The Singapore Free Press, 25 April 1951

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA Nil 18.065. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25. 1951. I'KICK TKN (l,M>
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    TRAIN BURIED
    16 1 e buried the d several coaches of -Zurich express last people were kil- A.P.
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    ALLIED ARMIES HOLD RED ATTACK
    374 1 More than 8, 000 die m one day T'r fir t fun ,r *k TOKYO, Wednesday. i t i? Al- omm «n««t two-day-old offensive m Ko^ea has spent itself with Chinese dead strewn alon* the 100-mile United 1 hero were more than 8,000 Communist casualties
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    Air service for small towns
    112 1 Free Presa StalT Keporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. FFHE Federal (iovernment expects to make an anr.uul profit of nearly SlOO.OOO from the new mI 'Beaver** mt service which will shortly bt iwlaccd t;> link isolated townships with the a \n Airways trunk route of 3~> lint
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    U.S. raising army mission in Formosa
    96 1 U.S. raising army mission in Formosa WASHINGTON. Wed. THE United States military mission to Formosa will probably be increased to 500 or 600 officers and men, said the U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary, Mr. Robert Lovett. m Washington. The initial size of the mission now en route to the island bastion
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    MORE POLICE CAMPS
    132 1 MORE POLICE CAMPS Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. NEARLY $9,000,000 will be spent this year on camps and equipment for 45 Federation Police Jungle Compani--1 es. Of this sum, $7,500,000 is to be .spent on building 45 operational camps at tactical points throughout the Federation. Ten camps are
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    Tories win in Japan
    64 1 TOKYO. Wed. THE biggest turn-out of voters m Japanese history have given Mr. Shigeru Yoshida's Conservative Government a total victory m local elections. Incomplete results yesterday gave the Conservatives 80 per cent of the vote m the elections for local Assemblymen and Mayors. The Communists so
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    RUBBER: U.S. WILL BE INDEPENDENT
    60 1 THE United States plans to become "peri.ranently independent of Far Eastern crude rubber sources. 1 Mr. Jess Larson, head of the General Services Administration, told a Senate Committee the nation is nearing its ffoal of a rubber reserve sufficient to sustain a five-year war. He
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    TROOPS COMING
    28 1 The French liner Athos left Marseilles yesterday for Indo_ China with 1,047 French troops. A further 749 troops will join the ship at Bizerta Tunisia Reuter
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    MacARTHUR WILL TESTIFY MAY 3
    186 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday pENEKAL Douglas Mac Arthur has agreed to testify on Thursday, May 3, before Senate committees investigating his dismissal, it was disclosed yesterday. Gen. Mac Arthur will appear before the Senate Armed Services Ccmmittee. A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee probably will
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    Allowance for entertainment
    126 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. pOLICE officers m tne Federation who. as a' result of the emergency, "are required to entertain members of His Majesty's Forces and the general public more than would normally be the case" are to be paid $36,750 In emergency entertainment
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    FEWER OF THEM
    38 1 Illegitimate births hi England and Wales m 1950 dropped below the average for the preceding five years. Fortynine of every thousand live births were illegitimate last s*ar; 15 per thousand below the average for 1945-49.
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    JAKARTA MISSION
    12 1 Sir Mirza Ismail, United Nations Technical Assistance Resident Representative for
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    SEEKS LOAN
    29 1 The Israeli Minister of Transport and Communications, Or. Dov Joseph is m Los Angeles on behalf of a $500,000,000 Israeli bond issue to be floated soon.- U.P.
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    DOCTORS NEEDED
    5 1 The Tlnitftri StatgaDiifflni
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    British proposals on oil
    162 1 British proposals on oil LONDON, Wed. I TJRITAIN is expected shortly j O to make new proposals i for a settlement of the dis- pute over the nationalisation of oilfields m Iran, it was learned yesterday m London Authoritative sources said that the British Cabinet would this week consider a
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    FOOD FOR INDIA
    27 1 The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday formally approved a bill to authorize a $190,000,000 loan to buy food for India.- U.P.
