The Singapore Free Press, 22 February 1952

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 18,3*-. SINGAPORE, FBIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, .1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 369 1 I Police fight with lJL¥hm/t/ mB 1y A If gangsters MORE than 10,000 police were mobilised in an 11 emergency alert in Tokyo last night This followed co-ordinated Communist riots here and in several other cities. Japanese news agency reports said that the Reds demonstrated in
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  • 180 1 RANGOON, FTi. pEKiNG has moved five elusions in the Southern Yurnan Province and is preptring :o attack Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist troops on Burma "s eastern frontier. Tae Communists, with the help of the Burmese Army rebel leader. Naw Seng, have already begun probing operations
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  • 15 1 Experts from abroad will Jtttsa the future of urani um mining in Australia.-
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  • 75 1 KEY MONEY TENANTS ARE SAFE HONG KONG, Fri. r HANTS who paid key money or construction fees will be protected from eviction by landlords when bill which was introduced in the Legislative Council yesterday becomes law. However, the proposed bill does not apply to persons who are not original tenants.
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  • 65 1 TRIPOLI, Fri. FLICE opened fire yesterday on a demonstration outside Government buildings here against the results of Libya's first, general elections. The crowds are stated to have thrown bombs at the police. Hie demonstrators were supporters of the opposition Congress Nationalist party which has won all
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  • 68 1 BONN, Fri. TN his prison cell in Bonn 1 today West Germany's "fake" Member of Parliament. Frits Roessler. put an end to lively legal argument bfr voluntarily giving up nlft seat Roessler. an ex-Naii, W elected in the name of "Dr. Franz Bichter" as
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  • 22 1 HANOI, Frl. TN a flve-day counter-attack against Vietminh forces, French Voton forces have I.lll^ aqr and wounded or
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    7 1 THE SINGAPORE branch of Evani Medical^ Snpplies
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    50 1 daring a pictare. POLICEMEN ARE seen behind an overturned truck near the Renault Automobile plant in suburban Paris during a clash with pro Communist strikers. One of the policemen is •mown* a pipe. The demonstrators in the background are throwing stones. The clash occurred durinr a strike.- A.P.
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  • 213 1 M.P. asks: Why test A-bomb LONDON, Friday. MR. CHURCHILL was asked in the House of IT Commons yesterday why Britain was making a costly atomic test in Australia when she had tamed down a United States offer to use an American testing site. Labour member Emrys Hughes, a pacifist, said
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  • 37 1 A Chinese-driven car skidded in the rain, last night and was in collision with another car coming from the opposite direction at the junction of Bencoolen Street and Stamford Road. No one was seriously injured.
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  • 71 1 Jilted girl denounces the man BERLIN, Fri. A 48-YEAR-OLD ex-nurse faas been gaoled for fo«r-«nd-half yean here for falsely denewKing a Berlin doctor as a Nan to Soriet secret police because be would not marry her. The prosecution said Jutta Peters denounced Dr. Stephan Steyer in IM6 after the French
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  • 182 1 CEILING FALLS ON CINEMA AUDIENCE CINCINNATI, Fri. A HUGE section of the ceiling caved in at a Negro movie-house here yesterday, turning some 200 to 300 laughing patrons into a frantic, screaming mob. About 62 people were injured. Eight suffered possible fractures. Most were more frightened than hurt. A third
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  • 67 1 LONDON, Fri. CCOTLAND Yard has made v no comment on a Dally Mail story that Superintendent Wilkinson of the Special Branch has uncovered a plot to sabotage the British rearmament drive through industrial stoppages and strikes. The paper claimed that the police have
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  • 35 1 Twenty-four seamen were arrested yesterday aboard the Buenos Aires on charges of mutinying when the captain refused them shore leave to visit cafes, bars and girls at Las Palmar Canary Islands. U.P.
