The Singapore Free Press, 29 March 1952

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA p SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    FEAR OF SUEZ DISORDERS
    426 1 Egypt s political situation not stable DRlTrcn a™. is MAILIA, Saturday. BRITISH Army and Royal Air Force com™!Sfft"* m uez Canal Zon yesterday warned the troops that they must be "prepared at any tame for major disorders involving well organised widespread terrorism m the zone mandin*
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    50 1 MISS Diana Grace RainsBath. 23-year-oid English shopgirl, who was awarded 4.1,322 damages from Ralph Slater. Russian- born emigre, billed on the stage as an "American"' hypnotist. Miss Rains-Bath claimed successfully that as a result of Slater hypnotising her she "changed from a happy, fun-loving girl into a fri?ht-ned, nervy ftai"
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    Flags at half mast today
    76 1 PAutJ on ail Singapore Government and public buildings were flown at halfmast today because of the funeral m Colombo of Ceylon's late Prime Minister, Mr. D.S. Senanayake, who died from injuries received after a fall from his horse last week. The Governor of Singapore, Sir
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    S-E Asia aid fell from £500,000 to £24,000
    185 1 LONDON. Sat. •vT-AIN'S expenditure for $951/52 on the technical Wm scheme for "ard South-East Asia approximately £24.000. V scheme grates m v inc ::on tn e £1 868 JvtJ Colombo Plan for the development of the l^'over six years. J-Vrt Parliamentary reply
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    WHEN A MAN HITS HIS BOSS
    51 1 A-u:: strikes his bo.>s and injured m re .urn. He entitled to workmen's t-pensatioa. California State fcP-'-.r.-? Court rulad this *"f. they decided that Paul Hull of Sacramento was ■-t-e: to US$57 for m Junes suffered m a row with a (Mm m 1949
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    BRITISH CREW QUIT SHIP IN PROTEST
    171 1 BRITISH CREW QUIT SHIP IN PROTEST ANTWERP. Sat. rpHE entire crew of a British freighter quit yesterday m protest over sailing to Communist ports less "than 24 hours after the captain died mysteriously at sea with a bullet through his brain. Police said the captain committed suicide The 37-man crew
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    Killed mistress to save her pain
    302 1 MERCY MURDER DRAMA ROME, Saturday. pALY'S first mercy-killing trial opened here x yesterday when an elderly, weeping waiter pleaded guilty to murdering his mistress "to save her from the agony she suffered". Edmondo Vastalegna, 58ytold to* court he killed Anna Belflore, 53, m FefcJSary,
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    ICY WEATHER OVER EUROPE
    63 1 Icy weather brought to many parts of Northern Europe yesterday by a cold "front" from Northern Russia, continued yesterday and is expected to prevail over the week-end. Snow and sleet continued to fall over most of Britain yesterday after a night of blizzards particularly m the
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    162 Jap Reds arrested
    43 1 TOKYO, Sat. JAPANESE police arrested J 162 Communists yesterday m Japan's biggest police raid on some 2,000 Red hideouts. The raids were directed chiefly against the Japanese Communist Party extensive underground network of printing presses and propaganda distributing centres.
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    BOMB WI CKS DAMASCUS USIS
    51 1 An explosion wrecked the front wall of the United States Information Service building m Damascus early yesterday. A wireless operator on duty inside the building was killed. The United States will protest formally to Syria against the bombing the State Department said last night.— Reuter
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    Fell off lorry
    25 1 A Chinese was picked up unconscious after falling off a moving lorry m Pasir Panjang Road yesterday. He was taken to hospital.
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    'We protect bars'—Mr. Tolmie
    201 1 'We protect bars'— Mr. Tolmie MX. J Tolmie, assistant comptroller of Customs m charge of the preventive branch and the man behind hind the campaign to rid Singapore of after hours drinking by a stricter enforcement of the 15-year-old Liquor Revenue Ordinance, i« annoyed. Be W ys the Press has
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    Tribesmen want Khana to return
    97 1 IONDON, Sat. SIX senior representatives of the Bamangwato tribe of Bechuanaland will leave Johannesburg for London by air on April 6 to demand the immediate return of Seretse Khama as their tribal chief. This news, received here yesterday from Serowe, Bechuanaland, followed the government's announcement
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    MORE 'BOMBS' FOR ADENAUER
    127 1 BONN, Saturday. WEST GERMAN bomb experts yesterday examined fT two more parcels addressed to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, fearing another attempt to murder him. The parcels were directed to the Chancellery m Bonn. Bavarian and "beyond the borders of Germany" are being combed for the palefaced man
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    Last of the six dies
    44 1 Mrs. Aiincia Bushnell Parker, last of the famous Bushnell sextuplets, has died iii a New York hospital aged 85. The sextuplets, three males and three females, were born m Chicago on September 15, 1866, and lived to maturity.- Reuter
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    Talks on Colonies
    23 1 M Pierre Pfllmlin, French Minister for Oversew Territories, is to visit London next ~t AA v f/*~ falir- with the
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    Shot officer for 'stealing' girl in blue
    382 1 Corporal to die FAYID, CANAL ZONE, Saturday. SWRPORAL Tom Houghton, 23, who shot and killed 7 an officer for "stealing his girl* was sentenced to death by hanging here yesterday. The verdict, reached at the end of a three-day court martial, is subject
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    FRENCH AIR, LAND FORCES PUNISH REDS
    85 1 SAIGON, Sat. rENOH-MANNED Bearcat fighters and light bombers plastered Vtetminh forces m Northern Indo-China yesterday. On the ground, French armoured units moved into new positions as the stubborn 320 th Vietminh Division slowly retreated east from positions 45 miles south-east of Hanoi before the
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    12 KILLED IN PERSIA RIOT
    31 1 Twelve persons were reported killed and 150 injured yesterday m pitched street battles m central Teheran between ***** Communist youths and the police and militia.- U.P.
