The Singapore Free Press, 15 April 1952

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    22 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA V>. M ;i ii singapore, tuesday, april 15, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS. a
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    Shooting spree ends wedding party
    134 1 Shooting spree ends wedding party BERLIN, Tues. ir ALTER Neugebaner, 22. V ummittfd suicid* in the i fillage of Lauterbach yes- I t-rdiy to end a wedding par tv* shooting spree in wha h rv killed his girl friend shot his dog and terrorised villagers. PNfctouKfi who had been drink
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    Czech arms for China
    54 1 cTOCKHOLaM. Tues. IT vas disclosed yesterday some 20 Polish freighters -arhich refuel in •be pen ea to avoid foreign porta are supplying Communist China with war materials from Czechoslovaks Tin Poland-China u line poied last December to ivppij Red China with badly •teded anus, ammunition and
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    £28M. TRADE WITH REDS
    36 1 JM S f Silverman. BriLat M.p., announced ta H night that the British "tending the Moscow Conference had ate-_ £23.000.000 of new A.:h the Chinese. p East Germans. Czechs and Bulbar Reuter
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    TRUMP CARD
    22 1 c pre^s yester- Spain to play its in cultivating re- b the Arab world J ins autonomy to Morocco.- U.P.
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    S. JHOHORE STATION BURNT
    275 1 Early morning attack by terrorists Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. LAYANG LAYANG railway station in South Johore was destroyed by fire early this morning after an attack by Communist terrorists. All the station buildings were set on fire and the water tank damaged. A
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    HOLIDAY CRIME IN S'ORE
    166 1 HOLIDAY CRIME IN S'ORE Free Press Staff Reporter rE Easter holidays in Singapore saw an increase of crime, with severalJiousebreakings in East Coast Road, the ctty area. Shrewsbury Park and the vicinity of Moulmein Road, said a C.I.D. spokesman this morning. Three houses in East Coast road, adjacent to one
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    NEW MEASURE BY MALAN
    39 1 The South African prime minister, Dr. Daniel Malan is believed to have presented to his Cabinet a bill seeking to establish that South African courts do not have the right to test acts of Reuter
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    A-spies gets 30-dav break
    64 1 NEW YORK, Tues. AN American couple, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, sentenced to death for atomic espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union, were granted a 30-day stay of execution yesterday to allow them to ask a review of their case by the United States Supreme Court.
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    Petrol from coal
    15 1 A New York engineering firm claims that synthetic gasoline produced from coal
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    Voters to register
    69 1 With the opening today ot the two-month annual revision of the Singapore Electoral registers, hundreds who have applied earlier to be included in the voters' list will have their names put in after scrutiny, Mr. George Thomson, Supervisor of Election, told the Free Press this morning. But
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    HUNTER KILLED
    18 1 American gorilla hunter, William Said, was killed in the week-end in an automobile accident at Leopoldville
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    PRISONER TALKS TO BE RESUMED
    126 1 MUNSAN. Tuesday. RENEWAL of the vital prisoner exchange talks which could break the Korean armistice deadlock appeared imminent today. Vice-Admiral C. Turner Joy, senior U.N. delegate, and Rear-Admiral A. E. Libby, chief negotiator on the prisoner issue, returned to Munsan yesterday after a week in
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    Java in London
    26 1 picture. The Javanese dancer. 19-year-old Hertati, has a final check-over before giving a performance at tha* Indonesian Embassy in Grosvenor Square. London. Reuter
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    Powerful union supports Bevan
    126 1 MARGATE, Tuesday. ONE of Britain's 'Big Six' trade unions prepared yesterday to support left-wing leader, Mr. lneurin Bevan, In his fight against the nation's record rearmament programme. The executive council of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers, with 250,000 members, tabled an emergency resolution
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    SECRET TALK AT FRONTIER
    47 1 General Franco of Spain and Dr. Antonio De OUveira Salazar. the Portuguese Prime Minister, met secretly near the Spanish Portuguese frontier yesterday. They are expected to stay the night at the state tourist hotel at Ciudad Aodrigo and continue their talks today.— Reuter
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    Airfields plan for Europe
    73 1 NEW YORK, Tues. T*HE technical magazine, -I* "Engineering News Record," said yesterday that an airfield construction programme in Europe, is under study and is expected to be announced shortly. This programme will be applied principally to France and Spain and the construction costs will amount to
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    ATLANTIC SEARCH
    28 1 United States search planes scanned the North Atlantic yesterday for traces of five Norwegian sealing ships and their 100 crewmen missing for nearly two weeks.- U.P.
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    Red China mans trade route
    46 1 Chinese Red troops have entered the Tibetan town of Yatung, 50 miles north-west of the Indian district of Darleelin*. a *W The move completes the posting of Chinese troops along 'the entire 295 miles long Tibetan trade route %o India.- Reuter
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    Riot in Nazareth, 2 killed
    186 1 TEL AVIV, Tues. rWO PERSONS were killed and three seriously injured when Christian boy scouts and Muslim youths clashed in the streets of Nasareth yesterday. The Military Governor immediately imposed a curfew, rhe police arrested a number 3f Communists believed to be responsible for inciting
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    Asian nations lose in U.N.
