The Singapore Free Press, 12 January 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON. SALE IN MALAYA No. 18,287. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1853. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 260 1 Big 3 work out defence plan for S. E. Asia WASHINGTON, Saturday. TOP SECRET draft blueprint for the defence of South-East Asia is understood to have been outlined in Washington yesterday by the military leaders of Prance, Britain and the United States. Though details
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  • 214 1 LONDON, Sat. THE sinking of the Flying 1 Enterprise with her general cargo will cost British and American insurance companies about (US) $1,--750,000 it is estimated. British underwriters were reported to be holding a 40 per cent interest. The usual practice is to reinsure —or "lay
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  • 110 1 r rec Press Correspondent LONDON, Sat. 4NIICIPATING the re- sumption of tin purasing by the United S1 .tea the Economist s wi__. c it America lis steel to Br'^n, ;11 be at a fixed price he United States presum-W-JQ expect similar nent when it
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  • 95 1 LONDON. Sat. |EH L44IEF Marshal Sir U Arthur p M. Sanders, i Chid of the Air Staff, lake over command of Middle East Air Force at •ud of May, the Air v said yesterday. Arthur i 5 to be replac--13 Deputy Chief by Air l_ shml Sir
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  • 31 1 The U.S. Defence Department said yesterday that the North Korean and Chinese casualties in Korea were estimated at 1.569,069 as of January 3,— a 22,201-increase over the previous estimates.
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  • 84 1 9 women for juries Free Press Staff Reporter |tf INE Singapore women have been called up for the first time to serve on juries at the Assizes which open on Monday, an official of the Supreme Court told the Free Press this morning. Not all, however, may be empanelled, but
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  • 33 1 The Churchill Truman talks in Washington gave hope that "we are seeing the creation of one of the truly 'grand alliances' of history," the New York Times said yesterday.
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  • 80 1  - PATECHOUX IS BEST TWO WfD__ BOYS i Lewis says A LLAN LEWIS, Free Press racing correspondent, gives Patechoux, Pedigree and Recovery II as his best bets for Bukit Timah today. Longshots: Adoris, Dewar and Hormone. TRESSPASER recommends straight on and Chantilly. PICTURE TIP and today's course tips in Page 7.
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  • 50 1 Halsey McGovern, of Washington .yesterday refused to accept the Medal of Honour awarded his son for gallantry in Korea because, he was quoted as saying, President Truman is not "worthy to confer" it. It was the first time in history that any one has rejected the award.
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  • 31 1 Toughs stalk London suburb Five British youth clubs are asking the Home Office to provide more police protection for boys and girls who live in the tough London suburb of Hackney.
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  • 131 1 OTTAWA, Sat. MR. CHURCHILL received a triumphant welcome when he arrived last night at Ottawa station from New York for a four-day official viMt to Canada. Mr. Churchill was greeted by a 21-gun salute as he ini._ j rlnfaohmpnt. Of Canada's National Guard In the presence
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  • 44 1 picture. ALTHOUGH GENERAL Eisenhower has not yet stated whether or not he would accept Republican nomination for the Presidency, campaign headquarters have been opened for him in Washington. Picture shows Senator Duff at the opening of the Eisenhower Headquarters in Washington. Poper
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  • 169 1 KOREA TRUCE TALKS MUNSAN, Saturday. UNITED Nations Spokesman Brigadier General William Nuckols refused to concede the possibility of a breakdown in" the Korean armistice negotiations yesterday as the delegates made "no progress" again. "There have been deadlocks in the past during these negotiations and
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  • 136 1 PERSIANS MA Y SEEK U.K. SPLIT LONDON, Sat. BRITISH officials expressed the view yesterday that Persia's Prime Minister, Dr. Mossadeq, may be trying to break diplomatic relations with Britain to divert attention from his troubles at home. Their comment came after a bout of extraordinary diplomatic juggling in Teheran, where
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  • 72 1 Teenage boys will train as A-scientists LONDON, Sat. HPEENAGE boys, who want to be atom scientists, will be recruited to work in Britain's newest and most hushhush research centre at Aldermaston in Berkshire. The candidates, aged between 15. and 18, will help in putting the centre, still under construction, into
