The Singapore Free Press, 5 May 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTEHKOOH? SALE IN MALAYA No. 18,383. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    CHURCHILL UNDER FIRE
    628 1 Labour give him "notice to f iJ lA/VV LONDON, Monday. the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, had in a Saturday broadcast assured the British people that he intended to remain in office for three or four years, Labour leaders followed with angry retorts at rallies held throughout
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    500 stage rood riot in gaol: 10 injured
    181 1 500 stage rood riot in gaol: 10 injured MONTREAL, Mon. *\jj: 3 cE than 500 pri- sonera rioted in Borc ;x prison yesterday demanding better food and a new prison goverAbout 10 guards a:: 1 prisoners were rep >rted injured. 7 milling prii ra started fires in two cell bi
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    PLANE WRECK LOCATED
    98 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE wreckage of the RA.F. Brigand light bomber which crashed in Northern P rate on Saturday while itnflng a bandit target has b-^n located from the air. an;} ground forces are expected to reach the spot this ait-.-r.oon, an R.A.F. spokesnin n Singapore
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    TEMPLER ON TOUR
    28 1 picture. "MY LAND stretches right up to the. Jungl* fringe* a settler tells the High Commissioner, General Sir Bahaa area of Negri SemWlan Free Press
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    GURKHAS NOT TO BE RECALLED-YET
    101 1 GURKHAS NOT TO BE RECALLED-YET KATMANDU, NEPAL, Mon. MR. M. P. Koirala, Napalese Prime Minister, announced last night that he was committed to recall Nepalese (Gurkha) soldiers serving in alien colonies. He added, however, that such practical consideration as their resettlement and rehabilitation prevented the immediate implementation of this policy.
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    CEYLON ASKS INDIA: BAN AGITATORS
    132 1 COLOMBO, Monday. ,f»EYLON today asked India to refuse travel V facilities to persons likely to come to create disturbances before the general elections in Ceylon. The Indian High Commission yesterday forwarded the Ceylon government's note to New Delhi. The note made the request with reference
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    S'pore girl loses $5,225
    78 1 Free Press Stair Reporter WHEN Miss Audrey de Zilva, H a 23-yearHrti^ I>otch woman, returned to her room in Wilkinson Road, at 130 yesterday morning, she fouifd that it had been burgled. Provisions, Jewellery and other articles of a total value of $5,225 had been taken.
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    FAIR OPENS
    23 1 Britain's biggest shop window, the annual British Industries Fair, opens in London today with 10.000 brand ««m MrnHiint.S nil Sale 'tO
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    Comet due to return today
    48 1 m JOHANNESBURG, Mon. qpHEBe Ha?llland Comet JL will take off today tor London on the return flight of the world's first regular jet airliner service,!^ The Comet arrived here on Saturday after covering the 6J24 miles from I*ondon in 23 hours 38 minutes.
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    Australia sees Flying Saucers
    252 1 OFFICIALS ARE BAFFLED SYDNEY, Monday. REPORTS of flying saucers poured into Sydney yesterday from many parts of Australia and officials were unable to shed any light on the mystery. Thirteen persons from four widely separated areas reported seeing a "cigar-shaped object larger than any plane'' flash
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    Soldier hurt in midnight truck crash
    103 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A EUROPEAN soldier was seriously injured when I the military truck in which he was driving crashed 'into a drain in Yio Chu Kang Road, Singapore, shortly before midnight. He was pinned under the wreckage of the vehicle until he
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    11 NEW SHIPS FOR CUNARD
    62 1 The giant Cunard group, which runs the Atlantic liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, is spending over £15,000,000 on 11 new ships for the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Far Eastern routes. r The Cunard chairman, Mr. Frederick Bates, said in an annual statement to shareholders that
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    Two-way Channel bid