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  • 170 1 SYDNEY, Friday. INDONESIANS in Australia are being held as x virtual prisoners according to an official investigating conditions in the pearling industry. Mr. Ho Sien Hong alleged that employers at Broom* were refusing certificates of exemption which would allow Indonesians to return feme. Describing the living
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  • 251 1 Britain seeks 'total accord with Egypt CAIRO, Friday. THE Egyptian Premier, Aly Maher Pasha, said las* x ni* ht he had received a personal message from the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, expressing Britain's desire to "reach early total agreement* 9 with Egypt. He said tee message was brought to
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  • 95 1 WASHINGTON, Frl. CAREFULLY screened labourers who receive $12,--00# a year are constructing a secret United States air bate near the North Pole, a Senate investigation disclosed yesterday. The base known under the code name of "Blue Jay" cost the United State* government more than $3,OOCJOO in
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  • 54 1 JAKAJRTA, PH. POREIGN Minister Achmed Soebardjo resigned yesterday after the rest of Indonesia's Cabinet and many members of parliament had refused to endorse his acceptance of U.S. military aid. In Washington, American Gtmrament »**"*rhi said they beßCTed military aid pledges made by Indonesia remain in
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  • 42 1 PUSAN, Korea. One About 1.500 ialemoM attacked VS. security troop* with steel pickets, wooden date, barbed wire, Mack Jacks, metal tent pole spikes, iron pipes, rocks and One American soldier wounded, two suffered minor injuries and 142 inmates hurt. A.P.
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  • 10 1 The Commissioner-General <n' snnfh.ifast. Asia. Mr. Mal-
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  • 1076 2 A Young Girl Trained Hard To Be A Queen Under Miss Marion Qrawforfr and Sir Henry Marten She was helped along by her grandmother, says Alison Sutherland WE have all wondered at the courage and dignity of our new Queen, perhaps without realising the long training that has gone to
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    94 2 FACT AMP FASHION -1. I ...so wrong BELOW: is th« woman who bought Hie sun dress. She suffers from "shopper's stoop" one of Hie many odd attitudes adopted by Hie women of Singapore. The only accessories are stout walking shoes, fine for tramping Hie Scottish moors, and a
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  • 581 2 Married Couple MUST Fight BY -REUBEN HILL, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WHEN two people have a close and continuous association, they inevitably fight. Since marriage is the most intimate and the most demanding of all adult human relationships, this element of conflict is an inescapable
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  • 148 2 'PUBLIC RLATIONS' NEW YORK. ()NE of Britain's most I attractive "Members of Parliament. Lady Tweedsmuir. told reporters in Washington a thing or two about herself before leaving for Paris to join her husband, a U.K. delegate to the UN Assembly recently. m The .tall, chestnut-haired MP. explained her debut I
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 116 2 Solution To Crossword No. $91 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 1, Saddle. 4, User. 8, Overall. 9, Una. 10, Mustard bath. 12, Dishwashers. 14. Rio. 15, Yankees. Storm. 2, Dresses down. 3, Lea. Storm. 2, DLresses down. 3, Lea. 5, Sausage meal. 6, Reach. 7, Blades. 11, Always. 12. Darts. 13, Susan.
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    • 118 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR gORN today, you combine the imaginative and poetical with a peculiar Inferiority complex that never seems to permit you to admit how food you are— or could be— ir you pat your will and determination Into developing your natural talents. Being quietly confident of your own abilities
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  • 639 3 30 HONOURED BY THE KING —Just two days before he died mm LONDON, Friday. THE names of 28 brave men and two brave women were put before Kin* George VI at Sandnngham two days before h e died. anH *^2J** <£? 9 eorge Medal to two of them and the
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  • 220 3 TOKYO. Fri. yt a YORK and Seattle imll nortecs have placed dr- |q- hundreds of 'thousu chopsticks. Japan's t ongs' .makers are 2 an export boom, :f in prewar days. j-j itiJena of "chopstick Shimoichi, a small Central Japan, hope he daj win come when
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  • 99 3 LONDON, Pri. T British Film Academy u voted the French La R>n3e" the best of Bin is a gay one of love and still more love, c ed by MuX Ophuls. 0 ..rr awards: Best British The Lavender Hill Hal starring Alec Guinnes; b v.v Jiunentary,
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  • 25 3 Belgian Congo urannines have been declared military zone and troops A" rdered to shoot any unwthorized person who tries alter the area U.P.
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  • 35 3 Dr. Uncoln BU Thiesmeyer. President of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute 01 Canada said In New York yesterday that atomic energy and the products of the scientists laboratory may revolutionise the paper industry.—Renter.
