The Singapore Free Press, 21 February 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA y, IS..T-M. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21* 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 389 1 I Bid for collective Security in Canal Zone ri\i! Egyptian Prime Minister, Aly Maher Pasha, said last night Egypt must enter into '\[utJ> negotiations" with Britain to end their dispute on the British status in Egypt. Ik favoured a collective security pact iritli the Western Powers,
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  • 103 1 IPOH, Thurs. p. [TS attacked Kampar U I Station at ck this morning t trued down the building as well fwn which was rtth about 150 tons )t la) constables and i ointsman were wounded. n seriously, in the irk v iich was carried out ten bandits.
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  • 42 1 G Dwight Eisenhower '4 I he NATO Council ■eeUng in Lisbon yesterday lake immediate steps to a network of West sL-flelds or run the leaving the European ground army they were Drejarm? to provide helptess gainst pc^ible Russian air U.P.
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  • 19 1 Th- French authorities in -ave allowed Indoa*»a 1.500 Indians to in»ease monthly remittances \> families to Rs. 100 Reuter
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  • 182 1 QUERY ON C.G. IN COMMONS LONDON, Thurs. \JR. Stanley Awbery, Labour, asked in the House of Common s if the Secretary for Colonies had now arrived at a decision about the position of the CommissionerGeneral of Southeast Asia. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. He also asked in what particulars he intended to
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  • 53 1 PORt 1 SAID. Thurs A SPOKESMAN for the Suez Canal Company said yesterday canal traffic Is back to normal for the first time since the outbreak of the British-Egyptian dispute. Egyptian searchlight and mooring crews have returned to work and the canal is now matntafntpg regular
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  • 69 1 LONDON, Thurs. gUZABETH TAYLOR failed to bring her divorce papers from the United States and so she may not be able to marry Michael Wilding today as planned. The 19-year-old film beauty arrived here by plane on Tuesday night for her marriage to Wilding, 39.
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  • 15 1 Italy's air force will get "combat-tried" American let fighters from Korea
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  • 92 1 POITIERS. France, iHurs. GENTLE Marie Besnard, the 55-ycar-old "smiling widow of London" who today faces 11 charges of murder, was found guilty here yesterday of forging a £30 postal money order. A court room Jammed with reporters, photographers illegally cashing the money order belonging
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  • 39 1 PARISIAN cats went to the cinema recently. Free seats were given to all arriving with cats to see "Rhnbarbe," the story of a gutter cat which became the heir of an eccentric millionaire. Popper picture.
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  • 164 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN said yesterday that he had 1 not made any commitments to Britain to send troops anywhere in the world. The White House announced that Mr. Truman had authorised that statement to be made. It was in the nature of a
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  • 86 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. A SINGAPORE girl, Lim Siew Hwa, was killed in a crash with an oncoming car at Tembeling Road, Katong. yesterday. She died before the ambulance arrived. Slew Hwa was walking with two other girls at the time of the accident. Two Chinese
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  • 240 1 WANTED-A CHAMPION FOR THE QUEEN LONDON. Thurs. A 600-year-old court will meet soon to select a "champion of England" from the ranks of British nobility to challenge and fight anyone at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II who publicly opposes her rule. The court has to decide petitions made by
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  • 32 1 Five people were killed and 15 injured when a false alarm of a fire caused a stampede in a crowded movie house in Lagos, Nigeria, last night.- Reuter
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  • 112 1 LONDON, Thursday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, told the Commons yesterday that Britain's rearmament programme was almost 10 per cent, short of its goal. He said about £120,000,000 would not be spent out of the £11,250.000,000 which it had been hoped to devote to rearmament
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  • 16 1 The West German Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer said in Bonn yesterday West Ger-
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  • 269 1 BANGKOK, Thursday. rpHE leader of 10,000 Chinese Nationalist troops in ""> north-east Burma potential trigger for a new war in Asia was reported in Formosa yesterday to get help for a withdrawal. A highly placed foreign official said Gen. Li Mi went to
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  • 78 1 SANTIAGO, ThUTS. A NEWSPAPER here reported yesterday "that a Chilean air force plane, flying near the Argentine frontier, had seen two explosions "similar to atomic bomb explosions." The first was a column of smoke about 65 feet in circumference "from the top of which rose the characteristic
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  • 6 1 The Philippines yesterday
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  • 38 1 Striking bus drivers attacked Teheran police with automobile cranks in front of the home of the Prime Minister of Persia, Mohammed Mossadegh, yesterday. The drivers were warned to disperse or their licences would be revoked. A.P.
