The Singapore Free Press, 12 March 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA S). 18-338 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    BUDGET PUTS UP FOOD BILL
    819 1 But cuts taxes for small man LONDON, Wednesday. gRITONS will pay more today for bread, meat, butter, bacon, sugar, cheese, tea and petrol. But they will do so m the hope that soon they will be able to get more of all these necessaries for
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    Reds oppose the budget
    67 1 LOUDON. Wed. CfcYfcß il hundred men 5 and women fathered outside Pariimeiit last nj| *ht JiMittl "CnurchiU rtsu-n Some distributed a pamphlet issued by the London (or-imunM Party which read The Butler budget mfins poverty, wax and Britain under America s thumb The alternative is peace,
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    New profits tax 'too low', say Socialists
    154 1 LONDON, Wed. \|i EXCESS PROFITS tax -Aouid operate from January this year, Mr R ::.„:d Butler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Commons Hi then announced that ar. excess profits tax would be imposed on business firms. b_.\<_ated from last
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    FOG CRIPPLES U.K. TRAFFIC
    46 1 A thick fog crippled traffic J East and Southern Eng•aad yesterday. At Eghem Hill Surrey nine Persons were injured when «*eir coach collided with a gin dense fog. At Loncon Airport air traffic was m tot as long as three flours. U.P.
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    IKE AND TAFT NECK TO NECK IN FIRST TEST
    179 1 US, presidential campaign CONCORD, Wednesday. GENERAL EISENHOWER and Senator Robert Taft **were running neck and neck m Newhampshire's presidential primary yesterday as returns began trickling m from the nations first test for potential 1 White House candidates. Voters flocked to the
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    French troops attack rebels in marshlands
    128 1 HANOI, Indo-China, Wed. FRENCH forces have launched a surprise counteroffensive against the Communists 30 miles south of this Tonking bastion. French headquarters refused to disclose how many troops were involved m the action which began the night before last m the rice-pro-ducing marshlands. Meanwhile
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    S'pore duty on wine
    115 1 Free Press Stall Reporter THE full rate of import duty into Singapore of still wine exceeding 26 per cent but not exceeding 42 per cent, of proof spirit is now $15 per gallon. The old duty used to be $20. Still wine not exceeding 26 per
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    WAFDISTS WILL HOT SUPPORT NEW GOVT.
    67 1 CAIRO. Wed WAFD SENATORS and Deputies, meeting yesterday under the presidency of ex-Prime Minister Nahas Pasha, endorsed a decision taken by the party executive nnt *n co-ot>erate with Hilaly after the J aru 26 Cairo riots. Yesterday's Wafdist meeting was ttf consider developments since
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    Reds raise anti-plague squads
    97 1 Reds raise anti-plague squads SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. QIGNS that plague, believed to be rampant m Communist North Korea, is spreading to Southern Manchuria multiplied yesterday. Peking Radio reported the organisation of a vast epidemic prevention corps for duty m Manchuria, which is next door to Korea. From the start, Allied
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    39 1 picture. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, Mr. tt. A. Butler, with the famous box which successive Chancellors of the Exchequer have taken with them to Parliament on Budget Day. Mir. Butler introduced his Budget yesterday, earlier Popper than usual.—
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    Graham in Karachi
    19 1 The United Nations mediator in Kashmir, Dr. Frank Graham, last night met Pakistan Prime Minister Nazimuddin-
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    ILLEGAL ENTRIES WORRY CEYLON
    149 1 COLOMBO, Wednesday. •'THE Ceylon Government will spend R5.150,000 to A buy three launches to patrol the seas of the island's northern coast against illicit immigrants from South India. Police vigilance outposts are also to be increased to spot out illegal landers. Despite Government measures, unauthorised immigration
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    U.S. RUBBER DECISION
    29 1 WASHINGTON, WED. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE YESTERDAY AJ*PROVED A BILL TO EXTEND U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF RUBBER FOR AN- OTHER TWO YEARS.— A.P.
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    OFF TO KOREA
    28 1 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia said farewell yesterday to 612 Ethiopian soldiers leaving Addis Ababa to join the United Nations fore- es m Korea- A.P.
