The Singapore Free Press, 13 February 1952

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  • 20 1 The Sinapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. I** l4 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARX 13, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 429 1 parliament may be dissolved, Wafd told CAIRO, Wednesday. TllK l^vpiian Prime Minister, Aly Maher pVhii. called an extraordinary meeting of hh Cabinet yesterday and afterwards dropped a possible hint that he may dissolve Parliament its Wafdist majority. p lil commentators think the truce between gu rnment and
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  • 253 1 Belgians censure their King EKCSSELS, Wed. jn&Q BAUDOUIJTS decision no* to attend the f ncnl 01 :he King brought doa: to Belgium's Catholic Oon oment Tast night on a S ensure motion. A.I pposition members Socialists Liberals. Commur..^—walked out of ParliaMOt s Lowei House m pro- a the Prime Minis
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  • 19 1 Mr. Charles Scribner, one of America's best known publishers, died yesterday In New "York aged 62.- Reuter
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  • 17 1 Canada's population has grown 21.8 per cent m 10 years and now totals 14,009.429 A.P.
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    31 1 radio ptemre from London. The Royal coffin enters Aldwyn from King's Cross Station en route to Westminster. The Dukes of Edinburgh and Gloucester follow the gun carriage.— A. P.
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  • 187 1 PARIS, Wednesday. DOLICE and Communist strikers fought pitched battles yesterday across paving stone barricades thrown up around the massive Renault Car Works, traditional storm centre of the Paris "Red belt". Nearly 50 police and Republican guards were injured, 12 seriously by heavy iron bolts
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  • 114 1 Queen lauds the Colonial Service LONDON, Wed. tub Queen last night expressed her "warm appreciation, of Britain's Colonial Civil Service. In a special message she said: "I desire, on my accession to the throne, to express to all members of the Colonial Service my warm appreciation of the ability and
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  • 69 1 'THE United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheaon, left by plane for London yesterday to attend the funeral of the King as President Truman's representative". S> Later be will take part u» meetings of the three Western foreign ministers to London. He Is due In
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  • 28 1 WORRIED about his income tax, 62-year-old labourer Harry Russell fled Into the bush around Nyngarie Station, Quilpie, Australia, when he heard a visitor was
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  • 74 1 TEHERAN, Wed. AN International Bank mission began negotiations at the bedside of Premier, Dr. Mossadeq yesterday m an effort to get the Persian oil industry going again. The five- man mission, headed by the bank's vicepresident, Mr. Robert L. Garner, has a new twist to
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  • 20 1 Two jet fighter planes collided yesterday m midair south-east of Las Vegas. The two pilots were killed.- AFP
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  • 44 1 -White death" struck western Europe for the ninth straight day yesterday as record snow storms swirled down on the Continent from Italy to Scandinavia. The death toll rose to 68 m the storms and Alpine avalanches. Scores were injured.
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  • 149 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. WHE shooting down of the jet air ace, Major George Davis, over Korea on Sunday during a fight with a Russian-built MIG has caused keen controversy here, on whether he should have been allowed to return home after shooting down five planes. The
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  • 42 1 Free Fre*. SUlf Reporter A COFFEE-SHOP In Pulau Saigon Road was swept by a big blaze, early this mornLabourers sitting m the shop ran for safety when the flames spread out from the kitchen. The one-storeyed brick structure was rased.
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  • 5 1 Elizabeth Taylor's studio
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  • 741 1 10,000 TROOPS WILL LINE FUNERAL ROAD LONDON, Wednesday. MORE than 10,900 men of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force will line the route of the King's funeral procession as it passes through the streets of London on its way to Windsor for burial on Friday. From Paddington Station
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  • 278 1 Special prayer for King LONDON, Wed. pHURCHES throughout Eng- land, "by command" of the Queen, will use special forms of service to. commemorate the death of the King. The special services are to be used on the day of the funeral, next Friday, or on the most convenient day within
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  • 165 1 Britain ready to expiodt A-bomb WASpiNGTON, Wed. ]L|R. Michael McDer*™mott, State Department spokesman, confirmed last night that Britain had raised the possibility of exploding an atom bomb m the United States. He said inquiries were first made four months ago but the British authorities had' since decided that for the
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  • 67 1 LONDON, Wer. The Queen last night gave her lint formal audience to the Prime Minister. Mr. Churchill. Normally the Premier i* received by the Sovereign once a week while Parliament is sitting. Mr. Churchill welcomed the Queen back to England when she arrived from Kenya last
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  • 492 2 dfkjdfjhdskdkdhfdd The eye-specialist lifted the bandage from the injured eye of the four-year-old girh and saw his problem. if he continued treating the damaged eye he might save it. But if treatment failed the other eye might be involved. Should he take that risk?
