The Singapore Free Press, 3 April 1952

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARMMT AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    MR. LYTTELTON ON T. MALIM
    338 1 Silence on outrages will not be LONDON, Thursday. THE Secretary for Colonies, Mr. Oliver 1 Lyttelton, spoke m the House of Commons la<tni*ht about the "collective punishment" imposed by the High Commissioner, Sir Gerald Templer, on the town of Tanjbng Malim. Mr Lyttelton said: "The
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    ACHESON TO STAY
    36 1 The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson. said at a press conference yesterday that he plans to remain m the Cabinet until President Truman finishes his term on next Jan. 20.- U.P.
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    U.K.-CAIRO DEADLOCK CONTINUES
    167 1 LONDON, Thurs. 4 basis foe new talk s beA tweer Britain and Egypt ta not yet been found on either oi the two outstand- bsaes 'he future of Qm Sudan and the evacua- British troops from Zone a bough the B:i:ish Am- Cairo. Sir Ralph 81 na
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    FIRST LEGATION
    31 1 Mohamed Rashid Ali Baig. JJ^ly appointed Indian Minister to the Philippines. m cd a warm welcome he arrived m Manila f Monday to open India's nr^ L^.-irion there- A.P.
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    ELECTION FIGHT FOR LONDON
    141 1 ELECTION FIGHT FOR LONDON LONDON, Thurs. CONSERVATIVES and So*J cialists will fight today for the biggest prize m British local government- -control of the London County Council. This election will open a six weeks' series of municipal contests involving a turnover of more than 30,000 seats m the county, borough
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    KEEPING WARM
    29 1 Reuter THEY LOOK like men from another planet, but actually they are U.S. Navy men wearing new -type electrically heated cold weather clothing during Arctic operations Greenland.-
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    FRENCH KILL 100 VIETMINH IN TRAP
    207 1 SAIGON, Thursday. FRENCH Union forces met stiff Vietminh resistance m their biff offensive m the Tonking valley now m its seventh day but pushed forward with heavy air and artillery support, a French army communique said last night. They killed 100 Vietminh and liberated
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    McNEICE HAS NOT SEEN IT
    69 1 McNEICE HAS NOT SEEN IT Free Press Staff Reporter The President of the Singapore City Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, Baid this morning that he had not yet seen a petition sent to him by 8.000 daily-rated employees of the Council regarding increased wages and cost-of-living allowances and improved
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    'Stupid not to use Singapore more'
    221 1 COLD WAR PROPAGANDA LONDON, Thursday. npHE Foreign Under- Secretary, Mr. Anthony x Nutting rejected a proposal m the House of Commons yesterday that the Singapore radio transmitter should have a second shift. He said that would cost something like £109,000 yearly. He was replying
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    KILLING OF DETECTIVE
    41 1 A spokesman of the Sitigapore C.I.D. said this morning that two men were brought m for questioning m connection with the murder of a Chinese detective yesterday. The missing revolver of the deceased has not yet been recovered.
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    U.S. fighter planes to carry Aweaporis
    172 1 CHICAGO. Thurs. ALL American air force combat planes are or will be equipped to carry atomic weapons, the United States Secretary for Air, Mr. Thomas K. Finletter declared last night. H e said that the United States would be the only power able to
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    Oil survey in Pakistan
    51 1 KARACHI, Thurs. JftHE Standard Vacuum Oil X Company has completed an aerial survey of many thousands of square miles m Eastern Pakistan, the company announced yesterday. The US. firm had been given a licence by the Pakistan Government for o n w ploration m that are*a.-
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    ARMS FIRST
    21 1 Belgium has decided to postpone the 1956 Brussels World Pair and to concentrate all her efforts on rearmament. Reuter
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    'Stop Russia' man sworn in as U.S. envoy
    124 1 'Stop Russia' man sworn in as U.S. envoy WASHINGTON, Thurs. MR. George F. Kennan, one of the authors of America's "Stop Russia" policy, was sworn m yesterday as Ambassador to Moscow. He promised to work for an easing of tensions between the Communist and western worlds and "the improvement of
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    Italy expands merchant navy
    50 1 Through American aid Italy has now the largest merchant fleet which ever sailed under the green, white and red Italian flag. At the end of 1951, the Italian merchant marine had seven per cent more than the on* 794 tsm. it did m 1941. A. P.
