The Singapore Free Press, 25 February 1952
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Title Section23 1952-02-25 1 The Singap ore Free Pr ess LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA v.. i* 3 4 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.23 words
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Article438 1952-02-25 1 Split widens over exchange of P prisoners ALLIED insistence that prisoners of war should *on release decide for themselves whether they wish to stay with their former captors or not. threatens to prolong the Korean truce talks. 7;> Communists said yesterday that the talks v rotinueU.P.; A.P. - 438 words
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Article117 1952-02-25 1 FRENCH QUIT OUTPOST HANOI. Man. FENCH and Vietnamese trapi hai€ aiven up the mi-disputed outpost cf Hio B::.h to Communist -led V.?.T. forces, the French C:r.r.u.:af r-in-Chief Gen Iriu inn Minced. i .Kiay thai they N killed m the witht Ml d b now complete T. taading craft and twoA.P.; A.F.P. - 117 words
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Article32 1952-02-25 1 iesia is trying to re- 200 foreign doctors Urn transfer of 'eignty, scores of Dutch B r.ave returned homo ■I iwtihfcfe Indonesians I fci to fill the gap.— j A.P.A.P. - 32 words
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Article, Illustration35 1952-02-25 1 Straight out of badminton's copybook came these three strokes last night backhand (Wong Peng Soon), high clear (Ooi Teik Hock) and smash (Ong Pch Lim). Report of Thomas Cup trials m Page 7.35 words
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Article174 1952-02-25 1 Free Press Staff Reporter HOLLOWING the freeing of the U.S. rubber market during the weekend, the Singapore market opened this morning a cent steadier than Saturday $1.13 per pound of first grade sheets, March shipment. The market was divided on whether the freeing of174 words
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Article52 1952-02-25 1 Europe's current coal shortage is the "most serious and most unnecessary" of the continuous shortages of raw materials, the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe said m Geneva. In spite of plentiful reserves, Europe may have to import more than 50,000,000 tons of coal from the U.S. byReuter - 52 words
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Article131 1952-02-25 1 IMPORT RULES DO NOT HIT CAR MART Free Press Saff Reporter £JEW import controls announced by the Government yesterday are not likely to affect the motor car market m Singapore, a leading dealer said this morning. Importers will suffer to some extent because of restrictions on imports from non-sterling areas.131 words
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Article37 1952-02-25 1 The departure of an Indonesian goodwill mission for Burma scheduled for today has been postponed until a new Indonesian Cabinet has been formed. The mission is to be led by Health Minister Dr. Leimena.- ReuterReuter - 37 words
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Article23 1952-02-25 1 Saigon is going to name one of its main thoroughfares m honour of the lare Marshal of France. General jstn deJ^attre_de_Tas3igny.23 words
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Article20 1952-02-25 1 Thirtyone fishermen are missing from three vessels which sank of! Alexandria m a storm during the weekend.20 words
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Article61 1952-02-25 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese girl who fell off a moving trolley bus m Bukit Timah Road early this morning was taken to hospital m a serious condition. A European couple were hurt when a car knocked them down yesterday outside the Haw61 words
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Article125 1952-02-25 1 Queen to tour New Zealand 'soon AUCKLAND, Monday. TOE New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Sidney Holland, said m a broadcast last night that Queen Elizabeth will "definitely* tour New Zealand as soon as circumstances permit her. From Durban it is reported that the South African Premier, Dr. Daniel Malan hadReuter; A.P. - 125 words
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Article141 1952-02-25 1 Why Australia is test site LONDON, Monday. BRITISH scientists have taken the lead away from the Americans m atomic research despite the immense resources of U.S. atom plants, according to the diplomatic correspondent of the London paper, The People. They have outstripped United States m productionReuter; U.P. - 141 words
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Article19 1952-02-25 1 LUDWIGSHAF2N. Mon. A T»PII«I?vnAITt3 .vnU. II centre of the explosion was the chemicals factory of19 words
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285 1952-02-25 1 EGYPT WILL TALK ONLY WITH BRITAIN CAIRO, Monday. JHE Egyptian Premier, Aly Maher Pasha, was reported yesterday as saying that Egypt will conduct her negotiations with Britain alone. The Premier said that he would start talks with the British Ambassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson this week. It is understood the talksA.P.; U.P. - 285 words