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  • 39 1 Mr. Clement Attlee will be one of the speakers at the dinner of the Philadelphia Fellowship Commission at Fellowship House Philadelphia, on March SI. The theme of the speeches will be "The Free World Speaks" Reuter
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  • 221 1 Free Press Staff Reporter **FHE Singapore Gov- ernment is probably unaware that a powerful circle has worked tremendously hard to wreck the badminton hall project for personal reasons, with the result that the names of prominent and wealthy persons are conspicuous by their absence
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  • 14 1 Egypt Is planning to buy £100,0000,000 worth of goods from Russia U.P.
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  • 990 2 [■flOTflfyjflff^^ UNDER REVIEW QUICK LOOKS I A PENNY FOR THE 1 HARP. By Oliver Onions. I I (Michael Joseph). i Oliver Onions, most 1 readable exponent of the f I modern historical novel, I conducts a further pic- I turesque, expedition I through the
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  • 396 2 Ham, From First To Last The Sign Of Jonah. By Nancy Hale. (Heinemann). EVEN if it is a masterpiece of straight ham, it comes over," says a -character on page 38f. "I predict for it quite a success." He is talking about Hope Crocker's second play, the one that made
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    22 2 Kerima French-Arabian star of "Outcast of the Islands/' the film of Conrad's book, seen at. the London Zoo with a boa constrictor.
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  • 700 2 WINE WOMEN-& PERSIANS GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON reviews a new translation of a famous poem. Omar Khayyam: a new version based upon recent discoveries. By Arthur J. Arberry. (Murray). OYMNS Ancient and Modern excepted, the most thumbed, misquoted quatrain in English poetry is: A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A
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  • 155 2 A RECIPE worth fol- lowing if you want to write a best-seller is to think up, a good idea for an ending and then sit down and write the story backwards. If this sounds difficult consider the circulation 'figures of books by a cheerful,
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  • 107 2 THE MAKING OF FRANCE. Marie-Madeleine Martin, 21/^-, Eyre Spottiswoode. A study of the origins and development of the Idea of national unity. GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGER. Josiie De castro, 18/'-, Gollancz. A study of malnutrition, disease, famine, death, continent by continent and country by country. IT'S AN OLD LANCASHIRE
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  • 9 2 Yesterday's Solution. Across* i
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  • 673 2  - This is Just my Tot of Rum! GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON Lieutenant Hornblower. By C. S. Forester. Michael Joseph). WHAT is. there about the illustrious Hornblower that appeals to all of us? This to begin with: He is not he is indeed, very far from being a copybook hero. The serpent
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 161 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR JgORN today, it is likely that You might very well Jn a ugu yon will have almost mte some new ideas yourself, mediumistic powers, and un. It may take time before they less you recognise this and are accepted. Bat if you learn to make use of
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    • 93 2 New Crossword No. 591 CLUES ACROSS 1. A go-between for horse and rider (6). 4. We are adjacent to the E. Riding (4). 8. More than a couple of pounds for a clothes protector (7). 9. She is unabashed, unbeaten (3). 10. In which to try to drown a cold
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  • 32 3 i:r S| oi some 30 B«nbers the fanatical Jaidajan Islam* 1 was oflQcialI SDnoonced in Teheran anectlon with the Ktwmpted aNsa^ination of a rr-.'.r.b- ,f the National Oil Hosaeto Fatemi.
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  • 191 3 200,000 WAR' SET PROBLEM TOKYO, Thursday. fHK largest newspaper in Japan yesterday 1 editorially demanded that the UJS. and Japanese authorities do something about -Japanese prostitutes catering to American and about occupation born "international orphans of war" now totalling 200,000, »ho d<> not know their fathers or mothers. Ihe paper,
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  • 124 3 'The good old cane will do the job' II NOON, Huns. qa. D educalion? 0 said an English f oUy. Pui a police station. a J England, of St. H.inds worth, 8.. Id 250 mem- nal Union A shilling's i i v raid do most ils a world of v
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  • 73 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. |X>URTEEN hand-written r letters from Abraham Lincoln to his "most intimate friend," Joshua Fry Speed, were sold at an auction for $35,000. The letters, which brought the highest price in the first hour of the auetion of the collection of the late Oliver Barrett,
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  • 37 3 Elizabeth Taylor, 19. screen star, said yesterday that she will marry Michael Wilding. 39. British actor, "at the end of thU week" in Kent. England, at the estate of her god- f ather,— AP.