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  • 55 2 BABY ELVIRA WENT FROM MANILA TO U.S. FOR OPERATION Looking around with interest once more is little Elvira Difutorun, of Manila, the child who was flown to San Francisco for an operation to have pins which she had swallowed removed after Manila Hospital announced that it hadn't An instrument small
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  • 896 2 If a fracture is suspected ****Says the*** Singapore Doctor 'THE human body is strong but there are limits to the strain that can be imposed upon it. When a strain is greater the 'body can withstand, bones break at the weakest or most exposed
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  • 525 2  - Novae (New Stars) Blaze and Fade F.J.ACFIELD A spell of brightness then they go dim again, says NEWCASTLE. FOR hundreds of years men have noted when new stars have blazed forth m the heavens, but until recently little has been known about them. Such stars are known to the astronomer
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    • 196 2 ARTIE'S HEADLINE Here's your tea and paper, sir." Solution To Crossword No. 583 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 3, Search. 7, Warrant. 8, O. Henry. 9, Caviare. 11, Stellate. 14, Pastimes. 18, Tadpole. 19, Animus. 20, Doormat. 21, Deepen. Down: 1, Carat. 2, Orris. 3, Snore. 4, Ethelred.s, Runway. 6, Hoyden. 10,
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  • 365 3 Move against drunk drivers LONDON, Wednesday. nKI \KFS motorists, road hogs and jay-walkers 1; re c »mm? under the lash of Britain's national rtss < -impaign for safer reads. Road accidents ndjv bi news ta Britaill Si m**tas ago, !L V u«>uld not have
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  • 95 3 YOLENE MARRIES DEAD MAN PARIS. Wed. 4S ntractive French girl, Voitne Bardin, has narrifd a dead man. Frt-nch law permits it. Volene a^d 2t-y«Mr-«ld army sergeant Jacqaes Gumeau became engaged vthen he wis on leave 18 months a?o. Thry decided to marry by po>t after Jacques went back to Indo-China.
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  • 212 3 LONDON, Wed BRITAIN has 100,000 back garden tooacco growers, i .nuke at Bd. an Mr. Ronald Duncan Royal Society of A. Ljndon. M: Duncan, who grows tobacco :n Devon, was a pioneer o: thii revived home indus*j The 1951 crop of tobacw gravers m
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  • 80 3 Tidy, black and white cat, belonging to Mrs. Amy Palmer, of Suffolk, Is believed to be Britain's first "guide cat". Mrs. Palmer, who lives alone, said recently: "I had Tidy as a kitten, and from the first he seemed to understand my blindness. He guides me
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  • 27 3 Prime Minister. Ml. Nehru's sister and India's former Ambassador to the United States, lira. VUayalakshmi Pandit, has been elected overwhelmingly to the Indian Parliament.- A.P.
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  • 147 3 NEW YORK, Wed. NUNIR Burshan, the Parliamentary Secretary of Libya, says he cannot tell the difference between men and women m the United States. The 53-year-old former newspaperman is here to study the American way of life, culture, economy and government. He said,
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    156 3 The Mddiagr: Soittk West North East ART. Pus 3N.T\ Alt Pass WEST opeiiea the diamond queen. But i with the seven, and overtook the next lead of the Jack with, the king. Sooth waited for the third round tn taka. Ida ace. tewJBKMMte one goad play. Sooth P*
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  • 24 3 Siamese sailors an taught *y U.S. Navy pemonel how to man a 40 m.m. anti-aircraft gun aboard the Siamese Navy frigate T&chin.
