The Singapore Free Press, 1 February 1952

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA |v i« 4 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRIJ4I** 1, »52., PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 661 1 'Liberty men told to stop fighting CAIRO, Friday. pREMIER Aly Maher Pasha said yesterday that ex-Premier Nahas Pasha, whose administration King Farouk dismissed to place Maher Pasha m control, has agreed to participate m a "national front" to restore order and solve the dispute with Britain. Maher
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  • 186 1 CHURCHILL WINS ANGRY COMMONS DEBATE LONDON, Fri. ••r Winston Churchill's )> Government won a „y >; confidence from toT commons on their n l'v juisterity measures S JM \-o+es to 278. the L Liberal M.P.s voting tar the Government. The Be c Un 3 include cutting rts o. v-150.000,000 s
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  • 32 1 S'pore holiday money IA I N EXCHANGE an this morning ois department I finalised the dec'.cwn from £200 mount of money ~~y-makers may the Colony when d leave to Europe. r Brazil.
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  • 75 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. "THE Singapore City Council, at a private session last night, deferred for further consideration a recommendation to raise the salary of its Deputy President from the present maximum of $1,200 to $1,350 monthly. The City Secretary draws a basic salary of $1,600 a
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  • 186 1 Templer sees experts on Malaya LONDON, F*i. /GENERAL Sir Gerald Temp\J ler, the new High Commissioner m Malaya, has had a busy week m a private room at the Colonial Office studying the intricacies of the situation with which he will have to deal. After a string of conferences with
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  • 22 1 An attap house at the corner of Molumein and Balestier Roads was completely razed when a fire broke out yesterday.
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  • 121 1 NEW DELHI, Fri. INDIA'S first national elections, which began last Oct. covered a million square milfes and deluded 175,000,000 voters, are almost over. By yesterday they were completed m all but five Himalayan snow-laden districts, where the voting VfR be m the third week of
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  • 22 1 Twelve Arabs have been killed, two wounded and 46 captured along Israel's borders during the past two weeks.- Reuter
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  • 143 1 I Free Press Correspondent *l LONDON, Friday. fcabour B&F* wt>ul4 like to see housing subsidies introduced m Singapore. He will urge this m a question he will ask m, the House of Commons on Feb. 6. Mr. Popplewell has also given notice to ask the
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  • 57 1 LONDON, Fri. INDIA, Burma and Indonesia have informed Britain that they would greatly regret any decision to transfer Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, CommissionerGeneral for Southeast Asia, political sources said last night. 1 They thought it possible that the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, might appoint Mr. Mac Donald
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  • 100 1 LONDON, FrL rnHE KINO and Queen headed the party on hand to wave farewell to Princess Elisabeth .and the Duke of Edinburgh as they took on yesterday on a S,OOO-mile tour of Kenya, Qeyton, Australia and New Zealand. The royal couple landed ?Li*£* .V«t IMaMfi'
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  • 163 1 HONG KONG, Friday. T»HREE British youths, missing m a home-made 14-foot dinghy since Monday, are thought to have drifted into Chinese Communist territorial waters. I The Royal Navy, the R.A.F. and the Marine Police have organised a search and Chinese fishermen were offered
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  • 290 1 BURMA MAY ASK MAO TO OUST LI MI PARIS, Friday. BURMA said yesterday that it was considering asking Communist China's help m expelling Nationalist Chinese "invaders" from the northeastern Burmese province of Kengtung. Burma's representative, U. Saw Wyn, told the United Nations General Assembly that his government has not yet
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  • 22 1 The United Nations yesterday accepted a Greek request to send a team of observers to the* Greek frontier areas.- Reuter
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  • 111 1 VIETMINH TROOPS TRAPPED SAIGON, Fri. pRENCH planes and artillery r yesterday battered three trapped rebel Vietminh battalions with petrol jelly napalm bombs and high explosive m the two- month battle for the western end of Tonking delta. It was the third day of heavy bombardment of Communist -held positions, the
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  • 108 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON, FRI. iy[R LYTTELTON, who was I asked m the House of Commons yesterday why the j Kajang Kemaman tin mine was closed, replied that the mine was isolated. Its approach roads were vulnerable to attack and its protection involved a greater
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  • 44 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. v rwWE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT has approved an 1 Education Department scheme to wm%defr&uxt' books to pupils to Doth ooverrtfnent and governmentaided pre-secondary schools m the ColonVx -*.„>*. These books will only be tor pupUs whose parents
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  • 30 1 Britain has agreed to pay more for meat imported from New Zealand m response to widespread dissatisfaction among farmers there at Britain's fixed price meat-buy-ing policy.- Reuter
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  • 108 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. PRESIDENT Truman yester- day promised to make a study of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey's suggestion for a Pacific pact similar to the North Atlantic treaty. The President at his weekly press conference said he had not read Mr. Dewey's speech
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  • 43 1 Free Press SUIT Reporter. A CHINESE woman was admitted to hospital shortly before midnight after she was knocked down by a bir outside the New World. Two boys, a Chinese and a Malay, were also hurt yesterday m aofri^n^
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    • 98 1 L* f 4 r fj4CTu*tts iySp il^ L'.APORE 9. PJfttA-X r^sz?*»e fOOO Mferife, My Im^ imporfanf if h thaf V«« V^ W^V' »<U»,U daily supply ol »H««iii» and iMMralw Vow UaHfc JJ "I d»ptnd on if. Thaf i» %X» if it a «^d pU» f« Ovaltin*- your regular daily b«*ara«j«.
