The Singapore Free Press, 31 May 1951

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    18 1 The Singapore free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN (KM >.
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    BLOCKADE CHINA-U.S. NAVY CHIEF
    343 1 BLOCKADE CHINA -U.S. NAVY CHIEF Sherman calls for full U. N. action WASHINGTON, Thursday. •rest Sherman yesterday advocated a United Nations ommenial blockade to strangle Communist China's md choke off the flow of war goods shipped by sea to the irnm- m Korea. ol his testimony, the U.S. Chief of
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    36 1 Mathilde Kschesin,k:t. one of the greatest ballerinas of the days of the Czarist court, went to the Stoll Theatre m London to see Swan Lake. Afterwards the 78-year-old former dancer was surrounded by the admiring dancers.
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    Reds hit back after defeats
    51 1 Reds hit back a fter defeats TOKYO. Thursday. MSI trtsps launched spreading counterparate sectors of the 120-mile resterdaj as United Nations infantrytinir wa> through rain and mud n opposition. m from what I vav I the I I ■j m m I I rhar B B B H B MOon|
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    3 BANDITS KILLED IN BATTLE
    165 1 3 BANDITS KILLED IN BATTLE Free Press Staff lie purler KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. THREE bandits were killed m an engagement on Monday m the Kuantan area of Pahang, bringing the total number of bandits killed on Monday to 19 the highest m a single day for many months. A security
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    LAN DING PARTY IN N. KOREA
    82 1 Admiral Forrest P. 1 man U.S Chief of Naval Operations, revealed yesterday that a U.S warship put a landing party ashore m North Korea early this week to destroy some vessels which apDeared to be mine layers. The landing took place the "day before
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    No hope for pit victims
    136 1 DURHAM. Thurs. HOPE was abandoned l.*st night for the 62 miners entombed by hundreds of tons of rubble blasted loose by yesterday^ coal pit explosion here. Lord Hyndley. chairman of the National Coal Board announced: "Though everything ha s been done and is still being
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    NETHERLANDS BAN
    31 1 The Netherlands government Is expected to announce within a few days a ban on shipment of strategic materials to countries behind the Iron Curtain and Com- munist China. A.P.
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    TRUMAN WARNED
    27 1 A Belgian resistance movement has warned President Truman that coi\inued leniency towards Nazi war criminals may ccst the United States the friendship of Belgium A.P.
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    THEY'RE SATISFIED
    40 1 LONDON, Wed.— The Panchen Lama of Tibet and his Council have said that the new Peking-Lhasa agreement fully satisfies the interests of Tibetans and of all China nationalities, according to a Peking message received m London today- Reuter
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    23 1 Mr. *Vau Acheson, the U.S. Secretary of State, who will testify today before the Senate Committee investigating the dismissal of Gen. Mac Arthur.
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    SECURITY STEPS IN BELFAST
    151 1 BELFAST, Thursday. POLICE m Belfast yesterday searched buildings to ensure that no Irish terrorists will He In; wait to endanger the lives of Queen Elizabeth and Winces, Margaret when they visit Northern Ireland this Wee Tne d king will not come with them because he is
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    PERSIA EXPELS 2 U.K. PRESSMEN
    179 1 TEHERAN, Thursday. TWO BRITISH newspaper correspondents have x been ordered by the Persian government security police to leave the country within 24 hours. The two correspondents arr Mr. Haig Nicholson, Reuters Middle East manager, and Mr. Thomas Sefton Delmer, chief foreign correspondent of the Daily
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    Pole flier says 'once is enough'
    148 1 NEW YORK. Thura AIRLINE pilot Charles F. Blair, Jnr., returned today irom a busman's holiday flight over the North Pole and said: "Once is enough.'' The 41-year-old flier, who made history's first solo flight over the Pole m a single-engined plane, arrived at the
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    New students for 'varsity
    118 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ONE hundred and sixty- tixi boys and girls will soon be informed that they will be admitted to the University of Mailaya. the Assistant Registrar, Mr. H. D. Lewis, told the Free Press today. The University Senate. Mr. Lewis said, made its
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    BATTLE FOR RICE FIELDS IN I-C
    186 1 SAIGON, Thurs. TTPWARDS of 20,000 Communist Vietminh troops launched an attack along the Day River yesterday m what an official French communique termed the "battle of the ricefields." The Red assault followed a series of French attacks to protect the ricefields m an attempt
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    530 jobs for Britons in Malaya
    193 1 530 jobs for Britons in Malaya LONDON, ThurMl.iv iy|R. Tom Cook, Colonial Inder-Secretarv. said m 1T1 the Commons last niffht that then* weir M Civil Service vacancies m all departments m Singapore and the Federation to be filled from Britain. Not all these, however, required to bo tilled immediately. Posts
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    Soviet ships for rubber
