The Singapore Free Press, 28 December 1951

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA Nl 18,275. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    NIGHT TALKS ON MALAYA
    274 1 Churchill, Lyttelton confer with Robertson LONDON, Friday. T IE Secretary for Colonies, Mr. Lyttelton, and the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, were present last night when Mr. Churchill saw lend Sir Brian Robertson, Commander-in-t of Middle East Land Forces, who rordißg to authoritative sources may be J
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    NEW JETS TO FIGHT BANDITS
    121 1 NEW JETS TO FIGHT BANDITS LONDON. Fri. Ogest ivvo-way ferryfligbt oi let aircraft lertaken by the Royal rce will be made berr.^lar.d and Singapore I OH December 31. it iinnoueed yesterday. The ice lo be covered is milea hea o: De Havilland 9^ will be ferried to > re fcr
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    4 HURT IN CAR CRASH
    67 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A car carrying three Europeans and another Chinesedrhren car were involved in a l h-up at the Bth mile. B kit Timah Road, shortly midnight. Ail four were admitted to spitaL The three Europeans received treatment and were later .sent home
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    HALVE THE AGENDA
    22 1 Britain has proposed to cut by half the 1952 agenda of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Reuter
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    CLASH AT MINE
    25 1 A Communist was killed and three policemen wounded in an armed clash in south Brazil between Butia coal miners and police.- AFP
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    Ramvong drummer
    48 1 The Kuala Lumpur studios of Radio Malaya echoed to Ramvong music on Wednesday afternoon when Boy Scout Boon Mee Nakratna of Bangkok and dozen of his friends now visiting Malaya recorded a programme of gay Siamese songs. Picture by Free Press Staff photographer Yon* Peng Seong.
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    Mossadeq may end U.S. mission
    116 1 DR Mossadeq is considering terminating the services of the American military mission, according to informed sources here. The mission consists of 72 American advisers for the Persian army and gendarmerie. The 1947 agreement with the United States on the mission precludes Persia from having military
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    Big oil find near Gulf
    102 1 NEW YORK, Fri. TPHE New York Journal of Commerce said yesterday that "a new major oil discovery possibly one of the more important in a decade of fabulous strikes has just been made in the Middle East." The oil showings were reported after the start
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    STRIKE DECISION
    32 1 The Sudan Workers Federation which represents unions throughout the country, decided yesterday to begin on January 20 the first of a series of three general strikes for higher wages. Reuter
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    Virgil,500lbs is dead
    87 1 PIKEVILLE. New York, Fri. VIRGIL Tackett, 26, who weighed between 500 and 600 pounds, died on Wednesday. He had been ill of a heart condition. Virgil was big all his life— he weighed 13 pounds at birth. He never went to school. The family doctor said the
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    CHIANG SEES CAMPS
    45 1 President Chiang Kai-shek has iust concluded a 10-day tour of military camps throughout Formosa. A.r.r. Pope to broadcast Pooe Plus XII will broadcast a mesvte to prisoner? to the canls of the vorld on Sunday at n«4<s GMT (S'pore time 1615).- A.P.
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    HUNBARY MAY FREE HiR CREW TODAY
    134 1 HUNBARY MAY FREE HiR CREW TODAY bc-i3APfiST, Fri. UNITED States Charge D'Affaires Mr. George Abbott, called on Hungarian Deputy Foreign Minister, Andor Berei yesterday but was given no date for the release of four American airmen fined for "intentionally violating" the Hungarian border. An American Legation spokesman said Mr. Berei
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    PROBE INTO U.S. BOMB THRO WING
    140 1 GOVERNOR Fuller Warren of Florida yesterday "offered rewards totalling $3,000 for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for a recent series of bomb throwing at Negro Jewish and Roman Catholic homes and other buildings in Dade Country, which Includes Miami. The Governor's
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    Lotteries: free vote Decision
    136 1 Lotteries: free vote Decision 'PHE Singapore Progressive Party decided last night to let members vote according to their conscience in the matter of premium bonds and lotteries. The question of premium bonds was discussed at the Party's committee yesterday following a recent suggestion that, as there has been poor response
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    'India won't be bullied'
    79 1 NEW DELHI, Fri. INDIA'S PRIME Minister. Mr. Nehru told an election audience in Rajamundry. north Madras, yesterday, "If the Prime Minister of Pakistan or any other country in the world thinks that anything; can be imposed upon India, regarding Kashmir they are very much mistaken". Mr.