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  • 298 3 ALDERMASTON, Wednesday. I>OYS freed from school will shortly begin training °as future atom scientists at Aldermaston, Britain's biggest, latest and most hush-hush atom plant. Tfcey have been handpicked from applicants answering newspaper advertisements for craftsmen apprentices, and for their five years' training; they will be voluntary prisoners.
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  • 48 3 Russia has vetoed Italy's application for membership m the United Nations Organisation. This is the ninth veto the Soviet delegate has cast m the Security Council. Soviet delegate Mr. Malik voted "No" to a French resolution calling for the admission of Italy.- A .P.
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  • 19 3 Japanese merchant ships will shortly resume calling at Marseilles. They have not called there sfree 1940.— A.F.P.
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  • 217 3 HE TOOK POCKET BAND TO KOREA HONG KONG, Wed. WHEN Larry Adler, a top- flight musician, who carries what -passes for an orchestra around m his pocket, went to Korea to entertain U.N. troops, he set something of a record. 0 Adler. a harmonicist, gave 108 shows m less than
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  • 56 3 Jeeps are among equipment of the latest motorised expedition to leave Perth on a dingo (Australian wild dog) hunt. The party carries a radio transmitter and will link up with the route of a previous foray. The Agriculture Protection Board organised the expend!tion to reduce
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  • 29 3 Proposals for the conclusion of a treaty of amity and commerce between India and West Germany have been accepted m principle by the two governments.- A.F.P.
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  • 191 3 He listened in to tax man 's talk LONDON, Wednesday. A YOUNG Oxford undergraduate told the magistrate at Mansion House that he listened behind a door to an interview between his father— accused of tax fraud— and an Inland Revenue man. It was said that Abraham Pchedborsky. owner of a
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  • 24 3 Six boys aged about 10 lost their live* m a fire at the Seafield Towers Convalescent Home m Ardrossan. Scotland.
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  • 44 3 The Tasmanian Education Department bat abolished the normal high school examination system m 194f and replaced it with-a system of accreditation Knowledge and ability are assessed orer a year's work tnstrad of on the results of a few weeks' cramming. Reuter
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  • 41 3 The Federal Blew of investigation has unearthed new evidence which proves the Dollar Shipping Interests made an outright transfer to 1938 of 92 per cent of the voting stock of Its steamship interests, now the American President Lines! A.P.
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  • 9 3 Dr. Henry Drydale Dakin, 61, London-born research
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  • 341 3 HEADS ROLL AS- TOKYO, Wednesday. DEAD 6 are rolling m all Government departments 11 here following the worst year of Government corruption and embezzlement m Japanese history. Even so, no one seriously believes that all corrupt officials can be ferreted out and successfully purged. Under
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  • 140 3 LONDON, Wed. NEW and lucrative source of income for the forgers are old maps. In the last few yean of sale of colourful maps of the English counties m days gone by has become a sizeable trade, and the maps are m great demand among collectors
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  • 31 3 Greece Is about to send a military mission to Ankara for talks with the Turkish General Staff on the two nations' role m the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. A.P.
