The Singapore Free Press, 14 February 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press The Singapore Free Press ARGEST Nft 18,313. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    FREE TEMPLER'S HAND
    481 1 Short circuit the Sultans States call fWO of London's leading newspapers, the Times and the Daily Telegraph, suggested yesterday that the High Commissioner for the Federation, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, should be given even wider powers than he has. The Times said Gen. Tempter still has to
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    T.U.C. to call for higher
    186 1 LONDON, Thurs. pM] jiiomic Commit--1 ol the Trades Congress is to hat bigger food mbsi m a and a sixpenny n crease m the standard rate of income nx to ten shillings m :nd— be included i: Mr R. A. Butler/s Mir 4 budget, usually
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    THE HUSSARS ARE HERE
    39 1 rrw P staff Reporter T ops of the 13/18 Husi rived m Singapore Hogs Kong on the pshlp Lancashire this tag for duty m the Pc ration. on board were a num- tronos returning to
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    SUNSPOT SEEN
    22 1 nspot of moderate ns reported yesteria expected to prolong ri id of bad radio condi- until about Feb. 22 Reuter
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    Young on the way
    59 1 riOLONEL A. E. Young, \j Commissioner of the City of London Police who is taking over police administration m Malaya, left London by air for Malaya yesterday. Colonel Youne said: "I hope to be of some use to Malaya. My brief is to do what I
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    5 Chinese held on suspicion
    84 1 Free Press Staff Reporter T^ETECTTVES on rounds m m Syed Alwi Road, Singapore, at 4.15 a.m. today arrested five Chinese who were acting suspiciously. Seven rolls of cloth were m their possession. Later, Yau Whye Mun, a tailor, of Jalan Besar, reported at the Kandang
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    A-Bomb is ahead of schedule
    152 1 LONDON, Thursday. WORK on Britain's first atom bomb is pushing ahead so quickly that the money is running out, and an additional £800.000 is wanted. The Ministry 01 ouypiy, the Government Department responsible for making the bonb. asked Parliament yesterday for this £800,000 m addition
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    Camel carts for welcome
    69 1 KARACHI. Thurs. THE US. delegate to the United Nations, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, will be received by a procession of 60 camel carts when she arrives m Karachi airport on Feb. 20. Begum LiaQ\iat All Khan, President of the All-Pakistan Women's Association, will deliver a speech of
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    FAROUK HAS TALK WITH U.K. ENVOY
    175 1 FAROUK HAS TALK WITH U.K. ENVOY CAIRO, Thurs.; tTING Farouk yesterday j gave an audience to i the British Ambassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson. The Ambassador was summoned by the King at Abdin Palace. The audience lasted 45 minutes. Observers believed it was connected with the forthcoming attempts to resume Anglo-Egyptian
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    MADRAS FREES ITS REDS
    42 1 The Madras Government yesterday released 106 Communists, already on parole for the Indian general election, held under the "Preventive Detention Act." The Communists gained 61 seats m the 375-member Madras assembly, emerging as the second biggest party.— Reuter
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    BARKLEY BETTER
    26 1 The U.S. Vice-president, Mr. Alban W. Barkley, who underwent an eye operation last Thursday, expects to leave hospital m about a week A .P.
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    Lying in State
    23 1 THE KING lying m state m Westminster Hall, London, Yeomen of the Guard stand m silent vigil with reversed halberds.
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    'NO STRENGTH WITHOUT U.S. AID'
    157 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN told Congress yesterday that he believed the United States and its allies had provided the "essential base on which the free world can complete the structure of invincible mutual defence*'. He said that other nations "cannot build the strength needed for
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    MEMORIAL SERVICE
    21 1 A memorial service for the Ring will be held at St. Christopher's Church, Johore Bahru, at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow.
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    PLAN FOR DOCTORS STUDIED
    166 1 PLAN FOR DOCTORS STUDIED Free Press Staff Reporter T&E principles underlying the proposed scheme for a Unified Health Service m Singapore, about which the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, made a statement at the December meeting of the Legislative Council, are now being considered by the Executive Council, says
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    Truman lags in paper vote
    42 1 PHILADELPHIA, Thurs. SENATOR Robert Taft, Republican, Ohio, finished ahead of Oen. Dwight Eisenhower* m a Presidential preference poll conducted by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Final figures also showed Senator Estes Kefauver (Democrat, Tennessee), finishing ahead of President Truman.