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    S. AFRICA TO PAY
    36 1 The Defence Department m Washington reported that the Union of South Africa was expected to make a payment of $5,000,000 for the expenses of the South African air squadron m Korea.- U.P.
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      Onward the "Onslaught"
      854 2  - Onward the "Onslaught" SEAFARER bvdhg BEFORE THE BATTLE VONE was roused by 11 the dead pirate falling to the deck and it was but the work of a moment to open the hatch. The men crept past me with many a whispered word of thanks and pat on the back.
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      The Whisker's Club
      178 2 fODDLES picked up the coin before Mr. Bristle could reach it It seemed to be quite a good coin but, just to make sure. Toddles bit hard Into the metal, Mr. Bristle looked very anrry. "Mr. Toddles, star!" he granted, "do you think that my money Is
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      Tock-Tock' Bird is a Noisy Nightjar
      763 2  - Tock-Tock' Bird is a Noisy Nightjar WENDY It nests on the ground and sits on a tree or post to play its tune AM always happy to answer questions from you boys and girls. Your questions show your interest m the things about you. Tan Choo Poh, of 42, St.
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      PEN PALS' COLUMN
      99 2 PEN PALS' COLUMN VERONICA GOH, of 'A'. Oxley Rise. Singapore, 9. is 13. She is interested In letter writing, stamp collecting, drawing, reading and exchanging view cards. She wants pen pals of either sex and promises to try to answer all letters. S. Omar Bin Syed Adulrahman Alsagoff, of 15.
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      Goldfish Have Fewer Friends in Britain
      275 2 DID you know that the goldfish has fewer friends m Britain these days? After holding top place In home aquariums for more than 70 years it has been pushed out into the garden pond. Toy tropical fresh-water flsh are the favourites now, with exotic
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      150 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD I I |io I I I I 1 CLUES ACROSS.-- 1 You verted while on his way to can learn this -code m the Damascus. 7. Imitate a perScouts or Guides. 6. Great son. 9. Vegetable with "eyes apostle and missionary con- 1 11. Low marshy land. 13.
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    yOUR LUCKY STAR
    376 3 yOUR LUCKY STAR ,odav. th, duality m r nature »> ce P" >*« You have a 1 foresight, and an i^^Unnv ability at T»C «Urn, are pro j«rant Learn to 5 "ff not Sear. them. s"£j and it often fets 0 W !Ltrj! Diplomacy. S^^f control are the •JJ^Vmost ol
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    Rabble-rouser fewer hails wart verdict
    61 3 BIMOYSR, Sat. \FL Re m« has the verdict of Ki?S2 ccv r sentencing fcr -:,-r* cc m °nths m prison a..cenr the 1944 bomb g«J agams; Adolf Hitler |a i Sg e WWM»iid> than l^^je-TOusing mouth«:?SS n Saol ;hi^ week •aLfT^g a four-month H^^'?^ 1
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    MISTRESS OF DISGUISS IS BACK ON THE TRAIL
    585 3 MISTRESS OF DISGUISS IS BACK ON THE TRAIL qiLVER-HAIRED. 52-year }£t P° N Sat »rday. 55 sleuth of *ik£jE£r*J m KerMr tn disguises, ha* returaSfU .^If 58 of man y after a retirement which 11 Sessions jury •emHtediL- w^ d hen «*ndon ".250 false^rete^enhirST 111 Sb ml »«t«-of a crooKL^A^^
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    Leonardo planned a. link (in 1503)
    163 3 Leonardo planned a. link (in 1503) ROME. Sat. f EONARDO da Vinci, ihe JJ great Italian artist and architect, submitted plans m 1503 to build a bridge across the Bosporus Straits. This was disclosed m one of his letters recently published here for the first time. m a letter to
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    BATISTA ILL
    14 3 ftnS S?SSS Batista l->.:,~;r c ot state QU l the past A.P.
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    Truman's friend
    35 3 James P. Finnegan, former internal revenue collector who is a personal friend of President Truman, has been sentenced to two years gaol and fined $100,000 m St. Louis for misconduct v> office.- Reuter
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    Helicopter trouble
    44 3 SYDNEY, Sat. pOULTRY farmers m Cranley Vale blamed a Royal Australian Air Force helicopter lor lowering egg production by 15 per cent. Birds ignore Tiger Moths which tike off from a nearby field but the helicopter sends them running m circles.- Reuter-AAP
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    WOMEN TAKE NEW LOOK AT MARRIAGE
    132 3 COLOMBO, Sat. MORE women sued for di- vorce m Ceylon last year than m the preceding years, latest statistics reveal. A leading juftge attributed this to a change m women's attitude to marriage. The trend now was Let me try again." Available divorce figures
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    INDIA'S 'HORROR'
    22 3 A high official m New Delhi summarised the Indian Government's reaction •to the germ warfare charges as "incredulous horror".- AP
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    BARNY'S 'DOUBLE'
    29 3 BARNY'S 'DOUBLE' DANNY KAYE inspects a studio study of himself by the American portrait painter, Irwin Glass. The painting will be^hung permanently m the foyer of the London Palladium.