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    Freak goal brings protest
    131 1 LONDON. Thurs. HUDDERSFIELD Town, bottom of the English First Division, are to lodge orotest with the F?° tba J League about the freak goal by whi?h Tottenham Hotspurs the reign^g chamn'rns b*at them her? yester- match, Eddy Baily, England the goal should not be allowand Tottenham
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    TAFT WINS IN TWO PRIMARY ELECTIONS
    278 1 TAFT WINS IN TWO PRIMARY ELECTIONS LONDON, Thursday. SENATOR Robert Taft yesterday fought his way back }nto the Republican Presidential race by winning the critical Wisconsin primary election and taking the lead m Nebraska. In Wisconsin, the Senator won 24 of 30 delegates to the Republican National Convention against two
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    IKE TO BE HOME SOON
    102 1 IKE TO BE HOME SOON ABILENE, KANSAS Thurs. GEN. Eisenhower yesterday sent a message to his home town friends here saying it was his "profound hope" to return to the United States well m advance of the Republican National Convention on July 7. But the General gave no hint whether
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    HONOUR FOR MOUNTBATTEN
    35 1 King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden has awarded Earl Mountbatten of Burma the Seraphim Order. The order is the most exclusive m Sweden. Only two British subjects have been granted it before. Reuter
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    Acheson: nothing new from Stalin
    284 1 Acheson: nothing new from Stalin WASHINGTON, Thurs. 'THE U.S. Secretary of i State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said yesterday that Premier Stalin's message to a group of American newspaper editors was nothing more than a series of broad generalisations which added nothing new to the world situation. Stalin, had said a
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    VATICAN ENVOY
    25 1 Ujumahana Wiriaatmadja. Indonesia's first Minister to the Vatican, arrived m Vatican City by air yesterday accompanied by M wif ftnd three children.- A.P.
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    A Playboy Takes The Water Cure
    1018 2 UNDER REVIEW The Wastrel, by Frederic Wakeman. (Wingate). The Yellow Drawing- room, by Jean Ross. (Hutchinson). Elizabeth Gaskell: Her Life an* Work, by A. B. Hopkins. (John Lehmann). The Happy Valley, by Jules Roy translated by Edward Owen Marsh. (GoUancs). YOU are familiar, of
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    'Hack' wrote Masterpiece
    381 2 "AN American A Tragedy", the book on which the film "A Place m the Sun" is based was Theodore Dreiser's best work. His early career gave no hint of what was to come. The Dreiser family alter moving from town to town settled down m Warsaw, Indiana,
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    198 2 DORN today, you have Joyous high spirits, enthusiasm, and a kindly and sympathetic disposition which makes you a good friend to all. especially to your youth. However, as experience gives you more adult views on life, you lose some of your spontaneity and beeme more calculating and
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    QUICK LOOKS
    259 2 I Thought of Daisy, by Edmund Wilson (W. H. Allen. Early novel nearly 20 years old, though the "blurb" on the dust-cover might appear to suggest that it is a new book— by the highly intelligent American critic who has given us "The Wound and the Bow*' and
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    HOW TO STOP THE RUSSIANS
    283 2 UNDER REVIEW ♦"East v West," Lieut.General Sir Giffard Martel (Methuen, 12/6.) SOCIALIST Rebel "Nye" Bevan and Tory General Sir Giffard "Q" Martel should have an early talk together. Not about the past. Because the General blames the Socialist Farty— especially the "embittered intelligentsia "—for most
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    General Sir Giffard Martel offers his solution.
    217 2 the Russians were entirely used on the lines of communication. And there they were eaten up m the quagmire of the roads, which were still better than the brokendown railways. Now Lease-Lend (for the Russians) has stopped. Have the Soviet motor, works replaced
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    MEMOIRS OF VON PAPEN
    40 2 rpHE memoirs of Franz on X Papen, the German diplomat who served the Kaiser and the Nazis, will be published m London this year. Von Papen has written about 230,000 words. He lives now m theFrench
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    Trollope flayed the Americans
    432 2 Trollope flayed the Americans WATCHING Emlya Williams read from and imitate Dickens his successful New York engagement has just come to an end— l began to think of the far from gentle language that many British .tourists m the 19th century, including Dickens himself, used about America m print when
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      97 2 New Crossword Mo. 627 CLUES ACROSS 1. Close (6). 4. A Scotland Yard product i.4>. 7. On the Gold Coast one gives the bill to the artillery commandant (5). 8. There's nothing to the girl (5) 9. No dou bt they may look at the Shah (7, 4). 10. Coffee
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      7 2 Solution To Crossword No. 626 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.—
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    KILLER TRIED TO JOIN DRUG RACKET
    350 3 KILLER TRIED TO JOIN DRUG RACKET He was thought 'too dangerous' "Kin* of the Dope known M the Aaku was found dyin* m fcuston, o n January 4. Chief ftftfrt HVre search! t? dl ?L ry contairing iljl "f™** Of this drug trafSconand Yard's investigatiT^.fe rei ß? 01 Ma nchesPnrt«
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    MAD MARCH HARE
    50 3 EVERYBODY knows that greyhounds delight m nothing more than chasing hares although these are usually electric. Thus, the little Leveret "Felix" who seeks protection between the paws of the greyhound "Lundy" must b e a mad March hare, but he sfjems to ifet away wjth it.—Popper picture.