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  • 62 1 Free Press Reporter 'THE flood water in most parts of Johore State is subsiding, except in some places in the west coast where lt was reported rising yesterday, said Mr. E. R. Davies, the State Engineer today. Technicians were at work all day yesterday on JohoreKota Tinggi
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  • 153 1 EGYPT MAY STEP UP CANAL ATTACKS CAIRO, Sat. yOLUNTEER reinforcements are now leaving Cairo regularly to join Egyptian "Liberation Units" in their struggle against the British in the Canal Zone. Many observers are wondering if this means that the tempo of warlike activity in the Canal Zone is about to
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  • 84 1 WASHINGTON, Sat. THE military showed to the U.S. Senate House Atomic Committee a model of an artillery gun designed to handle atomic shells. The model was enclosed in a concealing wooden box when carried into, and from, a closed session of the committee. Chairman McMahon
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  • 284 1 NEW YORK, Sat. DRITAIN'S PO r ei m Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden. warned Communist China yesterday that aggression in South-East Asia would be resisted by the United Nations just as it was in Korea. Delivering a lecture at Columbia University when he was
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  • 19 1 King Gustav VI, opening Sweden's Parliament yesterday, announced Sweden'* armed forces and civil defence will be strengthened.
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    • 854 2 HPHE nght was soon over; two of the Japs had been lifted bodily and thrown overboard; the rest lay in various states of annihilation on the deck. The corvette came slowly alongside and a loud voice bellowed, "Can you take 'scrap-heap' in tow?" Dick consulted
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    • 904 2 'Holiday Resorts' Puzzle Results Puzzled Me Was it too difficult? SET a very difficult puzzle last week and few of you submitted the correct answers. This in turn puzzled me because I have had many letters from you boys and girls saying our weekly contest is too easy. I'm afraid
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    • 198 2 RUPERT and the SORCERER— 7 K is some minutes before Rupert cm ge* his breach back af.er the extraordinary things .hat have happened. Oh. what have I done*? he gasps. He cluiches at the handle to prevent himself from- being blown off the saucer, buc the harder he Before he
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    • 255 2 LEW Chin Woon. 774, North Bridge Road. Singapore. Collects stamps and postcards and like friendly correspondence and reading. Chin Woon has some names and addresses of English girls who want pen pals in this part ot the world for you. Here they are: Shirley Youiden, 16 Norbury
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    • 315 2 JUNIOR CONTEST IJERE i» a sporting puzzle. When yon have dis- 4 II covered what the games represented in the pic- >< Y ture are. fill in your name, address and age, and post to Children's Page. Singapore Free Press. Cecil Street. SJ >l to arrive not later than Wednesday
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • 355 3 Psychologist 's viewpoints LONDON, Saturday. nIIKN a woman loves, she does not really know what she is in love with. Dr. F. E. igtand, the psychologist, told a conference of I icational Associations in London. I 4 England had been asked to answer the quesCan
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  • 385 3 NEW YORK, Saturday. rpHE 1952 Leap Year open season on the unmarried A male has already begun, it was launched with the usual zany business of picking the ten "most wanted men'' in America and a flurry of expert advice on how the average girl
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  • 197 3 SOUTHAMPTON, Sat. THE tale was told (at the Southampton Rot. r v Club), of a lieutenant who was promoted to the rank of captain in 1942. but the date, in error, published as 1042, Celebrating in the Mess, he was challenged by his compariots to communicate
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  • 59 3 They buy bread with elothes eci_s of Chinese in capital of Kwang?"ovince, impoverished 'mrr.unlst taxes and are emptying their fo r their daily according to reports Bom Kong. reports said an esti--2.000 peddlers are the city streets, selwinter Wag. Some 80 per cent. wese people are ordinary izens forced to
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  • 14 3 Vici Admiral Harold M. •in, commander of the 5. SPVpntH CMa__t n»?»c
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  • 144 3 LONDON, Sat. rE Australian Army wants 3,000 British ex-Service men. Pay for single privates will range from £9 3s. 9d. to £11 9s. 3d. weekly, living in camp, and £11 19s. 2d. to £14 4s. Bd., living out. Applicants must be under 34, unless
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  • 32 3 Defence Secretary, Robert Lovett, predicted that the United States war production between now and July I— end of the United States fiscal year— will total U5554,000, million.- A.F.P.
