The Singapore Free Press, 9 April 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N,, 15.361 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    £10 MILLION DEAL WITH CHINA
    370 1 Unofficial bargain reported from Moscow MOSCOW, Wednesday. mK SIDNEY SILVERMAN, Labour M.P. and oh of the Britons attending the world economic conference in Moscow last night announced conclusion of a trade agreement with the Chinese delegation to th e value of £10,000,Diio on each side.
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    EGYPT MAY END SUEZ TALKS
    104 1 EGYPT MAY END SUEZ TALKS CAIRO, Wed. AFTERNOON newspapers hm said yes Wr day thai Egypt has decided to hMfe ofl negotiations with Httn. Ibc papers added that 3:.:. and Egyptian view— ts could not be brought dKKf together. A .ast -minute interveo:.y:. nv United States Am-bi-iador. Mr. Jefferson Cafta
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    Jap leader to tour S.-E. Asia
    65 1 TOKYO, Wed. '§f Important Japanese P<*tkian is going to -■-w and other Asian na- I a friendly visit. *el n Osata said he m* at the end of the tor a two and-a-half ;.'■>" tour of Asian naOora n as a f Ormer man
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    ***** dock workers strike for more pay
    180 1 ***** dock workers strike for more pay MELBOURNE, Wed. NEARLY 200 ships—including more than 100 from overseas— were thrown idle at midnight last night when 27,000 waterside workers began a nation-wide 24-hour strike. The workers are protesting against th e refusal of Mr. Justice Richard Kirby. of the Commonwealth Arbitration
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    8 HURT IN SMASH
    68 1 Free* Press Staff Reporter EIGHT people three Indians and five Chinese boys were injured, two critically, when a lorry got out of control and smashed into a brick wall in Geylang Road near the Happy World, Singapore, yesterday. Two Singapore Fire Brigade ambulances took all eight
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    NEW SHIP FOR CAPT. CARLSEN
    29 1 A new ship, the Flying Enterprise 11, will be ready for Captain Kurt Carlsen when he arrives in Mobile, Alabama, later this week.- A.P.
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    COSTELLO GAOLED
    64 1 GENERAL James A. Van Fleet, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, received an unexpected present on his 60th birthday when his son, James (left) flew into Seoul to meet his father for the first time in 15 months. Now, Van Fleet (Jr.), a pilot in the U.S. Air
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    We can negotiate now, Eden says
    224 1 'ATLANTIC POWERS STRONGER' LONDON, Wednesday. fTHE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, said yesterday that as a result of the increasing defensive strength of the Atlantic powers "we can already feel a greater willingness to negotiate on the part of others than there was, say, six
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    FIRE GOD STRIKES AT NOON
    69 1 CALCUTTA, Wed. REPORTS from Durgaganj, a village in Bihar State, said yesterday that villagers are terrorstricken by a mysterious outbreak of fire every day exactly at noon. A different but went up in flames each dav during the past week. The villagers have sacrificed goats
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    TUNIS COMPLAINT
    25 1 The United Nations Security Council will convene tomorrow to continue discussion on placing the Tunisian complaint against Prance on the Council's agenda.- AFP
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    MANACLED SAILOR CRIED, 'SHOOTME'
    150 1 MAN A CLED SAILOR CRIED, 'SHOOT ME' NEW YORK, Wednesday. A SIX-* OOI model of the "Flying Trader" was brought into a courtroom as a government exhibit yesterday for the trial of Captain Franklin Weaver, indicted for manslaughter- of William Harvey, utility steward, while the ship was off the Japanese
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    SENTENCE ON SPIES STANDS
    37 1 The United States Court of Appeals refused yesterday to review for the second time the death sentence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the husband-and-wife spy team who stole atom secrets for Russia.- U.P.
