The Singapore Free Press, 20 December 1951

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA x tsf) SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 555 1 Vishinsky demands trial of seized fliers PARIS, Thursday. Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vishinsky, yesterday said that he hoped four American fliers held in Hungary will be put on trial as spies. Mr. Vishinsky charged in the United Nations that the American military transport plane forced
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  • 198 1 EGYPT TALKS 'FAILURE' CAIRO, Thurs. THE Egyptian Press said yesterday that the meeting between the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, and the Egyptian Foreign Minister Mr. Salah El Din, in Paris has been a failure. The two foreign ministers met yesterday to find an agreement in the bitter Bri-tish-Egyptian dispute
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  • 269 1 General Dean in hung for 33 days kola A, Thurs. ygptXPLl iimw that A .^nnot be named said thai Major-Gen- William F. Dean evad-v-nh Korean Reds for aa v> a Her the fall of jjjn's name i> »>n the Reds' ii>i of prisoners of war. He iud been listed as
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  • 46 1 M:> Florence Lake, 47, of --"Tori Virginia, drowned nil rn a canal because *e 'eared ner only son was fc atrocity victim in Korea. B i: has now been rejJW tha: the son, Private Varies Edward Elliott, is a Pnsoner A.P.
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  • 144 1 TOKYO, Thurs. VESTERDAY'S meeting of the "Supervision" Subcommittee of the cease-fire talks in Korea produced no further progress. The United Nations delegate, Major-General Harold Turner, iaid the Allies held to their position and insisted that the Communists mast make the next move. The
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  • 71 1 In a statement on her tiff with Columbia studios. Rita Hayworth disclosed in Hollywood yesterday she has proposed cancellation of her contract. The actress wa s suspended for failure to report for work. She said she objected to the script. Then Columbia announced they
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  • 53 1 Panther attack was televised Clyde BeaUj-, circus owner and animal trainer, is presently recovering from a clawing he got on the arm from a black panther. Beatty was making a television film and was trying to quiet the panther during one of the scenes when the animal slashed at his
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    60 1 picture. The Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, looking: at a flying paper hat at a dinner party given by Mr. G. Uttam Ram, at the Capitol Blue Room last night in honour of Mr. C. L. Edwards, the retiring manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Picture shows
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    38 1 picture. Mr Tan Hong Ghim, mana^r ol the Overseas Chinese Bank at North Bridge Road, Singapore, receiving his Rritirt i citfcenship papers from the Colonial Secretary, Mr W. L Blythe at the Victoria Memorial Hall vesterHav. Free Press
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  • 284 1 C.C. TAN OPPOSES ELECTION MOVE Free Press Staff Reporter THE Progressive Party president, Mr. C. C. Tan. this morning said that Singapore Straits Chinese leaders should refuse "to be made a cat's paw'; oy Mr G H. Kiat, who was reported to have said last night that the Straits Chinese
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  • 209 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE situation in the Middle East has grown more serious, Mr. Dean Acheson, American Secretary of State, said yesterday. Speaking at a press conference, he said the Western nations had lost ground in their efforts to obtain some reasoned solution of the Persian and
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  • 151 1 LONDON Thurs. THERE is a certain amount of truth in f i he statement of an eminent American that ''retirement is a ticket of death," British industrial experts told employers here. In a booklet called "The Elderly Worker," the Industrial Welfare Society stressed, the need
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  • 20 1 The Marchioness of Loni donderry, 45, died in London I yesterday after an illness of several weeks A.P.