    140 1 TUNIS, Tues. WHILE crowds stoned and threw a bomb which did not explode at the home of the new Prime Minister of Tunisia, Saleh Eddine Baccouche, yesterday, the United Nations Security Council in New York rejected a Chilean compromise move to place the Tunisian question
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    300,000 protest in Belgrade
    112 1 BELGRADE, Tues. ABOUT 300,000 persons paraded through Belgrade yesterday in an organised rally protesting against Anglo-American talks aimed at giving Italy a share in the administration of Trieste. become almost a matter of routine in Yugoslavia during the past two weeks. The Peoples Front, Trade Unions
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    THOUSANDS FLEE FROM ANGRY RIVERS
    262 1 THOUSANDS FLEE FROM ANGRY RIVERS OMAHA, Nebraska, Tuesday. SURGING floodwaters from four rivers yesterday drove thousands more people from their homes in America mid-west despite efforts by troops an/I civilians to strengthen protective dykes. The Red Cross estimated 74,000 people, representing nearly 20,000 families scattered in nine states, had been
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    SULTAN IN LONDON
    37 1 The Sultan of Johore, with his wife and 18-month-old daughter, Princess Meriam, arrived in London yesterday for a holiday. They will later visit Switzerland where the Sultan will undergo medical treat' ment. A. P.
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    Mossadeq Jr. foregoes pay
    58 1 TEHERAN, Tues. DR. GHULAM HOBSEW MOSSADEQ, son of the Premier, announced yesterday that he is foregoing 9,000 rial, his monthly government salary (£53) for the next six months to help the country over its financial troubles. He is ajwofessor at Teheran's Medical University and chief surgeon
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    Queue of coffins in Red Chins
    143 1 Queue of coffins in Red Chins HONG KONG, Tues. QUEUES are common iri Communist countries* but a new kind of queuA in Red China's Shanghai staggers the imagination! 1 It is the queue of coffin* as described by Chinese ini formants who arrived her*. recently. The coffins contain* the bodies
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    Blind writer's tour
    41 1 Miss Helen Keller, 71, deaf and blind writer, has left New York by Transworld Airlines for Cairo and a three-month tour of schools, workshops and institutions for the blind in the Middle East A.P. ■Kay Mtffray- in America
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    STARS OF SONG OF MALAYAN CHINESE
    388 2 STARS OF SONG OF MALAYAN CHINESE TVX five pretty girls on this page are Singapore's leading night cafe singers and actresses. Their names are as well knoicm to the Chinese in Malaya as are the names of Hollyicood's most famous stars. They sing regularly on the Chinese programmes of Radio
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    Fashions Man 9s '10 Best Dressed Women'
    582 2 Fashions Man 9 s '10 Best Dressed Women' AND THOSE WHO MIGHT BE IF THEY TRIED DON LOPER, Hollywood choreographer, set designer, interior decorator, dancer, costume designer and famed fashion arbiter loves nothing better than talking about the slovenly dress habits of the average Hollywood star. As an authority he
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    Britain's Dead— End Girls
    760 2 v What happens to young girls who take to crime? EVELYN IRONS has visited the 'Borstal without bars to find out. Here is her report. MAIDSTONE. THE pretty girl with the deep blue eyes and the gentle manner said she had been "very happy.'" "They trust
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    'Oil Boat Olga' is a Real Shocker
    421 2 'Oil Boat Olga' is a Real Shocker NEW YORK. THE Senate Investigations subcommittee, after months of evidence about mink coats, tax frauds and government corruption, should be immune to shocks But "Oil Boat Olga," as she styled herself, made even blase senators sit up with her evidence in the probe
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    BRITAIN'S A-BLAST MAY HURT AUSTRALIA BUSHMEN
    435 3 BRITAIN'S A-BLAST MAY HURT AUSTRALIA BUSHMEN MANY Australians tateraJ!!^ l^;.^*** I**1 M -Sthatffltti _^_f toal WClare tested on the Wn n l.' tw, "sh atomic weapons Australian aJ&TSTSKISaS r_?? pert f k* 1 consider It xalriy safe to guess that if an A-bomb is exploded, it will be somewhere out
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    71 3 picture. THESE ARE THE two boys who were paid five shillings each by two men im Munich, Germany, to post a parcel addressed to the West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, recently. The* became suspicious and took the parcel to Munich police headquarters where It exploded, Killing a bomb disposal
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    Bridge Hand
    299 3 ,ji west North Cast Psm 2 NT. Pass 2 pass INT Pass y ram 4*2 Pass i 4^ An Psss m^/rn 1 North's preference STLm cars. South shouldn't -v, as the final contract w can be sure South has -hree aids in the suit. POur Stiaai defeated, as
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    ROYAL YACHT IS RETIRED
    62 3 The Royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, has been stripped of its luxurious furniture and Is now used as a mess for the naval gunnery school at Portsmouth. For over 50 years, she has been used by the Royal family but she was never comfortable. In recent
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    Mao scorns white collar workers
    245 3 HONG KONG, Tuesday. F[E white collar worker in government or govern-ment-controlled concerns in Communist China Is an overworked, underpaid undernourished, disillusioned man, and is resigned to his fate. His average salary is about JMPS2SO.OOO (U.5.512.50) per month and he ha_ a hard time making ends
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    THE BIRDS HAVE A 'DIALECT'