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    SECRET SWITCH FOILS THIEVES
    61 3 Air line pilot Capt. G. Herbert claims to have "thief proofed" 2,500 motor cars m Victoria, Australia,* through a system of wiring connected to a secret switch. A car fitted with the wiring system cannot be started until the switch is tripped, and every attempt to
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    Gl runs a 'fox-hole' classroom in Korea
    185 3 I NEW YORK, Sat. pROM a "fox-hole classroom" m Korea comes the story of an American infantryman a former stu-dent-teacher .at New York's City College giving groups of Korean orphans their first lessons m English. The infantryman is Private Marvin Friedman and his
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    SAW RIDGWAY
    28 3 Mr. Andrew W. Cordier, Executive Assistant to United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Trygve Lie, had half-an-hour's discussion with United .Nations Supreme Commander, General Matthew Ridgway.- Reuter
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    He forgot his wife's face
    410 3 LONDON, Saturday. T^HE memory of Mr. Frederick William Stacey was hazy when it concerned his wife, Alma. He had even forgotten her face. But she pointed it out to him eight weeks ago for the first time m 31 years. Mr. Stacey had forgotten, too,
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    Bridge Hand
    344 3 A mcdest bridge columnist A hide* his brill iiancies (and j also his worst mistakes) under a bushel of anonymity. But did you ever see a modest bridge player? Neither did we. East m this deal was a man named Prey. West opened the diamond eight i and
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    PEKING IN MOSCOW
    6 3 •the Qhinsse Coirihiiiitst
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    150 BURLY MEN FORM THE 'QUEENS COY'
    212 3 1 50 BURLY MEN FORM THE 'QUEENS COY' WINDSOR, Saturday. QUEEN ELIZABETHS personal bodyguard, the 150 burly guardsmen of the privileged "Queen's Company*' have begun fitting of the scarlet f ulldress uniforms they will wear at the young Queen's Coronation. They have the right to b c the only soldiers
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    BUCKLEY
    12 3 H£S NO T OW* TH6 BOA 7 b r*/p yet r
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    He wants to be Ceylon's P.M.G.
    89 3 COLOMBO, Sat. A POSTAL employee here, who has seen 38 years of proud service, rising from a messenger to a counter clerk, is among the few claimants for the vacant post of Post-master-General. His record of service is: Messenger; peon; postman; sorter; junior inspector
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    TORNADO TOLL
    30 3 Final tell of the tornado which ravaged four southern states of the U.S. last week was estimated at 220 dead, seven missing and more than 1,200 injured.- AFP
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      9 3 CpUcal C. _f *_______f^ _^9n_H in n KRIIU1B DAII,
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      6 3 Solution To Crossword No. 622 YESTERDAY'S
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      33 3 New Crossword No. 623 CLUES ACROSS LefA cut for it (7). 7. Never singular, however odd l (4). 1"- rvCI»P«9 (7> 21 SOlt Of gUn even P acms motorist m»y carry CM;ES DOWN
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      221 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1 p.m. "Saturday Ballroom"; 1 30—150 News; 2 "Album of Harmor.y"; 2.30 Rhythm Corner"; 2.45 "London Studio Melodies"; 3.15 "Pun With Music"; 3.30 "Tea Dance"; 4.15-S "Southern Serenade": 6.15-6.50 Children; 7 News: 7.15 "Listeners' Choice"; 7.50 "Spotlight on the Emergency"; 8 Adventure* of P.C. 49"; 8.30 "Music m
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Mar. 29. 1952. It's pep talk
    458 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Mar. 29. 1952. It's pep talk "DURMA'S premier U B Nu- he has abandoned the honorific Thakin. meaning "Master" as befits the number one citizen of a democratic republic obviously was talking mainly for home consumption when he declared the other day that Chinese Nationalist
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    TO QUEUE...
    184 4 m many US. Army camps, privates and sergeants' families are very often better housed than the officers. Following the spirit of the Doolittle Report, the U.S. Army has ordered the size of the soldier's family to be taken into account as well as rank whenever housing v/as allocated.
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    In America's new democratic army, says Rodney Campbell
    293 4 /X>LONELS and majors have to take their turn m the queue for the mess halls (same food), cinema seats, and quartermasters' stores with the G.Ls m America's new democratic army and, on the whole, they don't mind a bit. After World War
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    Rush to Finish Painting
    87 4 An officer of the Guards, a model, stands m the studio of Mr. Frank Beresford, 70- year-old artist, as he works on his canvas of the lying-in-state of King George VI. Beresford is working night and day to finish the canvas for Royal Academy judging. When
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    Truncheons Raised at Police Wedding
    48 4 The wedding of ex-Marine Commando officer Terence O.'Connell, now a detective attached to Hammersmith C.1.D., and a woman police constable Margaret Maguire was celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, London, recently. Here the couple walk happily into a forest of truncheons after the ceremony.
