The Singapore Free Press, 5 March 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE Of MALAYA m I*.**- SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH S, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    DEATH CLOUDQVER CITY
    620 1 Refugees freeze in night of horror ftKSCUE workers were still toiling this on Japan's most northerly island. Hokkaido among the uncounted victims of ierdav vast earthquake and the eight tidal C and many fires which followed it. The death roll has reached hundreds, with thou«nd* injured and
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    CALLED ON CHURCHILL FOR A JOB
    114 1 LONDON, Wed. DETERMINED Scotsman arrested yesterday for M| to barge into Mr. Churchill's house at No. 10 Do'.vr..r.? Street finally got what he vent after a job. Jjhn Soobie. 26-year-old labourer, w&s held on charges of insulting behaviour and using insulting language. Scobie "kicked
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    120 KILLED AS TRAINS COLLIDE AND BURN
    215 1 1 20 KILLED AS TRAINS COLLIDE AND BURN RIO DE JANEIRO, Wed. TWO crowded passenger A trains collided and burned near Rio yesterday and latest reports said 120 persons were killed and more than 200 injured. Ninety-three bodies were recovered from the wreckage and nine passengers died in a local
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    11 road deaths in a month
    53 1 ELEVEN people were killed in 10 fatal accidents on Singapore roads last month, a Traffic spokesman said today A total of 970 accidents involving all forms of vehicular traffic wa A recorded for the same period. This showed an improvement over January, when there
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    OIL SOUGHT IN BRITAIN
    43 1 The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company has resumed boring on the verge of the Formby oilfields, in Lancashire. The company is also prospecting at Eakring,- near Nottingham. The output of each field is about 50,000 tons of oil per year.- A.F.P.
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    OIL TALKS
    28 1 World Bank negotiator, Mr. Hector Prudhomme, arrived in Teheran by plane yesterday to continue talks with Premier Dr. Mossadeq for a solution of the oil deadlock.
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    Ship radios 'We're chased by raiders1
    98 1 Ship radios 'We're chased by raiders 1 PAIPEI, Wed. »THE Plymouth Star, a British freighter, radioed yesterday that it was being chased by two unidentified armed craft off the coast of China, and requested "tell the Navy". The message was heard by Keelung coastal radio station in Northern Formosa and
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    3 MEN HOLD UP BANK
    46 1 Three men held up a branch of the Bank of Montreal yesterday and police estimated the amount stolen was between $10,000 and $15,000. The bandits ignored the screaming, of women employees as they leaped the counter to get the money. U.P.
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    The Queen's birthday
    30 1 Queen Elisabeth's birthday win be celebrated dally on Jane 5 this year a Buckingham Palace anneunceiemt said yesterday. The Queen's actual birthtar |g tn April tV A.P.
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    56 1 picture. THE ENGINE dragged this wrecked refreshment coach several yards along the track after Monday's outrage on the railway line near Rompin. Bandits exploded a bomb under the coach as the mixed passenger- goods train from Gemas to Negri Sembilan was passing over a bridge. Passengers in the refreshment coach
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    ATTLEE WINS PARTY ROW
    140 1 LONDON, Wednesday. THE former Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, and other top "moderate" Labour Party leaders scored a decisive victory yesterday over Mr. Aneurin Bevan, leftwing Labour leader, i» a showdown over Britain's rearmament programme. Sources present at the closed meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party said
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    Trobella to win again
    40 1 ALLAN LEWIS, Free Press racing correspondent, gives Trobella. Cinema and Stenvcta as taif best bets at Penan* today. Outsiders: Bine Eyes and Skyscraper. TRESPASSER recommends Ocean Snare and Trobella. THE. GOING is expected to be soft.
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    ACTRESS GOES INTO COMA
    54 1 Una Merkel, 43-year-old blonde comedienne, lay in a coma yesterday at the Santa Monica hospital from an overdose of sleeping pills. Seven years ago Miss Merkel's mother. Bess, 60, took her own life b v opening five gas Jets in her New York apartment and then
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    French break up threat to Hanoi
    105 1 SAIGON, Wednesday. FRENCH planes and artillery plastered Communist Vietminh spearheads yesterday in a first big operation to wipe out Red units massing for an assault on Hanoi. An official communique said Franco-Vietnam forces launched the drift on Sunday against the Communists who infiltrated into
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    MAIDEN VOYAGE
    21 1 The new 25,000-ton Italian Line ship, Atigustos, sailed yesterday on Its maiden voyage to South American Atlantic ports.- A.P.