    331 3 LONDON. Tues'. fIN a woodland patch v behind the inn at Madingley. a village miles from Cambridge, three men are making experiments to find out more about the workings of the human brain. They are Dr. W. H. Thorpe, a don; Mr. Robert -Hind. 29,
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    THE GLOWUNE
    43 3 THE GLO WUNE pictwre. SONY A ROOK, radio, teleVmmmm and cabaret star, ieatniu the glow-neckline la this INer gown which also has hip-to-hip drapes. Compietinr the ensemble **m golden earrings from Damascus. Sonya, a brunette «f Anglo-Syrian deseent, was born in Beirut, Reuter
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    'HEARTBREAK' IS WHAT THEY CALL THIS HOUSE
    387 3 LONDON, Tuesday. I GROUP of unhappy people became "tenants" A for two hours of "heartbreak house"— No. 3, Wessex-way, Hendon. Now they are trying to find a way out of the jam they are in through a cruel swindle. There is apparently no
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    SWIMMING PAVILION
    37 3 private construction is still progressing despite Hong Kong's uncertain economic outlook, and the latest project is a swimming pavilion in Repulse Bay costing HK55,000,000. The pavilion consists of a restaurant, soda-fountain and ballroom.* Reuter AAP
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    16 3 ZTZ nswH_tf__.t7E. famww ronner. who, origtnatgi JULES .LADOUM»u a»e. t ,a "^JJ^ 9eB Haj a mannefnin
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    Australia softens up on brides from Japan
    101 3 Australia softens up on brides from Japan MELBOURNE. Tues. ITETERAN Australian v eign affairs expert Douglas Wilkie recently pointed to a marked softening in resentment to Japanese wives returning to Austraia. A gallup poM conducted ay the Australian Public Opinions Polls supports Wilde's observation. The poll asked 1.860 people: "If
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    The results of hunger
    87 3 LONDON, Tues. OVERCROWDING, according to a Brazilian scientist, is caused not only by a shortage of houses. It is also the resuV of too many producing too many children. Says Dr. Jose de Castro, the scientist: Two-thirds of the world's population— some 1,500,0000,000— n0w live in
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    ROW OVER WOMEN'S RIGHTFOUR QUIT
    351 3 ROW OVER WOMEN'S RIGHTFOUR QUIT _A/j*-*sf<j. x ues. HPHE wives of Britain have fallen out among themselves about the cash rights of a wife. And four at the chief officers of the Married Women's Association resigned to form a breakaway "union/' the Council of Married Womeij. Now a MAN. Mr.
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    35 3 jkdfhasdjfhdjfhjfhjdsf BELIEVE IT OB NOT, this Is a swimsuit, according to Paris, tt Is called a en, is meant "to splash about in". Made of orange shantung, its sleeves and legs are palled out Popper
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    The hypnotist and a sleeping husband
    152 3 ROBRE Toes fpURDf poUce say Giuseppe Amadio, Jl, s ent an elderly •a husband into hypnotic sloop wight after night while he made love to the 26-year old wife, a raven-haired beauty named Elena. It was Amadto's wife, Anna, who complained. She led two
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    Moon trips forecast
    63 3 BIRMINGHAM, Tues. MEMBERS of the Midlands it* branch of the British Interplanetary Society are among (hose who now say that a trip to the moon will take place sooner than most people expect. To stimulate public interest in the plans concerning extra-terestrial re-fuelling and rocket energetics they
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    A message from Egypt's premier
    59 3 Egypt's Ambassador to London, Abdel Fattah Axnr Pasha, has left for London aboard a B.OJLC. plane. He is carrying a private menage from the Egyptian Premier, Ahmed Naguib Hilaly Pasha to the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Anthony Eden, in an attempt to remove obstacles barring AngloEgyptian
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    The Singapore Free Pres TUESDAY, April 15, 1952. Tenants & landlords
    531 4 The Singapore Free Pres TUESDAY, April 15, 1952. Tenants landlords T*ENANTS in houseshort Singapore will give thanks to the lawyer who has championed their cause so ably in the Sunday Times. In an article admirable for its force and clarity, he points aut deficiencies in existing rent control legislation. In
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    Eisenhower's 'Ministers'
    578 4  - Eisenhower's 'Ministers' Rodney Campbell By NEW YORK: A SMALL, select circle "of distinguished Americans is today master-minding General Eisenhower's longrange battle for the U.S. Presidency. If the General wins, they will be the Cabinet ministers of his Administration or his advisers behind the scenes. Most of them we know very
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    A divorce is his drawback
    98 4 PRESIDENT Truman's choice for his successor is expected to be Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, an honest, able 52-year-old lawyer. Stevenson his done his utmost to hunt down corruption in his notoriously venal state and been remarkably successful. He has the personal support of Truman,
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    KEFAUVER IS A 'DARK HORSE'
    648 4  -  FRANK OLIVER says Wisconsin and Nebraska Primaries have carried the preconvention campaigns a most interesting stage further. In the simplest terms, the Republican Senator Taft -has put the brake on his recent slide downhill, and the Democratic Senator Ke fauver has considerably advanced his chances
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    Easing the Canal Zone Deadlock
    891 4  - Easing the Canal Zone Deadlock J. L. Hays By j MMM»HHHHMM4 <> much concerned about the type of j; command in the <> Middle East as about the vital necessity of ll having the right <> stuff in the right 2 J place at the right <> time. ISMAILIA: Pi*