    81 1 COLOMBO, Wed /CHINESE lubber buyers have offered ;o arrange for Russian ships to cany their from Ceyion. .say reliable sources here. Rubber shippers were reported to be delaying action while i hey find out how payment would be made. Local Press reports said a' least one
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    7 police officers resign
    122 1 LONI MR T\>m I Secretary for I I \<A(\ a questioner m the i mons la.st night 1 SO, abjut 220.00Q tfiua Malaya had been re I le r regrouped ftbouf ball number to be dealt i Expenditure to thai d wa.s $27,000,000 excluding cost of
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    GRENADE KILLS 9 CHILDREN
    26 1 Nir.e children and t\*o men wen- killed restentftf when a grenade exploded m cinema at Thudu«> vill i miles from Saie Reuter
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    MANPOWER CHIFF
    20 1 KUALA LI PIS Wed R. w. Jackson. Ad-. and Mines. Kelantan been appoint <d Director »f VLinDower. Kelant^n
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    129 characters— every one indexed
    826 2  - 1 29 characters every one indexed PETER Q UEN NELL PRIESTLEY'S BOOK IS IN -THE OLD COMIC TRADITION OF STORY-TELL-ING '-ACCORDING TO PRIESTLEY. By FESTIVAL AT FARRKIDGE. by J B. PriestJcv, (lleinem.mn). B. PRIESTLEY S new novel. Festitival at Farbridge, contains 586 large pages and no fewer than 129 I
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    ITS NOT CRICKET
    18 2  -  VARNEY -by *7 say, old sport—you don't happen to have a m t safety yin?"
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    WHAT MADE THE SHAKERS SHAKE?
    848 2  -  GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON They danced and whirled like dervishes. It was part of the war against Satan. by HEAVENS ON EARTH. By Mark Holloway. (Turnstile: AMONG the thou- sands of Europeans who poured into the New World not so long after its discovery, there were
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    He builds again the life of Mr. Holmes
    270 2  -  JON HOPE PEOPLE by WHERE DID Sherlock Holmes live? Where, exactly, m Baker Street WAS NO. 221 b? Most readers accept the location of .he Holmes H.Q. as being at the Regents Park end of Baker Stree:. But not so London solicitor
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    PUZZLE: FIND the FILM STAR
    73 2 PUZZLE FIND the FILM STAR gACK from Pf ■month to U.S.A. is Geoffrey Co terell. Since February 1P49 when his novel Randle m Springtime, was a Book of the month. (Jouercil h: s joined list of best-sellvrs Trip to America comeid. J with publication of his Strait and Narrow, New
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      150 2 New Crossword No. 367 rn r^r ■p~~ p~| s~~ l ]s~ 3TaT HltanTl 5— ■so~~ TP S—Mj^aal aal aal r| jj ay CLUES ACROSS 1. Dire uay to progress <4>. 3 Sweep rjpatt by copper <6> 7 See Miore kon um^.i |n>. 9. Second this month (7) 10 See 6
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      250 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR OORX today, you have a number of contrasting characteristics which make it difficult for any but your closest friends to understand you. Ambitious, proud highly individualistic and at times withdrawn, you still enjoy social life- Although your close associates are likely to be drawn from a circle
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    RUBY DIDN'T FOOL THE AMERICAN
    407 3 'Impostor m State Crown LONDON, Thursday. ..njJONS ftl Brituiu have believed for centuries llt |j mine red stone m the Imperial a ruby, but an inquisitive American M ,le«i tm a minute, writes an American ristting the Tower of London the new 'Barless Cage that
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    79 3 King- Haakon's granddaughter. Princess Astrid, shares a joke with M. Per Prebensen, the Norwegian Ambassador, at a Norwegian dinner-dance m London. The nineteen-year-old Princess sang God Save the King, m Norwegian. But for her it was not the British National Anthem it was the Kind's Song of Norway. "We have
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    Farms may tour schools
    55 3 Farms may tour schools LONDON, Thurs. A PROPOSAL that mobile farm schools should tour the countryside to encourage young people to take up farming as a career has been made by the British National Farmers' Union. Lessons and demonstrations of modern farming technique could be carried to outlying districts and
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    90 FELLOWSHIPS
    34 3 Ninety Rotary International fellowships for students m 33 countries, enabling them to study outside their own countries for a year, were 'announced at the annual convention of Rotary at Atlantic City. Reuter
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    COUPLE WED IN SPIRIT
    165 3 9m t HONG KONG, Thursday. PWO Chinese, dead for 15 years, have been united m marriage by a spiritual medium, according io a report from the heart of Hong Kong's China town. A Chinese mother whose son died at the age of five recently saw his
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    BIRD IN THE HAND WORTH £100 REWARD
    122 3 BOURNEMOUTH. Thurs. MR. Arthur Willis, 31-year-old postman, shot out his hand to grab Beauty, a Det budgerigar— and netted £100 Beauty had been flying around this seaside town for 48 hours with a £100 reward on her head and the whole town on
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    TUNNEL DEATHS
    25 3 Three tunnel workers were killed and three others were seriously injured by the accidental explos on of a win near Sion. Switzerland. A.P.
