The Singapore Free Press, 19 December 1951

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA LftS* SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 58 1 CHINESE ARREST US BISHOP KONG, Wed. pOOW bed m while rican Poman p was hearing a Chinese misbla wria&a behind "mm off to thoßc authori- P^te:cia\ bishop. 55-year-old IBp Cote of them Kiangsu was arrested on N reason was SM Chinese troops i mded ths mission i Chinese added. £i?ht
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  • 19 1 wioie* fireworks store yesterday in -oe. tS A. and firs* rethe scene said being removed _^he building."
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  • 73 1 DETROIT, Wed. J^ CONFESSED burglai who said he never used bullets in his gun, surrendered to the police "to avoid becoming a murderer." Walter Schlicker, 21, said his surrender was prompted by a recent Detroit shooting in which a policeman and a burglar were killed.
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  • 63 1 NEW YORK, Wed. teenage boys were L found guilty in New Jersey of first degree murder for beating to death a 60-year-old man during a robbery. The jury recommended mercy for two boys, Robert Berry, 17 and George Brown, 18. They will be sentenced to life
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  • 407 1 U.K. army hints at 'safety' route in Ismailia i Hi,™ CAIRO, Wednesday. J^ BRITISH Military spokesman yesterday said that "clearing a military road through Ismailia will be one of the things we will have to do" to counter Egyptian guerilla attacks. This statement was made at
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    52 1 r >ss made a big hit «-r: Via SfcOTU to the iTes ti I S delegates in NuM| I it is jj ii?hr blue >ilk with a shoulder scarf, ioth e-broidered with -IN emblems, and by a second ii*hi blue scarf bearing: the 'ijrx i! the various t'.N. r'T.her nit
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  • 36 1 Rita Hayworth, suspended by Columbia Pictures when she refused to report for work because of an objection to her new picture, went back on the studio payroll yesterday at $663 a day. U.P.
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  • 208 1 LONDON, Wednesday. SHIPS of tour Commonwealth navies will escort Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh during their voyage to Australia in the 15,900-ton liner Gothic early next year, it was officially announced here yesterday. While -ie Gothic is »i\ uei way from East Africa 10
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  • 295 1 TOKYO, Wednesday. OKITISH Army leaders were reliably reported °last night to have demanded that the United Nations command withhold release of the names of the British soldiers on the Communist prisoner of war list. They were turned down flatly by U.N. authorities in Korea. The
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  • 266 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MEWS this morning that a decision will be made today on whether or not Mr. Malcolm MacDonald will stay as British CommissionerGeneral in South-East Asia has brought requests from Singapore leaders that he .should be allowed to remain. Malaya could not afford
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  • 170 1 PARIS, Wed. NATIONALIST China accused the Chinese Communists yesterday of having murdered 15,672,050 people on the Chinese mainland in two years. The charge was made in the 60-nation Social and Humanitarian Committee of the Assembly by Dr .Yu Tsune-chi. who stated: "We want the world to
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  • 48 1 Pope Pius will celebrate a Christmas midnight mass which will be broadcast to the world. The mass will De held probably in the Vatican's Matilda Chapel and will be attended by the diplomatic corps to the Vatican and high prelates in Rome. A.P.
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  • 60 1 OECURITY forces waning in v ambush wounded and captured a suspected bandit in the Grik area of Perak yesterday. Whilst out searching for durian in the Johore Bahru area, a police constable and a special constable were fired on by bandits. The special constable was killed
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  • 26 1 A state-owned truck sideswiped a Buckingham Palace car yesterday while Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were on a Christmas shopping expedition.