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    Two Wide Boys
    15 1 I j fj o tail, he should certainly liven up Class Five."
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    Today's best bets
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    CENOTAPH TRIBUTE
    73 1 REPRESENTATIVES of the Australian and New Zealand Association m Malaya and the Ex-Service Association laving their wreaths at the Cenotaph m Singapore this morning m commemoration of ANZAC Day. They are from left to right: Mr. Tom Critchley. new acting Australian Commissioner m Malaya. Mr. James Payne. Australian
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    HIGHER PAY FOR DEPT. CHIEFS
    279 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TIEADS of department m the Federation of Malaya j will receive salary increases of about $150 each if proposals for salaries of superscale Malayan Establishment posts are approved by the Federal i Legislative Council. The proposals were laid
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    Anzac day in Singapore
    90 1 DURING nils morning's ANZAC Day service at the Singapore. Cenotaph a New Zealand airman fainted through the heat and was escorted off the road An Australian air officer tA gered backwards out of file and sat down on the Padang s facing the Ceno'aph. He soon
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    EX-EDITOR DIES
    20 1 Mr. Samuel T'.wnsend Shephard. a former editor <>i the Timos of India. Bombay. hns died m London.- Reuter
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    'U.S. UNJUST' —CHEVALIER
    79 1 Maunce Chevalier, the Ftench stage star, said yesterday lhat the American government has done him '"an immense injustice" m denying him a visa because he signed the Stockholm Peace pledge. Mr. Chevalier. 63. who was a passenger m the iiner EmpreM of Canada which stopped m Quebec
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    RITA THINKS OF DIVORCE
    50 1 Film actress RHa Hay- worth's attorney said yester- day that she is considering a divorce from Aly Khan. "No decision has been reached yet. said the attorney, Mr. Bartley Grum. His statement contrasted with earlier denials by the star that she m considering a divorce, Reuter
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    Dato Onn to get $3,000 a month
    322 1 Dato Onn to get $3,000 a month Pay for 'Ministers' Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wedm-d. SALARIES totalling nearly $200,000 a yj will be drawn by the six n"\\ Mini-i m the Federation, it was iiicUwd m Finance Committee report laid before Federal Legislative Council thi< morn nu. Dato
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    TB—'Vetoes' can be bad for patient,
    745 2 TB— 'Vetoes' can be bad for patient By The Singapore Doctor VLJILL a little exercise such as swimmi7ig effect the health of a .TB patient who has teen receiving treatment for more than five years? What are the effects of streptomycin and penicillin. T. G. TELFER. WHETHER or not a
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    Breakfast is important
    206 2 DKEAKFAST n:av he ti.ie D day'i most important meai. Going without it has measurable physiological efTects, significant for both sexea but mere pronounced .*•>• men. Tnis is demot'.lr cc: by ex. l »ix* tf just <-c j teo '•irougli the journal rj the American Dietetic Association by
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    How the 'unforgiving minute' drags
    736 2 How the 'unforgiving minute' drags By PHYSICAL CULTURIST I HAVE found that there is a section of the community which exercises with wonderful enthusiasm they intend to rise "m a minute*' and do their Jerks, but that minute draes into thirty, and finally they are compelled to leap out of
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    A DOCTOR 'CHARTS' WHAT MAKES HATE
    562 2  -  CHAPMAN PINCHER By 230 people tested WHAT makes you hate? In what way would you like to take your revenge on the person you hate most? To answer these, and other questions involving human hostility London University psychologist Dr. PETER McKELLAR has carried out
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      17 2 SoSuticn To Crossword Ho. 335 Across: 1. Chic; 4. Earn; 8, 15. Arakan; 9. Pleader; 10, Button-
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      91 2 >^x^ w ere y /Z <^kf^ these days 7 1U M x l»m»mb«f you cannot 4i»*p f*^ ab^*l •'Umin*. Lack of iufflc.«nt iy -w I^V^o *cw*rt kedly re*>itancc and I bl# cou f n <ol4t and oth«li^y AH^k ftuild up yotir r«*iftance »C« r jj|k Crookot Halibut OM. Thu co
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      212 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are just but firm. Once you have made up your r...nd on a male;, nothing will change it. You should learn to be a little more flexible. Determination and perseverance are fine: but pigheaded stubbornness can undermine your fu ure. Learn to distinguish between
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      130 2 Hew Crossword No. 336 CTTKB ACROSS 1, 7. Gaunt alien men are here to conclave (6, 7). 8, 13. with its pr.rts reversed is free (3, 3). 9. He's a cap when he goes after the deer (7>. 10. Repeated expression of aurprlat m USA for a horse (3, 3).