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    217 3 ARMY TO RAISE KIT ALLOWANCE ALLOWANCES made to Army officers on being commissioned are to be increased substantially. And an announcement will be made of similar increases for R.AJF. officers. Up to now It was impossible for a newly commissioned officer to buy uniform and other kit without
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  • 60 3 Upper Austria has ordered movies, hotels, schools, churches and other places of assembly to close because of the epidemic of foot and mouth livestock disease which has stricken 1.193 farms The first instance of the disease spreading from animals to human beings was reported in Vienna when
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  • 32 3 Two former Communist Party officials were shot immediately after a public trial in Hopeh Prorince, North China, in which they were sentenced to death on charges of corruption. Reuter AAP.
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  • 34 3 Visitors to the summer Olympic Games in Helsinki this year will not require entrance or residence visas. A passport or other identity document approved by the Finnish authorities will do.- Reuter
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    8 3 "WHO TURNED me RADIO OFF f MM
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  • 49 3 Mystery tremors near Red border Mysterious earth tremors are disturbing east Uusimaa (also called Nyland) province lying about half-way between Helsinki and the Russian border. Helsinki scientists said that as seismographs in Helsinki University have registered the tremors they believe Uusimaa is bavin? a series of minor earthquakes. Reuter
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    72 3 The American Cyanide Company announced in Atlantic yesterday that India's first dyestuil and pharmaceutical plant will begin operating in March.— U.P ptCIOIT. King TaUi of Jordan is fre eted by Premier Akidt de Gasperi of Italy on Us arrival la Rome. The 4#-year-old Kiaw, ircomponkid by hit Qneen
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  • 54 3 LONDON, Thins. WHAT the world needs, said Mahomet Andriev to himself, Is a nut cracker that wastes no time getting to the kanaky district, he invented a Stakhanovite nut cracker. It cracks 1,320 pounds of nuts an hour, replacing 120 men who had been opening nuts
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  • 136 3 £2-LESSON FOR RUDE BUS DRIVER I LONDON, ThuFS. A LONDON bus driver was fined £2 and ordered to pay three guineas costs for failing to behave in a civil i and orderly manner. "Rude- ness is never justified," comI mented th e magistrate. Edward C. Wood, of Craven i Park-road,
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  • 41 3 A British Canberra jet bomber flew from London to Tripoli, Libya, at a record average speed of 538 miles an hour this week. The distance flown was 1.415 miles, and the flying time was two hours 45 minutes.- Reuter
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  • 285 3 LONDON, Thursday. I>USSIA has a jet torpedo plane. It is a version MM> of the new twin-jet Tu-12 bomber, recently reported over Eastern Germany. The nary version can carry two 1,8501b. torpedoes or a varied bomb load, and is already in service. The army
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  • 251 3 liit-Wwt nlßwikl^, South dealer. NORTH OAQJ 4 I 2 A A WEST BAST 4AJIIIS 4 K Q 3 2 V A 7 2 <? 0 K S 0 io 7 6 K Q 10 4JHU The bidding: South West North Bast 54 Db! Sy p"» P«ss Dbl. AH
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  • 33 3 The Philippines army announced that 73 Communist Huks had been killed in Central Luzon since Jan. 1. The army further claimed that 255 Huk barracks were destroyed and *>»** "arsenals" uncovered A.P
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  • 15 3 Experts believe an antipolto vaccine will be discovered within two yean, South Aus-
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  • 324 3 munu KONG, Thursday. TOE slave camps of Red China are jammed with x millions who are being "reformed by labour". So far little has leaked out about the operation of these camps. A copy of the Nanning Red paper, Kwangsi Jin Pao, gives a few
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  • 94 3 Flew 12,000 miles to wed pen-pal MANILA, Thurs. A PEN-pal who travelled 12,000 miles from Chicago. 111., to meet hfe bride, will return home without her— at least for the time being. Annand U Sosa, Ffttpinobom American who has lived in the United States 28 years, saw a picture of
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  • 65 3 Egypt and Czechoslovakia nave signed a trade agreement in Cairo by which Czechoslovakia will supply 20,000 tons of sugar to a total value of about £1,312,800— a price of 64 Egyptian pounds a ton. The sugar will be in exchange for an equal value of
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  • 32 3 Two Ukrainians went on trial in Munich yesterday before an American court charged with the attempted murder of "General" Dionid Gulay, exiled Cossack leader of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement Reuter
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  • 91 3 Hone kong PICTURES IN U.K. SHOW Mi LONDOK, Thur* ENTRIES from Hone Kong are among those from M countries which have been selected for display at the 56th annual exhibition of the Birmingham Photographic Society, which is now on. Prominent among 25« prints is "Fair Gold" by Yu Chiu-cheung a