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    IKE'S RESIGNATION NOT CONFIRMED
    144 1 NEW YORK, Wed. THE NEW YORK TIMES yesterday printed a Washington story stating that the U.S. Defence Secretary, Mr. Robert Lovett, was expecting to receive a letter from Gen. Eisenhower asking the latter's release from rns p°st as General's resignation. President Truman's Press Secretary, Mr. Joseph
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    Ballroom to win today
    35 1 ALLAN LEWIS'S best bets at Ipoh today are Ballroom, Star Lodes and Cambridge. Outsider: Ladies flame. TRESPASSER recommends My Ling and Marvel of Pern. THE GOING will be soft at worst.
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    U.S. LIFTS BAN ON STEEL FOR BRITAIN
    301 1 U.S. LIFTS BAN ON STEEL FOR BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE UNITED STATES National Production Authority yesterday authorised the resumption of steel exports to Britain, suspended on Monday because of the threatened U.S. steel strike. Britain was promised about a million tons of American steel before trie ban was imposed in
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    Two killed in convoy
    83 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A LARGE gang of terrorists fired on a police convoy of two vehicles yesterday in the Batu Pabat area of Johore. One lance-corporal was killed and four pclice were wounded, one of whom has since died. One vejiicle ran
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    2 die in mass sky jump
    60 1 FORT HOOD, Texas Wed. TIE 3.150-man 508th Paratroop Regiment staged the largest mas.* Jump since World War II yesterday. One man was killed and an undetermined number injured Officials said the dead man's parachute failed to oi>en and the body "bounced" when it hit
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    JULIANA AT U.N.
    24 1 Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands visited the United Nations ysterday during: a busy tour of New York.- A.P.
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    AFRICAN DELEGATES FINED
    150 1 CAPETOWN, Wed. FREE Africans, delegates to last Sunday's protest meetings at East London, Cape Province, against the South African Government's racial legislation, were found guiltv in the Native Commissioner's Court yesterday of charges under the pass laws. These prohibit Africans from travelling from one province to another
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    THIRD REPORT
    28 1 Dr. Frank Graham, United Nations representative for Kashmir, has arrived in New York and is putting the finishing touches to his third report on Kashmir. Reuter
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    Bearded youths tell of capture
    263 1 HONG KONG, Wed. fPHREE British teen- agers, "missing'' sine* early February after a fishing trip returned here yesterday from two months' custody by the Chinese for wrongful entry. Looking a little pale but otherwise fit, Tony Martin, Michael Salter and David Bottom ley crossed into
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    'War not ended'
    37 1 "The war has not ended for Italian children," a Rome newspaper said yesterday, reporting that 1,400 of them were killed last year by explosions of mines and shells left by World War II armies.
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    The Blind Man Speaks of...
    1039 2  -  Hugh Cleland 4^^^^^^^^^iaT^^r^a^^^^s9^aw3^^^#^ar^a^^3^s^^^i\ 'POWER I USE' QN the first Wednesday afternoon of each month, a tall layman, whose straight back and small moust- ache give him something of the look of a retired Army officer, climbs into the pulpit at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and delivers
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    ARE YOUR HANDS ARTISTIC?
    166 2 ARE YOUR HANDS ARTISTIC? THIS well proportioned hand goes with a highly nervou s and sensitive temperament and a personality of great emotional and intellectual richness. The imaginative factor plays a decisive part in both the sphere of temperament and the sphere of intelligence. THE BUMPS of sensitivity are strongly
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    'Life' and Liver are Connected
    857 2 'Life and Liver are Connected fsdf T*HE average man ■■•has a little knowledge about his liver- that when he is liverish, he is jumpy, illtempered and has a furreti tongue. He knows that his condition springs from liver trouble brought on by overeating, overdrinking or a late night There is
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    U.S. MUST TAKE QUICK DECISION ON ASIA
    292 3 U.S. MUST TAKE QUICK DECISION ON ASIA IF the vJStJSiS^S^ Wednesday. 1 their minds ho^ M im? 2°."°* make up they may soon face a colons in Asl n P roMen to Anthony E. Sakol '"Eurasia, according on Asian and sfarfcVudies Md Uniyers ty expert American poUCT-mlkerfhai S l suggests
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    Bridge Hand
    264 3 circumstances so endear a hand to a bridge player as to make It one of his favourites? Sometimes it's a combination of good play and background circumstances. For -example, this deal k n't one that helped to make S/Sgt. E. P. Abbott, Jr., a life Mas er of
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    New treatment for cancer
    46 3 muitipe-focussed ra:...r. bear:: a new and specb alar treatment for can--0 r.as bei n inaugurated at H. mell H. spiral. TKoty-flve separate beams ndtan. travelling .by sepotfe pathways into a pa- :.-:-.:> body, all meet and i each other in his (KKtr— UJP
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    AIRPORT RECORD
    32 3 Singslcrd Smith airport, Symey. handles more pasMlHji and freight than ir.v iirport in Europe or the 3:.^q Commonwealth. 91)392 passengers, including 51.500 overseas travellers, parsed through in 1951. Reuter A.A.P.
