The Singapore Free Press, 26 January 1952

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAY A >o 1H.299. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 472 1 'Warships, troops on way to Canal zone LONDON, Saturday. 'J'HE British Government yesterday decided that there could be no halfway measures m dealing with the Egyptian violence m the Suez Canal zone and an official source said the army is prepared to impose martial law throughout
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  • 261 1 PRISONERS RELEASED TO FIGHT BRITISH ISMAILIA, Sat. PRISONERS were reI leased from their cells to rteht against British i:0 ops m yesterday's battle m which 800 Egyptian police were besieged by 1500 tanksupported British troops. 7. British troops and tanks smashed two Egyptian police headquarters to rubble, toiling 42 and
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  • 117 1 French skymen for Tunis TUNIS, Sat. PRENCH shock troops and parachutists were moving on Marseilles last night for embarkation to troubled Tunisia. The French cruiser, Gemrges, Leygues, and the destroyer, Marceau, yesterday brought 500 special police weapons and equipment to Bizerta. In Tunis, the only incident yesterday was exchange of
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  • 41 1 Sixty Japanese homes were destroyed yesterday m a fire m Ashiya, near the U.S. Army base on Northern Kyushu. A blaze m Tokyo destroyed half the living quarters of the Chinese Mission yes- terday afternoon.- A.P.
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  • 133 1 PARIS, Saturday. SOVIET Russia and Egypt last night attacked the United States and Britain for maintaining air bases and troops m Libya. They proposed to the United Nations political committee that foreign troops be withdrawn from the new North African nation. The Russian resolution
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    23 1  -  GEOFFREY EVANS By "First it's wages cnaslng prices, then it's chasing bargains m the sales—now It's chasing my blinking hat!"
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  • 57 1 Three pass stiff test Free Press Staff Reporter 'THREE fully qualified Sin- gapore lifeguards, Ang Teck Bee, Loh Yong Aik, and Lee Jon Ming, successfully passed their Bar to Award of Merit life-saving examinations at the Mount Emily Pool yesterday. The three lifeguards, who performed their requirements m less than
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  • 53 1 ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, Sat. A 12-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister ad" mitted a 17.5.5600 robbery after the girl had given some $10 bills away because she "did not Wee the picture" on them. Police said the boy had given four or five $20 vills to people he thouaht
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  • 99 1 GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, Sat. CALVADOR Dali, the 47- Spanish painter, who used to paint watches curled like potato chips, has, started .another lively row* with his art. —a.. Mil M. ...4UH r»# galleries. The painting is m the traditional style, although it depicts the crucifixion from an unusual
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  • 48 1 The Queen and Princess Elizabeth went to Hurst Park racecourse to see the Queen's horse Devon Loch came in second in the Mortiake steeplechase, Here the Queen is seen with Sir Humphrey de Trafford, followed by the Princess and trainer Peter Cazalet.- Popper picture.
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  • 198 1 NEW DELHI, Saturday. V"EPAL'S Government yesterday outlawed the Party because it abetted the revolt of the nations Home Guards earlier m the week. The Prime Minister, Mr M. P, Koirala, broadcast a waruiilg to Jiis countrymen thaf anarchy would only lead to "Fascism and
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  • 41 1 Mr. Churchill, returning home from the united States aboard the Queen Mary, has recovered from his cold. He will arrive m London on Monday and will hold a press conference aboard the liner before he disembarks. Re uter
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  • 41 1 The American freighter, Newberry Victory, was refloated yesterday, after three days on a reef outside the Casablanca harbour. The ship was carrying a cargo valued at $1,700,000, Including 15 planes for the U.S. air base m Morocco.— A.P.
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  • 57 1 Red-haired mammy LOUISVILLE. Kentucky, Sat. AN amateur boxer had Just knocked oat his opponent m a bout here when a red-haired woman climbed into the ring and punched the winner on the nose. The woman identified herself as Mrs. Charles Elliott, mother of the boxer who had just been flattened
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  • 116 1 Free Press Staff Reporter HOUSEBREAKERS entered II four houses m Singapore yesterday and stole property ranging m value from $300 to $6?5. It included cash, liquor, jewellery, pens and watches. The incidents occurred m Bras Basah Road. Marine Parade, Cavenagh Road and Braddell Rise. Mr. F.
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  • 31 1 A Chinese m Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore, yesterday, found the roof of his house alight. He put it out. An empty tin smelling of kerosene oil was found.
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  • 34 1 The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Singapore, announce that its annual gener. al meeting will be held on March T. Transfer books will close from Feb.. 22 to March 7.