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  • 26 3 The largest number of American Catholic missionaries expelled from China in one day eight priests and one nun have arrived in Hong Kong Reuter
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  • 497 3 THE contract Dridge player usual--1 ly associates the words preemptive bid with the high opening bid; three or four in a major suit, four or five in a minor suit. However the word preempt means simply to seise in advance of others. Any bid that robs the other
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  • 57 3 Russian scientists have proved that meteors are slowly destroying the moon, according to Moscow Radio. Professor Nikolai Kozykev, a Leningrad scientist, has concluded that the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uruanus and Nepture consist only of gas —mainly hydrogen and are not as was thought, solid bodies surrounded by
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  • 27 3 President Truman has formally asked the United States Senate to ratify the Japanese peace treaty signed at San Francisco on September 8 1951 Reuter.
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  • 15 3 Divers working near Leghorn, Italv, have \\r\prwprpH hhp bOW Of a gp.'^
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  • 22 3 President Truman has nominated retired Admiral Raymond A. Spruance to succeed Myron M. Cowen as Ambassador to the Philippines.- U.P.
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  • 20 3 Four American Air Force prisoners broke out of Clark Mr Force base stockade and disappeared into the surrounding hills. A.P.
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  • 203 3 BANGKOK, Saturday. THE Siamese people are showing a noticeable lack of interest towards their forthcoming elections next February. With the promulgation of the new Electoral Bill of December 1951. the number of people eligible to stand for election has been considerably lessened. Candidates are now required to
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    17 3 I "I DONT CARE WHAT EMILY POST I SAYS, BUST IT IN r lo j I
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  • 204 3 TV boom speeds plan for chain of new stations LONDON, Saturday. QJO many people are buying TV sets more than the 8.8.C. ever estimated that the governors may use the boom as an argument to persuade the Government to lift Mr. Attlee 's ban on building five low-power TV stations.
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  • 130 3 They will test iron deposits in Sahara TORONTO, Sat. BRITISH, Canadian and French financing interests have agreed in princiole to spend an initial £200,000 to test the direct shipping qualities of a high-grade iron deposit near the French Foreign Legion post of For; Gouraud. in the Sahara, of French West
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 528 3 OUR LUCKY CT Al? SATURDAY ■,■>, i; today, you are strictly an individualist. You .-xt/epiional courage and ...utter how many obstacles you. you keep smiling forge ahead toward ultisuccess. You like activiid become restless when become too routine. ■n apt to have a hand at rta| ui» a little excitement
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    • 201 3 Solution To Crossword No. 557 Hard. 4, Lines. 8. Uncut. 9, Table. 10, Square meals 12, Caterpilar, 16, Round. 18, Boots. 19, Singe. 20, Dies. Down: 2, Account 3, Doter. 4, 11, Let 'em all come. 5, Nob. 6, Seems. 7, Puss. 11, See 4D. 12. Cores 13, Ridge. 14,
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    • 278 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 pm Time Signal Programme Summary, 1.02 Saturday Ballroom— Skinnay Ennis Orchestra; 130 T;me Signal News; 1.50 Interlude; 2.00 Album of Harmony; 215 Racing Commentaries by Allan Lewis from ihm Singapore Turf Club with interval music from the studios 5.00 Programme^ in Malay; 6.15 Time Signal prcgramme Summary
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  • 392 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Jan. 12, 1952. Time for decision *THE news that Mr. Churchill has chosen the man to lead the war on terrorism follows a clear-cut statement by the Com-missioner-General on British policy in In what is the most emphatic, the most unequivocal pronouncement on the subject.
