The Singapore Free Press, 21 March 1952

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    CHECK ON RUBBER TO REDS
    352 1 Russia not getting too much, House told LONDON, Friday. oRiTVIN is keeping a "very close scrutiny" 1% si c that Russia does not get more than the normal annual flow of rubber, Mr. Peter Thorneuroft, President of the Board of Trade, .aid yesterday. This amount
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    BOY, AGED 7, KILLED IN CRASH
    123 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Two Chinese boys and a Chinese firl were injured. c:.e ratai.v on Singapore -i, between last night and cat tsh n iraißc; T :> fatal accident occurred M "55 .a>: night when Sim N.i.T. Ngau. a 7-year-old boy. ■as Wiled
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    Dutch restrict visas for Jews
    53 1 t fctbedaiid-. Consulates m bod yesterday restricted g I i Israeli citi- *isas I r e::try into H Land Gb 'nun- Israeli reparation El -*.> will start at the Hague I is feared that a possiw influx of -undesirable* events from Israel might members of
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    WAFDISTS PLOTTED SEDITION
    134 1 CAIRO Pri CGYPTS interior Ministry H announced last night that house arrest was imposed on two Wafdist leaders, Serag El Din Pasha and Abdel Fattah Hassan Pasha, because they were attempting to stir up communities against each other with the aim of creating disorder and sedition." Their
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    NEW U.S. JET WILL BEAT MIG
    37 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. rE U.S. Air Force announced yesterday that a new engine has been developed that will make the U.S. -built F-86 jet fighter superior to the Soviet MIG-15 A. P.
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    Falls to death from sixth floor
    52 1 Lady Frances Aline Harington, 75, phmged to death yesterday from a sixth floor apartment in London s West End Lady Harington was the fourth daughter of fourth Earl Temple and widow of John JIarington, who died in 1943. The present Trt1 Temple is her
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    U.S. RATIFIES JAP TREATY
    134 1 WASHINGTON, Kriday The treaty will come into force for all thi ratifying countries when Japan and a ma.oritv of 11 key nations, including America, deposit the instruments of ratification m Washington. The Senate also ratified the mutual defence treaties between the United States and Australia and
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    Former Naval man denies Red activity
    85 1 LONDON, Prl. MR. Edgar P. Young, former Commander whose name ha* been removed from the list of retired officers of the Royal Navy because of alleged pro-Communist activities, said that he had never engaged in activities on behalf of the Communist Party, and in
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    After the riots
    48 1 picture. TWENTY MEN filled a grilled dock m a Cairo military court recently m the first of a series of trials against more than 120 people accused of taking part m the Cairo riots. The court consisted of two Army generals and three civilians.- A.P.
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    Trick picture used to 'smear' Ike
    186 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. THE elections sub-committee of the United States Senate is inquiring into what it termed^ "scurrilous literature" fl <^^f r^fcj^^J < §g ear, Gen Dwight Eisenhower at 'J*^> WininfSWtein g the presidential election campaign. It said it had found no evidence that the
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    West ministers discuss reply
    74 1 PARIS, Fri. THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, and the French Foreign Minister, M. Schur: man met the West German Chancellor last night to discuss the general lines of a reply to Russians note on German unity. The proposed reply is understood to ask whether the Soviet
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    Woman spy gets gaol term
    31 1 Margarete Reyzek, 43--year-old Viennese found guilty m Vienna yesterday of acts endangering the security of the UJ3. Army m Austria, was sentenced to seven years Raol.