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    $10,000 for aid to ship
    75 1 NEW YORK, Fri. T^HE British Government has received $10,000 from the Isbrandsten Company Incorporated in settlement of a salvage suit brought against the company for aid rendered to one of its ships by a British frigate. The frigate, Black Swan, went to the aid of
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    ANTI-STRIKE VOTE
    29 1 The Congress of Industrial Or ganlsa lions United Steelworkers' Union at Pittsburgh voted yesterday against a strike of its 1,000.--000 workers on New Year's Day. A. P.
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    Example to world
    139 1 LONDON. Thurs. NEWSPAPERS in London today stressed the King's Christmas Day broadcast comment that the British people could offer the world "the example of tolerance and understanding tfcat runs like a golden thread through the great and diverse family of the British Commonwealth of nations." News Chronicle
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    RIDG WAY SAYS REDS CAUSING DEADLOCK
    296 1 RIDG WAY SAYS REDS CA USING DEADLOCK PANMUNJOM, Friday. i^ENERAL Matthew Ridgway put the responsibility squarely on the Communities for failure to sign| a Korean armistice when the 30-day time 1 mit expired at midnight yesterday. United Nations Radio said the Reds deliberately delayed the truce talks and used blackmail
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    Gales off Britain
    27 1 Heavy gales, with accompanying high winds, buffeted the British Isles yesterday. Coast Guard stations called it the worst seaeoing weather since 1945. A. P.
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    Egyptian minister makes 6 points
    230 1 Egyptian minister makes 6 points ROME Fr!. T'HE EGYPTIAN Foreign L Minister. Salah El Din Pasha, said yesterday that the nomination bv King Farouk of two former Egyptian ambassadors to London, considered to be pro-British, to high adviser posts simply meant that the King wished to have the support of
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    UK ship building is highest ever
    56 1 UK ship building is highest ever LONDON, Fri. NEW ORDERS for British ships— more than 1 .000 were placed worth £550,000.--000—assumed an alltime record in 1951, according to Mr J Ramsey Gebbie, President of the Shipbuilding Conference. Writing In Lloyds List Annual Review. published yesterday, Mr. Gebb'e put tbft gross
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  • In England now
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      Square Dancing Helps the Money go Round
      518 2  - Square Dancing Helps the Money go Round IRIS ASHLEY By JWS square dancing we're hearing so much about is enormous fun. It's gay, it's matey, and it's easy to learn, if you have a good "Caller*' and one or two experienced square dancers to lead the different "squares/' you can
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      Do a New Year
      437 2  -  MARIE GOUGH Says INHERE is but one A week-end of 1951 left to us and then we are through with the Old Year and into the New. Whatever changes the New Year will bring about in the world we can only hope that they will be
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      UTILITY DEBS'
      758 2 Have less glamour, less expense, but the etiquette of the tourt is just the same, says Robert Clenton A FORTNIGHT ago there should have appeared in the London newspapers those dignified advertisements from the Lord Chamberlain announcing the dates when' the newest debutantes can gather in round-eyed excitement
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      181 2 SPANISH TYPE GOLDEN FIBRE SHOES WITH HANDBAGS TO MATCH! Choice Colour shades in Red Blue Green etc. GET YOUR PAIR TODAY! Obtainable at all Leading Shoe Stores Sole Agent:— THE MIDDLE SHOE STORE. 60 Middle Road Singapore 7 TELEPHONE 7494 INDIGESTION ?£g||fe^ Mete's the fratnili/ stmdty J^^^^ There's nothing like
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      145 2 I For HER I The LoveUest of \fj]r I F I T l l i MALAYAN MESI MB A scries of reviews written from within AGRICULTURAL QUESTIONS Of MALAYA by E- H. G DOBBY POLITICAL QUESTIONS OF MAUYJ by G- L. PEET THE CO OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN M -At by
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      212 2 New Crossword No. 546 ■Hf~"~~~~lH^ C!'T' A Fl I I I 1 I I I I tion of friendliness and I I J I J the ability to introduce and HW ■■'■^■r' 1^ SH original ideas accepted IHI HB almost instantly is one of the W B B B I
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      50 2 Solution To Cros.wcyd No. 545 VESIEKDAI'S SOLI'TION. Across: 5. 7. TortoLse and hare. 8. Sleepy. 10, Perforation. 13. Parcel 16. Hyde. 17, Honiton lace. Down1, To have. 2. Itself. 3. Minstrel boy. 4. Vere. 6. Nap. 9. Yon 10 Pop. 11, To hold. 12. On deck 14 Ado. 15, Coil.