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    Weather men rarely wrong
    59 4 U/HAT's in a weather W-iottcastr in Britain the answer is anything and it may t>e right or it m in iSwttSSlkritt, however, the answer Is "nothing but the truth"-*-ana three out of four the answer is right. Latest official Swiss Government reports show the weather bureau
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    Korean P.O.W. camps-from the air
    333 4 Korean P.O.W. camps--from the air By A Special Correspondent 'THE Chinese Commu- nlsts in Korea have revealed that United Nations prisoners are held in camps in Korea. Three are near Pyongyang, the rest near the Yalu River. Immediately after the locations were furnished to the UN Air Force, jet-recon-naissance planes
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    STORM HITS PENANG
    183 5 STORM HITS PENANG PENANG, Tues. I igHTS went out, teleLa phone lines broke A*™ and the roofs of t v ral attap houses were Sown away in a furious storm which swept across penang and Province Wellesley on Sunday atg-tit Hthough trees came cra&hi,; down in several roads, SJr«. was
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    CITY COUNCIL MAY DEVELOP TEBRAU WATER
    239 5 C^^^B l^ee» with engineers kdjfkasdjfdsakfdjkfjdsakf A. Bolfe. of Sir Broce feti^r/' S* J Jc*«^'to^^ e l,aS K a d Government of the i_ster JrtS r fr._S___ i ohore -WW". Fln-.ee S"ner_ «EK.__&*— Stredwieji, i n his rtTWof* 1 hat he expected Tebrau scheme would
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    HE WILL VISIT BRITISH FAIR
    39 5 A Singapore businessman, Mr. Soon Siong Poh, will leave on Friday for Britain to visit the British Industries Pair. During his trip Mr. Soon will also visit Italy and other countries in the continent.
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    Carnations came from Bandoeng
    58 5 Flower shops at Orchard Road reported brisk business during the Easter season. They kept their doors open all through the holidays. White gladioli and white orchids seemed to be the favourites. The owner of one flower shop said that fresh arrivals of red carnations from Bandoeng
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    Y.W.C.A. PLANS BRICK DAY
    184 5 Y.W.C.A. PLANS BRICK DAY Free Press Staff Reporter MAY 17 is Brick Day for the Singapore Y.W.C_k. when voluntary workers will go out to offices and commercial firms to raise funds for .the building of a women's community centre in Chinatown. Mrs. Loh Poon Lip, president of the Y.W.C.A. in
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    Assn. elects officials
    116 5 rE Pasir Panjang English" School Parent-Teacher Association held its annual general meeting recently to elect office bearers for the year, Mr. C. K. Cheng Was reelected president. Other officials are: Messrs. Ahmad bin Haji Salleh and P. N. Nambiar, vice-presidents; Mr. Ong Say Yeo, secretary; Mr. Tan
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    SIX SINGAPORE GIRLS FOR BRITISH RALLY
    217 5 SEX Singapore girls will sail by the Canton on Thursday as delegates to the golden jubilee celebrations of the Girls' Life Brigade to be held in England next month. One of the girls is Cpl. Tan Siew Cheng, whose father Mr Tan Chone Kek
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    Five months-and still this hole in there!
    77 5 IT-US hole* in the pave--U- ment leading from the road to the sea wall at the Singapore Esplanade continues to be a danger to people at night. Five months ago, the Free Press drew the attention of the authorities to this two-by-three-feet hole
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    They will discuss bonuses again
    106 5 IT-IE Finance and General Purposes Committee of -1- the Singapore City Council is today scheduled to consider again, for the second time, whether the Council should grant bonuses to some of its employees who obtained distinctions recently in departmental examinations. The recommendation for bonuses was
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    Johore voters' register opens
    87 5 The register of voters for the electoral wards in Bandar Penggerang, Batu Pahat. will be open from tomorrow till May 26. The following have been appointed registration clerks: Mr. Chua Hup Leng, Inche Khalid bin Mohamed, Inche Ismail bin Mohamed Said, Inche Jamil bin Mohamed Noor,
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    Joss—paper: Move to fix prices
    128 5 Joss— paper: Move to fix prices NINETEEN Chinese josspaper manufacturers in Singapore have issued a joint statement to retailers requesting them to maintain uniformity in selling prices. The prices are fixed by the manufacturers. Joss-papers, in two varieties —•gold* and 'sttver'-rare used in Chinese religious cere-, monies, at homes and
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    School fees go up
    101 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Tues. ST. Theresa's School, Sungei Patani, has raised school fees for primary classes up to Standard II to pay higher salaries to teachers. The fees will from this month be $4 for each pupil instead of $2.50, fees for standerd II to VI remain
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    35,000 urged to register
    129 5 PENANG, Tues. ON THE EVE of the revision of Penang's Municipal electoral rolls, the Resident Commissioner, Mr. R. P. Bingiam yesterday appealed to the 35.000 eligible voters who did not register last year to do so before the closing of the lists at the end of
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    MEETING
    35 5 J&ALACCA. Tues. Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, chairman of the Independence of Malaya Party, wlfil address a public meeting on aim. and objects of the IMP at Meng Seng Association at 230 p.m. on Saturday.