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    PROTEST OVER SOVIET 'SUBS9
    55 1 PROTEST OVER SOVIET 'SUBS 9 CIUDAD TRUJILLO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Wed. rB Government yesterday accused Russia of ...t«,^n4« into Nations Security Council on charges of violating "international law." TJie Armed Forces Minister, General Hector Trujillo ereignty" Russia is showing its contempt for small nations. An official said It had been "definitely
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    PIHAY PUTS OFF FINAL DECISION
    156 1 PARIS, Wed. MR. ANTOIKE 1 PINAY, 60--year-old Moderate Conservative, announced last night he had agreed to try to form a government to tackle France's grave financial problems but then he postponed his decision after seeing President Vincent Auriol. Mr. Pinay. a tannery owner, called on
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    30 NAZIS GET BACK JOBS
    49 1 Munich City Council, by a majority of one vote, decided yesterday to re-employ 30 men dismissed in 1945 because they were former Nazi party members. The ballot was taken in a secret session. Social Democrats n d Communist Councillors voted against the proposal.- Reuter
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    U.S. BASES IN SPAIN
    29 1 An authoritative American source yesterday denied that the Pentagon and State Department had reached an understanding oil &ir rod naval bates on Spanish territory^ A.F.P.
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    'Let neutrals investigate' call to Reds
    235 1 'Let neutrals investigate call to Reds WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Achewm, 1 yesterday challenged the Chinese People's Government to submit to an impartial investigation their charges that United Nations forces were waging germ warfare in Korea. Mr. Acheson described the charges that the United Nations
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    National Service welcomed
    195 1 National Service welcomed Free Press Staff Reporter 'THE National Service Bill, providing for the call-up of men between the ages of 17 and 55, was welcomed this morning by leading. Singapore citizens. .The BUI will be Introduced in the Legislative Council on Mar. 18. Mr. E. Y. Davics, leader of
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    DEBTS AGREEMENT
    25 1 Britain has reached an agreement with Italy on the terms for the settlement of pre-war and war-time debts due from Italy and Trieste.
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    Reds cut Berlin power
    55 1 BERLIN, Wed. 4 THE Soviets yesterday began x to cut West Berlin off from East German power In a move reminiscent of Berlin's 1948-1949 blockade. The Communist* cut off the, power from parts of two of Berlin's twelve boroughs and' announced that all borough* would be
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    500 m.p.h. Winds In Atmosphere
    294 2  - 500 m.p.h. Winds In Atmosphere Thomas Heavy By WINDS reaching velo--1 f cities of 500 miles an hour sweep through the earth's higher atmosphere. The winds are found in the so-called "ionosphere," the region of the atmosphere which starts about 50 miles above the earth's surface. It is the electrical
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    Doctors, Priests, take on 'Impossible' Job
    374 2 A TEAM of doctors, nurses, and priests is to take on a job the medical world says is impossible the healing of "incurable" patients A grey. 100-room manor house adjoining the Benedictine Abbey church at Milton Abbas Dorset, is to be their ••Sanctuary of
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    Germ Invasion Brings Tonsillitis
    772 2 thje singapor doctor pLEASE explain how tonsillitis is contracted and how it can be eluminated in its initial and later stages READER. TONSILS guard the entrance to the throat. They are lymph glands secreting certain substances to desinfect the saliva. Through them nature prevents infection by
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    Solution To Crossword No. 601
    50 2 Solution To Crossword No. 601 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 3, Ability. 7, Inlace. 8, Happily 9. Eraser. 10. Eroa. 13, Rolling down. 16. Tre«. 17. Review. 19, Invader. 20, Isogon. 21, Beltane. Down: 1, Pine art. 2, 5, Lapped 6, Tallow. 11, Rosings. 12, Snowing. 14, Orange. 15, Levant. 18, Erse.
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    PLEASANT MEDICINE
    749 2  -  Bernard Eaton "fiOCTOR, can I have another bottle of that nice-tasting medicine you gave me for my cough last time? it seems to be the only thing that does me any good". How often we have heard about this sort of situation, the endresult of which is a
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      59 2 New Crossword No. 602 Bfl BBBBBx Bfl^a i I I 1 Bh lilt 0 I i I j I l^^B ll^BH '111 »«IB^ 'B^B^H CLUES ACROSS m Afila (4). A poet at ten la a ruler- here 10. Extract from .Thackeray's "Pour Georges" (4). 12. It seem. a. pa^Tmiybe (7?