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  • 61 1 girl was removed to Singanore General Hospital this morning with serious injuries after a privately driven car left the road and plunged into a sundries shop next to the Orchard Road market. The girl was sitt ng near the door when the car crashed. The front
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  • 131 1 CHICAGO, Wed. SNOWSTORMS and bitter cold winds rolled across the northern half of the United States yesterday with more than 200 people already dead since Friday. At least 206 deaths were blamed directly or indirectly on storms and the cold. Sixtysix people died
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  • 305 1 PARIS, Wednesday. pRANCE and Britain have reached agreement 1 regarding the problems of the Far and Middle East. A communique issued at the conclusion of th« two-day talks between Mr. Churchill, and Mr. Pleven, the French Premier, and their Foreign Ministers said the
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  • 16 1 The independence of Libya will be proclaimed on or shortly after Dec. 27. A.P.
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  • 109 1 LONDON Wed. MR Winston Churchill will express to President Truman Britain's concern at recent United States attempts to induce Japan to enter into treaty relations with Formosa. The two leaders will meet in Washington next January. Diplomatic opinion in Lor.don has been startled by
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  • 55 1 A Dutch scientist, Professor J.M. Milletz announced last night plans for the construction of an atom-driven ship of about 5,000 tons. The Swedish scientist, Mr. Odd Dashl, is making the design. The weight of the entire lower unit, including fuel, would be less than that of
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 23 1 IpAPim: f fi£«U/Wf 6 /"P«f Our Display «ee oor wonderful Christmas tare! TURKEYS DRAKES FOWLS CHICKENS SPATCHCOCKS I &m§mpmr* Cold Storage Co.. Ltd.
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    • 92 1 df L"" M s IRISH LINEN I for the well appointed home j GIVE YOUR HOME I j THIS CHRISTMAS PRESEXT I Irish Linen liedsheets Pillow Cases in I sets of one pair each. Hemstitched or I Two Row Cord. Laundered ready for use. I I O^Y SizC 1T X
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  • 752 2 Keloids? Don't Use Strong Medicines The SINGAPORE DOCTOR "sc#s,. They will only make matters worse I AM affected by keloids and western medicine seems to have no cure for them. Small pimples or cuts develop and later form hard, fleshy lumps. The deeper the cut or larger the pimple the
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  • 521 2  -  Jerry Klein The Scientists Say OC lEN C E says there's nothing like a kiss to pep up the blood circulation and give a person that on-top-of-the-world feeling. American biochemist, Dr. L. Earle Arnow, has done a lot of research on kissing. He found
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  • 257 2  -  Chapman Pincher ASKS SCIEMTiSX' IS the tempo ol modern life too fast for the health of the mind? Dr Macdonald Critchley, a leading London neurologist, believes it is. He has given medical evidence for his belief at a private meeting of more than 100
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  • 492 2  - EARTH HAS ROBE OF SHIMMERING LIGHT Thomas R. Henry By fTHE Earth wears a A night robe of shimmering, transparent light. The existence of this air glow a faint, constant light that is spread more or less uniformly around the whole planet has been little known except to astronomers, but
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 333 2 Solution to Crossword No. 538 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. ACROSS.— 1, Cork. 5, Foals, f, Ludlow. 7. Befit. 8. Bud. 11. Ran. 12. Lemon. 15. Norman. 16. Nylon. 17, Erie. down.— i. cole. 2, Radium. 3, Tower. 4, Plain. 5, Par. 8, Farmer, fl, Beryl. 10. Donor. 13, Nan. 14, Anne. YOUR
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    • 125 2 New Crossword- No* 539 CLUES ACROSS 3. The forehead. 6. Vienna is its capital. 7. Creature who would a-wooing go." 8. Very tall animal. 12. Bird which uses Us wings as paddles. 15. Surname of the famous outlaw of Sherwood Forest. 16 One of your subjects at school. 17. Name
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  • 330 3 FIJIANS PREPARE TO FIGHT IN MALAYA Recruitment to army is brisk HUNDREDS of S FiW IJi ISlandS> Wedn "^ay. H mens of their race S 'areT e in Ot fln spec!-peaoe-^e ju n gle wa^rTAVaTn^^S A call has gone nut *v. population of 130,000 to heln h^ ijian na »ve
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  • 37 3 DEBRA PAGET, up-and-coming youn? 20th CenturyFox player, is much in demand at the studio these days. But here she takes times off to relax beside her swimming pool and the camera caught her.