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  • 571 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. Feb. 13, 1952. China policy MR. John Foster Dulles says that the United States should "make clear our determination not to allow the mainland of China to remain under Chinese Communist control In the long run you cannot keep an absolute barrier between Japan and
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  • 1132 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK: Pi* Britain is engaged m a dollar drive here I haven't seen it. There is perhaps a lethargic dollar "crawl" meandering along; but that won't reap the American currency. When the pound sterling was devalued over two years ago there were stirrings and signs of
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  • 379 4  - ZONK. ..IT'S THE NEW RHYTHM EDWARD BISHOP says yONK and Saba-Saba. Ever heard these words? I doubt it. I heard them for the first time last week when I talked with John Grenf ell Williams, the 8.8.C. Chief of Broadcasting for the Colonial Empire, who has been to Africa to
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  • 918 4  - Cortot to Give Recital in S'pore PRESTO MUSIC TOPICS BY /^ORTOT, famous French pianist, is to play m Singapore m November. The exact dates depend on the arrangements his agent is now making for a Far East tour. But before Cortot we shall hear another famous pianist, Jan Smeterlin, who
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  • 202 4 v Haydn: Symm m phiay No. 94 fm T JT "Surprise") Roj/MWr y* l PWlhmrOne of Haydn's most popular symphonies beautifully played by a conductor with a natural feeling for the music. The recording is for the most part extremely clear and the string tone f —except m
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  • 86 5 Office-bearers of the Geylang Methodist Youth Fellowship for 1952 are:— president: Mr. Chew Kam Chong; Secretary: Mr. Yeo Miang Chew; Asst. Secretary: Miss Tay Ngiat Fan; Treasurer: Miss Laura Tan; Chairman, Ist Commission: Miss Yeo Kirn Bee; 2nd Commission: Mr. Lai Huat Teck; (Vice) Miss Nancy Ng;
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  • 100 5 Govt screens these teachers TH E Singapore Education Department was taking strict precautions to ensure that no Chinese language teacher with Communist sympathies is employed m English schools, Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt, Chief Inspector of Chinese Schools, said yesterday. All teachers are screened before being employed and the records of
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  • 44 5 SINGAPORE City Council has asked the British Treasury to send an official to Singapore to advise the Council on the reorganisation of the secretariat. The Singapore Improvement Trust may also get his services, if the Treasury agrees to the proposal.
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  • 242 5 City Councillors comment on Dr. Hill 's report Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Councillors yesterday agreed with many of the recommendations of Dr. L. C. Hill, the special commissioner appointed by the Government to study the working of local government m the Colony. They,
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  • 54 5 Free Press Stall Reporter ALL Chinese Buddhist temples and monasteries m Singapore will be asked by the Singapore Buddhist Federation to hold memorial services on Friday, the day of the King's funeral. This wa s decided yesterday at a meeting of the Federation, presided over by
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  • 45 5 The C.V.M.A. Dramatic Circle of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Tank Road, Singapore, will hold a concert at the Victoria Theatre on April 25 and 27. The proceeds will be donated to the Home for the Aged, Thomson Road.
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  • 129 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Council for Adult Education will use paraffin lamps to run their classes during blackouts. "We have bought about 80 lamps," Mr. P. K. Hernon, organising secretary of the Council, said yesterday. A suggestion that flourescent battery lamps at $50 each
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  • 27 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed The Bishop of Singapore, the Right Rev H. W. Baines. took the Evensong service at St. Christopher's Church, Johore Bahru, on Sunday.
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  • 95 5 A SINGAPORE court of inquiry into the stranding of the motor ship Torina on a reef off Pulau Manis on December 19 has censured the master. Captain J B Tunbridge. The court, which issued its findings yesterday, censured him for not exercising more caution on two
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    48 5 picture. MR. O. J. NEGAARD, who has been acting manager of the American President Lines, Singapore branch, with Mr. S. P. Healey, who has just returned from long leave m the U.S.A. They are seen here discussing the ships due m Singapore m the immediate future.- Free Press
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  • 124 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN appeal for more Malay women to come forward to become nurses and midwives was made by Dr. S. H. Al-junied, a lecturer m the St. John Ambulance Brigade, m a broadcast last night. He said that those who worked
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  • 23 5 PARK OPENED BENTONG, Wed.— Mrs. R. Gibstm wife of the District Officer^ Bentong, declared open the $60,000 Bentong Amusement Park last Wed* nesday.
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  • 30 5 MISS RUTH FISCHER, a j fnrmpr ftertnan Commu- has asfced a Singapore I Labour Leeislative Councillor. Miss Fischer, formerly chairman of the central corn-
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  • 109 5 /CORPORAL Motiamed Said \j bin Salleh. a special constable, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Singapore Third District Judge. Mr. S. E. Teh, yesterday for giving false evidence. He gave notice of appeal, and was offered $5,000 bail. Mohamed Said was stated to have told
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  • 90 5 The following ace the office bearers of the Tamil Brother, hood Association. Singapore, for the year:— Patrons: Messrs. K. Jagatheesan, 8. R. p. Naidu and 8. L. perum&i; president: Mr. W. uamodaram Pillal; vice-preswent: Mr. R. Rajagopal Pillai; secretary: Mr/J. Sarangapany; treasiirer: Mr. M. Rathakrlsnnfan; sports secretarjr; Bfr.
