The Singapore Free Press, 3 January 1952

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N o 18,279. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS,
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  • 341 1 Truman wants Jai>s ,4m to recognise Formosa WASHINGTON, Thursday. PRESIDENT Truman has told Mr. Churchill that he would like to discuss with him next week the question of Japanese recognition of the Chinese nationalist regime m Formosa as the legitimate government of China, authoritative sources
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  • 262 1 Churchill is in a hurry m ship. Br PLANE Oft HOARD THE QI SEN MARY, Thurs. Till Queen Mary, now 1 mjindphg «n fi ne weather Uirtngh the Atlantic, will m t Mr. Winston Churchill to \m erica on Saturday m time f«>r a day's cruise with President Truman. The
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  • 23 1 B.S ITUi Tactical nee Squadron arrive sh rttj m France, o-ised abou: 15 fr*G Nancy, under E senhnvMi-*« m™- A.P.
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  • 37 1 More than 1,350 people lost their lives m the United States m accidents during the Christmas and New Year holidays. Traffic accidents caused about 900 deaths and nearly 200 perished m fires. Reuter
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  • 158 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. DR. Mohammed Mossadeq. Persian Prime Minister, has been chosen by Time Magazine as its "Man of the Year'» for 1951. It pictured him against a map of the Middle East with oil wells, pipelines and symbolical clenched fists over the caption: "The
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  • 90 1 CAPRI. Thurs. GRACIE Fields, dressed m maroon slacks, a violet woollen cloak, green beret and green stockings, formally applied before the local parish priest for permission to marr v In the Catholic Church next month She was accompanied by her Rumanian-born fiance, Boris Alberovic. The couple signed
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  • 51 1 LONDON, Thurs. T'HE increased prices on Morris and Riley cars, announced on Monday, will not affect exports. Neither will the increases on Austin cars announced yesterday. The increases, caused by rising costs, range from £15 on the Baby 7 to £153 on thp Princess limousine.
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  • 131 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday announced plans for sweeping changes m the "scandal ridden" Internal Revenue Bureau. He said m a statement the move was "one of a series to protect the government from the insidious influence of peddlers and favour seekers, and to expose
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  • 57 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. BOLIVIA is expected to take her case for a higher tin price directly to President Truman today. The Bolivian Ambassador, Senor Ricardo Vardas, is understood to be prepared to explain Bolivia's position, m the deadlocked negotiations with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation over the price
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  • 187 1 No rift over Egypt U.S. WASHINGTON, Thursday. T»HE U.S. State Department spokesman said yester- day that the United States and Britain are m "constant consultation on the Egyptian problem and denied there is any "split" between the two. He said the U.S. position remained the same as on Oct. 17
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    42 1 A.P. AX AMATEUR photographer took this dramatic picture of two Chicago firemen as they fell headfirst to the ground when an extension ladder broke. The firemen, who were fighting an apartment house fire m Chicago on Christmas Day. were not critically injured.
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  • 80 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. DOUCE IN AMBUSH killed a bandit yesterday m the Kulim district of Kedah. A carbine, grenade, ammunition and a pack containing clothing, food and documents were recovered. A special constable was killed when bandits attacked a police post m the same district. A railway
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  • 121 1 Monkey holds up freighter JERSEY CITY, Thurs. ON^ OF 30 monkeys which the American President Lines freighter, President Arthur, brought here on Sunday from Singapore, yesterday threatened to rMay the vessel's sailing. The monkey is m the engine room and line officials fear he might get into thp machinery or
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  • 134 1 Keen fight in Test Australia, needing 206 to win the fourth Test at Melbourne, lost the wicket of Harvey at 93 and the wicket of Moroney at 105 this morning. Harvey was bowled by Valentine after taking his overnight score of 21 to 33. He leaned forward to a bail
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  • 87 1 Woodcutter lost' his big toes— for $5,000 STOCKHOLM, Thurs. J± 30-YEAR-OLD woodsman from Northern Sweden has been charged with defrauding several insurance companies m Stockholm of some 10,000 Kroner ($5,600) claiming he had lost his bio: toes by accident. He had Insured himsplf ent companies and twice claimed he had
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  • 224 1 Red 'no' to surprise U.N. offer MUNSAN, Thursday. THE Communist negotiators yesterday indicated that they would reject a surprise Allied compromise offer for an exchange of Korean war prisoners and civilians. There seemed only a slight chance of quick Communist acceptance when the truce negotiators meet again today at 11
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  • 121 1 Newsman hurt in air crash Free Press Staff Reporter SIGNOR Maner Lualdi, tho 39-year-old Italian journalist, who flew into Singapore last week m a Macchie monoplane with a newsreel colleague, Signer Mario Fio* retti, was reported this morno ing to have crashed m Sumatra while on his way to Palembang.