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  • 201 3 LONDON. Wed FREDERICK George Cobon. wh J com P a ny director whose wife, in the words of JfceLojd Chief Justice. Lord Godard, "made his life a m S? ry has been reprieved This decision of the Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell *yie.
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  • 87 3 HOLLYWOOD, Wed. Baxter, William Holden and John Derek have been voted the most cooperative film stars in Hollywood by the Women's Press Club. The tie between Holden and Derek will result in the presentation of a Golden Apple to each. Named as the least cooperative
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  • 46 3 Mr Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the London weekly, The Economist, in an article in this week's issue of the American magazine Look says that American "near panic" defence expenditure might wreck the economy of the non-Communist countries if it were maintained after 1953. Reuter
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  • 42 3 Queen Mary, 84-year-old mother of the King, has been advised by her doctors not to undertake any evening engagements. An announcement said that this advice was "purely a precaution." The Queen Mother was in gcod health Reuter
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  • 279 3 LONDON, Wednesday. THE house that Winifred Bertha Sills offered to A sell to a friend was indeed a dream house. For it never existed outside of her brain. She got £690 towards the purchase price from the j friend, who suspected nothing until he went
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  • 30 3 Allied authorities in Berlin last night approved stepping up the air lift of East German- political refugees to West Germany from 500 to 2,400 a month Reuter
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  • 84 3 15, she used make-up to pass for 20 «n ON, Wed A "-OLD Lesto <->\:: A -used pass tor ->■" Lewes A^--10 have roughly v Arnold *£W proprietor, of 1-vSOX, WaS -iy for pleading ffences agSßist Idress was rmsworth, Hurley Pp7 Victoria Sta- another ier sch .at Dork- )oms were
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  • 43 3 AUTHOR OF AIR EPIC DEAD I St George and former the British C m as r.as died Bahamas. \i. Battle I Britain. 1 the the a:r war a record sale ■nrg r." millions. He rels with the Palmer undei the of Francis A.P.
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  • 20 3 Santa Claus m Christmas pre- sea from the United Nations Danish hosp *tp Jutlandia" in Ko- U.P.
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    299 3 North-South vulnerable. South dealer. The bidding. South West North East 1* 2« 24k Pa" 44 All Pass WEST opened the king oi clubs. Dummy's ace won and the lack of spades was led and covered by East's king, and South* ace Two more spade leads exhausted the opponents'
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  • 84 3 AFTER 150 hours non-stop playing, 52-year-old Heinz Arndt of Dusseldorf has returned to his hotel in Brussels with a nasty cold to catch up on lost sleep. This ends his six-day, six- hour, attempt to break his own world record of 202 hours
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  • 65 3 GENEVA, Wed. SWISS watches are likely to become more expensive next year because of a five per cent, wage increase given to the industry's 65,000 workers. The Swiss Watchmakers' Association recently signed a new contract with the unions, granting workers a flat increase of ten
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  • 266 3 He was called 'monstrosity A MAN described by the defence as "having been born a monstrosity" was found guilty but insane at the time of the act when accused at the Old Bailey of murdering his wife's 17-year-old sister. The man, Herbert BassWoodcock, of Hucknall, Notts, was ordered to be
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  • 241 3 LONDON, Wednesday. TEWIR play for husbands, the abolition of breach of promise actions, divorce after seven years' separation, and provisions for voluntary medical examinations before the wedding day are among suggestions which will be considered by the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce. From all
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  • 55 3 This year has been one of the most difficult the Catholic Church has ever endured in China," the Fides Agency, which specialises in Catholic missionary news, said in Vatican City. During the year, 1,240 foreign missionaries were forced to leave the country. The future," said Fides,
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  • 44 3 Prince Asaka is the first member of Japan's ruling house to be baptised in the Catholic Church. The Prince took the name of Peter in the baptismal ceremony. His son and a daughter were baptised at the same time. A.P.