    90 1 TOLORENCE CHAD WICK, o nly woman ever to. swim the 1 English channel in both directions, said in New York yesterday that she is considering aa attempt at ft non-stop swim across the channel and back. Miss Chadwick. training in U.S. for the Catalina Island swim next
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    Washington steel talks collapse
    315 1 Washington steel talks collapse WASHINGTON, Monday. WAGE TALKS between American steel chiefs and Tf union leaders collapsed at the White House yesterday .with an official announcement that "no agreement can be reached at this time". Announcement of the break-down was made by Dr. John R. Steelman, President!^ Assistant who had
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      HOLD UP TAXIMAN
      100 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IjtOUR Chinese roßbed a Singapore Hockchia taxidriver Soh Ying, of a watch, $8 and the switch key s or his car in Jalan Kembangan, Changi Road, Singapore, on Saturday night. Two of the men hired the taxi and on reaching Changi < Road,
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      Italian wins 1000-mile race
      75 1 BRESCIA. Mon. rALIAN wool manufacturer, Giovanni Bracco drove a Perrarl to victory in the gruelling Italian Mille Miglia (1,000 miles), Europe's premier road race which ended here last night. A German Mercedes, making its first serious postwar challenge in an international; competition, filled second place. i
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      ITALY CLAIMS TRIESTE
      26 1 The Italian Prime Minister, Signor Alcide De Gasperi yesterday reaffirmed the Italian claim to the whole territory of Trieste including the Yugoslav-occupied zone
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    Air planes case for Privy Council
    48 1 A full court in the Hong Kong Supreme Court chambers during the weekend granted the Civil Air Transport Incorporated leave to appeal to the Privy Council in its claim for possession of 40 aircraft formerly owned by the Central Air Transport Corporation.
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    WHO MEETS
    26 1 Afiout 70 nations are expected to attend the fifth United Nations World Health Organisation Assembly which opens a three-week session in Geneva today. Reuter
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    GODDESS OP MBRCf-TWO-FACED BEAUTY
    632 2 GODDESS OP MBRCf TWO-FACED BEAUTY Chinese Art Show has two Ming statues of Kwan Yin, says Helen D. Ling npwo outstanding figures of Kwan Yin, tly Goddess of Mercy, are on show at the Exhibition of Chinese Art at the British Council Hall. Both were made in the Ming Dynasty
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    We Crawled on our Tummies to Find the
    917 2 WMi Mm is CHAPMAM WHCHiR Laughing Frogs And laugh?— they nearly died EK)R our jaunt in the country this week Mr. Chapman Pincher and I went down to Stone-in-Oxney, Kent, and attended a* Hungarian Laughing Frog Party. It isn't everyone who knows
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    Bubble Gum Business
    515 2 It's sticky and tricky, says O.H. BRANDOJV BORN before the advent of the "age of bubble gum," I lack the proper appreciation and affection for this fad, but I would probably incur the wrath of a whole generation if I were to advocate the abolition of this
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      338 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR J3OBN today, you have many cess potential at an early age o f it* qualifications that and bead all yow efforts toare very akin to genius. Yow ward some definite goal. Yow imagination, wit, creative den «y worrT al llt Mt di viduality, and ability te "*h
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    Model won match between shows
    198 3 Model won match between shows LONDON, Mon. MISS LORNA CORNELL, 19-year-old tennis star, dug a toe Into the court at Hampstead's Cumberland Club and murmured: "Where oh! where It the umpire? I can only stay so hour. Then I must «et back to the ftiaMQJ* show." lllis Cornell had made
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    Mad impulse cost him his job, pension
    251 3 Mad impulse cost him his job, pension SALISBURY, Mon. •THERE it was, lying in the sorting office. A package containing £5.000 in notes. As much as his wages for 11 years. William Herbert Tom Young, 53-year-old overseer, stole it. "A mad impulse," his counsel called it at Salisbury Quarter Sessions.