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    First whaler back
    29 3 The factory ship Southern Harvester, first whaler to leave the Antarctic whaling grounds this season, has docked In Liverpool with a cargo valued at £1,360.000. A.P.
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    U.S. MAY ADOPT BRITISH DEVICE
    61 3 The U.S. Navy has disclosed in Washington that it may redesign its 60,000--ton super carrier Forrestal to include radically a new plane launching device developed in Britain. Some United States experts believe that the British discovery will make it possible to streamline the massive flight
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    PLANE CRASHES WITH 3 ABOARD
    44 3 A C-54 military transport plane, carrying three men crashed and burned on a mountain five miles east of Jefferson City, Montana, as It groped through snow and fog on a flight from Great Falls. Montana, to Oakland, California, U.P.
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    DOPE CENTRE
    21 3 Milan drug addicts consume 200 grammes of cocaine each day, a narcotics inspector of the Milan Police says.- A.P.
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      154 3 DURING the FIRST 10 DAYS of SALE OVER 100,000 /^^^^^t^^^^P Jjlf M>^SATISFIED CUSTOMERS CAME TO Jw^^mßMt^m^M^ *~m jVjjji?^ a |^\y T^^ \A# CAI 13 1 11 1^ 1^^ 1 I TIN IfFTTIF^ GALVANISED IRON USUALLY $84.00 <LHOF£ SHIRTS AIVSD PYJAfVIAS Si.e 16" wide 13" high SUITS Now sso.oo Bb ii'^
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      216 3 yOUR LUCKY STAR >R N totluy. your fiery and R nature may need U iiapa ,f you are to hts to which .;uuld uke you. r aJ J.U.S..S -re u-J- "un 3! k a full-saUefi ship jeC> aW Be careful in a 13 f Be careful a mast !>",. Sapl
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      10 3 BUCKLEY "I'VE BEEN WAITING A LONG TIME FOU THIS I"
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      463 3 MdndrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya I1 1 OUNNO. SHft IF W0 OUT.' FOR 11l GOnASEEI^T I VERYWEU/ BUTI 1 010 YOU SELL H YES, OAOOY, TO TuiTV,T>^^4... 1 I T AT SCHOOi NOW I YOU i SAI < !L fc 6IRL RIGHT H^l IT< 5 MOST
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, April 9. 1952. Nobody's squatters
    548 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, April 9. 1952. Nobody's squatters CAN the fate of 200,000 people on an island with a population of a million be ignored? Incredible as it may seem, it can. That feat is being performed in Singapore, where the Government has made no real attempt to
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    IS IT SLAVERY?