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    TUNIS FEARS GENERAL STRIKE
    115 1 TUNIS. Thurs.. t AN UNDISCLOSED number 6t French paratroopers and special security guards lamed yesterday at the port of Sfax amid growing rum' measures were being taken i and the population was stocking provisions for the weekend. Tunisia spent another quiet day with jHily two j
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    London fills with guests for funeral
    329 1 London fills with guests for funeral LONDON, Thursday. KINGS AND PRINCES, Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and statesmen from all over the world arrived m London yesterday m readiness for tomorrow's state funeral of the King. Among yesterday's arrivals were the Kings of Greece and Sweden, the Duke of Windsor, and
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    Peace pact sought
    39 1 The Communist Government of East Germany last night submitted to the four occupying powers a demand for a peace treaty for a unified nation, declaring it Is the only, way to "preserve peace" m Europe. A.P.
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    Malaya to take part
    81 1 LONDON* Tburs. rE Governments of Singapore and *M Federation of Malaya will 1 be represented at the funeral of the King tomorrow by Sir Shenton Thomas, former Governor of the Strait! Settlements, and Sir Alexander Newboult. former Chief Secretary of the Federation. Hone Kong will be
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    NATO POST URGED FOR MOUNTBATTEN
    121 1 NATO POST URGED FOR MOUNTBATTEN LISBON, Thurs. TSRITAIN was understood to be pressing last night for the appointment of Admiral Earl Mountbatten as Commander of the Atlantic Pact naval forces m the Mediterranean. It was felt that a Briton should be considered for a top NATO naval position since United
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    Bringing back Africa 'Alive'
    833 2  -  GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON Urn month I LNDER REVIEW to VENTURE TO THE INTERIOR by Laurens van der Post. Hogarth Press. VAN DER POST left London Airport one May morning m 1949. He had an assignation with a mountain m Central Africa. The mountain soars into the
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    REDS LIKE CHURCHILL MEMOIRS
    248 2 REDS LIKE CHURCHILL MEMOIRS WINSTON Churchill's memoirs and Jame's Burnham's "Strategy of the Cold War" are among the books most asked for by East Germans who come to Berlin for an occasional glimpse of life. Western style. A special library containing 4,500 volumes of the best and latest Western literature,
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    'IN THE BAG' HORRORS
    235 2 A MALAYAN WAR STORY (THE NAKED ISLAND. Russell Braddon). JWS is the fullA length story of the Malayan campaign and subsequent captivity from the private soldier's angle. The author was one of those thousands who suffered the mental and physical agony endured m a Japanese p.o.w.
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    They saw the 'Abominable Snowman'
    483 2  - They saw the 'Abominable Snowman' R. Satakopan By 'THE "Abominable Snowman", the terrifying half -human creature believed to live m the Upper Himalaya regions has been seen many times by villagers, says Miss Slade, former Gandhi disciple and daughter of an English admiral. Writing m the "Hindustan Times" Miss Slade,
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    13 2 A line of drummers from the Royal Marine band on board H.M.S. Vanguard.
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    A Religious Blackmailer
    142 2 JOHN EVELYN AND MRS. GODOLPHIN. By VI. G. Hiscock. Macmillan. WHAT a strange love affair is revealed by Mr. Hiscock's researches among the letters of John Evelyn (famous diarist of Charles ll's time) to Margaret Blagge. Evelyn, long disliked for his virtues, pretended to be delighted when
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    Suitor to the Lady with a Lamp
    656 2 Suitor to the Lady with a Lamp under review Peter Quennell reviews the story of Squire Milnes Monkton Milnes; The Flight of Youth, by James Pope-Hennessy. (Constable). fpHE feelings with 1 which we read the biography of a really great man sometimes recall the emotions with which we contemplate the
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    Quick Looks
    99 2 H? x flam/ worst i mitU t > intoU father >i Pit.' c mar,., m J Ambitious i I Internaticval V i and a rath bone coZot r. Johns: n M I A long, >} *urabh ritte, >S a young cv the Vktc I; and o/ he bears
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      133 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR QOftft today, new Mess are definitely your meat! You are a progressive and are always happiest when stirring ap a discussion af some kind. In tact, sometimes It seems aa yon get Into aa argument Mat for the fan you get f rem opposite side of ••jU-lng!
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    2 MIL. WILL QUIT IF LONDON ATTACKED
    226 3 2 MIL. WILL QUIT IF LONDON ATTACKED 1939's mistakes to be avoided LONDON, Thursday. IF war comes about 2,000,000 people will be eva- cuated from London "m the early stages", and some 2,500,000 from other British towns and cities, Mr. Ernest Marples, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and
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    35 3 SUE CARSON, U.S. actress, brought her parka" alone when she went to London to appear m "Peep Show" at the Prince of Wales Theatre. She wanted to be sure of keeping out the British chill.
