIMMi LATELY t
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    33 YEARS OF SAFE FLYING
    183 3 NEW YORK, Monday. A FTEK 33 years as a pilot, Captain Frederick V. ('Shorty") Clark, 60 has retired from PanAmerican Airways' pilots' roll. In all his flying career, "Shorty" Clark has never been involved in an accident, and at Neu York's La Guardia Airport, he
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    RAIL SERVICE CUT
    11 3 Britain's state-run railways are planning cuts in train
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    N.Z. airmen quit service
    222 3 WELLINGTON, Monday. T»HE Royal New Zealand Air Force (K N Z.A.I is 1 (Shortly") Clark, 60, has retired from PanOut of 417 officers and other ranks w'aose current engagements end next March, only 20 have indicated that they will remain in the serv, Since last April
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    BRANCH TO CLOSE
    50 3 The Hong Kong branch of American Chase Bank announced that it had received instructions to close down as a result of the 'drastic curtailmen:" of busine^ Communist China since the start of the Korean war and the United States Government's restrictions trade and currency transac ions. U.P.
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    SITUATION BETTER
    39 3 The Burmese Government "is now more securely in control of the situation than at any time since the country achieved IU independence.' the U.S. Ambassador to Burma, Mr. David IfcK .ldree Key. said in New York. Reuter
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    More witnesses
    59 3 MR. Mariano Jesus C uenco. President of the rhilippinSenate, has introduced a bill to repeal a certain tion of the civil code which provides that no descendant can be compelled, in a criminal case, U i»Mifv against hi§ parents and ascendant The measure would amend the existing ban
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    CAMERA BY REMOTE CONTROL
    99 3 CAMERA BY REMOTE CONTROL can b irn and direction! by a v trol e*al irk If i closer look is the camera h *ivaof a Bv a to a lon» I The camear cou!d be u to observe dai serve as an elect nmi< to b^ on the lookout .<-
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    Biggest show of textiles
    53 3 M The complete ground 1 of i the 1951 British In Fair is to be devoted to the biggest textile di "d in Britain. Textile the big i which will be t ho usa lids of 01 of whom will attend the I The BIF opei
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    FILM FESTIVAL
    30 3 The 12! h val of Venice will tie h I n An^ 20 and S Films produced in I months before Aug will be eligible fo A. P.
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      204 3 AN IDEAL NEW YEAR GIFT THE STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL "PHIS is the first time since 132 Pages the Liberation that we •20 Full Colour I haVe been able t0 P roduce a illustrations in- STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL on Panels"* 3 FU 1 th9 lineS Of the successful P re war
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      85 3 dfadsfdf SINGAPORE <BI I I M TVVOKR) 10 a.m. Newi from Singapore; 12 Programmes in Malay; 1 p.m Programme Summary; 1.03 Monday Matinee; 1.30 Time Signal News- 1.45 Cowboy Songs; 6 Programine Summary; 6.02 Composer of the Week: 6.30 Great People of the Pas'; 1 Time Signal. News; 7.11 Interlude;
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      90 3 4.47 From the London Editorials (BBC); 5 The Concerto Tchalkowsky; 5.45 The Debate Continues (BBC): 6 Indonesian: News 'inrj Programmes <BBC»; 6.30 Cantonese: News (BBC); 6.45 Bar.a Call- 7.15 Fiench: News iBBCi: 7.30 English Half -Hour: 8 Piano li.termission; 8.15 Thai: News end Talks (BBC); 8.45 Du.ch. News (BBC>; 9
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Jan. 8, 1951. Keep the odds short
    201 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Jan. 8, 1951. Keep the odds short fRAVBT v. that I he put- a 1 ht to -<v> In r circuit note to memn the Question of irintr ma ite under the cli of p .iteci nrr> are indications i may 5u rough h aiming