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  • 10 3 The Canadian Prime Minister Mr St. Laurent, announc-
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  • 32 3 One ot tiie longest tows by Royal Australian Navy ships has begun through the cyclone season to get a floating dock 2,851 miles from Brisbane to Mantis Island base
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  • 107 3 Headlamp on is the new rule NEW YORK, Fri. NEW YORK, often called the worst-lit capital in the world, has now issued orders to improve the position. Drivers must use their headlamps (lower beam only) when within the city boundary. Until a few days ago, to do so was to
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  • 51 3 SEOUL. Fri. ALLIED Sabrejet pilots shot down two Russianmade MIG-15s and damaged five others in two furious fights over North-West Korea on Wednesday. Two MIGs were also damaged in the afternoon clash between 25 Sabres and 70 Swept-wing MIGs over Sinuiju. The fight lasted 15
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  • 34 3 The Defence Production Administration of the U.S. has approved the building of three new multimillion dollar paper mills which will boost the country's output of newsprint bv 20 per cent.— AP
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  • 35 3 An attempt to burn down the quarters of the United States Information Service ir Belgrade was prevented on Wednesday toy the early arrival of a Yugoslav employee, who extinguished it without damage. A.P.
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  • 30 3 A convicted Chinese Communist, accused of sneaking into Formosa for spy work and sabotage, was executed in Taipei.* H e was Ku Shao, 28-year-old native of Kiangsu. A.P.
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    35 3 WHAT HATE I GOT that you haven't, she seems to tell the hypothetical onlooker on the other end of the chequered floor. She is Marie Aldon, the girl of the "Distant Drums."
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  • 149 3 Britain expects more tourists LONDON, Friday. fWERSEAS visitors to Britain this summer may be as many as in last year's Festival months. The new transatlantic tourist air fares are expected to attract some of them. Officials of the British Travel and Holidays. Association give considered reasons for this optimistic estimate.
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  • 323 3 Both tides vulnerable North dernier. VADftl nui\i n 4k J 9 C 6 4 4k Q 10 9 2 WEST EAST 4KB4A 10 3 2 10 C <? J 8 0J9642 0 Q 10 7 6 4 A K J 8 4764 SOUTH 4 Q 1 9AKQ9HI 0
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    8 3 'THAru TEACH HIM NOt TO GAMBie r
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  • 43 3 Service-for-oil pact signed The Italian Middle East Petroleum Company has signed a barter contract with the Persian National Petroleum Company in Teheran for 2,000,000 tons of petroleum annually for 10 years. Payment for the oil, would be in Italian products and services. A.P.
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  • 105 3 MANILA, Fri. A former Japanese Colonel who commanded in the Philippines flew to Lubang Island yesterday in an effort to persuade a group of Japanese World War II stragglers to surrender. The officer, Nobukiho Jimbo, flew to the island near the entrance to Manila
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  • 31 3 A move for rapprochement between Pakistan and Afghanistan by ironing out their political differences was discussed by the Subjects Committee of the World Muslim Divines Conference at Karachi. A.P.
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  • 159 3 COLOMBO, Friday. qpHE USSR is working on a fixed programme for European youth to consolidate the hold it has gained on them, according to Mr. Alan Andrews of the World Alliance of YMCA, Geneva. Mr. Andrews who is on a tou- of Asia to study
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  • 289 3 U.S.CHINESE IS THROWN OUT OF WHITE DISTRICT SAN FRANCISCO, Friday. QING Sheng was disappointed today—but he wasn't bitter—and his badly shaken faith In democracy was being restated hourly with telephone calls from sympathetic people all over the United States. The 25-year-old Chinese airline mechanic said his telephone hasn't stopped ringing
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  • 86 3 NEW GADGET WILL SAVE YOUR PETROL MELBOURNE, Prl. A DEVICE claimed to increase petrol mileage on cars by at least 15 per cent, has been evolved by an Australian inventor, Mr. E. Chapman. He said it saves petrol usually wasted on downhill or level runs by supplying warm filtered air
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  • 36 3 Burmese Government forces have killed 24 Communists in a gun-battle near Taunggyi, capital of the Southern Shan States. In an engagement north of Rangoon, they killed 15 rebels at Okkan. Reuter.