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    LANDSLIDES HIT ALPS
    54 3 Two landslides, each about 960 feet wide, stormed down the north-western Italian Alps last night, crushing acres of orchards and vineyards-. bur.\ ing several mountain nuts, and killing dozens of cattle Thf> landslides cut a railway line running from Ivrea. north Of Turin. to Aosta, just inside
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    Sydney to build sportsarena
    103 3 Sydney to build sportsarena SYDNEY, Thurs. DLANS for the construction 1 of new sports arena to hold 120,000 people have been approved by the State Cabinet but they have yet to be approved by parliament before work can begin. The plan involves the amalgamation of part of a ground now
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    Britain's' Third' envy of U.S.
    76 3 THE 8.8.C.5s Third Programme (catering for Britain's Highbrows) is the envy of the world, although many people here criticise it claimed Mr John Snagge. ►British Broadcasting Corporation announcer at Slough Bucks. "No other country can put on a programme like that for minority listeners,'' he
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    Comet-to-Cairo next year
    65 3 Three jet airliners mil be on the regular BOAC Lon-don-Cairo route probably early next year. Mr. P. E. Gordon-Marshall, a director of Airspeed Ltd., said at Darwin. Airspeed is <* s'Jb sioiary of dp Havilland Mr Gordon-Marshall added that a de Havilland Comet would be on the
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    ONE WORLD
    43 3 Humanity will one day be all one colour and one race, according to Dutch geneticist Professor Marius Jacob Sirks. who recently visited Australia for the Science Congress. He predicted that man might be better than now "m a hundred years." Reuter
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    GIRL HELD CAPTIVE: 'TOO BEAUTIFUL'
    152 3 TORONTO, Thursday. A 20-YEAR-OLD girl was held prisoner for six years because her mother was jealous of her beauty. The girl's name was kept secret by a court at Sydney. Nova Scotia. She was put on probation m care of her sister on a charge
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    BUCKLEY
    10 3 "NOW. BOY, WHEN YOU SEE THE PLANES TAKE COVERf
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    Bridge Hand
    354 3 North-South vulnerable. North dealer The bidding: North East South West 10 1^? 1 NT. Pass INT Put tNT Ail Pass \NT: of the things th?t mofc-s great player is his refusal to accept even the well-established precepts of play as absolute gospel He wants to think things out
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY May 31. 1951. Kiss and make up
    550 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY May 31. 1951. Kiss and make up g'j EP BY STEP, the countries with a s< y in Japan's future are moving towards a peace treaty which would permit their former enemy to have an army, a navy and an air force. Disc isslons on
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    GERMANY'S SKELETONS CREEPING OUT
    1213 4  - GERMANY'S SKELETONS CREEPING OUT ALEXANDER CLIFFORD THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN By It is just six weeks since General Matthew Ridgway took over as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers m the Far East from General Mac Arthur. Here Richard Hughes, m Tokyo, tells you how he is going about
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    It Seems 7 b Me...