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 261 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 pjn. light Music Medley— Andre Kostelanetz ft his Orchestra; 1.30 Time Signal A Hews; 1.45 Dance Music played by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra; 2CO English Schools Broadcast; 3.00 University of the Air; 5.00 Programme: in Malay; 6.15 Time Signal Propramme Summary; 6.17 Calling All Hospitals tilth requests for
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  • 933 4 10 miles from the hustle and bustle of Nairobi city is the world's most unique zoo in..., Here the animals live their own lives, untrammelled by bars, says Dudley Hawkins. T<HE Nairobi Royal National Park is the world's most unique Zoo— and it lies only 10 minutes' journey
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  • 537 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 21, 1952. On long leave A BLOW is aimed at a hardy colonial tradition. Dr. L. C. Hill, the expert who came to Singapore to report on local government reform, proposes that the system of tours of duty and long leave should be scrapped.
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  • 124 4 LETTER TO .THE EDITOR ASIANS— AND A.A. T'HE Singapore and Johore branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya says in its annual report that Asians are under the Impression that they "do "not receive the same attention as Europeans." The branch goes to great pains to deny this "most emphatically.""
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  • 65 4 THE Czechoslovak train driver who raced 'his train to freedom across the Iron Curtain frontier has arrived in America together with the fireman who made the freedom bid with him. Both men have taken their families to the States and now both have lobs with American firms— helDins:
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  • 523 4  -  POLOTOCO J»HE King's death apparently caught even the 8.8.C. napping. A London paper wrote: "There was not only sorrow but consternation at Broadcasting House. Nothing was ready for such an emergency. Nothing had been prepared. No radio programmes were stand ing by. No one knew what
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  • 616 4  - THIS IS A DEMOCRACY HENRY THODY IN TURKEY TODAY By Shouts a street urchin I SAW a Istanbul street urchin sneaking a free ride on the rear of one of the city's rattling, archaic tramcars. At a tram-stop a severe, jack-booted policeman blew* his whistle and dragged down the youngster.
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  • 266 4 RUSSIA is speeding expansion of a network of jet airfields behind the northern and eastern approaches to Yugoslavia *nd facing Turkey across the Bulgarian border and the Black Sea, These airfields are being built in Hungary, Rumania. and Bulgaria. Some are already finished and Russian
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  • 269 4  - China' s Opium 'Racket' RICHARD L. C. DEVERALL By QOMMUNJs, market V .V. c a targ^ sc^ China bein foreign sea* to b muniti Comn Ply val muni i outside ci th Th( v the drugs and money to ft sales .ft u fe dollars Z > needed by chtot
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    • 64 4 TN£ BULLDOG ANT X^ [Suspended by its feet an Australian Bulldog Ant can hold in its jaws a glove more than a thousand times its own weight. Comparatively, for a human feat, trapeze artist would have to grip an SO ton steam£4 T4 toilo? with his t««ttt while 4^p§3HH^rc-m^ A
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  • 255 5 Govt. may allow import of 'free' Siam rice THIS WIU NOT HELP, 1 SAYS TRADER Free Press Staff Reporter piCE dealers in Singapore and Federation may be allowed to resume the importation of free market Siamese rice next month, but this will not make any difference to the present control
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  • 172 5 RIOT SQUAD WAITS FOR A 'YES' jree Press Staff Reporter rPHI selection and training a special Singapore I lee not squad of vo]unleeja will have to await the approval of a scheme of allowances which the police I .unties have suggested I the personnel of such a In addition to
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  • 53 5 A meeting of all Division I officers hi the public service in Singapore will be held in the Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, on Saturday, March 8, at 3 p.m. The meeting will discuss, among others, the registration of the Singapore Senior Officers Association under
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  • 74 5 News wasjreceived yesterday of the death in Sithankerny, Ceylon, of Mr. V. Agampajam who retired as Chief Clerk of the Public Works Department. Singapore, in 1928 The late Mr. Agamparam is the brother of Mr. V. Kandiah of the Singapore Customs Department He has two sons
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  • 81 5 Free fress Staff Reporter •THE demand for coloured portraits of the Queen has been so great that the Public Relations Office in Singapore has cabled the Colonial Office in London for more copies. A total of 2,000 has already been distributed to schools, government offices,
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  • 48 5 She sings— and the workers listen MISS LOO MEI PING, a Singapore cabaret singer, who sang a Cantonese "blues" number at the recording by Radio Malaya of the first "Workers' Playtime" programme .held at the Dunlop rubber packing godown In the Harbour Board area yesterday.— Free Press picture.