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  • 29 3 Ten people were seriously Injured and 600 houses damaged when a floating mine was driven ashore near Tottori City on Central Japan's West Coast and exploded.- Reuter-AAP
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  • 181 3 LONDON. Pri. PED RAMSDEN. who had 600 letten telling liim how to cure hiccups, died in a London hospital after hiccupping for nine months. An act of bravery began It all, Mr. Ramsden, a sergeant in the special con* stabulary at Shipley, Yorks. Jumped into
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  • 27 3 The pro-Communist newspaper Ta tung Pao said the Communists have created a military area covering Tibet and put General Chang Kuo-hwa in command of it.
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  • 30 3 Soviet agronomist, Nikolai Tsitsin has announced he has developed and grown a perennial wheat which needs replanting only every two or three years while giving stable annual crops A.P.
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  • 29 3 The Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, M. Sophocles Venizelos, and other members of the Greek delegation to the NA.T.O. meeting in Lisbon have arrived in Rome.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 174 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 The Radio Orchestra; 1.30 Time Signal ft News; 1.45 Dance Music— Red Norvo Trio; 2.00 Close; 5.00 Programme In Malay; 6.15 Time Bfcnal News; 6.17 forces Favourites— A programme of request by the Forces presented by Josephine West; 6.55 Announcements ft Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 Time
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  • 522 4 FRIDAY. Feb. 22, 1952. The Light at last TOE Egyptian Prime l Minister, Aly Maher Pasha, has said he wants a security pact with the Western Powers based on the proposals made by the United States, Britain, France and Turkey so hastily and contemptuously spurned by his pugnacious predecessor. This
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  • 177 4 IN the great hangar 1 in which the Brabazon, Britain's largest airplane, was assembled, another big airliner Is taking shape. But this plane, the Bristol Britannia, which will take the air at about 60 tons, has a very much more assured future than the Brabazon, British Overseas
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  • 58 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR SIR "Interested, writing in the Free Press of Feb. 18. is surely quite mistaken in saving that the Duke of Windsor still holds the hereditary titles which he held as Heir Apparent. When, as Edward Vin, he abdicated on Dec. 11, 1936, he Ipso
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  • 972 4 The crime A probe many -1 VISITED the United States as the war was drawing to an end: and I went to see Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at his offices in Washington. Mr. Hoover talked to
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  • 415 4 WHEREVER Burma ff "old boys" meet they call him "Frontline Frankie". Or just "Fighting Frankie". He is an enormous man Over 14 stones and tall enough ("somewhere between 6 ft. 4 in. and 6 ft. 5 in.", he once told me! to carry his
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  • 49 4 The tanker Auris, the first merchant vessel in the world to be fitted with a gas turbine, in Ui e Soknt South ton giving m demonstration to Government, naval and technical experts. The Auris has already crossed th? lantic and visited European ports. At
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  • 743 4  -  ROBERT KINGSLEV There is usually a slump at the time of a General Election: after flie election the market picks up. This time it has not done so says THIS is the month when prudent students of London University in their final
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  • 134 4 THE biggest battle for years X is being fought by the foresters in the Black Wood s of Rannoch, Perthshire. The enemy is the capercailzie bird, known as the winger scourge of young forests. Only the most primitive means may be employed to fight them, because they enjoy
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 23 4 Modern Rings of Distinction fot Every Occasion? P. H. HENDRY, Manufacturing Jeweller 78. NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. SINGAPORE. 6. 4. BATU ROAD, KUALA LUMPUR.
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    • 79 4 JUST ONE— and aren't we enjoying Baby wonders what all the fuss is about o particular day the toys, the new frock i and this lovely, lovely candle -but what And what a happy year it has been on tn ofl for everyone particularly since we pui h Cow ft
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  • 355 5 But govt says: Decision on stadium first A SINGAPORE City Council committee has recommended that "immediate" steps be taken to develop Bukit Batok as a public park ted Mr"!) ?°fcf €d h the former Ci *y ArchiH rt J^ e ni ?i5 n s
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  • 171 5 SINGAPORE Labour De--5 partment's six-month old rehabilitation scheme for disabled workers, bad, up to the end of last month, found 15 persons permanent jobs and six others temporary employment. ft had also up to the end cf January registered the names of 283 employers
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  • 80 5 He leaves behind 25 children A SUM of $6,000, to have been spent yesterday on the funeral of a Singapore Chinese businessman, will be given to charity. The funeral was that of Mr. Chow Lan Kee, aged 84, a leader of the Hakka community. The Knee Fatt School in Cairnhill
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  • 27 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. Inche Taib bin Andak, President of the Sessions Court, Soutii Johore, has been transferred from the Johore Civil Service to Malayan Civil Service.