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    31 crashes during Easter
    64 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. EASTER traffic in Kuala Lumpur was involved in 31 accidents. None was fatal, although 12 fatal accidents were reported in Kuala Lumpur during the first ten days of this month. Dnly five military vehicles were involved in Easter accidents. Most of the accidents
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    BLACKOUT SCHEDULE
    143 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: River VaUey Road. Orchard Road. Killiney Boad, Adelphi. Capitol, Newton. Wayang Sato. Balmoral Boad. Dalvey Boad. Chartered Bank. George Street Static, Upper Cross Street/Pagoda Street, Upper Hokkien Street Pickering Street/Church Street. Upper Circular Road /Carpenter Street, Cavanah Bridge/CoMyer Quay, V.M.H. 1
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    WEVE FOUND OUR? LEGS -ARYANS
    220 6 Meet Services tomorrow Free Press Soccer Reporter SINGAPORE Combined Services should fully extend if not beat the Indian soccer tourists Aryan Gymkana— tomorrow, at Jalan Besar Stadium. This will be Combined Services first appearance of the season, but It4s reported that they are a strong
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    Medicals win chess
    99 6 A THREE-POINT margin in the Inter-FSculty Chess tournament for the Silcock Cup gave Medicals victory over Arts and* Science Results of Individual matches (Medicals mentioned first) are: Tan Kah Hone beat Freddy Tan; Charlim Um beat MoEfl. TusoT Rahman; Phoon Wai On drew with Chia Kim Hui;
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    Todays USL Fixtures
    36 6 SENIOR DIVISION HAF Changi v. RNAS RAOC v. RAF Lodgers GHQ Slgs v. HMS Terror JUNIOR DIVISION RNAS RAF Changi. RN (K) v. FB.W. (Singapore Regiment Royal Artillery have withdrawn from the league.)
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    CALL FOR LIVELY CRICKET
    358 6 CALL FOR LIVELY CRICKET A CALL to both Indian and England cricketers to so out for a win, even at the risk' of losing, in the forthcoming cricket Test series was made yesterday by Bruce Harris, cricket correspondent of the London Evening Standard. "If the Indians— and for that matter
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    Msb on rails waves —and horse loses
    289 6 A MAN standing on his own at the rails of Fontwell Park. Sussex, racecourse caused Silver Shadow 11., running in the Lavant Novices* Handicap, to check violently twice and lose the race by a few yards. The incidents occurred at the too bend
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    UK. RUGBY RESULTS
    141 6 I_s__* Borrow 13 Workington Town 9; Bradford Northern 19 Hull 5: Castkford 7 Leoda It; Dewsbury SI Runstet 14; Huddersfield 34 Bt Helens IS; Hull Kingston Borers 36 Bramlty 10; Keifhley 8 Doncatter 78; Oldham 37Halifax IS; Salford Wican 15; Wakefield Trinity 37 Mherstooe Rovers 13; Warrington
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    ISLAND CLUB
    51 6 K. Gaw won the hidden bides competition played at the Island Club, Singapore, yesterday, with M% points. There was a tie in the woman's section, Mte B. Rhoades and Miss S. Baher each scoring 35% points. The prises were given by Mrs. Loke Yew and Mr. Loke Wan
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    FINISHES AT IPOH
    62 6 FINISHES AT IPOH pictures. f SPORTING GESTURE (J. Donnelly X is pictured top winning the seventh race (CI. 1. Div. 2 6f.) from Trigger (-tones) and Alphonsus (Mawi) at Ipoh on Saturday. Fourth was Ambassador (Ellery) and fifth Woodeote Inn (Bagby). Above: Adonis' (McCloud) wkining the second -race from Mr.