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  • 11 5 A Russian flitting fleet Is expected m Singapore tomorrow.
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  • 163 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Government yesterday came into line with the Federation Government and prohibited any further direct imports from Japan of cameras, camera accessories, gramophones, fountain pens and pencils, cigarette lighters and vacuum flasks. The reason It is officially i stated, is
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  • 182 5 JJEAVY rain kept people away from last night's Victoria Hall recital by Germaine Mounier but fortunately for those who did attend it did not damp the ardour of this spirited French pianist. There was an attack and an easy confidence about Mile Mounter's performance that gave her
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  • 101 5 SEREMBAN, Wed. A DECISION to approach A the Negri Sembilan State Government for representation m the State CoimcU, Town Board and other public bodies "until such time an electoral system is introduced" was reached at Monday's meeting of the Negri Sembilan Divisional Committee of the Malayan Trade Union
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  • 87 5 I"HE Johore Commissioner for Lands, Mr. J. K. Creer, said yesterday that the cheque for $5,000,000 paid to the Sultan of Johore by the Federation Government was for 1,492 acres of land. Of this, about 674 acres were wanted for the University of Malaya site. Total
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  • 54 5 The Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple at Ceylon Road, Singapore, will be lit up and a special light, "Moksha Deepa", (light of Heaven) will also be lit, on Friday, the day of the King's funeral. According to Ceylon Hindus, this Is for the glory and happiness
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  • 105 5 $*****0 grant for free books Free Press SUIT Reporter A SUM of $100,000 has been granted to the Singapore Education Department for the supply of free books to poor children m English schools, Mr. R. M. Young, the Deputy Director of Education, said yesterday. A scheme for the purpose has
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  • 144 5 Free Pres s Staff Reporter KOH ENG THIAM, who was charged at the Singapore Assizes with another Chinese with robbing a Chinese shopkeeper at the sth milestone. Thomson Road, on the night of Sept. 11, was found guilty yesterday and sentenced to six years' Imprisonment. Koh
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  • 59 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed The Muar branch of the Independence of Malaya Party is planning a big reception for Dato Onn bin Jaflfar when he visitg the town on Friday. Dato Onn will address a meeting there. There will be a cocktail party m his honour
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  • 1146 6 Second spotlight on Britain's fake fortune-tellers m an investigation by JACK THOMAS girl I'm going to call Elsie Manners is a typist. A few months ago, she had a nice little nestegg m the bank. Now, she's broke, and at that, she
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  • 631 6  -  Nigel Bramley by fHEY are reckless, impulsively generous, temjjeramental, proud, sensitive, headstrong, indiscreet, intelligent, aggressive, strong-minded, brave and dominant. They fall m and out of love with unusual faciUty. They film weU but televise badly. They resist anaesthetics longer than others. They are more susceptible to
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    39 6 London Zoo tigress Pauline introduces her 13-week-old Pamela f Ot t h P Pamela puts on that "Mischievous? Who, mcV look. Pamela has a sister cai^TS^ and between the two of them, keeping order is a full-time-job m p^'
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  • 27 6 London Airport boat the capital's busies) terminus las! year. [1 bar.ced 796.000 passengers rpared wi:h 75:1.000::- NortWl further from the centre I the city- Reuter
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  • 421 7 Buxton retires with cut eye R\NDOLPH Turpin, the British, Empire and former world middleweight boxing champion, beat Alex Buxton of Hertfordshire at Harringay Arena, London last night Buxton retired at the end of the seventh round with a cJt eye. With his face smothered m
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  • 312 7 Melbourne fights for Olympics \USTRALIAN sportsmen are anxiously wondering whe(bei Melbourne will lose the 1&56 Olympic games as a renM of an unfavourable deefekn a- the Oslo meeting of the International Olympic Committee yesterday. Tr. r Sydney Sun said all i. issies noped the Games c -ild be >tased m
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  • 184 7 SINGAPORE Amateur Footbail Association youth -petition begins on Mar. 1, kb Kota Raja meet Scran--Boon English School. Ail matches will be played Jj Ja.-n Besar Stadium and tne ku-k-off will be at 4 p.m. would there be a clash of [J«S, first-named teams ■«1 supplied
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  • 46 7 S.B .A. MEETING TOMORROW 1^ 1 mmiu ©I tins uewlyu.e £L anagem committee jI t*n a c Badminton Associah^nf »t 7. Bonham lhe m ll 515 P- m tomorrow. c '*£f s lor the *»t Thomas *Hpv Wor2 Pl yed at World on Peb 24 39
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  • 275 7 WEST Indies beat New Zealand by five wickets with over three hours to spare on the last day of the first Test m Christchurch. Set to get 139 to win. West Indies made 142 for five wickets, Frank Worrell carrying his bat for 62.