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    SCHOOLS PLAY FIELDS OUERY
    38 1 Mr. C. C. Tan, a Singapore Legislative Councillor, will ask the Government on Mar. 18 when it will introduce a Bill to amend the Municipal Ordinance so that school Dlaying fields may be ex-
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    French govt is 'saved' by De Gaulle
    225 1 French govt is 'saved by De Gaulle PARIS, Wednesday. BY 293 votes to 101 tha French National last' night approved the "government of experts" under the new Premier/ M. Antoine Pinay, which hopes to save France' from economic disaster. Only the Communists opposed the 17-minister Cabinet. General de Gaulle's party
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    Pity the Man
    105 1 ;< fXUTGOING French X Premier, M. Edgar si Faure, said that being a >> French Premier was not >> a profession it did not S> x last long enough. It was >< "forced labour." tf The Premier's fore- SS x most task was to be "the >>
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    GOTTWALD PLEDGES SUPPORT
    154 1 GOTTWALD PLEDGES SUPPORT BONN, Wed. r_ Czech President, K)r ment Gottwald now m» Berlin on a friendship visit, promised Czech support for the Communist campaign to neutralize Germany. In the Western sector of Berlin, Mayor Ernst Reuter rejected the Soviet overture as an attempt to prevent the unification of Germany
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    •DE-PURGED'
    24 1 Baburo Kurusu, Japan's special envoy to Washington. at the time of Pearl Harbour, was officially "de-pufg-ed" yesterday by the -Tapa- nese government.— A.P.
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    HEART TROUBLE... SURE IT ISN'T LOVE?
    446 2 '.^V C»AfM?ifl PINCHER j COLUNK I —_i_ m The middle-aged business man was certain he had serious heart trouble. That ache m his chest, the breathlessness and chronic fatigue, were surely danger signs. He made a habit of taking a few days' rest m
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    The Ape Around The House
    842 2 THE STORY OF PETER... GUY WALLER STUDIES THE MIND OF TWO-YEAR-OLD P. CULSHAW Does he really reason? AT two years and three months, Peter Culshaw is studying hard to begin earning his living when he is three. This is not cruelty or an infringement of
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    BELL DOGS
    22 2 DOUR Alsatians, used to help night watchmen at a big Chicago store, have beep trained, on completing r_ol>! <**_.- '-__.~_n._4.l___ _L___-__/^V»
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    Seared of an X-ray?
    81 2 PEICY TIE PATIENT MOWS THERE IS NOT^>*o Alt lELPS HOSPITALS. OVER I -.J T lti AT A TIME WtttfJ British hospitals are desperatelly short of X-ray fib*, a comic strip character, Percy the Patient, it called m to help. These pictures are taken from a nine-episode
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    The Value of Hormone to Medicine
    481 2 The Value of Hormone to Medicine fHERE is a reciprocal Inhibition and stimulation between the hormones of the pituitary gland m the base of the brain and the other hormone producing glands, such as thyroid, thymus, pancreas, adrenals, and it has been found, for example, that if one removes the
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      9 2 Solution To Crossword No. 607 YESTERDAY'S SOU'TION: Anmmam* Di__*t_v.