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    • 154 1 SINGAPORE KSTMIMBT (Ist Class Bmr) 7», Bm Ba»ah Rd. T«!. 4088. spore. 1. Excellent Came Ist Class Service Special Cocktails fell Beer, W«e 6 Spirit* Eir«pea» Dinner A b Carte Chinese Foed PiCRRE BALMAIM W* ..-..yi;. feS:'- %^fl /A« lovelight m a girl's eyes, for instance There are some things
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  • 314 2 PARIS Spring fashions details remain a closely guarded secret to be revealed at the end of January but many guesses are being based on the fabrics purchased by the big houses. During the past few weeks sheer fabrics have been ordered m heavy quantity, especially gauze which
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  • 517 2  - Off on a World-Wide, One Woman Show ANNE EDWARDS New York, San Franciso, Honolulu, Melbourne and Auckland and for a good-bye photograph she models Britain's biggest jewel "catch-on" since the war... By HEADED for nine of the world's famous cities, model Barbara Goalen flies off this week with £1,500 wdrth
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  • 642 2  - She's the Boss, but She isn't Happy Kay Murray THE AMERICAN WOMAN The^ first of a series of eight articles by 1»HIS series is supx posed to be a kind of pocket blueprint of the American Woman her Life and Times. That's quite an assignment, and sooner or later someone
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  • 435 2  - FIGHT YOUR OWN PRICE WAR MARIE GOUGH says /CHINESE New Year, now safely put behind us, has varying effects on the housewife. For most of us it is a kind of refresher course m the occupation that used to be part and parcel of our daily lives before we came
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 8 2 Solution To Cross worl No. $7$ YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.—
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    • 60 2 New Crossword No. 574 CLUES ACROSS 1. In this one is morally obliged (6, c); 7. Creature* smelt K^JSS? 01 l B»»*3c situation ilctSed (7); 2^. I T?KX ltJ A chee Li? lder (4); 10 D d moral 'about £l 15 VJL"f °SJP have Ned around (6); 14. Potato spade
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    • 242 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR JgORN today, you have a demanding nature: you want what you want when you want it! Your emotional nature is strong and you lo\e or hate with equal intensity. You make a wonderful friend but are Inclined to be a I revengeful enemy. If you let I
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  • 383 3 'Reality by end of the century' NEW YORK, Friday. r \KTH men will be able to retch the moon m J ree and-a-half hours m space ships capable m Wing 140,000 miles an hour, according to a s. aviation expert.' iior Alexander de Seversky,
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  • 149 3 Hunting manisnow a priest LONDON, Fli. KALTH V Aubrey Claude B v- >y -Robinson, an Old E oian *no used to hunt tjie round Blaston, is tokb Anglican priest. As Fuher Claude, he has i ma of poverty. en he was not In huntIni pink, villagers would see d ften
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  • 76 3 LONDON. FTI. TWO iniiuential British 1 newspapers have expressed alarm at talk Is the United states of air and rival war against Communist China if the Korean truce talks fail Tfcey advised against such a comae. The editorial advice came irom the independent London Times and
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  • 58 3 While most of Australia's unions seek more money the Melbourne Postal Workers' Union has been negotiating for leas. But the union's interest hflj c^fpfgrn^fl iw*iy cases where rr %many mfm have been overpaid and are required to make repayments. The FWU aims to mike the rate
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  • 157 3 MANCHESTER, Friday. PSCORTED from prison to defend a suit brought MJ by his wife for divorce, a man carried a razor blade hidden m his mouth* While his wife was giving evidence against him the man, Robert Blackstiaw, aged 25, Jumped up and slashed her. Blackshaw
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  • 147 3 BEDFORD, Fri. ANE of the questions before the court at Bedfordshire Assizes was: How heavy is a 15ft. ladder? Two witnesses said that only a man of abnormal strength could prop it against a wall. It took four policemen to carry it into
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  • 313 3 IN today's deal there were four bids produced by the South and North players, and three of these bids were wrong! Smith, dealer Both sMes valnerafcte NOKTH S. A 1 5 4 H. It D. 10 9 6 C. IQtlt WEST CAST X 9 S S. IS E