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    New blow by US at drugs traffic
    181 3 New blow by US at drugs traffic 7, SHI NGTON Thurs. I CHER and tougher blow A being aimed at the racket. already by <Aveeping raids reported!? have cut c addition m half, by itrifrwig at sources of rather than at pedc measures will make IS, banks and in...paries responsible
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    Passengers pay ransom to pirates
    124 3 Passengers pay ransom to pirates TAIPEH, Thurs. DASSENGERS contributed gold and valuables as ransom money to 40 armed Chinese pirates who held up the 3,560-ton British steamer Wing Sang m the Formosa Straits, her British master, Captain Stanton, has disclosed here. Captain Stanton said they were released when the Wing
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    50,000 MILES FOR HOBBY
    39 3 Et-Dorn Milorad Hait- /....:::s :o have walk-i-biked, flown and miles to fill his With 30.000 autoi .vjrld fiaures. vanta to collect naturea m WashingH Uywood, but the States Immigration rave rejected his a A. P.
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    CAPITAL SOUGHT
    27 3 Plans are underway to change Japanese law so that foreign investors will be encouraged to bring capital into Japan. Finance Minister, Mr. H. Ikeda, said.
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    ISLAMIC CONFAB
    25 3 The ex-Mufti of Jerusalem Haji mm El Husseni arrived m Karachi by air from Cairo to attend a conference of Islamic scholars. Reuter
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    CONTROLSMAY STAY
    21 3 CONTROLS MA Y STAY President Truman has asked Congress for a two year extension of price and wage controls until mid-1954.
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    SICK GIRL GETS CHANCE TO LIVE
    158 3 ATLANTA, Thursday. T ITTLE Pam Andrews, stricken with a brain V disease called "seemingly hopeless" by doctors, has boarded a plane for a Denver sanitarium and a hoped-for cure after friends and neighbours raised $3,100 to finance the trip. The 21-month-old baby, daughter of
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    Burmese police seize gold bars
    44 3 Burmese police have seized gold bars worth about R5.200,000, smuggled from Hong Kong to Rangoon m battery cells. Police who hav e arrested a Chinese merchant said the bars coated with rice husks wpr P placed m zinc cells
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    PACT APPROVED
    19 3 The Chamber of Dpn«"es a* Cairo has approved a treaty of frtendshto bptwpen Egypt and Pakistan Reuter
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    'Red hot momma' comes back
    148 3 'Red hot momma' comes back LONDON, Thurs. SOPHIE Tucker, the 68-year-old "Red Hot Momma," is coming to Britain again m the spring. She satis from New York on April 8 and is expected m England on the nth for an appearance m London and a provincial tour. If her reception
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    GOLD WORTH $25,000 STOLEN
    46 3 Gold valued at $25,000 was stolen from the Aunor gold mine, Ontario, by bandits who tied up three workmen and left them outdoors m 18 degrees below zero temperature. It was the fifth theft m the Porcupine district m 18 months. U.P.
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    DAMASCUS VISIT
    11 3 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is expected m Damascus tomorrow. A.P.
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    Still the best seller
    89 3 LONDON. Thurs. /CHURCH attendances may \j not be what they were, but nothing seems to affect the steady increase m the number of Bibles produced by the British and Foreign Bible Society Last year it turned out 1,470,291 Bibles, the highest total yet. Including New Testaments
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    SHE WAS SPOILT BY NIGHT LIFE, SAID MOTHER
    272 3 SHE WAS SPOILT BY NIGHT LIFE, SAID MOTHER .LONDON, Thursday. A £20,000 heiress, 41-year-old Mrs. Frances Helen Adelaide Bertram, of Mayfair, was granted an absolute discharge at the Old Bailey after admitting obtaining £485 by forging the name of her 85-year-old mother on cheques. Her mother was described as v
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    Europe forces will be less
    68 3 LISBON, Tiiurs. THE Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has accepted proposals modifying the long-term plans for building up Supreme Commander General Eisenhower's forces m Europe, an authoritative source said. But the Committee decided that the Atlantic Council must be warned of the
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    PERON ACTS
    30 3 President Juan Peron has ordered the freezing of all prices after his economic advisers had reduced those which had risen un reasonably*' m the past two years.- Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 14, 1952. The Hill Report
    506 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 14, 1952. The Hill Report DR. L. C. Hill came to this Colony on the Government's invitation to "investigate the I whole question of local government m Singapore": He spent some months seeking factual information and studying the background, a few more months putting
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    HERR BORMANN WHAT NEXT
    772 4 Is Hitler's deputy, Martin Bormann, alive or dead? In Germany says Antony Terry* they have no doubt, and they ask rkNCE again the name of Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy, is cropping up m Europe; again the stories that he did not die m the blazing ruins
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    It Seems To Me...