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85 1952-02-25 1 Rioters cool down under fire hoses TOKYO, Mon. Two thousand policemen used fire hoses and tear gas to break up an anti-rearmament demonstration by 1,000 workers and students here. They arrested -12 and 11 police and one student received slight injuries. Since the clash, the Government has tightened security measures.Reuter; AAP - 85 words
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Article113 1952-02-25 1 Premier faces censure move LONDON, Mon. DRIME Minister, Mr. Chur- chill, will assure Parliament again tomorrow that he made n<x secret promises to President Truman that would involve Britain m a wat with Communist China. Mr. Churchill will face hostile Labour critics who will bring a motion of personal censureU.P. - 113 words
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Article26 1952-02-25 1 Stamps of flvg denominations are being issued m Taipeh to commemorate the second anniversary, Mar. 1, of Chiang Kai-shek's reassumption of the presidency.- A.P.A.P. - 26 words
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284 1952-02-25 1 50 more divisions for West defence LISBON, Mon. <THE North Atlantic Treaty Council announced last night that its members are pledged to raise about 50 divisions, 4,000 warplanes and "strong naval forces'' this year for the defence of Western Europe. A high official of the Council of the North AtlanticU.P.; Reuter - 284 words
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Article50 1952-02-25 1 Passengers m a Singapore Traction Company bus on the Keppel Harbour Moulmein "Road route hurriedly jumped off when electrial equipment of the bus short circuited and caught lire this morning. An engine from the Central Fire Station put out the blaze. The bus was parti* ally damaged.50 words
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Advertisement82 1952-02-25 1 SMi^i v. lie y^nannel —We//, perhaps next year y k anything Once M "y 3 John And one can well misch c 1m F ull of exuberant health venturesome ievous he is at once a joy and a trial D a ok hat C W GatC he S been havtn^82 words
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Advertisement27 1952-02-25 1 Atom classes for schools WASHINGTON. Mori. COURSES m atomic energy will soon be Just as common W American nigh I schools as algebra. A Drograinme nas_ new27 words
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Advertisement13 1952-02-25 1 ■3w^^iiP^s^^#''O P. 64 OF I A c PRODUCT I HADE IN CNCLANO I13 words
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Article, Illustration66 1952-02-25 2 "Cameo Mandola" a toy poodle takes a Hying leap over his companions, miniature ©oodles, "Cameo Chimebell" and "Cameo Cnalemie" ajid from their expression they're obviously used to Mandola's showing off. Left: Allan Harvey, 13, of S tan more. Middlesex, who hag collected 4,000 stamps ki five years, made66 words
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938 1952-02-25 2 Turn-Coat Taf t Backs European Army jdfjgpskgajd SENATOR ROBERT TAFT, of Ohio, one of the outstanding Republican candidates for the Presidency next autumn, has left millions of Americans asking questions For, until now the representative of the hard core of Isolationism, Taft suddenly writes a letter to a mysterious "third938 words
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490 1952-02-25 2 CAN ANIMALS BE TRAINED WITHOUT CRUELTY? Spotlight on Circuses The circus is an international affair, and wherever there is a circus charges of cruelty to animals are raised. IN California, every 1 circus is inspected, and must get permits from the city health and animal departments. But whajt is cruelty?490 words
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Article506 1952-02-25 2 Danger Money Let's Face It says GEORGE SCHWARTZwho always waited to bs a fireman! it isn't the danger ef the job that determines the pay bat the number of people who are ready FIREMEN m Britain should receive higher pay than the police because of the personal risks involved. So506 words
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Article232 1952-02-25 2 BY stirring up trouble m the Middle East, Stalin's secret agents are planning to defeat bans on the shipping of strategic war materials to Russia. The wartime supply line from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea and South Russia is the main highway Xor clandestine supplies. A232 words
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Article189 1952-02-25 2 GULF IS SUPP LY ROUTE niuierlo ri have opera d] ;-p^:':. agency 3r r s fe. Bwedeii and ou.^ Moscow Canu v" tually come unoer r control. Thfc £K^ the passing of to Russia froir ••V v the P^an Gu/";" m the even 0 J a >-? Quarantine or blcfi;aor189 words
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Advertisement126 1952-02-25 2 GOLF MY WAY H4f DC ETC British Match-Play Champion Master Gaiter, 1950 M No ffolfer can afford to be without this book by the best professional Britain has today. It costs only sb.3o and if illustrated by 64 action photographs and a special chapter for the woman j HEINEMANN DONALD126 words