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    Father dies as son hides gun
    203 3 f LONDON, Mdntlay. jbIQHTEEN-YEAR-OLOi |Miiphael Batcfcelor had noticed his father had been depressed over business worries. So when he saw him go out with a shotgun, he took it away from him, he told a coroner. ~ii- A It "was 2.15 p jn. when
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    Cardinal hits at France
    77 3 Cardinal hits at France t SEVII^LE, Moti. pEDRO Cardifiat: Segura- T fjL Saenz, Archbishop .of Seville, ha s vfc>!€fctt£ %tt*cfc- ed GeneraCissimo Franco's Government, accusing i%, of mutifiating the? test of hisr pastoral letters and prohibiting editorial comment not omcfcftUy inspired^ U *T'th a pastottj letter redd aioyd in all
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    U.N. CALLS WAR ON BLOOD AND SEX' COMICS
    350 3 MILAN, Monday. THE United Nations have called for war on "blood and sex" comics which turn men Into gorillas, women into glamorous film stars, nations Into subhuman beings and every f ullstop into an exclamation mark. A conference of scientists, M.P.s and
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    New drug aids childbirth
    61 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. ANEW drug extracted from a poisonous lily is saving pregnant women and their unborn babies at Gallinger hospital here. Called vergitryl, it is an antidote for high blood pressure and associated poisons which sometimes accompany pregnancy. The drug prevents pregnant, victims of high blood
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    Tunisian loses his passport
    40 3 Parhat Hachet, SecretaryGeneral of Tunisia's biggest trade union federation, said that his passport had oeen confiscated by the French on his return to Tunis two days ago from a speech-making tcur la the United States.— Reuter
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    51 3 THIS WELL MIGHT be the spirit of joy captured in flight by an alert cameraman. Such grace could come'only from pe ite Vera-Ellen, Hollywood dancing star, as she gives way to the sheer joy of living while relaxing on the beach away from 'the grind and perhaps grime of the
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    THEY WALKED TO THEIR OWN FUNERAL
    155 3 TOKYO, Mon. A GROUP of depressed Japanese gentlemen (20 members of the Honour- 1 able Body Donation Society) have held a funeral service in which they said prayers for themselves (or rather their dead selves) in advance. As the members of the Body Donation
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    MOTORSCOOTER TOUR BY 3
    59 3 The Rector of the University of Mifian, Professor De Francesco, has sent messages to the Rectors of the Universities of Cape Town Bombay and Melbourne, informing them that two students will attempt a motorscooter trip to each of the three universities. The students, Cesare Vaccini and
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    FULL AGREEMENT
    32 3 A joint statement issued at the end of the Greco-Turkish talks in Athens said that full agreement had -been reached on the necessity of improving collaboration between the countries,- A.P.
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    Red shoes trap The Creeper'
    231 3 Red shoes trap The Creeper' LONDON, Mon. EVERY day George John Callaghan polished his creoe shoes with bright red ox-blood polish. This careful spit-and-polish landed him in gaol for eight years of preventive detention. The colour of his shoes was •one of two clues to a oneman crime wave. The
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    LESS SOAP FOR POLES
    41 3 Poland has reintroduced soap rationing at a basic rate of about nine ounces per month. Miners and some other workers will be allowed more. A cake of toilet soap will represent half the month's ration Reuter U.P.
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    The moon—a great, big problem to science
    251 3 The moon— a great, big problem to science PHILADELPHIA, Mon. THE moon, with all its •I romantic significance, is nothing but a great, big problem to scientists. The problem is now to reach it. Dr. I.M. Levitt, director of the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia, has an idea on how to
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    FRENCH RAIDS
    34 3 Scattered French raids and mopping-up operations in the past few days have netted 101 enemy ce&a and 91 prisoners against Communist rebels in a wooded area 60 miles South-west of Saigon. UP
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    Bridge Hand
    402 3 Botft sides vuluerablv North dealer. NORTH All Sill 0 A Q J 10 < (4 lit wan 4J75 4AKI <? Q J II S OtiS ol*o AKQI 2TfMt« ell J7I TIM bidding: k| North East South West' iO Put 1A P»« so 3 N.T. All Paw F everyone
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      258 3 dIMMArVJKE. the BBC s t U dK>s it fcwwwea; 8-15 10 a.m. N«#s| 10.05 Tunes from The Debate C<»lmue*r-A Par-Yes^4ar«^-day: 10.45 Con- aamentjtfy Review; 8.30 the Rental j5M#: "-l}-30 News Home News: 8.45 Trouble *or'Musi£ t'fcH. Mat f y Malneck B iU— 'The Pheasant Hunter' by prch Kay Starr l>3o
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. May 5. 1952. Rubber talks