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  • 34 3 Japan may request Britain for a conference early next year to revise the payment agreement between them as a result of the latest British move in relaxing control over sterling. A.P.
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  • 87 3 3 tipped to take Ike's place if... WASHINGTON. Wed. 'pHREE American Generals are being discussed unofficially here as possible successors to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, if he resigns as the Atlantic Army's Supreme Commander and enters the United States presidential race next year. They are: Gen. Omar Bradley, Chairman of the
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  • 28 3 Sears, Roebuck and Company have announced its new Allstate automobile will be introduced from Dec. 20 in 19 cities*in the U.S. South, South-west and West. A.P.
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  • 105 3 I VIENNA. Wed. ANCE every year for the v rest of his life Walter Schranz will see his prison cell lights flicker into darkness to remind him of the anniversary of the day he murdered two elderly Vienness sisters. Sentencing
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    • 175 3 Cyma all over the World It lay four years I in snow and ice BBS v UStgh^Ba the watch still went! jßf O uch was Ac fantastic adventure of a tiny CYMA lfr\\ lady's watch lost on the mountains of Norway in lS> \L 944 sun blazed down on it
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    • 121 3 INDIAN, PERSIAN BOKHARA N °CARPETS STUPENDOUS REDUCTIONS! SALfc DEFINITELY ENDS ON DECEMBER 22nd SHROFFS <*•*"" LTD. Agencv Showroom: 47-49 Stamford koad SINGAPORE. TEL: ***** iiiiiiß9Pßiiiii'aaiiPiil LAST DAY/ SALE ON! i (The Cheapest Bargains in City) m 'LAMBSKIN 36" $.90 TABLE COVERS $3.50 s PILLOW CASES 1.20 \«g 3. W| SHIRTS
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 202 3 ftadio SINGAPORE 1.00 Dance Music: 1 3<f Time Signal News; 1.45 Lunch Time Prom; 2.00 Close down; 5.00 Programmes in Malay; 6.15 Programme Summary; 6.17 Nature Club: 6.40 The Radio String Ensemble 6.55 Announcements Singapore Sharp Market Report; 7.00 Time Signal News; 7.15 This Is Communism; 7.25 Interlude: 7.30 Radio
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  • The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19, 1951.
    • 395 4 Hospital cases HEELINGS have risen high in the controversy over recent cases in the Singapore General Hospital. Strong words have been said about the conduct of members of the staff; in their defence, the Director of Medical Services has spoken in vehement and passionate terms seldom heard in the Legislative
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    • 113 4 fpHL demands on Singapore's -I united educational facilities are so heav v that the Government may introduce three sessions a day in some school to place children i who would otherwise be turned away Such a move would mean that school bells will start
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  • 1088 4 Don Iddon s Diary NEW YORK: BRITAIN will have to better than this. Here in New York the first International Conference of Manufacturers has been and gone, and the British team didn't score a point or raise a cheer. The setting, in the Pierre Hotel, was perfect. The occasion, with
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    372 4 SIL LIVAN (arr. Mackerras) Pineapple Poll Ballet. Sadler's Wells O r chestr a Mackerras COLUMBIA DX 8387/92. People who imagine themselves "purists" in their attitude to music need not trouble to lift the sceptical eyebrow at the announcement of "an arrangement" for we have here no mere pot-pourri
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  • 749 4  - STILL THE 'POOR RELATION' PRESTO MUSIC TOPICS by THE Music Society and the Chamber Ensemble can heave a sigh of relief now that the entertainment tax has been reduced by half. It will not mean a sudden windfall because in the past exemptions have always been granted. But there was
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  • 962 4  - BRITTEN MAKES IT SEVEN... Charles Reid Britain's most promising composer has produced another successful British opera. New Opera Has No Love Story By OILLY BUDD, Ben- jamin Britten's seventh opera in ten years, has been produced at Covent Garden. The first performance, was conducted by Britten himself, who, in slacks
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  • 211 4 In The Swing begun i Wide r;-. 4 cording 1 ed. music l keen o n \v 1 ites. "Whit, Chi ■ojfrßUen, to the list > Bddf Christmas Claus Is Con has cni thai or: has mi in stock 1 Other C:. on sale are "< of-B:--. The W nv-.