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      117 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR RORN today, yen have a continually optimistic viewpoint on life. Yon go along in a happy-go-lucky manner which belies the win and the determination that lie beneath the surface. Yon are confident of your abilities and when the time comes to make a decision, yew make It
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    BLACK MARKET IN BABIES
    1257 3  -  JACK THOMAS by Thousands of child-hungry women refuse to wait for legal adoptions and. thus provide an opportunity for unscrupulous go-betweens. shortage of babies in Britain today babies for adoption. And because of that the wav has been opened wide to one of the gravest social
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    Bridge Problem
    532 3 WHEN the opponents nave vv part fcore and your partner has opened the bidding, you must assume that he Is aware of the score situation and will not pas* and let the opponents have a cheap game. But If yon take an unwarranted action and make a free
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      233 3 MdddrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya F I YOU'LL KNOW LATER.SEE OUT THERE 1 I'ANO SOMETIMES] ]"/"ro«71 I' I iß^BfS^ INJHE OARK-THOSE LIGHTS? SOME-. THEY'RE OUR r- V L? H iJ /^XA I REPEAT, WHY*VC 1 JTTMK THEY'RE FIREFLIES^ASJHEY FLEETS^OF p» m^^^^Mi} \s£^J^mOU6HlW JA^E Exclusive to the
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    WEDNESDAY. Mar. 5. 1952. National service
    516 4 WEDNESDAY. Mar. 5. 1952. National service ANY day the balloon could go up. Any day we could be in the thick of trouble. Yet Singapore is not prepared against attack. And the people of Singapore are not as ready and willing to help in the job of defence as they
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    Don Jddon's Diary
    888 4 Don Jddon's Diary NEW YORK. f\EEP from the heart *^of Texas comes a message from Colonel Laurie Priesack. British Vice-Consul at Dallas. Colonel Priesack tells me he is in a controversy with the Dallas Morning News and encloses cuttings to prove it It seems that the Texas newspaper called Britain
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    U.S. Slant on Malaya
    204 4 I mHERE is a fall-pace I L advertisement api pearing here entitled "The 1 Rubber Planter,** It shows a stalwart-looking character walking 2 through the jungle with a can under his arm. and underneath: "The MalaI yan rubber-grower. He has refused to be licked. 1 He
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    Big Money In Good Music
    434 4  -  O.H. Brandon By T*HE "serious music business" is growing steadily in the smaller American towns. New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Cincinnati, Washington and Chicago have their own symphony orchestras, but also such lesser-known places as Bridgeport, Connecticut Great Falls, Montana; Casper, Wyoming: Phoenix, Arizona, and even
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    The First of The Big Three
    670 4 The First of The Big Three Music topics by Presto (\F the Big Three who are to play in Singapore this year Jan Smeterlin (to play this month) is 60, Walter Gieseking (to play in May) is 57, and Alfred Cortot (to play in November) is 75. Each has been
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    The Smeterl in concerts
    96 4 j THE booking office opens at Robinsons today for Hit following I Victoria Hall concerts: I Chopin recital by |an Smeterlin (piano) Wednesday, I I Mardi 26. f Tickers: $2, $4 and $7.50. I Orchestral concern with |an Smeterlin, Sunday, March 30. I and Wednesday, April
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    61 4 Walter Gieseking seen at Kallang airport, with (left to right) Miss Christine Kiefer (Secretary, HMV Studio), Mr. G. G. Manning, manager, Colombia Graphohone Company and Mr. John Ede (chairman, Singapore Musical Society). Gieseking visited the Victoria Memorial Hall where he was introduced to Mr. Gordon Tan Hein, the conductor, and
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    New Records
    289 4 SCARLATTI. Sonata in major L.483. Sonata in A mino L.239. Played by Vladmir Horo witi (piano) H.M.V. DB *****. Departing from the big con certo, the big sonata and th< big concert piano pieces, £bu genius of Horowitz is seen in hi ability to play most attractively A
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    Boogie-woogie artist
    398 4 Boogie--woogie artist B P«6» cialist, as classical concert She up a^career because J ferred "ikying C W s ie tor the troj* During her recent recitals at Derhv^h ex-servicemen thro!^ thank her f or he entertainment, on *'> soldier travelled hL f!iB miles to hear S^* When in Britain ago
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    RENTS ARE UP -BUT BOARD DOESN'T KNOW
    215 5 RENTS ARE UP -BUT BOARD DOESN'T KNOW Free Press Staff Reporter A NUMBER of. landlords, with houses in various parts of the city, have increased their rents although they have made no application to the Singapore Rent Conciliation Board. The increases ranged from $10 to about $30 Et month. Some
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    No buyers for this paper
    135 5 No buyers for this paper OINGAPORE Chinese merchants are showing little interest in offers from Hong Kong to supply printing papers. There i s little demand for big imports of paper in Singapore and local stocks are still plentiful. Prices have also gone down. Restrictions on the re-ex-port of paper
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    Promenade, aquarium for S'pore