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      31 2 New Crossword No. 608 111 II I I I I iHl^l B I I i I ,M M CLUES ACROSS ?*<££ V Diras B >. 13 Chemically refers to coffi-* r7> is raXr_w
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    REDS PLAN VICTORY RIDE ON TROJAN HORSE
    537 3 REDS PLAN VICTORY RIDE ON TROJAN HORSE Unity of action VIENNA, Wednesday. A SANGER5 ANGER ignal ta oin B U P over Western Europe today. It is not a war alarm. It is a warning against a Stalinist Trojan horse A mighty fifth column is being organised with utmost care
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    HE SERVED STATE FOR 63 YEARS
    158 3 HE SERVED STATE FOR 63 YEARS LONDON, v/ed. s K -taich moustf*L> waxed m nAced*e- __ai°ht l*nc. 81F 0 ,h Yeoman Warder SiWeVnu to Buck- y^ to be invested S R vul Victorian v > E ton** .service. J.-^.' i'.ved the State He J^ars since he enlist-?-r SToorset Re-iment c
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    Catch is worth £3 million
    59 3 fj- -r.e second time run- :he South African whaling rice: has captured tee blue riband" of the Antarctic season -nth a catch which produced more than 30 Soo tons of whale and mgm oil valued at well over 5 000. Dv whole of this output
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    REDS BARRED
    28 3 7:.- On i ted S'.ates Supreme C un has upheld fei fci Y o:k state law ibid* bars Communist tochers from the state's 2J JS AP
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    ENVOY NAMED
    24 3 t Vesi German Pr?sidMr Theodore Heuss, has agreed to :he aDpointmenl y Mr Subdal butt as Ir.::an Ambassador to West G-:rnany AFP
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    PoW story in Japanese
    87 3 HOBART. TASMANIA, Wed A NOVEL recounting the brutalities suffered by British and Australian troops m a Japanese prisoner of war camp m Malaya will soon be reaching the Japanese People "No Time to Look Back' written by Leslie Greener, now Director of Adult Education m Tasmania,
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    NO G.I.'S, SAYS CLUB
    129 3 BERLIN Wed. A^pICAN Army offlce rs to th_ d GI s have Protested r r hi- ritLsh authorities at oeing made members of 8,.;; bn Officers' Club m "We" f;Tf lean Ma J° r sa-d: v^tuffv 'i? v pe °p le are !r._ v fl T
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    Soccer bribe failed
    163 3 LONDON. Wed. JOSEPH McCUDDEN, 34--year-old baker and exScots Guardsman, was gaoled for nine months m Glasgow High Court for attempting to bribe two Scottish footballers to lose games. The jury had been told by Mr. D M. Campbell, prosecuting, that bookmakers accepted bets on doubles. If from
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    'YOU CANT FAKE LOVE LETTERS'
    443 3 picture. LONDON, Wednesday. -fAN a wife write love letters to her husband, full affectionate phrases," without meaning a word she says? A divorce judge answered the question m effect: No, you can always tell a fake. He refused a divorce to a woman who was
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    They write 130 words a minute in Braille
    149 3 They write 130 words a minute in Braille LONDON, Wed. gHORTHAND speeds of over 130 words a minute— the average speed of a public speaker are now being achieved by blind students using Braille shorthand machines, said Mr. Vernon Barlow, of the National Institute For The Blind, m an address
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      236 3 YOUR I-UCKY STAR g)t.N today, you are one of too* talented, all-round proieießt personalities. You '•"Me to do something and Jast so ahead and do it ■'thou, any fuss or feather. "ben that job is done, von Protress lo the next and then **n>re you know it. you hare *««n.d
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      297 3 MdndrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya rm I ttftm.THlS aOr* WAS KNOCKtO CMiuX I HER DOORS WERE LOCKGO I NSIDE- I I ??J, H^f *JJJHS JS^kl/S? IIP 1 I^6I??OATR)UR.THATWOOLOeE SHE WENT OUT THIS WIN DOW--YET /•ui» uaot,a\ DISAPPEARED' WILL VI HrTHI»ITWS NO fOOTPRINTS ON THEGROUNO.n-flifl* SHQ«N6. vSn
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      208 3 Radio SINGAPORE 9.30 ajn. 9.55 schools; 10 Emergency News from XX.; 10.05 "Women's Magazine"; 10.45-12 Schools; 1 pjn. Dance Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 "Lunch Time Prom"; 2-3.20 Schools; 6.15 "Nature Club"; 6.40 Radio String Ensemble; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News; 7.15-7.25 "This Is Communism"; 7.30 "Radio Rhythm Club"; 8 "The Jack
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    The Singapore Free Press At all levels
    490 4 The Singapore Free Press At all levels WEDNESDAY. Mar. 12, 1952. OIR Gerald Templer lias said some words which should be studied and taken to lieart by every man m the Government service m Malaya, for they bear heavily on t-his country's struggle to free itself of Communism. Interviewed by
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    840 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK. /CONSTANTLY I am encountering the gentlemen from Tass, the Russian news agency. They work m Room 501 m the Associated Press building and I work m Room 605 on the floor above. We meet m the corridors and m the lift and eye one another
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    Chopin Is Still The 'Best-seller'
    441 4  - Chopin Is Still The 'Best-seller' PRESTO Muftie topics by fTHE demand for tickets for the SmeterHn concerts has been heavy. Booking began last Thursday and within a few hours over $2,000 worth of seats had been taken. At the time of writing (Tuesday) over half the seats for the Chopin
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    NEW RECORDS
    22 4 press with speed m difficult passages, marr these Chopin inter- CHOPIN: v LIST My Joys. m V Na. a ia*
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    GIGLE AT 61
    1037 4 I PACKS THE 1 ALBERT HALL WHEN Gigli speaks of W the* Albert Hall there is a fond note m Ms voice, a melting look m his eye. He insists (quite wrongly) that irom the musical angle the Albert Hall is magnificent, superbo, the finest and most
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    BIG-BAND JAZZ
    305 4  -  Felix By OOR the first time, a British recording company is to issue discs of big-band jazz made by British traditionalist musicians. The band making the records will be composed of members of the Humphrey Lyttelton and Graeme Bell bands. The sides are being issued by Parlophone. Using
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    REVISEPOLICY' SA YS MALAYA CABLE TO U.S.