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    Soviets to raise army in Germany
    127 1 BERUN, Fri. ITJOVIET RUSSIA proposes to raise a 350,000-man army in Eastern Germany if its plan to "unify" Germany fails, well-informed sources said yesterday. The plans outlined to East Germany Communist leaders by members of the Russian Control Commission at a secret meeting in
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    Novelist is accused of $1,000 theft
    116 1 NEW YORK, Fri. MEW York and New Rochelle police sought novelist Ursula Parrott yesterday on a warrant charging that she rifled a friend's home of $1,000 in silverware while she was a guest there. Retired Brig-Gen. Donald Adams, of New Rochelle, allged that the
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    Marquess is stranded
    80 1 NICOSIA, Cyprus, Pri. nnHE Marquess of Reading. A British Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was among 31 passengers in a British Overseas Airways Argonaut airliner grounded here yesterday with engine trouble on its way from London to Tokyo. The passengers will have to wait in
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    38 REDS KILLED
    25 1 Burmese Government troops killed 38 Communists and wounded many more m raids on hide outs m Myingyan area, south of Mandalay Reuter
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    COLD COMFORT TAXED
    31 1 LONDON, Friday. MR. NORMAN DODDS, a Labour M.P.. announced yesterday that he would demand to the House of Commons the withdrawal of a new tax on toien'g long
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    SIKH KILLED WELSH LOVER, TO HANG
    325 1 SIKH KILLED WELSH LOVER, TO HANG CARDIFF, Friday. A JIT SINGH, a 27-year-old Sikh, was sentenced at A Glamorgan Assizes at Cardiff yesterday to death for the murder of a widow, Mrs. Joan Marion Thomas, who was also 27. The jury added a strong recommendation to mercy. Singh, a painter
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    Promotion for Admiral joy
    38 1 Promotion for Admiral joy Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy. Commander of Naval Forces m the Far East and chief United Nations negotiator m the Korean truce talks. will become superintendent of the United States Naval Academy this summer.
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    Bevanites refuse to toe partyline
    163 1 LONDON, Frl. f EFT-wing Bevanites yesterday protested at moves by the leaders of the Labour Party to make them toe the Party line. Less than 24 hours after the Parliamentary Labour Party had agreed to reimpose its standing orders to make Bevanites and other rebels
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    They agree on Saar problem
    65 1 PARIS, Fri. rE WEST GERMAN Chancellor. Konrad Adenauer, announced last night that he had reached agreement with French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman. for a definite solution of the Saar problem. He told the Council of Eu/ope, that talks had already been started between the
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    Miss Brown is Picked for the Chorus
    789 2 Miss Bluebell of Paris, shorn m Dublin, goes fo London and of her show, says KENNETH PEARSON THAT shocking pseux donym, 4l Les Girls" behind which lurks a back row of dubious beauty at the Doodlebury Empire, is not for such as Sonia
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    Wood protected a Queen s hair-do
    313 2 npHEY have been x delving among the archives of the British and the Victoria and Albert Museums to discover how women of wealth and leisure furnished and decorated their bedrooms in bygone days. King Tutankhamen's wife laid her head on a wooden headboard to
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    MORE DANCING LESS DIVORCE
    375 2 IF husbands took their wives out dancing more often there would be less divorce, say American dancing champions Marge and Gower. The couple, most sensational dance team In Hollywood since Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, have certainly made dancing pay dividends. They think that foxtrots and
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    Halter-neck is for broad shoulders and narrow hips
    180 2 Halter-neck is for broad shoulders and narrow hips vtif PACT and FASHION— S "mmmw% EVERYONE is wearing hat- m ter necked dresses now," 1 said a woman discussing fa-P shions the other day. What a shame. This fashion is not for every worn m and can. m' some cases, look
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    'SAILORS' ARE IN FASHION
    399 2  -  Eileen Ashcroft By iniU!lll»IIK2IHIflll1»te3IIHIIll!flfC2imil BONNETS for London's 1952 Easter Parade have an east-to-west dipping movement. There are also many "sailors" and small canotiers. Last week was a week of hat shows and a preview of what the elegant wanan will be wearing in the summer. Most
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      115 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, yon have creative artistic talent and this should be developed a* early ace. Music and literature especially make the broadest appeal. You women are spiritual by nature and hold to high ideate at all times. Yon might be tempted to eater the church as a
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      85 2 New Crossword No* 616 7 J II "II II II I I i .1 1 m m\ i i- Ju_-uu— aa_ aal Maaaß 14 t r~5 "W- aaaa-^-J L-LL I I 1 I I I 1 1 CLUES ACROSS 1. Ann cut coat for him (10). 8. Lord Carnarvon found
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    'I AM NOT SO SEXY,' MARIA SAID
    218 3 'I AM NOT SO SEXY,' MARIA SAID MANILA Frt. am TRY Filipino miss A aM-h a 36-inch bust and Thomas Aquins's SSSnhf has been picked ph ffontest for a Filipino Zferpart of the sexy Itaf;; movie actress .was the of a publicity camSn for Us first run here p f
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    MITSUBISHI CO., FORMED AGAIN
    48 3 MITSUBISHI CO., FORMED AGAIN Lie Ifitsuhishl Trading CtS-pany, one of Japan's biggest wartime trading enterprises, broken up by the Occupation authorities, has fees re-formed under a new name. The new company, the "F_;: Trading Company," is nmposed of :he four companies s.:o which Mitsubi- -3:.. sag dissolved Reuter
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    NYK line revived
    31 3 Nippon Yusen Kaisha freighters will be calling at Singapore again during May 0" June m a postwar revival or the Orient-Europe freighter service of the anese line A.P.