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  • 25 1 A Yugoslav county court yesterday passed sentences ranging from death to two years gaol on 14 defendants accused of spying for Bulgaria A.P.
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  • 24 1 A curfew from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. will be enforced daily on H>« resettlement area of npong Abdullah, Segamat, ii Saturday.
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  • 45 1 The State of Libya today officially enters the sterling area, the British Treasury announced last night. This means that Libya's foreign trade will be linked to the pound sterling and will be subject to exchange controls of the sterling area- A.P.
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  • 81 2 ON it. tor the roud: Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart has written a book about whisky. He calls it. naturally Scotch. It was issued In October Sir Robert :rew up near a whisks distillery. His grandparents were distillers. At the moment Sir Robert is back m the whisky
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  • 1124 2  -  Peter Quennell reviews new books m U.K. I NDER REVIEW Mi.Uc. by Daphne Rooke. (Gcliur.cz*. lhe Eu:>knun's London by Tn -k Swmnerton. (Allan Wir.--v U.ikie Collies, a bkgraphy by Kenneth Robinson. khe liial *4 Neville G«or^« Thlth. edited by MacUonald Cl Hi I*l J I
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    64 2 One of the world's most beautiful opera singers, soprano Sara Menkes from Buenos Aires will be heard m London soon. She is here wearing beaten gold byzantine ear-rings presented to her by Mussolini m 1939 and a solid silver cuff— the traditional ornament for the role of Aida— which wa
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  • 328 2 Grandfather's House, Dudley Barker, Heinemann, The story of an American m England. A Thorny Wilderness, J. B. Welman, Blackwood, A collection of West African stories. My Fellow Devils, L. P. Hartley. James Barrie. The story of a marriage. The Mired Horse, Elizabeth D'Oyley. A historical novel of
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  • 368 2  -  GAULT McGOWAN By A RECENT survey A shows that Western stories have become the most popular light literature for German tee n-a gers. Even German children who cannot speak a simple sentence m English, interlard their playtime conversation with phrases like "ten-gallon hat" and "six-shooter." Demilitarization
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  • 59 2 A KOcoH SHOOI Geoffrey Household. (Michael Joseph). A short adventure story by a master of pursuit and escape who creates excitement without (the relief!) either gangsters or detectives. THE SATURDAY BOOK Edited by Leonard Russell (Hutchinson). Tne I lth lssup of this elegant and sumptuous miscellany: nice fodder
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  • 811 2  - A Bull-fighting Poet tells his Story MALCOM THOMSON .AW,RM.WEJDXD UNDER REVIEW LIGHT ON A DARK HORSE. By Roy Campbell. Hollis and Carter. AMONG other qualities (he is one ot the best of living satirists), Royston Dunnachie Campbell has the intellectual's innocent longing to be admired for physique, courage, etc. As
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  • 230 2 The New < Twenty-fifth Anmv. r Album. (Hamish H ton, 30s. I The finest idea really magn I Sen Year nr ci has so far com icai/. A oUect "New Yorker*' from 1925 to 19 pettier they forn cinatina. record rapidly changing A can scene. And, lapse of
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 234 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you have a full effectiveness. Your best successes will come toward the deep and profound nature, UUj|> yo||r I|fe when but since you manifest a you have ceased to become a bright, jovial and happy-go- "dabbler" and have learned lucky nature, too many people t#
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    • 150 2 New Crossword No. 550 ■ii [Tl prn hhb Tl mmmamamam "iß^b^bW W'A^mml. 10 I Mali l!^^! I H ■888 Bi^iM BB BHBI HrMH Hi 1 1 1 II CLUES ACROSS 1. Queenly station (8), 8. 9. Stuffing and weight station (10). 10. Journey often begun at a station (4). 11.