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  • 38 3 A trumpet lost m Adelaide wwtaiDfd Just 26 notes more than the chromatic bcrlp. These were fivers and -tenners" to the value of £175 placed by the owner m the key barrels for safe deposit- Reuter
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  • 68 3 WASHINGTON, Fri. A SPECIALIST lias told Congress that women may be running a risk of cancer by using certain eyebrow pencils and cosmetics using "estroeenic barmones. W. C Hueper, of the National Cancer Institute, said he is also suspicious of several food dyes, including the light green "stuff"
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  • 35 3 A number of Indonesian actors and actresses will leave Jakarta tor Manila to make a technicolor picture far the Tprinn^an film company, Persari. Production costs are expected to run into approximately UJ&5142,800.- U.P.
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  • 28 3 The World Bank President. Mr. Eugene R. Black, has cantered with the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, on the prospects of settling the Anglo-Feraian oil dispute. A.P.
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  • 147 3 Wife was bent upon downward road DERBY, Friday. WITH the help of his mother, a man tried to save Vf Ms wife from the "downwaitf career" she was pursuing, said Judge B. A. Willes at Derby Divorce Court But he failed, and she went from bad to worce. A decree
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  • 333 3 He felt iirge to rewrite Bible A TEL AVIF, Friday. STORM of protest and indignation broke over a little teacher here who thought the Bible should be rewritten. And he did it. Of the ten commandments he struck out four. Of God he left very little, too. Instead he "improved"
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  • 44 3 Fishermen m thg United States may soon be using bait scented with perfume oils. Mr. Paul F. George of the Institute of Technology told tile AimtkTfro Chemical Society Scented tatt has teen successful m catching lobsters, he said- A.P.
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  • 27 3 A Blel^oorne librarian, C. P. Billot, has found the honour system works better than fines In getting Xustraltan readers to return books He abolished fines
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  • 52 3 HOME FLEET FOR MALTA CHIPS OP BRITAIN'S Home Fleet will visit Malta for combined exercises with the Mediterranean fleet m March. The move is a continuation of exercises m which about 30 ships of the Home Fleet are now taking part off Gibraltar. Few home-based vessels are left around British
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    • 21 3 PURE AUSTRALIAN CHILLED HONEY CREAMED STYLE CHILDREN JW^L NUTRITIOUS RETAIL $1.15 PER BOTTLE $1.20 FANCY BOTTUE W holtsal print on application
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    • 327 3 BLOOD DONORS WANTED ONLY SO MINUTES OF YOUB TIME MAY MEAN A LIFETIME TO SOME ONE ELSE. FOR DETAILS PLEASE APPLY TO BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL, SINGAPORE PHONE: 2414 EXT: 275 OR ***** FREE TRANSPORT PROVIDED {Space kindly donated by The East Astatic Co, f Ltd., and who have
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 217 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 pjn. The Radio Orchestra: IJO Time Signal ft Hewi; 1.45 grammes to Malay; 615 Time Sigqbj A7rOBOPsa\Q2J3QUB f^PtIEDIBsU^7 o«X Forces Fatomites A > programme i of requests by the Forces presented by Josephine West; 6.55 Announcement ft Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 Time Signal ft News; 7.15
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  • 749 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. Feb. 1, 1952. Where I Came in ANY middle-aged man may look at the foreign news m his paper and say to himself: 'This is where I came in/ The drama has not been one of shadow, run off a strip of celuloid. It has
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  • 1001 4  - Doctor At The Birth Of A Dominion CECIL HEARTLEY Surgeon Premier who walks m the Steps of Cecil Rhodes By AN overworked Eng- lish doctor who went to Africa for six months of convalescence stayed rather longer than he planned. Now 40 years later, he has returned to Britain to
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  • 254 4 A PICTURE of what happens to those Allied soliders who "desert" to the East from various sectors of Berlin comes m a correspondent's report from that city. Usually* the arrival of the "deserters" m the East is announced by Russia's official Tass News Agency which reports that the men