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    Forgers run own 'dollar aid' plan
    176 3 Forgers run own 'dollar aid' plan LONDON. Thurs. crumpled 100- r n otes found d t a London telec Kiosk have set th; SSrti Surete looking m E£ for the man runhis own version of sJshall Aid." *T~ notes were near- lor^Vnes printed ti -he same -la:e as others gVhave
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    Pre-emptive Bids
    469 3 FFcur Aces .r.erpretation ot ■n iMMt of an opening u«e aid ius a decided advantage m aoth ttH F^hbein and Culxrtooc methods of handling this eattyn. Fishoeiners play the c^.e is absolute: Culbertson adbMHi pay M as primarily for pr-^.es. but with partner having •s.» jpuon of taking
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    Love falls down with a cottage
    160 3 BIRMINGHAM, Thurs. A WIFE who refused to follow her husband to a tumbledown country cottage from their comfortable town home had the right to refuse, a judge ruled., And he refused to give a divorce to 47-year-old Oswald George Jakeman, an ex-rail-way porter. The
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    HUNT FOR 2 STOLEN DOVES
    241 3 HUNT FOR 2 STOLEN DOVES LONDON, Thurs. WORCESTERSHIRE and Wiltshire police are cooperating m a hunt for two Diamond Doves, male and female, both "kidnapped" by bird thieves who are thought to be trying to mate them. The hen bird was stolen with a batch of 20 rare birds from
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    So-tidy thief locks up behind him
    156 3 Til thef 1 0^ 00^ Th «rs tht H? has th keys sought Ma y f air. Is jJJW again by Scot- •>"* haul rought hi the buildAnd v £*****. o? 1 the only Tl,e thief locked behmd gat and aga^^ed him alhthe doora
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    Gottwald's mother
    22 3 Mrs. Marie Leeosova, 78, mother of Czechoslovak President Clement Gottwald, has died at a hosDital at Vyskov m Moravia.- A.P.
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    Jap recovery slackens
    77 3 TOKYO, Thurs. ritHE postwar recovery and JL expansion of Japanese productive capacity appears to be" slowing. The basic problem is that a major part of Japanese production is processed from foreign materials, and Japan must export to earn foreign exchange for buying food and more raw materials
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    TELEPHONE LINK
    22 3 China now has telephone communication with all parts of Russia, according to a China Government report from Shanghai. AAP. Reuter
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    Solicitor's client was a 'snake'
    274 3 LONDON, Thursday. HpHE relationship between a solicitor and one of his A clients was like that of the snake and the rabbit, said Mr. Christmas Humphreys, defending at the Old Bailey. The solicitor— like the rabbit— was hypnotised completely. Joseph Edmund Morris, 50, the solicitor
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    Let's have pirate bus, he says
    158 3 Let 's have pirate bus, he says LONDON, Thurs. MR. HARRY WILLCOCK, the 56-year-old Wembley factory manager who forced the issue on identity cards by appealing to the High Court against a conviction for refusing to produce his card to a policeman, is considering another crusade to secure reductions m
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    EARTH TREMORS
    15 3 Earth tremors lasting 15 seconds shook Port William and other adjacent areas m
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    A LOST SON GOES HOME A STRANGER
    406 3 LONDON, Thursday. MR. Derrick Forrester, 25-year-old film company clerk who disappeared from London's West End over five months ago, has come back to his mother and father, whom now he does not know. His memory of his childhood and his life before October
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    'Later maybe' says Jane
    111 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. MISS JANE RUSSELL, the film star, hopes "later on" to adopt Tommy Kavanagh, the 19-month-old Lambeth boy whom she brought back to her Hollywood home last November. "The baby is here on an immigrant quota and can stay indefinitely," she said. "My husband
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    Week-old baby operated upon