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  • 48 5 YWCA NEEDS $30,000 Lady Fogarty, wife of Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, C-in-C, Far East Air Force, will broadcast an appeal for funds on behalf of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. on Monday. A sum of $30,000 is needed to enable the association to carry on its activities next year
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  • 129 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN 18-year-old boy in Sin- gapore has been living in an iron lung for the last two years. He is one of several polio victims who have received a respite in life through Singapore's 11 iron lungs. Now the city is
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    25 5 Ayonb, picture. GENERAL SIB GERALD TBMFLER leaving the council chamber after his installation as High Commissioner yesterda Behind him is Clerk of Council.— Free Press
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  • 203 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T*HE Superintendent of the Singapore Mental Hos- pital, Dr. James Browne, yesterday asked relatives and friends of mentally unsound persons to take them to the hospital at the first sign of trouble. i There was a much better chance of an
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  • 98 5 Free Press SUIT Reporter MR. R. Jumabhoy, Singapore ITA Legislative Councillor, said yesterday that Indian organisations in Malaya should follow the example set by Burma Indians and t*nr\i**ntrate nn social and Trade Promotion Conference in Rangoon, said he was impressed with the way Indians conducted
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  • 981 5 Govt. unions will stay out Free Press Staff Reporter HpHE Singapore Trade Union Congress was Ct cribed by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, in the Legislative Council yesterday, as not a T.U.C. in the true sense of the word, but a
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  • 472 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A MOVE by Mr. Lim Yew Hock (Lab.— Kcppel) to seek the support of the Singapore Legislative Council for the badminton hall project, including a loan from the Government for the hall, was defeated in Council yesterday. Councillors, by 18 votes
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  • 66 5 THE Deputy Controller of Supplies (Price Control), Singapore, Mr. W. W. Jenkins, yesterday urged people to grow vegetables for their own consumption. Some varieties such as red chillies can be grown by flat dwellers who have no gardens. "This will help combat the cost of living," he
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  • 186 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. *pHE Comptroller of the trade division of the Federation Treasury yesterday circulated notices asking all importers and chambers of commerce how much armour plate they needed this year. The notice said that the information was necessary "in order to assist in the
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  • 119 5 They want to know about cartels rpHE existence of private cartels and other monopolistic practices in Singapore which restrict trade, are being investigated by the Trade Union Congress at the request of the ICFTU. Its report will be submitted to the ICFTU headquarters in Brussels for transmission to the ad
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  • 944 6 Test men are not supermen Says COVER POINT KEITH Miller, Neil Harvey and Graeme Hole must be three of the most modest men in the ranks of international sport; when one considers the eulogies that have been larded over the pages of newspapers throughout the
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  • 919 6 How they ran at Ipoh yesterday From ALLAN LEWIS WHEN Red Wolf (Bagby) defeated Ocean Snare (Bagby Jr.) by a necK m the main race (Class 3, Div. 2 8 furs.) at Ipoh yesterday., Malayan racing history was made. It is certainly
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  • 230 6 SINGAPORE Olympic and Sports Council's Board of Control yesterday told the swimming, weightlifting and athletic organisations to hold their Olympic trials at least one week before June 6. The Board made clear that sufficient time must be allowed for the S.O.S.C. secretary, Ted Strickland, to
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  • 419 6 From ARCHIE QUICK rnHE curse of the cut eye is becoming more m •■■British boxing. Such an injury spoiled Turpin-Buxton fight at Harringay. th On the following evening a similar misadvem ruined the bout between Albert Finch oi CrrvH Ur the former