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  • 274 1 LONDON, Saturday. BRITAIN will hear grim news of a new austerity era even tougher than she has endured before when Parliament reassembles on Tuesday. Mr. Richard Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will launch right away into details of his cure for the grave economic
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  • 60 1 CAIRO, Sat. THE newspaper Al Ahram reported from Beirut yesterday that 27 people were killed and 287 wounded m a clash at Damascus between Syrian army units and students. The report said that the students were demonstrating against the dictatorship of strong man Col. Adib
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  • 222 1 Thank you. says Thakin Nu, but RANGOON, Sat. pRIME Minister, Thakin Nu, told a Press conference here that Burma will accept American economic aid if it does not interfere with the country's policy of neutrality m the East-West conflict. He said his Government has suggested that the United States make
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  • 26 1 Eight persons were killed and 50 injured, some seriously when a train jumped the rails near Solingen, Germany, and crashed into a Reuter
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    • 864 2 CHORTY was already some 20 feet ahead, and taking advantage of every projection of rock the other three followed m a 3lter skelter descent to the light which promised a solution to the mystery of the startling appeirance of the unwanted Japanese sailor The tunnel
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    • 94 2 J± PILOTLESS, radio- con- fgkd jet-plane is flyUI station at Woomera Australia. It looks MkeaVJ But from the side it shows clean and graceful lines. The airframe was built and developed from a Mln^wfL^B^ «Pe^ca«on by the Government aircraft factories of the Australian Defence Department. The engine
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    • 1028 2 'Tar Away Places With Strange Sounding Names' ...are running through my head just now I HAVE been thinking *of "far away places with strange sounding names" recently. And why? Because I'm due for local leave soon and for a long time I've been trying to make my mind up about
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    • 414 2 'THE answer to the x question "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" is "The inhabitants of Yugoslavia", who are now suffering from a plague of the animals. A reporter recently investigated the wolf position m Yogoslovia, and found that the animals have now become a serious problem
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    • 213 2 i|: I CHINA TO CHITR^j I I *y H. W. TILMAN fia Hi Thfe is the record, illustrated by seventy remarkable phototraph'. of the author's journeys m Central s la 1949. Leader of the It* Eve£? expedition, Mr. Tilman is on c I BrltaJii'« three leadinc explo^ of I 1
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  • 107 3 LIE WISCONSIN, Sat. Parjß i Pen Company Mr. Kenneth Pa has asked the U.S. Department to take igainst fountain pen itcia m Italy and ha^ also asked Italian and Japanlice. Naples, Milan and are known as centres pen manufacture, Japanese sources are known." Mr. Parker Parkei
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  • 61 3 West German Chanr, Dr. Konrad Ade- er, said m Bonn that ys industrialists did ant to produce arms for v tern defence because the 1 factories lie too close the Iron Curtain. j r position is too exto an attack by the p Jsians," he
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  • 33 3 3 nations accuse Russia big three" Western Jf >Ue 5 s accused Russia of and obstructing set Austria free. l Jotol American -Britishnch note delivered to flic Embassy complained iia hnc HalovaH itnninl*-
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  • 303 3 Adenauer wants mergerwithWest FKAK&FURT. Saturday. WEST Germany, under the kiaiiiiWii «f Br. Konrad Adenauer, steps into 1952 ready make the pace m buildkaf: m West European ptttttlcal community and an lUwpumi Army to defend it. After a year of major economic and political advancement,
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  • 57 3 He will ran against Truman Senator Esies Kef^iuver, who headed the U.S. Senate Committee investigating racketeering, said that he was a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination He said he would "flight to the finish" whether or not President Truman ran for re-election. Senator Kefauver was the first candidate to
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  • 206 3 WASHINGTON, Sat. THERE is one big handicap about being a famous and glamorous film star married to a famous and glamorous male dress designer. As soon as you stop wearing clothes designed by your husband everyone suspects something lias gone wrong with the
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    22 3 picture. MEMBERS of the King's Own Scottish Borderers who are coming: to Singapore on the Empire Winiruso lea^e, Waterloo for Southampton*. Keystone
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  • 70 3 'Quiz him on pay packet, wives told HONG KONG. Sat. WHATEVER else Chinese husbands feel about Peking's nationwide anticorruption drive, they are not likely to be pleased about this directive. A woman's su!b-committee told wives they should always ask their husbands where the extra money came from if their pay
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  • 25 3 Visas waived for the Olympics Visas will not be necessary for travel to Finland during the three "Olympic months" this year, the Finnish- Government announced.