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    Pastor who broke 7th Commandment
    102 3 Pastor who broke 7th Commandment A LONDON, Wed. SOLICITOR said at York England, that his client, a former probation minister m the Free Church, resigned because he could not reconcile his position with his private lile. m which he "was breaking the seventh Commandment." He fell Id love with a
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    RUBBER TAPPING-WITH PISTOLS
    421 3 RUBBER TAPPING-WITH PISTOLS Indo-China faces labour problems i FKENCH planters with T* 0 o*'0 Wednesday. Suns exnect thl h pistols and sub-machine rubber fVom^he mUkl™ 1° CXport 49 000 tons of of southern IndnTh^ V sc d sa »> of the h *avea trees almost da?lv ski rm^h a S
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    MORE EXPERT AID
    41 3 Mr. B. H. Johnston, head of the Japan and Pacific Department of the British Foreign Office, has gone to Washington to assist Embassy officials m their discussions with the U.S. State Department en Japanese oeace treaty matters.— Reuter
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    Professors in 'Plato' battle
    185 3 NEW YORK, Wednesday. DHILOSOPHY professor Lewis Fever and three of his instructors have been sacked from one of America's most exclusive schools Vassar College for girls because they thought Plato was "old hat,'' and preferred to teach the writings of Spencer and other 19th century British
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    Bridge Hand
    384 3 BY M HARRISON -GRAY 'pHE treatment of a hand of Uu following type Is frequently distorted by those who pay too much rffctention to the theory of reverse bidding: 8. 9. H. A 9 7 2. D. X Q 10 3 2. C. Q 4. An opening bid
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    Liners have to leave empty
    46 3 Liners have to leave empty Four liners are sailing for Britain with unfilled food holds, it is reported from Melbourne. Despite a drive to turn ships round quicker Australia's coal shortage is preventing rail haulage of cargoes, including 50,000 tons of dried fruits, to the ports.
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    SHIP ABANDONED
    26 3 The Arab Navigation Company's vessel, Arab Trader. 499 tons, which struck-a reef outside Mombasa harbour on April 13, has been officially declared abandoned.— A.P
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      191 3 LAST FOUR SHOWS i m tn m pm A our last chance of srHnc this outstanding production. »•o o __*_2 3 < »j« JOSEPH COTTEN VALU ORSON WELLES TREVOR HOWARD "THEJHIRD MAN" ranoMow v The story of Uly Jam. n. the girl who reajlv Uv?d... M-O-M detenu LANA ray TURK*
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      404 3 Movement— 4 'Time'; 6 IndoneDii« Vjnr UI\L ;i ;in: News and Programmes 181.11 NKTWOKR) <BBC>; 6.30 Cantonese: News 10 a.m. Emergency News from <BBC); 6.45 London Studio MeloKliala Lumpur; 1 p.m. Heinz dies; 7.15 French: Newts (BBC); Alexander at the Capitol Ham- 7.30 English Half-Hour; 8 Strictly mond Oagan; 1.30
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  • The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, April 25, 1951.