    503 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. May 5. 1952. Rubber talks r>DAY the ninth meeting of the International Rubber Study Group opens in Ottawa, where delegations or representatives from all the main producing and consuming countries will gather round the conference table in discussions of the greatest importance to Malaya. Malaya
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    The Boss said: 'call me Harold'
    1036 4  -  JOHN HALL a man who decided to Uhare*. his firm sy with his workers, By BEHIND the drab facade of a small printing business in London's Edgware-road, less than a mile from busy, flashy Marble Arch, runs a unique experiment. Seven years ago the
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    'ALEX' AMD 'IKE*
    60 4 Field Marshal Earl Alexander (centre). British Minister 'of Defence, with General Dwight Eisenhower (left, laughing) and the General's Deputy, Field Marshal Lord Montgomery at Eisenhower's headquarters near Paris. Lord Alexander flew from London to Paris to spend the day at the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe,
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    GENERAL'S WIFE
    59 4 Mrs. Matthew B. Rid* way, wife of the U.S. Far Bart commander who is taking over General Eisenhower's command in Europe. Mrs. Rldgway, young and attractive, Is as snceessful and as energetic socially as her husband is militarily. Here she Is with Prince Akihito, Japanese Crown Prince at
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    MORE CARS FOR THE U.K. BUYER
    923 4 MORE CARS FOR THE U.K. BUYER FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT PICCADILLY, the place where gentlemen shop for cars with cheque .books, is feeling the pressure of the British Government's policy of disinflation. I talked with dealers along that busy thoroughfare the other morning and my questions received the same replies.
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    TRAVESTIES OF THE U.S.
    359 4 TRAVESTIES OF THE U.S. AMERICA has the misfortune to be known abroad chiefly by its conspicuous failures. First, there is the failure of Hollywood to put over a picture of the American scene that is more true to life than the one we commonly get. Die quality films that Hollywood
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    A FAMOUS BREED OF HORSES
    415 4  - A FAMOUS BREED OF HORSES Ritchie McEwan By DORSES with "story will compeu at this year's OivrrW Games. They are the world-famous Upp i2L ner horses belonging to the equally famous Spanish Riding School The name of thfo famous breed comes from the small. pc. turesaue village of Lipizza, perched
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    NEW PLAN TO GET STEEL
    157 5 Colony, Federation may state, position this week GOVERNMENTS of Singapore and the Federation are considering a new scheme of sponsorship to* get steel from Britain for essential public works. An official of the Singapore Economic Affairs Department said that steel was on the free import
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    THE POPE PRAISES PENANG CONVENT
    182 5 PENANG, Mon. Mother Superior T rd listers of the Mas* Convent were mnnK a crowded conSion which yesterfav heard the Bishop of Malacca, Monsignor M. OK-omendy. read a sperial message from the Pope congratulating the Settlement's first English girls' school on its centenary. Th e
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    YWCA CLUB TO HOLD SALE
    66 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Kuala Lumpur YWCA Morning Club wil hold a "bring and buy* sale at the Selangor Club card room next Saturday to raise funds for the YWCA. Beautiful pot plants, bulbs, fijwer seedlings, fruit trees, shrubs and cut flowers will be on sate.
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    Women J.P.s do welfare work
    152 5 Fr«e Press Staff Reporter SEVENTEEN women Justices of the Peace in Singapore are using their spare hour s for welfare work. llie chairman of the Board of women J.Ps, Mrs. Loh Boon Lip. told the Tree Press yesterday: "We deal with the* welfare of women
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    Passenger drowned
    56 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A MALAY passenger- jumped overboard, and Is believed to have been drowned, when bandits fired on two civilian motor launches on the Sungei Sedili, in the Kota -Tinggi area of Johore, on Friday. One boat continued its journey and readied its destination, Mawai, safely. The
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    Blackout schedule
    49 5 SUBSTATIONS liaWe to lead sheddinjf Umight are: Gr«l WorM, Ho A»nc Oil Mills, Altxaaira laelneraUr, Baveloek Rt, Malmymb Brewery, 4JX. Brewery.. Dieitaelm C». Tantto R4^ PlMatx Park, Alex**** Brickworks, Fmrir Pujtm, *eteßtttofli, Oxy ten F»ct«ry, Crmiatf, 81 Jsmet, Miri E4U Sitot M, B«kit P*Mh, »-^*J Ssc« St*
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    CLUB CELEBRATES
    22 5 The Goh Loo Club in Club Street, Singapore, celebrated its 45 anniversary on Saturday with a dinner attended by 450
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    EXCESS LOAD
    38 5 PARTT BUNTAR. Mon. Pleading guilty to a charge of having carried excess load of 12 hundred weight. In his lorn Aw Soni Teh was fined ISO by Inche Salleh bin Eckhardt in the Parit Buntar court.