    163 5 Promenade, aquarium for S'pore Free Press Staff Reporter J^ promenade along the Connaught Drive in Singapore and an aquarium in the King George Sixth Park will be completed next "year. Mr. W. I. Watson, the^City Architect, said yesterday the work on the promenade had been started and that work on
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    WATCHMAN FOUND FLOATING IN SEA
    45 5 Singapore Marine Police are investigating the death cf a watchman, Hamid bin Mohamed Shah, employed! by Shell Company, whose body was found in the sea off Pulau Bukom. It is believed that he fell into the sea and was drown-
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    MAN TRESPASSED COURT TOLD
    41 5 TAIPING, Wed. Ahmad bin Khamis, aged 24, claimed trial at Taiping to a cnarge of trespassing by entering the compound of a house in Port Weld. The case was postponed to Friday. Bail of $25 was allowed.
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    New officials for association
    85 5 Singapore branch of the Technical Association of Malaya has elected officials as follows: Chairman, Mr. R. J. HollisBee; secretary, Mr. H. C. de Wind; treasurer, Mr. V. Rajagopal. Committee: Messrs. E. A. Crabbe, Y. W. Frampton, C. Q. V. Rudd, E. K. Tan, J. A. Dragon,
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    HURT CHARGE
    26 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Abdul Karim bin Haji Aniin was charged in the Police Court with causing grievous hurt to a child. Gong Mook Seng.
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    Aided schools do well in exam
    203 5 Free Press Stall Reporter GOVERNMENT aided schools in Singapore had a high percentage of passes in the 1951 Cambridge School Certificate examination, though the overall percentage o*f passes for the Colony was rather poor 65.5 per cent. An analysis of the results from six
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    THEY WILL HELP SEEK VOTERS
    85 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Sheikh Abubakar bin Yahaya, Officer in charge of Town Boards, Johore. spoke at a meeting held in the Town Board on Monday, of representatives of various associations and politicial organisations, on various aspects of the forthcoming Town Council elections. Dato Syed Abdul
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    24 5 CUE SALMAH bint*» Haji Osman announcing yesterday the winner of the "Spot the Favourite" contest run by Radio Malaya's Malay Section.— Free Press picture.
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    2 company chiefs here
    51 5 The chiefs of two manufacturing firms arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on a world tour of their businesses. They were Mr. T. M. Ramsay, managing director of the Kiwi polish Company, London, and Mr. E. C. Badger, of the Champion Spark Plug Company, of Toledo,
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    Street prowler had burglar's tools
    67 5 Two policemen who saw a Chinese prowling along the five-footway in Crawford Street on Feb. 23, searched him and discovered that he was carrying burglar's tools under his shirt. Charged before Mr. R. B. 1. Pates, Singapore Second Police Court Magistrate. Quek Chwee Toi, a
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    NEW BOY SCOUT OFFICIALS
    74 5 Officials of Klang district Boy Scouts' Association have been elected as follows: President, Dato Ahmad bin Osman (District Officer. Klang) hon. secretary, Mr. 8. 8. Sundram; treasurer, Mr. Q. 8. Laßrooy; Committee: Mr. J. H. Tovey, Dr. R. Sathiah. Mr. D. W. Grehan, the OS.P.C, Klang
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    REVENUE MAN CHARGED
    52 5 Danlan Din Haji Mohsain, a senior revenue officer was charged before the Singapore First Police Magistrate, Mr. r. c. S. Bell, with corruptly accepting $20 from Nal Lai Yang at the Singapore Harbour Board on Monday He claimed trial and was released on bail oendlng trial on
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    FREE FILM SHOWS FOR SCHOOLS
    64 5 Free Press Staff Reporter pUTY English and vernacular schools in Singapore are being given languages are available to the schools, a spokesman of film section said yesterday. There are Mandarin. Cantonese. Indonesian and Tamil answers requests for shows in the rural areas of Singapore and
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    Rush to renew identity cards
    41 5 picture. Free Press A GENERAL view of the crowd outside the fencedoff compound of the Registration Centre in Stamford Road, Singapore, yesterday awaiting their Urn to get in and renew their torn or defaced identity cards.—
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    A precautionary measure: Blythe
    635 5 CALL-UP LAW FOR COLONY Free Press Staff Reporter 'THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, yesterA day described the proposed^ introduction of a national service bill in Singapore as "a very important step in the history of the Colony". He said the bill, which will receive
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    Five flats for staff
    67 5 THE Singapore Improvement Trust has approved the construction of five flats for the senior staff on the two top floors of the office block under construction at Pickering Street. The estimated additional cost was first given as $80,000 but detailed figures now show that this would
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    12 GAMBLED
    15 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Wed.— Twelve Chinese were fined $15 at Parit Buntar for gambling.