    83 3 PHILADELPHIA, Thurs. A ONE WEEK OLD girl flown to Philadelphia from Ethiopia for an emergency operation at the Hasnemann Hospital, is reported m u fair condition after a good restful night*' Genet Marie Kuhns, daugh- ier of a member of the Mennonite Central Relief Committee m
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      224 3 CTIirAPORE 6.ls, Sports Round-Up: 6.30 The dinvsAr w News News Analysls 645 In o 3«i am-9 55 Schools; 10 Emer- terlude and Daily Quotation; 9 35a.m ».oaoci 65Q EJditortals; 7.00 gency News; 10.05 "Music wnue g^^ Reoord 7 15 and You Work"* 10 45-12 Schools: 1 Livestock— An agricultural maga-
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, April 3, 1952. Traffic control
    506 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, April 3, 1952. Traffic control fTHE number of licensed drivers m Singapore— 99,845 at the end of last year is probably well past 100,000 now. A staggering figure. We ought to be grateful that we don't have 100,000 vehicles as well, for that would be
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    Capital City of a New Race
    863 4 I a WARD PRt(M gives thh picture j: of thriving Rio de Janeiro where :j :j glittering wealth and shabby poverty i; ij go side by side. j: LET us suppose that you are a clerk and want to emigrate to Brazil. Of course,
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    HYPNOTISM
    786 4  - HYPN OTISM JOHN HALL Music-hall stunt or medical treatment it remains a mystery to men of science, says fffPNOTISM has been the focus of acute controversy ever since it was mesmerism. It was Mesmer, a Swiss doctor practising m Paris* who began what became the cult of the glaring eyes,
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    New Super Carrier for 600 m.p.h. Jets
    703 4 New Super Carrier for 600 m.p.h. Jets RECENTLY I flew, as a passenger, from H.M.S. Eagle, the Royal Navy's finest aircraft carrier, specifically built for jets. And I'm left with the impression that life m the air arm of the Seniof Service is now supersonic. No more doodling along at
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    A VALUABLE BROADCAST
    212 4 Half an hoar's broadcast by BBC reporter Edward Ward has probably done more to bring home to the people of Britain the nature of events m Malaya than hours of debate m Parliament and many of the broadcast discussions of Malayan problems that have taken place m
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    Women and civil defence
    338 4 Women and civil defence i*"***^ r 1J theF Oouncil spoke la( <j! pub •"> given to tfcTvS and the C Corps, ana" V ment thai r Z luity ere ladies oi r:<7 would bo 0:; c Co/jrj 10 their hem should A f^P y that there i+ things the lad
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    STUDENTS CONTROL TRAFFIC
    156 5 Schools plan for safety during recess DRFf!™* Pr f s^ Staff Reporter PREFECTS of English-language schools m n«l£L«? doin work of traffic findST-iS? recS' UtSide BCh0 l the traffic poliqe. Two prefects from each school, armed with road signs provided by the Education Department, atop traffic b^y
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    THE 'LOST' CARS
    51 5 Six members of the Johor* police, including electricians and mechanics, were sent to Singapore. yesterday, to move eight armoured cars, which Have been standing near Singapore East Wharf for two months, into Johore without delay. Picture shows police technicians examining one of the armoured cars. Free Press
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    SHE SPOKE FOR MALAYA
    152 5 SHE SPOKE FOR MALAYA .p lG iiriENyear-old schoolYj Alice Tay, returned t ejnft pore yesterday after 1 re month tour of. the states where she represented Singapore at the I ;"m- York Herald Tribune ji School Forum. c was one of the 24 stu-j-jts who represented Near Fa: Eastern countries.
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    SCHOOL PLANS BAZAAR
    45 5 F*et Press Staff Reporter The Geylang Methodist Oirls' School wiU hold a bazaar at the school grounds oaSaturday f rom 3.30 pm There will be sales of handwork by pupils, provisions. f S?a and drinks. Games and side-shows have also been arranged.