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  • 139 4 •J*HAT "politics is perhaps 1 the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary" is as true today as when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote it. All the more reason therefore that we should keep a wary eye on th s potentially dangerous breed of men. see that they
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  • 852 4 MACKENZIE KING HAD SEANCES WITH ROOSEVELT Political Sensation— —and his dead mother In London and Ottowa. says Patrick Nicholson OTTAWA. /CANADA'S most famous Statesman used to slip away from Commonwealth conferences in London and Cabinet meetings in Ottawa to have private seances with his dead mother and with the late
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  • 1000 4 Around Singapore By CITIZEN I MANY people who not eat beansprouts or towgay as it is widely called locally wonder why it should be necessary for the growers of it to fight the City Council tooth and nail in its attempt to close the Rochore and Geylang wells or why
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    13 4 "\VeU~Hliis .3 Lea\> Vecir, m> name* Q facie and h*Ta radio engineer ;v."
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  • 667 4  - Are You Keeping A Grip on Things? James Leasor i By i No. 1 in a 2-day check-up offers you a memory reviver from people who do not forget BrjONT be fooled if *J the man at the railway inquiry desk flips through his timetable before he answers a train-time
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  • 295 4  -  SAM WHITE by the yeai when so many prizes are being ed that it is aimosi possible to write without getting 0] them. Most sough4 the Prix Oonc< a kind of literary Academy aware-sought-after U th Arcadius, which by a jury of nu x] and critics for the
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  • Free Press Saturday Maqazine
    • 9 1 gdfggdfgfgd Free Press Saturday Maqazine Saturday, January 12, 1952.
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    • 2174 1  - Hindus look forward to a good month January 14 falls the first day of the T mi., month of Thai, the tenth month in the \Y.va\u calendar. To the Hindus, Thai is ftn important month and dawn is heralded h mtich ceremony age -old ritual. j east M_aa_rj for every
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    • 2 1  -  Kluanger
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    • 13 1 The Woman IN Green A Free Press Saturday short story by ROLAND MARTIN
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      • 72 1 Tf^_» fa i __H_i^ IK: "9_4» BBS*-"- 3___R S H3& __r Yes— MACLEAN BRAND STOMACH POWDO ff^^ y quickly relieves indigestion Keep a bottlell stomach pens, etc. Countless thousands rely W& M on MACLEAN BRAND STOMACH POWDER— ||r M Only Genua* U Stgned— "ALEX. C. MACLEAN" TT_Ssfa m f__>fa» fan*.
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    • 145 2 A 'Tame Lunatic' of Films JAMES Stewart's "line" in films has for some time been the long, gangling, vague goodnatured quite unpractical male. He usually., arouses the mother instinct in the bosom of some career girl more experienced in the ways of the world whose mission invariably is co save
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    • 310 2 SINGAPORE'S cinemas, marching with time, boast progres6iveness in most things, but they have 01. e serious fault. They still permit smokThey are air-condi-tioned and, for the most part, well up-holstered. They have polite, neatly uniformed ushers to show patrons to seats set in rows
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    • 189 2 COMPETITORS in the Free Press film contest who complained of the lack of British Technicolour films will b e interested to know that two are in production at Plnewood Studios Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." has an imposing cast (including Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood,
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    • 132 2 Tame lunatic- 1 As Elwood P. Dowd the cheerful alcoholic of "Harvey" whose faithful companion was an imaginary giant rabit. off. No one will take him seriously until eventually— before his laboratory tests can c&nfifm life c&lculatj_ons he is sent to Labrador to investigate a Reindeer crash. H e discovers
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    • 24 2 As Theodore Honey, the "Boffin", whose obsession is a conviction that a jet airliner's tail will drop off after 1443 hours flying.
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    • 172 2 Four Lovelies and Tony Martin MUSICALS rarely depart from an accepted formula these days but the formula is a good one and "TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY" (Capitol) is a very good example of the formula. Do you want lovely girls? Here we have them four dainty specimens Janet Leigh, Ann
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    • 203 2 Walter Brennan has won three out of the first five academy awards riresented for a supporting actor. (The practice was started >in 1936). Asked what effect they had had on his career, he replied: "None that I could see." 4 T was under contract to Sam Goldwyri
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    • 511 2 The Gables are ma l atxsle I7VEN the U.S.A.. _n i where 48 States have 48 different ways of getting married and divorced, has seldom seen a tangle as fantastic as the one that now enmeshes the Clark Gables. And all their money is only getting them deeper into it.