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    THEY PLAN NEW CLUBHOUSE
    158 5 THEY PLAN NEW CLUBHOUSE Free Press Staff Reporter T'HE Alumni Association of the Edward the Seventh. College of Medicine will start building their new headquarters and clubhouse in about two years if negotiations under way to acquire a site are successful, an official of the Building Fund Committee said yesterday.
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    R.A.O.C BEATEN 4 MINUTES FROM END
    481 6 R.A.O.C BEATEN 4 MINUTES FROM END Singapore soccer roundup Wasted chances against RAF Fret Press Soccer Reporter RJLF. M.U 1; R^-O.C 0. IT was almost a scoreless start to the United Services League season for both teams at the 8.0.D. ground, Alexandra, yesterday, but Royal Air Force Maintenance Unit got
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    S.B.A. TO QUIT S.O.S.C.
    67 6 S.B.A. TO QUIT S.O.S.C. T"HE Singapore Badminton Asso--1 elation has decided to withdraw from the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council. This decision was taken at a committee of the 9.8.A. yesterday. Reason for the withdrawal, it was stated, Is that as the S.B.A. is affiliated to both the Badminton Association
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    SEMBAWANG WIN 3-0
    217 6 UNDER wet ground oonditions at Sembawang yesterday. Royal Navak Air Station beat the visiting G.H.Q. FARELP team in their United Services P.A. League senior fixture. Final score was three-nil. Both sides played good football in the mud. Hayden netted the ball for G.H.Q. in the third minute
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    The Bankers trailed 3-2
    85 6 AFTER leading by three goals r% to two in the second half East Asiatic Company S.C. were defeated by Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank S. C. "B" by five goals to three at Farrer Park yesterday. Half-time score was one-nil for Bankers through Oarnell, bat soon
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    junior Div. B.A.D. force 2-all draw
    90 6 junior Div. B.A.D. force 2-all draw 443, BAD, 2; BNAS, I ]?IRST-HALF superiority gave RJN.A.S. Sembawang a twonil lead at half-time in their junior U.SJL. match against 443 B.AJX at BAJ>. yesterday. BJLD. rallied after hall-time to gain a well-earned two-all draw. Halstead and Stevens scored for R.N.A.S., Lloyd and
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    NO PLAY
    26 6 XT OTA RAJA failed to turn rv up for their S.A.P.A. Div. 2 league fixture yesterday against Katong Sajarah "A" at the BODCA ground.
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    BEATEN BY THE GOALIE
    28 6 BEATEN BY THE GOALIE picture. WILFRED SKINNER, St. Andrew's goalkeeper, gathers the baU before Charlie Chan, Victoria's centre-for-ward, can gtt at It. St. Andrew's won 4-1.- -Fret Frees
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    RAF TENGAH BEAT RAF GHANGI 3-0
    239 6 IN a United Services League soccer game at Changi yesterday, Royal Air Force Tengah scored a three-nil win over R.A.F. Changi. Tengah put up a scrappy show. If they had shown more accuracy and combination they would have won by a bigger margin. Changi
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    CLYDE SCORE 4
    25 6 TN a previously postponed Scotx tish Football Association "B league match, Clyde beat Dunfermline Athletic yesterday by four goals to nil.- Reuter
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    RAINED OFF
    25 6 OWING to the state ot the CYMA ground, yesterday's scheduled S.A.FJV. Div. 2 league match between Tamil Brotherhood Association and Rocklltes was postponed.