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    UMNO DAY
    19 5 The UMNO, will observe May 11 as Foundation Day. All branches throughout the Federation will celebrate. x
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    Home planned for chronic T.B. patients
    126 5 Free Frew Staff Reporter REPRESENTATIVES of Singapore Chinese public bodie* will discuss with Go?--eminent officials on Wednesday at a meeting of the Chinese Advisory Board, a proposal to set up a home for incurable tubercular patients in Singapore. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr.
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    BANDITS ROB ESTATE
    26 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Mon. —Bandits on Saturday robbed an estate owner in Bhkit Tambun, Province Weilesley South, of his shot-gun, a revolver,, and ammunition.
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    DRIVER GUILTY ON 3 CHARGES
    81 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Mon.— As a result of a motor car accident at Simpang Ampat, Semanggol on Feb. 5, Shaik A!i bin Ahmad was charged before Inche Salleh bin Eckhardt in the Parit Buntar Court with negligent driving, driving without a competent driver beside him, as
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    UNMUZZLED DOG
    49 5 UARIT BUNTAR, Mon. For failing to muale his dog, Khor Hing of Bag an Tlang, was fined $20 by Inche Salleh bin Eckhardt in the Parit Buntar court. On a further charge of having failed to takeout a licence for his dog, Khor Hing, was fined $10.
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    'DOCTORS CANT BE SPARED FOR DEAD'
    250 5 Free Press Stall Reporter lyt N. A. CANTON, Singapore Ctty'a Health Officer, has toW the Health Committee of the City Council that It would be wrong to employ the few doctors available to certify the dead. Instead of using them to look after the
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    CITY URGED: 'ALLOW MORE PRIVATE MARKETS'
    188 5 CITY URGED: 'ALLOW MORE PRIVATE MARKETS' Free Press Staff Reporter IF the Singapore City Council is prepared to ignore the drawbacks In private markets, the alternative would be to allow private enterprise to build such markets, provided they are not too close to City markets 01 hawkers* shelters, says a
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    Donations to university
    149 5 T ATEST donations to the JLi university of Malaya Endowment Fund amounted to $1,157.50, bringing the total to $4,794,869.03. Last week's blggeet single donation was $500 from Mr. Yeo Hock Seng of Cecil Street. Singapore Other donations were: ft j«ktr«:— Che Yustf Mn A.Kadir tl; Che Don
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    APRIL TIN EXPORTS
    63 5 Malaya exported 7,093 tons of tin and tta concentrates last month, a record for this year. This exceeded The March total by 1,854 tons, antf brought the cumulative total for the first four months of this year to 21,346 tons. Hie biggest consumer was the United States
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    CHINESE SCHOOLS MEET ON TEXT-BOOKS
    123 5 Free Press SUff Reporter PUR Chinese school prlncipals' were elected during the week-end to? the Singapore Chinese Schools* Conferenee es Its jeunwiitifjff i on the Gover^ment^sponaoTed Teachers' Advisory Committee. of text-books In Chinese srhopiti 1119 Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has oromised to back the
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    They yed in S'pore
    54 5 MR. CHARLI2 LIM SECK SAN AND MI SS LILY TAT. who 1 were married »t PMrfteM ChapU, Neil MR. AND MRS. HENRY KONG KUM CHOW, whose wedding took place at their house in Lorong Tai Seng. MR. AND MRS. J. C. ARCHER, after their wedding at