    568 4  -  POLITICO "*m|iiiiAiMM| lJ3 JLJR Winston Churchill's eyes were streaming with tears as he waited at London airport for Queen Elizabeth's tragic homecoming and all the photographs received from London testify to his undisguised emotion at the passing of the Mr. Churchill has a capacity for tears
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    NEW FLAG STRUCK
    36 4 A new flag is struck on Victoria Tower of the Houses of Parliament, London, to mark the end of the Christmas recess. The fla* is a nine foot by 18 foot storm flag
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    Grannies Rush For Smugglers' Express
    750 4  -  Guy Waller From Belfast to Eire three times a week says who finds himself all aboard for anything he fancies from nylons and watches to butter and tobacco. THERE is a "contrax band express" which leaves Belfast at least three times a week. It is
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    Britain's First Jet Loco.
    337 4 Britain's First Jet Loco. "I s wio^: T as able and aT^t as driving a iS veteran etud^ Frederick JJ stepped out of t" :i V w N ***** S^ form No. 4 p*dington Station^trial run recnuf^ SCSI- H bine railway enoir, s will r un on theL^L^ terj, Re
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      45 4 TUp TIIACK Till IP Y'r-'z&j^^* rhe famous Horticultural Society of Haarlem one* EAT 5 was never claimed, of £8,000 for a Mack Tulip, This was during the "Tulip madness" of HoKand m the 17th century when fortunes ware made and lost m hHip bulbs. HI
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    'HEAR PEOPLE ON GRAFT' PLEA
    215 5 Two councillors say: 'Set up a committee 9 on™ I*** P 5 BSS Staff K«Porter JWU members of the Singapore Legislative Council, Mr. Lim Yew Hock and Dr. C. J. Paglar, yesterday suggested that a committee should be formed to hear public complaints of S^LJ
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    61 5 picture. THE O.C. Volunteer Police, <E' division, Mr. P. H. Hopkins, who is also the Swedish Consul m Singapore, yesterday led members of his division to the Blood Transfusion Centre at the General Hospital to donate blood. In the picture Dr. M. M. H. Gibson Hill and a Chinese assistant
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    DEBT IS A 'DISEASE' AMONG WORKERS
    180 5 DEBT IS A 'DISEASE' AMONG WORKERS INDEBTEDNESS Has beI ome a chronic disease among Singapore workers the Commissioner for Labour, Mr. G. W. Davis, said yesterday. He was commenting on the BO* of the Singapore Trade Union Congress to ask the Government to restrict and license moneylenders. Supporting the proposal
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    They're still celebrating New Year
    75 5 JVJANY Singapore Chinese girls working In joss paper factories have not turned up for work after the Chinese New Tear holidays, Mr. Tan Hock Chuan, manager of a joss paper manufacturing: concern, said yesterday. Mr. Tan believes that the girls have not completed their celebrations
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    'Home' gets a radio
    100 5 'Home' gets a radio JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs »pHE children of the State Welfare Home, Johore Bahru ,have been presented with a radio, the gift of the Pontian District Welfare Committee. Inche Abdullah bin Haji Sulaiman, District Officer, Pontian, who is also chairman of the District Welfare Committe, made the presentation
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    She is here on tour
    107 5 Free Press Staff Reporter nORMER pupils of the Con- vent of the Holy Infant Jesus, Singapore, have been requested to meet the Mother General of the Order of St. Maur from the Mother House m Paris at the Convent on Saturday, at 4 p.m. A
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    SERVICE AT CATHEDRAL
    42 5 A requiem memorial service will be held at St. Andrews Cathedral and Christ Church, Singapore, on Friday, the day of ttie King's funeral. The service will begin at B.a.m. at St. Andrews at 7.15 a.m. at the Christ Church.
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    NEW SECRETARY
    32 5 Mr. Peter G. P. Chew has resigned as secretary of the Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporter? Association to go into business. He is succeeded by Mr Lav Tew Hock
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    TANJONG PAGAR AREA TO GET A PARK
    137 5 TAN JONG PAGAR AREA TO GET A PARK SINGAPORE City Council intends to develop the remainder of the old railway cutting m Tanjong Pagai as a park this year, says Mr. W. Irving Watson. City Architect, m his annual report me paiK wiu extend from Peoples Park to the new
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    LECTURE
    29 5 A talk on "Full Employir.t;. will be given by Mr. E. Pereira at» the East-West Society meeting at the British C until Hall, Singapore, at 830 pan. today.