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    The Gospel is Bill's Big Business
    728 4  - The Gospel is Bill's Big Business MARGARET SHIPLEY No beating the big drum m Britain By OOMETHING m the nature of a time bomb landed m Britain last week. Soft-spoken Billy Graham, from JJorth Carolina, at 33 years of age America's No. 1 religious revivalist, is here to talk about
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    Britain's FesthaL Child's Play to Brazil
    615 4 Britain's FesthaL Child's Play to Brazil G. WARD PRICE, a much -travelled correspondent looks at Sao Paulo SAO PAULO, Brazil. T*HE idea that the Festival of Britain would impress foreign visitors from places such as this industrial cap tal of Brazil is a melancholy example of that national self-satisfac-tion which
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    GERMAN COAL DRIVE HAS WEST BLESSING
    506 4 GERMAN COAL DRIVE HAS WEST BLESSING says Anthony Terry CHDUR hundred and r fifty-thousand German miners still do an extra eight hour shift "for Goering" every second Sunday. They call it "Goering's panzer shift" because it dates from the time when guns and tanks literally came before butter and Germans
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      8 4 SA. Cbaaae Siigiptre 1 %Km Tel. 3348 SA
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      91 4 I] |F'" >* i ■r •-•■^*^-^p mufwA titM w Am mmm,, miti &O§|s| V JUST ONE -and aren't we enjoying ourse^ Baby wonders what all the fuss is about particular day-the toys, the new -c^ and this lovely, lovely candle- but wn And what a happy year it has been
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    Snowman puzzles a doctor
    272 5 Snowman puzzles a doctor «^nfcS the "Abominable I D Snowman" exist ill j IJh Himalayas? A Calf ta born health PW- "ioner at present i* j Singapore ws: Teha he T tr practitioner is Mr. 1 t p McCarthy-He3F»er. f .registered British »«y- P M*f£ »?< I pathic physician fl
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    NEW CO-OP.STORE
    33 5 Tr.e Kin: a Town Board Employeea and Kampong Bharu Co-operative Store Ltd Ipoh. at Sungei Pari Read will be opened by the British Adviser Perak. Mr. I. w. Blelloch. next week.
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    INDIANS LIKE REGT IDEA
    128 5 INDIANS LIKE REGT IDEA KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. T<HE proposal to form a X Federation Regiment made by the High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Templer, has been well received by Indians m Penang, Kedah. Province Wellesley and Perak, Mr. K. L. Devasar, the president of the Malayan Indian Congress, told the
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    RIVERS CLEARED
    24 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. Last year. 105 miles of river m Johore werp cleared and 2.745 tons of rubbish removed from their beds.
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    THEY ARE EARNING LESS NOW
    189 5 THEY ARE EARNING LESS NOW KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. r«ARPENTERS and other skilled workers m Johore were paid less last month than a few months ago, says, the Labour Department's report. A reduction m corrtract prices for building work was also reported. There was a shortage of skilled workers m Selangor
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    BRITAIN URGED: RECONSIDER RUBBER BAN
    366 5 BRITAIN URGED: RECONSIDER RUBBER BAN Wwtfaatioitol control aids US.' BRITISH r« Free Press SMt B Siatio^f r 5!!! ent asked Ru bber Trade control K?aus/ npi P ore to reconsider the question of destinational rabfert to X 'inpLw rge producers are at present ndC purchasin'gJX^' *****8 CapriCCS f the United
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    PENANG BOY TO STUDY IN US.
    96 5 Mr. Muyad Mohd Hashim, second son of the Federal Councillor, Mr. C. M. Hashim, will sail from Penang for the United States at the end of this month to take up a business course at Connecticut and m Yale University. He will be the
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    Palm oil output down
    135 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. •THE production of palm oil 1 and kernels fell sharply during January and February. The steady output of palm oil which averaged 4,400 tons a month during the last quarter of last year fell to about 3,100 tons a month this year. There
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    INDIAN MUSIC SOCIETY
    57 5 An Indian organisation, the Ramakrishna Sangeetha Sabha, has been formed m Singapore to promote Indian music, dancing and drama. The office bearers for the year are: president, Mr. A. Rajah; hon. secretary, Mr. C. R. Krishnen; hon. treasurer, Mr. K. T. Govinda, committee; Dr. M Chota Singh
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    BLACKOUT AREAS
    153 5 rLLOWING substations are liable to load shedding tonight: Orchard Rd., Armenian St. Static, Adelphi, Capitol. Newton 1 2, Wayanf Satu, Balmoral Rd.. Dalvey Rd., Chartered Bank. George St. Static, Upper Crost St./ Pagoda St., Upper Hokien 81.. Pickering St./ Church St., Upper Circular BdVCarpenter St., Cavanah Bd./Collyer Quay.
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    Singapore Govt gets a gift
    78 5 picture. TWO IRON LUNGS presented yesterday by dealers of Nestles products m the Colony to the Government to commemorate the memory of, the late Mr. K. E. Imrfte, who was manager of Nestles' Singapore branch for many years. The Director of Medical Services, Dr. W.
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    BILLS: CITY TO SEEK NEW LAW
    145 5 SINGAPORE City Council will seek power at a meeting of the Councillors on Monday to remove or obliterate unauthorised advertisements if they were not withdrawn by the owner s within 24 hours of being asked tc do so. Bylaws, now m force, require the
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    Red Cross gets $14,226
    62 5 PENANG, Sat. THE Bed Cross Appeals Week held recently m Penang and Province Wellesley realised $14,226, including $2,425 m annual donations received up to now. Mrs. B. Spenser Wilkinson, director of the Settlement branch of the British Red Cross Society, said the society was grateful to
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    HE TOOK HOME HIS TODDY
    44 5 A 23-year-old Indian. Subramaniam, who said he was "ashamed to drink m a toddy shop" was yesterday fined $25 for bringing home l f 2 pints of toddy. The toddy was found m a mus hidden inside a basket.