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  • 62 1 LONDON, Thurs. SMALL ruffians are forcing parties of caroilers whose average* age is ten to "beats" and warn off other caroilers from the areas. At the end of each night's .singing the children are allowed to keep half of their collections— which may run to £2 or
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  • 28 1 A friendly relationship is growing up between Britain and Israel, Dr. Israel Goldstein, President of the American Jewish Congress, said in New York yesterday. Reuter
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  • 109 1 LONDON, Ttmrs DUTTEES those bandage--1 like leg-wrappings which caused so much grousing by the fathers and grandfathers of today's soldiers 7 may be coming back m the Bntish the Introduction of bat« edies3, with its fuil* length trousers instead or breeches, gaiters have
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  • 57 1 Soviets back Farouk —report LONDON, Thurs. RUMOUR was rife in Communist circles here yesterday that the Soviet Union had decided to recognise King Farouk as "King of the Sudan." It was reported that the Soviet delegation at the United Nations in Paris had intimated this to the Egyptian Minister of
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  • 128 1 LONDON, Thurs. PIELD Marshal Lord Montgomery has been offered the post of Commander-in-Chief in Malaya by the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, it was learned here last night in well-informed circles. Lord Montgomery replied, however, that he would only accept the post on condition that he
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  • 57 1 Two British soldiers stationed in West Berlin have fled to East Germany and sought asylum from the authorities there, according to a Ta=s Soviet news agency message. An official British statement .said that two British soldiers have been absentwithout leave since Nov. 8. Altogether 12 British
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  • 43 1 Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, who was acquitted on a charge of treason by the Burma Supreme Court, yesterday received permission to return to his life's work in the hospital at Namkhami, which he built up stone by stone. A.P.
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  • 604 2  -  Robert Blake tells tbx story of a sentimental Socialist George Lansbury by Raymond Postdate. rjEORGE LANSBURY is remembered today for the years of his dotage; remembered as the elderly pacifist driven irom the leadership of the Socialist Party; as the sidewhiskered sentimentalist whose conscience enraged Mr. Ernest
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  • 389 2 MR. Algernon Henry Biackwood, who died in London recently aged 82, was Britain's leading writer with an "H" certincate^-he devoted most of his stories to the horrific, and thrived on it. His own life was as strange as his stories. With a 50--year-old reputation as a
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  • 485 2  -  Peter Quennell reviews new books in U.K. AN air of thought- fulness and intelligent sympathy hangs over L. P. Hartleys novels like a flood of mild autumn sunshine across a well -tilled landscape. His methods in story-tell-ing are traditional. He disdains the spectacular, the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 298 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, your very versatility of talent and your fluidity of temperament make* you a difficult person to understand. Your nature Is filled with contradictions that mast be recognized if you are to make a real sncetss of your life. Sometimes yon are involved in so many
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  • 116 3 LONDON". Thurs. re, 36-year-old ...v farmer and pig ol murder- t. said at /&ta s U»1 he took altei the war ...ce.' fee into about Stoes at Honbere he lived bought a poultry M ;ave evid- guilty to j :-jcuve-Inspec-raser, head of ling C.I.D.
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    29 3 hed i n i dress of roniDlementing her :,i t i*«y Grable vs th it she doesn't J v to dei>end on her ?r,u> i'"^ make a prettN Picture.
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  • 112 3 ■■A ARBOR. Michigan. Thurs v fe ■"> to being a good and in a s:udy y of Michigan centre. axe things that do, or ways help their men l be be:ter workers. boss: re personal inworkers and ms; 2 looks upon people, rather as
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  • 113 3 HE TOOK WINE IN HIS BLOOD TO 'DRY' AREA T aE Swiss Supreme Court has ruled that a taxi driver must not drink alcohol while at workeven outside the country. A Zurich taxi driver recently took some customers on a trip to Bregenz in Austria, where he had a good
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  • 41 3 Mr. Gabrial Pascal, the film producer, will fly to India in February or early March for talks with the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, and other Indian leaders on his production of the film "Mahatma Gandhi". Reuter
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    265 3 vulnerable. 1 ieaier bidding; West North I? Dbl. A Dbl. l 1# Pass 1 N All Pass •he club eight. vtOi the ace and Jfwessly-Hjr perhaps as of leading up to he two honours flf st i diamond from iiucked-and Sowth's now East had ft r In diamonds.