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    • 574 2 1952 Films will be Better IN 1951 when Joe Public was interested he was very interested. (He just wouldn't stop going to "The Great Caruso,'' in Britain for instance.) But pictures that were merely average tended increasingly to play to usherettes only. The portents for next year are therefore good.
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      • 151 2 ANNOUNCEMENT AS FROM TODAY The Pavilion theatre will discontinue its present policy and normal programmes will be shown at 11 a.m 1.45. 4.00, 6.30 9.30 p.m at regular admission prices of S3. S2 SI TODAY DAILY f 5 SHOWS at 11 a.m.. 1.45 4. 6.30 9.30 p.m RAGGING' at SCHOOL
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    • 208 3 E PARIS apartment lioiise- Lut Un Pipelias been ordered M v damages beuse each mornig be „,1 Ihe love-letters |o one of the ts in the buildin which he was laker i n court, M. Pipelet said the letters made tgh with their "I "oil's". "Do
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    • 634 3 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint VA&p wl wood Don't limit your !<^n of v4n perfection by as- Bai hand ionon is only bands. 'he screen stars, like ;:iv. who have excep- -kirn, always protect coon., with a touch of I i»'tiun before exposing their to wm I or smi on those out--0
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    • 809 3 (Continued from Page 1) her eighteenth birthday. So, I familiarised myself with the layout and found a chauffeur was needed. I applied with the necessary papers (I'm a good driver you know) and got the job. '•After that, by casually questioning the household, I learned when
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      65 3 photo. KENNY KAYE looks at the heartbreaks caused by Chinese matchmakers -and insists A certain amount of shyness on the part of the smallest member in this picture can be forgiven, for this is the first outing of the baby South African Black-footed Penguin hatched in
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    • 1325 3 Such marriages must stop MARRIAGES may be made in heaven, but making them go on earth is a pretty tough job if the recent report published in the news columns of this news paper is any criterion. Chinese couples wedded according to traditional rites seem to take most of the
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    • 8 3 says David Ganston
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      • 20 3 T~~rz_ii im v h >t 415 9.15 p.m. r.dav: "MALAYA" J -.morrow and Monday: K< TO CAPETOWN** iarlsUctq s^ I
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    • 580 4  - Singapore's stars of tomorrow THIS IS WHERE THEY COME FROM ROGER YUE By T*HE Hariths, the Chee Sengs, and the Awang Bakars of tomorrow's big-time soccer are to be found among Singapore's rising young players in boys clubs and youth organisations. This is no over-estimat-ing talk. These young aspirants of
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    • 700 4 rpHERE is a financial side to the hard-luck storx, of Nicholson the Tottenham right-half who lost his place in England's team because of injury. Because of his selection for the original team he was withdrawn from the London side that went to Berlin last week. In
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    • 9 4 Give these youngsters a chance 1952 Olympics... No. 1.
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    • 665 4  -  PETER WILSON Says ¥N 34 days the Winter Olympics will start at Oslo... and 156 days later the XVth Olympiad proper begins in Helsinki. At the opening ceremony for both the Winter and Summer Games a famous athlete from each competing nation will mount the rostrum
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    • 66 4 ARE you satisfied when a re- feree accedes to your clamouring by consulting his linesman? We can't think why because more than likely he walked over to the line and asked, "What time did you say our train goes to Manchester?" This refereeing secret was divulged at
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    • 44 4 PORTSMOUTH will not be travelling to South America in the close season. Manager Bob JaeJcon, with half-a-dozen tourin*, offers from all over the world, has asked his players which trip they prefer. No wonder the Fratton team spirit is second to none.