    88 4 How do the rewards and hardships of a ballerina's life square up? Consider the story of Tamara Toumanova, a ballerina at the top of her career, now in London and shortly due tp play the part of Pavlova in a Hollywood film Ballet dancer Moira Shearer has
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    A Ballerina tells her story
    1006 4  - A Ballerina tells her story CHARLES REID By fTAMARA Toumanova (Mrs. Casey Robinson to the tax-man at Beverly Hills, Cal.) came into her flower-piled dressing-room, the day's work done. In the morning she had practised. In the afternoon she had rehearsed. In the evening she had danced exuberantly, not only
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    Forthcoming events
    64 4 RADIO Malaya's distin- gulshed acquisition William Rea i s to give a piano recital at the Auditorium, Broadcasting House on Tuesday (9.15 p.m.). His programme will be: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue <Busini-Bach> and Sonatina (Ravel), and the Sonata with which he won the Festival of Britain prize He
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    SUNDAY CONCERT
    83 4 The Singapore Chamber Ensemble are giving a choral orchestral concert o~ Sunday at the Victoria Hall (8.39 p.m.). The programme is: Bach's violin concerto in A Minor. Parry's English suit* for strings. "Spring" from Haydn's "The Seasons'* and a cantata for soprano and string orchestra by a contemporary
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    A NEW SONGSTRESS
    372 4  -  FELIX By lEANETTE Lee who first started singing at Sunday School and later entertained thousands of troops during the last war is now singing and swaying with the Raffles* dance band in Singapore. Jeanette is no stranger to the Colony, lor -In 1946 she was here with
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    NEW RECORDS
    470 4 Motart: Symphony No. 38 in D ("Prague"), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Beeeham) Col. LX 8900-2. One critic faulted this recording on the grounds that Sir Thomas Beeeham had allowed his love for this symphony to border on the fulsome. But how can one love this work too much? Technically
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    Opera Comes To Singapore
    905 4 Opera Comes To Singapore Music topics by PRrc- A npHOSE who run that 1 pleasant little oasis of musical culture, the HMV Studio in MacDoriald House have had encoura gements and slight setbacks since they undertook to introduce Singaporeans to the best recorded music\ Their classical sessions have been moderately
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    NEW SCHOOL FOR PENANG
    63 5 PENANG, Wed.— Plans for the building of a $80,000 Ramakrishna School* at Scotland Road have been submitted to the Municipality for approval, Dr. N. K. Menon, chairman of the building committee, told the Free Press yesterday. The school wlfll accommodate 400 pupils. The foundation stone will
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    Hit 35th birthday was a 48-hour day
    152 5 Hit 35th birthday was a 48-hour day THE 35th birthday of 1 2nd Engineer Dick Latimer, of the Straits Steamship vessel, Kajanf, was a 48-hour day. He spent the first 24 hours on one side of the International Date Line and the second *4 hours on the other side. Dick
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    They plan building
    128 5 DLANS for a new building for the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Hill Street will be discussed tomorrow at a meeting of the building sub-committee. The new building will be in front of the present premises of the Chamber. An area of 38,000 square feet has
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    Civil Defence needs women
    139 5 ASIAN women in Singapore' will be tcid the role they can play in the Civil Defence of the Colony at a meeting to be convened by the Y.W.C.A. on May 5. The Acting Commissioner for Civil Defence, Col. L. T. Firbank, the Assistant Secretary, Civil Defence,
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    HAD NO LICENCE
    21 5 PARIT BUNTAR, «Wed. Khoo Choon and Khor Yit Lin were each* fined $30 for driving without a licence.
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    SCHOOLS' MOVE TO PREVENT DROWNINGS
    232 5 AS a precaution against further drowning tragedies involving schoolchildren, Singapore headmasters will warn their students, before school breaks up for Easter, against taking unnecessary risks in the water. A number of schoolboys were drowned in Singapore early this year. The latest tragedy occurred two weeks
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    THREE BILLS MAY CAUSE CLASH IN COUNCIL
    229 5 THREE BILLS MAY CAUSE CLASH IN COUNCIL Free Press Staff Reporter J^ CLASH between the Progressive and Labour parties is expected at the Singapore Legislative Council meeting on Apr. 17 when the National Service Bill comes up for second reading. The two parties may also differ on the right of
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    They spend vacations on trips
    157 5 They spend vacations on trips Free Press Staff Reporter MORE Malayans are spend- ing their fortnight and three-week yearly vacations on sea and air trips to Borneo in preference to holidaying in the Federation, the Free Press was told yesterday. Three -week round trips- by sea tp Borneo and back
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    EASTER MUSIC
    24 5 PENANG, Wed.— The choir of St. George's Church will sing Stainer's Crucifixi/n at a special service at 6 a.m. on Good Friday.
