The Singapore Free Press, 13 March 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA >o. *****. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 470 1 V irst election test is a defeat for Truman WASHINGTON, Thursday. qUPPORTEKS of General Dwight Eisenhower >e>terday hailed his victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary as "proof" that he is the Republican Party's best votebetter. The General and Senator Estes Kefauver, Democrat scored thumping triumphs
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  • 180 1 Ike proud Taft is annoyed GENERAL Dwight Eisen- howei said in Paris yes:e:day that he was "proud" o: :he honour paid him by ohe: Americans who voted for him in the New Hampshire primaries The General said, "Any American who ha s that many other Americans pay in; him that
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  • 205 1 She poisoned for farm, lover GRAZ, Austria, Thursday. piSELA HOJAS, a 21-year-old Austrian girl, will spend one day a year alone in a pitch-black cell during 20 years in gaol to remind her of the day she poisoned her father, step brother
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    40 1 picture. MRS. ALICE ANG receiving her long-service award from Mr. J. F. Bartos, Chairman of the Singapore Rata Shoe Company at a dinner in the Great World yesterday. She has Served tb* cammnv for ten years.- Free Press
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  • 175 1 Monkey nut clothes for Britain LONDON, Thurs. MONKEY nut clothes will be in Britain's shops from the spring onwards, but only in small quantities. The monkey nut clothes will still be on test Whether they will find a permanent place in the nation's wardrobes, depends on the price of wool
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  • 31 1 Fifteen people were detained by Sin?? pore police last night following a screening operation at the New World amusement park They were detained because they had no identity cards.
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  • 27 1 Most reliable estimates say there are now 2,000,000 Italians who were born ojit of wedlock. Approximately 50,000 come into -the world annually in Italy.- A.P.
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  • 20 1 A vicious one-tusk elephant on rampage in the jungles of East Pakistan has killed 27 persons U.P.
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  • 29 1 Edward Maddan. 75. who wrote such melodies as "By the light of the silvery moon'* and "Moonlight Bay", has died in Hollywood after a long illness.- A.P.
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  • 73 1 MR. Churchill said yesterday that Britain's "daring and bold men" should not emigrate but stay at home to fight the country's difficulties. "I think emigration from this country should be by families and representatives of the population as a whole and not simply that the
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  • 69 1 LORD ISMAY NAMED NATO SECRETARY LONDON, Thurs. LORD ISMAY, British Secretary of State fo rCommonwealth Relations, has been appointed first Secretary General of the new streamlined North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. An official announcement said yesterday Lord Ismay had accepted the post as well as that ot Vice Chairman of the
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  • 85 1 RANGOON. Thurs T2ETOTALISM is sweeping Rangoon, the Burmese capital, following an appeal frv the Prime Minister. Thakin Nu. to Serviesmen to <Hv» tm drinkinsr. by badges. They were to be put into three categories— those who have never drunk; those who nromise to abstain for definite nertods;
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  • 33 1 Manual Gandhi, who Is undergoing a 21-day self-im-posed fast has been confined to bed since Tuesday. This is his sixth day of fact wic rfniitrht.er said al-
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  • 191 1 LOltoON, Thursday. rIE Colonial Secretary, Mr. Oliver Lyttetton, was asked in the House of Commons yesterday what action the Federation of Malaya Government was taking to encourage thrift, credit and producers co-operatives which would assist smallholders in the replanting of rubber. f The Minister told
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  • 108 1 Free Press Staff Reporter HHHE Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, held an inquiry in the Coroner's Court this morning into the death of a Chinese. Heng Boon Kuans, who died in the General Hospital as a result of injuries. The court was told that he sustained the
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  • 211 1 'HOLLYWOOD' TANKS: SPEECH ANGERS U.S. WASHINGTON, Thursday. npHE United States Army yesterday begged to J- differ from a British colonel who said American tanks in Korea were "made for Hollywood, not for I fighting". It officially announced its disagreement with Colonel Sir William Guy Lowther, Commanding officer of the Bth
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  • 247 1 IT'S NOT TRUE, SAYS JOSEY Free Press Stall Reporter MR. Alex Josey, Radio Malaya's chief news editor, this morning said "it was completely untrue," that he had Communist sympathies. Mr. Josey was replying to the statement made in the House of Commons by Lord Douglas Hamilton yesterday that the Trades
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  • 25 1 Pope Piu* XII yesterday celebrated the 13th anniversary of his coronation as Pontiff at a solemn Pontifical mass in the Sistine Chapel.- A.P.