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  • 31 5 Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce will discuss at its annual general meeting on March 1 a proposal to amend its regulation with regard to communal representation on its committee.
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  • 151 5 PLANTERS HELPFUL: NARAYANAN PENANG, Fri. are welcome signs that Kedah planters appreciate the value of trade unions, Mr. P. P. Narayanan, president of the Malayan Trade Union Council, said in Penang yesterday. Mr Narayanan, who is also secretary of the Plantation Workers* Union of Malaya, has just completed a week's
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  • 48 5 The Singapore Regional Indian Congress' will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. today at the Indian Association grounds at Balestier Road, Singapore. Mr. J. J. Singh, president of the Indian League, who is on a visit to the Colony will sP&ak on "IndoAmerican Relations."
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  • 27 5 The total amount of currency notes in circulation in Malaya on Feb. 1 was $789,262,351, the Board ol Commissioners of Currency said yesterday.
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  • 16 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Pri Mr. D. T. Rice, of the PWD, has been promoted Assistant Engineer.
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  • 25 5 The postponed Bedok M.Y.P., Singapore, reunion social and fancy dress competition will now be held at 25, Sea Avenue, tomorrow at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 36 5 picture. MR. J. P. PENNEFATHEK- EVANS, Singapore's retiring Commissioner of Police and president of the Prince Edward Road Boys Clob, speaking j A given by the club in his honour.* Free Press
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  • 123 5 A FOUR-DAY "Festival of Drama" will be held the dramatic section of tha Raffles Society, University of Malaya, at the Oei Tiong Ham Hall from Monday, Miss Lam Yee Cheng, chairman of the Drama Festival Committee, said yesterday. The festival is being held under the patronage of Sir
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  • 122 5 Free Press SUIT Reporter SINGAPORE'S first life-line and reel, which arrived from Britain nearly four months ago. Is now being used by the Singapore Lifeguard Cokps to train members, Mr. Rowland Lyne, president of the Corps, said yes- Pool— the only people in
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  • 375 5 Free Press Staff Reporter npHERE is nothing legally wrong with the constitution of the Singapore x Trade Union Congress, said Mr. S. Jaganathan, the secretary, yesterday. The registration of the TUC has been approved by the Government. Mr. Jaganathan was commenting on the
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  • 81 5 Ruler sees guards being trained SEREMBAN, Fri. rjIHE Negri Ruler, the Yang JL di-Pertuan Besar, yesterday visited Paroi camp and watched 24 assistant resettlement officers undergoing training as Home Guard leaders. His Highness saw them being trained in -patrol work. Mr. S. H. Kylelittle, state Staff Officer, Home Guard, said
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  • 67 5 JOHQRE BAHRU, Fri. 17-YEAR-OLD Chinese girl, Loo Ah Soo, when charged in the Police Court with having Communist documents, angrily demanded that the police make proper investigations. She also replied angrily, questions put to her. Inche Kadir Yusof, the Magistrate, warned her that if she foehaved
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  • 210 5 Britain will sell us more cloth Free Press Staff Reporter DRITAIN has informed the Singapore Government that more cotton and rayon piecegoccU will be available for export to Malaya this year. Special efforts will be mr.de by Government departments and traders in England to ensure that suitable cloth are made
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  • 58 5 Twenty-six Singapore Chinese associations, clubs and benevolent societies will celebrate on March 1 the anniversary of the appointment of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek as President of the Nationalist Government of China. This was decided at a meeting in the Tiong Hin Club, Cecil Street. The occasion will be
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  • 170 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore's 32 pawnshops were better patronised in the second half of last year than the first ha^f, their profit was considerably less in the latter part of the year, Mr. Lam Soon Chin, an executive committee member of the Singapore Pawnshops' Association,
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  • 707 6 PRINCELING HAS THE FORM Saturday's Ipoh race chances By ALLAN LEWIS THE scratching** of Masterman and Steeltrap L will make Princeling's task much easier. He missed his first engagement, so comes into tins field fresh. He won his last start at Penang. This form with his track work- yesterday—jhe ran
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  • 86 6 fHARLES Humes, European welterweight champion, said on Wednesday night he had decided not to meet Kid Gavilan of Cuba in a proposed March 28 bout for the world title. Gavilan nas been recognised in the United States as the world champion, but the International Boxing Union withheld
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  • 278 6 Magic Oak to triumph over 6 F. again I HAVE no doubt that Box Office will saddle up but can he overcome his rise of one division with an extra 14 lb. for his half lengtb win on the second day. Observation, who finished second to Box Office is also
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  • 18 6 Yesterday's UX. Football result: Irish Cup (Second Round Replay) Ballyraena United 2, Cltftonville o.— Reuter.