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    CHURCH SERVICES FOR EASTER
    267 5 CPECIAL services will be held in Singapore churches during this Holy Week. Pontifical mass will be said at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd tomorrow, Maundy Thursday, at 6.30 in the morning and at 7 in the evening. This will be repeated at 8 a.m. on
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    10 days for draw—and 950,000 tickets sold
    165 5 10 days for draw and 950,000 tickets sold KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE one million tickets for the fifth Social and Welfare Services Lottery in the Federation may be sold. Sales up to yesterday, ten days before the draw in Seremban, total 950,000 tickets. Previous lotteries have failed to sell the
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    Chinese film society urged
    99 5 MR. H. Low, an associateeditor of a Singapore entertainment journal, urged yesterday that a Chinese film society should be formed in the Colony. The society should stimulate interest in the cinema as an art form. It should hold monthly meetings and screen outstanding Chinese films. Mr.
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    Builders welcome Welfare advice
    253 5 OINGAPORE builders yesterday welcomed the Social Welfare Council's suggest'on to the Government to accept responsibility for all dealings with an estimated 200,000 squatters on the island. But they doubted whether it would be a practical proposition, considering the size, occupations and needs of the squatters. Mr.
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    Blackout schedule
    97 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight arc: N Nassim Hill, Paterson Rd., Great World. Ho Hong Oil Mills, Alexandra Incinerator, Havelock Rd., Malayan Brewery, A.B.C. Brewery, Diethelm Co., ,Tanglin Rd., |Phoenix Park, Alexandra Brickworks, Pasir Panjang, Reformatory Kd., Oxygen Factory, Cressonite, St. James, Miri Rd., Silat Rd., Bukit
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      265 5 k m *SsmirS»liri-5-= I 4J 1 FRANK SINATRA I H r's a long way i Nght DB 3016 1 DOROTHY SQUIRES i trie white cloud that cried J 3<es DB 3005 i THE BEVERLEY SISTERS 1 p t /et was loved by anyone else rs no sin) DB 3008 I
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    REME rally brings rousing finish
    467 6 REME rally brings rousing finish Free Press Soccer Reporter sdfsf RAF Changi 2; R.E.M.E 0. THIRST defeat of the season for the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Despite a rousing finish. R.E.M.E. were not up to the neat passing standard of the Changi Airmen. Royal Air Force Changi played good
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    JUNIOR LEAGUE FIRST WIN FOR RNAS
    135 6 JUNIOR LEAGUE FIRST WIN FOR RNAS JJOYAL Naval Air Station Sembawang 2nd XI chalked up its first win in the United Services Junior League yesterday with a two-nil victory over R.AP. Seietar 2nd XI at Sembawang. There was no score at halftime. The Seletar finishing was poor in the second
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    LATE EQUALISER FOR SELETAR
    249 6 RAF Seletar I; R.N.A.S 1. AN equalising goal two minutes from the end A saved Royal Air Force Seletar in their United Services Senior match against Royal Naval Air Station Sembawang at Seletar yesterday. After a scrappy first half, Sembawang had taken the lead and were
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    Tengah goalie shines
    337 6 Tengah goalie shines RAF L.U 1. Tengah 0 I^OALKEEPER FoiDea saved If Royal Air Force Tengah from a much heavier defeat in their Services senior match against Changi Lodgers at Tengah yesterday. In action for practically the whole game, he foiled all Lodgers' efforts to score until three minutes from
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    MATCHES OFF
    91 6 puSTOMS S.C. team failed to XJ turn up at Geylang Stadium for yesterday's S.AJ.A. Div. 3B league match against Singapore Volunteer Constabulary. OWING to the condition of the BODCA ground the SAFA Div. 2 match between Star Soccerites and Indian Recreation Club "A" was called off. BAD ground
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    TIGERS HAD TO FIGHT FOR THIS VICTORY
    363 6 Tiger S.C 2; Indian Recreation Club npiGER Sports Club were unimpressive in their two— ©n e wn n 1 Recreation Club in the S.A.F.A. Ist Division clash at Jalan R Indi *i yesterday. sar s Ud USI I.R.C. had as much of the
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      48 6 Solution To Crossword No. 631 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.— Across: 1. Debited. 7. Remit. 8. Outdo. 9. Winning post. 10. Brought down. 13. Erato. 14. Exile. 15. Drawl. 16. Smell. Down: 1. Demon. 2. Bathing pool. 3. thoughtless. 4. Ditto. 5. Brown bread. 6. Cotton reel. IT. Omaha. 12. Olive.