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  • 29 1 A truck crowded with refugees from the north-east drought area collided with a bus near Tucano, s. America. killing 33 persons and iniurlng 40 others.- A.P.
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  • 254 1 Ho rebels trapped on island fort JSAIGON, Thurs. OEVERAL battalions of Communist-led rebels were reported surround* ed on a powerfully fortified Red River island today and tank-supported Franco-Vietnam forces prepared the final assault. The new operation to chop holes in the insurgent stranglehold around Hanoi concentrated on Vietminh rear divisional
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  • 26 1 Two floors of a cotton milt in Pfullingen, Germany, collapsed yesterday burying an estimated 45 persons in the wreckage. Three person* were killed.- U.P.
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  • 867 2  - A P.O.W. UNDER THE JAPS DONALD BRUCE By WHO WAS A PMSONEk IN MALA YA. Ronald Searle illustrates the book brilliantly. His left hand, his drawing hand, was horribly ulcered and he sketched instead with his right hand. The realism of his sketches are a tribute not only to his
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    14 2 Pearl Falconer, one of Britain's most successful magazine and book illustrators.- Tom Blan portrait
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  • 625 2  -  Peter Quennell Reviews new books in U.K. "OAPPY famiies are all alike", observes Tolstoi in the opening sentence of "Anna Karenina". "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". Certainly the Anderson family, described by Edward Grierson in REPUTATION FOR A SONG, bring an extraordinary
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  • 159 2 CRISPIN'S DA*, Leigh Howard, Longmans, Green. IN a moment of bravado Plying Officer Kenneth Norman Doughty Smith "Candy", from his initials -^suggests that he should go over and film the damage of the recently bombed Mohne and Eder dams. This sets off the fuse of a vastly
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    51 2 Catherine Gaskin, novelist. Now aged 22 she began writing when she was 16 in Australia where she was educated. Her first book "This Other Eden" was translated into many languages and made into a film. Other books have been "With Every Tear,' 9 Dost in Sunlight" and "All Else is
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  • 658 2  -  J. W. TAYLOR Introduces an authoritative book for philatelists. j A NEW fillip to the oid hobby of stamp collecting will be given by the coming public- ation of one of the most complicated and authorI itative books for philI atelists an account of i
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 244 2 New Crossword No. 609 YOUR LUCKY STAR H M M" H H JJORN today you have ex instead of letting bygones be HLfl flHl cePUonally keen prrcep bygones and starting in IHH I ■^^HH •nd S fhe"* JbHiti 11 ***** 11 89 freSb Cnltivate optimism -j P^"l— -J»»n*m-_--PsWPsMPM|_JsML— You men
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    • 118 2 QUICK LOOKS NO riME TO B& YOUNG B? MervynJones. J A first novel of un-\ usual humour insight and\ maturity. Had the bril-< liant promise of the first two-thirds been realised, it would have been a literary event. But. having put his Anglo-French family firmly, comically I On the stage.
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  • 361 3 'LOST 4 MINUTES' CAUSED TERROR Girls ordeal in train he believed -h? was flghttoe SL* 111^!?" 1 or in Hong Kong. Then he saw a grinning face -the lace, -he bei e 7u dt of hls ex-nancee's father. He- lashed out, but the sight of Wood brought him to his
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  • 290 3 LONDON. Thurs. A DISPUTE whether childi at a Sunday school 4 s hould be allowpiaims and hymns split a congregation of F Br?:hren wa s said h Justice Pilcher, at Oil ::e Court, to have i marriage which had 3i years. ranted Sidney Ball, a
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  • 44 3 A ncan imuorta of ma- tools may ratal $24 uiion this year three times vears figure and eight •■Ma the ore-Kor»:-an A T ar amour.* f --cipal suppliers include Switzerland, West Germany, "ance, Belgium. Biitam. weden and Japan. A.P.
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  • 62 3 MANILA, Thurs. AN American Huh commander, who had earlier signified his intenf£!L to JF render requested impossible terms when contacted by Army truce negotiators in Barrio near the CandelariaQuezon province. urS? o^ as 'Commander White,' he sought concessions reportedly "adverse *o w policies of the
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  • 233 3 Rubber men are worried in Ceylon COLOMBO, Thurs. THE immediate reaction to 1 the announcement that the United States Government has returned the import of natural rubber to private traders in America wa s reflected in a rise of five cents per pound in the price of best quality rubber
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  • 83 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. INDIA would fight, if need be, in the cause of freedom, her ambassador to the Utiited States told a press conference. "If there is any conflict, India will always be on the ride which we consider to be the right side." said Binay Raj
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  • 28 3 President Truman will interrupt his holiday in Florida and fly to New York on. Saturday to address a meeting of 3,000 editors representing school and college ojpers Reuter
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  • 27 3 t .G.eece and Belgium joined jnejr Atlantic Pact allies Jfs erday in restricting the 1 iv of the Soviet Union's S^atittisp within the A. P.