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    Envoys restricted
    22 3 The diplomatic envoys of Soy-?' Russia and CommunJj satellite countries m KanbtU had been notified ml their movements m U.P.
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    'Mixed sleeper charge
    117 3 ■n ana women are uftei. Put together m thirdcms Severs on British ™ways particularly on ™c Cornwall trains— it was m* at a House of Commons ■Htaf by Mr. Nigel NicolMP. for Bourne- East Jj this has got to be, he *W curtains should be pro««w. as
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    Gls SEEK RESTLESS GHOST IN TUDOR WELL
    349 3 JKJKJKJKJK k w a nd n medium who held a midnight seanc e in the *°JS* a* 8 reported receJvtai a spirit message to the effect that the ghost Is connected with human remains which t w h?wiir imd at s?mss Mr. Wells
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    17 3 JEANNE CHAIN puts on her party clothes and prepares to greet her guests m her Hollywood home.
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    Atom guards sacked
    30 3 Atom guards sacked Seven guards at the Argonne National Laboratory atomic research centre, have been sacked for failing to make their rounds and turn- ing mi n false reports. U.P.
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    Husband and wife fought in a lift
    228 3 Husband and wife fought in a lift LONDON, Fri. THE wife with "the tradi- tional liveliness of the Viennese ladies" rarely received the endearments she wanted from her British Army husband "reserved and perhaps austere." That—in the view of Mr. Justice KarminsW in the Divorce Court does not make him
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    He is cashiered from Army
    95 3 LONDON, Fri. LIEUTENANT COLONEL Thomas Gerard Gore. 44. sentenced by court martial last December to two years' imprisonment for receiving money for the sale of arms to the Jews m Palestine, has been freed, but cashiered from the British army on other charges. War Office
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    Drums disperse locust swarm
    41 3 Oil cans beaten with sticks proved more effective than insecticide m combating locust swarms m Dhahran's Beirut, according to eye-wit-nesses. Corps of drummers beathiß Afab pottery and hide drums helped disperse the swarms. Spraying had proved ineffective.—AP.
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    UNANIMOUS
    39 3 Delegates of the United States, Russia and 22 European countries unanimously agreed m Geneva that the Secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe should continue its efforts to promote trade between East and West Europe. U.P.
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    French want assurance
    52 3 French want assurance PARIS, Fri. FRANCE'S government wants a binding promise from the United States Congress and the British Parliament that rearmed Germans would not pull out of the proposed European army and revive the Wehrmacht. The French Foreign Minister, M. Schuman, told this to the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs
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    Prelates oppose sex education at school
    27 3 PARIS, Friday. FRENCH Roman Catholic cardinals and arch bishops .have protested against sex education of children at school press and posters,
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    BRITONS HELD IN DARK CELL
    381 3 KALIMPONG, East Bengal, Friday. 'TWO Britons, Mr. Robert Ford, who ran a Tibetan A Government radio station, and Mr. Geoffrey Bull, a missionary m Tibet, are reported to be m solitary confinement m a dark cell 10 ft. square m Chung- king. They were captured
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    PRISON TERM COST HIM 56LBS. WEIGHT
    153 3 PRISON TERM COST HIM 56LBS. WEIGHT LONDON, Fri. rE High Court has freed Edward Frenette and dismissed Italian extradition proceedings against him in connection with a slaying two years ago ia a Sicilian village. In freeing the 53-year-old man named in the extradition writ as Pietro Castiglione. the court said
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    TWINS BORN AT THE ZOO
    80 3 The London Zoo has announced the birth of twins to its African wild cats, Minor and Margy. The keeper said that this is believed, to be the firstever case of breeding m captivity by these spotted African animals.—AP. MORE BACON Britain's bacon ration will be
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    Hanged boy pleaded for animals
    227 3 Hanged boy pleaded for animals LONDON, Fri. BEFORE he hanged himself in the chapel tower of wincnescer College, 15-year-ola Allan Samuel Roseveare. a vegetarian wrote an impassioned Plea for animals. The plea was found by the police in a notebook which lay near his body, which was discovered bv his
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    Japs see British T. U. leaders
    37 3 Three Japanese two of them women trade unign leaders, have met Manchester trade union leaders for private discussions. The Japanese are visiting the cotton weaving centre to study labour relations.— A.P.