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      142 6 New Crossword No. 6& CLUES ACROSS 1. Bclshy girl in Cornish town (.7). 7. Done to give th* sort ef emphasis (11). 8. Indian tree more spreading tha n th- Blacksmith's chestnut (6). 9. A raid makes one parched <4i 11 Tha is usually owing to someone els? (4). 12.
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    'Turkish bath' heat will beat challengers
    247 7  - 'Turkish bath' heat will beat challengers Eddie —says PDDIE Choong, who was beaten by Wong Peng Soon in the All-England badminton championships last month, had some interesting comments to make yesterday on the Thomas Cup. He thought it wa s not quite fair for challenges to play in Singapore and
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    SKAARUP BEATS CHOONG
    124 7 SKAARUP BEATS CHOONG COPENHAGEN, Wed. TORN SKAARUP (Denmark) beat E. B. Choon? (Malaya) 7-15. 15-9, 15-7 to win the Danish men's singles badminton championship here last night. Women's singles: Aase Jacobsen beat Marie Übsing 11-8. 11-8. Men's doubles: L. B. Olesen and John Nygaard (Den.) beat Poul Holm and Ole
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    Arjan-the undefeated
    89 7 ARJAN SINOH, 290 lb. sixfooter take* on unbeaten 9ectte Simara at the Happy World on Saturday night. Arjan, who is referred to as the globetrotting Indian wrestler, said yesterday, that he meet a man who could beat him. DuruWws recent AustraUan and American toiir he rfiaUenged anv wrestler
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    6 IN A ROW FOR RANDY SANDY
    27 7 UNDEFEATED Bandy Sandy, (14»-»2 lb) of New York, won his sixTh straight bout last n^h by jabbing to a ma^
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    The 4.45 is a problem race
    939 7 but Cherry Ling can win From ALLAN LEWIS npHE problem race on the programme at Ipoh this A afternoon is the main sprint. Uninsured, Good Gamble, Arlington, No Regrets, Majestic Scholar, Cherry Ling, River Patrol, Midnight and Ladies' Flame were all mentioned as the
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    India picks eight men
    156 7 rDIA'S selection committee for the Thomas Cup yesterday announced the names of eight players from whom a team of geven, captained by Davinder Mohan, will be selected in May. India, winners of the Pacific zone, meet Denmark, who won the European zone, for the right of
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    JAY WINS ON POINTS
    29 7 T lOHTWEIGHT Jay Watkins of li Detroit la# night won a unanimouS decision ov*r Art idmundson of Cincinnati. There »«re no knockdowns in the eight-
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    All The Latest Selections
    249 7 ALLAN LEWIS TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOT POINTER BACK 1 2.15 Biro • STAB LODES My Lin MT LING The
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    Today's race card
    810 7 ACCEPTORS and probable jockeys for todays races at I pon are fires below. Horses scratched from all engagements are: Tuder View, Retake, No Clouds, Birchgrore, Regular and Our Kriend. The Big Sweep will be d rawn on Race 9. Race 1—2.15: CL 2, Div. 3 5| Furs.
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    ODD GOAL WIN FOR THE S.C.C.