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  • 262 3 THEY PLAN A NEW LONDON -Pro/a* to cost £540, 000, 000 ter landings: reffi Hh Lo o ftiS^ f r helico Pand protect existing hbtori^t I hames »>»dges masterpieces. nistonc and architectural pliable. They at^rt it f, rs have declared it and physical plaining that PrOdl ?S t of fin
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    36 3 TO-DAY'S PIN-UP is lovely Jeanne Grain. And if she looks happy it is because she feels that way, A busy actress Jeanne will next be seen in "People Will Talk". Cary Grant will be her co-star.
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  • 210 3 'Ravish case is stopped BIRMINGHAM, Thursday. A JURY at Birmingham Assizes stopped the case in which Reginald Read, 24, Socialist member of Atherstone Rural Council for three years, was accused of assaulting Mrs. Eliza Beale, 34, with intent to ravish her. He was discharged. Read, a member of the local
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  • 117 3 LONDON, Tluirs. A WOMAN chiropodist said that one of her employers "on many occasions" did not plug in X-ray apparatus when he was supposed to be taking £1 Is. X-ray photograph* of patients' feet. When patients asked to see the X-ray, he wetted an old film
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  • 47 3 The Internal Revenue Department has appointed 65 special agents to investigate the tax frauds in the New York area, Mr. John B. Dunlop, director-general of the department, announced in Washington. They will investigate all tax evasions and irregularities in tax collection A.F.P.
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  • 339 3 U.S. moves Into Bangkok and prices go up BANGKOK, Thursday. |T rHE face of this fabled Eastern capital of canals x and temples, of smiles and indolence is sharply changing. Something American has been added to the Bangkok that was always so very much Siamese and so very much its
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  • 82 3 China Reds come down on beggary pHINA'S beggars, members of one of the country's most skilled and highly organised professions, are being put out of business by the Communist government, according to dispatches from the mainland. More than 400 beggars were rounded up in a recent drive. They were "thoroughly
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  • 45 3 Donald Ft. Wilson, national commander of the American Legion, said in New Yorlc that the United States should seek to end the Korean war "with whatever means at our disposal, including the bombing of Manchurian bases and blockade of the China coast." A.P.
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  • 39 3 The greatest need at the moment in the war on locusts is a "very hard hitting' 1 vehicle that will go through mud after the "hoppers." Dr. D. L. Gunn told the Royal Society of Arts in London Reuter
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    • 416 3 Today's Listening 930 Radio Newsreel; 9.45 Wilfred SINGAPORE Pickles in 'Have A Go!'; 10.15 DlWUnrwii** Serious Argument A team of inn h m Lisht Music Medley speakers comment On the week's Hniivwood Salon Orchestra topics; 10.45 Programme Parade: gS Schwartz; 1.30 Time n.oo Jazz Music; 11.30 News 2™ News- 145
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Dec. 20, 1951.
    • 426 4 T*HE announcement that Britain and France have reached agreement on issues in Europe brings the creation of a European Army one step nearer. If the project is realised, it will be a signal triumph for General Eisenhower. It is what he has been wanting for a long time
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    • 118 4 ONCE agai/i that innocent little news paragraph has appeared as it does every week. Few read it far too few seem to realise its almost terrifying implications. It read this week as follows Six hundred and seventy-two babies were born in Singapore during the week ended December 8
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  • 677 4  - The Big Need At Present Is Hard Work IAN STANBURY German Shipping Industry says U^ARLY this year German shipping and shipbuilding circles entertained high hopes that Germany's merchant fleet was on the eve of a spectacularly rapid comeback. Over-optimism in Hamburg, Kiel, and Bremen arose from placing undue importance on
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  • 104 4 JIGGER, one ol the horses which took part in the Gallipoli landings in 1015, died this week. ***** whose death was reported from Connel, near Oban, lived to 42, despite being wounded at Gallipoli. There are on record older horses however. Old Billy, who worked on Merseyside and
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  • 397 4  -  Richard Huges JAPANESE SHIPPING INDUSTRY from fAPAN'S giant shipJ building industry, comparatively unscathed by wartime bombing, is steadily returning to normal pre-war production, and is openly to challenge United Kingdom supremacy. At present Japan ranks third among the shipbuilding nations of the world, with 347,000 gross tons
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  • 48 4 Taffy the mascot of the Ist Batt., Welch Reg*., and Corporal A. Williams, who holds th e unique rank of Goa t -Major o«i fia'rade with the rciwenial band at the docksi^ it H«ng Kong where the reffimrni maefc a short v way i Korea.