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    'SHUT THIS OIL KIOSK' HE SAYS
    150 5 'SHUT THIS OIL KIOSK' HE SAYS MR. M. P. D. Nair (LabourSouth will ask the City Council on Monday to close by the end of Msy xhs petrol filling station at the trolley bus turnabout m Bukit Timah Road. The Estate. s and Fire Ejigade Committee had earlier recommended that
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    OFFICE MOVES.
    33 5 OFFICE MOVES The office of the Executive Engineer, Works and Buildings, Ipoh, will move into the Times of Malaya buildine m Brewster Road on Monday. The building was acquired by Government m 1049.
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    Controls hinder trade: Chamber
    707 5 Free Press Staff Reporter |UR. E. M. F. Fergusson, who was re-elected iTI chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce at its annual general meeting yesterday, hit out at Government controls imposed m the Colony. He said they were "obstacles to trade and enter-prise^-no matter how
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    New schools won't have tuckshops
    57 5 New schools won't have tuckshops GOVERNMENT supplementary schools to be built this year m Singapore will not have tuckshops, Mr. R. E. .Ince, Senior Inspector of Schools, said yesterday. Plans to build proper tuckshops m existing new schools have also been abandoned temporarily. Mr. Ince said, however, that hawkers m
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    PANIC' BUYING ENDS
    274 6 Influence of truce talks on markets KOREAN cease-fire talks, though indecisive, brought to a halt "panic" buying which was a feature of Singapore commerce m 1950, and demand from all overseas markets was on a smaller scale during the second half of 1951, the report of the
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    Tan jong Malim: 'Punishment too drastic' he says
    114 6 Tan jong Malim: 'Punishment too drastic' he says KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. MR. K. L. Devasar, Prelf sident of the Malayan Indian Congress and Kuala Lumpur Municipal Commissioner, said yesterday that the punishment meted out to Tanjonsj Malim was "too drastic". Mr. Devasar, who said thit he was not expressing the
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    She ill-treated her daughter
    60 6 A middle-aged woman, Ho Tin Lan, was fined $100 by the Batu Gajah Magistrate Inche Wan Sulaiman bin Pawan Teh, for ill-treating her 13-year-old daughter by beating her. •Hie prosecuting officer, Inche Abdul Razak, told the court that the girl was suffering from tuberculosis. The Magistrate
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    42 6 INCHE MOHAMED RAZALLI BIN HAJI HUSSIN, police inspector, Segamat, Johore, and Che Yoon Sofiah. the fourth daughter of Tuan Hiji Mohamed Isa bin Kulop Shah, who were married at Kuala Kangsar. The Sultan and the Raja Pereimuan of Perak atended the wedding.
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    H.K. VARSITY MEN MEET
    72 6 A call to members to give *s»*jiger support" to the association, was made by the outgoing president, Dr. Ong Huck Chye, at the annual meeting of the North Malaya branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association on Thursday night. The meeting was preceded by a
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    Colony leaders support plan
    254 6 ALL-CHINESE BATTALION Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Chinese leaders yesterday supported m principle the suggestion of Dato Sir Chenglock Tan that a strong all-Chinese battalion should be included m the Federation Regiment. Mr. Tan Kok Chor, managing director of a Singapore Chinese newspaper, said that the
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    Four of FARELF boxing titles for S'pore men
    682 6 Four of FARELF boxing titles for S'pore men Free Press Boxing Reporter IX)UR men from Singapore, four men from Hong Kong and two men from Malaya— these are the FARELF boxing champions for 1952 as decided m last night's finals of the annual individual competition at the Singapore Volunteer Corps
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    43 6 Major-General A. G. O'Carrcll Beott, G.O.C Bjiai BMt District, presents th* FARELF 1 ghi-midc \[^i championship trophy to Sjrt. Mick Kelly, RIM yJ_Y scored a points win over Pie Llewellyn/ R..\.0( h, thrillinf final at the S.V.C. Drill Hall last nirtt Free Press
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    STANVAC HELD
    55 6 OTANVAC Sports Club, one of the leading Business Houses League One teams, disappointed badly when they were held 1-1 by lowly Mansfield at River Valley Road yesterday. Most of the Stanvac men were off colour, and goalkeeper Jamil Taib and Kok Tong (centre-half) had to work hard to
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    Stadium crowd in cheering mood
    301 6 todian made -.iiany spectaqfar save Tang uas always cool mi calm. Credit must go to Chinese defenders, who put up a stubborn stand, especially m toe second ball when Fa'.ftul reaj v go S Sgt. Hewe;; refere I 1..? teams Fathul Karib: O. A: Hassan,
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    COLD STORAGE TRIUMPH 5-1
    26 6 COLD STORAGE TRIUMPH 5-1 TN a Singapore B H.F.A D;v. 2 match at Farm- Park SingaDore Cold Storage 'A defeated Netherlands Trading Socie:> S.C. 5-1. picture.
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    IT'S A NEW CASTLE -ARSENAL CUP FINAL VOTE
    630 7  - IT'S A NEW CASTLE -ARSENAL CUP FINAL VOTE JIM CHAMBERS Upsets unlikely m today's games By VE>VC ASTLE United, 6—4 favourites to win y the F-A- U P f r S€COn^ successive year md Xrsenat bidding for the "double" of Cup and first division championship, ar e taken to *m
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    Mendez in Q-finals
    89 7 SEEDED yen ted by cham- n J^e Alston and j champion Martin H -cez won easily m the matches of the United States badminton championships. Ifcnda won two matches t ■dunce to the quarterfinals, M-..c-z tost only five r r s m the two matches a.:.::> f
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    POSTPONED
    32 7 Ford S C v. Bata S.C. 2r.d. D:v Business Houses iwgw game scheduled to be P-^jed on Police ground, Thomson Road :oday, will no: tike place. The ground fe no: available.