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      Building priorities
      265 4 H'KE bud news yesterday that the Singapore Government had decided on drastic ailment of all its Utiing projects, and that the Medical anil r nation Plans m i articular would suffer, not entirely untected. j been foreshadowed m i leech when I anJcita C": opened n o! the
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      $500 debate
      94 4 THK battle of the Council- lors* allowance is over. By a vote of scvtn to six, a tion to reduce the payment of $500 a month to $250 was defeated at yesterday's meeting The Propr» voted solidly for less money. Against them *ere all four Nominated memb Labour
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    Truman: Big Little Tough Guy
    988 4  - Truman: Big Little Tough Guy CLIFFORD HULME By /\NCE again, Harry Truman has demonstrated that his amiable exterior conceals a courage and toughness few of America's 32 Presidents have possessed. Remit! 100 years ago the granite-like Lincoln dismissed an insubordinate general who caJled him a baboon. In 1910 President Tatt
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    Another HMV swing session
    317 4 CINGAPORES swing fans will be treated to a 20-minute "live" programme at the H.M.V. Studio's swirig session at Mac Donald House tonight. The programme, beginning at 5.45 p.m.. will also feature the records of seven leading jazz and swing maestroes. including Lionel Hampton. Humphrey Lyttleton and
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    YOUNG PRODUCER CAN REST FOR A WHILE
    498 4  -  FRANK ROGERS By "Show Business will he a sell out once again pHE highly successful variety show "Show Business* which had a one night "run" at the Victoria Memorial Hall earlier In the month is coining backon April 27— again, unfortunately, for one
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    New Records
    313 4 Mozart Requiem m D Minor by the chorus and orchestra of the I IMI (conducted by Sabata) with Tassinari (soprano) Stignani (mezzo-soprano), Tagliavini (tenor) and Italo Tajo (bass). HMV. DB 9541-8. Mozart died before this work could be completed and much of it was composed by his favourite
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    To Entertain—or to Educate?
    566 4  - To Entertain— or to Educate? Presto > W \1 7/v THIS week I intend to cross swords with a colleague, "Citizen," whose feature, "Talking about Singapore" appears m the Free Press every Saturday. "Citizen," it seems, is not fond of classical music. He thinks Radio Malaya gives us far too
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    FEDERATION BID TO HALT C.O.L. RISE
    298 5 FEDERATION BID TO HALT C.O.L. RISE $1,290,000 for 65 new Co-ofrerative shotis From Our Staff Correspondent To nrr A c KUALA LUMPUR, Today. lin kvi r the ex P ansio «f Co-operative shops m the Federation, SI nut aim i° ro lunter^ct1 unter^ct the rising cost of living, the sum
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    SACRED BEADS & GARLANDS
    40 5 SACRED BEADS GARLANDS With u-irland of flowers round neck and sarred beads m his hands. Santa Harnam Singh Ihr Sikh religious leader. bhv*d his followers m Singapore njc a prayer meeting h;ld at M H.*h Street. Singapore, on Saturday night-
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    Language schools for M.C.S.
    50 5 Language schools for M.C.S. KUALA LUMPUR. Toe: re i! the X C Council xpendUure Jl i ration n be 1 ur. c teach* id a ;p-to- -form a three-year conlurement to S5OO. V t Goves of Government another ited Government would living c, travelttn >.ance .c Amerlos \Mfe and two
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    $6,500,000 FOR FED. ELECTRICITY BOARD
    119 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Today. THE Federation Finance Committee has approved $6,500,000 for the Central Electricity Board, who will issue to Government m return an equivalent amount Of ordinary stock. On its first year's working the Electricity Board icill pay a dividend of four per cent on
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    RELIGIOUS TEACHER GETS B.E.M.
    41 5 A tier d the First iat Lebal ::übi. ha 1 been awardht British Empire Medal C i v la on) it was announced m Kuala Lumpur yesterday forh:s attention to the wounded after a ti of Fa!
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    90 ENGAGED FOR FED. CIVIL DEFENCE DUTIES
    307 5 sonal emoluments excluding the Comptroller and Directors who hold other posts under the Government i. $20,000 m annually recurrent expenditure and "8'i.900 m special expenditure. From Our Staff Correspondent KCALA LUMPUR, Wednesday THE Civil Defence and Home Guard organisation appears as a separate
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    CRUISE OF THE PELANDOK
    66 5 The Malayan Ship -Pelandok sailed froni H.M. Naval Base. Singapore, on Monday last for a training cruise to ports on the vest coast of Malaya. She win call at Penan* tomorrow at Lumuf on Sunday, at Port Dickson on Wednesday. H Muar on Friday, May 4.