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  • 555 4  - 'Acute Indigestion so RAF gets fewer Planes HUGH DUNDAS By ACUTF indigestion"- that was Mr. Churchill's vivid explanation recently of why the R.A.F. has not been Retting the planes it needs. The indigestion is acute because it has to be suffered at a time when Russia is developing fast new
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  • 526 4 It found the Affray on the bottom of the English Channel says Geoffrey Pawle I^ARLY last June officers aboard the Royal Naval salvage ship Reclaim stood watching a small television screen m the captain's cabin. Slowly sections of a sunken vessel, 258 feet below,
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  • 323 5 Govt will now be asked to m make them law SING.PoSrcSTou B^, "S3& approved by 15 votes to nine the Issue of premium ™XL Way to raise mone y for P»»>l»c works projects. t^syszastre sawss authority Members of the Labour Party strongly opposed the issue of premium
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  • 195 5 ALOR STAR, Pri. q-'IE introduction of coun- try-wide elections m the Federation had been "dei berately delayed" m order ta .vow down the social and noiKical uplift of the ra'ayat. hT ls is stated m a joint V deration Day manifesto i»--5UW j yesterday by Kedah
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  • 29 5 Sir Ctril Jones of Dalveen, W.r. Hillwaj, Woking, Surrey has become a director of the Mercantile Bank of Inr.i the Singapore branch of Ibc bank said yesterday.
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  • 124 5 INTERLUDE IN COUNCIL Free Press SUIT Reporter AN Interlude during the £iJ?« lngai 2? re Cit Council premium bonds debate yesterday was introduced by Mr Yap Pheng Geek (Nominated): He said: "This meeting is unique for two reasons, firstly we are overawed by Legislative Council speeches (quoted by several Labour
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  • 332 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Councillors yesterday debated heatedly for 50 minutes whether stallholders m new markets should be required to change their stalls yearly by rotation. The Council upheld the Health Committee decision that stall positions should be moved yearly by rotation. This
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  • 133 5 They will be taught how to teach Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Department of Education js to teach teaching methods, to teachers of English m Colony Chinese schools next year. They are now being given a course m speech-training to improve their spoken English. Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt, Chief Inspector
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  • 188 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AIR Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, C.-in-C of Far East Air Force, today congratulated Malays of the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) on their work against the bandits. He was addressing^ an RAP Regiment anniversary parade at Chang! airfield this morning. Flights of men
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  • 48 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Ceylon independence Day will be celebrated by Ceylon Hindus m Singapore at 5 p.m on Monday with prayers and worship at the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple Ceylon Road Mr. M Saravanamuttu, the Ceylon Commissioner hi Malaya, will be present.
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  • 20 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Pri. The Rev. G. Teilman will preach on special music at the Sentul Methodist Church on Sunday.
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  • 89 5 •THE Tong Chai Medical 1 Institution, which gives free treatment vto outpatients, has purchased a piece of land at the 4 I|2 milestone Thomson Road, Singapore, for $334,704 to build new premises. A sanatorium may also be built if funds are available. Thr Institution gave free
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  • 66 5 QtTALLHOLDERS m most of Singapore's markets still O weigh with daching although they will have to use scales from Jan 1952. Dachings are used m Orchard Road Kandang Kerbau. Ellenborough, Maxwell Road and Seng Poh Road markets. Orchard Market market stallholders also use scales. Picture shows
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  • 117 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. Lee Kong Chian, Colony business magnate, said yesterday that the prices of rubber and tin depended more on politics than on economics. He thought, however, that this would be a «obd busines* year for Sin- terican attitude," Mr. Lee said.