    511 4  - It Seems 7 b Me. POLITICO By /GANGSTERS, thugs and hooligans, dimly aware of their inferior mental processes, have ever sought to impress their betters, m the U.S they go m for luxury cars and outzide wardrobes. In Britain they wear padded shoulders. In Malaya they go m for resounding
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    THE MAN WHO ALWAYS OBEYS
    289 4 soldier who will obey orders as well as give them. He has never once "talked out of turn"— either* m tne Pentagon or on the German battlefield m the touchy days when General Patton was openly cursing the Russian allies. WITH Ridgway m the Dai
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    Britain s Persia Man:
    191 4  -  CIR Francis Michle Shepherd. i 58-year-old bachelor whose family live at Abovne, is Britain's spokesman m Teheran Here are some incidents 4 from his 32-year service for the Foreign Office: 1938 Supervised evacuation i of British personnel from Bar--4 celona during the Spanish Civil 1939 Arranged
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    Comrade Kairow reports
    134 4  - Comrade Kairow reports Cyrill Ray By £OURA lion ol bl*u c b populo Union g publio I ed his I for 1950 H» are U9,00< publu lion cl I the win bee;. tlie coir. school 1! UlliVt tat, certain di mou 1 whe:» com] being un plen. In the i
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    OAN TO PURCHASE HOUSE IN AUSTRALIA
    358 5 OAN TO PURCHASE HOUSE IN AUSTRALIA European SMC officer to get $20,000 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 <20,000 loan to enable a European officer of the Singapore Municipality to buy a house m Australia prior to his retirement has btta approved by Municipal Commissioners The officer expects to retire next
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    Ki M«CE FCR BOOKS
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    ■CHEFS' COLLEGE
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    Amenities for Asian workers in oil town
    112 5 Amenities for Asian workers in oil town i MODERN "ownship. with .i and amenities for Chinese, Indian and [en is rapidly tak- r he biggest British CornIt Seria, Brunei. area of 600 acres only von from the jungle. >de! township is the prohe enterprise and skill tl leading United Kingdom
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    S'PORE WILL GO THE 'MEXICAN WAY' AT SATURDAYS MASQUERADE BALL
    281 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE will go ''down Mexico ivay" at the Masquerade Ball which will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday night at 8.30, m aid of the Colony's Boys' Town. The 'Mexican Shuffle"' considered one
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    'POOR RESPONSE' TO FEDERATION'S WELFARE LOTTERY
    106 5 mJ£ cc P ress staff Reporter JV[R. Yap Pheng Geek, nominated member of the Singapore Municipal Commission, does not agree with the plea that Singapore residents should be permitted to purchase tickets m the Federation's $1,000,000 Welfare Lottery. Mr. Yap said that the fact
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    POLICE PROMOTION
    49 5 Chief Inspector F. C. Pestana. Singapore Police Force, has been r.ppoinied to act as Assistant Superintendent of Police, Singapore- The second meeting of the Fourth Session of the Council of Si ate. Perlis, will be held at the Balai Besar. Arau. on June 3 at !0 a.m.
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    SINGAPORE'S TOTS HAVE THEIR OWN POOL NOW
    147 5 Free Press Staff Kep >rter THIS is not the Royal Singapore Yacht Club, but it may well be for hundreds of tots under eight years of age m Singapore foday. It is Singapore's one and only paddling pool at Mount Emily forerunner of
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    A BIG HAND IN STORE FOR ROWCROFT PLAYERS
    370 5 THERE'S a big hand coming to the Rowcroft FVayers when the curtain goes up for the ninth show staged by these Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers servicemen. It will climax eight weeks of preparation and hard work— all done m their spa
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    Indonesian stars in variety show
    100 5 MISS Ribut Rawit and her, husband, Mohd. Yussof, two* Indonesian film and radio stars, who are now recording Indonesian i songs with His Master's Voice Gramophone Company at MacDonald House, have been appearing as guests artistes m a "Vane y Show" at the Venus Theatre
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    DECORATED 23 TIMES
    81 5 picture. COLONEL S. A. <i\M'.W'C/:. a former Ptlish Army career soldier attached to Field .Marshall Montgomery's Bth. Army staff m Italy who ha* 23 high British, French and Polish decorations, including the C.B.E. and the Virtute Mlllitari (Polish V.C.). and who is now a British subject on
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    Malayan orchids at Savoy Ball
    67 5 MALAYAN OK( HIIJS, flown ".600 miles from Singapore by 80.A.C, were on view at the Flower Ball at the Savoy Hotel. London, last week. The Ball, which was attended by Princess Elizabeth, was m aid of the St. Lores Training Col lege. Exeter. The photograph
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    ALMONERS' SERVICE IS POPULAR
    162 5 ALMONERS' SERVICE IS POPULAR Free Pr« Mail Keporier THE Singapoie Mer. authorities' id»-a or gti ing an almoners ■ervlce m the Colony has all tialities of prorl 1 judging fnm the r. received for the i course for student a. on Oct 2 len. as v< II ai l graduates
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    Hospital refutes nurses' food grouse
    165 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JUDGING from the menus for meals, the 200 nurses residing m the nurses' quarters m the Singapore General Hospital are better off for food than many people m the Colony. "They have no cau.se to grumble," a spokesman of the hospital
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    ORDER TO REGISTER
    116 5 J^LT HOUGH o ily t non Government i. i Municipal nurses hove > lor registered with the Colony Nursing Board, th( c hare been a number (< guiries from others i Sri da pore about admit The register. cd a week ago. is to prt i fe
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    ONE APPLICANT -AND SHE WAS UNSUITABLE
    114 5 ONE APPLICANT AND SHE WAS UNSUITABLE Free Press Staff Reporter /^\NLY one nurse, trained m China and speaking no English and very little Malay, has so far responded to the appeal for trained and staff nurses for Singapore's Tan Tock Seng Hospital m Moulmein Road last week. She was rejected
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    EAST WEST SOCIETY
    25 5 The East- West Society vri!l hold a social evening today at 8.30 m the British Council Hall. Members and friends are invited.