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  • 82 3 'US firm was pro-Soviet WASHINGTON. Thurs. A UJS. government official A testified he advised superiors in 1950 there was "good reason" to believe that the time United Tanker Corporation was controlled by a Chinese group sympathetic with Soviet motives. Col. Arthur G. Syran, transportation chief of the Mutual Security Agency
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  • 26 3 Hign officers of General Eisenhower's SHAPE headquarters met at Bad Nauhbim Germany, to plan the first joint manoeuvres of Western Europe's defence forces.- A.P.
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  • 106 3 LONDON. Thurs. A PKANK WARNING" to for rh a s wh o arrive late NtT%T7-. at St. Si Rev t ar of Bumhm his dL" J ames WiMman in not lor us. And a recent event, when the bride was 20 minutes late, caused inconvenience to
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    21 3 A PERKY PICTURE of lcvely Yolande Donlan, who is a partner in a newly formed film company, Conquest Productions.
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  • 437 3 ■uiotHjiN, rnursaay. UX-KING UMBERTO x>f Italy, Don Duarte, the ±J Pretender of Portugal, and Don Juan, Pretender of Spain, are actively preparing to return to their thrones. In his villa at Cas Cais near here, overlooking the wild Atlantic seaboard, ex-King Umberto said:
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  • 39 3 ROME, Thurs. THE first book on Brazilian 1 poetry translated into Italian has just been published by the Roman publisher, Danesi. The author is the Brazilian poet, Augusto Frederico Schmidt. Translation is hv Mercedes La Vallc- A.P.
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  • 70 3 Kei Huashi, a Socialist and one of Japan's business and economic leaders Invited to the International Economic Conference in Moscow in April, has filed suit in the Tokyo District Court against the government for refusing him a passport. It appears certain the court procedures will
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  • 10 3 The Steering Committee of the Indian Congress Party
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  • 182 3 GIRL WAS 'WILD CAT' IN ATTACK LONDON, Thurs. OHO WING the greatest O courage, a 14-year-old girl fought "like a wild cat" when attacked by two youths, said a prosecuting solicitor at Crewe. Kenneth Roberts, aged 18. locomotive fireman, and Gordon Adams, aged 15, were committed for trial in custody
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  • 38 3 About 50 small whales ranging in size from 200 lbs to 800 lbs. were driven ashore in a small bay at Kabelvaae, West Norway, by bad weather. Local fishermen cauerht and killed them all.- Reuter
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  • 25 3 Rear Admiral Burton Beecher Biggs is the new Commander of Service Squadron in, supply force for the UJS. Navy's Far East Fleet.- A.P.
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  • 26 3 A three-arm Japanese labour dejegation has arrived in London for a month's study of labour administration and social security system in Britain.- U.P.
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  • 387 3 Needs test for new car buyers LONDON, Thursday. pEOPLE buying new cars will in future have to undergo a "needs test", and sign a declarat on of "actual transport need" as well as the covenant binding them not. to resell within two years. This move, agreed between the Government and
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  • 171 3 ••rpHE following hand was responx sible for my partnership's losing local pair tournament, and needless to say, partner and I did not agree over the responsibility. A substantial wager had been made, and we would appreciate your answering the questions which will follow. This was the hand;
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  • 24 3 The Queen has approved the Korean Medal for Canadian personnel in recognition of their service with the Commonwealth fnrres in Korea.- U.P.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 174 3 wuiunrUilt magaiine; 7.45 Barn Ohm with .JJTV^ a m Schools; 10 Emer- Jack Armstrong *nd hia Barn- m2, e v from KL 10 W> stormera and Bill RoDmson; 8.15 ltrh :le You Work"; 10.45- Innocent or Guilty?" by C. RTjo nI 1 pm "8^ Musics Hewifct-3: "the Witwss't JJO •4
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    • 263 4 Butler Bevan TOOTHING in Mr. Butler's "save-the-pound" budget is more controversial or more drastic than the decision to slash the food subsidies in order to reduce Government spending. The housewife will no; be pleased because she will find it much harder to make ends meet. Deprived of State aid to
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    • 200 4 A VOLUNTEER brigade is being recruited by Burmese Opposition leader s to fight Chinese Nationalist troops in the north-eastern corner of Burma. It will be led by Bo (Colonel) Yan Naing. He is the .self-styled vanquisher of the British in the last big battle fought on the central
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  • 639 4 The Future is Bright— For TURKEY An agricultural revolution has taken place and feet are firmly set on the road to plenty, says Henry Thody from Istanbul AN agricultural revolution has taken place in Turkey, almost unnoticed by the outside, busy rearming world. In 1948, there were only 1,000 tractors
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  • 475 4 She Forgave Torturing— Could You? Odette G.C, talks to MARGARET SHIPLEY (2OUPI, who is a small white terrier, lives a very satisfactory dog's life at the Kensington hom e of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Churchill. He owes his present happy state directly to the fact that he was standing on
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    14 4 "Take your cool out of that puddle. Sir -Walter Raidgfi— fcere comes you* mum."