    145 5 REVISEPOLICY' SA YS MALA YA CABLE TO U.S. Rubber slump nay weaken defences Free Press Staff Reporter READING Singapore rubber traders seitt cables yesterday to United States trade and industry leaders urging that reconsideration of AaiWTca's rubber policy was "now ißiperative". The cables warned that any further big drop m
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    Guides cheer Sultana
    99 5 JOHORE Bahru Girl Guides, Brownies and Cadets gav c the Sultanah three rousing cheers when their District Commissioner, Che Maimunah, told them that the Sultanah had given them a cheque for $200 to send a representative to the Malayan Camp m Kuala Lumpur shortly. As plans had
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    Govt must aid traffic police, says councillor
    176 5 Govt must aid traffic police, says councillor Free Press Staff Reporter ]i|R. Duncan Robertson, lf Singapore City Councillor, yesterday supported a suggestion by the Traffic Police chief, Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth, that more money should be given for experiments m traffic control. Mr. Haxworth, m a memorandum to the
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    TRAINING PLAN FOR TEACHERS
    36 5 Th£ Chinese section of the Singapore Education Department will soon resume training of Chinese school teachers. Particulars of teachers are being asked from the schooU. Seventy teachers will undergo a two-year coarse.
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    K.L. to call for volunteers
    91 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. r£ civil defence authorities will start calling for volunteers for civil defence work by the middle of this year. The nurnDer of men required for Kuala Lumpur will be 2,500 and the number for both Klang and Port Swet- tenham 1,500. Officers
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    Schoolboy hurt fatally
    38 5 Schoolboy hurt fatally BUTTERWORTH, Wed.— A wooden stage erected for a Chinese wayang at Sungei Dna collapsed during the week-end, pinning a 12-year-old schoolboy, Sim Eng Seng, who sustained head injuries.* He died on the way to hospital.
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    DRIVER ON BAIL
    32 5 MUAR, Wed.— Charged at Muar with causing the death of Ng Chiew Toh. aged 50, through negligent driving. Tan Juat Hwee was allowed $400 bail when he claimed trial.
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    SOLD DUCKS: $10
    24 5 MUAR, Wed.— For selling ducklings without a licence at Jalan Daud, Koo Kirn Sai was fined $10 by the Muar Magistrate
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    He eats only rice, sugar
    156 5 CL'Zi. a white Japanese poodle, also known as "the toothless dog" m the Verdun Read district- Singapore, eats only rice and sugar. Two weeks ago Surf ••starred" m a case m the Singapore First Police Court. Sosi wagged his tail restlessly and whined as tbe
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    New relief payments plan
    79 5 |^|R. W. A. Cooper, Singapore s Director of Posts, has been invited by the" Social Welfare Department to a meeting of the Public Assistance Board on March 25 to help decide on making relief payments through the post office instead of through the Department. Mr. Cooper
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    CEYLON ASSN. OFFICIALS
    71 5 TAIPING, Wed.— The following have been elected office bearers of the Ceylon Association: President. Dr. S. Arasaradnam: vice-president Mr. A. 8. Kathlramer; secretary, Mr M. Jebaratnam; treasurer, Mr. S. Ambalam; sports secretary. Mr. A. Saba** ratnam: literary secretary. Mr. ft Sellar; auditors: Mr. Madarajah and Mr. C.