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    7 7 RANDOLPH TURPlN— found Buxton elusive.
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  • 180 7 SCC v. Fiji Regt next week rpHE seven-a-side rugby competition organised by the Singapore Cricket Club will be resumed on Saturday on the Padang at 3.50 p.m. The tourney was suspended last week upon the announcement of the death of King George VI. The postponed fixture between the Fiji Regt.
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  • 67 7 Twe.ity-one nations will take part m the first Asian table tennis championships which will be held m Si-gapore m Novemb?r, the I.T.T.E. announced m Bombay on Monday. The Maharajah ot Baroda, a well-known sportsman, has been elected president of the Federation. Two of the five
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  • 23 7 Johnny Squires, 51-jear-oid former heavy-weight ooxing champion of South Africa, died at nis home near Johannes oui; j lest Saturday.- A.P.
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  • 155 7 pNTRIEb are now open tor the first swimming gala of the Teacners Training College to be held at the Chinese Swimming Club on Saturday. March 8. at 2.30 p.m. The events are: Men: 50m. freestyle. 100 m. freestyle. 200 m. freestyle, 400 m. freestyle, 100 m.
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  • 161 7 »pHE Winter Olympic Games' opening skiing events, scheduled for tomorrow, may have to be postponed due to lack of snow. The Winter Olympics Organising Committee said a decision would be made today whether the downhill and slalom skiing events can be run off as scheduled at Norefjell.
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  • 119 7 A TITLE shot may go to the winner of tonight's Rocky Marclano-Lee Savold bout m Philadelphia, promoter Herman Taylor indicated after a telephone convenation with Jim Norrift, President of the International Boxing Club. scheduled for today. It was indicated m the telephone conversation that either Marciano or SavQld would
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  • 54 7 pONSTANTIN Adiiarov, Prey sident of the Soviet Union Olympic Committee, has arrived at Oslo to attend the International Olympic Committees Congress. He confirmed that Russia wculd compete m the sumi,/;- Olympics m Helsinki— not m all events, he said, but at least m track and field,
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  • 225 7 Ipoh gallops From ALLAN LEWIS gATAVIA (Bagby) gal- loped brilliantly m Ipoh this morning, when he reeled off three m 37, from the five to the two-furlong post. Batavia showed promise m nis first race at-- Singapore some months ago, but when neayily backed
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  • 23 7 G.H.Q. Signal Regiment will play the Fiji Regiment at soccer this evening at Tanglin Barracks starting at 5.15 p.m.
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  • 40 7 The Royal Singapore Golf Club's women's February medal (bogey; competition resulted m a win for Mrs. R. Craik m "A" division, for Mrs. L. H. Robftison m "B" division and for Mrs. F. J. lies m "C" division.
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  • 25 7 Kota Raja Sports Club will meet Pathui Karib S.C. m a friendly soccer match at the P. and T. ground Serancoon Road, today.