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    New class for adults
    88 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Council for Adult Education will start a class m April to teach appreciation of Chinese art, music and drama. The fee is 10 cents a month. The class will be conducted by Mr. Lee Siow Mong, of the China Society. The
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    Vans get new 'face'
    66 5 TWENTY-TWO mail vans 1 of the General Post Office, Singapore, are being given a new "face" following the death of the King and the accession of Queen Elizabeth. The vans, which used to bear the letters G.R. (George Rex) painted on them under a crown are
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    New residential area in city plan
    150 5 fITY Council is considering the desirability of safeguarding the north area of the city for residential development. Mr. W. Irving Watson, City) Architect, says m his annual report that the Council's building committee is considering this question. Mr. Watson says that plans for residential
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    Governor says thanks
    66 5 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, has written to thank the Friends of Singapore for their kind message of sympathy sent to the Royal Family on the King's death. KUMARI FRASSANA BALAN, will give a "pooja" aad plat« dance when Mr. Devdatta Jetley holds a recital
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    BIG DEMAND FOR QUEEN'S PICTURES
    60 5 THERE is a big demand for coloured portraits of the Queen. Singapore Public Relations Department, which has been giving them free to the public, has almost distributed its quota of 4,500 copies. The Queen's name was printed m English on 2,500 copies, m Chinese on
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    S'PORE YMCA MAY GET GIFTS FROM U.S.
    91 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ipHE Singapore Young Men's Christian Association may receive gifts m kind from the TTnitori States to be sold at a Oregon, Mr. John E. Merner, has written to the local association asking them what sort of things are needed,
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    CURFEWS CLOSE RURAL CINEMAS
    123 5 JOHOKE BAHRU, Thursday. piLMS are a rare entertainment for people living x m the rural areas of Johore. Because of curfew restrictions one can only see pictures if he is prepared to spend the night away from home. Cinemas In many small towns have closed down.
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    3 motions may cause row in council
    193 5 3 motions may cause row in council Free Press Staff Reporter WEDNESDAY'S session of the Singapore Legislative f f Council is likely to be a stormy one. Lively debates are expected on: the Bill amending the Trade Union Ordinance, loan for the proposed badminton hall, and a motion by Mr.
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    Rice exports: explanation
    112 5 ]yjR. W. W. Jenkins, Singapore's Food Controller, denied last night that rice brought into Singapore for local consumption was being exported. He was commenting on a statement by Mr. C. R. Dasathara Raj, Labour member for Rochore m the Legislative Council. Mr. Raj said: "I am surprised
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    MORE BUILDINGS GO UP IN S'PORE
    193 5 MORE BUILDINGS GO UP IN S'PORE Free Press Staff Reporter OUILDING development RM m Singapore last year showed a 17 per cent increase over 1950. There #ere 2,025 buildings under construction last year as compared with 1.727 m 1950. "The list of plans submitted m 1951 makes rather fascinating reading,"
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    COLONY YOUTH DOES WELL IN U.S.
    147 5 A SINGAPORE youth, now studying m the United States, has made a distinguished scholastic record and is now well on his way to becoming a physician. He is Albert Goh, of 255 Bukit Timah Road, who is a fourth year student m the School
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    SHUTTLE GIANTS CLASH IN TEST
    408 6 Thomas Cup selectors out By NETMAN MALAYA'S badminton giants, including world champion Wong Peng Soon, will be seen m action m Singapore Happy World Stadium on Sunday and Monday, Feb. 24 and 25. It will be a "clash of champions" for the men's singles and
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    Programme of champs.
    150 6 nrUE schedule for this "Programme of Champions" meet is: SUNDAY, FEB. 24. Singles: Wong Peng Soon (S-pore) Ooi Teik Hock (Penang); Ong Poh Lim (Spore) v Law Teik Hock (Penan* Tmn Jin Eonf (Perak) v A. Pirns (Selangor). Doubles: Ong Poh Lim mod Ismail Mar Jan (Spore)
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    Title defence by Turpin
    62 6 FORMER world middleweight champion Randolph Turpin's next fight will probably be the defence of his European title against Laurent Dauthuille of France. The site has not yet been decided. Jack Solomons, the London promoter, is still waiting for news following his bid to the European Boxing
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    BANKS AT SOCCER
    26 6 In a friendly soccer match played at Fairer Park ground on Tuesday, Oversea Chinese Bank beat Mercantile Bank by three goals to two.
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    Bridge Hand
    299 6 Both sides vulnerable. East dealer. The bidding: East South W#3t North 1^ Dhl. Pass 2* Pass ,20 Air Pass IT'S natural for a bridge player to be more excited about a high contract than a mere part score. However, there are lots of important points about unimportant points
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    Won because of strong
    174 6 Won because of strong I*HE five-member Japanese team which carried off four major trophies m the world table-tennis championships m Bombay arrived m New Delhi yesterday, to play a series of exhibition matches. Daisuke Daimon, the team's coach attributed their success m the championships to "strong feet and strong nerves."