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    NO BUYERS FOR TEAL AT £5
    489 6 NO BUYERS FOR TEAL AT £5 \M UCH of the romance of ill the Grand National, greatest steeplechase in the world, lies in the number of horses of odd history or antecedents that have won tt. This year's race carried on the best romantic tradition of the event for Teal,
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    FIRST DEFEAT FOR BANKERS
    89 6 J3HBLL Sports Club defeated Hoog Kong Bank "A" by three goals to two in yesterday's Business Houses P. A, Div. 1 league match at Shell ground, thus breaking the Bankers' previously unchecked run of success. Pj*tside-lcft Choy Wing Choeng received a cross from B|ps6_es to open
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    MV TEAM WARTS SOCCER FIXTURES
    17 6 I Crystal Ramblers, a new soccer team formed from the residents I
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    Solomons has been forced to match his 'hopes'
    440 6 Solomons has been forced to match his 'hopes' By ARCHIE QUICK JACK Solomons has been criticised for a Don Cockell, British Cruiserweieh? atchi <-4 with Randolph Turpin, British Middle we i^ am jS plm, far the farmer's title at thc WhitT rft* I in June. ut > The promoter has
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    Opulent wins Sydney Cup
    90 6 MR. J. Harris' geldinc 0n,,, ent, starting atif-i the £8,000 Sydney Cui!? 1 over two miles at _2L2' in Sydney yesterday In a thrilling finish o_,i ent beat the New z^K hor^Dalary (4-i >bv t^f with Taressa ue-ii 2* lengths away third of i! runners. Dalray
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    Ismail Yusoff shines
    50 6 TSMAIL Yusoff w_« outstangM at right-half for S_«__2 Cold Storage in 2 Business Houses FA Div 3 WwJ match against Malayan Brew«l_ Ooid Storage won by five goal, ta one. Scorers for Cold Storage am Mouna (2). Mitchell (2 penal. tfaa)aad Avtar Singh. Biwem scored through AU.
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    HWEE HOCK NETS 7 FOR TIGERS
    59 6 rGER Swimming Club beat Penang Swimming Club by 13 goals to four in yesterday's water-polo match tt Tiger's pool. Tigers led six-two at halttime. Left-wing Eddie Chuni scored all four goals tot Penang. Goalgetters for Tigers were: Tan Hwee Hock (7), Seto All Soo
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    ROCKY BOASTS OF A KAYO
    261 7 fHAMPION Ray Robinson and Rocky Graziano each boasting he'll win by a knockout, have ended heavy drills for their middleweight title fight in Chicago Stadium tomorrow night. Chicago's fight fans are jetting more steamed up for Ufa expected slambang scrao Aw at any time since
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    Albaroni wins Irish National
    114 7 \|R. H H. Stanley's nineaT year-old Gelding Albarin r:cdrn by L Stephens, w n Ihc Irish Grand National JJ« 'ee-and-quarter miles Faireyhou-e near Dublin Iwterday. Carrying bottom weight of J none. Albaroni started 6-1 m second favourite and J* i b v 2\ lengths frOm Mrs.
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    CYCLING CLASSIC
    66 7 Iy CK Van Steenbergen of fo,b p:Uni cn the P* l,l %,:>, -J b cycle classic o„ Sunday *co nc c °w» of Ital y ja^JJ *a.s Andre Mane, Ev.'i urlh Perdi Kubler. r>;. V. ,rc; fifth Jacques Du Bf,^ V nce and sixth Louison I > Ree,
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    BEATEN AGAIN
    5 7 B EATEN AGAIN *3FL KO
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    M. AURELIUS DOES WINNING GALLOP
    655 7 M. AURELIUS DOES WINNING GALLOP Training starts at K. Lumpur From ALLAN LEWIS R AIN ever y evening keeps the Kuala Lnmpur course soft and this morning the No. 2 grass track was opened for fast work. wnn S i^F5 V T (Ckar-tes) has improved since He mnrrv?*! fir 5
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    44 7 picture. V \X K_mu, who retained the men's open singles title i- the ill-Malayan Indo-Ce ylonese tennis championship, in Khala Lumpur an Sunday, pats over a forehand <hot in the final against K. Rasiah. Rama also took the ■ea*s doubles open event. Free Press
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    OUEEN'S PRIZE
    30 7 KEMPTON PARK, Mon.— Mr. D. Morris's Sportsmaster won the Queen's Prise run over two miles here this afternoon. Baa Bleu was second and Approval third. Fitfppn ran Reuter
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    Sulliman sets new record
    76 7 'pWENTY -ONE- YEAR-OLD Sulx liman Awang, Singapore's champion cyclist, set up a Malayan record for a 25 miles massedstart road race at Segamat on Sunday in the time cf lhr 5m in. Champion of the two-day floodlit cycling meet, organised by th? Segamat Sports Council, was
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    SOCCER REFEREES
    19 7 Singapore Amateur F.A. referees' committee meeting will be held today at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 pan.