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  • 66 5 KUALA LUMPUR, FrL VOUNO men of spirit are wanted by Lt.-Col. A. T Edgar to join his volunteei reconnaissance corps, the only fighting unit being formed m the new Federation of Malaya Volunteer Force. "There will be no racial distinctions m the corps" said Lt.-Col. Edgar
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  • 251 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO Singapore City r Councillors, Mr. S. S. Manyam (Independent North Ward) and Mr. P. R. Williams (Labour Rochore Ward), contended m Council yesterday that the care of the aged should be the responsibility of the Council. Mr. Williams later
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  • 120 5 THE Singapore Art Society 1 will hold an art exhibition at the British Council Hall m Stamford Road from April 19 to 27. The exhibition will have on show works by artists m Singapore, Federation and Borneo. Work m any medium, oil, water-colour, tempera, pastel, etching, and
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  • 233 5 WELLS MUST GO OR BE KEPT CLEAN Towgay controversy ends v Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Council yesterday decided to give towgay growers up to the end of May to close their wells m Rochore and Geylang and move out to "suitable areas' or if they wanted to retain
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  • 1108 6 TAKE PINK GIN FOR TOP SPRINT New Look is the danger From ALLAN LEWIS piNK GIN should win the CL 1, Div. 1 sprint, principal race on the programme tomorrow, first day of the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cap meeting. Pink Gin looks much better than he did at Penang,
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  • 239 6 FOLLOWING horses will not start tomorrow: Gambar Melayu, Scotch Express, Wise Bird, Javance, Abbotsford, Hit, The Spot, Merry-Go-Round, Modest Flatter, Film Studio, French Rose, Ballroom, Stage Show, Young Jack. My ling. Lady Lack 11, Lucifer, Piercebridge, Brownsbay, Walkiki, Oregon, Ra-Li, Sunny Way, Eudora, The Monarch, Kupay, Radio
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  • 81 6 JN semi-finals of the Royal Air Force Seletar inter-unit hockey cup played at Seletar yesterday, Radio Repair Section beat General Engineering Squadron by one goal to nil and Technical Wing beat Administration Wing by the same margin after extra time. Shallcross scored for Radio Repair Section.
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  • 238 6 Wonder Lad is best bet WONDER LAD should W be one of the best bets of the day m the CL 2, Div. 3 event He won very easily at his last start m Singapore for which he is up a division with 10 lb. extra. The prospect of a
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  • 48 6 rpHE Hong Kong touring rugby team defeated the combined Kansai Kyushu ail stars of Western Japan h. a dose 12-11 at Osaka on Wednesday. It was the Ho?v Kong team's final game and their second win against one defeat and one tie.— A.P.
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  • 304 6 NDIVIDUALITY is the form I horse m this Cl. 2. Div. 1 race, over seven furlongs He won over the same distance at Penang with 8-2 and with 8 lb. more finished fourth to Counsel m over six. He carries 3 lb extra here where
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  • 57 6 THREE Japanese stars reached the semi-final round of the Central India Lawn Tennis championships men's single s on Wednesday. Nakano beat veteran Ganesh Dey 6 o, 6 2 to meet Kamo, who eliminated Raj en Banerje* 6—3, 6—3. Miyagi outclassed Wazir Ali 6—l, 6—3 and meets
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  • 77 6 PUL DERVAL. director of the Follies Bergere leg and bosom show, said m Paris he had received an offer from Helsinki to take the Follies to If -Hand to "entertain local and foreign athletes and visitors during the Olympics." "But I had to decline," he
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  • 62 6 Hope-Crosby challenge is accepted The Bob Hope-Bing Crosby challenge to fake on any British entertainers at a round of golf has been taken up by top British crooner, Donald Peers. "If and when Hope and Crosby come over again am sure they can be accommodated" he said today, engagements permitting.