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    • 30 2 Sohition To Crossword No. 549 Yesterday's Solution..- Across: 1. Crucible. 7, Bear-leaders. 8, Climb. 9, Khaki. 11. Lotto. 12. Rhoda. 13. Standing out 15. Hedgerow. Down: 2. Realist 3. Cold-
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  • 183 3 'Innocent abroad' has plea rejected LONDON, Thurs. n.YIA F.ayman, 28-year-is old ex-waitresi whose Women of Twilight," is r rru'utreland's smashvenl M) the High Court mroush her counsel, i story of an innocent i m Shaftesburyisked Mr. Justice Roxm the Chancery Divi- i an injunction forbidMiss Jea n Shepeard, the j,
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  • 67 3 B Id b Commonwealth j p. tflc A:: Lines have order- j ta d Brr.ain's De Havil- 1 fcmets, the world's only j Jet-driven airliners, to operI '.pen Australia and H Zealand and North A ::ca. The planes, when delivered about two years' time. a... between
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  • 76 3 Will baby play the piano? M rs-to-toi who play m the hope that ;:uldren will be musi- are just as foolish as those who believe that if sec a street accident the child will be harmed. ressof Dugald Baird. of en University, rejectIng the two theories, points that the child's
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  • 449 3 BRITISH PROGRESS IN A-RESEARCH Five milestones reached' m LONDON, Thursday. AT least five new milestones m nuclear research support the recent discloseure by Mr. Churchill that Britain has made considerable progress m the field of atomic research. The milestones are: 1. Britain will probably start building a power station for
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  • 123 3 WINNER AND CHAMPION. BURLINGTON, Wisconsin, Thurs. THE "World's Champion Liar" title went to a. member of the clergy. The Rev. Arthur R. Kirk who contributed the "tallest" story was judged by the Burlington Liars' Club as the winner. Rev. Kirk's story read: A man living m the country tried to
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    26 3 T Fifmf L^n;^ C /h d arfeSe h M»«tt ii MGM Films, has proved she is as good an actress as she is a talented dancer.
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    45 3 picture. A 39-year-old New Worker, Hired Peterson, left the United States m April 1949 t o sail around the world alone m his yacht. He visited New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapo re, Colombo. Aden and Cyprus and is now en route home. A.P.
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  • 359 3 TArw NEW YORK, Thursday. A LADY marriage broker believes the trouble with matrimony mi n America is "the helter-skelrpr romance.- Miss Edna Wilder makes a businesl o bringing JogeUie^wife-seeking m en and husbfndseeking women. She said the high divorce fate m this country is
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  • 37 3 America is setting up detention camp s for many thousand potential spies and saboteurs should the need arise Surveys of unused Government properties are being made including that at Tule Lake, California,
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  • 261 3 LONDON, Thurs. SPECIAL Branch officers O will try to discover the real identity of Mr. X while he serves a three months' prison term. H e told the authorities at Colchester his name was Stanley Oakman, aged 27, and that he had just escaped
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  • 69 3 CAPRI, Thurs. W ILD CARNATIONS of Capri will be the basis of a new perfume to honour British actress Gracie Fields. The perfume is being developed at the ancient Carthusian distillery m Capri Eugene Aprea, a chemist 'at the distillery, said the new perfume will be
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  • 27 3 The Census Bureau said that there are 155,800,000 People m America The 1950 census counted 151,132,000 Americans at home and m the armed forces abroad.—
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  • 30 3 The Court cf West Berlin has decided that the German Government should pay compensation to German Jews interned m the Japanese Ghetto m Shanghai during the Pacific War. A.F.P.