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  • 557 4  -  POLITICO S IMHEN a Free Press leader opened on the day of the municipal elections with this jocular paragraph. "Pardon us but is Singapore about to have an election. We ask this because the only people who have shown any signs of excitement are the candidates"
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  • 46 4 CHEAP BEDS FOR ASIA An English bed nuaiuiacturing company is mass-pro-ducing low-priced spring bedsteads for Asian markets. The export manager of the company, Mr. Ji. Harrington, passed through Singapore >y ah* yesterday on his way back to Britain after a tour of agencies in SouthEast As:a
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  • 815 4 SCOREBOARD ON BRITAIN'S NEW-LIFERS BUT TO OTHERS ENGLAND IS A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY, SAYS JOHN HALL IN AND OUT. 1945-51 Emigrants from Britain. 1,000,000. Immigrants into Britain. 851.000. Net Loss of Population. 149,000 THIS week the millionth emigrant to leave Britain since the
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    • 14 4 OVEX OF A vMBf *£Pvr*7*o*i N ~£i Ffc«Mt 3364 19-21 HICH ST., SPORE. 6.
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    • 46 4 THE BLACK WUP The famous HorHcuttural £.A.t S Soeietf of Haarlem once offered a prixe, wtitch was never claimed, of £8,000 for a B.'acK Tuitp. This was during the Tuitp madness" of Holland m Hie 17th century wfcett fortunes were made and lost in tulip buibs.
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  • 181 5 Slam's reply to complaints about quality Of Ani u Prcss s a ff Reporter Governm^'b^gher to makJ S, g Sln «?P° r and the Federation, rice. "We supply the grade of nee contracted for. Once the ships leave Siam ports we nave no control over
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    24 5 THE FREE PRESS photographer wouldn't let this youngster, at the Christmas party given by Robinsons yesterday, finish his cake— so th* look of resentment
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  • 81 5 CHURCHES MAY PROTEST AGAIN -tf-ipoRE Christian churC^Hes protest again proposed amendtiP* tbe C bris* ian marriillegal. Bishop R. L. t>;- of :he Methodist said yesterday. t*p* Bish^P was comment,;V V ~p«»2 2» committee which sup--s?ed ±e .".-ending Bill and jj,, :e£ l rest by ChrLsthat the new £5Ji ive them
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  • 26 5 i\::a.v- Malay a belongr "scheduled Id a conferbc Victoria MemHa.: S.r.sapore, on .-.;.iv Ibe tin *o form a cen- lisatiorQ for the
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  • 23 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Johore Government is to spend $14,500 to re-roof the Istana Besar, Johore Bahru, and the Istana Woodneuk, Singapore.