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  • 496 6  - COL. WHATNOT TO WIN GOLD CUP TRIAL ALLAN LEWIS By GOLD CUP aspirants will have their first run a the about seven furlongs course at X L tnm* row and the field Is almost the same as that oM°k* Cup race. int Last start winners m Treasure Ship cnri and
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  • 111 6 Table tennis steals the limelight ANE out of 10,000 Germans may know of the small £2?*? S f Harsui near the soviet Zone border. But ask a foreign table tennis player! Hie T.T.C. table tennis team of Harsum is unbeaten m West Germany and has been victorious m all postwar
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  • 52 6 r)ENMARK'S Akademisk Bold1/ klub aoccerites fly from Hong Kong to the Philippines tomorrow for a four-game series. They will be returning to Hong Kong for a final match on February t. The Danes swept their three games here, dropping the first goal yesterday for a crushing 10—1
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  • 302 6 BROWN BOMBER No. 2 HAS EMERGED A W Brown Bomber Clarence Henry of ul Angeles, exploded a first round knockout over Bnh Satterneld on Wednef day night m Chicago to become top contender for the world heavyweight boxing title. gm Henry who w, P compared to SttterffeUTs So wasted no
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  • 119 6 SWEDISH, Japanese VDi Italian Olympic speedskaters participated m a! international mcc: or. Wednesday night, with Japanea T. Sato taking 'he 1.500 metre run. The contest was held at linkoping, Sweden Sweden's Bengt Malmsten took the 500 metres In 44 8 sec; with Japan's Aoki second m 45.8
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  • 58 6 The following are ask"d to turn up for football training days and Thursdays, Bat* aaj 5.30 pjn on the Pidapg: J. de SUva, R. Benders njj Minjoot, W. Pox. A. de RjoriJ L. RodrifO, M. Wright. LBJ* L. AnSSe! J. Pereira, B Boar* and R. Mosbergen Other members
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    • 30 6 liiimimitiiimHiimciMiiiiiimitJiimMimiciiiniiiiiiiiriiiiiHiiiuioiii! I SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 3rd Feb. (Sunday) 1952 SPECIAL JOGET MODERN f (From Happy World) 2 2 to 6 p.m. 13 KATONG REST-HOUSE j I Open to Non-Residents. Admission FPTr
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  • 464 7  -  ED. PETERS T-tennis duels begin today By rOR the second time within 11 months a continuent from Singapore has invaded India to lake part m International sports. First it was the Asian Games held at New Delhi m March last year and now it is the
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  • 109 7 SWAYTHLING CUP I^INANCIAL reasons have 1 caused the withdrawal of s tenil countries, including Israel from the Swaythling n Id the 19th international table tennis championships c .nning at Bombay today uns competing for the cap nave now been divided :n; wo groups instead of t ree
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  • 69 7 j^RGBII Moore. (175*i1b.) imr. Toledo ligiitheavy -n revenged a recent loss to H rid Jchnson <170H1b.) •on V. dacsdag night by hammering a unanimous decision over ■M fOW| Philadalphian. A crowd cf 7.500 fans who paid gst( of some $20,000 at V P r a Arana
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  • 75 7 The chairman of the Sovjf* Sports Committee, Konsfeintin Adrianov, has stated that Soviet Russia will not send a team to the winter Olympics m Oslo next month, according to a Moscow dispatch to the Liberal Helsinki Sanomat, Finland's biggest newspaper. The paper added that Adrianov
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  • 334 7 ROVERS Sports Club's soccer trial at Farrer Park yesterday was one of mixed success. The Juniors beat the Seniors by six goals to one. The trial was held to select teams for this years competitions. Several of the Junior players stood out as likely candidates for
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  • 76 7 The British flyweight tltle fight between Terry Allen (Islington), the holder, and Teddy Gardner (Wtst Hartlepecls) at Newcastle has been postponed from Peb 11 to March 17. Allen received a swclltm left eye and cut cheek when he was outpointed by Maurice Sa.ideyron (Prance) here on Tuesday
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  • 29 7 Jacks Sports Club beat Rotterdam Sports Club 4-2 m a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for Jacks s.c were Yoke Leng (3) and Jaffar.
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  • 26 7 The annual general meeting of the Malaya Football Association will be held at the MJP.A's Club house, Balestier Plain, on Sunday at 2.30 pjn.
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  • 271 7 JAPAN is counting on marking its return to Olympic competition by capturing the major swimming laurels at Helsinki this summer. Pointing to those honours. Japanese Olympic Swimming candidates earlier thU month had the first or a series of combined workouts leading up to the final
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  • 274 7 Aussie Press angers Savitt A MERICA'S Dick Savitt, A storm centre of many incidents m international tennis, told Australian reporters yesterday. "Your newspapers stink." He made his remark at the airport m Sydney just before he and youthful Hamilton Richardson took ott on their return trip to the United States.