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Miscellaneous110 1952-02-25 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you are a natural innovator. You learn things quietly and have memory that retains knowledge easily. Yet you are net content with this. You wish to discover new methods and pot into use new Ideas. Your Imagination hi the creative. onstrucUve type. Ton waste little110 words
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Miscellaneous56 1952-02-25 2 New Crossword No. 594 CLUES ACROSS 1. Colloquially summoned (3, 2). 4. Weeds m which prisoners .appear m courts (5). 7. In play begin with a nautical, arrangement (8), 3). 8. Gives one the shooting distance (5-6). 9. Does this captious critic discover where the blame lies? (5-6). 11. This56 words
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Article393 1952-02-25 3 FATHER BRANDED ME GIRL, 11, SAYS iVII LONDON, Monday. AN 11-year-oW g,rl told Highgate magistrates that her father hit her about 60 times m one evening with his belt and then burned her SL »«M P cuee u e put a poker m the fireHe told me to bend down393 words
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Article, Illustration14 1952-02-25 3 Todays pin up is 'Patricia Madina' m exotic eastern clothes m Columbia's 'Magic Carpet.'14 words
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219 1952-02-25 3 Scientists gather to watch the sun KHARTOUM, Mon. Scientists, ga- here lor the ot the sun y, are keeping gngers crossed and .V/\, for clear skies. v the weather S V them sweating m JS- ways :h.m one. The n 5s n was Feb. 8. when E temperature soared toAP - 219 words
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Article61 1952-02-25 3 BONN, Mon. THE West German Govern--1 ment said that free and democratic elections m all Germany must precede the conclusion of peace treaty. It was commenting on a communique on last week's appeal tc the four occipation powers by the East German government for a quick peaceReuter - 61 words
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Article37 1952-02-25 3 U.S. SHORT OF FUEL a fuel oU Is rations ot U v I States Beet. requirements of an Is of special I for i livery between July "Temain Ito The extent of j 3- i"JO.00O barr- ..> A.P.A.P. - 37 words
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Article36 1952-02-25 3 Tr -c former Japanese Agrigjture Forestry Minister, .•--a:o Nemoto, is expected Banna m mid-March J«8 Ua fw more rice I Jflgo aa a special en--2 J the Prime Minister. Yoshida.- A.P.A.P. - 36 words
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Article51 1952-02-25 3 Warm weather this weekend m Austria threatened renewed danger from avalanches which have already cut off villages m many mountainous part* of thp country. Nine slides of snow have closed the road from Salzburg fo Gastein. South of Saizburg 11 avalanches have blocked the mountain road.Reuter - 51 words
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Article28 1952-02-25 3 Thirty-seven vessels were held up m the Canal, Port Said and Suez during the weekend after five ships £"ll run aground during Thursday's night' s sandstorm.28 words
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Article279 1952-02-25 3 LONDON, Monday. THE £350 brick wall that Miss Kathrine Webb, a doe breeder, had built m front of her home to keen her ten dachshunds safe and sound has angered the villagers of Holy cross (Worcestershire). They are complaining that Miss Webb's wall— it is279 words
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Article67 1952-02-25 3 Prohibition appears likely around the corner m Egypt as the Chamber of Deputies Health ana Finance Committees has approved the draft of a bill to outlaw both drinking and the sale of liquors. The legislation provides for prison terms of three months and fines up to £100U.P. - 67 words
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Article70 1952-02-25 3 MELBOURNE, Mott. A A £50 prize has t?een offered for the most melodious bathroom baritone m Geelong. an industrial city 40 miles from Melbourne. Records of competitors' voices will be made m their own bathrooms. The prize has been offered by the Master Plumbers' AssociationReuter - 70 words
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139 1952-02-25 3 Charge made widow rock with grief POITIERS, France, Mon. J^ME. MARIE BESNARD, charged with the murders of 11 persons, including two husbands, moaned with grief when she heard herself accused of pcisoning her mother. The 54-year-old widow sat motionless through the first hours of her trial m the crowded littleA.P. - 139 words
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Article45 1952-02-25 3 Indonesian regular army units are deserting to join the Darul Islam m guerilla warfare against the Government. In Central Java, an entire army battalion went over to the Darul Islam and began war against the Government's loyal troops. A. P.A.P. - 45 words
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Article70 1952-02-25 3 MELBOURNE, Mon. JN the fifth to ninth years of married life there is greater risk of breaches between couples than m any other period, according to Australian divorce records. There are fewer divorces between the tenth and nineteenth years. After the troubled years couples just makeReuter - 70 words