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    REDSBUILDNEW GATEWAY TO CHINA
    370 3 REDSBUILD NEW GATEWAY TO CHINA Soviet experts direct work HONG KONG, Friday. J»HE Communists arc rapidly building a new nu? ar r ur a magnificent gateway to North China as it is called in the Communist press— 30 miles from Tientsin. Situated just outside Taku Port in Pohai Bay, a?
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    12 3 TO-DAY'S PIN-UP Barbara Bates is a young actress always on her toes.
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    SHE IS CLIMBING TO THE TOP
    23 3 SAIXI FORREST, M.G.M.'s new dancing star, is w-il on the way to the top of the ladder.
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    'MALIGN' WOMAN BLAMED
    263 3 'MALIGN' WOMAN BLAMED LONDON, Fri. •THE "malign influence" of a woman named Celia was blamed for the wreckage of the marriage of a young librarian and his Italian wife. "Her character." said Mr. Commissioner Bush-Jam-es in the Divorce Court, "is most contemptible." The Commissioner rejected a plea for divorce by
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    CZECH MEASURE
    26 3 The Czech Premier, Mr. Antonin Zapotocky has threatened with "punishment and liquidation" those Czechoslovaks "who opposed government orders for the building of Socialism." AFP
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    Bridge Hand
    327 3 S >uth vulnerable. dealer. THERE arc urnei wnen a player ■Ml consider two aspects of BH problem of how to play a par- dai suit. One involves developta| ricks in the suit itself; the c .er. and quite often the more !:r rrant consideration, involves matter of entries
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    Oil line to span Rockies
    120 3 OTTAWA, Fri. WORK on 700 miles of 24--inch oil pipeline across the Rocky Mountains from Edmonton, Alberta, to Vancouver, is to start next spring. This £28,000,000 project is to be one of the greatest engineering jobs ever undertaken in Canada. The line will enable the
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    No $ tor the Nile
    142 3 No tor the Nile CAIRO, Fri. gGYPT'S prosperous winter tourist season was hard hit by the Anglo-Egyptian rift. The international tension that followed—punctuated by riots, demonstrations and violence scared off tourists by the hundreds. Cairo's luxury hotels, usually full at this time of the year, are half empty. Normally, the
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    Tough boy must be gentle
    68 3 A prize is to be given each year to the toughest boy at St. Luke's Modern School at Maidenhead, Berkshire. But Mr. J. V. Elliott, the school manager, who Is offering the prize, stipulates that the tough boy must be: Potie and kind; gentle towards
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    Freedom costs 1,000 dollars
    261 3 NAPLES, Friday. A LINE of black-clad women, tired-eyed children, and grey old men in Naples walked up the gangway of an Israeli steamer to freedom. The 222 of them were priced at a thousand dollars each. Priced? Why, yes. The American Joint Committee, the wealthy Jewish
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    BUCKLEY
    8 3 "HURRY UP WITH THE MASHED POTATOES!' Jl9
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    He runs a home for aged dogs
    68 3 He runs a home for aged dogs A London schooLuast er. Mr. Prank Sanderson, runs a home for greyhounds, racing dogs whose career en the tracks ends when they are five years old. He tries to find homes for such dogs and train them for a new domestic life. So
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    CROWD CALLS WELLES A RED
    189 3 DUBLIN, Fri. AN Irish crowd called Orsofc Welles a Communist when the film star vLsiled Dublin to see a play he hope* to take to London. For three-and-a-half hours, theatre pickets marched outside the Estate Theatre. They were members of the Catholic Theatre Patrons Association
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      195 3 Radio SINGAPORE 100 P-m. The Radio Orchestra; 130 Time Signal News; 145 Dance Music Joe Bushkin Trio; 200 Close Down; 5.00 Programmes in Malay; 6.15 Programme Summary; 6.17 Forces Favourites A programme of requests by the Forces presented by Josephine West: 6.55 Announcements Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 Time Signal
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      63 3 Maiidrake v to fcp Singapore Free Press in Malaya I^^^U^a^^^l MOST Of THEM WEREgp^gl M T I g| jjg, P°- TujMSSA JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya Fand leavS it to meJ- JgC^ G^/f TSc^eHT T 'iT Vl wA4THe R l*'^l<rfß^H II we's wobried about TARZAN MOVing