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  • 178 5 111?%**?" I?*** ReP rter iH«. o. s. Manyam, Singapore City Councillor, who £jacmg exulsion from the Progressive Party, is planning V°cSA Soci list Party ln Mr. Manyam said yesterday there is room for a new party m Singapore. Many of his friends had asked him
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  • 208 5 British firm pays US $900,000 THE 7 2?/* ree P^ SS Staff R «Porter toaLondm fiJ? V 2 t'- last year has been sold the lo3 J2nt r S?£ own for US$9OO,OOO, yesterday buyers told the Fr <* Press had bSnSd fcl^ n that
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  • 32 5 The management of the Broadway Singing Cafe in Happy World, Singapore, has donated to the S.A.T.A. and the Tong Chai Medical Institution $2,373 each being their recent opening night's takings.
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  • 25 5 Two Singapore lawyers Messrs. Philip Hoalim and V. J MendLs, have left for Ceyioi for a holiday. Thev are expected back nev
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    72 5 picture. MRfc IIM R'*^ X1 XECK (centre) who plays the heioL Precious Strmn, in the Chinese fantasy, "Lady piectois Stream," open** at the Victoria Theatre on Dec 27. is helped into her costume by Miss Maudrene (Lit) who has the to le of the Princess of the Wwte^n Re^on, and
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  • 39 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Department of Co-oper-ative Development will be holding a four-day course for Penghulus and secretaries of co-operative rural societies at Anderson School, Ipoh, from December 21. About 70 people will attend the course.
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  • 112 5 Free Fress Staff Reporter THE Raffles Library will open branches at new x community centres now being built by the Social Welfare Department. Miss Louise Bridges, the Librarian, said: "We are now preparing the extra stocks of books which we are ordering, every month,
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  • 201 5 MALAYA FILM FOR FESTIVAL MALAYAN Film Unit production, "Wanted for Murder," was selected for exhibition at the fifth international Edinburgh Film Festival this year. The Festival Committee selects the best from hundreds of documentary, realist and experimental films submitted from all parts of the world. This is the second year
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  • 127 5 30 cases of gifts from Britain Free Press Staff Reporter fHE "Festival Year" spirit in Britain will contribute much towards ChrLsimas cheer in Singapore. It nas movea ti/ousands of youngsters in Junior Red Cross branches all over Britain to give the less fortunate children in Singapore a oumper Christmas present
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  • 82 5 Free Fress Staff Reporter. jyjß. Charles Franklin Baldwin, new American Consul-General in Singapore, arrived on Monday aboard the President Monroe, accompanied by Mrs. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin holds the personal rank of minister. He is a diplomat of wide experience in London, Oslo, Trieste, and Santiago, Cuba. His
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  • 119 5 Free Press Staff Reporter HUNDREDS of women are n wanted by the Singapore Civil Defence Corps for its welfare 1 and ambulance sections and headquarters staff. Acting Commissioner for Civil Defence, Col K T *g; bank, said vesterddy. women recruits are needed, partuui-rly, for the