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    • 568 4  - TOUGHEST SPORT IS GROWING IN POPULARITY ALL-round swimming ability and supreme fitness is demanded by the world's most gruelling sport— water-polo. In Singapore the popularity for this branch of aquatics has zoomed to its highest peak. Proof of this is in the record number of nine teams which participated in
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    • 269 4 A medal for the scorer By PAT MARSHALL T___E man who never A played cricket gets the B.E.M. for his services to the game. He is Australian William Ferguson Mr. Cricket to those who follow the summer game; Fergie to those who play it. High up in the ccorer's box
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    • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 79 5 FLOODS DAMAGE COLONY GARDENS IN JOHORE PICTURE shows the 100 pound bronze im"ge of It»rd Buddha being carried to its new shrine in the Singapore Buddhist Association's new $200,000-temple, Sri Lankaramaya, in St. Michael's Road. MISS GRACIE Sims, who had served 15 years with the Shell Company, was yesterd ay
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    • 96 5 I pod of Deputy Heaith :er in the Singapore c v ancil should carry salary of $1,400 a instead of the present the Council's health ittee has recommended. -he committee's proposal the salary for this post S72U-51.200 to $1,200--suggests this new scale apply irom
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    • 214 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. i ic :3rd birtnday anniver- v of Sri Ramana Mahaan Indian yogi, will be brated at the VivekaAshrama Hall. Kuala I ur, today. This new wing accommodates eight new classrooms, two of which will be used as a temporary school hall, Mrs. E. Handy, principal
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    • 54 5 Govt, gives co-op $1 3,000 SEREMBAN, Sat. rE inaugural meeting of Seremban 's first people's co-operative stores was held here on Thursday, presided over by the District Officer, Inche Bahaman bin Samsuddin. It was stated at the meeting that Government had provided $13,000 to renovate the store and one year's
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    • 41 5 KUALA LIPIS, Sat. The following are members of Raub Rent Assessment Board for this year: The District Officer Inche Mohamed Din bin Haji Mohamed Arif, president: Mr. Ti Cheng Keng: Mr M. K Govindasamy and Mr! E. F. Lodge.
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    • 46 5 Mr. V. C. G. Gatrell. the Singapore Government Printer, will be leaving Singapore on retirement at the end of February Mr. Gatrell received the Imperial Service Order in the King's Birthday Honours last June for his work in the Government Printing Office.
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    • 101 5 CTALL-HOLDERS in Singapore's Seng Poh Road market will have to follow a rotation system by which they will be required to move their positions annually. This is to ensure that no single stall-holder occupies permanently the best pitches in the market. The Singapore
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    • 80 5 8 new classrooms for girls' school Free Press Staff Reporter THE new $180,000 Mary C. Nind wing of the Sophia Blackmore memorial in the Methodist Girls* School, Mount Sophia, Singapore, will be dedicated and opened next Friday morning. Prices may go up, it's feared Free Press Staff Reporter FLOODS in
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    • 68 5 IPOH, Sat. mHE Perak branch of the X Malayan Chinese Association has bade representations to the Mines Department on behalf of $9,000 dulang washers whose permits for the year have been cancelled. The Department has promised to consider new applications. Applications should be submitted to the
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    • 158 5 BUTTERFORTH. Sat. TWO stud bulls from Pakistan have arrived in Province Wellesley to help raise the standard of the local stock. The bulls have been sent to Changkat and Krian Estate on loan from the Veterinary Department. The Veterinary Department ha_s imported a stud goat from
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    • 198 5 They rush for land Free Press Staff Reporter THE Nghee Ann Kongsi, 4 Singapore, which is planning to make a housing estate out of a disused cemetery, is flooded with applications from people who want to build houses. Mr. Lee Wee Nam, the chairman of the association, said yesterday that
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    • 168 5 ALOR STAR. Sat. TPHE 800 people of Alor Janggus, an isolated kampong west of Alor Star, have a cinema hall now. It was declared open on Thursday by Kota Star District Officer, Inche Wan Harun. The cinema cost $60,000. It is operated by a Chinese company.
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    • 171 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rpHE Singapore Chinese Y.M.C.A. plans to raise money this year for a new building and a swimming pool in the Telok Ayer Basin area. The Association's 1952 plans were outlined last night by the president, Mr. Homer Cheng, at a dinner,
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    • 142 5 A tribute to the organising ability of the Indians in arranging conferences, was paid by Dr. You Poh Seng of the University of Malaya, who recently attended the International Statistical Conference held in New Delhi. Dr You who is a statistician at "the University
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    • 30 5 ORICES of poultry in Singapore have gone up by 60 cents a kati and may rise further as the Chinese New Year draws near.