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    The Cobbler who says that
    1197 4 SEFTON DELMER opens up an official British document to disclose to readers the checked and authoritative statements made by Soviet soldiers who have deserted to the West. He details three lives on a Soviet level six out of 800 neighbours had real shoes; The Film
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    22 4 They might have told me they were going to build aft A-bomb plant opposite hc'ore they let me buy my own house
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    FRIDAY, Dec. 28, 1951. Churchill's mission
    528 4 FRIDAY, Dec. 28, 1951. Churchill's mission /\N Sunday Mr. Churchill will sail for America to meet Mr. Truman. He will not go cap in hand. He is not that sort of a man. nor is the country he leads that sort of a country. Britain, it is true, is up
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    DE GAULLE sees his chance to rule France again
    566 4 DE GAULLE sees his chance to rule France again vcnbvmvv b FRANCE'S attention is focused on two generals de Gaulle and Eisenhower. De Gaulle, it ts believed here, is now nearer to achieving power than at any time in the past four years, while General Eisenhower is thought to have
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    THE RIDDLE OF THE BREAKAWAY BATTLESHIP-MAN IN TUG TALKS
    22 4 Headßtteg let] p so lar \ov, eotn< ilraiiiatio states it the purser ni^fitu
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    I SAW THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE SAO PAULO
    725 4 I SA W THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE SAO PAULO rTOM GEEKIE, purser A of the tug Bustler which was helping to tow the 41-year-old Brazilian battleship across the Atlantic talked recently of the battle with 70-foot waves, five weeks ago, when the 19,000-ton ship disappeared and was never seen
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      22 4 NECKLACES EARSTUDS CHOKERS BRACELETS EXQUISITE but INEXPENSIVE P. H. HENDRY. Jeweller 78. NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. SINGAPORE. 6. 4. BATU ROAD. KUALA LUMPUR.
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      66 4 JUST ONE and aren't we cueBaby wonders what all the fuss is I particular day-the toys, the r«- and this lovely, lovely candc but m And what a happy year it htf t for everyone particularly s, < Cow Gate. Steady progress ab peace and contentment. Yes -carry on. baby.
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    PRADOELL ROAD DHAIKS TO WAIT
    124 5 City Council not to move squatters now JHE City Council has postponed action on the draining: of the Braddell Road area for six months as the time is inopportune to move the squatters affected. The T ron^i tter l^ ill be review ed in July,
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    DECISION SOON ON TOWGAY WELLS
    313 5 Health Committee of c.:y Council will review f he last time the .question oi allowing bean sprout growve'ls in Rochore district, i: meets early next ttth. Yap Pheng Geek, a nominated City Councillor table a report, on the v. Us. Tbc City Council's decision r
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    73 5 picture. MISS MARGARET BEADLES director of the US^T formation Service library in Sin*aix»r? *La In pamphlets an d maps of L^. S A to the ?hre^ N^ v° U raid-Tribune Forum girls from Sin^l^ W York n r ia who t h left s i n8a re by »Tht e
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    Thio attacks state lottery suggestion
    204 5 Thio attacks state lottery suggestion Fress Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Association's intention to ask the Colony Government to conduct ldtteries was bitterly attacked yesterday by Mr. Thio Chan Bee, Progressive Legislative Councillor for Balestier. He said This continual agitation in some quarters for state lotteries is most unfortunate." Mr.
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    Gimson, Russell sail for H.K.
    104 5 Fress Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE GOVERNOR, u Sir Franklin Gimson, left the Colony yesterday on the HMS Alert for a short visit to Hong Kong. He will return on Wednesday. During his absence Mr. W. L. Blythe the Colonial Secretary, will act as Officer Administering
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    NEW OFFICIALS
    42 5 OFFICIALS of Eng Chuan Kong Soh of No. 10-3 Palembang Road, Singapore, elected for the years 1952 and 1953 include: President, Mr. Tan Huan Kee; vice-president, Mr. Tan Lian Koo; secretary, Mr. Tan Chin Tiong, treasurer, Mr. Tan Hwee Hoon.