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    1,000-mile tour
    96 5 1,000-mile tour KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A PUBLIC address and cinema unit of the information Department has just completed a 1,000-mile railway tour of the Federation reaching 19,150 people. The unit covered 16 towns and five centres m its tour which took it as far as Padang Besar, near the Siamese
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    Shell talk on 'vocal music'
    71 5 I Irs. Maria Lee-Howe Teh, singing teacher at the Chung Cheng High School, will give a talk on "Vocal Music" at the British Council Hall at 8 p.m. on April 0. She plans to hold a concert at the end of the year. Sh P
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    His wand is broken over grave
    229 5 His wand is broken over grave Free Press Staff Reporter MR. David Gilroy, Shell Company's Singapore Public Relations Manager, and an amateur magician, had all his "earth-bound mysteries turned into the keeping of the ages" yesterday by the breaking of a nickle-tipped teak wand over hi^ grave at Bidadari cemetery
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    RAINS FLOOD WIDOWS FIVE-FOOT-WAY HOME
    258 5 KOK AH CHEE, a 70-year-old widow, who has made her home on the five-foot-way, because she cannot afford to pay 'tea-money,' was driven out three times this week by eight inches of flood water. Kok. who was the chief tenant of a house m Duxton
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    26 5 nirvrl p whioh Tan Tna Tee a. 28-year-old Sin&a pore detective, rode on beTHE BICYCLE wWch^TMi £*£J*^ Wd yesterday. T an/s body, is seen covered on
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    This is how a war hern's widow lives
    244 5 AM RS. Billy Loh, widow of the Singapore war hero who smuggled food to Australian prisoners oi war m Caldecott Hill camp during the occupation, is finding it difficult to run a home. She gets an allowance of $90 a month— sso
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    5 life-guard posts are planned
    104 5 "CK)LLOWING a survey car- ried out by the Singapore Life-Guard Corps, life-guard posts may be set up on the Colony's beaches m the following order of priority— Changi (two posts Tanah Merah, Marine Parade and Ponggol. The Commissioner of Lands has received an application from
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    MANY INQUIRE ABOUT BRAZIL
    158 5 WANT to go to Brazil— a country that is attracting thousands of immigrants from all over the world? It will cost you $32 for a passport m Singapore— if, of course, the Foreign Ministry m Rio de Janeiro approves your application. And approval comes only after
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    Blackout schedule
    143 5 FOLLOWING substations are r liable to load shedding tonight: Armenian St. Static, Adelphi. Capitol, Wayanr Satu, Balmoral Rd., Dalvey Rd., Chartered Bank, Cavanah Bd./Collyer Quay, Victoria Memorial Hall 1 I, Prince St./ Market St., Raffles Place/Malacca St.. Boat Quay. Union Building, Hume Pipe, Rheem, Ford, Bin Seng, Wire
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    KEPT STOLEN WIRE CHARGE
    39 5 KUANTAN, Thurs.— Bail of $200 was allowed Rasali bin Mohamed who was charged here with dishonestly retaining two rolls of electric wire stolen from the P.C.Ci.. Sungei Lembing. The- hearing was postponed to April 24.
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    HUNDRED ASK A COUNCILLOR TO HELP
    303 5 HUNDRED ASK A COUNCILLOR TO HELP They want visas for relatives itjOKfc than 100 Chinese have, so far, given their ifl applications and travel papers of their relatives, who could not get entry permits to the Colony, to Dr. C. J. Paglar, Singapore Legislative Councillor. They want him to take
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    SHE LIKES TO TEACH BOYS
    100 5 SHE LIKES TO TEACH BOYS 'Girls sulk, so MRS. Hilda NicklenJones, of Singapore. who prefers to teach boys instead of girls, because girls "sulk too much", has gone back to teach at St. Andrew's School after having retired after 31 years of school work. Hundreds of th-e boys she teaches
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    OFF TO AMERICA
    39 5 Inche Sardon Zubir, advocate and solicitor, Johore Bahru, member of the State Council, Johore, and president of the youth section of the UMNO, leaves today for America on a Youth Leaders' Scholarship provided by the USIS.
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    Special gaoled
    25 5 KUANTAN, Thurs. Syed Nor bin Syed Mohamed, a Special, of Nada Estate, was sentenced here to two months for being absent from duty.
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    YOUTHS WILL BACK TEMPLER
    252 6 -and fight racial bodies KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE Malayan Youth Council, at its annual general meeting this month, will pledge its fullest support to the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, m his fight against racial youth movements. "The Council welcomes the stand Sir Gerald Templer
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    LEAVE MALAYS ALONE, 3 SAY
    254 6 LEAVE MALAYS ALONE, 3 SAY OINGAPORE Malay leaders yesterday said Muslims of other countries should not interfere m the affairs* of local Malays. Such interference had, m the past, produced awkward situations for the Malays, they said. Tungku Putera, greatgrandson of the last Sultan of Singapore, said some of these
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    S'pore Buddhist Centre meets
    140 6 S'por e Buddhist Centre meets TH E Singapore Regional Centre of World Buddhists, with its headquarters m Ceylon, at its first annual meeting, has appointed two Singapore Chinese women as its president and its secretary. The president is Miss Pitt Chin Hui, the principal of the Maha Bodhi School, Geylang
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    3 changes in Federation
    96 6 appointments KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. WITH the departure on long leave of the Federation's Chief Secretary. Mr. D. C. Watherston, and the completion by Mr. J. D. Mead of his service as Member for Works and Housing, there have been changes m senior appointment^ m the Federation
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    Churches unite for Holy Week
    85 6 IPOH. Thurs. OROTESTANT churches m 1 Ipoh are to unite and hold special services during "Holy Week" (April 7-11). The programme includes the singing or Stainer's "Cruecifixion" by choral group at the Wesley Church on Good Friday This is the first time that there has
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    They want more traffic police
    248 6 WITHOUT a strong and active traffic police branch to guide drivers and punish pers stent road offenders (fie work of the Singapore Safety First Council will not achieve the best results, says the Council's annual report for 1951. The Council has been particularly concerned with
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    16 VOLUNTEER IN KEDAH
    34 6 Up to last Saturday 16 volunteers bave enrolled for the Federation Volunteers Reserve Corps m Alor Star. They include Malays. Chinese Indians and Ceylonese. The recruits will be examined soon.