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    542 6 ITOE heavy downpour yesterday afte™™ 1 ttcally wrote off all possibility of At Jalan Besar Stadium, where Kat on "V 0^P^S 1 le *«i Kot Raiah side in aDh the display was aa-dreary a s the weathei ra The small crowd who braved thl
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    CLOSING GOAL DECIDED
    65 6 A NGLO-Chinese School Ist and 1X 2nd teams beat St. j<*eDh> Institution Ist and 2nd taunt i J soccer yesterday on the Barte Road ground. A.C.S. won the first XI match by one goal to nil and the junior game by three goals to two < Choo
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    TITLE FIGHT
    40 6 FE European Boxing Uni<n has agreed to recognise the fight between Kare! Sys (Bel* gium )and Neinz Neuhaus (Qerj many), at Dortmund next Sunfcf as for the European heavy weifhT championship, promoter Walter Englert said last night- A.P.
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    Chcrged with horse doping
    21 7 Chcrged with horse doping fane j\ K.N»menos. one of r,lr favourite for the mr handicap last !"im' her flvins Club,. Reuter
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    1207 7 OCEAN SN ARE FOR TOP RACE Going will be soft at Penang From ALLAN LEWIS ,v™ PENANG, Wednesday. QNE of the most discussed horses at the racecourse this morning was Constellation. Racegoers seem to think he is the best handicapped horse of the meeting because he has dropped one division
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    187 7 Sandy Saddler disqualified, fined $5OO nR i d featherweight m] Sandy Saddler himsell in hot fM v second time m r* six months. rv, e np-.v York Negro was between the third 7 rounds in Mon- is] night because of l v fouling in a sche- ;:>-;, ind bout against,
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    King's horses to race for Norfolk
    100 7 THE la e King George Vis racehorses, now owned oy QMi Elizabeth, will run this {♦imjwn in the name and colours 4 In D'j<e of Norfolk Arr.our.cing this yesterday C ptain Mocre. racing manager r.e Rovai family, added that I i include the horses
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    767 7 rpHE acceptors and probs A today are given below^ drawn on Race 8. 7j RACE 1—2.15: CLASSES 4 5 (COMB.), DIV. 5 —6 FURS. 1 097 Agoko Tulloh 9.00 2 688 Musketeer E Donnelly 8.13 3 459 Bis Money Russell 8.12 77* Fiarepath Jones 8.11 5 235
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    Unknown Negro beats Brion
    66 7 pjOB DUNLAP, an obscure Negro, may have projected himself into the national heavyweight fight picture with a surprising and convincing victory over Cesar Brion on Monday night at San Francisco. Dunlap, (182% lbs.), from Oakland, California, who never seems to stop throwing leather, won the unanimous
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    HILL PRINCE RETIRED
    63 7 HILL Prince the famous American racehorse, has retired with earnings of U*****,140 to his credit. The handicap champion of 1951 has been ordered out of racing and into stud duty at the Clairborne Farm at Paris. Kentucky. His owner. Christopher T. Chenry, made the decision yesterday after
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    BOXING POSTPONED
    26 7 TOE annual Boyal Air Force I Malaya boxmg championships, scheduled to be held at R.A.F. Tengah last, night, were i postponed owing to unforeseen
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    26 7 1 RUGBY UNION RESULIS: HOSPITALS CUP (SEMI-FI-NAL): Saint Mary's Hospital. 21. Westminster Hospital, 3. OTHER MATCH: Sa«nt lvea, j s Llanelly 11.- Reuter
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    BOXERS AND PROMOTERS
    95 7 Sir, With reference to 'he article headed "Boxers glad to return to Board" in your issue of March 4, in which reference is made to the fact that boxers have in some Instances not been paid their Durses. or have not been paid the full amount of
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    Gaol for attempting to bribe players
    91 7 A MASTER bakei tous sent to nine month* imprisonment in Gtasgow yesterday in the first case ever to come before the Scottish High Court ~****n<niinn to bribe offering I'ibO sterling to Simon ftaldie. Queen oj the South eentrehalf. and another U9O to Willie Teller.