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  • 796 4 IT'S ALL QUIET AT THE FRONT FRED MAJDALANY looks at North Africa, a trouble spot the First Army knew fTHE dally train from J- Constantine to Tunis takes 11 hours for the 300-mile Journey. As we clattered along the rich Medjerda valley, where mile after mile of corn was already-
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  • 121 4 TTOECTY-Three-Year-x Old Billy Graham, America's No. 1 evangelist, sailed for Britain recently, aboard the He de Prance for a two-week "investigatory tour". Mr. Graham wants to find out whether the current revival movement in America, which Is practically entirely his own doing, has soread to England.
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  • 356 4 Hamburg Recovers From War I Kent. „"'-<■ -1 climax u t',,k' Hamburg \£*L her cittens i 41.000 H,;:. 0:;: r more than d> I 1914-18 war well m at th« front? 1 the City's 550,000^ i n e -complin. d(s Ane population 1.698.000 on Ms- 1939, became?*** remnant 700.000 s
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  • 193 5 TRUSTEES MAY BE TAXED ON 'FEE' Free Press Staff Reoortpr UNOFFICIAL members of Th^Sinsapore Improvement Trust, who receive $100 a u°Ski T y A h V ?u tO PV «come tax on what is officially described as a fee The Trustees have decided that, if thev must pay income tax
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  • 128 5 IT'S FABLE' LONDON PAPER TOLD Free Press SUIT Reporter nR C. J. Paglar has cabled V the Sunday Pictorial that the story published in the People, a London Sunday newspaper, about Singapore Chinese eating live monkey brains is a fairy tale. Dr. Paglar's cable was in reply to one from
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  • 164 5 S'pore to have 4 new libraries free WSS SU« Reporter will soon V; rr f, more public JSSs- three in the ,hiirb> to be run by ffles Library and a rj mob ue one to be o^anised the Public Relations Office. i branches of o *p^ Library will be housed
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  • 33 5 KUALA KANOSAR, Thurs. For unlawful possession of 150 katis of rubber and 135 katis of scrap rubber, a youth. Loo Eng Wah. was fined $1,000 in the Magistrate's Court Kuala Kangsar.
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  • 24 5 FAHIT BUNTAR. Thurs. Por rirrr.r.g an extra passenger m his tax] Won? Sing Chow na Sued $SQ .a 'he Bagan Ben! wort
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  • 119 5 u I dayan-made croand sr.akeskin bi Ing used in Eng- da: prewar. ropean women country buy at set or s and handbag. r Press was told by dealers in Singa- yesterday i go in for shoes and waOeta i men, most of thai English? omen return-
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  • 91 5 THREE polio cases, Chang Woon Bnf, wearing splints on her legs, Han Yong Kuan, in the motorcar, and Foo Say Oi, on crutches, proudly show Lady Gimson the progress they have made in moving while she was away in England. The occasion was a tea
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  • 118 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CLASSES run by the Singapore Y.W,C.A. at Mount Erskine and Haveiock Road for under privileged children of Chinatown are well attended. There are 500 students from sW to 16 year s of age at both schools learning English and Mandarin. The
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  • 138 5 SINGAPORE Legislative Council session on March 18 may be a short one. I The only important legislation coming up is the National Service Bill. It may be referred to a select committee after the first reading. So far only a section of the Labour Party
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    32 5 picture. CAPTAIN L. R. AMBROSE. Singapore manager of Qantas Empire Airways, and Mrs. Ambrose who returned to the Colon y yesterday fcfttr three weeks holiday in Janan and Hong Kong- Free Press
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  • 41 5 SEREMBAN, Thurs. A committee meeting of the Negri Sembilan branch of ithe M.C.A. wilt be held In Seremban, on Monday to discuss the National Service Bill and the Majority and Minority Reports of the Immigration Bill.