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    KEDAH COUNCIL
    19 6 The Kedah Council of State will meet at the Balai Besar on April 19 at 10.30 a.m
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    ALL SET FOR THE GRAND NATIONAL
    1042 6 ALL SET FOR THE GRAND NATIONAL Who's to win the chase? Asks M.C.L. F[E climax of the British 'Chasing* season is here again— The Grand National! For over a hundred years it has come round with all the impending excitement and thrills of the chase, except during World War n
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    60 7 Daily ExpreB9 staff photographer, Stanley Sherman, took tnts picture as 33 to 1 Phariza was about to pass the post as winner of the £2,710 Lincolnshire Handicap, landing the first leg of owner, Mr. OUiff-Lee* £50,000 dojiWe. shows 27 of the field of 40 runners without 100—9 favourite Abraham's £t*r-
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    Full Stop does a Class 1 gallop
    1170 7 SEEDS WATCHING SATURDAY From ALLAN LEWIS riLL STOP (Russell) displayed Class on e form on the Ipoh course this r morninir when she easily defeated Retinue (Straker) to reel off three X j 5 on the second grass track, which was m good
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    R.A.F. XI to play IN Saigon
    178 7 R.A.F. XI to play IN Saigon nm, Free p **ss Soccer Reporter JjUiAL Air Force Malaya soccer and tennis contingents will leave Singapore tomorrow on Jort tour of Saigon, returning to the Colony on Monday morning. Fifteen soccer players have been chosen to 5[J th e trip. These comprise six
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    46 7 I just can't stand it- n rofcs e l^S jmnd. Fiftnre sh<4r B« s n J!f, sterns to wh;l- trying to ft^^ o 3g bi s S W« second o a l, whil« goaXkteptr Mitt Houses ceatie-towx*^, M iL s J2 f S3Sm% »««mpt to save.
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    BANKERS WIN 3-0
    37 7 rpHREE goals gave Chartered Bank S.C. victory over Pulo Bukom m a Business Houses FJL league match at Thompson Road yesterday. Pulo Bukom failed to score. Salleh (2) and Norrie scored for Chartered Bank.
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    Goalie Goldring was the hero
    492 7 loyal Air Force L.U 1; G.H.Q 0. Lodgers will have to improve on yesteru day's display against G.H.Q. if they aim to retain heir position among the leaders m the Senior Diviion of the United Services League. In a re-arranged fixture played at Changi they
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    Saturday's U.K. soccer fixtures
    202 7 Saturday's U.K. soccer fixtures CJOCCER fixtures for Saturday April 5: INTERNATIONAL Scotland t England AMATEUR INTERNATIONAL England v France FA. CUP— Serai-Final Arsenal v Chelsea LEAGUE DIVISION I Aston Villa v Fullham Blackpool v Bolton Derby County v Middlesbrough Huddersfield v Preston Liverpool v Stoke Manchester C. v W. Bromwich
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    73 7 Yesterday's U.K. Rugby results: Rugby Union: Bristol 3 Pontypool 8; Coventry 12 Guys Hospital 3; Liverpool 19 Birkenhead Park 6; Maesteg 5 Neath 11; R.N.E. College Keyham 3 Plymouth Albion 6. Army Cap final: First Battalion Welsh Guards 8.A.0.R. 14 Depot Training Establishment R.A.MC. 0. Rugby League:
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    R.A.M.C. SCORE 8 IN ARMY LEAGUE
    62 7 rTHIRTY TWO Company A Royal Army Medical Corps scored 8 goals and conceded one m their Army league 2B soccer match against 15 Company Royal Army Service Corps at Alexandra yesterday. ArmyiNavy inside-forward Collishaw, playing at centre for R.A.M.C., put m four goals. Other
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    Today's sport
    40 7 SOCCER DIV. 1: BODCA w SRC at J. Besar; S.C.C. R.E.M.E. on Padang. DIV. SB: YMMA v Haikowyu S.C. at BODCA. BUS. HSE. LGE.: 1.C.1, v Ford at C. Union. BASKETBALL Prrsco y K«ng Sionf at Happy Worli,
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    Never-say-die Malays force a draw
    500 7 Never-say-die Malays force a draw Business Houses F.A. 2; Malays Z. SINGAPORE Malays can count themselves lucky io have held Business Houses Football Association to a two-all draw at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. However, Malays displayed plenty of grit and determination. It was a lively game and the large
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    SCHOOLBOYS WERE GOOD WINNERS
    115 7 SCHOOLBOYS WERE GOOD WINNERS SINGAPORE Combined Schools fully deserved their two-one triumph over Singapore "A" at the Raffles -Institution ground yesterday. This match was a final try out before the annual clash with Johore Combined Schools on Saturday and Singapore's schoolboys should be able to field a strong team on
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    YMCA TENNIS
    99 7 The YMCA Open Tennis Tournament ties for today are: Men's Singles: J. J. Glaister v Dr. Chan Ah Kow; K. S. Pang v Keith M. Moss; A. S. B. Pakir v Van Meng Fal; Norman P. Parker v Llem Khe Liang; H. Kamis v H. Ganesan. S. A.