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    Bridge Hand
    162 3 likely to t>e a mistake, too. Smith's error Is of a type too frequently perpetrated by pretty fair bridge-players. West opened the diamond king and shitted to a heart. Dummy played one high trump Just to confirm the bad news proclaimed by Bast's double; then declarer led to
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    Teenager gave party guests dope and vodka
    278 3 Teenager gave party guests dope and vodka NEW YORK, Friday. SIXTEEN- Year-Old Inez Masterson asked 70 school friends to a party. There was "bebop", of course. There were whisky and vodka, too. And marijuana cigarettes. Later, there was sober aftermath. Inez and 53 of her guests appeared m the juvenile
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    THEY FISHED A TORPEDO
    33 3 A torpedo caught m fishing nets exploded aboard a motor trawler near Syracuse, Sicily killing four Italian seamen. Five others were missing, believed dead, and two seriously injured.— Reuter
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    AUSTRALIA'S ROLE IN WAR
    42 3 Australia will play the part of food producer for Allied forces m the Pacific under the new "free world defence programme." This decision on Australia's role follows <two years of negotiations with the United States tnd Britain. Reuter
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    KOREA TOLL
    19 3 American military casualties m Korea have reached 106,671 —an increase of 213 m the past week.— Reuter
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      172 3 1 111 mill 11 11 H H iiiHiiittittiiii I ___________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^__^^^^^^^^^^^^^l _^_^______^________________________________H_^_l_____________Bl_________________H I ___^ESK_9rc^H B____9 I I THE INDONESIA CLUB Takes pride In presenting the cream of INDONESIA'S BALI aid SUMATERA OANCERS who are appearing m conjunction with I THE INDONESIAN FINE ART MOVEMENT TROUPE I I for the 1 FIRST
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      145 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1 p.m Radio Orch.; 1J0 News: 1.45-2 Lionel Hampton his Orch. 6.15 News; 8.17 "Forces Favourites"; 6.55 Announcements, 1 News; 7.15 "Reporters Notebook"; 7 JO "Hit Parade"; << »miig f ii« f Illicit Drugs"; 8.15 "Evening Star"; 8.3D "Friday Prom"; 9.30 Newt; 9.45 "Latin American Serenade"; 10 "Britain
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Mar. 21, 1952. A positive policy
    569 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Mar. 21, 1952. A positive policy OIR Gerald Tempter's task is well-known. It |s to restore peace to Malaya, speed the development of the country for the good of its people, and lay down firm foundations on which the structure of a united and selfgoverning
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    Australia Faces a Mild Austerity
    877 4 Australia Faces a Mild Austerity By A Special Correspondent MELBOURNE. THEY took the sign x "SCOTCH WHISKY —ALL BRANDS— £1 12s. 3d. PER BOTTLE, AVAILABLE HERE** from the back of the bar of Melbourne's Royal Automobile Club one night— and said: "Sorry, sir, but that was last, week". At the
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    83 4 EXIT A PRESIDENT President Caroles Prie Secarras (right, talks to members of his military staff (en. identified) at lie flees from the •residential palace m Havana. Control of the country was taken over by General Fulgencio Batista, chief of state from 1933 to 1944. ENTER A PRESIDENT Fulgencio Batista (left)
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    Japs mourn Bull Frogs
    70 4 p you like oddities, nothing could be odder than this week's news from Japan that a ktoup of Tokyo businessmen have -been mournfor the sorts of an bull f rous killed In the export of bull- **<* tegs to American cafes. Nor so odd as the
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    It Seems To Me...
    756 4 BRITISH Warrant Officers and Senior N.C.O.'s from Korea to Egypt, and from Singapore to Port Said have been sitting for their Army Certificate of Education First Ciass. How many of these questions could YOU answer correctly Describe the potential German contribution (to SHAPE) and the difficulties
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    POCKET CARTOON
    19 4  -  OSBERT LANCASTER r Excusez-tnet, M'sieurs et h&'damea but is there a Prime Minister 'n the kmM—T'* 1--
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    EGYPT NEAR TO RUIN
    242 4 EGYPT NEAR TO RUIN 'THE blindly angry antiL British policy of Egypt's deposed Wafdist masters has brought their country as near to economic and social ruin as makes no matter. All the symptom* are here inflation, rising living costs, a secret trade deficit, unsold cotton. And the threat of more
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    JEST A MINUTE !