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Article61 1952-02-25 3 Booty was art treasure I LONDON, Mon. THIEVES have raided 1 one of England's most famous castles, taking an unknown number of priceless art treasures. Police said that Highclere Castle, ancient home of the Earl of Carnarvon near Nevvbury, Berkshire, was robbed of several valuable paintings The castle has a61 words
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Article32 1952-02-25 3 Radio Peking alleged that American planes had dropped cholera germs on the Communist lines and areas behind the front m North Korea between Jan. 28 and Feb. 17.- A.F.P.A.F.P. - 32 words
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Article571 1952-02-25 3 Jf you double an opponent's opening preemptive bid of four m a suit, you are not doubling for a takeeff; you are doubling for penalties This doesn't mean that partner is barred from bidding; far from it. But he should not take cut your double unless he has571 words
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Article344 1952-02-25 3 WELLINGTON, Monday. MEW Zealand, Britain's chief meat supplier and 11 one of the world's greatest exporters of butter and cheese, is threatened with a food shortage of her own. The warning has gone forth that, by 1953, there may not be enough bread to spread the344 words
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Article197 1952-02-25 3 LONDON, Mon. J^ MAN said to be serving two years' imprisonment for receiving stolen property was brought from Wandsworth Prison to make a successful application to the L.C.C. Public Control Committee that they should not cancel his registration as a hairdresser m the Old Kentroad.197 words
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Article128 1952-02-25 3 FRANKFURT, Germany, Mon. and German deiectives are searching hotels and rooming houses for a clue to folve the mys e.y surrounding the deaths 01 United States sc-dier and 2 23 year old German beauty, whose nude bodies weia found side by side m thaU.P. - 128 words
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Article29 1952-02-25 3 The United States is paying all the construction ccsts ol huge air bases being built m North Africa eventually to be turned over to Prance. ReuterReuter - 29 words
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Article23 1952-02-25 3 President Vargas of Brazil has signed a decree creating a commission to control sales and exports of all strategic materials.- A.P.A.P. - 23 words
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Advertisement26 1952-02-25 3 TAIILOO '■•^i^l Hfi for all your fancy cooking! i^^^^ffliiJ? n w back n the hops ain M^. T Wxsy Prce controlled at 60 cents per lb26 words
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Advertisement83 1952-02-25 3 CHEAPEST IN CITY (HONESTY OUR POLICY QUALITY OUR MOTTO) BED SHEETS Size 53" x 90" $4.80 Ea*»h PILLOW CASES Size 20" x 30" $1 40 Each ENG. NIGHT GOWNS (All sixes) $5.96 Each WHITE POPLIN SHIRTS (All sizes) $5 90 Each ENG. CRETONES for CURTAINS 46" $1.40 p. yd. BEFORE83 words
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Miscellaneous214 1952-02-25 3 Radio SINGAPORE 935 a.m. Schools; 10 Emergency News From K.L.; 10.05 "Tunes From Yesterday and Today"; 10 45 Schools; 1 p.m. "Monday Matinee"; 1.30 News: 1.45 "Home on the Range"; 2-2.50 Schools; 6 15 Children's; 6.35 "Dvorak"; 655 Announcements: 7-7.15 News; 7 30 'Spot The Favourites"; 8 "World by Allimrton214 words
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499 1952-02-25 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Feb, 25, 1952. A Tokyo warning THE violence and the extent of the Communist riots m Japan ha£ undoubtedly come as an unpleasant shock to Washington whose policy has been to shape the ex-enemy into an anti-Commu-nist weapon m the Far East. What if American499 words
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Article883 1952-02-25 4 WEST GERMAN MAWS WILL BEGIN IT— WITH COMMUNIST ARMS A NTOHY TERRY, ace foreign correspondent m Germany, has carried our a three-months' undercover investigation into the rebirth ol the Nazis. Below are some of the facts he has discovered m a threemonth investigation, facts883 words
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Article183 1952-02-25 4 The Lion and the Unicorn fTHE QUEEN is above! all the rules of] heraldry. Thus she adopts the arms of the reigning Sovereign— the shield supported by a lion and a unicorn— without any- change at all. No Queen has borne them since the days of Victoria. Usually, a woman183 words
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Letter419 1952-02-25 4 FLORENCE MASON - FLORENCE MASON LETTER FROM MALAYA by I^IVE letters from Malaya bring home to me m London what it really means to do a civilian Job right m the front line of a shooting war. Otters, I suppose, are nothing out of the ordinary these days. They419 words
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Article, Illustration31 1952-02-25 4 "Call from the Kremlin, Mr. Taft.* In view of your intention to invade China with only 600,000 Chiang Kai-shek troops, they are'prefwed to. defend H with only a few billion Chinese31 words