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    CARTER IS TAKEN 15 ROUNDS
    162 7 CARTER IS TAKEN 15 ROUNDS JIMMY Carter of New York J retained his world lightweight boxing title m Los Angeles on Tuesday night when he outpointed Lauro Salas of Monterrey, Mexico, over 15 rounds. It was a tough fight, but the decision was unanimous. Salas put up a determined battle
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    TURPIN FIGHTS LIGHT-HEAVY
    91 7 pEJJARTO TONTINI of Italy KX> will definitely fight Randolph Turpin. British middleweight champion, at Haningay Arena, London, on Apr. 22. The Italian wanted the contest at 1781 b but Turpin who is after all, a middleweight, did not want to go over the light -heavy weight limit
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    BARON HEADS THE GERMAN TEAM
    58 7 /GERMANY will meet Brazil on Vf May 16-18 m Duesseldorf m the second round of the European Zone Davis Cup competition, the German Hearts Federation announced yesterday. Germany drew a bye In th« first round. Baron Gottfried von Crimm will bead the German team, which
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    NATIONS TELL U.N.
    270 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. rPHE 15-nation African-Asian bloc yesterday called A upon the United Nations Security Council to meet immediately to consider the French-Tunisian dispute as a threat to international peace. Pakistan, the only member of the group holding a seat on the Council, raised the issue m
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    WASHINGTON WELCOMES JULIANA
    224 8 WASHINGTON WELCOMES JULIANA WASHINGTON, Thurs. T>RESIDENT Truman yesJL terday welcomed Queen Juliana of the Netherlands with the hope that she would have a most pleasant visit m the United States. The President extended warn personal greetings to the Queen and her husband, Prince Bernhard, as they stepped from a Dutch
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    INDIA PROTESTS
    31 8 It was reported m Karachi yesterday that India has protested to Pakistan against the capture of 31 Indian soldiers m a minor border clash near Lahore last Saturday. A.P.
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    Deadlock goes to generals
    166 8 Deadlock goes to generals MUNSAN, Thurs. ALLIED and Communist generals met yesterday on the ceasefire sub-commit-tee for the first time since January 26 to try to settle two key points holding up an armistice m Korea. The Communists want Soviet Russia accepted by the Allies as a neutral nation to
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    APPEAL TO AUSTRALIA
    38 8 THE HAGUE, Thurs.— The representative of the South Moluccas Republic m the Netherlands. Dr. P. J. Mikijuluw. yesterday requested the Australian External Affairs Minister Mr. Casey, to support the Republic's resistance movement against Indo- A.F.P
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    U.S. casualties
    28 8 The U.S. Defence Department announced yesterday that 16,739 Americans had been killed to date m the Korean war, 77,651 wounded and 12,566 are missing.- A.F.P. U.P.
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    SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR THE SUDAN
    167 8 KHARTOUM, Thursday. BRITAIN yesterday offered a measure of self-gov-ernment but under a governor-general with wide veto and control powers to the million-square, mile Sudan which Egypt claims as hers. 1 The Civil Secretary of the Sudanese Government, Sir James Robertson submitted the draft constitution to the
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    50 8 Mr. Jim Lawler publicity manager (left), and Mr Jack Sharp, general manager (centre), both of Shaw Brothers. Singapore, receiving the first Walt Disney awards for their publicity campaign m connection with the screening of the Walt Disney film "Alice In Wonderland" m Singapore daring the Christmas holidays.— Free Press picture.
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    JAP MISSION
    21 8 An eleven -man Japanese industrial mission touring India arrived in Madras from Bangalore yesterday for a four-day stay. A.P.
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    They'll train in U.S.