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    40 5 INDRA JOSHUA OWEN, 19, an old boy of St. Andrew's School, Singapore, who left today by the Charon to study accountancy at the University of Adelaide. He is the fifth son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Owen, of Singapore.
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  • 41 5 Indian women held a social at the Singapore Indian Association roof garden on Tuesday. More than 150 ladies were present. The president of the women's section, Mrs. A. A. Sandosham, said she hoped to organise many more similar functions.
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  • 19 5 TAIPING, Thurs.— lnche Abdul Aziz bin Yeop is in Taiping as First Assistant District Officer. l«arut and Matang.
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  • 213 5 Free Press SUIT Reporter f«HE Singapore Chinese I Y.M.C.A. campaign to collect funds for a milliondollar building project in the Telok Ayer Bosin area, Singapore, will be formally launched at a tea party at the association's premise* in Selegie Road on Saturday. About 100
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  • 155 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OURAL district committees are taking an active !L l art in organising civil defence in Singapore. The district committees of. Bedok and Changi at committee meetings held during the week-end decided to step up the drive for civil defence volunteers. Mr. G.
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  • 83 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE Improvement Trust has decided to abolish School Certificate qualification for appointment to the junior staff of its drawing office. It has had difficulty in retaining suitable junior draughtsmen with the School Certificate. It was agreed that candidates
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  • 81 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OINGAPORE Malay Union •3 may send a local Malay girl to study midwifery in Britain next year, Inche Mohamed Sidi bin Haji Abdul Hamid, president, said yes- terday. The girl, when she returns,! could teach Malay girls midwifery and nursing in
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  • 277 5 GOVT. TO BE QUERIED ON CHINA WIVES Free Press Staff Reporter T\R. C. J. PAGLAR, Legislative Councillor for Changi, will ask a series of questions when the Council meets on March 18, about alleged irregularities in the appointment of a lady assistant secretary in the Economic Affairs Department, and lon
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  • 124 5 They sell new eyeles below prices Free Press Staff Reporter COME Singapore Chin- ese dealers are selling new bicycles at below standard prices because the demand for them is poor. Steps to prevent undercutting, stabilise the maHtet and improve pan-Malayan trade relations will be'discussed at a three-day conference of the
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  • 42 5 KUALA KANGSAR, Thurs. Mr. C. B. Molony, District Officer, Kuala* Kangsar, and Mrs. Molony were entertained at a tea party at the Ellerton Club by club members on Monday. They will be leaving Kuala Kangsar for Britain on leave.
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  • 48 5 IPOH, Thurs. Mr. Wu Tsal Yen, the finger painting artist, will hold a three-day exhibition from Saturday at the Perak Kheh Community Association, Jalan Bendahara, Ipoh. Mr. Lau Phak Khuan. president ot the Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce, will declare the exhibition open at 1.30p.m.
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  • 749 6  - HELSINKI IN SIGHT FOR RELAY MEN WATERMAN Time trials impressive By A DIAMOND in the rough. That, at present, is what the efforts of Singapore's relay swim aspirants amount to. In the past seven days five swimmers have shown that between them they have sufficient talent to make the grade
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  • 63 6 TpHE cricket tournament A among Malays for the Ruler s Shield start s in April. Johore, who took part last year are to compete again and a meeting of all Malays interested has been convened for Friday to make the necessary arrangements. One other matter to
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  • 22 6 SINGAPORE Harbour Board Recreation Club will meet Jcllilads in a soccer friendly at Keppel Harbour today at 5.15 p.m.
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  • 46 6 After the swim: In the dressing room at Mount Emily pool swimmer, discuss their chances of qualifying for the 4x200 metres relay in the forthcoming Olympic time trials. Left to right: Wiebe Wolters, Barry Mitchell, Keith Mitchell, Lau Buong Hoo and Robert Bull.