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    BUDDHISTS TO MEET
    60 5 The Singapore Regional Centre of World Buddhists will hold a general meeting on Mar. 29 to consider and approve the constitution, drafted by a provisional committee. The meeting to be held at the Maha Bodhi School m Lorong 34, Geylang, is convened by Mis s Pitt Chin
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    This scene roused tempers
    296 5 gINGArORE Traffic Fo_ke yesterday receive* a tilcphint call from a hWal resident ef Penang Roaid. Be m%mgmmi that the traffic problem along the lead bad become intolerable because certain motor firms operating a service m that area were parking vehicles two and three abreast on both
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    Cheap homes: S.I.T. decides or types
    139 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rpHE "cheapest possible" accommodation thc A Singapore Improvement Trust has agreed to build should he one, two and three-bedroomed flats, the Trustees decided at their last meeting. The houses should be m blocks of two to three storeys, and finishings
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    PEASANTS PLAN MILL. FACTORY
    50 5 PEASANTS PLAN MILL. FACTORY JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. IT AMPONG Malays m Batu Pahat district are planning two ambitious projects a coconut oil mill and a rubber factory. The oil mill is to be put up at Parit Jermil on the coast road. Both factories are estimated to cost over $100,000.
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    BROCHURE ON HONOURED MEN
    125 5 Free Pres s Staff Reporter AN illustrated brochure containing special articles and the biographies of the four Malayan Chinese, nonoured by the King m the last New Year's list, is now being prepared by an editorial committee, representing some 200 Singapore Chinese organisations. The brochure, which
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    RENT REBATF MAY BE CUT
    109 5 RENT REBATF MAY BE CUT Free Press Staff Reporter AN indication that ihe Singapore Improvement Trust may reduce or abolish the rebate of 15 per cent on rentals of post-war Trust houses was given at a recent, meeting of the Trustees. Figures submitted to the Trustees showed that it would
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    3 families find home
    81 5 TTHE three vacancies m the Far Eastern Relief Fund Farm at Kranji, Singapore, for people who have been rendered destitute as a result of the war. have now been filled. An official of the Social Welfare Department said yesterday: "Our committee recently selected three families for
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    You, too, can break a record
    1408 6  -  HARVEY DAY by All you want to do is think of some feat that you excel -at, whether it be goldfish eating or pushing a peanut down the road with your nose, and then go at it. But consider some of the world records
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  • SERVICES SOCCER ROUNDUP
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      GUBBINS NETS 4 FOR CHANGI
      396 6 Free Press Soccer Reporter R.A.F. Changi 6; G.H.Q 1. HPHE Airmen were masters throughout. Settling A down straight from the kick-off they made the most of good ground conditions at Tanglin yesterday with neat open football. G.H.Q. just didn't have what it takes. There is
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      SKIPPER GETS MARCHING ORDERS
      138 6 Lodgers 5; Maintenance U. 0 SOT. Davenport, playing his first game at centre-forward m Singapore gave a fine display at Seletar yesterday, enabling Royal Air Force Lodger Unit to beat R.A.P. M.U. by an easy margin m their United Services League Senior Division encounter. Skipper Davenport
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      JUNIOR DIV. ONLY GOAL DECIDES
      134 6 JUNIOR DIV. ONLY GOAL DECIDES even% contested match under atrocious ground conditions at Farrer Park yesterday saw Royal Air Force Maintenance Unit beat H.Q. Royal Army Service j Corps by the only goal scor- 1 ed m this United Services] League Junior Division fixture. Centre-forward Lalupers scored for M.U. m
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      Late penalty saves Tengah
      295 6 Late penalty saves Tengah 8..A.F.. Tengah 2; R.N.A.S 2. DOTAL Air Force Tengah equalised with a penalty K% goal three minutes from the end of their United Services League soccer match against Royal Naval Air Station Sembawang at Tengah yesterday. Both sides displayed good teamwork, Tengah right half Kipling played
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    Gaoled for defaming U.S.