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    55 7 picture Chia Eng Qnee, of Singapore, driving his Airhen Sp«c»**> in the racing car s np to 1500 c.c. event of 5 laps at the Ipoh "Speed Triar on Sunday. i s seen rounding the Trash Corner". He was second in the race and crashed in the next event for
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    Doris Hart wins more title
    134 7 MISS Doris Hart, the Wim- blsdon champion, added tne South African women's singles title to her long list of successes when she beat Mrs. Julie Wipplinger of South Africa 6-1, 7-5 in the final of the championships 10 Johannesburg yesterday. Miss Hart was always in
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    HOT FAVOURITE IS BEATEN
    62 7 Zatoara. warm favourite for the 1,000 guineas at Newmarket no May 2, was beaten bv five lengths by the Irishbred Lady Sophia in the 1,000 guineas trial stakes over seven furlongs at Kempton, Park. London yesterday. The winner had finished second to Zabara in her only
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    LAST-GREEN WIN FOR B. J. NEWEY
    238 7 A TENSE tussle over the Selangor Golf Club chamA pionship course yesterday saw BwurtJ Ne^ey of Malacca emerge as Malaya's amateur golf cham- pion for 1952. Newey beat J. Gibb of Singapore after a close tussle which was decided only at the last green.
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    NO MORE POCKET MONEY FOR THEM
    167 7 A NUMBER of English soccer players are no longer to receive spending money from their clubs when they at_ awav from home. ar itaS iy of^O guineas each hfTfibeen *W^ n^£J prominent northern soccer clubs by the Football League tHr3c-es of rules relating to
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    HEADS GO UP
    45 7 England defeated Scotland by two goals to one in the International soccer match, at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Picture shows Froggat (England centre-half) and Reilly (Scotland centre-forward) in a heading duel near England goalmouth. Looking on is Ramsey (No. 2), England's right back.
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    ILL-LUCK DOGS PULAU BRANI
    356 7 R.E.M.E 3; Pulau Brani United 1. D E.M.E. scored their third win in the S.A.F.A. Ist Division league with a clear cut three-one victory over Pulau Brani United. The weather at Jalan Besar Stadium was dull and so was the game. Pulau Brani were dogged by
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    H.K. team leaves in July
    93 7 H.K. team leaves in July HONG KONG'S swimming team for the Olympic Gaines in Hel inki will leave by air on July 11, it was announced at a meeting of the 'Amateur Sports Federation and Olympic Committee yesterday. Members of the team will have 10 days to acclimatise themselves. The
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    Shortage of T-tennis balls
    70 7 A shortage of table tennis balls has caused postponement of the Hungarian Table Tennis Championships, the newspaper Esti Budapest reported yesterday. Clubs are so short that even the national Hungarian team, which hclds the world title, had been forced to stop training. Esti Budapest criticised the
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    ARSENAL & M'CHESTER TRIUMPH
    507 7 ARSENAL M'CHESTER TRIUMPH TVjANCHESTER United retailed their lead of the iTI First Diyision in th c Easter Monday E glish League soccer matches with a crushing -6-1 victory over another Lancashire club Burnley. The United after being held to a goalless draw in the first piled on the pressure after
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    Results at a glanee
    230 7 rSTERDAYS t'J_. soccer resnlte: English League U Arsenal 4 Blackpool 1; 80l on 2 Fulhaai 1: Charlton 4 Stoke 4; Chelsea Z Aston Villa 2; Derby 1 Portsmouth t; Liverpool 1 Manchester C 2; Manchester I' 6 Burnlev 1; Middlerbrough 2 Newcastle 1; Preston 1 Tottenham
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    ROBINSON BOUT PROMISED
    69 7 fMLBERT Benalm, Paris boxing promoter said yesterday he had been promised that Sugar Ray Robinson, world middleweight champion, -.ill meet either Laurent Dauthuille or Charles Humes in a non-title fight at an, outdoor arena in Paris this summer. Humes, meets Dauthuille on April 21 and the winner
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    ENGAGEMENT
    35 8 THE ENGAGEMENT ia announced between Jean Grace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Koch of Malacca, and Harold Francis Geoffery, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Leembruggea. formerly of Kuala Lumpur.
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    BIRTH
    25 8 BAR CROFT: At the Malacca Hospital on the llt_. April, to Daphne Colleen (nee Liston), wife of Andrew L. Barcroft. a son. Alasdair Liston.
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    MARRIAGE
    51 8 ALEXANDER SUM: At St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore on April 14th. 1952, by the Rev. Woods Archdeacon of Singapore, Dr. Joseph Brightweli Alexander of Batu Gajah. son of Mr. Ax Mrs. C. W. Alexander of Thamea Ditton, England, to Roaa Sum, daughter of Madam Nora Sum Lau Tsu Seen of
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    108 8 THE FAMILY of the late Mr. Que* Kee Suan thank all relatives and friends who sent messages of condolence, wreaths. scrolls, paid night visits and attended his funeraL MESSRS. Chiang Seng Lock. Soon Watt. Ha Sun (Ronald Lim). Soon Kim. Soon Chye and Miss Chiang Neo Nia wish to
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    FIRST H-BOMB TEST IN FIVE MONTHS
    546 8 FIRST H-BOMB TEST IN FIVE MONTHS WASHINGTON. Tuesday. ■THE world's first hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok A proving grounds in about five months will be aimed at proving such a bomb will work, rather than at getting the biggest poss ble explosion, it was reported here. The Atomic Energy Commission
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    Envoy reports on interview with Stalin
    94 8 Envoy reports on interview with Stalin MADRAS, Tues. T|R. Sarvapalli RadhakrishAJ nan, India's retiring Ambassador to Russia, said here la_t night that ne had submitted to the Government of India his report on his halfhour interview with Marshal Stalin. Dr. Radhakrishnan. who is th? first Ambassador to see Stalin hi
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    DEAL ON SUDAN PROPOSED
    126 8 DEAL ON SUDAN PROPOSED WASHINGTON. Tues. A DIPLOMATIC official said yesterday that the United States has proposed a compromise in the AngloEgyptian dispute oyer the Sudan. The American suggestion is being studied by the British Foreign Office. The official said the United States has informally suggested that King Farouk be
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    'No war with Russia now'
    59 8 WASHINGTON,. Tues. |\EMOCRATIC Senator Tom Connally, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said here yesterday that he saw no possibility of war with Russia or with, any other totalitarian power in the near future. The Senator told the Press that he wa s in
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    10 GAOLED FOR CAIRO RIOTS
    46 8 Ten more people were convicted in Cairo yesterday for setting fire to and looting shops during the riots in Cairo on Jan. 26. Two were sentenced to 10 years' hard labour, three to five years, and two to two years.- A.P.