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  • 100 6 MANASSA MAULER TALKS,.. lACK DEMPSEY snpat J before the Urion Club, had tfcfc -o lav 9 h gU good fighter, excep- h 7l" lightheavy, cot ep a e weight. One handicap getting old. Uei 29 Clarence Henr T J ]o ability and a c Du cher. If he improves in
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  • 103 6 rE New York BUte Box::.? Board's medical commission is checking the records of all boxer> \v:. ha\> b*-r. discharged from the Army and it was revealed that tour famed boxers are am if those investigated No names rere (UKtaJ but it was learned tha: m
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  • 54 6 WITH a ten -mar. sick. Raci3 Repair Section bea; E--gine Repair Section by two goals to nil in the replay of the semi-final oi the Royal Air Force Seletar inter-sec-tion hockey tourney at Seietar yesterday. Radio Repair Section had the two-goal winning margin before half-time through scores
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    • 192 6 gIR— If local table tennis piayers adopt the penholder grip then they may as well write themselves off as future world champions. The Japanese success in winning three world titles was nothing but a fluke due to unorthodox play which temporally (enough for them to 10.-e
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 351 6 MdnOrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya F™**\ \"W^Jo^j\ IWE CAME FROM A OISTANT PLANET I |*f^ mw ABOUT I 7^l \*WeHEAOEO fCR EARTH 1 WE'O t- I—i2-—1 i2- y IN AHOTHER GALAXY- -OUR PLANET YOf/ZggK'^flUAtfr 1 TRAVELED IN SPACE BEFORE -BUT ■r^-J YOU SAY -YOUR TINY WAS
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  • 451 7 A threat to Masterman •an Saturday s From ALLAN LEWIS pRINCELING (Harper) drew attention to his chances on Saturday, third day of the Perak Turf Club's February when he galloped brilliantly on the number two grass track, which was in good shape this morning. Princeling went from
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  • 421 7 By A Special Correspondent R.E.M.E Is 30 Bn 0. i\ g match in which spirit was more predominant than gooti hockey, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Workshops triumphed over 30 Battalion Roval Army Ordnance Corps by one goal to nil in the Singapore
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  • 842 7 Free Press Golf Correspondent npHE long awaited visit by Dai Rees and Harry A Weetman to the Colony at last arrived and their first exhibition match they will play two here took place at the Island Club yesterday. The game was a straight match between
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  • 308 7 5.8.8. championships Free Tress Correspondent rjUOD boxing was seen at the Singapore Base District individual boxing championship semifinals at Tanglin Gymnasium last night. eesi douis on tne programme of 16 fights, were the middleweight and bantamweight contests. Middleweights L/Cpl Porfar and L/Cpl Gill put
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  • 95 7 HPAMIL Brotherhood Association will play if game of friendly soccer against the British Military Hospital this evening at 5.15 at Farrer Park. Clubs wishing friendly fixtures In soccer and table- tennis are requested to write to Mr. S.R.S. Naidu sports secretary. 4. Farrer Park. Individuals
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  • 26 7 A FIJI Regt soccer XI beat a Merchant Navy scratch side by four goals to nil in a friendly encounter at Thomson Road vesterday
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  • 39 7 UNAWARE, who was badly away in race one, and Seventy Seven, who was left at the post and took no part hi the last raee at Ipoh yesterday, have been suspended from racing for six months.
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  • 35 7 r«ESAR Brion, young Argentine heavyweight hope, methodically pummelled Joe Kahut, of Oregon last night to win a unanimous ten -round deckv>n at Oregon Brio* 1 w ivhM) 1M nounds: Kahut 188% A.P.
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  • 368 7 FIRST GOLD MEDAL FOR BRITAIN J^ISS Jeannett Altwegg, Ll-year-old British ice Queen, last night captured Britain's first gold medal in the Winter Olympic Games by winning the ladies figure skating title at Oslo. She won by a margin of over two points from 16--year-old American girl, Miss Tenley Albright, with
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    15 7 DAI REES in action at the Island Club golf course yesterday.—Free Press picture.