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    SCCS LOSE
    44 7 Singap r e City Council SergSej XI went down 3-2 to Wonderlads Sports Party at friendly soccer on Clerical lh: n ground yesterday. Scorers for Wonderlads were: J Jfeagofl (2), and S. R. S. Kauta 1 Ibrahim Musa K£?J, goals for the
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    WALCOTT FIGHT
    32 7 Wor^ heavyweight chamP;n Jerspy j Oe Walcott. and tord Charles will sign a f^raet fQr mip b(mt tQ piace earlv^n June. The S ll w- be held m Philadel- AFP
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    Cambridge tipped to win today
    538 7 BUT OXFORD WILL MAKE IT TOUGH fj^BKIDGE, who have only «*t world war, are odds--2JL fa J? l €f to win the Wth. University boat race £s?* aifOf thfa af Mjiiy critics, however, be"•▼e that Oxford will pat a stop to their rival's run of
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    One goal gives R.E.M.E. victory
    237 7 Free Press Soccer Reporter RJ2.M.E 1; R.A.O.C 0. EH)R R.E.M.E. it was the old, old story of poor 1 finishing. For 30 Bn R.A.O.C. it was inability to settle down on R.E.M.E/s ground at Ayer Raja Road. A slow first half developed into an exciting
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    Signals were flattered
    147 7 GHQ Siffs ...6, GHQ....0 SIGNALS' winning margin wa R flattering G.H.Q. were by no means out of this Services Senior league game, although weakness m defence gave the lively Signals' for^ wards full scope. G.H.Q had the better of opening exchanges In this match at Tanglin yesterday
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    Two points for Terror
    70 7 Terror 1, Tengah i. A food win for Terror who only pulled ahead m the closing minutes. Tengah were unlucky m losing fullback Fisher m the 10th minute, for they played the rest of this Senior Div. match at Tengah by Forbes ot Tengah kept the
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    GUNNERS WIN 2-0
    81 7 JUNIOR LEAGUE ROYAL Army Service Corps School beat Royal Air Force Maintenance Unit by four goals to two m a Junior Division match played at Nee Soon yesterday: Gurney, Cullinam, McQuarrie (penalty) and Henderson (penalty) scored for R.A.S.C ROYAL Air Force Tengah beat Royal Navy Kranji m
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    MATCHES OFF
    51 7 YESTERDAY'S U.3.L. Senior Division match between Royal Naval Air Station Sembawang and Royal Air Force Maintenance Unit was postponed as the ground at Seletar was unfit for play. The Junior Division match between Flying Boat Wing and 443 BAD also scheduled to be played at Seletar, was also
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    IPOH HANDICAPS FOR FIRST DAY
    358 7 WEIGHTS for the first day. Saturday, April 5, of the Perak Turf Clubs Easter meeting: CL. I, DIV. I,— »F. Curlew 9.07 Chantilly 9.60 Col. Whatnot 8.12 Treasure Ship 5.12 Tara Street 8.11 Bloodshot 8.07 Decaliter 8.06 Melbury Court 8.02 Technicolor 8.02 Raj Mahal 8.01
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    RIVALRY SHOULD BE VERY KEEN
    373 7 RIVALRY SHOULD BE VERY KEEN Today's youth swim meet By ROGER YUE A LL the excitement of youth and keen rivalry will £X be witnessed at this afternoon's fourth Colony Youth Swim meet— finals of the Singapore Youth Council's 1952 Swimming Galj%— at Mount Emily Pool. For the first time,
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    SYED OMAR BOUND FOR BRITAIN
    119 7 SI Syed Omar, R.A.S.C., wellknown Services boxer, is leaving Singapore next week on a fourmonths Physical Training course m England. He sails m the s.s. Devonshire. Syed Omar last year won the Singapore Base District, the Singapore inter-Servi-ces and the FARELF bantamweight boxing titles. This
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    FANNY IS BEATEN
    91 7 MRS. Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch winner of four Olympic gold medals m London In 1948. was beaten in' the 100 yards final m the South African athletic* championships and Olympics trials m Capetown yesterday. Mrs. Blankers-Koen's conqueror was Mrs. Daphne Robb Hasenjager, who ran for South Africa m
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    SHUTTLE STARS AID A FUND
    185 7 SHUTTLE STARS AID A FUND BA DM I NTON champions from Singapore and Johore will be seen m action tonight at the Great World arena m four games to raise funds for the Rotary Club's school and community halt at the Trafalgar Home. Among those taking part will be Ong
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    FORM—DOES BEST GALLOP
    407 7 FORM— DOES BEST GALLOP From ALLAN LEWIS yAN BREI KELEN S hones were the only ones to T make time this morning when the No. t grass was opened for fast work. No Regrets (Percival) retains his form remarkably well He was going better than Good Gamble (Mawi) to ran
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    GIRL ATTACKED IN CAM AT S'PORE: $500 FINE
    556 8 GIRL ATTACKED IN CAM AT S'PORE: $500 FINE Of Apgffrfgi) ffl««jl fr« I Free Press Staff Reporter A 33- YEAR-OLD American who had violently assaulted an Australian girl of 29, m Singapore, m an attempt to outrage her modesty, left her by the roadside with two black eyes and injuries
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    MEASUREMENTS IN A MINUTE
    165 8 A Parisian master tailor, M. D'Angelo, has invented a device which he claims will revolutionise the art of making to measure. The invention, called the bodygraph, consists of a long tonic made of special felt. There are four sites of tunic and all have elastic across
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    £20m-gestyire on Jap bonds
    68 8 LONDON, Sat. TJHE British Treasury an- nounced yesterday that the Japanese Government will deposit £20,000,000 with the Bank of England for two years a s a token of goodwill towards the holders of Japanese sterling bonds. During the two year s this sterling will be available
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    ATTLEE PLANS QUICK U.S. TRIP
    55 8 Mr Clement Aitlee, booked a passage yesterday for a quick visit to the United States. He will take off at 2000 GMT Sunday on a BOAC Stratocruiser fcl: New York, deliver an address m Philadelphia, do a quick turnabout and Hv horns -due back m
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    Canadian $ rises
    26 8 Canadian rises The Canadian dollar reached a full cent premium over the American dollar m New York yesterday for the first time m 17 years.- A.P.