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  • 487 3 JJERE is a brief summary of the entire conception of the weak two-bid that has been adopted as part of the strategy of many of the country's top-ranked experts. First, we want to stress the fact that although they are extremely effective when properly used, if they are
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  • 418 3 Allies build up their armies in Europe r, FRANKFURT, Germany, Tnursday. TF Russia suddenly attacks, Allied commanders believe they are strong enough now to hold on the Rhine The idea that most of Europe would have to be lost to Russia before it could be saved is now out of
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  • 196 3 Army will use the 'arm-lift' LONDON, Thurs. THE Army is experimenting with a new system of life sav.ng at sea known as the "black-pressure armlift"—the discovery of a Danish physical fitness instructor, Holger Nielsen. The Schafer treatment is m general use m Britain. The life-saver places the patient on the
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  • 50 3 "Bronco Charles" Miller, the last of the pon v express riders, is now 102 years old. "Bronco Charlie" used to ride the pony express on the 172-mile run between Sacramento, California, and Carson City, Nevada, with 18 changes of horses on each trip. A.P.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 197 3 m3ndr3k6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya I MMM LIKE YOU I I DON'T KNOWI IhE DID? iVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A I you guys/ usin* my face j know too much? hisname.he new mooel for our next job' l FA WE I SURE IS 6000 I ANO
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    • 113 3 Today's Listening SINGAPORE j 10 a. m. 10.10 Emergency News from K.L.; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 News; 1.45-2 dance music; 6.15 "Calling All Hospitals;" 655 Announcements 7 News; 7.15 "Radio Scientist; 7.30 Augmented Radio Orch.; 8 "Guess What?"; 8.30 "Discussing the Discs"; 9 "Barchester Towers"; 9.30 News--9.45 "Guest Artist";
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    • 77 3 News; 8.45 Nights at the Opera— I A programme of gramophone reI cords presented by Barbara McFadyean; 9.30 Radio Newsreel; 9.45 Wilfred Pickles m 'Have A Go'--10.15 Serious Argument— A topical discussion programme by a team of authoritative speakers; 10.45 Nancy Weir (piano); 11.00 'One Minute Please'— Roy Plomley introduces
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    • 9 3 BUCKLEY 'ANO FURTHERMORE. SOLDIER. I DON! LIKE YOUR LOOKS
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  • 548 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Jan. 3, 1952. Social Welfare MISUNDERSTANDING dies hard. In the case of Singapore's Social Welfare Department, it appears to be dying a very hard death indeed, for the Department, m the sixth year of its existence, has found it necessary to publish a pamphlet explaining
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  • 929 4 Czarist Russia warned would-be explorers that death would, come to all who tried to climb the world's highest peak. The warnings were diplomatic propaganda, says Donald MacCormick ONCE again Mount Everest, world's highest peak, is m the news. From Mr. Eric Shipton. leader
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  • 621 4  - It Seems To Me. POLITICO By YEW Year's Eve was the excuse for the usual display of semihysterical high spirits by Singaporeans who think the dawn of a new year is still a matter for jubilation. The singine of "Aula Lang Syne" seems to ger. more maudlin with every year,
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  • 584 4  - The Boy from Kelso who Sailed to a War UNKNOWN DV earning the almost impossible award of a Distinguished Service Order m Korea, 20--year-old William Purves has vindicated a generation. His story starts m the hamlet of Ednam m Roxburghshire, but it might have begun anywhere, m your town, m
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  • 39 4 A CARTOON POSTSCRIPT FOR PHILIP AT HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL FIGHT VmEah'S AGREATCHEAH AS TH6 ROYAL PAHTY ENTAHS... HIS majestts pahty includes mistah churchill, LORD MOUNTBA7TEN. .AND BY JOVE A.ISTAH BING CROSBV ANP MR. BILL MORROW. ANO THERE'S FRANK FARRELL
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  • 408 4  - A DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE AS MILLIONS IN THE U.S. SEE IT Eve Perrick TN the same week that the Duke of Edin burgh went to a prizefight a supply of American comics arrived m London to show thai cartoonist Hammond Fisher anticipated a royal visit to a boxing arena. Only Ham
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  • 119 5 COLONY TO TAKE OVER CITY HOSPITAL Terms are being drafted Free Press Staff Reporter (SINGAPORE Government will tfke over the Middleton Hospital from the City Council m a few months. A^ report on the terms and conditions of the take-over is being drafted for consideration by the Government and the
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  • Article, Illustration
    49 5 picture. Titßfcfi of the four Asian police officers, who lejt yester- nr six months' training course m Britain pictured with the Commissioner of Police, Mr. J. P. Pennefatherr vans (second from right). From left ASP V. Rctna-•i-\m Chief Inspector Tan Teck Kirn and ASP H. L. Boudewyn Free Press
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    33 5 picture. THIS "Bali" bull is one of the ten heads of "beef cattle" imported by the Federation Government for breeding. The picture was taken at the Serdantr Federal Experimental Station, Selangor.- Free Press
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  • 202 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Ptf: Singapore City Council may decide at a ittee meeting tomorrow its policy on meeting extra expenditure which may be claimed m ire by the contractors building the Pasir Panjang power station. The decision will be made at a meeting
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  • 169 5 TH 5i tgapore Progressive 1 pw j baa appointed a nan sub-committee to v. Governments plan the new sports sta- Teiok Ayer Basin. T mxnittec will report IT. I its last committee meet. Party heard Mr. R. Pates, of the Singa- _;r Football Asi on
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    46 5 MISS PRESSANA BALAN, who won the first prize at the Catholic Young Men's Association (Our Lady of Lourdes) dancing competition recently, is seen here doing the "Plate Dance." She will participate m the International variety concert to be held at the Victoria Theatre tonight and tomorrow.