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  • 80 7 picture Seventeen-year-old British champion, Michael Carrington, will represent his country m the solo figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games m Oslo this week. Michael, who has been skating since the age of nine, is considered the best male skater m Europe. He is the first man
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  • 99 7 rpHE Sheffield Shield match between Queenslani and South Australia ended m. an, exciting draw m Brisbane yesterday At the close Que^n&land still needed five rung for victory with their last pair at the wicket. Queensland took first innings points. South Australia, 325 for 9 overnight m their
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  • 203 7 Sedgman and Clark in pairs final SELECTED and prominent players are now meeting m the Asian Tennis Championships at Colombo. At the present rate of play the tournament should be over by Sunday. Frank Sedgman, Australian No. 1, and straight Clark of the U.S. reached the final of the men's
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  • 51 7 A RGENTINE swimmer Adenor Alfredo Gauna swam the A Lappate River from Uruguay to Argentine —on Monday as a tribute to President and Mrs. Peron. H e covered the 25 miles from Colonia m Uuruguay to Punta Lara m Argentina In 22 hrs. 54 mins.-
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  • 225 7 BOOS, CATCALLS WHEN HUMEZ WINS FRANCE'S promising 1 young welterweight Charles Humez won an unpopular 10-round decision last night over Norman Hayes of Boston, who outclassed him most of the way. Humez weighed 155 Ib. and Hayes 159 Ib. The 34-year-old Frenchman won the nod despite two knockdowns one for
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  • 32 7 Yesterday's UK. Poo 4 ball Results: Scottish Leafue "B" Div.— Clyde 5 For far Athletic 1. <This match was postponed last Saturday, Feb. 9, owing to Scottish Cup matches) Reuter
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  • 28 7 The Spoon Shoot for members of the Singapore Rifle Association which was postponed recently, will be held at Seletar Range on Sunday at 8.30 a.m.
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  • 29 8 Wendell Phillips, American director of archeological excavations at Mareb m the interior of Yemen, is reported to have been detained with three other members of his party.- U.P.
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  • 342 8 Could net help r«m«r« Li Mi troops LONDON, Wednesday. i A PROPOSAL by Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, m the House of Coijimons, that a United Nations mission should investigate the activities of Chinese Nationalist guerillas m Burma has been rejected by
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  • 181 8 PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday. A LIGHTED nre bomb, bearing a crudely drawn swastika, was found at the side of the door of the West Philadelphia Synagogue yesterday. Police said it may have been the work of a reported Hitler youth movement The "Molotov cocktail" with its wick
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  • 128 8 LONDON. Wed SEVEN miles over Britain, a four-engine jet research plane is making high-speed flights to test a new radio automatic navigator. The navigator, the Decca flight log, shows the pilot the position of his plane on amap and automatically draws m its
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  • 34 8 The Nippon Times of TQkyo yesterday quoted the bead of the Japanese secret service as saying that Communists m Japan were forming secret military committees to carry out an armed uprising.- A.P
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  • 190 8 TOKYO, Wed. JJEAVY United Nations artillery and mortar fire took a toll of Communists who broke the battlefield lull m Korea yesterday with a snowstorm assault on Allied positions. The Bth Army claimed 96 Communists killed and 130 wounded m the heaviest action this month
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  • 267 8 HOLLYWOOD, Wednesday. rPHE movie world today learns the names of hope- f ills for Hollywood's annual Oscar derby and it shapes up as a wide open race. Only Vivien Leigh, who played the Southerner m "A Streetcar Named Desire", appeared to be a favourite among
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  • 38 8 A new Japanese* Public Security Investigation" Bureau to be run along the lines of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, will comprise 6,000 men, according to a plan adopted by the Jaoanese I Government.- AFP
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  • 47 8 POSTER RATTLE IN 'NOOPLA' DEMONSTRATORS for Senator Robert A. Taf t ran into some opposition at the recent Republican rally m Washington. Followers of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower enter the 'hoopla* with "We Want Ike" signs. The battle of the signs is m progress m the picture.
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  • 166 8 'Malaya faces long struggle' LONDON, Wed. THE Archbishop of York, Dr. 1 Cyril Garbett, said m a broadcast here last night he did not believe the Malayan terrorists can be suppressed quickly and suddenly." "There Is still a long struggle ahead/ he added. Dr. Garbett returned to England on January
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  • 13 8 An official Japanese industrial mission is to visit India shortly.- AFP
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