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    THE BIS FOUR
    40 6 All four of them are champions. They are from left: Wong Peng Soon. All-England. Malayan and Singapore champion, Abdullah Pirns (top centre)* Selangor champion Tan Jin Eon* (bottom centre), Perak champion, and Ooi Teik Hock, Penan* champion.
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    GOLDEN BOY IS 'FIGHTING FIT'
    271 6 Free Press Boxing Reporter n OLDEN BOY, 147 lb. champion of the Federation, is due to arrive m Singapore this afternoon. He meets the Colony champion, Nai Sompong for the All-Malaya welterweight title at the Happy World Stadium on Sunday night. When fight fans saw
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    OLSON WINS ON POINTS
    69 6 CARL Olson who meets middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson m San Francisco next month won an unimpressive ten-round warm-up fight decision m Sacramento on Tuesday night from Wocdy Harper of Oakland. Olson. 162, of Honolulu, was m top s'fape after training since November fcr tnls thrice-post-poned
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    A NEW ERA IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL
    423 6 A NEW ERA IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL From ARCHIE QU( k rnHE bottom has fallen out of the tauufa No longer are International stars m dem" 1^ the last month several famous footballs nd Ir gone racing to their managers with rrieva^ hiu or imaginary, and asked to be -put on
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    RED CHINA FOR THE OLYMPICS
    82 6 RED CHINA FOR THE OLYMPICS •pHE New China News Agency reported yesterday that Communist China has informed the Olympic Committee that she wants to take part m the Olympic games next July m Helsinki. It said the National Athletic Association m Peking cabled the committee that it is the only
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    Bristol stick to policy
    268 6 Bristol stick to policy BRISTOL Rover, havp "policy oi no buy" n f selling. Manager Be- g T J idea and by cultivatii* i talent has KS B^ Cup competition, offers ficult to resist are bS made for their players. After Rovers 3-3 fen Leyton. tonal maae ar 0 5--their
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    BADMINTON OFFICIALS
    67 6 BADMINTON OFFICIALS THE Hwa Vev. BadmJni Mfcbnted ite Fc versa ry wit:, P Teck Lees Bimgal a; At the Annual General X~£ helci there tbe tcSi elected once hw year: Prsident Mr Ooh B (re-elected. Hon Secretarj Koh Sonb Peng (re-elecrec-. fi^Treasurer M: ChW K^ g Hon. Sports c purfo
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    3 horses promoted to Class 1
    150 7 rpHKKt <i. i horses 1 Hippy Travtiier, Individuality and Ice Rev«# haVe heen promoted to (t 1 according to A Straits Racine Association release. showman. Cadzow Glen a nd Millwaii have been M>nt down from Cl. 1 to fkc following have been demoted from
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    SURPRISE DEFEAT FOR DANES
    193 7 SURPRISE DEFEAT FOR DANES THE nack Danish Akademisk Football Club went cur. m an unexpected 1-0 defeat :o an all-Hongkong team m a farewell match m The Colony yesterday before a crcwd of 15.000. The only goal of a thrilling fade came from the boot of ciminutive Au Chi Yin
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    RAPID RED RETURNS TO FORM
    1041 7 Should win on Wednesday From ALLAN LEWIS QVERNIGHT rain made the inner grass track slightly heavy for this morning's fast work (Percival), who on the inside, was going better Ihlv 2fSi eScei lu (E D^ nn «My) «t the end of their solidly run three
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    'Corkman' sets a record
    38 7 Julio Moreno Toledano claimed a world record for "floatability" yesterday. Moreno, also known as The Corkman," stayed afloat m a swimming pool *cr 14 hr. 30 mm. with his sands and feet tied. A.P.
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    7-A-SIDE RUGGER
    44 7 7-A- SIDE RUGGER Ih] wwn a mil rugger match Jf-ween Royal Army Service «ns B" and the Singapore Board "A" will be played tn he Smeapore Cricket Club *°und oh Saturday, Feb. 16 in'jc of rase B v GHQ 4 B* as ■u-.iv announced
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    One Germany for Olympics
    125 7 The international Olympic Committee has set up a special commission to govern the selection of East and West German athletes for the Olympic Games at Helsinki. The commission will be made up of three from the east and three from the west under the chairmanship of
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    OLYMPICTORCH ON SKIS
    94 7 rpHE flaming Olympic torch. x borne nigh by the first of a gigantic relay of 100 men on skis, started yesterday on its 170--mile journey from Moregdal, the birthplace of modern skiing, to the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games m Oslo. At the same time
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    T.B.A. PLUS 2 CHINESE WIN
    65 7 rMIL Brotherhood Association, playing with two Chinese players, triumphed 2-0 over Town Rangers Sports Club m friendly soccer at Farrer Park yesterday evening. Scorers were T. V. Lingam and V. Ramakrishnan, On Monday, the Association will meet a teanrfrom AngloChinese School at Farrer Park. The
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    TONY MOTTRAM FOR MANILA
    48 7 ORITAIN'S top-ranking tennis 13 player Tony, Mottraiit. and nis wife. Joy Cannon Mottram, going to Manila to participate m the coming National Open Championships, according to a message received by the Philippines Amateur Athletic Federation. With 'the Mottrams will oe Polish player Vladyslav Skonchi.