    120 6 STUTTGART Germany Wed. LILY Warchter, 52-year-old German club woman has begun a 20-day goal •sentence for defaming Ame* rlcan troop s m Korea She told audiences that v S troops mutilated and murdered Korean women As the stocky, dark-haired woman* entered prison she was handed a
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    SONG WRITER SENTENCED
    69 6 Well-known British song writer Jimmie Campbell-he once earned £5.000 a year with such song hits as Ferry Boat Inn"— was gaoled tor four months m London tor stealing an overcoat from a London night club Charged m his own name of James Alexander Balfour Campbell Tyrle— and
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    Supreme Court rules on Reds
    52 6 The Supreme Court ha». ruled that the US Government may deport aliens for past membership m a Communist party. The Court also ruled by a five to four vote tha*. aher Communists may neld without bail for security reasons while deportation proceedings are pending against
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    SUEZ PROPOSAL
    36 6 The Danish Shipowners' Federation has proposed tha the Suez Canal zone should be placed m charge of tne United Nations with BMaiii as mandatory power but aaministered by the Suez I nw Company.—! Reuter
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    WILLIAMS BEATS GARDNER ON POINTS
    99 7 WILLIAMS BEATS GARDNER ON POINTS But the crowd boos winner Empire heavyweight titles last night by outE_2___& JP k G V rdner over 15 rounds at la^'aml^mmT-tuf^ A capacity crowd of 18,000 booed and Jeered as clinching by both fighter^ f hoWmg and Gardner won the British and Empire titles
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    COURSE TRIAL BY CAMBRIDGE
    59 7 r > tt idge University, iri e_ to beat Oxannua] Univeron Mar. 29, ..■<• full course ney to MortRiver Thames ideal condi- ered the four mitea m 20 Oxford Univer•2l am 40 _*cc. last they had to several stret- water and a 'afflc ridgf had many
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    N.Z. to bid for 1956 Olympics
    53 7 it] Amateur AthI A tattoo is to be foi :he 1956 G .es U Australia hem at Mel- Ota go rre last night i ided to rethe assoda- he Games m —Perak wiU invite tea ma taking Cup Ujurnain S play tn Ipoh li
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    Star shines on weekdays only
    149 7 "\"yHILE the F.A. outlaw* Sunday football ln Britain international matches abroad are almost all on the Sabbath. Conscientious objection to playing on Sundays and Saints days could well prejudice the chances of a cap for Phil Gunter, brilliant young Portsmouth defender. who has what it
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    NO ALFA ROMEO IN GRAND PRIX
    56 7 Alfa Romeo announced officially last night that it will not enter its racing cars m any Grand Prix event this year. No reason was given for the firm's temporary withdrawal from competitive racing, but it was reliably learned that its decision was forced by
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    RAI EXPECTS TO WIN WITH FIRST PUNCH
    233 7 RA I EXPECTS TO WIN WITH FIRST PUNCH SR bins n corns hi avy training the defence of Idieweight title nst Carl Bobo 1 I said that he will go i i with the m tenring a knockout Bi sio ok 1 am as good as I stid Robinson yesB«i
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    Ttvo horses go fast
    95 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS By '^nuufjrH vie two main training tracks were opened this morning at Bukit Timah most of the horses used the number three track for slow work. Jeunesse (McCloud) who ran three m 41 I|s very easily, and Pegasus (Bagby). three m 43 215 easily
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    MCC PICK SAME SELECTORS
    47 7 ENGLAND'S cricket selectors this Summer were appointed yesterday at a meeting of the Board of Control at Lords. They will be the same as for last season N. W.D. Yardley (Chairman), F. R. Brown, R. E. S. Wyatt and L. E. Ames.— Reuter.
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    WOMAN WINS BILLIARDS
    44 7 MISS Matsuko Katsura of .Japan, highly regarded cue artist, the first woman ever to play m the World Three Cushion Billiard Tournament, took advantage of nervous Herb hardt, Chicago bank clerk, en Sunday defeating him 50-42 m 56 inn- ings U.P.
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    ST. PATRICK'S WIN 2-0
    44 7 ST. Patrick's School defeated Raffles Institution by two goals to nil m a friendly soccer match at 9t. Patrick's ground yesterday. Raffles played with ten men throughout. Seng Moh and Perreau scored for St. Patrick's after a scoreless first half.