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  • 89 5 THCrI Sorcar's grisly c of cutting the QfM and restornf t v... M for weeks. Scrcar Indian aa tUnmif begun .:er.ces In the rtre and a: the same ::h his easy personaßlf, He invited about 20 people on the stage last night to sec him, from
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  • 130 5 Kedah Prince plays Robin Hood LONDON, Thurs TUNGKU Mansur, nephew of the Sultan of Kedah, and Tungku Kalid, grandson of the Sultan of Johore, are playing the roles of Robin Hood and Friar Tuck in the pantomime at their preparatory school at Whitchurch-on-Thames, near Henley. Also in the cast are
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  • 174 5 157 labour accidents only five died Free Press Staff Reporter ONE hundred and fifty-seven labour accidents were reported to the Commissioner of Workmen's Compensation in Singapore last month and five of these were fatal, the Labour Department said yes- terday. A collapsing wall was responsible for the death of one
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  • 29 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.The constitution and election regulations of the Town Council of Bandar Maharani. Muar will be tabled at tomorrow's meeting of the johore Council of State
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    19 5 picture. •*k ~n«a «f kiddi- til. America* Clu^'i Cferistma s paffcy >••- A SECTION Of »b« ««wd ol^^ Free Press
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  • 98 5 V"EARLY 700 Cucos islanders the biggest number to leave the islands in one batch —arrived in Singapore on the Anshun this morning on their way to Borneo where they will be re-settled. They were met at the wharves by ten buses brought by the Singapore
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  • 184 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore City Council has decided that it will continue to maintain the existing arrangements with Government for a joint elections organisation. The Council pays two-thirds of the expenses. But should a Legislative Council by-election occur an adjustment
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  • 66 5 JOHORE BAHRU Thins. THE Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has drawn up a T.B. treatment allowance scheme to have a uniform system for the administration of funds available from me Socia] Welfare latteries. The scheme aims at helping those who "will benefit most." Such
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    34 5 picture. HOLDING TIGHT to the edges of the cockpit, this little girl closes her eyes as she naes the aeroplane at the Christmas _part v _held at the Singapore Naval Base yesterday. Free Press
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  • 121 5 SINGAPORE Consumers' Association, Tanglin branch, will ask Government for the lease of two acres of land to grow vegetables and rear poultry. It is planned to start the farm in the Mandai area. This is part of the Association's campaign to grow more food. The president
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  • 109 5 Firm is denied permit to use City Arms kN application by a Singa- gore advertising company for "blanket' permission to use the Arms of the City in advertisements of a historical nature has been rejected by the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the City Council. The committee approved the
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  • 241 5 Colony welcomes Frisby's propossl Free Press Staff Rcpor.er OEVERAL principals and teachers of Eru^isa schools in Singapore, and parents of school children welcomed yesterday the proposal of Mr. A. W. Frisby, Director of Education, to introduce three-sess on schools in the Colony next year. The scheme was disc! i bv
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  • 31 5 The Johore Customs Causewav will be dosed on Tm^day and Wednesday, public holidays in Johorc. Next year only Christmas Day will be observed as a public boll day in Johore.
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  • 125 5 Free Press Staff Reporter jyfß. J. M. Jumabhoy, Singapore City Councillor. (City, Independent) told the Free Press this morning that he welcomed Mr. S. S. Manyam's proposal that the five Independent Councillors act together. He said that already existed among the three Independent Councillors from
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    • 65 5 i *fr IK Vh 's^^fa Wo4USm l^^r Come and see the MODEL TRAINS IN WONDERLAND. We have a complete range of Hornby "Dublo" Sir Nigel Gresley Set $73.00 Duchess of Atkol Set $78.75 Tank Goods Set $65.00 Transformer $17.50 Abo complete Farm Sets for country scenes with Cars, Lorries, etc.