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    • 84 5 SINCE the New Year the Singapore Harbour Board Police has obtained 12 recruits. There has been one resignation, of a trainee who decided to take his family to Sarawak. Yesterday, the senior AS. P. in charge of the Harbour Board Police said: "We are getting a
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    • 257 5 She places her hopes on the 2 experts Free Press Staff Reporter THE president of the x Singapore Consumers* Association, Tangiia branch, Mrs. Robert Eu, said yesterday: *I hope the two Colonial Office food experts who havo been invited out here by the Singapore Government will do something to lower
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    • 98 5 Free Press Staff Reporter are in a poor condition One 'pHE Singapore Social Wei- of them has been vacated. fare Department has ask- and the Home is cramped ed the Government for new into the other two buildines. premises for the Pasir Pan- An official
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    • 467 6  -  A 11-round strength CHARLES BRYCE By THE cards are dealt and unless Perak have an ace in hand Combined Services will this evening chalk np their first post-war victory in the HJMLS. Malaya inter-State rugby final at Kuala Lumpur. I take Services to win because potentially
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    • 41 6 SERVICES J-RAK Coulson Webb Byrne Houghton F/Lt Smith Breakwell Pnnger Oliver ..SAC Smith Bee Stanhope Carrel McPherson Meikle Langley Jones Duncan Osman Nicholls Andrews HomphHea Bristowe (C.) i-arob Elvy Carnelley Gardiner Moir Browne Jamieson Speldewinde Referee: W. T. Dunne.
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    • 82 6 ANGUS Cameron, the captain, is injured and has pulled out of the Scottish Rugby team to play France at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, today. His place at left-centre-three-quarter, will be filled by J. L. Allan (Melrose), a new "cap." There are also two changes in the Prench line-up. Bertrand,
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    • 61 6 Racing: Singapore T.C. Spring Meeting first day. Bagby: Seletar v S.H.B. at SHB; SCC v. GHQ at SCC. Hoekey: Quadrangular tourney (cent) at S.R.C. from 4 p.m., Perak v Malacca; Singapore v N.S. Swimming: S.S.C. Junior Gala TOMORROW Hockey: Quad, tourney (cent). Athletics: Bark way course (cont.) from
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    • 134 6 1931-22 Selangor bt. Singa- i pore 5-3. 1922-23 Perak bt. NegriSembilan 3-0. 1923-24 Singapore Selangor (ground unplayable). 1924-25 Singapore bt. Selangor 30-13. 1925-26 Singapore bt Perak 18-3. 1926-27 Perak bt. Negri Sembilan 13-0. 1927-28 Singapore bt. Perak 11 -f. 1928-29 United Services bt. Perak 5-0. 1929-30
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    • 176 6 S'pore Czechs in same group r)RAW for the groupings for the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) and the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) in the world tabletennis championships beginning in Bombay on Feb. 1 was made in Bombay yesterday and resulted: SWAYTHLING CUP Group A: Czechoslovakia (holders), France. India, Israel,
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    • 52 6 JJADEILEINE BARTHOD of Switzerland won the Slalom in the Swiss women's national ski championship yesterday with Andre Lawrence of the U.S. second, according to unofficial but almost certain final results. Celina Seghi of Italy and Boghild Niskin of Norway tied for third place with Jannettee Burr of Seattle,
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      45 6 o___&_gx&-_ r Bernie Hall, looking pretty pleased with himself walks to a neutral corner while R eferee Al Rivers counts over Golden Boy in the sixth ro and of their battle last night. This was the first knock down. Free Press picture
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    • 392 6 HNGLISH League first and second d* vision clubs go into the Football Association Cup competition today when 32 ties in the third round of the national knock-out tournament are played off. They join the 20 surviving clubs from the earlier rounds making a total of
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    • 470 6 TWO KNOCKDOWNS AND AL RIVERS CRIES 'HALT' Free Press Boxing Reporter REFEREE Al Rivers' decision— he stopped Golden Boy-Bernie HaU battle last night in Jj sixth round came in for a lot of criticism v disgrunted person of all was the Federati°^ champion himself, who satd: *'Rivers should nei n
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    • 121 6 A STRONG force uf ;> B will be on duty ii Happy World Stadium night for the return 0 a between Kine Rone im Chief Little W<4. a Referee for tht conteK u Jim Anderson, former Sco. tish Highland Games are'] ling champion. It is hoped