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  • 148 7 'Joe must fight Charles MR- Jim Norris, President of the International Boxing Club, said yesterday that he would hold Jersey Joe Walcott. the world heavyweight champion, to a contract to fight Ezzard Charles for th» title. Walcott's manager, Felix Bocchiccio, tentatively accepted an offer on Wednesday of $250,000 by a
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  • 65 7 The Singapore Hockey Association Junior knockout tie between University 2nd XI and RAF Tengah at Sepoy. Lines yesterday had to be postponed as Tengah's transport broke down on its way to the match. The game will be played today at Sepoy Lines Road. Winners will meet R.N.A.S.
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  • 63 7 THE Malayan Rugby Union announced this morning that tomorrow's All Blues rugger final between Selangor and Perak will be played on the Kuala Lumpur Padang. The decision was made after Perak All Blues had lodged a 'protest against Seremban being made the venue of the game.
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  • 108 7 SOMPONGHALLBOUT IS OFF He returns "DBRNIE Hall, the Australian welterweight boxer, will not be able to keep his date with Sompong on Feb. 8 at the Happy World Stadium for he returned to Australia by air this morning. Hall was sorry to leave, but he said urgent family affairs made
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  • 124 7 Further results m tr.* Singapore chess Championship Lim Boon Kei.g Cup: I?cjnd 3* Tay Kuti:g il .r.r, Dt l.'ijj Chan- J. C. Rickley bt Lim Cheng BVc: C. Singh ':t Pete- Seng; Sa:dar Mcliamed bt Man Beng Guan; J. E. M Fagel bt Gwee Kirn Chee; N.
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  • 122 7 REGA TTA STARTS TOMORROW pOYAL Air Force Changi Yacht Club's annual regatta will be held tomorrow and on Sunday. Eight clubs have entered a total of 150 boats for the regatta. The Club's annual *«-<*{"*£ and under Senior officers ot the Uiree services will be present, both as competitors and
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  • 291 7 MRS. RYTTING'S BABY AFFICIALS of the United States Olympic skiing U team were m accord over the action taken m the case of Mrs. Suzanne Harris Ryttin*, who was dropped from the women's team because she is expecting a baby. M^ Mrs Rytting was sent home
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  • 364 7 'F.A.M. SHOULD SEE TO ALL TOURS' CALL AN attack on "commercialism" m soccer was made by Mr. S. C. E. Singam, President of the Football Association of Selangor, at the annual general meeting held at the V.M.C.A., Kuala Lumpur, last night. That "queer creature" called agent, Mr. Singam said, was
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  • 35 7 JULIO MORENO. Chilean swimmer, claims to have broken a world record by floating on water, with his hands and feet tied for two hours 45 minutes. Previous record was two hours 15 minutes.
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  • 155 7 All Blues final tomorrow DERAK State is out to score a "double" when the All Blues rugby final takes place tomorrow. After the victory of Perak over Combined Services m the H.M.S. Malaya final, the Perak All Blues are eager to emulate their feat by beating Selangor All Blues m
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  • 166 7 ffIHERE is no doubt that I. the recent importations of Swedish Angel and Chief Little Wolf have given Singapore wrestling a long overdue face-lifting. Matched with the irrepressible King Kong these gentlemen ahem provided the game with the colour it had been lacking for months past.
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  • 321 8 NEW RUSSIAN MOVE FOR TRADE WITH S.-E. ASIA RANGOON, Friday. RUSSIA yesterday made a new bid for raw materials from South-East Asia m return for manufactured goods. Mr. V. P. Migunov, Soviet delegate to the eighth session of the United Nations Economic Conference for Asia and the Far East, re-emphasised
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  • 341 8 ECE blames U.S. for crisis GENEVA, Fri. rE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe yesterday criticised both the United States and Britain for sitting idly by while the Sterling Area's financial crisis developed. The EC E. said m its 1951 survey: 'The present crisis could have been foreseen" The Commission
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  • 40 8 The Italian Premier, Mr. Alcide de Gasperi, yesterday decided to stake the life of his seventh consecutive government on a formal vote of confidence on the bitterly contested issue of additional Pay increase for civilian servants. U.P.