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  • 557 6 R.E.M. E WIN A RUGGED BATTLE RAF Seletar edged 3-0 Free Press Rugby Reporter R.E.M.E 3; R.A.F. Seletar 0. CLENDER though it was, R.E.M.E.'s winning margin at Ayer Raja Road yesterday was well deserved. The Craftsmen played just a little bit harder than Royal Air Force Seletar and were just
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  • 115 6 J^OVERS Juniors, one of the most promising young soccer teams in Singapore, have arranged a busy programme during trie Christmas holidays. On Monday they meet R.A.F. Police, on Boxing Day they play a return match against Young Chinese Athletic Association, and on Friday their opponents are Indian
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  • 31 6 Rugby Union results: County Championship matches: Kent 11, Hampshire 3 (played at Blackheath); Surrey 3, Middlesex 3 (played at Richmond); Eastern Counties 21. Sussex 0 (.played at Cambridge) Reuter
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  • 97 6 SWISS PLAN BIGGER STADIUMS ICWIiZERLAND is 'to spend about 30,000,000 francs on enlarging their stadiums for the 1954 world football championship. This figure was given in a report by M. Ernest Thorn men of Switzerland, chairman of the organising committee which ended its twoday meeting in Zurich yesterday: M. Thommen
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  • 41 6 in a inenrily soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday Tanjong Pagar Rangers drew 2-2 with Neta.ii Memorial F.C. Masalamani and Nadarajan scored for Netaji in the first half. Rangers replied with two goals by Davvood after the interval
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  • 29 6 The Special Air Service Regiment third fifteen beat 19th Air Formation Signals by 11 points (two tries, a goal) to 8 points (sroal, penalty goal) at Changi on Monday.
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  • 33 6 (]PL. Suleiman, the RAF and Combined Services star footballer, will lead the Selangor Malays' attack in the Sultan's Gold Cup final against Penang Malays at Ipoh on Saturday.
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  • 738 6 i» EC A USE oi the postponement ol the Gist day's races, the °enang Amateur Gymkhana Meeting originally fixed for next Monday will now be held on Saturday Dec. 22. Tnere will be $2 win and place totes together with a course cash sweep on each
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  • 31 6 picture Red Biggs (with headguard) wades into Little Nene during a workout at the Happy World Stadium yesterday afternoon. Red meets Australian Bernie Hall tomorrow night Free Press
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  • 197 6 /\LD Joe Louis, the boxing Brown Bomber who held world's heavyweight championship for nearly 12 years, will be refused permission to fight in the state of California should he apply, a member of the State Athletic Commiss on said last night. Mr. Joe Phillips said
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  • 195 6 Badminton C'ship ties POLLOWING are ties in the Singapore badminton championships to be played on this weekend at the Clerical Union Hall: Saturday at 7.15 p.m.: Shell S.C. v C. E. Morton (M) Ltd. Tournament official, Ang Ann Beng; umpire, Lye Thim Fook; referee, Ng Chia Heng. Sunday at 9.30
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  • 60 6 F.A. Cup second round replays: Blyth Spartans 1, Tranmere Rovers 1 (abandoned after 15 minutes of extra time owing to bad light); Torquay United 1, Swindon Town 1 after extra time); Leyton Orient 3, Wrexam 2 (after extra ti- v Leyton Orient now meet Everton
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  • 351 6 TAFFY OR TANNY? Big fight should be close aff air Free Press Boxing Reporter TI/HO is it going to be tQmorrow~Tafl\ <>r t ff To me— when two food men m< et annv be easier to pick the winner of aCI 5 horse' 1 W uid Taffy Hancock, is Australia's
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  • 136 6 Maharajah loses on horse nulos T H E hazards buying yell*! ngs wene demonstrate?^ the Newmark* d£S,J? sates when the M Princes Choice Q k res, valued £276 and by that he did not evei favourite for It At the tales be 6sO guineas. Babus Pe' vbo i 3 r
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  • 23 6 The Singapo e Anuti I ball Association annual r«: meetinp will be held at the 6 a pore Cr.cke: dttb :j
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  • 224 7 BOMBAY TEST ENDS IN DRA W the second test match between India and England I ended in a draw at Bombay yesterday. After a porsftari India recovered to total 208 in the second linings. todia had scored 484 for nine declared in the -c being England replied with 456. Thus
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  • 182 7 V ic Seixas makes a discovery j^ITATION by Harry Hop- >tta over Vic Seixas' footI Bight prove one of boomerangs ever r^ufactured in Australia. :^«§ii: cos- the Aiissies the -»'is Cup m next week's "jktge round .*pman, who Is new fuJl- a captain of the Australian praised such a rfekus
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  • 496 7 DALCROSS AND KELVIN GO BEST AT PEN ANG against clock I?FW .roii om ALLAN LEWIS F *r£raa i svj is still very hnd wL °JL B whi <* gallop for they worked nnth? JL 1/5 A winning the track. DalcXapp e a? e ?\n e^^ enie outside of the two.