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    • 13 6 LONDON, Pri. Rugbv ion results: Gloucester 0. Arrr. Reuter
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    • 40 6 England beat Aastralia by 59 points to 49 in the second speedway test at Sydney last night to level the series at one-all. Jack Parker. England's 43-year-old captain, rode brilliantly, being unbeaten with 18 points.— Reuter
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      • 177 6 MdlldrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya "I I MINE'S TOO fl MINE'S TOO SMALL. H[l CAN LEAVE HORSCFACIJ Z^Z] f Hmntm— (fl m 1 616/ LET'S TRAOE. p-a* SAFELY HYPNOTIZEO r^M^^M W Ammmmmm^Xi J0(&m WE*RE READY TO PLAN OUR NEXT JOBS. _B K MI 11, T/^mK^^B^ mmß%^Sni
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    • 251 7 j ALLAN LEWIS i TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP i CALL BOY POINTER p m j SIN STREAM Windy Island j Why Worry WINDY ISLAND Box Office Why Worry WHY WORRY Sunstream Box Office WHY WORRY Box Office Windy Island WHY WORRY Box Office Sunstream ■art 1 p.m
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    • 1552 7  - Chantilly is a strong stable tip MacLeod GOING WILL BE SOFT TOD A Y ALLAN LEWIS By THK attitude at the course this morning towards todays racing at Bukit Timah was, wait and mc, after those consistent showers of rain. However, Mr. D. Brown, assistant secretary and clerk of the
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    • 1415 7 A CCEPTORS And probable jockeys at Bukit Timah to___hi:/___!* #_f i I en K? e, w T e P* Bwce will be on Race WnS? tllC 4 L ub J e totc wUI b °n Six and Nine. NeDtun.S?iS_JM hed a_. fr m .5 U en
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    • 56 8 De LATTRE'S DEATH IS BIG BLOW TO S.E.ASIA Britain's first twin-engine twin rotor helicopter, the Bristol 173, made a successful test flight at Filton, Bristol, on Jan. 3. It has seating capacity for 13 people. Top speed is 142 miles am hour, cruising speed 105. It may be used between
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    • 666 8 WASHINGTON, Saturday. THE DEATH of France's South-East Asian defence leader, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was described by U.S. officials yesterday as a severe blow to the efforts to build security against Communism in that part of the world. In Paris, General Dwight Eisenhower said
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    • 322 8 PARIS, THE United Nations Assembly created yesterday a Western-backed Disarmament Com mission and instructed it to begin work quickly on proposals for the regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and armaments in the world. The vote was 42 to five (Soviet
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    • 216 8 WASHINGTON, Sat. THE State Department said yesterday that the San Francisco peace treaty gives Japan complete freedom to sign bilateral agreements with anybody she likes. State Department spokesman Lincoln White, in a press conference, indicated that this would leave it up to Premier Shigeru Yoshida's
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    • 19 8 The Commonwealth Government will place defence contracts worth A £20 million with Australian manufacturers In 1952. Reuter
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    • 40 8 SEOUL, Saturday. HPHE British Government has authorised British x Headquarters in Korea to buy winter clothing from the Canadian Army in an emergency move, because its own soldiers are still without their full winter issue.
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    • 5 8 TEST FLIGHT IS A SUCCESS
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    • 134 8 U.K. 'peace squatters arrested LONDON, Sat. rIRTEEN British "nonviolent resisters" holding a peace demonstration were yesterday arrested outside Britain's War Office. The seven men and six women later appeared at Bow Street. Five men and all the women, who pleaded technically guilty, were fined 20 shillings each for obstructing the
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    • 57 8 'Let off steam' on crockery Mrs. Edward Smith alleged in a divorce suit in Chicago on Thursday that her husband broke 60 dishes, more than 30 glasses and a number of windows to stave off ulcer attacks. Smith told Judge John Dempsey that his method of easing tension "is better
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    • 24 8 President Vincent Auriol yesterday asked Mr. Faure, Minister of Justice, to try to form a new French Government A.P. U.P. picture. _«tiimi
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