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    A Malayan Shortage of Doctors
    1029 4 A Malayan Shortage of Doctors /MRCUMSTANCES predated me rin« the Kind's Christmas Hay broarl- this ve ir I asked two friends what Sernt Dennis Bulpett, the 23-year-t d Marine Commando in Singapore, had said when he introduced the Kins: to the millions who were waiting to near him. ther could
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    Briton Who Joined Legion
    138 4 m\VO v urs ago a 40-year- old Englishman left his home in Essex to join the neh Foreign Legion. Tothat Englishman in his Foreign Legion uniform is conducting one of the worlds '"■angtsr classes in Haiphong the threatened port which serves the French beach-head in north
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    LONDON LETTER
    359 4  -  m Hall Romney malaria. the committee naturally drifted on to the question of Insufficient doctors for anti-malarial work. and heard it said that the Colonial Office Is now reluctant to allow medical officers to specialise because of the shortage. There is a vicious circle at work, in the
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    Hanoi—given help could save Malava
    487 4  - Hanoi given help could save Malava THIS city of custardx coloured houses, where banar.as hang ripe from trees lining the broad avenues, is a sad and silent place today. In a last capitulation, the French, who have been driven to abandon one by one their cool parks, ornamental gardens and
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    REIGN OF TERROR INSIDE CHINA
    391 4 HONG KONG: A FORMER Chinese I■*1 newspaperman, who travelied half the length of China from Canton up to Peking, recently found terror, iear of the totalitarian state and war hysteria the dominant atmosphere on the Communist-rnled mainland with rhe Peking resime girding for war. He
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    Stray dogs are hard to catch
    68 5 I i l»r*Ns Staff Reporter dogs in Singapore becoming more diffieateh, the Municipal ary Surgeon has told Health Committee of ipal Commission*I partly the tv -mail number of dogs re- e last the fact B ..ave complained on the .iary S he ei the
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    School plan
    10 5 IPOK s T. one by til A planned.
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    'Sack teacher' demand by students
    120 5 'Sack teacher' demand by students Kree Press Stall Reporter FIFTY-SEVEN students of standard three, four and who are taking English courses in the Al-Muhad AlKamud Religious School. Alor have written to their :p:U demanding the dis- il of their teacher. They ened to boycott the Engl-sh course should the remain
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    SPEED LIMIT INQUIRY IS REJECTED
    323 5 SPEED LIMIT INQUIRY IS REJECTED Plan for special body opposed JHK SingaMre Traffic Advisory Committee na.s turned down a suggestion bv the h K* Assoriati °n that a special committee should be set up to consider questions relating to the 30-milp speed limit in the Colony. sneer I limit! a
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    SHIP DELAYED
    23 5 DUE to "misunderstanding" between some crew members at Tanjong Priok. the Orange was two hours late in arriving at Singapore yesterday.
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    ANNIVERSARY
    18 5 About 100 attended the Singapore Malays Badminton Association's third anniversary tea partv at Kallane Airport. Singapore yesterday.
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    POLICE DEFINE RED DOCUMENTS
    135 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TMi Singapore Criminal Investiy^on Department yesterday defined Communist documents as "documents issued by the Malayan Communist Party or one of its subsidiary organisations such as the Singapore People's Anti-British League, the Singapore Students' Anti-British League, and the All-Races. All-Trades General Labour I'nion.