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    46 7 pu iuie sets his Ten-ah winf-three-"Z teT Chandler is only "sv i>\ elbow, but su*n suivel5 uivel of the Police 9U jthis crip sufficient to Lk the fair- haired ;^ers dash for the L-line in yesterdays Lger match at Thomson jeVi Ten?ah won 21-mne. Free Press
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    56 7 picture, Ezzsurd Charles sinks a left into the midriff of Joey Maxim in the third round of their fight at San Francisco. Charles improved his chances of regaining the world heavyweight championship when he outpointed Maxim over 12 rounds. Maxim's world light-heavyweight title was not at stake. It was Charles'
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  • 86 7 PENANG, Tours.— Penang Malays have named 20 players to travel to Ipoh on Saturday to meet Selangor Malays in the Sultans' Gold Cup soccer final. Penang Malays will be captained by J. Jamal and the team will be selected from: A. Rahim. S. Omar,
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  • 20 7 few. *>*•' u /-'> r foursomes J 4 e island Club, C V-"" M- i' v af t«rnoon, was
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  • 138 7 INDIA— IS 1. INNS.: 485 for dec ENGLANI>— IST. INNS.: 456 INDIA— 2ND INNS.: 2* Mantrl c Spooner b Ridjway J Roy Ibvf Ridgway 0 I mrijar e Watkins b Statham 3S Harare e sub. b Watkins 6 Amarnath c Howard b Watkins 4 Sarwate ran oat 16 Adhikart
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  • 111 7 30 NATIONS FOR WORLD T-T TOURNEY MORE THAN 250 players from 30 nations plan to take part in the world table tennis championships starting in Bombay on Feb. 1 nexyear The Indiar Table Tennis Association announced that 22 countries have confirmed their entries. Among them are Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England,
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    38 7 picture. Benjy Ross (right), of the Singapore Police rugby XV comes across to intercept a Royal Air Force Tengah forward dribble in yesterday's match at Thomson Road which the Airmen won by 21 points to nine.— Free Press
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  • 213 7 S'gor badminton c'ships Free Press Correspondent AS expected Abdullah Firuz and Lim Kee Fong are to contest this year's men's singles final of the Selangor Open Badminton Championships. Piruz was much too good for Lim Koon Yam in the semi-finals played last night at
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  • 115 7 IPOH HOCKEY PLAYERS ORDERED OFF FIELD |PUH j tirsi hotkey ".iKident" a occurred on Monday when two players received marching' j orders daring a league tie on i the padang between Ramblers second XI and Perak Chinese Recreation Club. The players were ordered off by the umpire after they had
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  • 195 7 India makes 5 changes for 3rd Test jNDIA'S team iur the tHirti cricket Test against England beginning on Dec. 30 at Calcutta shows five changes from the side which played in yesterday's druwn second Test. VX. Manjrekai. D.G. Pahdkar, S.P. Gupte, P. Sen and R.V. Divecha come in for Adhikari,
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  • 178 7 trailing I—o behind the S.R.C. first eleven, Indian Association made a fine recovery to beat the Recs 3 l in a hockey iriendly on the S.R.C. ground yesterday. The game was played at a sizzling pace from the start, with the Recs doing more of the
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  • 649 7 WEAKENED Naval Base rugby side went down to Royal Air Force Changi at Naval Base yesterI day by nine points to three. All the points scored in the match came from tries. Half the regular Naval Base team were in action on the Padang,
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    • 281 7 I FESTIVE SEASON EXTENSIONS Christmas Eve 2 a.m. •g Boxing Night 2c. New /ear fire 2 cr.n?. j Patrons are adv sed that table re^{ ,ons for Festive Season must be collected 2 days in d Jp advance of respective n.gts cth—w^e reservations will automat, eally be Canct ed v.#
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  • 151 8 LONDON, Thur. I*HE British Government raised the prices of cheese and bacon yesterday and told the people they would have to get along with less bacon and fewer sweets. Cheese and bacon went up 4d. a pound. Both are rationed. The Food Ministry also slashed
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  • 28 8 The Argentine Central Bank yesterday resumed trading in the pound sterling after a two-day halt to study the effects of Britain's modification of exchange regulations.- A.P.