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  • 94 3 BRISTOL, Sat. MR DENNIS Hawkins is going to tell Bristol housing officials that his prefab m Speedwell is haunted. His frightened wife has taken their two-year-old son to live with friends. Mr. Hawkins, who is staying on to hunt the ghost, said "Footsteps thump across empty rooms
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  • 197 3 Doctor made me £100 bet, says woman LONDON, Saturday. A LONDON specialist, Dr. Michael Goldstein Good, denied m the court, at Airdrie, Lanarkshire, that he offered a £100 bet to a woman that he would cure her of rheumatoid arthritis. She had been a sufferer for 22 years. i He
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  • 163 3 LONDON, Saturday. 4 PILOTLESS, radio-controlled jet-plane is flying successfully at the Ministry of Supply experimental station at Woomera, Australia. It looks like a V.I m plain view. But from the side it shows clean and graceful lines. The airframe was built and developed from a
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    • 359 3 YOUR LUCKY rSTAR SATURDAY ■m touav yew intuitive r uur »»»fs JMfcea L ir>« te> d» Jfe« Wlt n.,u! *nr apparent r j S others ea« «ae. J JLn* ot tfcat year |rt airct was rifht; jheae lefca »^r^.i m people. »ea aave '"'^aeSc pmWMJPy Jm attention iI VIU ,o.
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    • 228 3 Radio listening SINGAPORE 1.00 pan. Time Signal Programme Summary; 1.02 Saturday Ballroom Lawrence Welk Orchestra; 1.30 Time Signal News: 1.50 laterlude; 2.00 Album of Harmony; 2.15 Racing CommeMtariea by Allan Lewis frcm the Selargor Turf Club with interval music from the studios; 5.00 Programmes m Malay; 6.15 Time Signal Programme
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  • 524 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Jan. 26, 1952. Gathering storm IIIR. CHURCHILL now fl sitting placidly m his cabin on the Queen Mary is said to have aroused a storm m Britain over his Washington speech implying British support of American policy on Korea and Formosa. T 3 Minister of
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  • 612 4 ...IS BEING BURNED AS IT GROWS IN THE FIELDS, SAYS D. E. G. WILLIAMS f A THIN finger ol A smoke lifts itself sharply across the horizon. A growing tongue of flame licks the seeds and dried leaves with a crackling sound like corn parching.
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  • 681 4 Around Singapore By citizen SINGAPORE Chinese, who celebrate the lunar Chinese New Year tomorrow, will recall that before the war, some of them celebrated two New Years* one according to the Gregorian calendar and the other according to the lunar calendar, a month later. This was when immigram Chinese m
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  • 277 4 DARELV a Liouth afl«i **hi s return from a sixweek visit to the Gold Coast, where he was advising on the reorganisation of the police force there Colonel A. E. Young 45-year-old City of London Police Com toMakya as Commis sioner of Police In
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  • 567 4  -  Patrick Nicholson I By Tales of royalty's visits to prosperous cities, stir the imagination m Britain. OTTAWA. DEPORTS of Princess XX Elizabeth's visits to Canada's prosperous industrial cities, rich farmlands, and groaning dinner tables have evidently done much to popularise this country m Britain. For a
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  • 354 4 Giraffes Have S ore Throats! T HE toe a bf giraffes with s threats is found > fact. Authority comes from the r^ na^ry staff of BrisJ^' who deal daily 3 sick parade o f tr f ranging from 3 mouse to an elenh Giraffes surw h < cause of
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  • 219 5 'Set up farms m outskirts 9 says Paglar Free Press Staff Reporter J)ATO C. J. Paglar, Singapore Legislative Councillor, said yesterday that dairy farms should be established in the outskirts of the City to provide the Colony with cheap and healthy milk. He said cattle-owners
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  • 167 5 POLE SAYS: 'I AM NOT A RED' lf M v N the P. and O. liner, W canton, sailed for EnginJ yesterday she had on d a Polish passenger, K?Srd Zalam-and Mr m was unhappy, for he b <en allowed ashore s ngapore. V sterday an official of immigration Department
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  • 80 5 ELECTION of office-bearers 1 1 the Singapore Chinese Chambei erf Commerce for the ra 1952 to 1953 will continue fee on a communal basis despite moves to abolish the system it is learned. N urination papers were sent out to members yesterday for election of
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  • 62 5 Since the Singapore Social Welfare Department operated a free legal advice and aid system m 1948, legal assistance was given m 98 cases, the Department said yesterday. The Department agreed that its system could be extended to advantage with the help of lawyers of whom
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  • 240 5 i THE expected debate m the Singapore City Council x next Thursday on the towgay-growing wells m Rochore and Geylang may be dropped Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, who has tabled a motion for the suspension of action on the wells, said yesterday that he
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  • 18 5 KLANG, Sat.— A Chinese cyclist was killed m a collision with a bus at Port Swettenham
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    61 5 MR. LIM HO HUP, a student at the University of Malaya seen with one of the exhibits which, will be on display at the science exhibition a t the University during the Chinese New Year holidays. This exhibit in which a photocell is used to control current will be used
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  • 86 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. DATO Onn bin Jaafar told an election meeting yesterday: "The Independence of Malaya Party does not seek a majority to ride roughshod over other parties as some people allege." He said, on the contrary, the IMP asked voters to give it