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    All Teh Latest Selections
    211 7 ALLAN LEWIB /EESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 FLAREPATH DEEP FIELDS FLAREPATH AGOKO AGOKO 2.15 Deep Fields Ajoko Deep Fields FUrepath ftawfih Agoko Flarepath Affoko At— Bey The Banker RA ,C* 2 CINEMA OE~ WIN DE-WIN DALCSOSg CINEMA 2.45 De-Win Courtenay II Bekas Skyscraper
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    F & N present cup for boxing
    171 7 F N present cup for boxing A NEW silver trophy, presented by Eraser and Neave, will be the main prize at the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's championships at the Happy World stadium on April 28, 29 and 30. The championships will be fought on an "area" basis the four areas
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    HEAD OF BUYING MISSION VANISHES WITH $7 MIL.
    298 8 HEAD OF BUYING MISSION VANISHES WITH $7 MIL. Chiang GoriL wins ease bat— WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE Chinese Nationalist Government have won a A $7,000,000 court case here against two of their own former officials, but now they have to find out where the money has been lodged. The United States
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    37 8 PRIVATE WILLIAM Speak man, s een with his Victoria Cross after the award by the Queen the first .investiture of her reign. Speakman received it for gallantry and utter contempt of personal danger beyond praise" in Korea.
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    FREIGHTER HELD UP
    57 8 The Grace Lines' freighter, Santa Eliana, was tied up for the fifth day yesterday because a man In the steward's department was screened by the Coast Guard as a poor security risk. Line officials reported the steward's department refused to sail, and the Marine Cooke and Stewards
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    CALL-UP LAW
    353 8 CALL-UP LAW Continued from page 5 disrupt important national work. An application for postponement on the ground of exceptional hardship would be reterred to a local appeal board and the board would make such recommendation to the manpower authority as it thinks fit. Applications for postponement would nav« to be
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    EGYPT TO HAVE NEW ELECTIONS
    138 8 CAIRO, Wednesday. elections are to be held in Egypt, Prime 11 Minister Naguib el Hilaly Pasha announced yesterday. It is believed that following the month's suspension, which began yesterday, Parliament will be dissolved and new elections will be held under the modified electoral law. Most
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    Bus kills 4 children
    51 8 MANCHESTER Wed. ADOUBLE-decker motor bus plowed into a group of school children last night killing four and injuring six. First reports said the bus collided with another vehicle, mounted the grass verge, struck a lamp post and wrecked a telephone booth before smashing into the children.-
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    Threat to livestock
    31 8 The world's livestock herds are gravely threatened by the present spread of foot-and-mouth disease. Professor Gaston Ramon, honorary director of the Pasteur Institute. Paris warned yesterday.- A P.
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    A-WORKERS HURT
    21 8 A- WORKERS HURT Fifteen workmen employed at the atomic research factory at Harwell were injured yesterday when their bus overturned.— A.F.P.
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    TRUMAN TO SPEAK
    31 8 President Truman will not holrj his weekly press conference on Thursday because he will be working on the foreign aid address which he will deliver that evening.— A.P.
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    SPENDERTOBEHAULEDHOME 'By scruff of his neck'
    320 8 SPENDERTOBEHAULEDHOME By scruff of his neck' CANBERRA, Wednesday. MR. ARTHUR CALWELL, deputy leader of the iTI Australian Labour Opposition, said last night that the Australian Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Percy Spender, would be brought home "if necessary by tte scruff of the neck' 9 should the Labour Party
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    55 8 NEW YORK, Wed. DECRUIT Franklin Mowi- son, 20, yesterday queued up for his medical test, collapsed, turned blue and seemed dead. Doctors could find no pulse. They began artificial respiration, administered oxygen, and then placed Morrison in an iron lung. Three hours and 15 minutes later
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    WHITE PAPER
    22 8 The British Government will publish a white paper on the Atlantic conference which has Just been held in Lisbon. A.F.P.
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    98 8 LONDON, Wed. fHE Duke of Edinburgh is the "first gentleman of the British jealm" when he is out with the Queen, but when he is alone two other Dukes take precedence, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said yesterday. In a gathering not attended by the Queen,
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    'Sinister shadow over South Africa'
    224 8 'Sinister shadow over South Africa' LONDON, Wed. THE HOUSE of Commons yesterday rejected by 256 votes to 238 a Labour move to criticise the Government's handling of the Central African Federation. The former Minister of Colonies in the Labour Government, Mr. James Griffiths, said in the course of the debate
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