    24 8 oixveen neia-graae nationalist Air Force officers are scheduled to leave Formosa today for special training in the United States.- A.P.
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    KARACHI TALKS ON RED BAN
    58 8 The banning of the Communist Party m Pakistan will be one of the main subjects of discussion between heads of provincial administrations who will meet m Karachi for three days beginning tomorrow. The talks will include the question of whether Bengali should be proclaimed official
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    Queen gives medals
    38 8 The Queen, hatless and wearing the simplest of black frocks, distributed medals among 360 officers and men of the Army and Navy who took part m ceremonies at the funeral of King George VI.- A.P.
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    AUSTRALIAN TOUR
    16 8 The President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Sir Vincent Tewson ni»rtii«il
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    JAP 'SEN' MAY BE ABOLISHED
    47 8 Japan plans to abolish the sen as a monetary unit, it was reported m New York. The reason: it takes 36,000 sen to make a dollar— which is less than the value of the aluminium it takes to make the sen.- A.P.
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    Japanese peace treaty
    44 8 Pakistan ha. s ratified the Japanese Peace Treaty which was signed at San Francisco last September At The Hague, the Second Chamber of the Dutch States General (Parliament) has also approved the Japanese Peace Treaty by 58 votes to nine.- A.P.
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    20 8 Ferenc Molnar, 74, one of the world's most prolific dramatists, died m New York yesterday after a brief illness. U.P.
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    YUGOSLAVIA PROTESTS TO BIG TWO
    119 8 YUGOSLAVIA PROTESTS TO BIG TWO TRIESTE, Thurs. YUGOSLAVIA yesterday formally protested to the British-American military government against the application of Italian electoral laws m the Trieste city elections to be held on May 25. In London, Mr. Eden told the House of Commons that the best way to settle the
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    IT WILL FIND A-PARTICLES
    46 8 THIS IS A defence weapon of the Atomic Age*— a new taittery operated "Contamination Meter" which was shown at Westminster (London) Civil Defence Headquarters. It is to be used to detect radio-active particles m "cleansing stations" and hospitals after atom bomb attacks*
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    Russia to bid for West trade
    267 8 LONDON, Thursday. RUSSIA'S biggest effort yet to break down trade barriers between Communist and non-Commu-nist countries opens m Moscow today. About 500 businessmen and women and economists from most countries are to attend the "International Economic Conference opening m the big marble-pillared hall of
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    No visas for newsmen
    48 8 No visas for newsmen LONDON. Thurs. THE Russians have rejected every request for visas made by non-Com-munist British newspapers wishing to send correspondents to cover the international economic conference m Moscow. Among the newspapers which applied unsuccessf!'.y were The Times, the Manchester Guardian, and the New* Chronicle.— A.F.P.
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    60 rioters gaoled
    72 8 CASABLANCA, Thurs. ORISON sentences varying x from three months to tnree years were handed down yesterday to 60 demonstrators arrested during Monday's anti-French riots at Sari, a port city 128 miles south of here. Two Moroccans, including a 10-year-old boy. were killed m the riots The demonstrators
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    POLICE FIGHT ARMED TRIBE
    61 8 One African constable was killed and two badly hurt m a seven-hour fight between a Kenya police patrol and several hundred Glubba tribesmen armed with African rifles, it was reported m Nairobi yesterday. The police were attacked 30 miles inside the Kenya border as they were
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    ASTRONOMER DIES
    23 8 The French astronomer, Bernard Lyot died yesterday from a heart attack white travelling by train to the observatory near Cairo.- A.F.P.
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    Jets fight at tree-top level
    60 8 American Jet fighter pilots shot down one Communist MIG-15 fighter m an air battle at dusk last night over Northwest Korea. A Fifth Air Force spokesman said Captain Robert T. Latshaw of Texas, fought a fierce battle ranging rrom 40,000 feet to tree-top level before
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    PACIFIC PACT IDEA REJECTED
    137 8 PACIFIC PACT IDEA REJECTED OTTAWA, Thurs. H/fR. Lester Pearson, Canadian External Affairs Minister, said yesterday that the creation of a Pacific Pact similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation would at present be premature and lead to "instability." Speaking m a foreign policy debate, he rejected an opposition suggestion that
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    New Australia C.J.
    25 8 Sir Owen Dixon has been appointed Chief Justice of the Australian High Court. He replaces Sir John Latham, who is retiring. A.P.
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    NEW LUFTHANSA
    24 8 Plans are being made for creation of a German air line to revive the pre-war Lufthansa and fly its former routes. A.P.
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    Vienna school opens
    22 8 The University of Vienna's once-famous medical school is opening its doors again to American doctors for Dastgraduate training.- A.P.
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