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  • 77 5 A light stone chest coniairiing a Chinese Bible, a hymnal, Methodist Church journals and newspapers of the day will be placed at the foundation when Bishop R. L. Archers lay s the corner stone of the Foochow Methodist Church at Race Course Road, Singapore, at 3.30
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  • 148 5 MR. S. Jagannathan, general secretary of the Singapore Trade Union Congress, yesterday urged the Government to invite Mr. F. W. Dalley, the British Trade Union expert who is planning a visit to the Federation to the Colony to conduct training courses for unionists. Mr. Dalley
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  • 101 5 Free Press Staff Reporter jyiORE Chinese are seeking to become naturalised iTI British subjects after the English language qualification was dropped m December, last year Forty-two Chinese applied I 1_ for naturalisation from Jan. 1 up to yesterday. The average monthly total of Chinese who sought
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  • 97 5 TH E Singapore Youth Council, will have a competition for posters depicting youth for members of affiliated organisations during the "Youth Week" to be held m the Colony next month. The competition is open only to those who have been members for at least six months. All
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  • 86 5 ASSN. TO GIVE TWO AWARDS Free Pres s Staff Reporter TH E Singapore Outram School Parent-Teacher Association has a scholarship fund of more than $6,000, from which two awards will be made annually, says the annual report of the Association. One of the awards i s a gold medal. The
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  • 149 5 pRIESTS and nuns gave a warm send-off to Franciscan Sister Mary Batista Hennesv, and a novice. Miss G. E. N. Sewell from Kuala Lumpur, when they left for England on the liner Canton yesterday. Miss Sewall, formerly a pupil of the Convent of the
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  • 194 5 'MERGER MAY HELP MALA YA SA YS MR. LEE KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rpHE UMNO-MCA alliance for the Kuala Lumpur J- Municipal elections was purely local and the working committee of the MCA had no previous knowledge of the proposal, Mr. H. S. Lee, Chairman of the S clangor Branch of
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  • 122 5 THE Bank of India has paid a 14 per cent dividend, j free of income tax, for last year, the Singapore branch of the bank announced yesterday. The total paid m dividends amounted to Rs. 3.285,030. j Profit for the year was Rs. 8,445,646. The
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  • 74 5 All doctors may got post graduate training SINGAPORE Government i§ considering a year's compulsory housemanship for all new medical graduates who intend to set up private practice. At present only those who join the government have to do a year's houseman ship. The Federation Government is also considering a similar
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  • 86 5 Mr. J. W. Platt, managing director of Shell Pe<ro!eum and Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, will be arriving m Singapore tomorrow on a week's visit to Malaya. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Platt. They will arrive at Kalhr~g airport at 5.30 p.m. On Jan. 30 they will
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  • 25 5 SEGAMAT, Sat— Fcr driving a lorry from which 'he rear number olate was mipsing. Phang Kee Kong. 21. was fined $10 at Sesamat
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    • 22 5 I CHINESE NEW YEAR j ij Coloured Cotton Blankets j 68" x 90" Usually $16.50 ji UNTIL JAN. 29th $14.95 1 ROBINSONS
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  • 451 6  -  CHARLES BRYCE North v South clash today By gUPERiOR teamwork should see the North through at Jalan Besar Stadium this evening m the annual rugby dash against the representative South XV. The North have chosen their team well. It Is evenly balanced and quite capable of repeating
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  • 66 6 SEDGMAN GIFT NOW £5,357 With under a week to go for the wedding, the Frank Sedgman wedding gift fund conducted by three Australian newspapers for his fiancee, Miss Jean JSpence, of Melbourne, now totals £5,357. Of this total, the Sydney Dally Telegraph collected £3,862. the Melbourne Sun Pictorial £1,386, and
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  • 39 6 rACHERS Training College nfc jp* 0 by for .goals to one m a Singapore Hockey Asaocatkin knockout tie against Singapore Recreation Club on the PaR. Mosbergen, Andrew' Clarke and ML. Wright {2) sowed for T.T.C.
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  • 56 6 SOGCmm: SmrtM SMth at lalaa Besar stadJsn; Tengah *A" v St. ladiiw^ School OBA st Trsnnh; KAF C^aaci v Naval Base HfX/KCV! Services vnsAddaT! Army w Navy at BX>J>.; Seletar w TtmgMb at Tesifafa. TOMOBSOW mtW«MI: Malaya Inter-nnit emmp: 330 M.U. v Chaagi Lod. ■ey: SXXX w Teachers
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  • 135 6 DOTAL Air Force Chang! n entered the semi-finals of the Singapore Hockey Asaodation knockout competition with a two-one victory over Ceylon Sports dm> At Balestier Road yesterday. Changi gave a good all round performance, but the key to the* ▼fctory lay with the defenoa, .The
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  • 528 6 rpHE Singapore Turf Club, and other clubs m Malaya, have adopted certain measures to stamp out the doping of horses. Yesterday, Mr. H. C. Reilly, chairman of the S.T.C. said m his statement at the Club's annual general meeting that these measures have already borne
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  • 157 6 HONGKONG CHEERED JAP TEAM JAPANESE table-tennis stars who played an exhibition match m Hong Kong on Thursday night against the Colony's contingent to the world championships m Bombay received one of the best welcomes given to any postwar croup of athletic visitors. There had been some apprehension that the hatreds,
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  • 22 6 LONDON, Prt Rugby Onion results yesterday were: The Army S. Baßoe Ptkaa <|>l«yai «t B Sboviu Air Jtwce ft.—— Renter.