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    Boarding Han to stay
    64 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r FHE Singapore Educaaon Department has turned down the requests made by the management committees of the Singapore Chinese High School and Nanyang Girls' High School for pertnission to accept student boarders when the first school term starts this ar. Both schools
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    MUSIC HELPS TO RAISE OUTPUT
    315 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PLAYING of music during working hours In a number of Singapore factories has brought about an increase In production and greater efficiency among employees, ?n:> nigers told the Free Press yesterday. In one of the biggest rulrjr shoe factories in the
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    SOLDIERS FOR THE SICK
    53 5 picture. PIR. G. Handass, the acting Commissioner of the St. *J John Ambulance Brigade Singapore, inspecting the Ninsjapore Railway division of the brigade yesterday In the company of Divisional Superintendent Zainuddin bin >lohamed Jai. The headquarters of the division is housed a t the Railway Station,
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    U.K. RECRUITS FOR KEY JOBS
    244 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO key jobs in the Singapore Labour Department, x created under the department's expanded programme for 1951. will probably be filled by recruits from the United Kingdom. The men will be the Chief Employment Officer and the Chief Factories Inspector They
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    MUSLIM TALK
    55 5 MU SLIM TALK A lecture will be given on "Islam and Nationalism" by Maulana Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui at 7 p.m. on Jan. 9 at the premises of the All Malaya Muslim Missionary Society, No. 31 Loror. 12, Geylang. The lecture will be "delivered I in English and will be
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    S'pore T.U.C. to be formed
    106 5 Free Press Staff Reporter fWENTT-FOUR Singapore trade unions, yesterda> decided to form a trades union congress, despite a 'restrictive" trade unions law which prevent! the merging of Government and non-Gov-ernment and trade unions into a central organisation. An eleven-man interim committee, representing industrial, non-iiidustrial and
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    'MESSIAH' TRIUMPH
    175 5 THE Musical Society .s perfonnancei of Bach's The Christmas Oratorio"' (Paris 1 and II) and of Handel's "Messiah" <Part I>. Which had had to **e delayed, proved well worth waiting tor. An almost-full Victoria Hall acclaimed them last night. "Mestlah" is familiar territory and soloists, choir and orchestra
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    4 MINISTERS ORDAINED
    63 5 Five Press Staff Reporter FOUR minlsterg of the Methodist Chnrchei m Malaya were ordained yesterday morning by the Rev. Bishop Raymond L Archrr At 1 the Wesley Church. Fort Canning Ro^d Singapon They were Rev. E J Ponniah of Seremban. Rev V. A Subramaniam of Malacca. 'Rev.
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    COLLAPSES, DIES
    22 5 An old unidentified Indian collapsed and died on a outside Middleton Hospital. lioulmeln Road. c ncapnre. vf s:< rday evr»nine
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    Singapore's 2 Esperantists give up
    256 5 Singapore 's 2 Esperantists give up I ee Press Sta/i RcpQi A SOCIETY formed four years ftft to Itach Siniia- pore people Ksperanto— the international language has closed because of declining mt Beginning with 13 Chinese bu^ teachers and students and two hou s, thr Singapore Esperanto Society had on.
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    BROWN MAY CABLE FOR MORE PLAYERS
    596 6 BROWN MAY CABLE FOR MORE PLAYERS picture. Side depleted by injuries Denis Compton, a man whose fitness is always problematical because of his weak knee. On- course could be for Brown to ask R.W.V. Robins, a Test selector who is on business in Australia, to help cut the side in
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    Teams believe in 'lucky' shirts
    456 6 From VERNON MORGAN AIOST sportsmen are superstitious to some degree A and mhct teams believe that play-in* in their "lucky" shirts help them to win. Or rather, that if they do not play in their "lucky'' shirts they will lose. When seeing England beaten by
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    ENGLAND TOTAL INADEQUATE
    480 6 ENGLAND TOTAL INADEQUA TE From BILL BOWES Special to the Free Press SYDXEY, Monday. ENGLAND'S 290 in the third Test on Saturday was a disappointing score and after the injuries to the bowlers Bailey and Wright, who m:iv not take any further part in the match, totally inadequate. A restricted
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    Notable wins for UK horses
    736 6 FLAT-RACING IN 1950 From PETER S. WILLET'J rFHE focal point of every flat-racing mm son tine** World War II has been the rivalr* betwrt horses bred in England and France, tfcr two tjrcJi European producers of thoroughbreds In 1949 there was a great revival ot
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    UNION B.P.