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  • 309 6  -  HAROLD MAYES From AS if Jack Solomons hadn't enough worries as he returns from a week in New York deciding he couldn't afford Sugar candy, he'll find boxing folk who claim to be in the know saying that the day isn't far distant when
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  • 106 6 ANOTHER of the famous Danahars is about to make his presence felt in boxing— Kenneth, 15 tt-year-old brother of Albert. Arthur, and Alfred. Kenneth Danahar has joined Repton BC and may make his first appearance for them at Bethnal Green on April B— as a
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  • 50 6 B ASORA MAY BE TURPIN'S NEXT A fight between former middleweight champion Randy Turpin and the veteran Puerto Mean, Jose Basora, is In the making, it was revealed i n New York. Law Burston has proposed the bout to British promoter Jack Solomon and is now awaiting his offer.- U.P.
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  • 185 6 This disgusting behaviour must be stopped Free Press Soccer Ren** gOCCER, or for that matter an?°s same boys. Nothing could be m^ 7^ tha !l *2 S 6 fr yed tcmpcrs and fhl fr*{ sports field. ym S fists It is an ugly sight, and those control their tempers had
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  • 123 6 GARDNER DEMANDS RETURN i demand an earlv with the decision Williams won thp r* [rounds at Londo n r.f Court. M *l Ted Bro-cr bb. William*-. ager. said that WUlia^£ only ten rounders for Q* being and might fei L next bout In the United There were no knockao^ a
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  • 127 6 HELSINKI FUND DRIVE ON OINGAPORE Olympic Sports O Council has formed a finance committee with Mr. O. H. Kiat as chairman to collect funds to send a contingent of athletics to Helsinki to take part in this year's Olympic Games. The committee authorised Mr. Kiat and Mr. Goh Chye Hin
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  • 96 6 King Kong a favourite !T*HE wre :::i:g mWb Sir.. A gapcre far.s hm ee?s waiting for ;ake< pita n the Happy World Stafia thi s Saturday vhen K::.z Kong ftghU badn£D U0» tello for the ftrsi :::r. c Kin^ Kcr.2. fjr .or.: p# lie enemy No. 1 to grapiing fans,
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  • 23 6 The S.AF.A Division 3B fixture between P.&T and SV.9£«t Geylang stadium was poetpotw yesterday as tii* 1 ground was usfil foi play.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 136 6 TldnOrdKC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya Jsm *S IT »fVAS STILL DARK. I COULDN'T SEE II I V THOUGHT I SAW- -A WOMAN FLOAT- ■'TH^ i aEARLY. BUT I HEARD ABUZZING //V6 THROUGH THE AIR.SURROUNDED BY OjOI HEAR OR SEE ANYTHING WHAT SOUND AND THEM -1 LOOKED-
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    • 53 6 SOCCER: Div. 1, SRC v C.A.— J. Besar. Div. 3 'A' IBS v YCAA GeyUar; Blue Rovers v CYMA (PM)— CYMA; Div. S 'B': BODCA A' v BTSC— BODCA: Bwlmu Houses: SUnvac v MPH Farrcr Park; East Asiatic v Itß—twHi Clerical Union. FRIENDLIES: St. Andrew's v. St. Josephs— SJl: Victoria
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  • 1124 7 WATCH BREUECELEN'S HORSES All set for a good meeting By ALLAN LEWIS f HERE were no attempts to make time this morning: on the training tracks at Bukit Timah, which were very heavy. Van Breuke\en s horses are very fit and he looks set for another good meeting. u7Ko?i!f.°fi hem(^
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  • 262 7 ST. ANDREWS WIN BY LONE GOAL nrsGAPORES clumpion > team, St. Andrews, Yi ing M?n Muslim As--7v i r :v the lone goal of t.^~i- a Singapore p Youth comQgamc at Jalan Besar Muslim defenders 4. ■-r stubbornly against the '^r-.iy-cie schoolboys' athxfa to keep their goal- m pponents at
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  • 129 7 nrx., Free Press Boxing Reporter yw-final of the FARELF inter-onit boxing championships will be held at Tanglin Gymnaj|um on Friday March 21 at 8 p.m. The winners of ne Hong Kon S Land Forces inter-unit contest. 2 Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, will meet \sjDore district
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  • 31 7 Rugby Union results: Abertillery 12, Uanelly 15: Devonport Services 28. Royal Naval Engineering College 0: North Midlands Th« Army 6; Royal Air 3. Fo-ce 8 Civil Service 6— Reuter
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  • 47 7 MASTERMAN, PRINCELING, MAGIC OAK IN CL. 2 MASI'EKMAN. and Magic Oak. who have been displaying very good form up-country. have from Class S to (Jass Constellation: Tail Light. Class 2— -Solperion, ch.e.g. by Sol Onena— Lorella; Lyon Queeo (late ttossl) be.m. by Pairhaven—Plying Star; White Carnation (late