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    MCS OFFICERS FOR RIDA
    44 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. T^INE additional posts on i l^ ihe Malayan Civil Ser- vice for RIDA development officers, to replace the present ten temporary Posts I have been approved by tne Finance Committee m a report tabled at the Federal
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    An expert in stevedoring
    52 5 c(I !he \vls'. i w ships masters w-i ii "s*ii" endorsements on their tickets. Captain Bill Hastings, an expert m stevedoring and salvage operations, passed through Singapore at the weekend en route to California for retirement after rehabilitating ChiUagong harbour, and re-or-ganizing its port facilities. Free
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    FAIR PRICES SCHEME
    25 5 The Federation Government announced yesterday that it would put into operation a fair prices scheme throughout the Federation from Monday April 30.
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    APPOINTMENT
    29 5 Dr. J. Coutts-Milne has been appointed to be a member of the Labour Advisory Board for the Colony of Singapore m place of Mr. D. Smith who resigned.
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    KLANG RIVER DRAMA
    148 5 KLANG RIVER DRAMA A few hours after the excite- i mint of drama No. 1 had died town at Kiang on Monday with the total collapse of the 200- I yard long "Madras" Bridge! '(above) over the Klang River, j drama No. 2 began when the nearby Sidney Bridge (seen
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    71st birthday celebration
    65 5 About 200 guests were present al a dinner given by Messrs. Anthony P. K. Wee and Thomas P. M. Wee on the occasion of the 71st birthday of their mother. Madam An* Hen? Lian, at the Wing Choon Yuen Restaurant la^t Sunday. Picture shows >Tadam An* «eated
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    EXTRA PRISON OFFICERS TO DEAL WITH BANISHEES
    127 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Today. -QANISHEES who are now being < held m various detention camps all over the Federation, are to be assembled m Seremban Prf- 1 son. which is to have a bigger Staff of prison officers. This was
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    Temporary cessation of all Govt building programmes
    1525 5 NEW COUNCIL TOLD OF PLANS TO COMBAT RISING COSTS Free Press Staff Reportt-r TJEPOKTING to the Singapore Legislative Council M-trid.iy on measures taken by the Government to combat rising price Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blvthe, announced the practical cessatid for the time
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    Import policy relaxed
    308 5 I r ee Press Staff ReporUr. THHK whole policy cif Malayan import control is constantly under review and will be adjusted t<» meet the needs of the country whenever it is obvious that increased importation of any commodity is necessary to remove a short *uppl> existing; m
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      212 5 THIS MONTH'S NEW RECORDS jOHANN STRAUSS. |r -Emperor ('Kaiser') l Op. 437-Vienna Philharmonic Orch cond. W.lhelm Furtwangler DB ***** RICHARD STRAUSS-Dance of the Seven Veils Ifrom Salome. 1 Op. 54)-The Ro V al Ph.l. Orch. cond. Sir Thomas Beecham DB 21 149 TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Theme m Suite No
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    GHOST SHIP CURSE HELD TO THE END
    930 6 GHOST SHIP CURSE HELD TO THE END Fabian of the Yard continues his tour Ex-Superintendent ROBERT FABIAN continues his tour of Britain, m which ho spotlights brilliant, real-life detective stories cases which local police solved^ without calling: m Scotland Yard, s Tilt white steam yacht Sayonara fluttered disaster like skull-and-cross-bones
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    All club lotteries to be taxed 20 per cent
    331 6 All club lotteries to be taxed 20 per cent PROPOSAL TO FEDERATION COVT. Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. ALL club lotteries will m future be liable to a 20 per cent lax m the Federation if proposals submitted to the Federation Government by the Taxation Advisory Committee are
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    30 6 YESTERDAY'S U.K. Rugby X results were: Rugby Union: Exeter 3, Newport 0; Teignmouth 13, Gloucester 8. Rugby League: Newsbury 7, Bramley 5; Keighley 22, Castleford 2.— Reuter
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    REFEREE DID RIGHT THING