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    MYSTERY WARSHIPS OFF S. JAVA
    112 8 JAKARTA, Sat. MILITARY authorities yesterday confirmed press reports of mysterious unidentified warships cruising along Java's rocky south coast. A Defence* Ministry spokesman said that a military unit stationed m West Java's southern coastal region reported spotting a "strange vessel" near Wljnkoops Bay, at Pelabuhan Ratu.
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    He cried, 'Kiss me', then died in blaze
    194 8 He cried, 'Kiss me then died in blaze AUSTIN, Oklahoma, Saturday. A 14-YEAR-OLD farm boy kissed his younger brother good-bye and ordered him to ''get away from me before he was burned to death beneath a blazing tractor. The story 01 now racnara Dale Foreman died m an accident on
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    Rome Reds call 10-minute strike
    39 8 Rome's Communist run Chamber of Labour yesterday called a 10-minute citywide protest strike ior today against Allied occupation of Trieste and the suppression by the Trieste Police ot the March 20 pro-Italy demonstration.- -AP.
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    H.M.S. AMETHYST
    17 8 HMb Amethyst has arrived m Hong Kong after patrol duty off the Malayan coast. Reuter
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    SWISS TAXES UP
    14 8 The Swiss Parliament yesterday approved federal tax increase for rearmament A.P.
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    New P.M.to end Tunis 'revolt'
    233 8 New P.M.to end Tunis 'revolt' TUNIS, Sat. TOHE BEY of Tunis, m a "Jast -I- chance" interview yester.day with the French Resid-ent-General, Count Jean De .Hautecloque, yielded to demands for a new premier to end what the Resident called the "atmosphere of revolt." The Bey nominated ekter statesman, Salahedtiin Baccouche
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    'U.S. truce men broke secrecy pact'
    113 8 'U.S. truce men broke secrecy pact' HONG KONG Sat. rE Communist New China News Agency yesterday accused American truce negotiators m Korea of "violating a strict agreement" by disclosing to a Reuter correspondent information about secret sessions of staff offlcers discussing the excEahge of prisoners. It said that on March
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    2 young men cross Atlantic
    59 8 Two young Australians. William Howell. 27. a dental surgeon, and Frank McNulty, 26, a newspaperman arrived m Barbados yesterday after crossing the Atlantic m their 24-foot yacht Wanderer 11. They took 29 days to make the 2,700-mile run from Las Palmas to Barbados. Their original
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      96 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris PbeMHHH U tied a note to an arrow, mr. hardy-1 Ti received that ridiculous messagTJHHK^SJHeHH you say you shota MEssAen a^d it asked the prisoner, if there and i could not resist making a BP^SH f^ ONE OF MY WINDOWS, AND A WAS ONE JO
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      8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, March 29, 1952
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      Asian fliers help drop of $100 million
      800 1 RAE MARCH TELLS OF THREE INDIAN MEMBERS OF THE KUALA LUMPUR FLYING CLUB. jHE i uu ,ia Lumour Tlvinu Oub has hundred millionth ipibr m wages on r ,i!)!kr eslatcs ami piiies In Ihc Federation X:i:s work is done at the 'moment by
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      Pte. Smith now Lord Mayor
      45 1 niHEN Private R. E. Smith If had done hia 1914 war service with the Ist East Riding Field Company Royal Engineers m the Ist kk Field Company RE. m Mesopotamia, he returned to England to devote himself to Lort Mayor
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      Vice Captain
      5 1 Vice Captain MR. V. /P.VNASALAM.
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      APRIL I—DAY OF FOOLISHNESS
      668 1  - APRIL I— DAY OF FOOLISHNESS W. A. Clarke by EVERYONE knows v that April 1 is known as 'All Fools' Day. But nobody knows, for certain, how the title originaf€d. According to one theory, the name was coined m Prance, the first Christian country to adopt Jaiiuary 1 as New
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      There are rules for leap year
      211 1 by BEE WICKERSON WE are still (and how often we are told) living m the age of surplus women. Opportunity, such as a leap year provides, is not to be cast lightly away. But one must take care to obey the rules of this
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      TWENTY ENJOY SUNDAY PICNIC AT $2.50 EACH
      803 1  - TWENTY ENJOY SUNDAY PICNIC AT $2.50 EACH K. S. Chia by £]ARLY m 1948, six of us had a day's fun wandering along the north-east coast of Penang at $2.50 each. The other Sunday, twenty of us "spent a most enjoyable day, picnicking by the seaside also "at $2.50 each.