    15 4  - JEST A MINUTE GEOFFREY EVANS By I see you* toe, were hit by the ■udget.
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    New cipher for swords
    60 4 MANY swords already made will have to be altered before they are supplied to men receiving their commissions from the Queen. For a sword bears the cipher of the Sovereign who comuiisions the officer. The cipher is engraved on the sword blade, and m the case
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    BRITAIN WILL HARNESS THE WIND
    294 4 BRITAIN WILL HARNESS THE WIND AS coal becomes mciv precious, Enta.n moves to harness the wind. Behind the search for windy places is a project to erect a chain of windmills, hu^e 250 ft.-high structures, each capable of producing electricity at the rate of 1,000 kilowatts and more. Preliminaries are
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      23 4 Modern Rings of Distinction for Every Occasion. P. H. HENDRY. Manufacturing Jeweller 78. NORTH BRIDCI ROAD. SINGAPORE. 6. 4. BATU ROAD. KUALA LUMPUR.
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    HOREPLANTERS WORRIED
    324 5 HORE PLANTERS WORRIED They want 'adequate 9 forces JOHORE BAHRXT, Friday. ]J|R. R. A. Cotes, chairman of the Johore Planter* Association, told the annual general meeting yesterday tfiat planters were greatly concerned about tke reduction of military forces in certain areas in Johore. x*. He was received i n Augtwt,
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    SCHOOLS PLAN UNION
    92 5 SCHOOLS PLAN UNION Fre e Ptess staff Reporter Singapore Chi- High Schools will be that a uniform regard to school j students' promoL tations and the l the teaching staff wed •riM led ion was taken by principals, including a t ,i conference yesterday The proposal is supported k \fr
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    Engineer is too busy to learn Malay
    153 5 Engineer is too busy to learn Malay Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore City Water Engineer, Mr. W. S. Stredwick, i s so busy with the Work of his department and the waterworks extensions in Johore that he has not been able to find time to learn colloquial Malay. A
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    Students to get treat
    86 5 •THE Singapore Hokkien Hoay Kuan (Hokkien Association) will raise $2,000 to be spent on gifts for students, attending its four schools in the Colony— the Ai Tong School, Cheong Hock Girls' School, Tao Nan School and the Nan Chiau Girls' School. The students will get presents
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    Help Malaya, Chinese told
    104 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Fri. a 1 he Chinese com**ni unite and work j i :..:\\on good and of the state Wednesday by ct 'at Teik. a memI Kedah Chinese Adfisi B ard. ..-.ins: at a din- Sungei Fatani stc honour him other Chinese the Board—Mr. Urn Teng
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    Gimson will be country gentleman
    217 5 SP* »rin*li* Cimsoni Werner of Singapore, who Wt on the Corfu yesterday, is f oin* t* live in Applegarth, Thorton-fc. dale, Pickering, Tortshire. "It has the reputation *L ln f. tbe most tlfnl vllaje in Yorkshire—at least while my da«g£4«r» were there," Sir Franklin told
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    $25,000 FED. GIFT TO FIJI
    174 5 $25,000 FED. GIFT TO FIJI KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A GIFT of $25,000 to the people of Fiji to help relieve distress caused by the hurricane m January was voted by the Federal Legislative Council yesterday. Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, Member for Home Affairs, said that apart from humanitarian reasons, there
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    He'll rejoin the Durhams
    106 5 Fft* Press Staff Reporter CAPT. Dick Bingham-New-land, A. D. C. to Sir Franklin Gimson unjtil yesterday, who has been in Singapore 16 months, leaves for England by air on April 10 to rejoin his regiment, the 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. He said yesterday: "I must
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    DEAN WANTS SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL STUDIES
    242 5 PfcOtfS&Ofc H ShcoCk beail ot the Faculty* of Arts unWalty of Mafcya* raid' at a press conftfettee yestei-day that he hoped the lo^tnhieht, City Couheif, estates, industry, pettier ment areas or other schemes of community development, would support the new course m Social Studies
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    Last night's "Ghosts"
    260 5 Last night's "Ghosts" A SINGAPORE audience of which Asians formed a large proportion was introduced by the Arts Theatre last night to Ibsens's "Ghosts" at the Victoria Theatre and they seemed to enjoy tht experience immensely. One suspected that the humour of this*emotkmal drama was better appreciated than in* tremendous
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    PRAYERS FOR KING END
    40 5 SDeciai 40-aay prayers tor the late King conducted at the Paya Lebar Mosque will end today at llso p.m. After the hoisting of the Union Jftel light f ef reshments w£ll be served to those present.