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  • 203 6 RIO GRANDE looks one of the best bets of the day after his first start fourth behind Clickity Click. Windy Island and Honourbright. He is down a division with only 51b. extra. He can be relied on to saddle up and should be better
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  • 118 6 Chess results In me Singapore m»« mpiaw^ ip £5 ufrq Boon IT^g Cop are: Roaad S: J. E. M. Fagei beat Billy Chan; Mah Bang Guan beat G. Singh; Peter Seng drew F. Stuart Pett; N. Littlewood drew J. C. Hickey. Tay Khenf Bang beat Sardar Mflhanwl;
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  • 118 6 BOX OFFICE (Mulley) winning the seventh nee (Cl. 3, Div. 3 sf. str > fr seration (Dunwoodie), on the outside, and Tahiti <Md. Padek) on b Fourth was Rapid Bed (E. Donnelly), on the rails Hed «*dar, REP WOLF (Bagby) wtamin* the Afth nice (CL I, Dir.
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  • 284 6 Take Ocean Snare if Bagby Junior rides him OCEAN Snare, Ursinia, Oomaridairn and Spear of Sarawak are the pick of this weak Cl. 3, Div. 2, over nine furlongs field. If Ocean Snare runs the same race as when second to Red Wolf he should have an easy task. For
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  • 9 6 "Golden Boys", a South China
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  • 170 6 DICK JUST KEEPS ON PLAYING F)ICK Savitt isn't talking! That probably will come as a surprise to the Australian Press. Savitt, a big, curly-haired youth who previously never had been in press difficulties, really got it in Australia during and after the Davis Cup matches when he told some reporters
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  • 104 6 The New York Daily News says middleweight champion Ray Robinson has been unable undergo heavy training anc may seek another pMjPjg; ment of his title fight Carl (Bobo^ Olson, now scheduled for Mar. 13. Meanwhile tonne* I weight champion saj* J" Robinson will be or..v.e«
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  • 25 6 Yesterday's U.K. Rugby Wj* results: Hospitals Cup Rcund): Middlesex Hospi* Westminster Hospial 9. Other Match: me Army ritorial Army 5. -pla>«» Coventry).— Feuter.