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    PONTYPOOL WIN 9-3
    12 7 Rugby Union result: Cress Keys 3, Pontypool 9.— Reuter
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    Peng Soon in training
    44 7 WONG Peng Soon, Malayan and All-England champion, was on the sidelines at the Surrey badminton championships during the weekend. Peng Soon has already begun training at Wimbledon for the All-England tournament. He is the present holder of the singles title.
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    BOXING MEET
    34 7 The York Body Buildine Club will meet a combined R.A.F. team from Changi and Tengah m a boxing match at the Police Training School on Wednesday, Max. 26. Admission will be free.
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    Starless Rajas beat Indians
    499 7 -THE junior Kota Raja side achieved a notable x one-nil victory over Indian Recreation Club, m a SAFA Div. 1 match at Jalan Besar Stadium. yesterday. Indians worked very hard, but the never-say-die' Malay tactics earned Kota Raja the honours of the day This was Indian's
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    F.A. INTERNATIONAL XI MAY COPY CONTINENTAL TACTICS
    408 7 -TiHE British international soccer team can be expected to change their 1 present-day style of football. They are apparently going to take a leaf out of the book of the Continental teams. This reversal instyle isj foreshadowed by the comments of the technical
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    RED SOCCER TEAM FOR OLYMPICS
    109 7 RUSSIA will send a soccer team to the Olympic Games m Helsinki, a Soviet official said m Rome yesterday. The statement was made by Ergei Savin, Soviet representative and one of the vice presidents of the International Football Association Federation, Savin has been attending meetings
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    Yolande Pompee to fight .Dane
    86 7 ERIC Jensen, Danish lightheavyweight champion, was _>gned yesterday to meet Yolande Pompee of Trinidad m a tenround fight at London's Empress Hall on March 25. The show is the first London promotion of Freddie Milte, a former world light-heavyweight champion. Pompee recently created a sensation
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    JACKS BEAT COLD STORAGE BY 3-2
    261 7 IN a hard-fought SBHFA Div. 3 game at Farrer Park yesterday, Jack Sports Club beat Singapore Cold Storage by three goals to two. Jacks were the first to score and they ga. their goal through Boon Yon ff m the 12th minute. Cold Storage
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    AMERICA IS 'DARK HORSE' AGAIN—LIM
    281 7 AMERICA IS 'DARK HORSE' AGAIN— LIM MR. Lim Chuan Geok, non-playing captain of iTI Malaya's 1948-49 Thomas Cup team, told the Free Press this morning: "We can't take things easy. Malaya is bound to meet a strong challenge from either Denmark or the United States". He added: "The Americans are
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    TURK MATMEN FOR GERMANY
    75 7 AN all Turkish wrestling s.7iiad will tour Germany U\ four unofficial tournaments with top German grapplers by the end of next month, the German Athletic Federation has announced. The squad will feature three members of the Turkish National Team and Akar, who was the 1949 Olympic
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    PRE-OLYMPIC SWIM MEET
    65 7 *pHE Dutch Swimming Association has accepted m principle an invitation from the Hungarian Swimming Association for a preOlympic international swimming contest m Budapest on May 24 and 25. On both sides strong teams of 35 to 40 men and women will compete, both m classical speed events
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    Bannister and Wint say 'No'
    157 7 gRITAIN'S ace miier, Roger Bannister, and Arthur Wint, the Olympic 400--metre champion, have declined an offer to run m the Coliseum relay meeting m Los Angeles on May 16. Bannister does not want to run outside Britain before the Helsinki Olympic Games, and Wint said
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    Schroeder 'bows out'
    69 7 TED SCHROEDER, United States Davis Cup player and 1949 Wimbledon champion, yesterday announced his retirement from Davis Cup and major championship competition. Schroeder, now 30, said he was "bowing our. of bigtime tennis for purely personal reasons. "I don't want to make the effort necessary for bigtime
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    FRENCH ACTOR DEAD
    44 8 The French actor, Fierre Renoir, 66, son of the French painter, Pierre Auguste Renoir, died m Paris yesterday following a recent operation for kidney ailment. He was the brother of the producer, Jean Renoir, whose latest production was "Tiie River U.P.
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    $30 M.-SCHEME
    21 8 The Standard-Vacuum Oil Company has announced, plans to spend $30,000,000 to expand the Altona refinery neor Melbourne, Australia.— A.P.