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  • 95 5 City rushes esplanade development THE Singapore City Council has received 12 tenders for the construction of a hawkers' park at one end of the Esplanade under the scheme ror Its development. Offers for tenders closed on New Year's Eve and the City Architect, Mr. W. I. Watson, said yesterday that
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  • 27 5 Mr. James F. Anderson, formerly of USIS. Saigon, has been appointed Associate Director of the United States Information Service m charge of the Penang Office
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  • 65 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. TWO cases or poiio were reported m Selangor during the week ended Dec. 15. There were 99 cases of pneumonia, with 14 deaths, during the week. Pahang headed the list with 28 cases, of which four were fatal. Perak came next with
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  • 151 5 ThL airaus unmese tsntisn Association has been x asked by Mr. Jee Ah Chian, City Councillor and SCBA vice-president, to urge Government to provide compulsory primary education m Singapore. This will be discussed at 1 the SCBA committee meeting next week along with Mr. Jee's
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  • 60 5 Sikhs m the Colony began observances m honour of their leader Guru Gobind Singh on Tuesday. At the Central Sikh Temple m Queen Street, Singapore, a 48-hour non-stop reading of the Holy Guru Granth Sahib, which began on Monday morning, will be concluded this morning. During
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  • 137 5 ALOR STAIt, Thurs. J£EDAH estate hospitals have decided to raise medical and health assistants' cost of living allowances to the scale set up by the Malayan Planting Industries EmDloyers' Association. The revised allowances will be paid retrospectively from last September on the basis of 40 per
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  • 45 5 IPOH, Thurs. Dr. C. T. Wang, former Foreign Minister m the Nationalist Government of China and a onetime Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the united States, today declared open the recently formed Perak branch of the World Red Swastika Society.
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    45 5 niot.il*>*> THIS experimental reinforced concrete cattle shed at the Keileral JExperimenUl Station, Serdang, is aomethinir new to th* accepted buildin e techniaoe. The foreground half of the shed is made of steel reinforced concrete while the other half is retntnromA hv Inrol liamhAA Free Press
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  • 213 5 7 study need for mental clinics Free Press Staff Reponer T*HE problem of establishing child guidance A clinics to deal with mental ill health among students m Singapore is being studied by a committee of seven, Mr. A. W. Frisby, Director of Education, said yesterday. j The chairman of the
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  • 176 5 REDS FORCE WIVES TO WED AGAIN KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. HPHE Communists m South Fukien province were forcing young women to marry although their husbands were living; m Malaya, said Mr. Lav Wo'.g over Radio Malaya yesterday. Many Malayan Chinese returned to China o marry but did not bring their brides
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  • 267 5 Free Press Staff Report r THE Singapore Labour D pariment's Rmployn t Exchange m December I jobs for 1,095 put Of ft t 1 of 1.243 people, who re^ij cd. Oniy cnce last ye_r, \M May, was this figure topped, when 1.251 people found bt
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  • 102 5 SINGAPORE'S ventriloquist. Mr. S. R. S. Naidu. imitated the veena." an Indian stringed instrument, at the Lady of Lourdes social on New Year's Eve. Mr. Naidu. said it was quite simple if you knew how. Later he sang a George Formby number and a Siamese hit,
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  • 25 5 Members of the Volunteer Special Constabulary "B" Division will hold their annual New Year party on Saturday at the Kandang Xerbau Police Station.
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  • 125 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Federation of Chinese Schools has decided to protest to the Education Department against the iarge-scale recruitment of Chinese school teachers into Xxovernment English schools. Some 400 Chinese teachers i A ave applied for jobs m j English schools this year.