    49 6 the U:lion B.P. annual general meeting, the following were elected offlce-b°a:er.s for 1951 President. Mr. n>o Boon lyehon. secretary, Lim Ah B^> hon treasurr. Lee Chye Huat; hon' auditor, Chan Chong Fone; hon sports captain, R. G. Van- r ommittee. John and Tan Chp n a Leong.
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    CHESS TOLRNEY
    26 6 TERMAN champion W. Unu zicker wen the international chess tournament at Hastings. Sussex, seven polnti on Saturday. The Frenchman M Rnsselimn scored <P^ Reuter
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    CHOONGS WIN 3 TITLES
    91 6 pHE Malayan players, E. B. and E. L. Clioong. who are at Cambridge University, dominated the men's events in the Northern Badminton Championships at Birkenhead on Saturday. E B. Chor.g beat his cousin in i he final of the men's singles by 15-5, 15-6, and together
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    S.C.C. forward rush
    38 6 picture. With his eye on the ball, Cashin of the Singapore Cricket Club dribbles past a South Johore defender in Saturday's rugger match on the Padang. S.C.C. won bv 24 points to nil.- Free Press
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    PENANG PICK TEAM v. S'PORE
    682 7 PENANG PICK TEAM v. S'PORE picture. H.M.S. Malaya rugby final Free Press Rugby Reporter AN SATURDAY, the final of the H.M.S. Malaya rugby competition will take place at Kuala Lumpur. Throughout the season teams have been striving for the right to travel to K.L. for the deciding match. Now, with
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    DAVIDS BEAT THE GOLIATHS
    398 7 U.K. soccer roundup II ROUS and heaw pitches brought about ot 'ie mo>t spectacular Football Associaunstta In Saturday's Third Round matches. IS 000 spectators braved stormy weather to Davids humble the Goliaths. tic Oral time for many year^ no teams <ide the Football League reached this
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    H.Q. MALAYA IN FINAL
    63 7 H.Q. MALAYA IN FINAL KUAI A M:\IPUR. Moil. TTEADQJARTFRS Malayo XV 11 pntfred the final of 'he r and Neave Cup by defeatthe 25th Field Rtgiment by sir ix>mts <two tries > to nil on ihp Rif-p Range group but Saturday, and this qualified to meet the Scots Guards in
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    Hockey League
    38 7 TAIPING, Sun— The Taip:ng and District Hockey Leaeue will be resumed tomorrow with a fixture between Chinese Recreation Club and R fc.M.E ipins Malays are now leading in the league with Teachers XI a close secoi'.cL
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    LOONE TAKES PERAK TITLE
    66 7 IPOH, Mon. Punching us hard as ever Lit tie Loone won a clear-cut decision and the Perak featherweight title from Boy Karim here on Saturday night. After a cautious start. Karim. opened up in the fifth round with two-handed attacks but Loone was too clever to
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    F.A. Cup 3rd round dates
    92 7 DATES for F.A. Cup third round postponed games and drawn replays are: Postponed: Rochdale t. Chelsea tomorrow, and Bristol Rovers t. Aldershot. Wednesday, Jan. 10. Replays: Stoke City Port Vale, today (again on the Stoke ground by previous agreement); Blackpool v. Charlton, Exeter City v.
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    FUSSY LARSEN
    79 7 TJLAYING in the South Ausiralian singles championship at Adelaide American singles tnleholder Art Ltnen demanded a press photographer to leave the Of the court oecause the click of his camera shu'ter might cause him to lose a point. lie also demanded that pioerammc sellers, newspaper boys ind ice
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    Third Test may be Iverson's last
    309 7 Third Test may be Iverson' s last From BILL BOWES SIDNEY, Mon. JACK Iverson, 35-year-old Victorian "freak" bowler who in three years has climbed from small club cricket to first choice as Australian spin bowler, tells me that this third Test match at Sydney "will probably be my last match
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    K.O. HOCKEY IN FINAL STAGES
    174 7 OINGAPORE Hockey Association's knockout tour- nament is in its closing stages. The semi-finals are being played this week, and the final is scheduled for next week, the actual date having yet to be fixed. Singapore Recreation Club "Reds' qualified for the semifinals by beating Sherwood
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    Speedway rider killed in crash
    56 7 SYDNEY. Sun Ken Le Breton, the Ashfield Glasgow I speedway rider, died in hospital last night from injuries received in tlie match against .England on Friday night. Le Breton riding for Aus- tralia. sustained severe head injuries during a collision with an English rider. Both
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    TAIPING WIN
    38 7 TAIPING. Sun. Taiping XV were In scoring mood yesterday when they defeated 656 A.O.P. Squadron by 29 points i four goals and three tries) to three t.ryj at J Rugby on the Taiping School around vesterdav
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    SAVAGE GAMAGE...