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    227 FAMILIES GET TRUST PUTS
    44 5 TWO hundred and twentyseren fatailief hare, so far oeeit liven «teai*re Im- Hong Bahru. lit. ntcNeice said that up to tftte en& of February B.MI -i _i__._i pleted. The Trust was at present concentrating on building more cheap two-storeyed
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    Mythe swers in as G.A.G.
    50 5 TRE COLONIAL SECRETARY Mr. W. L Blythe, b»ing sworn m at Government Rouse yeiterday as Officer Administering the Government of Singapore. On th#» left is the acting Colonial Secretary. Mfr. Andrew Gilmour, and on the right is tile Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mur-ray-Aynsley.—free Press picture.
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    City awaits State decision on water
    142 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Council is awaiting the Johore Government's approval of a new scheme to develop the Tebrau waterworks which would produce 50,000,000 gallons a day and save the Council $22,000,000 in the overall cost of the Johore water projects. I
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    Welfare official goes on leave
    61 5 Welfare official goes on leave An assistant secretary of the Singapore Social Welfare Department, Mr. O. B. Richards, left yesterday for England on the Corfu after 18 months in the Colony Mr. Richards, who has found the climate of Singapore unsuitable to his health is going en medical leave to
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    Police enforce law in Penang Road
    107 5 Police enforce law in Penang Road SINGAPORE Traffic Police's mobile squad under the direction of Mr. M. C. H. Guyler, A.S.P., had a field day m Penang Road yesterday booking motorists and lorry drivers for infringements ranging from horn blowing to parking two abreast. Residents who complained bitterly a week
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    VISITS HOSPITAL
    22 5 Miss Hill, Matron -General, Federation of Malaya Nursing Service, paid a visit to the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, on Wednesday.
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    HE GETS $16,100 FOR Y-FUND
    155 5 HE GETS $16 ,100 FOR Y-FUND r. Chua Khiam Teck. of Singapore, who on Tuesday he*ped to reise $5,000 for the Singapore Chinese Y.M, C.A. building fund, has now trebled his collections. In two days thta week, he had collected $16,100. The donations, made through h*m yesterday 'include $2,000 from
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    More armoured carriers
    78 5 A Singapore City Council committee has recommended the purchase of two more armoured carriers for employees working on waterworks extensions In Johcr?. This will cost about $16,300. There ape three such vehicles in use at the various waterworks sites. The committee, however, is against the grunt of
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    COL. WHATNOT IS BEST FOR CUP
    1723 6 COL. WHATNOT IS BEST FOR CUP Race prospects By ALLAN LEWIS COLONEL Whatnot looks one of the best bets of the day m the main race The Spring Cup of One Mile— tomorrow, last day of the Singapore Turf Club's March meeting. Whatnot's form has been good enough to win
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    Jockeys say'farewell' to McPherson
    89 6 Jockeys say 'fare well' to McPherson THE Malayan Jockey** As--1 sociatton fare welled I Doug McPherson at a cock- dustrolte for Mrs. E. T. Manasseh and Mr. V. C. Bath. returning to Malaya. i Len Fry has been enI nnnoA 4-r. 4*\m Cli-»- picture. A happy grou* at last night's
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    FRANK SHIELDS QUITS- BUT 'NOT UNDER FIRE'
    154 6 FHE New York HeraldI- Tribune said yesterday Hat Frank Shields has withlrawn as captain of the Jnited States Davis Cup earn. An article by Al Laney said hat Shields made the anlouncement to Mr. Alrick Man, chairman of the Davis Cup Selection Committee,
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      220 6 ~-~x march 21, 19SJ MandrakB E**t» *> Singapore Free Press Wfl ■bjh f I I SHE'S UNHARMED BUT NO I I AAANORAKE/I EAST.0ARLIN6.1I0H I f WHAT HAPPEf^TTT^- w r —Z r- MEMORY, MANORAKE. H YES -IT'S "WHAT HAPPENEO TO TO YOU LAST llj I C«?tE1 YOUR NAME IS, I NAROAt
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    3 MALAYANS AND HOLM IN S-FINALS
    538 7 3 MALAYANS AND HOLM IN S-FINALS Peng Soon vs. Heah today M lJ__i fSI:. °a m *J» P»»yer» again dominated the Alt-England badminton championships at London's Empress Hall, yesterday n &J'___L S* 011 '^-year-old Malayan* ace -S3? tfe^^ I bld to B-K angles uwe for the third successive year With
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    OLYMPIC STARS IN INDIAN XI
    259 7 Tl ir \i Indian Aryan Gymkhana soccer tourists, uh.) arrive m Singapore from India on Apr. 10 I i a irries el games m the Colony and the Federion will W a much mere formidable side than the Indian team that came out here m
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    CAMBRIDGE XV WIN
    16 7 l':.:-.ersi r v rusby j I a] 'ea.n at j a r Tou'ouso.