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    SHE BEGUILED RED BOSSES IN LUSH HAREM
    346 8 Modern Mata Hari ran smuggling ring HONG KONG, Wednesday. THE Chinese Communists have ended thc career of a modern Mata Hari, who beguiled Red railway officials with wine, women and song m an "Arabian Night" haven m Canton, and ran a vast smuggling
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    BUCKLEY
    13 8 "HIS WlfE ALWAYS SENDS HIM A CHERRY PIE ON WASHINGTON'S A BIRTHDAY
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    N. KOREAN SPIES
    14 8 The South Korean police have arrested 11 North Korean spies.— AFP
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    BATISTA BECOMES PREMIER
    135 8 BATISTA BECOMES PREMIER HAVANA, Wed. PRESIDENT Prio of Cuba X has sought asylum m the Mexican Embassy, following the coup d'etat by Gen. Fulgencio Batista. Meanwhile, firmly m power. Gen. Batista has promised Cuba free elections. He has named himsell Prime Minister m the Cabinet and promised the elections m
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    YOSHIDA IS UNDER FIRE
    72 8 The Japanese Cabinet went into emergency session last night after a second day of turbulent opposition questioning m the Diet concerning the possibility of Japan's rearming. Prime Minister Yoshlda and his ministers faced stiff criticism when the opposition united m a demand for the government to
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    Save the £ Budget
    425 8 Save the Budget Continued from Page 1 Western Europe because she could not hope to export consumer goods to that market if she restricted imports. "We must renumber that tome of our friends m Europe, particularly the French, have their own balance of payments problems. They look to Britain as
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    ALY'S & RITA'S LAWYERS CONFER
    210 8 ALY'S RITA'S LAWYERS CONFER NEW YORK, Wednesday. ATTORNEY for Prince Aly Khan and his estranA ged wife, Rita Hayworth, conferred m New York yesterday amidst rumours -that they were arranging a meeting for love or money between the couple whose romance had covered half the earth. Aly's attorney. Charles Torem.
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    He iA unable to speak
    76 8 DURBAN, Wed. jyjANILAL Gandhi, 59--year-old son of the Mahatma, now m the fifth day of his three-week purification fast, was unable to speak yesterday to friends who telephoned him. He is m bed at his home near here. Earlier, friends, alarmed at his weakened condition,
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    RESIGNED
    35 8 An Italian General. Maurizio Lazzaro Di Castiglioni, has resigned as NATO Commander of Land Forces m Southern Europe m the face of Greek and Turkey opposition to placing their troops under his leadership.— A.P.
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    SOVIET'S NO.l DIPLOMAT, A WOMAN, IS DEAD
    114 8 MOSCOW. Wed. RUSSIA announced yesterday ;he death of 80--year-old Madame Alexandra Kollontay, long the Soviet Union's chief diplomat m Scandinavia and an old Bolshevik. Madame Kollontay began her career m the foreign service as political and trade representative m Norway m 1922. In
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    BEARDS IN SUEZ ZONE
    49 8 BEARDS IN SUEZ ZONE picture. TWO BRITISH SOLDIERS, both with long service records, are premltted to sport beards despite King's regulations forbidding them. They are Pipe Mijor Evan McCrae and Sergeant William Donaldson, both of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Picture shows Pipe Popper Major McCrae. with his pipes.—
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    Party refuses to blame Bevan
    277 8 Party refuses to blame Bevan LONDON, Wed. MR. Aneurin Bevan yesterday defeated an attempt by Mr. Attlee's moderates to censure him for bucking the Labour Party's views on rearmament The censure motion was defeated by 172 to 62 at a party meeting at which Mr. Attlee was at one time
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    Quiet day in stocks
    78 8 LONDON, Wed. WITH dealers awaiting the budget the only change worth noting m the stock market yesterday was the tendency to move away from domestic into overseas issues. However the movement was quiet and small, so were the price changes. After some irregularity industrials were easier
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    End strike order
    32 8 A Federal Judge m Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday ordered three railway unions to end their strike affecting 21,000 men and to keep the stoppage from spreading to other lines.- Reuter
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    FILM EXCHANGE
    21 8 India and Egypt will shortly begin regular exchange of selected films to develop ''closer' understanding between two great peoples."
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