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  • 417 8 WEST' BLAMES MOSCOW FOR MIDDLE EAST PACT Russia told: it's your own fault LONDON, Thursday. FOUR Western Powers— Britain, the United States, France, Turkey— told Russia yesterday it was her fault that they were forming a common Middle East defence command. They blamed Russia for causing the international tension which
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  • 107 8 'Confessed' they were spies LONDON, Thurs. MOSCOW Radio yesterday reported the execution of two men who pleaded guilty to parachuting into Russia after training as American spies and saboteurs. The radio said tfrp men, A. I. Osmanov and R. K. Sarantsev, "confessed they had been recruited by the American intelligence
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  • 238 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. TPHE atomic plane is the weapon of the future now A being given top priority by the Defence Department and the Atomic Energy Commission. It is believed that the Atomic Energy Commission wants the plane to be ready within the next two years.
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  • 110 8 U.K. PLANS HELICOPTER AIRLINERS LONDON. Thurs. BRITISH European Airways, one of Britain s stateownea airlines, asked experts yesterday to design a mulaengine helicopter able to carry more passengers than at present and land them in the heart of Europe's big cities. British aircraft builders said such plans are already under
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  • 64 8 TODDLERS AT THE NEW POOL Picture LINDSAY AND ROGER CHAPMAN lost no time in trying out the children's paddling pool their part of the new Forces' swimming pool on Beach Road, as soon as it was opened yesterday. They are the children of W/O G. G Chapman, of the S.V.C..
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  • 182 8 LONDON, Thursday. A GRAY -haired spinster in her 50's is leading a campaign to get British soldiers to support the illegitimate children they left behind in Germany Miss Isabelle Granger, General Secretary of the British National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, has found
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  • 57 8 SET OFF BOMB IN HIS MOUTH Juan a coconut dealer of Cavintan, near Manila, yesterday stuck a hand grenade in hi* mouth and pulled the pin Hi*, wife claims a coconut was the cause of his suicide. She told the police that Juan had been behaving strangely ever since a
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  • 151 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. PRESIDENT Truman assured India yesterday that the United States wishes to give it economic co-operation "at all times, to the limit of our ability." The President gave the assurance in formal remarks exchanged when Mr.. Binay Ran j an Sen called at
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  • 62 8 Australian External Affairs Minister, Mr. Richard Casey, said yesterday that the Russians are counting on the economy of one or other of the democracies cracking under the increasing strain of inflation. Mr. Casey has just returned to Australia after visiting 10 countries. He said inflation in
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  • 31 8 About four score national professional and scientific societies in New York honoured former President Herbert Hoover yesterday as their choice for "the most illustrious member" of the engineering profession. A.P.
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  • 43 8 U.S. Santa for young Britons Santa Claus with an American accent will visit more I'aan 1,000 British children this year. They will be the guests of American servicemen at parties in London and at U.S. Air Force bases in the eastern counties. A.P.
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  • 38 8 Lieutenant Colonel J P. Came, who commanded the heroic Gloucestershire stand in Korea last April, i s among the list of war prisoners handed over by the Communists to the United Nations Command. Reuter
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