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    9,000 WAIT FOR TRUST HOMES
    150 5 A BOUT 9,000 people have applied to the Singapore Improvement Trust, for flats since the new registration began two months ago. 1 No allocations have yet been made, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, City Council President, said yesterday. Ten blocks of four-storeyed flats, costing a
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    Robertson explains
    91 5 "JVTR. D. Robertson, Singapore City Councillor, said, yesterday that his charge against Mr. S. S. Many am was that the latter, while officially a member of the Progressive Party, joined with Labour and Independent Councillors to keep him (Mr. Robertson), a fellow-Progres-sive, from membership of the Vehicles Inquiry
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    48 5 picture. These Sinranore and Pena ng students sailed to Australia yesterday on board the Gordon Shen, Samuel Kwan, Ong Kim Yeow Ko^hey KaX K Sadto Krishnai Pang Leonir Hoon, Toh Shung^ Fie, Fon S Hon Teck, Choe Fook Gheong and A Abdul Jab bar bin Eatiff. Free Press
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    29 5 picture. A DOZEN BOY SCOUTS from Bangkok visited Kuala Lumpur recently. They entertained Christmas parties with ramvong songs and dances. Picture shows them before Radio Malaya microphone. Free Press
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    City seeks $6V2m in four days
    155 5 T*HL Singapore City Council is looking for investors x to take up loans worth $6,600,000, in the next four days, to complete the $30,000,000 loan floated in August. The issue will be closed at 4 p.m. On Monday. The loan, meant to finance electricity
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    Special gels medal for courage
    178 5 Special gels medal for courage KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. "fOOL, calculated courage ol a high order" has won Special Constable Abdul Manan the Colonial Police Medal. Abdul Manan was In hi& house In Kampong Kuala Paya near Segamat, with three kampong guards on Oct 27. It was raining. Two men dressed
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    MAGIC SHOW AT CONCERT
    43 5 Mr. i*an Heck Jhuan, a local amateur magician, entertained a large gathering at the Young Men's Christian Association Christmas concert on Wednesday night. Prof. Sorcar, the visiting magician, was ai..ong the audience. The Y.M.C.A. Christmas choir presented four carols.
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    TEA PARTY
    40 5 More than 100 people attended a tea party given by Mr. Swam Singh in honour of Mr. Sohan Singh Bhaira, a Colony businessman, who Ls leaving to India on a shct visit, at the Cafe Dc I yesterday.
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    PEASANTS RELIEVE FORCES
    117 5 PEASANTS RELIEVE FORCES Fress Press Staff Reporter THE Malay peasant in Kolantan had shown himself worthy of his "new status a..s a man-at-arms," the Sultan of Kelantan, Tengku Ibrahim, said in his message to hi.s Council of State at its budget meeting in Kota Bahru yesterday. The skill and devotion
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    MTUC wants voice in Govt.
    292 5 MTUC wants voice in Govt. SEREMBAN, Fi 'THE Malayan Trad& x Union Council will make every effort n< xt year to seek representation in all public b(:dies to assure Malayan work* ers that they are alsg consulted in matters < oncerning the administration of the country To achieve this, there
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    BUS STOP FOR CHANGE ALLEY
    161 5 Fress Press Staff Reporter •THE Singapore Traction Company has announced that as from Jan. 1, omnibuses operating on certain routes from the city will stop to set down or pick up passen *ers at a new bus stop to be erected at Change Alley in
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    NEROLIA FOR TOP RACE
    957 6 NEROLI A FOR TOP RACE Deep Fields is best bet terms and, as she usually saddles up well, must be given a strong chance. Dalcross finished fourth behind those two horses and is down 8 lb, meeting Garnfair on 9 lb and Amusement on 4 lb better terms. She will
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    Non-acceptors for tomorrow
    39 6 Following horses will not start tomorrow: Zanzibar, Gay Co-ed, Firm, Tudor Pride, VVaikiki, Rimflre, Jimson, Variety Revue, Eudora, Thaumaturgy, Stage Show Opera, Astute Monarch, AUworth, Honolulu, Marti n i Royal Burough, Scarlet Tiger. London Express Service*
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    Queensland held to draw
    120 6 VICTORIA, the Sheffield Shield 'holders, were 169 runs behind with only one wicket standing when their match against Queensland ended at Melbourne yesterday in a draw. Victoria took first innings points. Queensland, overnight 266 for five in their second innings, declared at 361 for 8 and