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  • 132 8 MUNSAN, Fri. rE United Nations waited today for a Communist reply to an allied proposal that discussions start immediately on the fifth and final it*m of the truce aeerda. If the Communists accept the proposal, truce talks will be carried on
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  • 155 8 Foreign Exchange certificates JAKARTA, Friday. INDONESIA will soon abolish the system of foreign L exchange certificates which has burdened the country's import and export since it was enforced about two years ago, it is strongly rumoured here. Usually well-informed but" unofficial financial sources said that "sweeping
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  • 223 8 MELBOURNE, FrL fiONVICTS were released to \j join thousands of men, women and children frantically fighting bushfires which left a trail of death and destruction as they blazed across Southeast Australia. At dusk the fires were sweeping towards the Federal capital of Canberra after
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  • 103 8 LONDON, Fri. MR. W. Burke (Labour) asked m the House of Commons yesterday if the Board of Trade was aware of the large number of idle looms and unemployed we avers m Lancashire. Would the Board assist the Lancashire cotton trade by preventing further imports of
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  • 21 8 Queen Helen of Rumania arrived m Athens from Florence yesterday to visit her brother. King Paul of Greece A.P.
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  • 93 8 NIGERIA'S MINISTERS HERE ARE SOME of the men who have been appointed to Nigeria's first Council of Ministers, under the country's new constitution which has just come into force. TOP ROW, (left to right). S. E. Akintola. 41, Minister of Labour; Alhaji Usman Nagogo, 41, Minister without Portfolio; Sir Adesoji
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  • 137 8 GRAHAM IS GIVENNEW CHANCE PARIS, Fri. THE Security Council agreed yesterday, with Soviet Russia abstaining, that tHe United Nations mediator, Dr. Frank Graham, should continue hi s peace efforts m the Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir and report back by March 31. Russia abstained on the grounds that she was unable
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  • 44 8 S LONDON, Fri MALL investment of Btiyinsr and some bear covering yesterday created a cheerful tone m home stocks. Prices were firm throughout SSniH 1 1 1 seeVo* of the s^ c k Exchange with enfaWed 8 iSSUCS partlcularf y
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  • 104 8 7, 000 more men for U.K. army nprTAIM LONDON, Friday. JJRITAIN is to increase the fighting strength of The new battalions, all Infantry, will be raised this Swfh* l^ summer Head w he ,?°l we Commons. H e said this "considerable ncrease to the mm^Tfighttog strength" could only be achteved
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    • 332 8 "Salamander" was the Sohrh ucf "Deserved the title with which I acclaimed thr.,* Salamander/ Both thrived m th e fire W f we of BelTs ardently reading Mr. Winston cKSS 1 volume. The Grand Alliance, published by were swift to appraise the tribute name \t < Generals Freyberg and Carton
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 50 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris P^fl Wnwwn A—reau^giveN L^i wa^ right never mind the excuses/ do^ Yrynu I i®|L V YOU SOMETHING BEHIND HIM, LUKE. \(?OT THE POLL YOU TWO REALIZE THAT WITH I P\S^E LITTLE BRAT J AN'THEN HE SWUNG J SET FOR A V WHAT THEY KNOW WM.AffmSR
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, February 1, 1952.
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      2708 1  -  Allan Lewis Malaya's champion money spinner. Bought for $1,200-* this great mare has earned $103,955 for her owners. Everybody loves her lop ears JL '^^-'v^wn Ky Bright Eyes m action Into the straight Bright Eyes (Harper) leads a string of Malaya's crack sprinters. At the distance Pink Gi
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    • 353 1 RACEHORSE BREEDING CAN BE A GAMBLE ONE of the most iamous of current racing families m Britain is the 13-year-old mare, Mashaq, by Mieuxce, and her four sons. Beau Sabreur, Light of Morocco, Masked Light and Signal Box, born m successive years. Mashaq was bred by Fred Darling and won
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    • 605 1 'THE Malayan Amateur Racing Association, recently formed by the small band of amateur riders throughout Malaya, has been approved m principle by the Straits Racing Association. The objects of the Association will be to promote amateur racing m the four racing centres m Malaya.
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    • 11497 2 Compiled by ALLAN LEWIS FOLLOWING is the Form Guide for all horses entered for the Selangor Gold Cup Meeting: HORSES CUSS 1. ACCEBER FIFTH (Ten started) 21-11-51 Spore 8-10 6F. (McPheison) Oiv. 2: Ist Arlington 8-13; 2nd New Look 8-5; 3rd Bloodshot 8-6. 12-2-3.
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