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  • 300 7  -  NETMAN Wong and Ooi in 13th clash By 4 x s o'clock on Sunday night at the Happy World Stadium Malaya's shuttle stars will I .if court for the first Thomas Cup trial. I m Chuan Geok, president of the Singa'Badminton Association said to
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  • 111 7 I^N^ Uottnun, one e: Britain's :enr.i3 stars, passed through ?'-:a?ore last night on his way Manila He was accompanied '*::>. Joy Gannon Marram and his wife who is ":>n Wightman Cup player. d ?oing to play in the Phinp--w national chamolonsnips *^:cn beg:n today. Mo'tram has
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  • 46 7 I WIMH lest t'-rou*;"":."^" w^o passed oack c? ore v «stwday on his *5 A 4 Or X^' Kal- r. o D rr hat h was sorry he Un as returning after f**** a«a n,t fu c °mmonwealth e c c atc
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  • 276 7 FINALS of the Singapore Base District annuai individual boxing championships take place this evening at Tanglin Barracks gymnasium commencing at 8 p.m. Judging by the standard of boxing attained in the semi-nnals on Wednesday night, Army ring enthusiasts are in for an evening of good
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  • 293 7 Fiji Regt v, S.C.C. tomorrow F.P. Rugby Reporter HPOMORftOWS mgby encounter on the Hftdang between Singapore Cricket Club and the Fiji Infantry Regiment XV promises to be one of the most entertaining matches of the season. Proceeds will be contributed to the Fiji Hurricane Relief Fund. Determined to chalk up
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  • 92 7 Stable hands from a'l over Malaya met at Ipoh and formed a Malayan Stable Hands Association with headquarters at Ipoh. The chief aim ol the Association is to hold Malay and English classes for its illiterate members >t was stated at the meeting. Officials are: Patron:
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  • 74 7 MAHMOUR El Karim. of Egypt, swept Into the semi-finals of the Dunlop professional squash rackets tournament yesterday with a devastating 9-0. 9-0, 9-3 win over Art Biddle, of the English Carlton Club. Biddle was no match for the Egyptian Blaster. B Karim's likely opponent to the final
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  • 42 7 Th~ Grand National. Britain's premier steeplechase, will be neither broadcast nor televised this year, it was stated yesUrday by the lessees and managers of the Aintree racecourse Liverpool. The race win be run on Saturday April s.— Reuter.
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  • 242 7 SAMARA WARNS COSTELLO By Matman TWENTY-ONE disqualifica--1 tions out of 24 fights is the record of Al Costello, wrestling's meanest, roughest and toughest matman, who fights Seelie Samara at the Happy World tomorrow night. For the singing wrestler ("I lull them to sleep, then quietly murder 'em") this indeed is
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  • 300 7 WEIGHTS ror all Latin Affair 8. 11l Ci D v Q r eight races at Picture House 8.09 7T. m WIV- Vr Ipoh tomorrow, final Rio Grande 8.09 Straight On 9.03 day of the Perak Turf Stars Remember 8.08 Adonis 9.00 Club's February meet-
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  • 294 7 Free Press Boxing Reporter T ITTLE Nene, Singapore featherweight boxing has decided to hang up his gloves. Nene has been in the cauliflower bus'ness for 19 years and has had 176 fights. The Filipino said yesterday: "Frankly, I'm not quitting the game altogether, for I
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  • 229 7 F.A. CUP FIFTH ROUND Blackburn v W. B. Albion Burnley v Liverpool Leeds United t Chelsea Leyton Orient Arsenal Luton Town Swindon T. Portsmouth v D. Rovers Southend U. Sheffield U. Swansea v Newcastle U. LEAGUE DIVISION I Tottenham H. v Preston N. E. (brought forward from
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  • 329 7 WINTER GAMES ORATING with superb artistry, Dick Button, 22-year^old Harvard student, outclassed 13 rivals at Oslo last night to retain the Olympic men's figure skating: title he won in St. Moritz in 1948. His breathtaking display of ice acrobatics, effortlessly performed, gained him victory by a
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  • 48 7 picture. McPherson of R.A.F. Tengah in a race for the ball with a Fijian m the semi-final of the seven-a--side rugby on the Padang yesterday, in which Tengah beat Fiji "C" by three-Ail Tengah went down tn Fiii 4< A" in the final.- Free Press
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  • 642 7 R.A.F. Tengah put up game fight v. Fiji 'A' 'SEVENS' FINALS gained three point* when he converted a penalty from in front of the pasts. Just before the final whist to Nicholls was obstructed in chasing the ball over the try-Une and the referee awarded a penalty iry which Thom.on
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  • 142 7 Indians beat Clark Fry Indian G Basant and Miss Laxmi Merchant beat Americans, Straight Clark and Shirley Fry, 6-1, 7-5, in a mixed doubles quarter-final of the West India tennis championships at Bombay yesterday. American Doris Hart entered the semi-final of the women's singles. beating in preliminary rounds. India's Mrs.
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  • 29 7 Danny Bang Bang Womber, Chicago welterweight, easily outpointed Bob Frost of London in an eightround fight on Wednesday night in Glasgow. Both weighed 148 pounds— AP.
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  • 32 8 THE engagement is announced between John, son of Mr. Mrs. W. I. Hacking, of South Kensington, London, and Catherine, daughter of th^ late Mr. T. and Mr* A. Hftlpin. of Waterford.