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    BROADWAY BILL FOR A DOUBLE
    231 6 DROADWAV Bill should com- plete a double by taking the race for Cl. 5 Div. 2 over One Mile. He was doing his best work at the end of the seven furlongs race on the second day and talcing a line through his form at
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    P & O Cup winner
    25 6 P O Cup winner picture. No Regrets winner ol the P. O. Cup at the first day of the Penang X'masNew Year Meeting. Free Press
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    Year of sport for Britain
    454 6  -  JIM CHAMBERS By USUALLY at this time of the year when professional footballers are enjoying their Christmas "holiday" of four league games within seven days Britain starts looking around for her out--1 standing athletes. British sport did not do too well in 1951, but here
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    'SUGAR 'NAMED 'FIGHTER OF THE YEAR'
    163 6 'SUGAR 'NAMED 'FIGHTER OF THE YEAR SUGAR Ray Robinson, who regained the world middleweight title from Randolph Turpin, of Britain, in New York last summer, has been named "fighter of the year" by the American boxing magazine "Ring". The awards and annual ratings were announced in the February issue of
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    THOMAS CUP FINAL FORSTORE
    90 6 THOMAS CUP FINAL FOR STORE T»HE International Badminton Federation announced yesterday that the challenge round for the Thomas Cup between Malaya and the winner of the inter-zone final would be played at Singapore on May 31 and June 1. It was also stated that the draw for the inter-zone matches
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    TO BROADCAST RUGBY FINAL
    68 6 A RUNNING commentary of the H.M.S. Malaya rugby final will be given over Radio Malaya by Mr. J. N. McHugh, Director of Public Relations, Federation of Malaya. The final in which Singapore Combined Services meet Perak, is scheduled for the Selangor Club Padang, Kuala Lumpur, on
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    TURPIN MATCHED WITH BUXTON
    56 6 TURPIN MATCHED WITH BUXTON Randolph Turpin, British and European middleweight champion, will meet Alex Buxton of Watford, England, in a 10-round bout at Harringay Arena on Feb. 12, it was announced in London yesterday. This will be Turpin's first fight since losing his world middleweight title in New York last
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    Rovers Juniors triumph again
    84 6 j^OVERa Juniors gave their best performance since the team was formed in the middle of this year when they avenged an earlier defeat by Young Chinese Athletfc Association at Fairer Park on Boxing Day. The Juniors won by tliree goals to two. Young Chinese fielded several
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    UNAS" RUGBY XV
    38 6 FOLLOWING will represent Royal Naval Air Station Sembawang in a rugby match against South Johore R.F.C. at Sembawang on Saturday: Thomas; Burkhill, Foster, Moyes Chaplin; Robinson. Quarrington; Preece, Wilson, Wallace, Pavitt, Dickson, March, Mills, Adams.
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    BOXING POSTPONED
    35 6 •T^HE first-round tie between Royal Army Service Corps and G.H.Q. Signals in the Anchor Cup inter-unit boxing competition, originally scheduled to take place at Taiiglin gymnasium last night, was postponed until January 4.
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    BEATING THE DOPER
    502 7  -  Sir Victor bassoon job 9 says QS3 Victor Sassoon, one of the people chiefly ;S ponsiblc for putting down racehorse ;in- in India a few y^ars ago, says that it one ot the most difficult and searching P roblena he has ever faced. Sir Victor was for
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    40 7 WGfcMTNTS are going ibtftd for another Rickie n promotion at the Happy v rW teaturing Bernie Hall who a big impression when winbv a one-round knock-out last «k— in he main event and Taffy ock in f he mPin supporting
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    PENANG BLUES WIN 14-8
    221 7 PENANG BLUES WIN 14-8 SHOWING more aggre^ion and a speedier set of backs, Penang All Blues defeated Kedah All Blues by 14 points (goal, two penalty goals and a try) to eight (goal and a penalty goal) at Penang yesterday. The match was played at the Western Road ground. Penang
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    REES MAY PLA YHERE
    109 7 IVAI REES, the Ryder Cup golfer, is repeating his Australian trip this winter. First stop next month will be at Kenya, where the clubs are again eager to welcome him, and he will probably play in exhibition matches at Calcutta and Singapore. Rees, after playing in
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    P.C.A. MEETING
    26 7 IPOH, Thurs.— The annual general meeting of the Perak Cricket Association wUI be held on Jan. 6 at 11 a.m. at the Ipoh Club.