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    KOTA RAJA HELD
    18 7 Playing on the water-logged P T Sports Club ground yesterday, Koto Raja Sporto Club and
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    GOLIE GATHERS
    44 7 picture. Eseroma, the Fijians goalk eeper, gathers the ball from the feet of an attacking G.H.Q Signals forward m yesterday's soccer match a t Tanglin m which a Signal Platoon of the Fiji Reft, lost by five goals to nil. Free Press
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    Four cities stake claim
    287 7 1956 OLYMPICS r)UR cities have already officially filed applications for the 1956 Olympic Games should Melbourne be unable to stage them. They are Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago and Brussels. The International Olympic Committee received cables yesterday afternoon from, the three American cities. That from Brussels was
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    NO TREAT FOR LOCAL FANS
    287 7 Test trio fly m Free Press Sports Reporter A USTRALIAN Test stars Keith Miller, Neil Harvey and Graeme Hole arrived m Singapore yesterday afternoon. They landed at Kalian* airport by Qantas»BOAC. The world famous cricketing trio are on their way to Ceylon where they will
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    Fiji XI plays scrappy game v. GHQ Signals
    384 7 Fiji XI plays scrappy game v. GHQ Signals G.H.Q. Sigs 5; Fiji Rjegt. Sigs. Platoon... 0. MEMBERS of the Fiji Regiment made their debut ifl m Singapore soccer yesterday. The team seen m action at Tanglin Barracks was not the Regiment's representative side. It was a scratch XI made up
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    UK SOCCER RESULTS
    137 7 YESTERDAYS U.K. Soccer results were: Leaf oe Three (Southern): Plymouth Argyle 3, Swindon Town 0. League Three (Northern) Bradford 2, Workington 1; Darlington 3, Gateshead 2. Scottish League B Division: Arbroath 2, Kilmarnock 1; Ayr United 1. Queens Park 0. Scottish Cap Second Round Replays: Queen of
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    I.R.C K.O. SOCCER
    42 7 In an Indian Recreation Club K.O. soccer competition match at Farrer Park yesterday, the "C" team beat "D" team by two goals to one. Scorer for the winners was Maslamani (2) and N. Nadarajah replied for the "D" team.
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    'We could beat you' —Russians
    123 7 'We could beat you' Russians gOVIET representatives :n Osio to observe the Winter Olympics declared yesterday their athletes could have won several ?old medals if they had competed, and spoke glowingly of what the Russians will do m the Summer gomes at Helsinki Russians have made oefcter times than the
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    SCFA MEETING
    43 7 Owing to the funeral of King George VI. the 4 1st annual general meeting of the Singapore Chinese Football Association arranged for Feb. 15 is postponed to Wednesday March 5. at the club house No. 10, Farrer Park at 5.15 pjn.
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    PENG SOON TO DEFEND TITLE
    44 7 WONG Peng S>oon, holder of the All -England badminton title, has asked his club, the Companion Badminton Party of Johore Bahru, to inform the Badminton Association of Malaya that he wishes to participate m the All-England championships this year.
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    HART v. FRY IN WOMEN'S FINAL
    243 7 y SKONECKI, self -exiled Pole beat Naresh Kumar, V the Indian No. 1, to enter the semi-finals of the men's singles In the Asian lawn tennis championships at Colombo yesterday. The women's singles final will be a repetition of the all-American Wimbledon final last
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    NORTH-SOUTH 'TEST' IN AUG.
    74 7 •THIS year's North v South cricket "Test" will be played m Singapore m the first week m August. Selangor's State XI will be engaged m six inter-State matches m the coming season, three m Kuala Lumpur and three away. The State selection committee this season comprises
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    For Helsinki
    55 7 THONG SAW PAX, the Singapore weightlifter and Malayan lightweight champion, who will be included m the Colony contingent to the Olympic games at Helsinki m July. Saw Pak is now m England. At a meeting yesterday, the* Singapore Olympic Sports Council decided that $45,600 would be needed to
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    KEPPLE CLUB
    18 7 The Keppel Club will be closed tomorrow as a mark of respect for the late King.