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    Results at a glance
    255 7 MEN'S SINGLES Third round: O. Eilertsen (Denmark) beat Knot Malmgren, seeded Swedish player, 18-15, 9-15. 15-11; Nils Jonson (Sweden) Wat J. A. Broadhont (England) 15-0, 15-5; St: A. Heah (Malaya beat J. Hammergaard Hansen (Denmark) 15-12. 15-4; S. B. Choong (Malaya) beat A. L. Salway (England)
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    McGOVERN FIGHT
    35 7 AFTER 15 rounds between Joergen Johansen, the Danish holder, and Tommy McGo-ern, the British tHleholder, for the European lightweight championship at Copenhagen last night the referee announced his vedict as 'no decision."' Reuter
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    TODAY'S U.S.L. FIXTURES
    35 7 SENIOR DIV. RJI.F. Lodgers v. RX.ME G.HQ. Sigs. v. Tengah. HaM.S. Terror v. G.H.Q. JUNIOR DIV R.E.M.E H.Q. R.A.S.C. R.A.F. Tengah v. F.B.W. 443 B.A.D v. R.N. (X). R.A.P.C. v. R.A.S.C. (S).
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    ENGLAND LOSE 3-0
    95 7 WALES defeated England by three goals to nil in the soccer international game at Swansea yesterday, and if England fail to beat Scotland at Hampden Park on April 5, the Welsh will win the international championship outright. A crowd of 30,000 saw the Welsh victory. Goals were
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    Chances missed in 2-goal match
    608 7 S.C.C 1; Casuals 1. SINGAPORE Cricket Club and Chinese Casuals drew their Singapore Amateur Football Association Senior League match at S.C.C. ground yesterday, each scoring once. Chinese were hard pressed all the time but their indomitable fighting spirit and their efforts to snap up the
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    TOMORROW'S RACE PROSPECTS
    377 7 (Cent from page 6) 'o 2 divisions with 21b leas and will run well again. Gameborouph will appreciate the better going. He did wtB to finish fifth on the flrit day to condition* that were., against Mm H« carries one pound less here Horizon too will appreciate
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    IN ACTION TONIGHT
    61 7 Sgt. Carlin (left) of the Royal Ulster Rifles pictured m a jpajiiug session with Rfn M onagtaui m preparation for tonight's FARELF inter-unit boxing semi-final at Tanglin. Carlin was Army featherweight champion m 1950 hot now fights as a lightwei ght. Cpt Murray, Royal Ulster Rifles, runner-up
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    REME will be full strength this evening
    357 7 Free Press Boxing Reporter ITEYED up and rarjn' to go, boxers ef th; Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers are look noforward to tonight's FARELF inter-unit semi-final against Hong Kong's champ on unit, Ist Battalon Royal Ulster Rifles. Winners of tonight's team match, starting
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    NATURALISATION
    57 8 NOTICE is hereby given that MR JEN YUNG CHONG. of 59, Lorong N, Telck Kurau, Singapore. 15. is applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not oe granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to
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    U.S. SEEKS TO REVERSE RED TREND IN INDIA
    380 8 WASHINGTON, Friday. MR. Dean Acheson, the U.S. Secretary of State, told Congress yesterday that the United States believed it necessary ip stop' and reverse a trend disclosed in the. recent Indian elections in which the Communist vote increased "to a very great
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    MATCHES JANE RUSSELL
    33 8 PRETTY Hollywood artist Wanda Morgan pictured here is often mistaken for Jane Russell whom she resembles m facial features so much, b sides being of the same height and •weight.