    165 7 SINGAPORE Cricket Club •3 scored a three-two victory over Kadayanallur Muslim League in a thrilling soccer match on the Padang yesterday. The teams shared four goals at half time, and then with a 30-minute display of fighting football, S.C.C. smacked tome* their third goaL
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    HE DROWNED IN A CROWDED SWIM POOL
    52 7 ONE of Bangkok's best swimmers, Nai Thailert, was drowned in t&e 9po|tai Club pool on Monday. Monday being a fcbMaj, the pool was f fcrcwd#q Juhl Thailert, suffering J #W- 1 1 sudden cramp a&Hs* &an£ linnoticed. >!i Thailert was Wcttrr%f ■to FrpnnK
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    LABOUR WINS COUNTY OF 75,000 WORKLESS
    373 8 LABOUR WINS COUNTY OF 75,000 WORKLESS Mm*UU#* In lo€*l «lecti»^ cotttUw* LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN'S swing to the left in local government 13 continued yesterday when Socialists captured control for the first time of the county council of Lancashire, centre of a huge textile area which has 75,000 idle mill workers.
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    TEXTILES WORRY TORIES
    107 8 TEXTILES WORRY TORIES LONDON, Wed. RUMBLINGS of revolt continued among a section of Mr Churchill's parliamentary supporters last night over Britain's textile crisis Main cause ot trouble is the growing unemployment in Lancashire mills, where 75,000 workers are idle. Contrary to government policy, a group of Conservative members of the
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    63 8 picture. AMERICAN soldiers in asbestos suits walk along a road between rice fields at Panmunjon, Korea, as they shift a helium-filled balloon marker from one position to another. The round orangecoloured balloons were replaced by a new, sausagejnape type, eighteen feet long. The fireproof suits are worn as protection against
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    French Govt. wins vote
    64 8 PARIS, Wed. TTOE French Government late last night won the ninth and most difficult vote of confidence on the proposal for an amnesty for past tax evasion. The voting was 250 Earlier, M. Pinay won the eighth confidence vote on the key clause authorising the government
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    POPE GIVES ADVICE
    19 8 Pope Pius XII yesterday urged artists to combine artistic ideals with the ideals of religions.- A.P.
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    RATS TAKE OVER IN BOMBED ISLAND
    186 8 F~., HELIGOLAND, Wednesday. OR seven years, this rocky little North Sea island has been bombed so heavily it would seem nothing could live on it. But the rats did. Millions of them. There are so many that the Germans— who at long last have
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    Trade Deal
    131 8 Reuter A.P. U.P. (Continued from Page 1.) separate deals, the British businessmen involved will either go to Peking or, in the absence of a Chinese trade office in London, to Berlin. In London, Board of Trade officials pointed out there was no official British trade delegation at- the
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    'Square meals better than arms'—Truman
    348 8 'Square meals better than arms Truman WASHINGTON, Wednesday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN said yesterday that the free 1 world must use the time bought "at a great cost in lives and money" in Korea and in the defence buildup "to wipe out the root causes of war". The President said that "scientific
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    Reds hint at deal in Korea deadlock
    137 8 Reds hint at deal in Korea deadlock PANMUNJOM, Wed. 'PHE Communist truce negotiators hinted yesterday that they would like to make a package deal on the deadlocked issues of Russia as a neutral inspector and rebuilding of North Korean airfields. The hint came after United Nations officers in a secret
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    NATO DELEGATE
    21 8 Ambassador William H. Draper Junior had been named a permanent United States representative on the North Atlantic Council. picture.
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    20 8 MISS Chu Yang lung, the coloratura soprano from Shanghai, who will give a concert in Penan*, on Friday*- Free Press
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    Mystery of a U-boat
    149 8 COPENHAGEN, Wetf A DYNAMITE blast which raised remnants of a sunken German submarine brought speculation yesterday that leading Nazis—perhaps even Hitler tried to nee the falling Reich in a U-boat. The submarine wa s one of three bombed by the R.A P on May 4, 1945.
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