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 7 pnoio. Mr. M. H. Keofh's Cockatoo (A. S. O'Brien) taking tfee last hurdle on the way to win the Gloucestershire Hurdle Race on the openin g day of the National Hunt meeting at Cheltenham.- Fox
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  • 249 7 P re-cup encounter TN what may prove to be a preview of the English Football Association Cup final, Chelsea defeated Newcastle United, the F t A. Cupholders, by one goal to nil in a Division One League game yesterday at Stamford Bridge. Both teams are
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  • 194 7 Strickland will go as manager MANAGER of the Singapore contingent to the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, in July will be Mr. E. Strickland, secretary of the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council. This was decided at the Y.M.C.A. yesterday at the monthly meeting of the S.O.S.C. Management Committee. It was
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  • 142 7 P.T.C. pay nearly $2½ mil. tax T*HE Perak Turf Club paid out $2,426,339 to the Government in various forms of taxation last year, the committee's report for 1951 to be presented at the general meeting scheduled for next Thursday states. Membership of the club reached a new height during the
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  • 50 7 Fastnet and Donore, two of trainer Jack Jarvis' four entries for the Lincolnshire Handicap, were officially scratched from the race yesterday morning. Fastnet Rock was quoted at 20-1 at Monday's Victoria Club callover while Donore, who had been offered at 40-1 previously, was not quoted.— Reuter
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  • 493 7 pATHUL KARIB S performance was far from impressive when they beat Katong Sajarah i n a Singapore Senior League t*e by a flattering Margin of four goals to one at Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. However, Fathul Karib, who were promoted to the Senior League
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  • 189 7 SCHOOLBOYS BEAT THE VARSITY POTBALLERS did not spare their stamina \n yesterday's Combined Schools v. University soccer match at Sepoy Lines. The schoolbc s won a gruelling, fast, thrilling encounter by five goals to two. The Schools forwards we e quicker off the mark than their opposite numbers and each
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 143 7 SATURDAY NIGHT WRESTLING NIGHT HAPPY WORLD STADIUM THIS WEEK THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED FIGHT EVER TWO VILLAINS MEET KING AL IvwNiJ Wj I CLLvP SPECIAL ATTRACTION SEELIE SAMARA y^ TIGER HOLDEN SUPPORTING BOUTS. CHOTA DARA SINGH ELMO LINCOLN TWER AMAT vs. vs. vs. MIKEBARREn LEOW KWON6 SEMG BUDH SttWH Bookings:
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  • 90 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. ADMIRAL JOHN MOSS said yesterday he thought he was testifying in secret when he disclosed the development of a guided missile which can destroy an enemy plane three miles away. The information on the new guided missile called **Sparrow" has been
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  • 371 8 NATIONSFEAR THEY MAY BE SHUT OUT OF MARKET Commonwealth re-action to Budget LONDON, Thursday. TOMiMONWEALTH countries yesterday welcoined Britain's Budget but were worried about its effect on their own exports. Canadian businessmen thought the British import restrictions, coming so quickly on top of cuts announced only a few days ago
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  • 160 8 U.S. puts up arms-cut draft plan WASHINGTON, Thurs. rE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson. Yesterday reaffirmed the desire of the United States to work for world disarmament if an effective plan can be worked out. The Government has put up a "draft plan of work" for the U.N.
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  • 84 8 MILAN, Thurs. UEAVY INDUSTRY in Italy's three big northern cities was crippled for three hours yesterday when an estimated 250,000 Communist-led workers went on strike demanding an average 15 per cent, wage increase. The walkouts at Genoa. Milan and Turin ended without incident at noon,
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  • 20 8 The Turkish Government has deckled to impose strict travel restrictions on Soviet and satellites' diolomats in Turkey.- U.P.
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  • 33 8 A Spanish Bankers' delegation has signed loan agreement with the ExportImport Bank for U5512,000,--000 with which to buy between 50,000 and 60,000 bales of cotton for the Spanish textile industry.- U.P.