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Article, Illustration453 1952-02-25 4 HALL ROMNEY - HALL ROMNEY LETTER FROM LONDON by MALAYA'S share m iT1 the mourning for the late King is symbolised by her two flags above Malaya House m Trafalgar Square, past which His Majesty had driven on many ceremonial occasions. A week ago the flags flew for a453 words
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Article631 1952-02-25 4 Australian films in danger QTOCK-taking m the O Australian feature film industry suggests that it is facing possible extinction. The troubles of the industry have become known as a result of, the decision by the Ealing Studios, the most active overseas participant m Australian film making, to withdraw entirely. Ealing631 words
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Advertisement27 1952-02-25 4 RESETTING JEWELLERY IS A SPECIALITY OF MINE I HAVE DONE IT fOR OVER 25 YEARS CAN ASSURE EVERY SATISFACTION S.P.H.deSILVA 45, Hiffh St.. Singapore. Koala Lumpur Ipoh27 words
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Advertisement17 1952-02-25 4 I 2nd FIooN I IS. t«H«ry R©^. s i MORNING, AFTERNOON, COCKTAIL ft EVENING GOWNS. Exquitite Models.17 words
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Article, Illustration306 1952-02-25 5 Petition to City will say: 'It'll give us cheaper entertainment mvi? j t Fwe Press staff Reporter fHL residents of Geylang, Katong, Bedok and Changi will petition p.s» Sl apore £ity. Coun «l to permit the Great Eastern Trade *air m beylang Serai to306 words
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140 1952-02-25 5 COUNTESS TO VISIT ST. JOHN CLINICS Free Press Staff Reporter no 0 MESS Mountbatl n superintendent-In-Chief, St. John Ambulance Brigade, will review Brigade nursing divisions Singapore next week. s is on her way to gorea to visit hospitals. Ifounbatten will also clinics attached to si ?apo»€ Social Welfare i centres.140 words
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Article80 1952-02-25 5 SEREMBAN. Mon— S 0m c unions Of plantation workers is Negri Sembilan are thrgatenlna to withdraw from the Malayan Trade Union Counc.: because a Negri Sembilan ■m baj been recommended by the MTUC for a United States Youth and Leadership Gran f foOowln* the refusal of the80 words
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113 1952-02-25 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Council's Service Committee should be abolished and its functions taken over by a sub-commit-tee of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, suggests the Council's Procedure Committee. Reason: the Service Committee by itself Is not In a position to consider113 words
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Article220 1952-02-25 5 1,059,000 LIVE IN STORE Free Press Staff Reporter THE population of Singapore 1 Island m the middle of last year was estimated at 1,059,373, or practically equal to that of Perak (1,060,330), according to official statistics published this morning. The Federation's population at the same period was 5,420,738. Perak's population220 words
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Article64 1952-02-25 5 A dinner was held at the residence of An* Ken* Or. a Chinese poet, m Choon Guan Street. Singapore, during the week-end on the occasion of the engagement of Mr. Ang's grand-daughter. Miss Ang Kok Eng. to Mr. Tan Sione Beng. son of a Jakarta rubber merchant. Kok Eng64 words
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Article79 1952-02-25 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Jtyfß. J. M. Jumabhoy. a Singapore City Councillor, will inspect the recently installed sluice gate ti reduce floods m the Teluk Aver area, on Wednesday. At noon that day the high water reaches the exceptional maximum height of 10.4 feet. Should79 words
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Article78 1952-02-25 5 Rev. W. H. K. Arrowsmith. the secretary of the Australa. sian Council of Bible Societies, will arrive m Singapore on March 9 after attending the International Council's conference of Bible Societies m India. He will spend two days m the Colony before returning to Australia. Rev.78 words
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Article, Illustration87 1952-02-25 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— A conference of delegates from the Johore Bahru, Kota Tinggl and Mersing branches, held at Kota Tinggi on Friday, elected Raja Omar bin Chik and Inche Rahman Jaffar to be the branches' delegates at the UMNO general assembly to be held In Kuala87 words
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Article109 1952-02-25 5 Church plans two new schools Free Press Staff Reporter rO new English schools will be built m Singapore and the Federation this year by the Church of England, said Mr. Dong Chui Sing, the Diocesean secretary for church schools'. One of the schools will be built m Kuala Lumpur, and109 words
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185 1952-02-25 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MORE than 1,000 school children, about 800 guests ifl and many thousands of other Colony citizens will watch Sir Franklin Gimson, the Governor of Singapore, being conferred the Freedom of the City on March 14. The ceremony will take place185 words