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    INCOME TAX DEPT.
    25 5 Mr. J. A. H. Gauntlet* has been appointed to officiate as an Assistant Comptroller of Income Tax. Singapore, vice Mr. A. Baker.
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    OVERSEAS LEAGUE MEETING TODAY
    53 5 Mr. George G. Thomson. Public Relations Secretary, will speak on '•'The Commonwealth and How It Works" at the Overseas League luncheon meeting at th»" Capi»o! Blue Room today. Members are reminded that the annual general meeting of the League will be held at the same place
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    B.C.G. ANTI-TB CAMPAIGN
    61 5 PUBLIC in' w.ll J0 at the Briu.sh CovDcil H Stamford Road at i M pm I.» Monday. June 4. to In ♦he B.C.G. Ariti-Tubeicul paign m Singapore. The meeting will br Mfdn 1 by Dr. Arne BilUft-Hanai rector, loint BCG. TteftMi nr.fer the auspices of the Uii
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    COMPTON HITS 5TH. CENTURY
    425 6 COMPTON HITS 5TH. CENTURY Surrey 416 for 7 against Hants riENIS Compton was m splendid form with the v bat again yesterday. He hit 172, his fifth century of the season, against Warwickshire at Lords and shared m two hundred partnerships, one with Bill Edrich and the other with Alex
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    PINK GIN OUTPACES CRACK SPRINTERS
    809 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS Yesterday's races reviewed By piNK GIN proved himself one of the top sprinters m the country by easily 1 defeating Malaya's best m the main race at Bukit Timah yesterday, second day of the Singapore Turf Clubs Summer meeting. Pink Gin, m my
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    ISLAND CLUB CUP GOLF
    232 6 F\RAW and starting times tor the Gaw Ghek Khiam Cup golf competition at the Island Club on Saturday afternoon are: IST XEE 2.30 J. W. Y. Eu <8> v. H. H. Tonks (12); 2.35 S. X. Wong (14) v W. Ferrier Mayor (1); 2.40 Dr. R.
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    Brilliant effort by Counsel III
    384 6 pOUNSEL 111 proved how unlucky he had been on Saturday when, after being- hopelessly placed at the home turn, he finished brilliantly over the last furlong to defeat Nero by a short head m the seventh race (Class 2, Div. 2—6 f.) yesterday. Recovery 11.
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    Big Sweep numbers
    57 6 Total Pool: $502,800. Ist No. BHO9IB $226.:?t>0 2nd No. *****1 SI 13,130 3rd No. *****3 S 62.850 Starters (55.237 each) Nos. *****4; *****7; *****9; *****0: *****3; *****3; *****0; *****8; *****0; *****4: *****2; *****1. Consolation (83,771 each) Nos *****9; *****9: *****8; *****8: *****2; *****3: *****4; *****5; *****3: *****5.