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    'ONL WAY TO STOP RED ASSAULT ON S-EAST ASIA'
    289 8 'ONL WAY TO STOP RED ASSAULT ON S-EAST ASIA Taf t on invasion off Communist aroas SEATTLE, Thursday. SENATOR Robert A. Taf t, of Ohio, a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, yesterday denied he had specifically urged a landing on the Chinese mainland m his speech suggesting a Chinese
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    Rubbers fail in London
    71 8 LONDON, Thurs. WITH less than three weeks to United Kingdom Budget Day, on Mar. 4, uncertainty is tightening its grip on home stocks m the Stock Exchange. r> Industrials yesterday failed to hold any routine investment buying. Tobacco shares generally held firm. German bonds were weak.
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    ENVOY TO LONDON
    20 8 Pakistan's new High Commissioner to Britain, Mr. M. A. H. Ispahan!, arrived m London last night A.P.
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    BELGIAN MPs WALK OUT AGAIN
    175 8 BELGIAN MPs WALK OUT AGAIN BRUSSELS. Thurs. SOCIALISTS and Liberals O walked out of the Belgium House and Senate for the second day In succession yesterday In protest against King Baudouin's decision not to attend King George's funeral m Britain. The Socialists and Liberals announced they would boycott all Parliament
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    Gracie shy on wedding plans
    73 8 CAPRI, Italy. fRACIE Fields has become *J a shy bride-to-be who dec- lines to discuss her wedding plans. She had planned to be married Wednesday, but postponed the wedding "until after the funeral of the King. Now, she will not divulge the date. She told
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    Guess at barrel of wine Poet
    148 8 LONDON, Thurs. WITH a new Sovereign on the throne, literary men m England, are trying to guess about who will succeed the ageing John Masefield as Poet Laureate. The most popular chcices for the post, which carries a salary of one barrel of wine
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    BURMA DENIES PROPOSAL
    164 8 RANGOON, Thursday. A SPOKESMAN fqr the Government of Burma yesterday denied a London report of a proposed United Nations commission on the presence of Chinese Nationalist troops m Burma. The report stated that Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, had propose!! the advisibility of having this commission. "No
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    Diana was sacked for bad language
    230 8 SYDNEY, Thursday. niANA Barrymore, daughter of fflmdom's greatest profile, is going home to America after a temperamental five months and three abruptly-ended engagements m Australia. Her last turn was abruptly halted after Monday night's performance when tbe manager of Brisbane's Theatre Royal accused her
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    He will lay ghost-low
    77 8 He will lay ghost-low COPENHAGEN, Thurs. A COMMITTEE OF the Danish Parliament yesterday appointed a guard to be aimed with the "biggest truncheon to be found m the country" to lay low a ghost that has been haunting Christianborg Castle. The ghost has turned on lights m committee rooms. Mysterious
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    ART EXPERT DEAD
    37 8 The deatfc of Professor Otto Kuemmel, 78. noted German authority on Chinese and Japanese art. was announced m Mainz. Germany, yesterday. For many years he had been DirectorGeneral of the Berlin State Museums. A.P.
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    TRADE TREATIES
    17 8 Pakistan is sending a delegation to- Central European countries m April nopntiato trade treaties. A.P.
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    The Professor got stinging retort
    128 8 The Professor got stinging retort ROME, Thurs. A HECKLER hit on a new and by far the most effective means yet of breaking up a gathering m Rome yesterday—he released a swarm of wasps m the hall. He was a student who let the wasps loose during a lecture on
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    U.K. playwright is dead
    50 8 U.K. playwright is dead Miss Elizabeth Mackintosh, 55, playwright and author has died m London. Under the pen name of "Gordon Daviot," Mis. Mackintosh wrote a number of plays produced successfully m London during the last 20 years. She also wrote detective nOVels Under t.hA nama "Josephine Tey." A .P.
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    JAP GIRLS CREATE SENSATION
    53 8 JAP GIRLS CREATE SENSATION picture. Japanese table tennis players, Tomie Nishlmura (left) and Shixuka Narahara (right) are pictured at Bombay, where they have been taking part m the world table tennis championships. They created a sensation by beating the Rowe twins, Diana and Rosalind, of Britain, and winning the Corbillon
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    KOREA TOLL UP
    17 8 American battle casualties m Korea total 105,508, an increase of 237 m a week.
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    STOPES CONDEMNS 'RHYTHM METHOD'
    143 8 NEW DELHI, Thursday. QR. Marie Stopes, British birth control pioneer M condemned the introduction of "rhythm" or* "safe period birth control methods m India as cruel and misleading" m a letter published by the Times of India yesterday. v The method was advocated 5? Am rican
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    EARTHQUAKES
    18 8 A series of more than half a dozen earthquakes shock Los Angeles on Tuesday and yesterday. U.P.
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