    169 6 REFEREE Capt. Stocker did the right ihing when he abandoned yesterday's SAFA Le:"-ue Div. 1 game at Jalan E° seven minutes before tl r.d. The goal area at the pavilion end became so waterlogged that play was virtually impossible. The game while it lasted was played
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    UP AND OVER
    44 6 Lit. -Col. Crawford on Steadfast ill Lalt i thorn hodKe m cr<\»t style m the cross-country test at the Badminton Olympic Equestrian Trials to select candidates for the British team to go to Helsinki m 1952.- Army News Services pi< tuir
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    13 Services boxers for Saigon trip
    184 6 1 3 Services boxers for Saigon trip Free Press Boxing Reporter THIRTEEN Services boxers from Singapore arc travelling to Saigon at the beginning of next month to compete against French boxers of the Combined Services, Indo-China. The team was selected from competitors m the recent Singapore inter-Services boxing championships. The
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    Ayres to rest two months
    92 7 ARTHUR Ayres has been an inmate Of Bung.sar Hfwspital, Kuala Lumpur, since last week with an infected leg. After an operation Arthur is progressing satisfactorily and will be discharged tomorrow. He leaves for Singapore on Friday and will sail for a two-month holiday m Australia
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    Thomas beats Spaniard
    211 7 EDDIE THOMAS, British. European and Empire welterweight champion, beat Antonio Monzon, the Spanish title-holder, on points over ten rounds at Harringay arena. London, last night. Thomas did not have matters all his own way and there was some booing when the referee announced a points victory for
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    TAJURRAH IS A STABLE FANCY
    677 7 Latest hints from track From ALLAN LEWIS NO rain has fall™ .v KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. this X n the ra «*our.se since Sunday, but the going for proKramirr'V 1 Stl be soft Th e most discussed event on today's Life Buoy KiiM S race for
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    OLDHAM WIN 2-0
    22 7 Oldham beat Rochdale bv two goals to nil in an English Football League Div. 3 (Northern) fixture yesterday. A.P.
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    Cockell too crafty for Beshore
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    Match postponed
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    Farr batters McDermott
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    167 7 THE Soviet Union has set up an Olympic committee, the Soviet Committee for Physical Culture and Sports newspaper, Soviet Sport, announced yesterday. This suggests that Russia would like to compete m the Olympic Games. The formation of an Olympic committee is essential before a
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    WILLIAMS TO DEFEND HIS TITLE
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    83 8 CAIRO, Wed. ITGYPT yesterday replied to the British proposals for the revision of the 1936 AngloEgyptian treaty, a 20-year pact which Egypt wants to be modified. Details were not disclosed but it was understood the reply considered previous British proposals unsatisfactory and made counter-pro-posals. Unofficial
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    LOCUSTS SWARM OVER PUNJAB
    67 8 More than 100.000 volunteers launched B mighty often. Jive m a '"battle without bullets" m Karachi m a desperate bid to halt huge locust swarms m the Punjab which threaten to ravage the grainbowl ot Western Pakistan. The operations involved the dusting with poison powder of
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    Soskice to be Attorney-General
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    168 8 LONDON, Wednesday. A LTHOFGH market men remain cautious awaiting developments m the home political situation there were bright features on the Stock Exchange yesterday, states Reuter's financial correspondent. British Government stocks returned to favour and steady buying of long-dated issues lifted prices by three-eighths. Also to
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    GERMANS MAY EXPERIMENT
    37 8 The Western allies have relaxed some of their bans on German non-military scientific research. German scientists may now, with written permission of the military security board, separate isotopes and experiment with jet propulsion. A.P.
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    26 8 The United States, now ild to be about five years ehind Britain In the ■ortstruction of jet airliners, •nay lag behind even farther
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