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  • 964 6 Choong loses a title to Heah By Our London Correspondent young Penang Chinese badminton player has risen to challenge the supremacy of E. B. Choong m the English tournament field. He is H. A. Heah and he has already robbed Choong of one English title m
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  • 173 6 SNOW again affecied the New Year holiday soccer programme yesterday, four Scottish League games being postponed because grounds were unfit. A Scottish hprse racing meet scheduled for Ayr was also abandoned because the track was covered with several inches of snow. Results of yesterday's matches were
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  • 140 6 JN preparation lor their annual hockey match against The Rest, Selangor Europeans held a trial on the K.L. padang yesterday, Colours beat Whites by four coals to nil. As many as 26 players were tried out. Hooper, the Selangor State goalkeeper, is a certainty for the
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  • 114 6 DOBERT Richards, the Ame- rican pole vaulting parson, has been awarded the 1951 James E. Sullivan Memorial trophy, coveted award of amateur sport m the United States. The trophy l s presented annually t/» th* afv.w 0 t»u« good influence contributes most toward amateur sport
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  • 710 6  -  ROY McKELVIE SPRINGBOKS' U.K. TOUR From A "BLITZKRIEG" is going on m the British Isles. Fortunately it is a peaceful one, being undertaken by 29 mild-tempered but immensely tough giants from South Africa the Springbok rugby touring team. Originally this expeditionary force consisted of 30 players,
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  • 31 6 The visiting Hong Kong football team defeated the All-Filipino selection, 4-2, at the Rizal Memorial football field, Manila, yesterday. The visitors will face the MCAA selection tomorrow. U.P.
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  • 87 6 IPOH, Thurs.— Perak All-Blues, who have already beaten Penang, will meet Kedah All-Blues on Saturday at Sungei Patani m the key match of the competition. Perak need only a draw to qualify as northern finalists. Following will represent Perak: Amri, Kamalanathan, Kassim, Cheah Mook Sen, Abdul
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  • 30 6 rE German Riessersee Ice Hockey Team on Tuesday defeated the Swiss team from Berne by 9 goals to 2 m a match played In South Germany. A.F.P.
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  • 71 6 pONTRARY to an earlier announcement, the United States will compete m the world table tennis championships starting m Bombay on Feb. 1, organising secretary, Mr. T. Ramanujan said yesterday. He said he received a cable from Martin Reisman m Barcelona, stating that the United States would
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    38 6 picture. Singapore men's and women's teams which won the championship m both sections of the all-Malayan basketball" congress concluded m Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. The teams are pictured with their championship banners and cups. Free Press
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  • 169 6 -and there are 9 wickets to go WEST Indies cricket team was dismissed for m runs m the second innings on the third day >f the fourth Test match m Melbourne yesterday. leaving Australia 260 runs to get for a victory. The Australians, fighting grimly,
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  • 139 6 West Indies, Ist Inns. 272. Australia, Ist HUM. 211 West Indies, 2nd Inns. Guillen c Johnston b Lindwall 0 Stollmeyer Urn b Miller 54 Goddard Ibw b Lindwall 0 Bickmrds Ibw b Johnston 22 Weekes Ibw b Johnston 2 Christiani b Miller SS Gomez b Johnston 52 Worrell Ibw
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  • 68 6 The following will represent Tanjong Pagar Rangers m a friendly soccer match against Faral Junior at Farrer Park tomorrow at 5.15 p.m.: Jamal, M. K. Syed, S. A. Haniffa, V. N. Ibrahim, K. S. Taha, M. N. Syed, K. K. Ibrahim, S. A. Hussein, s. M. Abdul
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  • 110 6 TEAM to represent the Arm? (Singapore) m a hockey match against Singapore Recreation Cl ub on Saturday on the Padang a .5 p.m. Is: L/Bdr. KupaUd (S'p:re Regt R.AJ; Sgt. Coulter (Fid Records Nee Soon), Major Shaw (HQ Spore Base District*; WO. II Ethe' ton
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  • 42 6 The firs; annuai Married versus Singles soccer match of the Chun? Wah Football Club will be held on Sunday at St. Georges Road. Players are requested to meet at 63. Bras Basah Road before 430 p.m for transport.
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  • 646 7  - SAY TO KEEP TURPIN WAITING GEORGE WHITING Has no plans for a return By RANDOLPH Turpin will have to wait at least until September for his third and "deciding" world middle-weight title fight against Sugar Ray Robinson or even longer. In fact, the way the Robinson camp are talking just
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  • 235 7  -  ARCHIE QUICK From ii ILi the soccer season is done. The clubs face tan hectic months of championship, promotion, ition and cup struggles with thoughts on the tm 1 il aspect over. tat are the prospects? Arsenal, Manchester and Portsmouth are close together at the
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    • 95 7 S 'pore are champions KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Ij^S expected, Singapore kept their unbeaten record and emerged champions m the men's section of the Malayan Basketball Congress which ended m Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday night. Singapore proved too strong for Selangor m the final winning by 62 points to 38. Singapore
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    • 80 7 RUSSIA was not among the 28 nations entered for the 1952 winter Olympics m Oslo a few hours before the deadline expired at 12 midnight Monday. The 28 nations which have reported their entry to the Winter Games so far are Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium. Bulgaria,
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    • 34 7 Cambridge University and the Gstaad Ice Hockey Club tied B—B8 8 tn a friendly international match played at Gstaad, Switzerland, yesterday. Period scores were: 2 5. 5— 1, I—2 (Gstaad first) A.P.