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Article155 1952-02-25 5 FOLLOWING is the latest list of donations to the S.A.T.A. fund Gutwfctb Trading Co. (M), from proceeds of the Gutwlrth Charity Raffle $7,320.00; Singapore Standard, proceeds from Charity Football Match $3,019.50; Chinese Mew Year Social and Dance, organised by Mr. John Khoo's committee, $2,403.80; Lifeguard Milk Co.,155 words
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Article259 1952-02-25 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Councils Finance Committee has rejected the application by the Senior Officers' Association that the salaries of all senior employees be brought m line with those newly approved for certain posts m the Electricity Department. The committee is believed259 words
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Article146 1952-02-25 5 More workers form unions Free Press Staff Reporter WHERE were 107 trade A unions m Singapora last year an increase of 900 per cent, over the figure m 1946, and 13 per cent, since the Emergency. A Singapore Labour Dopartmeni spokesman said the increase was due to mort trade union146 words
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Article82 1952-02-25 5 DECRUITING of 500 voiun- teers for the Singapore Volunteer Corps will begin on Saturday. Recruits will be interviewed at the S.V.c. Hall, Beach Road, between 9 am. an£ 7 p.m. daily except on Sundays. Lieut-Col. R. W. WataonHyatt, Commandant of tne Corps, yesterday appealed f>p volunteers to82 words
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Article25 1952-02-25 5 KUALA KANGSAR Man Kuala Kangsar District Boy Scouts' Association observed two minutes' silence m menjjorr of the late King at their annual meeting25 words
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Article137 1952-02-25 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MEMBERS of the Singapore Social Welfare Department's Beys' Clubs will soon be able to learn Judo at the Queen Street Boys* Club. Special Japanese straw mats have already been bought. They will help cushion falls during training. l A number of137 words
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Article520 1952-02-25 6 Ski jumpers clinch issue VORWAY won the sixth Winter Olympic games yesterday with her soaring ski jumpers. The ski- jump -event gave the home team four places for an unbeatable unofficial point score of 125.5 for all events. The United States had only a mathematical chance520 words
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Article180 1952-02-25 6 HERE is a list of previous champions crowned m the Sixth Winter Olympics concluded yesterday at Oslo: WOMEN Giant slalom ski Andrea Mead Lawrence, USA, 2:06.8. Downhill skiing— Trade Jochum Beiser, Austria, 1:47.1. Slalom ski race Andrea Mead Lawrence, USA, 2:10.6. Figure Skating— Jeanette Altwee?, England.180 words
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Article, Illustration75 1952-02-25 6 fdhhdf STRAIGHT ON (Lansdown) winning th c fifth race (Cl. 3, Div. I— 9f.) from Star of India (Tulloh), on the rails, m a photo finish at Ipoh on Saturday. Third was British Film (Mulley) and fourth Adonis (McCloud). PRINCELING (Mulley) winning th e sixth race (Cl. 3,Free Press - 75 words
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921 1952-02-25 6 ALLAN LEWIS - ALLAN LEWIS How they rah on Saturday By V HAVE never seen a better exhibition of horsemanship than Billy Bagby's 1 exhibition on Ocean Snare, on whom he won the third race, Cl. 3, Div. 2— 9f at the last day of Hhe921 words
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640 1952-02-25 6 SOCCER'S 'BIC THREE ENTER SIXTH ROUND By JIM CHAMBERS VTEWCASTLE United, holders, Arsenal iy mouth— the "biff three" of t»' r/ 0^ tournament won through to the sixth Cu J> the national knock-out tournament on w und < 310,000 fans watched the eight W me n round. m l "c640 words
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Article272 1952-02-25 6 IRISH BEAT SCOTS BY 12 TO 8 LTHOUGH they plavM man short for most of game, Ireland. to?t£? national champions J£ well-deserved vict-.n- "r^JJ hn on Saturday ir the r Union taterittaw^B Scotland by 12 po'ni .penalty, thn- t:,' I •one goal, or, pena I Ireland, with their h-n iReuter - 272 words
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Article147 1952-02-25 6 S.A.F.A. win in Kluang A Singapore fcssoci w XI Kluang yev.-T. bincd Kluang XI m a match, woo «H via I gly b goals to one. Despite threatening weather a larce crowd turned up to J* visitors, who made a gooc Qre&sion. For the first ben mtauttt P was even.147 words
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Miscellaneous175 1952-02-25 6 IfldliUrdKß Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya X^^ Tl ri^HAS EASY-BMCWSE NOONE I MAMA-1 SAW I HAVEN'T CHILDREN I I THAT% THE I VOC/AS f BUT WHY f BELIEVED IN US" EVEN IF THEY A TINY MAN WONOEftFUL WAY IT WENT. OON'T WE KNOW 'WtCONQUEUD NATION APTER. SAW175 words
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Article, Illustration370 1952-02-25 7 S. C. C. SA W THEIR PANTS OFF —But couldn't beat them Free Press Rugby Reporter H)W many pants make a rugger player? Where Fijiuns are concerned it takes more than the un.versally -accepted one pair. Members of the Fiji Regiment XV shocked, puzzled and then amused spectators at Saturday'sFree Press - 370 words