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    KEITH MILLER'S 3 SONS
    34 7 I stk\LlAS long-haired cricket all-rounder Keith Miller, has naned one of his sons BUI. »"<* ™rUme pal, Bill Young, tst arrival is Denis Charl«s, named after Penis cnanes < mpton.- picture. Reuter
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    38 7 1 ">re Cricket Club forward Storrs is V OB f £L^riK r South Johore pack in the annual J™*- 1^"" 1 J v match on the padan test week. 9.C.V. won by 13 poiats to three.- Free Press
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    Bengal are 149 runs behind
    537 7 HTHE pitch was far from easy at Calcutta yesterday and bowlers Chatterjee and Chowdhury got plenty of lift when M.C.C. hit up 342 for eight t > otal F of 188 armff> m rePIV t0 Bcnffal>s first innin^s Watkins made 113 not out in two
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    M.C.C. Ist INNINGS
    121 7 Kenyon c Bose b Nayudu 42 Spooner c Nayudu b Chowdhury 30 Graveney c Khanna b Chowdhury 32 Poole c ChowdHury b Nayudu 45 Carr c Nayudu b Chowdhury 2 Watkins not out 113 Ibw Nayudu 0 Shackleton b Nayudu 13 Hilton c b Banerjee 35 Ridgway
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    PENANG WEIGHTS FOR LAST 2 DAYS
    625 7 There will be only seven races on Saturday, third day of the Penang Turf Club Christmas-New Year meeting. There will be eight races on the last day (New Years' Day). TOMORROW CLASS I DIV. 2—6F. Zanzibar 9.07 Gay Co-Ed 9.03 Binocular 9.00 Theatre 8.13
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    100 7 BENGAL Ist. INNINGS Bom e Ridcwmy b Tattersall 16 Datta Ibw Ridgway J N. Chatterjee e* b TattersaD. 30 Frank b T»tta*»H Nayndu b Watkins Bay e b Tattm»n 15 gi>M«nm e Shackleton b Tattenall l p Chatterjee c Breim»» b Tatter»n Z J Glrdhari Ibw TattersaU J> Chowdhury
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    L. NENE TO MEET AUSSIES
    150 7 L. NENE TO MEET AUSSIES LITTLE NENE. featherweight champion of Singapore left Singapore for Australia yesterday, where he expects to fight leading bantam and featherweights such as world ranking Jimmy Carruthers, Elley Bennett Luis Castillo and Ray Colenian. Nene, who is 34 years old, said before he sailed yesterday: "Don't
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    The magic-eye saw them all at once
    40 7 What a finish! The magic«ye of the photo-finish camera caught all the runners in Race 4 on Boxing Day at Penan?. Winner of the race was Piercebridgie, followed by Horizon and The Arcadian..
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    U.S. can't drop another game
    478 7  -  ERIC REIL Aussies lead 2-1 By AUSTRALIA'S great doubles team of Ken McGregor Itnd Frank Sedgman smashed its way to a straight set 6 2, 9 7, 6 3 victory over the Americans Ted. Schroeder and Tony Trabert yesterday, to give the Australians a 2
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    Ultimatum to Mathews
    148 7 Ultimatum to Mathews rpHE Internal ional Boxing Club has given light-heavywei;zhi challenger Harry Matthew 5 a deadline of tomorrow lor which to sign for a title fight wim champion Joey Maxim. Match-maker Al Weill U)W Matthews' manager Jack Runey that unless Matthews si^ns for the fight by tomorrow, there is
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    PCFA SECRETARY SPEAKS UP
    89 7 PENNANG. Pri.— Tn nis report ..<» next Wednesdays annual general meeting, the Penang Chinese F.A. ron. secretary, Mr. Tan Teik Klong, criticised the general policy ;>f depending solely on the president to shoulder all financial obligations of the Association. "Such a policy is unsound and -hculd
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    RUSSIA WILL COMPETE IN HELSINKI'
    213 7 RUSSIA WILL COMPETE IN HELSINKI THE Soviet Union will compete in the Olympic A Games in Helsinki next year it was announced in Moscow yesterday. It will be the first time the Soviet Unio n his taken part in the Games though Russians hue competed before. The last time they
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    Quadrangular for Malays
    85 7 rPHIS YEARS Malay lnterstate quadrangular hockey tournament will be held in Seremban during the Chinese New Year Holidays. Pahang Malays' Hockey Association were to have organised the competition but cwing to the transfer of their honorary secretary to Batu Gajah, Perak, nothing was done. Negri Sembilan Malays'
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    SADDLE CLUB TOURNEY
    117 7 J<HE it nUa of the i-venL- In Hie Horse and Pony Show held t "ukif Timah Sadd.'e Club on BoxOft Day morning, are: Novice horses jumping: Mr. J. Bchotman nding Mark. iMn .1 it. Reeves riding Cru.-ader i.ed but retired after the second jump ofl Children over
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    TWO BRITISH TENNIS HOPES
    72 7 ENGLAND has two 16-year-old tennis hopes who "should lhafee the tennis world In fhree or l<;ur vears", said Wimbledon Secretary Lt, Col. Duncan Maeaulu'. in Melbourne to watch Da. is (up matches. A lad named Wilson, from Middlesex, "looks the best prospect vnce Fred Perry. We
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    BIRTHS
    38 8 BADOBB: On Christmas Day, 1951. aft B.M.H. Singapore, to Joan, wife of Major P. E. B. Badger, a son. HOUSTON: Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, on 27th Dec., 51. To Elisabeth, wife of J. O. Houston a daughter.