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    45 7 picture. An exciting moment during the netball game between Selangor and Malacca at Kuala Lumpur. Selangor won three-one. Picture shows Lim Tian Sze of Malacca (light), who was awarded a gold medal for being the best player during the tournament. Free Press
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  • 150 7 AS part of their bid to add impetus to tennis m this country, the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya has decided that State championships next season will be open to players from other States. Other measures proposed include clinics, classes and films. It is also hoped
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  • 79 7 fDAY Barkway, Bri isu AAA honorary coach, arrived by plane m Ipoh on Tuesday afternoon and yesterday began a seven -day course for 30 athletics instructors from Perak, Penang and Kedah. Last night he was entertained to a dinner by the president of the Perak AAA,
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  • 150 7 SAPPERS FORCE A DRAW v. S.C.C. 'A' SINGAPORE Engineer Regiment and Singapore Cricket Club "A" drew m a rugby match played on the Padang yesterday, elich side scoring three points. A steady fall of rain turned the match into a mud scramble; and play was restricted to 25 minutes each
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  • 157 7 Island Club golf results Prize for the men m the Island Club's Boxing Day Flag Competition was won by RA. Mallal With T. Critchley runner-up. The Ladies Prize was won by Mrs. B. James. Runners-up were Mrs. Strickland and Mrs. Tapper. December Medal (Stab'eford) > rmm are A n "A
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  • 892 7 21 1 ENTER S' PORE MEET A TOT/:.; o3 211 dorses n&Tt been entered for the Singapore Turf Club's Spring Meeting to be held on Jan. 12, 16 and 19. There will be nine races for each day. The entries are: Schedule F)LLOWlNG is the racing schedule for the Singapore
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  • 368 7  -  NETMAN By WONG Peng Soon, All-England and Mala'van champion should walk into thc singles final of the Singapore Badminton Association championships with little difficulty— for on Saturday n.ght he meets team-mate Teoh Peng Hooi (Mayflower) m semi-finals at the Clerical Union Ha" But the other semi-final
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  • 112 7 STAR FOX INS RE- RUN RACE THE first running of the A\ ualian Memorial Handle^ ct Auckland yesterday was dtlared "no race" after most of the horses had completed the course, ln t,pl r e of signaLs to stop. The judge annourkced the v Inner and placings, but after barracking
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  • 21 8 DAVIES To PEG, wife of Dr. LE C. Davies at 10 Orange Grove Road on 3 1st December a son.
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  • 19 8 BERTIE McGuire age 51 years* passed away peacefully on the 2 1 52 at 383 Paya Lebar Road.
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  • 59 8 American troop s have 12.000.000 trouser buttons m excess of the Army Regulations, Republican representative, Mr. Walter Norblad, said yesterday mi n a letter to the United States Army Secretary. He pointed out that American Army trousers were fitted with suspender buttons while the
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  • 150 8 Britain may have a people 's car LONDON. Thurs. SIR JOHN BLACK and Mr. Harry Ferguson are reported to be planning a "People's Car to compete with the mass-produced small cars turned out by the thousand m Germany and France. The car would be an entirely new model, stripped of
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  • 45 8 PARIS, Thurs. rE Vietminh Government yesterday asked for admission of the "Democratic Republic of Vietnam" to the United Nations. The request was contained m a telegram sent to UnitedNations Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie. through the Vietminh Embassy m Peking.
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  • 437 8 Saga of tbe 'stay- put captain' LONDON, Thursday. THE toast of Britain yesterday was thc American sea captain. Kurt Carlsen. Capt. Carlsen's doughty one-man stand aboard the disabled U.S. steamer, Flying Enterprise, was ton news m London papers, with the headlines changing to cover
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  • 30 8 Mr. Eugino Perez, speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, said yesterday m Washington that he expected the Philippines to ratify the Japanese peace treaty soon. Reuter
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  • 25 8 Miss Lucy Wilson, who was bombed out of her home three times m World War 11, was 104 years old yesterday. A.P.