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    SHE HAD $31 MILLION IN ONE ACCOUNT
    117 8 SHE HAD $31 MILLION IN ONE ACCOUNT NEW YORK, Fri. HfRS. SYLVIA Wilks, one 1T1 of tht world's richest women, has left an estate worth nearly $100,000,000 more than Sf3 1,000,0(^3 of it in a single bank account. Mrs. Wilks who died in February last year, aged 80, kept her
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    POLICE MAKE BATON CHARGE
    41 8 Mounted police yesterday broke up a student demonstration for the return of Trieste to Italy in front of the Allied military government offices in Trieste. About 20 were arrested after police put in a baton charge. Reuter
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    No fight, no pills, says film actor
    114 8 No fight, no pills, says film actor NEW YORK, Fri. ACTOR Frenchot Tone yesterday denied a newspaper story that his estranged wife, Barbara Payton, took so many sleeping pills that a doctor was called to save her. The New York journal, American, said that Miss Payton swallowed sleeping pills after
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    REDUCTION
    22 8 The House of Representatives yesterday voted a reduction of U*****,000,000 on appropriations for the national Atomic Energy Commis- sion. A. F.P
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    H.K. PROSECUTES RED PRESS ON RIOTS
    175 8 HONG KONG, Friday. T*HE Hong Kong Government took action against x Communist newspapers yesterday under a Press control law adopted four months ago. Strong propaganda re-action is expected from Peking. Seven publishers, editors, proprietors and printers of the pro-Communist Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei
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    SNOW CUTS OFF 2,000 PEOPLE
    115 8 NEW YORK, Fri. rpHE Chamber of Commerce of the snowbound village of Levinsing, California issued an urgent distress call yesterday for help for 1,500 to 2.000 people isolated along the 95--mile stretch of the Three Flags highway. Chamber Secretary, Marjorie Gripper, telephoned the United Pre?.,
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    Gun clue to kidnapper
    218 8 FRANKFURT, Friday. AMERICAN military police revealed yesterday they are examining an army .45 calibre pistol m connection with the February kidnapping of 18-year-old Mamie Ruth Shelton. The pistol was found two miles from the spot where the red-haired American high school girl was found after being
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    Public execution
    34 8 Five men convicted of murder were forces viously ed at Guatemala by a police firing squad m front of a cemetery. There was a crowd of nearly 20,000 who watch- ed A.P.
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    COIN FAB IN LONDON
    22 8 Israel's Foreign Minister. Moshe Sharett, conferred m London yesterday with Mr. Churchill on "matters of common interest." U.P.
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    LABOUR BEATEN ON PETROL TAX
    125 8 LONDON, Fri. THE Government defeated 1 the Labour Opposition by 308 votes to 286, a majority of 22, in the House of Commons yesterday on a resolution proposing an increase in the petrol tax. This was one of the Budget proposals announced by the Chancellor
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    She gives birth to 22nd child
    44 8 Mrs. Madeleine Devaud, 42, has given birth here to her 22nd child. She has been married to dairy farmer Marce Devaud for 24 years. Most ef the children still live in the family cottage. Two died in infancy.
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    Blackout schedule
    131 8 PLLOWING substations are liable to load sheddine tonight: Malayan Brewery, ABC Brewery, Dieibelm Co., Tangtin Kd. t Phoenix Park, Alexandra Brickworks, Pasir Panjang, Reformatory Rd., Oxygen Factory, Cressonite, St. James, Miri Rd., Silat Rd., Bukit Pasoh, BAT, Trafalgar St., Anton Rd., Tionf Bahru. Sago St., Ramah St., Peoples
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    U.N. MEDIATOR FOR KARACHI
    47 8 Dr. Frank Graham, United Nations mediator on Kashmir, left yesterday for Karachi. After a few days talks with the Pakistan Government there he is expected to go to New York to make his report to the United Nations on the Kashmir question. Reuter
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    'Nonsense' said the judge
    45 8 Mrs. Alice Jones told a divorce court m Birmingham, yesterday her husband secretly polished the soles of her shoes m *the hope she would fall and hurt herself. "Absolute nonsense," said the judge, and denied her re- quest for divorce. A.P.
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