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  • 192 8 STOCKS TUMBLE BUT RECOVER ON HOPES LONDON, Thursday. T^ Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Richard Butlers further turn of the screw in the Budget °?i^ ?i tes and company profits sent prices &27W? hares d01 P s*™® 1 when the London Stock Exchange opened yesterday. But prices later recovered' about
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  • 58 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. HHHE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said yesterday that negotiations for the use of Spanish military facilities will begin immediately upon the arrival of Ambassador, Mr. Lincoln MacVeagh, i n Madrid. These talks willl also involve the use of $100,000,000 already
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  • 19 8 The Queen yesterday "received in audience Mr. M. A. H. Ispahani, Pakistan's hew High Commissioner to Britain.- Reuter
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  • 218 8 HONG KONG, Thursday. VORTH Korea's new ambassador to Red China Is 11 wanted in South Korea for counterfeiting. U.S. Army records show that Kwawn O Chik is wanted by the South Korean government as the leader of a counterfeit ring which operated in Seoul for at
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  • 65 8 MOSCOW, Thurs. CLOW foxtrots step up sex impulse and tangos are "grinding and tearful", the newspaper Soviet Art said yesterday in a fiery attack on Russians who want Western popular music remade to fit the Soviet scheme. The paper is the official journal of the Soviet committee
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  • 49 8 MASSEY INSPECTS GUARD Wearing th« -uniform of Governor General given to him by Lady Tweedsmuir. widow of a former Governor General, the Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey inspects the guard of honour of the Governor General's Footguards after his installation. Mr. Maasey is the first Canadian to hold this office.
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  • 42 8 At lesst seven persons were lulled and a score injured last night when a bomb blasted the interior of a crowded railroad station at Gabes, a southern Tunisian port. French authorities blamed Nationalist terrorists for the explosion.- U.P.
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  • 21 8 A 13-member Japanese mission sponsored by the Government comprising industrialists, banker^ and other businessmen arrived in Calcutta yesterday.— U.P.
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  • 21 8 United States battle casualties in Korea through last Friday totalled 106,458— an increase of 160 over last week. U.P.
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  • 128 8 JOHANNESBURG, Thursday. r lEUTENANT-General George Brink, wartime commander of the Ist South African Division in North Africa, declared yesterday that South Africa's defence force had become "a political toy, seething with discontent and frustration". He announced that he was joining the Torch Commando Organisation,
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  • 29 8 A bowling alley smashed by British and American bombers in Berlin almost eight years ago yielded the bodies of 18 victims yesterday. Some were soldiers in uniform.
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  • 27 8 A project calling for mobilisation has been presented by the Philippine Cabinet and President Quirino to the Congress because of the critical world situation.- AFP
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  • 354 8 'Senator is going after me like a dog'-witness WASHINGTON, Thursday. itfEWBOLD MORRIS, President Truman's corrup- lion clean-up chief, accused Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy yesterday of not being a "gentleman" and "going after me Lke a dog". In an angry clash before Senate corruption investigators, Mr. Morris told Mr. McCarthy: "You
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  • 45 8 The Polish freighter, Allski, which arrived in Colombo yesterday, is expected to sail today for Red China after loading a cargo of 300 tons of rubber. This is the fifth Ceylon rubber shipment bound for Communist China in recent months.- AFP
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  • 39 8 Famine has struck Tibet in the wake of the Chinese Communist occupation. There has been a wave of robberies, throughout the Lama-land and rice is selling -for the equivalent cf 50 UJS. cent s per pound U.P.
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  • 31 8 Israeli Foreign Minister, Dr. Monbo Share tt, now in London for financial talks with the, British government, was confined to bed with influenza yesterday and all engagements were cancelled.
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  • 23 8 South Africa is to cut her imports of consumer goods this year to 40 per cent o# the 1948 total.- A.P.
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  • 59 8 NUNS GO INTO JUNGLE TO DO 'RESCUE' WORK scaped m, work. y "iissior^ Th <* effort launched bv a^ founded "Little SL :> their fe s»«n station in th* r Their first task L Jo the surrounding m n hospitals in orde r their languages They will later k. their
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  • 42 8 HERO RETURNS TO HIS PALS private Wife E yesterday bcarde: ship. Empire K3 V' Liverco j! for t v r',' r r Speaknian. who te was received by ir/7::' at Her first invesUtur, j Buckingham Pal— V"<;,'return to his pals ia^ AFP
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    • 51 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris rBMT I DONT4OW7"rori I UUU ll lUU AIU. lUU m rYOUR /VMNP, OF COURSC HASeiifiTß YOUR SOErfTlflC KNOWLEP6E. Dfc^ GO aAOC' TWS 1$ COMMONJ OBSTINATB7O GOWiTMild I WARPEP BY TOO MUCH OONT^CT miMJ BRAUN. BELONGS TO THE LAND VOUR I kl^^^S^^^H lUJN GIY, PBOPESSOR.^ BOURGEOIS
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