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  • 78 8 HERNE BAY, England, Thursday. WORKMEN investigating a sewer stoppage m front of Peter Addley's house found the pipe blocked with 81 pairs of women's panties. In court yesterday, Aaddlev, 22, admitted stealing the panties, together with 17 slips and brassieres, during a series of clothesline
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    53 8 PRIVATE FIRST CLASS William C. Sasser and his wife, Agnes, are shown en route to Cape May, New Jersey, after visiting Sasscr's parents at Lagrange, North Carolina. The 22--year-old bride of a few months learned that her first husband was listed as a prisoner-of-war m Korea. He had been reported
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  • 250 8 LONDON, Thursday. MR. Herbert Newton Casson, who died at 82 after devoting 30 years of his life to teaching big business men how to make money through efficiency, left only £1,097 4s. lid., according to his will which was published recently. "Efficiency Casson" wrote
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  • 88 8 INHABITANTS of one Hyderabad state village let their gods solve for them the perplexing problem of voting m India's first general election. Unable to untangle the rival campaign claims, they all gathered at their temple and laid paper symbols of the four competing candidates
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  • 43 8 The body of the Russian dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky, will b£ transferred to Paris next month. Nijinsky, who died m London two years ago ,is to be buried close to the grave of the 18th century dancer. Augusta Verstris. A.P.
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  • 30 8 Italy's biggest motor firm Fiat, announced m Rome last night that lt has dismissed Battista Santhia, its Social Services Director, because he is a Communist. A.P.
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  • 52 8 FOUR DEEP FOR TWO MILES STREAMS OF CARS, four deep, were banked up for two miles from the toll gates m Sydney Harbour Bridge recently. Reason for the big flow of cars into the traffic was a one-day strike by tramway men and bus drivers over the introduction of one-man
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  • 109 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. A DEMOCRATIC Congressman quoted President Truman yesterday as saying that he hoped to make known within five weeks whether he would be a candidate again for the Presidency. Mr. Wayne L. li^ys, Democratic representative from Ohio, told reporters after calling on Mr. Truman
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  • 32 8 The maa&siag director of the Japanese textile firm "Daido", Mr. Jukichi Ando, is to visit London m the course of a survey tour of European textile industries. A. F.P.
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  • 17 8 Chinese Communist authorities m Lhasa have decided to settle 15,000 Chinese farmers m Tibet. A.F.P.
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  • 235 8 'BRITAIN, U.S. TO BLAME'— GRADY NEW YORK, Thursday. DR. Henry Grady, former United States Ambassador m Teheran, attacked "shocking British blunders and wishy-washy United States policy" m Persia m an article m this week's Saturday Evening 1 Post Dr. Grady, who has repeatedly criticised the AngloIranian Oil Company and the
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  • 257 8 MOSCOW, Thursday MAXIM Litvinov, former Russian Foreign Mm s t>. was buried m Moscow's Novy Devche cemeW yesterday. M. Litvinov's death, on Dec. 31 at the age 0 was announced early yesterday. He had bee n <•'. a long time since his retirement from public
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  • 43 8 Pastor Martin Niemolier, President of the Evangelical Church of Hesse and Head of the External Relations Office of the Evangelical Church of Germany, yesterday left Berlin by plane foi Moscow on the invitation -cf the Russian Orthodox Church. AFP
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  • 19 8 The East German Government has accepted the principle of a Joint East and West Election Commission. AFP
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  • 106 8 Stalin is fighting on U.N. Bide EAST-CENTRAL Fi KOREA 7 STALIN IS UP to his :.e the Korea war on United Nations side. Caj Qustav Stalin, that i United States Ann; hails from San Franci* Captain Stalin, who spi most of his time explaii that he is not relatea to
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  • 52 8 Mountain searches Arizona yesterday fou wreckage oi a missi! ig American service plane the mangled bodies oi al 28 people on board Inc 19 West Point cadets v other passengers. The plane hit the 7,00 Amer mountain. 65 i nil northeast of Phoenix ar.d ex.
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  • 39 8 Bachelorhood is "unnit*ral. Un-Islamic and pr cial to the martial sp;r. Muslim Pakistan," aceorcir.g to 200 writers, journals ar: public leaders who met at Lahore yesterday to pr st against the formation i I nationwide Bachelor^ Club, A.P.
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    • 338 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Mr. and Mrs. Wong Onn Fook thank their many friends and relatives for their kind wishes and valuable presents on 'the occasion of their marriage on 30th December 1951. MRS. W. O. HUDSON wishes to thank all relatives and friends lor their kind messages of condolence, wreaths and attendance
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