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    SIX-DAY VISIT
    27 8 Colonel Adib Shishakli, Syrian chief of staff, returned to Damascus yesterday from a six-day visit to Saudi Arabia, where he met King Ibn Saud, Reuter
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    HIS FACE WAS RED – WITH LIPSTICK
    275 8 HIS FACE WAS RED WITH LIPSTICK LONDON, Tuesday. A THIRTY-YEAR-OLD wife who was friendly with %r the local milkman played a trick to make her husband go upstairs and leave them alone, Mr. Justice Wallington sai<i ir Assizes. He said that sometimes the husband. Mr. Denis Ibbetson Noddle 35, food
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    EASTER WEDDING
    38 8 Captain Peter Arthur Easton of the Royal Army Education Corps., Seremban. and his bride, Lt. Gwenda Mary Burbidge of the W.R.A.C., Nee Soon Garrison seen after their wedding at the St. Andrew's Cathedral, yesterday. Free Press
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    REDS ATTACK 10 MILES FROM HANOI
    108 8 REDS ATTACK 10 MILES FROM HANOI HANOI, Tues. |X)MMUNIST fighters atvy tacked the French Union outpost of Sen Ho, ten miles from Hanoi on the HanoiHaiphong road, yesterday. The French estimated their losses at Sen Ho at four dead. 15 wounded and 15 missing in a three-hour pitched battle that
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    Truman's views unchanged
    75 8 WASHINGTON, Tues. rE White House said yesterday that President Truman's views on any "bigthree" meeting have not changed. The Presidential Secretary, Mr. Joseph Short, replied ,4 no" when asked at a press conference If there was any change. Mr. Truman's stand on a meeting with Mr. Stalin
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    MOTHER KILLED BY FREAK BLAST
    74 8 NEW YORK, Tues. A FREAK anaesthetic explosion yesterday killed Mrs. Raffelinia Manfra. 30. on the operating table after she had given birth to a daughter. The child, delivered by a Caesarian operation, had just been taken from the operating theatre and was unharmed. The attending
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    BRITON ATTACKS 18 SPEED RECORDS
    123 8 LONDON. Tues THOMAS HAYHOW, a fortyslx-year-old Surrey Marine Engineer, completed lis Easter holiday assault on 18 light Aircraft British speed records. Starting on Friday, Hayhow set off for at least one different European city each day. He put in claims foi speed marks for each
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    T.V. puts end to home talk .
    229 8 T.V. puts end to home talk LONDON, Tuesday. •TELEVISION is rapidly turning Britain into a na- tion of week-end screen watchers with little to say for themselves and nothing else to do, according to a survey published by the British Broadcasting Corporation yesterday. By the autumn this stay at home
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    Purge in Army
    35 8 An Argentine military com m 1 s sion investigating Communism in the armed forces yesterday announced the arrest of 13 army, air force and navy officers suspected of sympathy with Russia.- UP
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    JAPS COMPETE
    30 8 Japan? competition has brought American silk scarf printing to the brink of financial disaster, the United States screen printing industry complained in a petition fdr tariff relief., Reuter.
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    Love test man's ship blows up
    176 8 Love test man's ship blows up KEVEN LA T VLER'S 80-year-old ketch, St.- Austell blew up off the coast of County Wexford, Eire, yesterday, to end his dreams of a solitary sea voyage to America to prove his courage to a doubting woman. Lawler, a 29-year-old marine engineer of Athy,
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    Jet pilots turn gray
    122 8 SYDNEY, Toes. 'f\o JET pilots run the risk MJ of going prematurely m.7?" That's what the men who fly Royal Australian Air Force Jet planes asked themselves after they found some RAAF jet fliers in their early thirties were getting gray hair. "There's nothing mysterious about
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    U.S.-Cambodia unity
    42 8 The Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, in a message commemorating the Combodian New Year, said in Washington yesterday "events during the past 12 months have served to demonstrate the friendship and unity which exist between our two countries. U.P.
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