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    AT THE WINNING POST
    37 6 XHtiure. Pink Uin (M'Pherson) winning the 6f. sprint for Class 1, Div. 1 horses yesterday fr«m No Rerr.t. m m ad Springbok (Charles), rrith Ondin 9 (Garrard) fourth tte^rel. (r. 1* Free Press
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    23 6 picture. Trainer Avan Allan leads m Battleship (Bagby). winner of the fourth race (Class 1. Di v< 3 one mile) yesterday. Free Press
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    2 US PAIRS IN SEMI-FINALS
    227 6 THE French lawn tennis championships at Paris were confined to the doubles play yesterday. Both the men's and women's doubles were down to semi-finals. m 'he mens Jaroslav Drobny (Egypt* and Eric Sturgess < South Africa) dropped only four games m defeating Hal Burrows and
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    Indianapolis 4500' result
    131 6 Indianapolis 4 500' result LEE WALLARD, 40-year-old driver from Altamont, New York, won the 35th annual 500-mile race at Indianapolis yesterday. Wallard, driving a Belaiv^r special, had a record average speed of 126.244 miles per hour and set such a pace that only eight of the 33 starters finished the
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    Superb golf by U.K. amateur
    226 6 Superb golf by U.K. amateur QTEVETredinnick (Worthing) became the first amateur to share the lead m a professional golf tournament since they were thrown open two years ago when the first round of the spalding £1,350 golf tournament was played m Working, Sussex, yester- Tredinnick shared the lead at the
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    Tamils hole REME in du Div. 1 game
    301 6 Tamils hole REME in du Div. 1 game REME l n m% AN all-out five minutes „f Dris < Brotherhood Association ifte #2? *1 level with Royal Electrical and V 3 neers brought the only bright m^ Singapore Amateur Football League match at Jalan Besai m. Starting: at a fast
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    R.A.F. rif meet
    21 6 R.A.F. rif meet |l t ;e I l i \l 3 t limuiion Inin-iaJ 1 f \M<\( i UKAmJ M I
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    430 7  - ALLAN LEWIS Avalanche does sound trial By TECHNICOLOR (Mulley), Birthday Gift (Tulloh) ai\d Tara Street (Bagby) were the outstanding Governor's Cup candidates at Bukit Timah this morning when most of the probable runners for Saturday's main race did their final gallops. Technicolor, Birthday Gift and Tara Street went from about
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    50 7 picture. Bow Tie (Straker). on the rails, moves up alongside the pacemaker. Motion Picture (Tulloh) at the top of the home straight m the first race at Bukit Timah yesterday. Bow Tie went on to win from Pot Luck (Crowe) and Fort View (McPherson). with Beauman (Charles) fourth. Free Press
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    Kew Gardens sprints well
    280 7 Kew Gardens sprints well I lioimHk) surprised track aY Bukit rUnah this nifaig when he W brides with spe«i7 Decanter (Crowe) to ■STJhrV furious* m 37 3 5 sec.. Kew Gardens If ,iid after his stjMsli victory on the first 1 i must be shen a «ood chance again. ii'
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    13 7 4 l.^o ,v i.:c umi tiKJ Hope around like a lot of shee?)!"
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    Indian horse runs last
    69 7 MR. K. Modi's India-bred six-year-old Balam. winner of the Indian Derby m 1949. made his tirst appearance m Britain m the 10--furlong Carew Stakes, the last race of the day at Epsom yesterday. He is probably not vet acclimatised for. starting at 33-1. He tailed off
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    PLAYERS FOR SOCCER TRIAL
    80 7 THE following are requested to turn up at the S.C.C. on Monday 4 tkick-ofl at 5.15 p.m. sharp* for the European soccer trial: Morton. Bird. Inglis. Murra\ Rovers*. Guthrie iH.M. Dockyard*. Robinson. Benton. Payne iSH.Bi. Behrends. Kooper Wan•ners. Van Walsum. Schwartzenbmg. Fagel Dutch Club*. Wood. Chatwin,
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    DAWSON BEATS HAWAII CHAMP
    65 7 CREDDIE Dawson, (143 lbs.'. of Chicago, outpointed *"rankie Fernandez. (147 lbs.), Hcnolulu. m a nigged 10--round battle at Honu.ulu on Tuesday night. They were about even up to ihe ninth round, then Dawson shook the Hawaii welterweight champ with a solid left to the head. Both
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    Fable tennis stars entertained
    63 7 SINGAPORE Table Termi. Association entertained Johnny Leach, the work champion and Michel Hague nauer. the French titleholder, to a dinner at th: Great World last night. Mr. Choo Kwai Low. vice president, and Dato C. J Paglar. patron of the S.T.T A spoke on behalf of
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    Pressmen win
    36 7 CTRAITS Times Sports Club defeated Imperial Chemical Industries Sports Club by two goals to nil m a Singapore Business Houses Div. B league soccer match at Gevlang Stadium yesterday. inside-right Ali gained both soals.
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    Eire defeat Norway 3-2
    107 7 More than 20.000 people saw Eire beat Norway by three goals to two m :i foo'ball match played at Oslo last night. The teams were level one-all at half-time. Norway took the lead m 15 minutes through Soerensen but Farrell equalised for Eire two minutes later
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    ONG CHEW BEE WINS AGAIN
    55 7 ONG Chew Bee, champion ot Malaya, beat F. J. Bartlett (South Africa* 6-2, 6-1, m the third round of the men's singles m the lawn tennis championships at Surbiton yesterday. Nareth Kumar. India" was beaten by Abe Segal < South Africa I by 6-4. 0-6.