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  • 1223 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ¥|R. W. J. Vickers, Singapore Director of Medical Services, at the Legislate© Council meeting yesterday defended the staff of the General Hosn tal against a "certain unwarranted and indeed a most scurrilous attack." Dr. Vickers was apparently referring
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  • 156 5 MR. C. J. Haines, Acting Superintendent of Police, told the Singapore Licensing Board of Justices yesterday that obscene films wereshown in a Singapore bar. The bar, he alleged, was the Central Bar and Restaurant in Serangoon Road. Mr. Haines was opposing an application
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  • 142 5 COLONY TO HAVE 77 NEW BARS gEVENTY-SEVEN new but will be opened in Singapore next year. Licences were grantee: to these bars by the Licencing Board of Justices yesterdu 1 The Board considered j9 applications. The Board also dealt with 123 applications for straight renewals, 45 for conditional renewals, 24
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  • 83 5 THE Singapore Y.M.C.A. will 1 hold a party this evening for members' children at their tennis pavilion at Bras Basah Road. There wiii br a screen show of cartooris and children's gamas, said Mr. Andrew Lee, the programme secretary Each child attending will bring along a
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  • 100 5 Free Press Staff Reporter gEVERAL of the supplementary schools in ihe Colony that have no tucksriop facilities are providing pupils with snacks. The children pay from in jto 20 oen;.s for a meal of I I biscuits or cakes, milk drink I and fruits. The
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    • 321 5 I J MAKETHIS A RECORD CHRISTMAS^ v on SUPPt— Morning, noon and night V* I J t i— Overture. The Royal Phil tj»? i by Sir Thomas Beechani 2J If tsj? BOSSINi— J boutique fantasque ft Royal Ph» I harmonic Orchestra j? r- em Kurtz DX 8393/95 fcj SUUIVAN— Pineapple
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    • 27 5 COD LIVER OIL WITH MALT EXTRACT TP? A BURROUGHS WELLCOM I m COi PRODUCf fl 8r «*J« 4f«*'/«r AlaM)*.' J*^««« C^ LU, Sun^ore. Kwk Lumpur ft P-*-t
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  • 195 6 —for benefit of two old rivals Free Press Boxing Reporter AL RIVERS, former middle and welterweight champion of* Malaya, wants to fight again, and strange to say, it's for the benefit of two old Rivers' rivals Battling Guillermo and Ignacio Fernandez. Said Rivers last night: You
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    4 6 BAY BARKWAY
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  • 295 6 Free Press Correspondent I>AY BARKWAY, senior hon. coach to the British Amateur Athletic Association, said on arrival at the Kuala Lumpur airport yesterday afternoon, that he hoped the experience he gained while teaching athletics to boys in post-war Eagland would prove useful in his coaching
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  • 63 6 HOCKEY: IA v. SRC at Balestier Rd. RUGGER: REME IV S v. RAF (Seletar) at Alexandra; REME v. RAF (Seletar) at Seletar; Police v. RAF (Tengah) at Thomson Rd.; Naval Base RFC v. RAF (Changi) at Naval Base; Naval Base RFC 'A* v. RAF (Changi) 'A' at Changi;
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  • 50 6 Mexican riders triumph jyfEXICO was the undisputed winner in her own first international horse show which closed at Monterry on Monday night. The highly trained and beautifully mounted Mexican team, led by Olympic jump champion Colonel Humberto Mariles, swept the seven prizes, five of them team competitions and two individual.