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  • 964 6  - THE LIFE OF JOE WALCOTT His golden left pays dividends DAVE BRADY By JERSEY Joe Walcott's golden left hook began to pay off fat four figures on a cold December night m Baltimore, year of 1945. It flattened one Curtis (Hatchetman) Shep- pard m the tenth round, and Walcott picked
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  • 709 7 TOURISTS ALL OUT FOR 78 Miller takes 5 for 26 yftST Indies were all out m their first innings for 78 this morning m the second day of the fifth and final Test match against Australia being played at Sydney. This gave Australia a lead on first innings of 38
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  • 88 7 Ml Singapore CiUJbH Assocta- aped a heavier than a drain on their funds this •V the iact that nearly tin representative games t* played at home. Hi N '-->ior.al fixtures list for rtrrrsenratne matches is: Mar 29. 30 Civilians v Services; 12 13 14 Colony v
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  • 97 7 TABLE TENNIS MEN FETED Sh pore iaoie lennls ast night entertained young men the memboa Hrn Singapore Table Tennis who will take part In World Championships \:.r. <:ar: at Bombay's BraImm SMdium on Friday, Feb. 1. T needed a sizeable sum. still k of :he funds collected, to M -heir
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  • 33 7 X a llmpur. Pri— Victoria ined a fine victory «r-en they accounted for Selangor o by three goals to nil In a friend v hockey match on the la Lumpur Padang this even-
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  • 20 7 AT lunchtime the A Australians had scored 42 without loss. (Mc&dnald not out 15; Thomas not oat 26).
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  • 169 7 AUSTRALIA— IST. INNS. McDonald c Worrell b Gomel tt Thorns b Gomel 16 Hassett c Guillen b Gomes 2 Harvej b Gomes IS MUler c Rae b Worrell «0 Hole 0 Guillen b Worrell 1 Benand c Stollmeyer b Gome* S Llndwall c Worrell b Gome* Bin* Atkinson b
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  • 44 7 A challenge cup presented by Mr. Y. P. Kanagasundram vill be competed for m a soccer match to be played at Jalan Besar stadium tomorrow between BJLF. r?ti^*>yi fajA the TrniV* Youngsters Sports dub. The game Is to celebrate India Day.
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  • 587 7 BUGGER GOSSIP Services new cup tourney ANEW Services triangular rugby tourney will this season be added to those already contested annually m Singapore. The competition is beinr organised on a league basis. It will be confined to three teams on the Northern section of the islandNee Soon, Naval Base and
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  • 85 7 The Reppel Golf Club's l our-Dall matchplay competition over 18 bates for the Basten Cup will be played over the course either today or tomorrow. The draw Is: Sounders Brown v Elliott Billings; Winder McCreath v Wilkinson Ellis; K. 8. Lee Browning v Baron SJmpeon; McCulloh 8. White
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  • 581 7  - KL GALLOPS: HORIZON RUNS BEST THREE ALLAN LEWIS From K___ a UALA LUMPUR trained horses were the main attraction this morning when official training ■f ffL for tn forthcoming Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup Meeting. The second track on which the going is very ?£2r w to uae Horiz( >
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  • 334 7 FOLLOWING are the weights for lint day, Saturday, Feb. 2, Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting CL. 1, DIV. 1—6 P. Uninsured 9.00 No Befrets 8.13 Gambar Melayu 8.12 Red Carnation 8.11 Scotch Express 8.10 Pink Gin 8.09 Melbury Court 8.09 Good Gamble 8.06 Majestic
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  • 316 7 BRIGHTER CRICKET THIS YEAR Free Press Cricket Correspondent fJONTRARY to prophecies there was no strong opposition to any of the proposals put before the Annual General Meeting of the Singapore Cricket Association.. Perhaps this was only to be expected as those present were active cricketers and those intimately concerned with
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  • 61 7 The Island Club competition for the Lady Captain's Prize was held last Friday m the form of a Hidden Hole competition. The winner was Mrs. B. James with a score of 25 for six hidden holes. The January L.G.U. Competition was held last Sunday, the
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  • 90 7 SCA SEEK JUNIOR ENTRIES r pEAMS intending to take Ml the Singapore Cricket Association's Junior Tournament this year are asked to write In to the honorary secretary, Mr. H. E. Cashin, c/o Messrs. Rodyk ft Davidson, Chartered Bank Chambers (Tel. 5366) by Saturday. Feb. 9. Team convenors should give their
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  • 146 7 CRICKET UMPIRE COURSES fHE Singapore Cricket Association is getting down to the task of tackling the umpire problem. Discussion meetings are to be held during the season, on Tuesdays beginning on February 11, and clubs and teams are asked to submit the names of their umpires to Mr. Cashin. The
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  • 18 7 The Bendcmeer Athl**:c Club will hold a social dance and dinner at their premises on Monday.