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    DERBY BECAME ONE-HORSE RACE
    433 7 IRISH-OWNED Arctic Prince 1 turned the Derby into a one-horse race yesterday galloping up the stretch to a six-length victory m tne 172 nd running of the classic. 1 The pride "of burly greyhaired Joe McGrath, the 28-1 shot scored by greatest margin m 18 years
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    21 7 picture. Mr. Ong Huck L m leaus In Counsel 111, winner of the seventh race at Bkuit Timah yesterday. Free Press
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    INTER-CLUB GOLF TIES
    143 7 FOLLOWING are the. draw snd times lor the Kepnei Club Women v. Royal Singapore [Golf Club Women match to be played at R.S G.C. on Monday. I June 4: 4.00 p.m. Mrs. Elliot 1 29 1 v. Mrs Campbell (36); 4.05 p.m. Mrs. McCulloch .28* v. Mrs.
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    Tourists rally after bad start
    275 7 \FINE century by wicket-keeper batsman JohnWaite, his first of the tour, helped South Africans to score 312 for nine against Essex at Ilford yesterday after half the side had been dismissed for 46. Waite, who came m when the first wicket had fallen for nine
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    SCOREBOARD
    68 7 soi ih unraca— hit inns. E Kmun b Preston A Mri.lew lb» Bai.'ey X Wall* Bailey b R Smiih l.'s f ullerton b Predion I mli-.in C Insolr b Preston Massed lb* P smith Kiman b K. Smith 411 I. n In-11l b P. Smith «X Mann < Ootid*
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    MIXED FOURSOMES
    53 7 The mixed Foursomes competition played at the Royal Singapore Golf Club last Sunday alternoon resulted m a win for Mr. Mrs. R. R. Cambridge with a net score of 34'^. They tied with Mrs. Ryder Stevens and Mr. W. E. Coates and won on the count of the
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    Governor's Cup & other weights
    573 7 Govern or 's Cup other weights I A FIELD of 16 has been nominated for the Governor's Cup (li miles) to be run on Satunlo. last day f of the Singapore Turf Club Summer meeting:. As expected. Colonel Daly, winner of the 'Derby", heads the handicap with 1.7. with J'Avance,
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      70 7 Todays sport SOCCER: Singapore 'A' v Sumatra Police at stadium; Oiv. 2: I.R.C. A* v S.H.B. at Gevlang; Oiv. 3B: BOHCA A* v P dc T at BOHCA; Business Hse. Lge. A: Borneo Motors v Sime Harby at V.M.C.A.; Business Hse. Lge. B: Mansfield v Bata S.C. at Farrer Park.
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    DEATHS
    74 8 MR P N MADHAVAN. formerly of A M DOW Headquarters Malaga Sinsapore. passed away fully at his residence Kayantt. Travancore last week MRS KOH SIAK KEONO <nee Tan Chit Neot passed away p at No 390, Joo Chlat I on May 28th. 1951 She leavf^ behind the only daughter.
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    BIRTH
    14 8 AT HAWiCK. on 29th May. to Marrare'. (Peggy) Jamieson. a daufht-r Both well
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    LUCKY JACK' WON'T BET AGAIN
    350 8 LUCKY JACK' WON'T BET AGAIN He owes bookies £160,000 LONDON, Thursday. I LX'KY JACK" GREEN, whose name once made bookmakers nervous, has vowed never to bet on a horse again. At his Mayfair flat he also vowed to pay back tne debts incurred during his run as Britain's biggest professional
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    36 8 Miss Asnes Tan, of Kandan g Kerbau Hospital .one of 20 nurses to receive General Nursin* an d JWjdwifery certificates from Dr. E. D. Pridie. Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colon ies.
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    U.K. TO YIELD TO U.S. ON FORMOSA
    174 8 LONDON, Thurs. £)IPLOMATIC observers m London believed yesterday that Britain would be prepared to sign a peace treaty with Japan which definitely left the future of Formosa m abeyance. Two problems, the future of Nationalist-held Formosa and of Chinese Communist participation m the
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    U.K. properties in Indonesia
    119 8 LONDON. Thurs. MR. Herbert Morrison, the Foreign Secretary, was asked m the House of Commons yesterday what representation he had made to Indonesian about the security of British properties there. Mr. Morrison replied that the British Ambassador was m constant touch with the Indonesia government and
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    NEW NAVY CHIEF
    33 8 Commodore Siddiq Choudhri has been appointed commander of the Royal Pakistan naval squadron m place of Rear-Admiral J. W. Jefford. who will continue to be Com-mander-in-Chief of the R.P.N. A.P.