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    US WILL REJECT COMBINED CHIEFS PROPOSAL
    294 8 US WILL REJECT COMBINED CHIEFS PROPOSAL WASHINGTON, Friday. WHE United States probably will turn down any x new proposal by Great Britain to revive the ''Combined Chiefs-of-Staff", the joint command which shaped strategy in World War 11. These was belief in some quarters in Washington yesterday that Mr. Churchill might
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    Raffle 'prize' was a sir!
    74 8 PESSOA. BRAZIL, Fri. MARIA Costa, a servant girl, short of Christmas money had the idea of raffling off herself. She quicKly sold 1,000 tickets at 15 cruzeiros (75 cents) each. She bought new clothes and Christmas presents with the money. But, when the winner a
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    PLANE MISSING
    24 8 Sixty-seven planes took off from Red Bluff. California, yesterday to search for a missing Air Force C-47 with eight person^ aboard.- A.P.
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    Church to museum
    23 8 The Church of the Holy Trinity in Warsaw, Poland, has been transformed into a Communist museum by the authorities.- U.P.
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    H.K. Governor at exhibition
    50 8 H.K. Governor at exhibition Sir Alexander Grantham yesterday visited the ninth Hongkong products exhibition which was opened by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, 20 days ago. He cut a monster cake weighing 250 lbs. and standing 6 feet high. The cake had nine layers representing each exhibition held. Reuter
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    NO COMPROMISE
    27 8 The Burmese Parliament has defeated a resolution moved by Opposition leader, Aung Than, urging the Government to reach a negotiated settlement with the rebels. Reuter
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    STASSEN TO TRY FOR US PRESIDENCY
    142 8 STASSEN TO TRY FOR US PRESIDENCY PHILADELPHIA. Fri. pEPUBLICAN leader, Mr. IV Harold E. Stassen. said last night he would seek his party's 1952 nomination for the presidency of the United States. Two other prominent Republicans, Senator Robert A. Taft. of Ohio, and Governor Earl Warren, of California, have already
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    WRECK INQUIRY
    32 8 An official inquiry began yesterday into the wreck of the British cargo steamer, Porlock HilL (7,120 tons.) which ran aground off Famagusta, Cyprus, last Friday and broke in two. Reuter
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    'WALL OF DEATH' THUD CAME OVER RADIO
    137 8 LONDON, Friday. MILLIONS of British radio listeners heard the i?1 roar of a motorcycle as daredevil Arnold Wickbold sped around the "wall of death'* 70 feet above a circus ring on Wednesday. They heard a commentator remark: "If he loses speed he is
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    LITTLE SHIP AIDED
    39 8 The 10,000-ton freighter Papanui which turned aside to help the 2,401-ton Greek freighter Thoula Chandris, disabled in the Tasman Sea, brought the little ship safely into port yesterday at Nelson on New Zealand's South Island Reuter
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    SHIP ABANDONED
    22 8 The 1,412-ton Danish freighter, Martin Carl, has been abandoned near Cape Race, Newfoundland, where it grounded on Christmas Day.- U.P.
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    Stately US homes sell at cut-price
    141 8 Stately US homes sell at cut-price NEW YORK, Frl. T*HE most sensational bargains on the reai estate market are the stately homes of America. The bigger they are the cheaper they are and also the harder to sell. America's richest men built ttiem just before they learned about income taxes.
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    OIL MEN TO STRIKE
    26 8 Employees of the Burma Shell Oil Company in Karachi have decided to begin an indefinite strike on Saturday for higher wages.— Reuter
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    Tallulah 'got mad, screamed'
    396 8 NEW YORK, Friday. TALLULAH Bankhead's ex-secretary, Mrs. Evyleen A Cronin, went into the witness-box and said Tallulah hit her and warned her never to speak again of the money the actress spent on the good things of life. Mrs. Cronin, who is charged with forgery and
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    U.S. works, spends and saves more
    58 8 The American people produced more and spent more this year, the U.S. Secretary of Labour, Maurice J. Tobin reported in Washington. In a year-end report, Tobin also said Americans saved more in 1951 than ever before --$8 out or every $100, as compared with
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    CHEST CHECK-UP
    21 8 King Tribhuvan of Nepal arrived in Bombay yesterday by air for a check-up by an Austrian chest specialist. Reuter
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    EARTH QUAKE
    16 8 A severe earthquake shook Ancona, Italian town on the Adriatic Sea, last night.— A.P.
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    259 8 W E are symbols, and inhibit svmi TT work and tools, WO r ds anH Or death, all are emblems." ("r?^ nBs h 'Mh T r will recall that fine and cKracV r t m rson f^ all even the etrifeS ""nT fl>nO earth, symbols have grown
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