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Article, Illustration766 1952-02-25 7 LEE SIEW YEE - 001 SETS THOMAS CUP PROBLEM LEE SIE W YEE Can he stand the strain? By] j^UK Malaya's badminton lovers, the Thomas Cup trials last night settled a question of personal prestige, which is, whether Wong Peng Soon is a greater player than Ooi Teik Hock. In three uneven sets. PengFree Press - 766 words
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Article317 1952-02-25 7 MEET a new European boxing champion who since 1938 has been fighting for peanuts. He is baldheaded Teddy Gardner, who runs a very cheerful little pub m the English town of West Hartlepool, and last week flattened France's Louis Sckena to win the European flyweight title.A.P. - 317 words
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Article175 1952-02-25 7 'Continu-d from Page defeat him by a head. 8w«B Ele-en looked as though it through at the ■jwee. but over the last half he rhnrtened stride and :limbing.* J [am took the minor r toney alter oeing prominent Except for being on Wilaide a horse nearly all he c175 words
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Article205 1952-02-25 7 By MATMAN I AM not going to let any man, wrestlers and boxers included, to hit me and get away with it," said an angry Wally Oakes on Saturday night, after he took a sock at Al Costello's jaw before disqualifying the singing wrestler m his fight205 words
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Article, Illustration31 1952-02-25 7 MOTHER SON Mrs. Bagby leads m OCEAN SNARE, ridden by her son Billy Bagby, who won the third race (Cl. 3, Div. 2, 9F.) at Ipoh en Saturday.— Free Press picture.31 words
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Article18 1952-02-25 7 Italy's B Football XI defeated Turkey 1-0 m a match played at Naples yesterday.- U.P.U.P. - 18 words
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Article165 1952-02-25 7 A BIG entry has been received for the allEngland badminton championships to be played m London on Mar. 19 and 20. Top-notch players from Malaya, Denmark, Sweden and a lone entry from Canada, 26-year-old Mrs. Kay Grant will inevitably wipe out British players. Wong Peng Soon, theA.P. - 165 words
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Article62 1952-02-25 7 THE Queensland Turf Club Is offering £37,565 m stake money for its three-day Btradbroke Handicap-Brisbane Cup meeting m May. The Brisbane Cup is valued at £12,000 to which is added a trophy valued 300 guineas. The Stradbroke Handicap is worth £7,000. In addition, there will be theA.P. - 62 words
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Article33 1952-02-25 7 A Negro has been signed to a Texas league contract for the first time m the history of the 64-year-old baseball circuit. He is Ray Neil. 26-year-old second baseman.- A.P.A.P. - 33 words
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349 1952-02-25 7 FERGUSON SPED 112M.P.H.-BUTHE WAS DISAPPOINTED j^MONG the competitors who participated m the Singapore Motor Club's Kilometre Speed Trial held on Dunearn road yesterday; none was more disappointed than 40-year-old BUI Fefflli* son, winner of the last year's Johore Grand Prix. He had Rood reason to feel so— for his favourite349 words
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312 1952-02-25 7 Free Press Boxing Reporter VAI SOMPONG, Singapore's welterweight cham--11 pkm, is m fine fettle for his All-Malaya title fight with Golden Boy, the Federation title holder on Friday night. Sompong, now m his 36th year, said he has never felt fitter. Asked how he312 words
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Article226 1952-02-25 7 Pleasing form by Titian DACEGOERS at the Birm- Ingham meeting early last week may well have seen the eventual winners of the Lincolnshire Handicap and the Grand National steeplechase m action. Mr. Bernard Abbott's 4-year-old, Titian, scored an impressive win on his maiden outing over hurdles and with the announcementReuter - 226 words
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Article, Illustration19 1952-02-25 7 Up over MRS. PEGGY RENDLE. a competitor m the Hunter Trials event of the Staff**' pore Polo Club Gymkhana?19 words
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Article264 1952-02-25 7 COME excellent riding w«f seen yesterday morning at tn« Singapore Polo Club's Gymkhana meeting at Thomson Road. All the event* were keenly contested. There were no accidents except for a minor spill. Mrs. J. Reeve* oeing unseated from her mount. T"m Tit, at the last hurdle ia the264 words
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Article25 1952-02-25 8 MACKIE: On 21st February, 1053. at Bungsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, to Daphne, wife of J. C. S. Mackie, M.C.S.. a son. Alexander Campbell Stephen.25 words
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Obituary70 1952-02-25 8 MRS. WONG KWOK SHU EN (71 years) died 22.2 1952 m Hongkong. Mother of Mrs. Ricnard Lim and Mrs. Oh Lock Beng. w, WHAT ARE ZELL-EMS?.... ZELL-EMS are brightly coloured SELF ADHESIVE plastic letters fr figures. They can be fixed lor removed) m a second to (lass windows, V£r'i,.70 words