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  • 182 7 SEDGMAN, McGregor IN FINAL ]£EN McGregor scored hit first ever victory over American Dick Savltt ye^*rday, defeating him 6-4. 6-4, 3-6. 6-4 m the seml-fin-'s of the Australian National Ten* nis Championships. Frank Sedgman, paying sound tennis, beat Mr'vyn Rose, 6—2, 6—4, 6—2, m the other semi-final. Sedgman's win over
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  • 84 7 ITTLE NENE, featherweight champion of Singapore, needed tvo stitches to his left eye :-':.r his eighth round ttfjin^il knockout defeat at f ie hands of Australia's Blr.y Wilkins m Melbourne l~st night Nene (8 st. 114 lb.> disappointed as he was Mn> bcxed and outfought by
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    • 93 7 ■SOUTHERN CABARET SPECIAL CHINESE NEW YEAR r CELEBRATIONS TO-NIGHT J TO-MORROW NIGHT EXTENSION T0 2AJM. f MONDAY NIGHT IAJH. a—— a»i !!C: n ;< 'HIUC31llll|||||IlC3!IlltlllllllCaiIllllllllllllllllllllC3IIIIIIIIIIIIC3UII1IIIIIIIC3lllllllllIIIC3t9IMIIIllilCailUi lieiMdMlH*^ I HAPPY WORLD STADIUM f I TONIGHT AT 9 P.M. SHARP I Special Chinese New Year Programme f CWNESE FAVOURITES IBOSCA1 B OSCA BOA
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  • 348 8 ♦Let's shelve deadlocked Item for a time* MUNSAN, Saturday. ALLIED TRUCE negotiators yesterday suggested that the thorny question of airfield construction be set aside temporarily and staff officers start work immediately on other details of policing a Korean armistice. The issue of whether
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  • 63 8 TOKYO, Sat. A PLYMOUTH rock hen on the verse of having its head cut off because it was "barren" laid 12 eggs m one day on two occasions this month, a Japanese on the island of Shikoku claims. The hen was to have been killed because it laid no
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  • 143 8 PARIS, Sat. DESPITE big powers protests, the United Nations Social committee has backed the demand of the smaller states that the right of selfdeterminalon should be included m the international covenant of human rights. By 33 votes to nine, with 10 abstensions, the committee passed
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  • 25 8 Greece has asked the United Nations to send observers to its northern border immediately to check on threats to the peace there. 8
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  • 90 8 Et^t,^ LONDON, Sat. IGHT officer cadet* from n i Ma !l y a v and flv e from Ceylon will b e among the 238 who will pass out to commissions at Sandhurst on Feb. 7 There will b e cadets also from Burma, Jordan, Fiji
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  • 52 8 Mr. Eugene Black, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, left New York yesterday for official visits to India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Siam and Australia. His purpose is "to acquaint himself at first hand with problems of economic development m some of the banks' member
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  • 25 8 livß!*^ 11 and Foreign Minister, Alcide De Oasperi, left Rome by train yesterday to attend the European army conference m Paris.— Reuter.
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  • 19 8 Mr. Francis Shepherd who has been appointed British Ambassador to Warsaw will fly from Teheran on Monday U.P.
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  • 177 8 Minister hints at peace move SAIGON, Saturday. AM JEAN Letourneau, French Minister for the iTl# Associated States of Indo-China said yesterday that France would welcome any chance to settle the Indo-Chinese conflict on an international level but would not negotiate with Communist leader,
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  • 47 8 The Senate banking committee refused yesterday to approve the nomination of Mr. Harry McDonald to head the Reconstruction Finance Corporation pending further study. Mr. McDonald is now chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is under investigation by a House Commerce subcommittee.
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  • 46 8 President Truman reaffirmed his intention of nominaing an Ambassador to the Vatican. He said he had no intention again of sending a personal representative to the Vatican and it was for the UJB. Senate to decide for or against an Ambassador. Reuter
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  • 15 8 President Sveirn Bjoernsson of Iceland died on Thursday night. He was 70. Reuter
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  • 46 8 Across: 1, Poached. 7, Eases. 8, Level. 9, Demon bowler. 10, Puss-in-bootg. 14, Press. 15, Negri. 16, Settler. Down: 1, Pas,t masters. 2, Arson. 3, Hello. 4, Devil dodger. 5, Lead. 6, Slur. 10, Pipe. 11, Inset. 12, Banal IS. Skin.