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    RIDA gives $7,000 to Negri school
    134 5 RIDA gives $7,000 to Negri school A GRANT of $7,000 hat been made by the Rural and Industrial Development Authority, Negri Sembilan, to be used in building and equipping a domestic science school for Malay, girls in the Kuala Pilah District of Negri Sembilan, Mr. F. C. Maynard, State Development
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    Union holds secret ballot
    117 5 2POH, Mon. OERAK Motor Vehicle Em- 1 ployees' Union members yesterday held a secret ballot on whether ta strike or not following the dismissal of 32--members by the Hup Soon Omnibus Company, of Teluk Anton. They decided to teM the six bus companies in Ipoh and
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    HE DROVE NEGLIGENTLY
    57 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Mon. Pleading guilty to a charge of negligent driving, Chec Soo Chuan was fined $30 by Inche Salleh bin Eckhardt in the Parit Buntar Court and his driving licence endorsed. It was stated that the accused drove his motor car into the rear of a
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    IT WAS APPRENTKKSf DAY AT PENANG
    1109 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS By RUNNING right op to the improvement he showed after his last run at Kuala Lumpur, and with the advantage of young Bagby s 5 lb. apprentice allowance, Chesieres led all the way to win the mam Race— CL 3, 1 mile—
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    PADANG CRICKET
    42 6 In a friendly cricket match played on the S.C.C. padang yesterday, Nee Soon Garrison' beat S.C.C. by seven runs. Nee Seen 160 (Newbury 38. Shaw 28. Mclver 28, Sanderson 5-28. Soughan 4--82). S.C.C. 153 (Parton 41. Carey 3-0. Fisher 3-45).
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    Mansoorwins 2 cycle races
    135 6 Mansoorwins 2 cycle races A Young Singapore cyclist, Mansoor bin Sawi. of the Pasir Panjang Cycling Team, scored a double at the Cosmopolitan Cycling Club's meet at Lim Chu Kang Road yesterday. Riding a well Judged race, Mansoor won both the 25 and 50-mile massed-start open road races. He covered
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    JIMMY TAN SCORED 6 OF TIGER'S 8 GOALS
    260 6 rGER S.C. handed Chinese Athletic a severe eighttwo trouncing in their S.A.F.A. Div. 1 clash at Jalaii Besar Stadium on Saturday. Speedy Tigers left winger. Jimmy Tan, played a very big part, scoring six of the eight 'goals in grand style. OS
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    BRITAIN HOPES FOR 3 G.M.s
    289 7 /ill set for Helsinki rv\v *reat improvement shown by British Tildes >ince 1948 when they failed to win n,U tfold medal in the London Olympics I Li enthusiasts in Britain to hope they St win at least three Olympic titles in European championships in Brussels
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    SELETAR WIN BY INNINGS
    305 7 SELETAR WIN BY INNINGS junior games Rx i Si ir trounced Sinha j es L)v an mnings and Da Jun-.or Tourney tV :> it Seletar yesterday, g i, es< W ere skittled for 17 n the first innings by r Denny and Bull. seven for six and lrr r eteicfl
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    U.K. cricket gets off to good start
    163 7 THE opening of Britain's; cricketing season has j never been overcast with so j ■anj ccntroversial shadows. A;most throughout the *m season, pundits, en- j t^usiasts and the rank and «ie have argued and adjnert a medley of suggesx.'or.s m general agreement g
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    TENRUN WIN
    43 7 T ENRUN WIN J SCL*!S! «ub -aki t f Chinese r. C A- h« VJ 1 a friendly lror, v padjn on Saturday. I? u' a/ n Morrls HA. Barker Wo "S Font Sf iK Sww L*w 4-24 !>■ »^k ChJ On* Lft« 34.