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  • 78 6 T^HE Japanese lawn tennis team arrived in Calcutta yesterday by air from Tokyo to take part in the Indian national championships which begin on Saturday. The team includes Davis Cup plavers Pumituru Nakan, Atsushi Myiagi and Reijeln Kamo. Swedish Davis Cup players Lennart Bergelin, Sven
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  • 25 6 LONDON, Tues. Yesterday's U.K. Rugby Union results were: Combined Services 19, United Hospitals 3; Edinburgh Academicals 0, Cambridge University 29.— Reuter
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  • 53 6 QIXTEEN- YEAR- OLD Charlie Burr, who is already assur- ed of being: 1951 champion United States jockey, needs only four more successes to reach 300 winners for the season. The freckle-faced lad from Arkansas City. Kansas, rode his 296th winner at Tropical Park, Miami Florida,
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  • 341 6 Papa was wrong: Young Joe showed him how From R. M. MacCOLL A GOOD-LOOKING Italian-American, whose dark hair, at 37, is beginning to be flecked with grey, has announced, his retirement. And because Joe DiMaggio, "The Yankee Clipper/' is one of baseball's legendary "greats,'' a sigh of regret went up
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  • 431 6 LAST STAND BEATS TOURISTS h A LAST wicket stand by Edwards and Dunn enabled West Australia to beat the West Indies by one wicket yesterday in their match at Perth. The ninth wicket fell at 199 and West Australia still reeded 48 for victory. In an atmosphere of mounting excitement
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  • 116 6 ROYAL Air Force Seletar 2nd XI beat G.H.Q. 2nd XI by one goal to nil in a friendly game of hockey at Tan^lin yesterday evening. Pressing from the start, the Airmen displayed better stickwork and i taster set of forwards. Seletar went ahead in the first
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  • 108 6 7JNi;i<"FR are now op*n for a JCi six mile road race to be held at the Naval Base on Saturday Jan. 5 The event is being organised by the well-knowu Colon v athlete, C A. Seabrook. A laiTP number of Servicemen and civilians are expected
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    • 185 6 MdHdrSlCB Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya B I M u,c D^^ E J T !!3St!y^ oV(^\ \k/HIL£ MANORAKE HIMSELF, NOW I I HE WAS RIGHT. 1 CAN TRAVEITH| \r'f'nYnY^'* S££ msto\ invisible, climbs ikto the car-\ faster alone, too. J/\NIT Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in
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  • 41 7 Fernando Gagncn, 117 ibs. Canadian bantamweight champion, knocked out Joe Torres, MH lbs., of Puerto Rico, in l mm. 30 sees, of the first round of a scheduled 10-round bout in Quebec on Monday night. A.P.
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  • 349 7 BOXING 'FINDS FROM SERVICES From ARCHIE QUICK \)RPORAL Arthur Worrall, former ABA heavy- weight champion, should regain the national it this winter. Boxing for the Imperial Services 00* Sweden at Melksham, Wiltshire, his form gainst Gert Schyllert was so rood that there asnot be another man in the country at
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  • 168 7  - PENANG GYMKH ANA ON SATURDAY ALLAN LEWIS Stranded' horset to arrive today From this afternoon aKmJrr?w^ Ve ,n Penan As the first day" raring ormn SChristmas Day. the 'pe^fe^™*^ to advantage of this DostDmnS^T Clu J 5 are tel "ng their Amateur Gymkhanl <£,*, a 2 d are holding Monday,
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    35 7 picture. hSS J J^S Wsk r ith head uard) ets clos and rips a iu? £i?° U g Jam ls head durin a four-romiil work' out at the Happy World sta dium yesterday. Free Press
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    12 7 can r *e have 3 lady hands IN so rough fIP i
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  • 86 7 From ALLAN LEWIS AWING to the postponement of the first days racing until Christmas Day, there will be no Radio Malaya broadcast on this, day but commentaries will be given over the public address svstem on the course. A spokesman for Radio Malaya said: "Radio
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  • 38 7 TOHN LAMB, lormer President ol the Scottish Football League and President of the Arbroath Football Club, died at hit home on Monday. He was 69. He resigned as President of the League last week.- A.P.
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  • 430 7 India 71 ahead, 4 wickets down AT close of play in the second Test at Bombay yesterday, India were 42 runs for four, after England had replied with 456 to their first-innings total of 485. The match ends today. England's fine recovery was partly due to a lighting 175 by
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  • 107 7 rOLIN MCDONALD, Mel- bourne University student scored 207 for Victoria, the Sheffield Shield holders, who forced a draw yesterday with New South Wales. N.S.W. took first innings points. McDonald, who was 140 not out overnight, gave seven chances during a stay of five and thrcequarter
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    36 7 Allan Tanner, the coloured boxer from British Guiana, lands a left on the nose of Tommy McGovern. during their fight at the Royal Albert Hall, which was won en points by McGovern, the British lightweight champion.