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  • 49 8 SOCIETY BRIDE IS 17 pi cture. TENANTS FROM THE bridegroom's family estate m North Wales travelled m buses through the night to attend the London wedding of Mr. Vivian Naylor-Leyland, eldest son of Sir Edward Naylor-Leyland, seen here with the Hon. Elizabeth Anne Fitzalan -Howard, his 17--year-old brid< —Popper
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  • 103 8 We are prey of a hostile bloc— Malan CAPETOWN, Sat. THE S. African prime min--1 ister, Dr. Daniel Malan said here yesterday there was a bloc m the United Nations who had "set themselves upon South Africa as a target". The*bloc was composed of non -European countries, mostly under the
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  • 18 8 The Swiss army is discharging some of its men for the first time since 1939. A.P.
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    304 8 Neither side vulnerable. South dealer. fHIS was a hand of brilliant stroke and counter stroke. South can make nine tricks despite East-West's best efforts, but what bridge expert without reading the backs of the cards would have made the right guess. -West opened the diamond jack. East took
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  • 135 8 10 MIGs down in big air battles TOKYO, Fri. TIE blazing guns of United Nations pilots yesterday scored the second biggest bag of Communist planes m the Korean^ war— lo planes shot down m one series. Fifteen Sabre jet fighters blazed two MIGs out of the air and probably destroyed
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  • 78 8 LONDON, Sat. MODERATE business m the London Stock Exchange yesterday was mainly for the purpose of levelling positions ahead of the weekend. Price changes were mainly small Leading industrials were firmer but British Government funds easier on the day. There was a continuation of reluctance
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  • 38 8 Mexico is experimenting with cactus to produce newsprint. A new type of cactus, related to the century plant, may give 52 to 62 per cent of the cellulose suitable for newsprint, research workers hope. A.P.
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  • 27 8 The South African Government yesterday raised by from five to 25 per cent the import duty on readymade clothes, containing 50 per cent wool U.P.
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  • 22 8 The Japanese Government said yesterday that Red China command ere d 60 Japanese fishing boats m the past year. A.P.
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  • Free Press Saturday Magizine
    • 8 1 Free Press Saturday Magizine Saturday. January 26, 1952.
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    • 831 1 Must you be a games widow? A QUESTION FOR SINGAPORE WOMEN •WIDOWS are wonilerful", so says the old song. They ,r,v be, but what of U ie self made type -the £olf widow, bridge-widow* unneressary grass widow and so on, are they to be pitied or decried?. This species of
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      786 1  -  ANTHONY WISE Mr- Choo was frightened; he had never before been so frightened. The men would be coming for him at any moment now and there was no escape. A Free Press short story by JfIKS. CHOO laid down her knife and fork and hurried to her husband's
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      9 1 Birte Steincke. —Photo by The Secretaries t, Kuala Lumpur.-
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    • 470 1  - I'M BACK IN THE TROPICS BEE WICKERSON "Malaya as a land of sunshine, takes a lot of beating by WELL, here I am, once again m a land where the coconut palm flourishes and the papayas hang richly from their stems. The mango trees are heavy with fruit and bananas
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    • 104 1 S.-E. Asa exhibition of progress rE COLOMBO Plan exhibition m Ceylon* which Princess Elisabeth is to open on Feb. 16. will demonstrate the needs of South-East Asia. It will also show the contributions Commonwealth countries and the United States of America will make under the £1.868 million plan m capital
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    • 541 2 Collie Knox fn Hollywbod^-I A LONDON COLUMNIST VISITS THE FILM CAPITAL HOLLYWOOD. lIERE I am m this -"ephemeral city where, founded on make-be-lieve, and financed by far-sighted bankers, flourishes the fanciful phenomenon that is the motion-picture industry. lam sitting amid bright sunshine, tropical palms, orange
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    • 229 2 Maureen Mallal previews an unusual film. a I u fBR FIRST LEGION*, x (coming to the Pavilion) is the story of a young doctor's hoax on the Catholic population of a rural village m the U.S. by a miracle. It could have been
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    • 60 2 - tJ? i" A Place to tte Sun" fihiw g^ Singapore) both SSS? e JL Ytoters and Eliza--5^5 10 act belter than s?* friends thought they could. This has been credited to the fllnVs dirwtor, George Stevens. Hte replies to this suggestion were: On Shelley Winters:
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    • 216 2 TAUS of Hoffmann" was made m 10 weeks. This was made possible -be. cause no large sets were necessary— all Hie fantastic backgrounds are Hie work of Hera Heckroth, the art director with paint and brush. The largest "set", the Grand Staircase (right) -down which Moira
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    • 231 2 - gRROLL FLYNN says the world is fuU of People who want to sopk him. "Its a downright menace ne declares. <4 i have virtually given up says rro/l Flynn going out at all: I SS2F re( l uen t the night clubs any more"* 1
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    • 706 2  - This Will Make You Sit Up -or Walk Out IAN GRANT THE STORY Hoffman* it watchm* Stella, Hie ballerina witfi whom he is m low, doing Hie "Dragonfly Ballet". la Hie wing* is Lindorf, Hoffmann's enemy and evil genius who has so far »i»«r«* *S A* iw# affairs. Hoffmann goes
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    • 227 2 Ten films that could win 'Oscars' films product 0 1951 are the mos "> raising "Oscar V'^dates. Here U m some have not g* 1 Singapore yet) JS c yard-stick taS'nK"* box office appeal h" contribution to th, but of film making. irt"A PLACE IN THE Js a director t
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      • 105 2 CAPITOI 11-1.45-4-6.3«-9.3» STARTS TOD A "^P^™\:. jfc nmamm TONIGHT. TOMORROW Monday at HTNite LI-LI WAH mi n "A SONG OF ROMANCE" (m Mandarin) REX TODAY 11-1.45-4-6.30-9.3f "GOLDEN HORDE" Technicolor 1 TONIGHT M'llTE "MULE" H'WTES TOMORROW t MONDAY TODAY DAILY All throueh the CHINESE NEW TEAR 11 am 1.30 4.00 f.45
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    • 588 4  -  GEORGE WHITING By ...SO THEY ML GIVE ADVICE HOW much "altitude ache" is Peter Keenan going to suffer when he fights Vic Toweel for the bantamweight championship of the world at 5,740 feet above sea-level in Johannesburg tonight? Recently we had Mr. Ludwig Japhet Transvaal promoter
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      20 4 VIC TOWEEL pictured m Johannesburg after oatPointing Manuel Ortfc over 15 gruellin? rounds for the world bantamweight title.
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    • 265 4 I From The Sportsman POR two hours last 1 night I wrestled with an invisible opponent over the chessboard. I sat near a telephone by my fireIside; at Tyburn Road, Birmingham, Mr. J. Fielden, a worker m the plastics industry, did likewise. Between us an impartial Pest
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    • 346 4  -  IVAN SHARPE Says international referee who is out and about every week m the League, says there is organised cheating m first-class football. It all springs from childish tricks and tantrums, whi:h take four or five forms. Thus: The Free-kick Cheat th? player wno deliberately
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    • 136 4 IS county cricket any nearer an English Cup competition? Although attendances are "frightening." the M.C.C. may still be even more frightened of cup-ties. But they are the one sure remedy for the slump. Advocates, years ago, of cup play and now «C fairer pitches. Tnnrwlilrc are
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    • 95 4 IT was a gold-mine native 1 worker named DAVID who knocked VIC TOWEEL off his feet for the first time m his professional career during a bout of sparring m training for tonight's fiffht. Toweel frequently uses black sparring partners because he cannot
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    • 59 4 PRANCISCO Jalon, 69, who has been playing golf for 30 years, gave away his clubs and quit the game yesterday. The reason: perfection is enough, said Jalon, who scored a hole-in-one on the 157-yard No. 2 at Camp John Hay, the bill trickling across the green the
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    • 16 4 COCK-0 THE-NORTH PETER KEEN AN... Scotland's bantam king gets a crack at the world title tonight.
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    • 461 4  -  ED PETERS SINGAPOREANS LEAVE TOMORROW By /)N Board the Indian XJ Bharat Airways plane which leaves Kallang airport tomorrow for Bombay will be the Singapore Table Tennis Association's sixman contingent for the 19th World Table Tennis Championships at the spacious Brabourne Stadium starting on
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    • 742 4  -  LORD BURGHLEY 1952 Olympics.,.. No. 3 Says On c *i Britain's most famous athletes emphasises the importance the Olympic Games m fostering good relations. ON July 10, m the huge Olympic Stadium at Helsinki, the last of a relay of runners will arrive bearing
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    • 102 4 Rugby League player for Helsinki WHISPER it ever m Aa a Sj Union circles, bul a H9 league footbaUer t peting at the HelsinS n pics. Xl Oi > He^is Bill Ha ugh merchant and ail j athletic memb-rc^; \rZealand Ri JV Played z£L fmonwealth at a SI Bridge la^t
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    • 40 4 meeting of the year 5 on. F»b. 15. 20 md 23 S inlimited and cash KM,*** vm be drawn oi: the corresooal. postponed feUfc ItoWes for the meet close on Peb. 6, instead of Jan. 30 orertously advertised.
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