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  • 17 8 LOGAN: To wife of H. F. Logan, a daughter, at Bungsar Hospital, on 21.2.52. Both doing
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  • 227 8 MID-EAST SITU A TION HAS IMPROVED, SAYS EDEN 14 Foreign Ministers meet in LISBON, Friday. BRITAIN'S Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, yesterday told his 13 Foreign Minister colleagues on the Atlantic Council that the Middle East situation showed clear signs of improvement as a result of a lessening of Anglo-Egyptian
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    75 8 TZUNEZO WACHI, former Japanese commander of naval forces on Iwo Jima, during the gruelling battle of World War 11. ha s been authorised by the American Military Government to return to the island to collect the remains of his former subordinates. Wachi, now a Buddhist priest, is returning the bodies
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  • 28 8 President Truman said in Washington yesterday that his sole ambition as the Chief Executive of the United States was to bring peace to the work! A.F.P.
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  • 23 8 A mountain training exercise involving 22,500 army troops will be held in the Eikins, West Virginia, area during August and September.—UP.
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  • 253 8 LONDON, Friday. NUMBERED identity cards, carried by every Briton for the last 12} years, were abolished yesterday. Loud cheers in the House of Commons greeted a government announcement ending the system which has been decreed as a bar to personal freedom. The Health Minister, Capt. Harry
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  • 46 8 Five passengers and four crew are believed to have died in .a French Liberator passenger aircraft crash in jungle country near Yaounde, French Equatorial Africa. The passengers were four French inhabitants of the French Cameroons and a 13--year-old African boy.-
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  • 100 8 U.N. MEN BREAK AMBUSH TOKYO, Frl. A UNITED Nations patrol was caught In a North Korean ambush northwest of Kansong on the eastern flank of the battle front yesterday. Reinforcements were pinned down by heavy Communist gun fire but eventually the patrol fought its way out. Twentyseven Sabre jets fousht
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  • 47 8 The Philippines navy has captured 11 sailboats smuggling merchandise into the South Philippine Island of Sulu from Borneo. The Government confiscated cargos of American cigarettes, assorted textiles, B«ssware, china and coffee --goods all high up on the list of Government-controlled or prohibited imports—Reuter.
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  • 34 8 Mr. Robert Garner. VicePresident of the World Bank, had private talks in London yesterday with senior British Foreign Office officials on the World Bank's scheme for settling the Anglo-Persian oil dispute.— -Reuter.
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  • 93 8 LONDON, Fri. piLM stars Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding were married shortly before noon yesterday in the midst of a lively mob scene. The 19-year-old bride and her 39-year-old groom, arriving separately, slipped almost unnotierd Into the Carton Registry Hall through a aide
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  • 182 8 A GOVEKNMENT-appointed committee yesterday recommended a drastic change in Britain's sales tax (purchase tax) to remove discrimination against imports from overseas. In its report to Parliament, the committee said that goods produced in Britain should in future enjoy no special tax exemption. Instead purchase tax
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  • 293 8 Alling captain jumped for life BOSTON, Mass., Fri. A COAST Guard officer described last night how the crew of the severed tanker, Fort Mercer, forced their ailing: captain to Jump for safety despite his plea, he being the last to leave the wreck. The story was told in Portland, Maine,
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  • 38 8 The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, yesterday disclaimed all direct knowledge of where in Australia the British atomic weapon was to be exploded, when the test would take place, and the nature of the weapon— Reuter.
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  • 33 8 In a slashing attack on the Japanese peace treaty, the Australian opposition leader. Dr. Evatt, said last night that "anything tending to restore Japanese militarism would be entirely misplaced." A.P.
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  • 59 8 The Canadian Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong, T. R. D. Fletcher said yesterday he has been unable to check the validity of reports that seven Canadianbuilt ships are unloading cargo at the Chinese Communist port of Canton. A dispatch from Japan said the ships were unloading
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  • 41 8 Hie Australian Navy Miniiter Mr. William McMahon denied in Canberra yesterday that Japanese war criminals held on Manns Island have died on working parties. He also said reports of a high tuberculosis rate among prisoners were untrue Renter.
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