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  • 209 7 SIDNEY, Wed. AUSTRALIAN tennis officials are indignant over the demands made by Mr. Russell Kingman, president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, that they promise to have Frank Sedgman defend his national singles title at Forest Hills next summer. The officials know in the first
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  • 313 7 REDHEAD (150lbs) SA VES PROMOTER Hancock impresses Free Press Boxing Reporter rpHERE should be fireworks at the Happy World x covered stadium on Friday night, when Taffy Hancock, flyweight champion of Australia, ducks through the ropes to do battle with Orient champion Tanny Campo. Yesterday, Taffy sparred four rounds— two
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  • 145 7 POUR schoolboys have been included in the Negri Sembilan All 'Blues rugby XV to meet Singapore All Blues at Seremban en Saturday. Two of the boys are from Tuanku Muhammad School. Kuala Pilah. They are wing-three Mohideen ana centre-three Azzuddin The others, who are from
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  • 89 7 •THE English Football Association have received reports from the other home associations that thety have decided to ahead with arrangements for sending a Great Britain team to Helsinki for the Olympic Games next Summer. The Welsh and Irish Football Associations agreed to provide players if selected
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  • 90 7 MORMAN Hayes, a com- paratively unknovn boxer, zoomed into the middleweight fistic picture when he earned a split but clear-cut decision over France's Robert Villemain, former European title hoUe:\ They waged a furious 10--round battle before a crowd of 6,896 on Monday night at the Boston Oarden.
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  • 95 8 PARIS, Wed. TREECE told the United u Nations last night she wanted British rule to end in Cyprus. The island should be allowed to choose its own destiny, she said. Greek delegate, Mr. Loukis Akritas, told the social committee that 81 percent of the population of
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  • 415 8 VISHINSKY PLEDGE ON UN DISARM PARLEYS Russia won't quit if voted against PARIS, Wednesday. OUSSIA told the United Nations yesterday that it will join the new Disarmament Commission even if the majority instructs it to base its work on the Baruch atom control plan. The Soviet Foreign Minister, .Mr. Andrei
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  • 115 8 Film star's husband is indicted BEVERLY HILLS, Wed. WALTER Wanger, film pro- ducer, was indicted yesterday on a charge of shooting Jennings Lang, agent for his wife, actress Joan Bennett. The county grand jury voted the indictment, charging assault with intent to commit murder which carries a possible penalty of
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  • 56 8 A source in the Boavia Interior Ministry said last night that the Bolivian Government has foiled a revolutionary plot that extended to all parts of this tin-rich republic. Police said the plot was engineered by members of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, and organisation opposed to the
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  • 34 8 Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, who has been leading his country's delegation at the United Nations Assembly, is leaving Paris by air today for Karachi for consultations with his government. Reuter
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  • 264 8 THE HAGUE, Wednesday. T^HE International Court yesterday rejected a x British demand that the baseline from which territorial fishing limits are marked should be the line of the low water mark along the coast subject to a few special provisions regarding bays, islands
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  • 20 8 President Truman will not hold his usual Thursday press conference tomorrow as he is overburdened with work A.F.P.
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  • 24 8 The President of the State of Vietnam yesterday formally applied to be admitted as a member of the United Nations Reuter
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  • 138 8 KARACHI, Wed.— Sind Provincial Governor Din Mohammed yesterday &ave the Sind "strong man" Chief Minister Mohamed AH Khuhro 24 hours to resign to stand his trial on corruption charges. The Governor also directed Khuhro to summon an emergency meeting of the Sind Moslem League Assembly party
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  • 64 8 ARCHBISHOP GETS HIS FREEDOM picture. A POLICEMAN unlocks a gate to allow Archbishop Stepinac to leave prison in Yugoslavia. The Archbishop was released after serving five years of a 16-year sentence on charges of collaborating with the Axis Powers. After his release Stepinac was ordered not to leave the village
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  • 14 8 A trade agreement was signed yesterday between Pakistan and Italy. AFP
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