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271 1952-02-25 8 'Poison pcn 9 post boxes dot Shanghai HONG KONG, Monday. A RECENT Shanghai arrival says that "at least 50 people a day" are committing suicide m Shanghai because of Red China's new and virulent "self-confession" campaign. "You won't see anything about itA.P. - 271 words
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Article, Illustration41 1952-02-25 8 picture. "Bonny Mary" drifted helplessly m the sea yesterday until a motor boat went to her rescue and pulled her ashore. The heavy rain which beat down on the Naval Base sailing club's annual regatta tore her main sail.— Free PressFree Press - 41 words
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Article71 1952-02-25 8 HONG KONG, Mon. rE wedding of Mr. Patrick Yu Shuk-siu, Hong Kong's first and only Chinese Crown Counsel, and Miss Lucia Yuking Fung took place here on Saturday. Miss Fung is the daughter of Mr. Fung Poi-fong, general manager of the Fung Keong Rubber Manufacturers Ltd.A.P. - 71 words
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140 1952-02-25 8 HONG KONG, Mon. /COMMUNISTS are "doing \j their best" to squeeze out foreign business firms and liquidate Shanghai's once thriving import-export houses entirely, according to reports reaching Hong Kong from the mainland These reports said that th£ Communists definitely want the foreigner toA.P. - 140 words
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Article65 1952-02-25 8 India is scouring the world to find more rice, Mr Nehru, the Prime Minister, told a conference of State Food Ministers m New Delhi. Rice shortage m India is now a major political issue. The Communist success m the recent elections m riceeating South India wasA.P. - 65 words
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Article27 1952-02-25 8 Dr. Brock Chisholm, Direc-tor-General of the United Nations World Health Organisation arrived m Colombo by air from India yesterday to survey health problems there ReuterReuter - 27 words
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113 1952-02-25 8 MANILA, Monday. LARGE force of Communist Hukbalahaps have killed m an ambush Serafin Lazatin, 73-year-old president of the Pampanga Sugar Development Company, and four others near the Pampanga village of San Jose, about two miles from the provincial capital of San Fernad. LatestReuter - 113 words
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Article44 1952-02-25 8 America's steel industry, now engaged m the largest expansion programme ever undertaken, spent a total of 1,041 million dollars for new equipment and construction last year. This year, the comnonies plan to spend even mere about 1.3 billion dollars A.P.A.P. - 44 words
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Article249 1952-02-25 8 Asia asks for expert advice TOKYO, Monday. MAJOR Japanese mining companies have started co-operating with various Asian nations m the exploitation of their underground resources, Nihon Keizai, Japanese economic journal, said yesterday. The journal said technicians of these companies have visited the Philippines, SiamA.P. - 249 words
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Article53 1952-02-25 8 A two-way radio, the size of a wrist watch long famous iiy the American Dick Tracy comic strip may soon become a reality The General Electric Company has announced that 'a really -personal radio, of hearing and sue, running indefinitely on one set of batteries, isA.P. - 53 words
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Article100 1952-02-25 8 Japs ignore call to surrender MANILA, Mon. A PHILIPPINE constabulary report today said that Colonel Nobuhiko Jimbo's appeal to the Japanese stragglers on Lubang Island to surrender peacefully to the authorities had apparently been Ignored. The report said instead of responding to the colonel's loudspeaker appeal the stragglers fled toReuter - 100 words
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Article53 1952-02-25 8 HE RANG BELLS FOR 2 KINGS Cheng Kao, former verger of St. John's (Anglican) Cathedral, Hong Kong, came out of retirement to toll the bells for King George VT's memorial service. He had tolled the same bells 16 years before on Jan. 28, 1936 at the memorial service for KingA.P. - 53 words
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Article26 1952-02-25 8 Pakistan bought more from Japan than from Britain during 1951 for the first time. Pakistan's exports went mainly to Britain, totalling Rs. 314,000,000 worth.26 words
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Advertisement239 1952-02-25 8 NOTICE NOTICE Is hereby given that I, Kang Kong Kee of No. 351, Jalan Besar, Singapore have applied to the Board of Licensing Justices. Singapore for a Ist class Public House Licence restricted to the sale of Beer A Stout, and that my application will be heard m the Court239 words
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Miscellaneous39 1952-02-25 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris I T!^E3BSir^ NKS IHSPBCVOR > ICM TA X CARE*] VVO YOU THINK V NOT FOR! 1 NO, NOT EVEN FOR VERY LONG I L iHSSp'^wL S TWO HALP COCKEC? CREEPS 1 MRS. HOPLEY J EVER,39 words
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