    89 7 CHARLIE GAMAGE, Australian heavyweight wrestler, is minus m tooth, and his opponent, Jim Anderson, has a twisted knee after their fight at the Happy World arena en Saturday night. Gamage's tooth was knocked out in the first round .and Ander§on had to retire in the fourth with knee
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    LATEST U.K. FOOTBALL PLACINGS
    649 7 TjXX)TBALL. League standing? ufier Saturday's matches were as follows: THIRD DIVISION (Northern) Goals P W D L F A pts Rotherham 24 17 3 ***** 37 Carlisle U. 25 14 7 ***** 35 Tranmere 22 12 7 3 44 29 31 _aie.head 25 13 4 8
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    Rugby trials give little aid to selectors
    451 7 Rugby trials give little aid to selectors tWULAND, Scotland and Wales all beta ttodl Ittal Rugby Union trial matches on Saturday England and The Rest failed to score in the trial at Twickenham and the form displayed has left the selectors a perplexing problem to settle when the v choose
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    SINGAPORE BASEBALL
    65 7 DODGERS were defeated oy Helicals by 20 runs lo II.! in a friendly baseball gam^ j played before a large crowo lon the Farrer Park gr< yesterday Highlights of the ga were the sound pitching by* Issac Chan who made a hit run against Dodgers in] the first
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    U.S. MUST SEEK PEACE BY TALK
    371 8 U.S. MUST SEEK PEACE BY TALK 'Supremacy 'day is over NEW YORK, Monday. 4 MERK AS "short moment" of world supremacy has passed and now it must attempt to negotiate with Russia if there is to be world peac?, Mr. James Warburg, the author and economist, said yesterday. Mr Warburg
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    De Gaulle to U.S. 'don't forget Europe'
    119 8 De Gaulle to U.S. 'don't forget Europe' PARIS Mon. pENERAL Charles Dp Gaull?. vJin a speech yesterday made i strongly-worded appeal to not to abandon Europe." Speaking at a mass meeton the day of General Eisenhowers arrival in Europe he said: '"I appeal to you, Americans, to defend Europe. Europe
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    Rest system for troops
    105 8 TOKYO. Mon. THREE officers .md 13 other ranks from the Ist Battalion of the Middlesex F ment with the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade arrived in Tokyo yesterday by nlane from Korea for fiverest at the BCOF have hostel at Bblsu camp. Tokyo They are the flrst
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    British rubber for Soviet
    171 8 LONDON. Mon. BRITAIN shipped 9.878 tons of raw rubber to the Soviet Union in the first 11 moiuhs of 1950, total value was U556.254.000. The shipment of rubber was more than 20 times the amount exported to Russia in the same period in 1949 and an
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    LAND SETTLEMENT
    23 8 Pnilippine Government agencies have embarked on the opening of big tracts of i »and in Mindanao fnr imn->o_ diate settlement Reuter
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    AMERICAIN C-M POSTPONED
    62 8 The field general cot; martial at Taegu. Korea, on Private Robert Fague of the tl Army Service Corps, ald to have shot a Korean while on guard, has been ;>oned because of the "present fluid state of the military operation The trial was postponed because of the
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    U.S. AIDS BRAZIL
    80 8 The United States and! Brazi!. in the first agreement j of its kind to De signed in l Latin America, have completed a "Point Four" agreement by which U.S. $8.000 000 will be spent in the next few months to aid Bra7ilian H Ova lopment. Mr Jean
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    50 8 MV'?^™ KRIN(iIK of lender, Minnesota. J25 '°und him if short of ciKarettes so he strjp dth v*m<N off his plane, and taxied into town to Ret some. tie was fined Sl5 and promised to aet a pil<»tv iiiJ nr and obey aeronautical regulations in future.- U.P.