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    Indian urges Socialism on U.K. lines
    202 8 Indian urges Socialism on U.K. lines KARACHI, Thurs. AN Indian delegate urged Socialism, on the lines taken m Great Britain, to check Communism, at the meeting yesterday of Asian trade unionists m Karachi. Subnath Banerjee told the Asian regional conference of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions that Communism
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    Italian Reds lose elections
    95 8 ROME. Thurs. WESTERN democratic parties have swept the Communists and their allies from power m 340 cities, towns and villages spreading across the industrial 'Red belt" of Northern Italy, according to latest election results yesterday. Estimates from nearly complete results m the 2.735 municipalities showed that
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    STOP KOREA —M.P.
    60 8 STOP KOREA M.P. The Labour M.P., Mr. Emrys Hughes, has tabled a motion m the House of Commons calling for an end to the Korean fighting. The motion urged the government to "initiate negotia tions for a cease-fire, for tl withdrawal of foreign armie. and for measures of reli^ and
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    SYRIA APPROVES
    34 8 SYRIA APPRO VES The Syrian Parliament yes terday ratified the Arab coi lective Security Pact signer m Cairo m June last year h all members of the Arab L i gue. except Jordan. Reuter
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    NO SINGING FOOL
    25 8 Al JoLson, the singer, left an estate valued at more than $3,236,775 when he died m San Francisco on October 23. U.P.
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    Law trailed him for 30 years
    69 8 Justice sometimes moves slowly m the Far East, but m Tokyo Bunya Ninomiya has gone on trial for a crime he is charged with having committed 30 years ago, when he and 36 other Japanese pirates attacked a Russian vessel. Thirty-four of the pirates
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    INDONESIAN VISIT
    33 8 A six-man Indonesian Parliamentary delegation arrived m London by air from Djakarta yesterday on a week's visit to Britain at the invitation of the British group of the Inter-Parlia-mentary Union. Reuter
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    H.K. MONEY
    22 8 Yesterday's nuotat:ons on the Hon? Kbr« exchange market were: HK56.2375/6.275 lor US$l.. HK515.72 per sterling. HK5314.75 per tael of gold.
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    Market goes unusually quiet
    171 8 LONDON, Thursday. THE London stock market was colourless yesterday with the volume of business sub-normal and with market men awaiting developments m the Persian situation, states Reuter's financial correspondent. The statement by Britain's Foreign Minister outlining the United Kingdom attitude, however, assisted oil shares with Anglo-Iranian
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    U.S. HAS VARIETY OF A-WEAPONS
    260 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. SENATOR Brien McMahon, Chairman of the Congressional Committee on atomic energy, was quoted yesterday as saying that recent American atomic tests meant America could deliver more powerful atomic counterblows against an aggressor. In an interview with the magazine Newsweek the Senator stated:
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    West powers to appeal to Kremlin
    124 8 West powers to appeal to Kremlin PARIS, Thurs. THE three Western Powers will appeal directly to the Kremlin to break the deadlock of deputy ministers, who have been meeting m Paris for 12 weeks to try to write an agenda for a foreign ministers' conference. Reliable diplomatic informants disclosed that
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    SOVIET FOOD SHOP
    40 8 The Russian Embassy m New Delhi has informed the Government of India that Soviet ships ai> already en route to India carrying 31.000 tons of wheat m addition to the 26.000 tons also on the way. A.P.
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    AFFRAY STILL A MYSTERY
    62 8 Disappearance of the British submarine Affray six weeks ago is still a complete mystery, the House of Commons was told yesterday. Mr. Walter J. Edwards, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, said the search had now covered an area of 1.000 square miles of the English Channel.
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    Govt promises free tuition
    55 8 Govt promises free tuition The Socialist controlled AFPFL government, on the eve of the Burmese elections, announced free tuition at the University of Rangoon from Ao-il 1 It said free education will be available from that da'e to all students except those attending the Faculty of Law the measure will
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    NO BRAIN FOOD
    46 8 The U.S. Nutrition Foundation s magazine, Nutrition Reviews, says that the sensational reports that glutamic acid is a brain food do not stand up under careful examination. Claims have been made that this acid raised tSj lll^ lll^ 1100 Quotient) of children. A.P.
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    PAPAGOS QUITS
    17 8 Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, Commander m Chief of the Greek armed forces, resigned yesterday. Reuter
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    THE SAINT U.2>. KSK^-Jrll Kerv* rwiw^^— PUBLISHED
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    ON TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINT
    174 8 S E VEN TC .FOUR.YEAR-OLr^ ON S m Th S r y has flown 13,000 miles to buy his brother a pint of Deer. Mr. Miller arrived at London Airport from New Zealand. His coat was tattered and torn and he wore I no
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