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  • 289 7 (Coniiuuiti frum rage S* x iront and he was never in danger of defeat. Plylite who followed Binnton all the way was second with consistent Sporting Pink third. Delilah finished fourth. She had ever* chance. Civil Lord was fifth, with Prince Eugene who was tailed ofl
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  • 888 7 FIJIANS ROMP INTO 'SEVENS SEMI-FINALS Free Press Rugby Reporter |> A.F. Tengah are the only outside challengers to lx the Fijians' stranglehold on the S.C.C. seven-a--side rugger competition after yesterday's quarter* final round. Although Tengah showed they were a useful combination they had to struggle to beat S.C.C. "A", who
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  • 83 7 Districts bs'smen failed yesterday against the West Indies pace bowlers and lost seven wickets during the raincurtailed opening day of their two-day match in Palmerston. Ineffectual or rash strokes caused the dismissal of most and only I. Leggat, 21 not out at the close, looked confident.
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    • 109 7 HAPPY WORLD STADIUM s"urd»y, 23rd feb. .t 9 p.m SEE AND HEAR THE SINGING VILLAIN 1 SERENADE THEM, THEN MURgEirEMj' AL COSTELLO HflHI nM)IK as a Singer as well as a Wrestler. Has a Wm Nl( >n over CHIEF LITTLE WOLF. Hated ||j |1 where for his brutal tactics. Was
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  • 115 8 MR. R. LAIfXT passed away this morning at the General Hospital. The cortege will leave 311. Rangoon Road, at 4.30 p.m. and the burial win take place at 5.00 p.m. at Bidadari AtCUMMODiTION WANTED EUROPEAN couple two children urgently require furnished accommodation with or without board. Will anyone able
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  • 254 8 DRINKING PARTY LED TO TIP-OFF ON SPY RING Editor held on espionage charge STOCKHOLM, Thursday. JOHN Enbom, an editor, was charged yesterday In the Stockholm Magistrate's Court with "gross espionage" for Soviet Russia. Swedish officials said that his arrest last w.eek smashed one of the most dangerous spy rings ever
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  • 45 8 COCKTAILS IN THE BLUE ROOM A COCKTAIL party, with Mr. Wolfe Cohen, Foreign Manager, Warner Brothers, as guest of honour, was given at the Blue-Room last night. Picture sfeows L to R., Mr. Ron Run Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe Cohen and Mr. Jack Evans.
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  • 23 8 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt received an enthusiastic welcome from numerous women, student and youth organisations, as she arrived in Karachi yesterday.— A.F.P
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  • 24 8 The Ceylon Government decided to release 500 convicts in an amnesty to mark the accession of Queen Elizabeth II Reuter
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  • 275 8 EUROPEANS who had the privilege of attending China Night at the Victoria Theatre, Singapore, last night were given an excellent opportunity of getting some little insight into the spirit and technique of traditional Chinese music, poetry, drama and physical education. The China Society, who
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  • 212 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. rpHE mother of a Negro sailor who was shot to x death in the China Sea lias started a U*****,000 damage suit against the captain, the chief mate and the ship's owners, the Isbrandtsen Company. The skipper, Capt. Weaver was originally charged with
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  • 59 8 Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York, has attacked the demagoguery of people who kept saying the United States was "doing all the fighting in Korea". He reminded a meeting of ex-Servicemen that other western powers had forces in Korea, that the British were fighting
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  • 38 8 "?e West German Foreign Ministry's Eastern Department, will leave soon for Tokyo to head Germany's nrst post-war representation in Japan. The mission will aid in furthering German-Japanese trade and will have consular authority Reuter
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  • 13 8 British exports in January totalled £250,000.000 and her imports £357.100.000- Reuter
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  • 27 8 Mr. Robert Menzies' Liberal Government last night beat a censure motion on fj""v»ttl policy by the Labour opposition by 62 votes to 47 votes.— Reuter
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  • 133 8 PLANR HIT PYRAMID CLIMBER MEXICO, Thus. THE Summit of the centuri-es-old Pyramid of the Sun was stained with the blood of a woman, killed by a low-flying private plane which hit her a s she stood on top of the 216-foot monument 28 miles from here. Hie dead woman was
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  • 91 8 LONDON, Prt APART from weakness In coppers and diamonds, the market in commodity shares wa s steadier yesterday. Bear covering gave k firmer tone to tins and rubbers and was prompted in the latter by hopes of a decision to allow moderate increase in the consumption
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  • 136 8 L^ TTW IX>NDON, Thursday. OVE may make a happy marriage, but it is the way the family purse is divided that keeps it so, the Married women's Association reported yesterday •The Association, formed In 1938 to "end the dictatorship by husbands," offered Its views
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