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      21 2 With Granger Pier Angeli with Stewart Cranger, explores the beauties of Rome, This was Pier's home before she went to Hollywood.
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      Gene Kelly at Hitler's Home
      659 2 Pier Angelicas a new hero m a new setting DAVID LEWIN who was m the Sahara Desert (for 'Black Rose and the African jungle (*f o r Th c African Queen*) is now at Berchtesgaden to report on the filming of 'The Devil Makes Three
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      With Gene Kelly
      32 2 Pier Angeli, new Italian star recently seen m Singapore m The Light Touch" has a new leading man, Cene Kelly. Here they are on location m t#ie Austrian mountains.
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      MAJOR NIVEN KIDNAPS A COW
      289 2  -  Lan Grant by -A PPOI NTMEN T A WITH VENUS', (Coming to Singapore) the latest British comedy-thriller has a story that m cold print looks both silly and far-fetched. In translation to the screen the story has suffered a change for the better; and the
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      Academy Award Rivals
      84 2 "A STREETCAR Named Desire" (Capitol) and **A Place m the Sun" (Caffay) have won ten Academy Awards between the»v- Both are being shown locally. "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE** won the* follow, mg: Bestpjgrtormance by an actres^fvivien Leigh) B^?t performance bya M suooorting actor (KaH MaWerw 1 lMtr
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      COLOSSAL QUO VADIS
      194 2 (BALLYHOO BEGINS) j (For release Thurs. Mar. 27 J Arthur M. Leow, president of Loew's International Corporation, announced at a meeting of M-G-M's "Colossal QUO VADIS Conference", according to a cabled report from Rome, just received by M-G-M that every detail of promotion must be accorded Colossal
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      They Say That....
      270 2 HOLLYWOOD COSSIP BY SHEILAH GRAHAM SAD news for ROBERT TAYLOR: At about the time he gees to Europe this spring, dancer Ludmilla Tchsrina ("Tales of Hoffmann**) is doe m New Y«rk. Maybe Bob will change his travel plans. JEAN PIERRE AUMONT. house guest of the Tyrone Powers,
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      Gainsborough girls are bach
      459 2  -  CECIL WILSON npHE Gainsborough Lady of Shepherd's Bush no longer bows from the screen because the studios she served as a trade mark now produce television instead of films. But the Gainsborough Girls go gaily on. Margaret Lockwood. Phyllis Calvert, Patricia Roc, and Jean Kent were
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        157 2 SO TERRIFIC IT HAD TO BE ADVANCE BOOKED FOR 2 M'MTES! BtnTTe igWPSKSin encori: mmti TONIGHT y^P^aMfcSiiia NEXT SATURDAY! THE MIGHTIEST FILM OF ITS KIND SINCE "BEAU GESTE LONG AWAITED! LONG TO BE REMEMBERED! < w:«-.-.. BSl^^^B^B/^^ V- 0*" --^Sa^^wJ »ouit mkt TMOst iustt. I B||aß|f i Fr%-i>^m j t
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      RENDEZVOUS
      1643 3  -  JOHN CHIA 'was s^g^^^ 0 1^" 55 stra nge things but swely none ERNEST AND kTitw^.. C^NCE MEETING UNDER THE STARS OF™H<^»^ EST WHOSE UFE «BY A raREA D: AND V'Y WHOSE PLE DGE WAS TO BE SO POIGNANTLY FULFILLED. j A Free Press short story j by gRNEST
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      He wants to make earthworms popular
      759 3  -  JOHN SEIFFERT by AN Australian, who A has 500,000 \o 1,000,000 earthworms m his backyard has what must surely \k one of the oddest hobbies m the world. He is dark-eyed, earnest, 28 year old Harold Karp, earthworm breeder. Mr. Karp. who lives at
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      They all thought I Was washed up
      1832 4  - They all thought I Was washed up JOHNNY WILLIAMS By 00 I'm the British heavyweight champion. Just like Ted Broadribb always told me I would be. Yes, the slightly superstitious, home-loving farmer's boy from Rugby has taken home the bacon, m spite of the heartaches, headaches, and nightmares yes, nightmares—w
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      ONE RECORD HAS GONE ALREADY
      526 4  -  C. BRYCE Services Soccer Parade Writes but they're not pleased about it WE'RE coming up Tf for the fifth week of the season m the Singapore United Services Football Association League and the p*ce is growing hot. Early season problems are all Just about ironed
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      TODAY IS BOAT RAGE DAY
      29 4 A last run together: Oxford ftnd Cambridge crews pictured In training for today's Boat Race from Putney to Mortlake, Cambridge are nearest the camera..
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      Scored 7 —and lost
      63 4 Scored 7 and lost WITH 20 minutes left for play Gee's were leading by seven goals to three against Sunny Hill Wanderers m the Derby and District Schools and Welfare League* An easy win for them, you would say, but oh dear, no! The Wanderers became sunnier and won by
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      100 FOR THE FLY-HALF
      58 4 BEDFORD'S sft. sin. flyhalf, R. H. "Tlch" Haynes, now has a personal tally of points scored for his club this season of 100. He completed his century by converting all four tries m the match against Harlequins. The century is made up of 23 conversions, five
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      27 4 CHIGWELL GOLF CLUB have Monsignor George Andrew Beck, Roman Catholic Bishop of Brentwood. as a member. He says that he is a beginner and has no handicap.
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