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    Africa plans new dominion
    72 8 LUSAKA, Mon. A NEW self-governing British dominion may arise in Central Africa from a conference among representatives of Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Britain to be held in London in March. Already in existence is the six-year old Central African Council which co-ordinates services common
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    TAFT STIRS UP U.S. PRESS
    240 8 NEW YORK, Monday. JXITED States press comments on Senator Robert Taft. Republican, reflected support for aid to friendly countries and a feeling that the United States must limit its commitments to its capacity. "If we could believe— as Taft seemingly believes —that Russia has no
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    99 8 LANDSBERG, Germany, Mon. JEWISH displaced persons yesterday clashed with a crowd of 3.000 German demonstrators asking the release of war criminals in Landsberg prison, but were drive*! off in 10 minutes of bloody bare-knuckle fighting. Police intervened in the riot and arresled several of I'ne Jewish
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    RETURN VISIT
    28 8 A Yugoslav workers' delegation is expected to visit Israel early this year In return for a recent visit of "Histadrut" (General Federation or Jewish Labour) delegates
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    62 8 LONDON, Mon. George Gribbett. Undersecretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation left here by air today for India where he is expected to negotiate a bilateral air agreement. Most of the 8.0.A.Cs services to the Far East and Australia which pass through India are expected to be
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    EGYPT BLAMES RED CHINA
    73 8 CAIRO. Sun. THE Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman commenting on reports that the United States will urge the United Nations to brand Communist China as the aggressor in Korea, said. "Egyptian Government considered that the Chinese Communist Government exists at the first inception as the aggressor against
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    23 8 The U.S. Government lias approved plans of 18 companies to spend nearlv US $470,000,000 to expand steel production facilities.- A.P.
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    Sealskin caps for 'Tommy,' dated 1919
    138 8 Sealskin caps for 'Tommy,' dated 191 9 tojip o SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, S.inday TOE Bmisn troops in Korea were today discussing one of the mysteries of army supply -the issue of sealskin caps more than 30 years old Following questions in the Commons about the lack of winter clothing f
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    Destiny Stone plaque found
    228 8 LONDON, Sunday. A PLAQUE which is believed to have bei n attached i to the bottom of the Coronation Chair above the missing Coronation Stone has been found by the I police. The small oak plaque inscribed with the history of the Coronation Stone was found
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    134 8 TOLEDO. OHIO. Mon. QAN you turn on a red light in London? What is the signal for a quick stop in Lahore. India 0 How 13 the road between Haiphong and Hanoi 0 Who has the right of way in Tripoli? A cosmopolitan class
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    107 8 Fair deal proposals doomed WASH INCH' PRESIDENT Tl annual Union messa. ed to Con«: heav.lv weighted He will lay out what laws h<mon ;h s ahead in V Senate-House the events o* of the nt'w Con-^r- sthi s clear: h> Deal proD()> chance of k i Mr Trum^: will g
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    'European law' plan
    29 8 'European law' plan 1 BRUSSLLTHE Consult;; of April at Cam a m under the ch S Mr. Paul-hcr. Bureau of tl j sultatiY' terrli I oil nt Eur Reuter
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    29 8 I )on S; Tibetan offlriri through I yesterday on 1 1 border The Tibetan*, ;s now cmmj •ng with a s wers totalling 3i>o- Reuter
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