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    SER VICES LA CKED THE 'FIRE'
    443 7 Singapore Civilians 2; Combined Services I. SINGAPORE Civilians won this fast, gruelling and thrilling soccer encounter at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday but had Combined Services added more spirit to their attack the result may have been different. The 3,567 fans, who paid $4,272, were
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    1011 7 001 A 'CERT' FOR Ist. SINGLES Our Thomas Cup team takes shape From CRUSADER 001 TEIK HOCK'S magnificent victory over- Oaf Poh Lim in straight sets last night in Malaya's second Thomas Cop trial at the Sciango** Badminton Association's new ball in Kuala Lumpur makes it obvious that he most
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    HILL GAIL WINS THE KENTUCKY
    67 7 LOUISVILLE Cwtucky) Sun. THE favourite. £»J Gail, won the Kentucky Derby yesterday at Churchill Downs. Sub Fleet was second and Blue Man finished third. It was jockey Eddie Arcaro's fifth winning Derby ride and sixth time Calumet trainer. Ben Jones, had saddled the winner. Hill
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    Time robs Army of full marks
    505 7 Saturday's cricket ARMY XI made a gallant bid to force an outright victory over Ceylon Sports Club at Balestier over the week-end, but time intervened when they had 10 runs yet to make with ten wickets in hand. Continuing their incomplete first innings on
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    Danes name Cup team
    64 7 rpHE Danish badminton team to play India in the European Zone versus Pacific Zone tie of tho Thomas Cup in Koala Lampar on Maw 24 and U> was selected yesterday. The team is Ponl Holm. Joern Skaarup. Ole Jensen. Ib Olesen John Njgaard and Jorgen Hammersf
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    NEWCATLE ACHIEVE SOCCER FEAT OF CENTURY
    574 7 NEWCATLE ACHIEVE SOCCER FEAT OF CENTURY NEWCASTLE UNITED achieved the soccer feat 11 of the century on Saturday, by Seating Arsenal I—o to win the Football Association Cup for the second year in succession. Blackburn was the last team to win the Cup twice In succession, €1 years a*o. Hero
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    At the end of season
    116 7 LONDON. 8«a VESTERDAYS Matches A bronchi the season's learn* programme to a dose, and the following are the mcuiti ant failures: FIRST DIVISION: Champions— Manchester United; runner*, as— -Tottenham Hotspur. Brtr rated to Di vision II: Fulham and Huddersfield. SECOND DIVISION: Champions up—Cardiff City. Bath*
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    DROBNY MASTERS SEDGMAN
    143 7 lARSOLAV DROBNY, the left-handed bespectacled former Czech Davis Cup man, played lawn tennis which made spectators forget the grey skies when he beat Frank Sedgman (Australia), acknowledged world No. 1 player, to retain the British hard courts men's championship in Bournemouth on Saturday. This was Drobny's third
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    Good stand by Giles Simpson
    202 7 Good stand by Giles Simpson A FIRST wicket stand of 135 by Reg Simpson and Ronald Giles for Nottinghamshire against Kent in the only match not affected by rain was the main feature of Saturday's County cricket programme. The Nottinghamshire openIng pair thrashed the bowling sending the hundred up in
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    31 7 LONDON, Sun. Y«terday f Rugby League results: Rugby League Championship semi -finals: Bradford Northern 19 Huddersfield 15, Wigan 13 Hull 9. Other match: Witehaven 7 Featherstone Rovers 7. Reuter
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    ARAYANS WIN
    26 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. •TWO unimpressive goals gave the Aryan Gymkhana soccer tourists victory over Tamilians Physical Cultural Association on the Princes Road ground today.
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    J.C.C. WIN
    21 7 TOHOBE Cricket Club beat Singapore Chinese RC. by eight wickets in a cricket friendly at Hong Lim Green yesterday:
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    BIRTHS
    193 8 LORIMER: to Prue and Andrew, on May tod at Bangsar. a BAROMANN. To Flip £2! en April 24th, a daughter. ««nee Margot, slater to In* 7 1 j£" bin Nairobi (PO Box 3393), British Bast Africa. ANNOUNCEMENT MADELINE LTD., 278, Orchard Read. Smart and cool morning drcsi?s and sunsults.
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    289 8 US -COMMITTED^ TO WAR RISK AS PRICE OF LEADERSHIP y fi*-««#her's *ecw* tertimoity WASHINGTON, Monday. GENERAL Alfred Gruenther, North Atlantic Chief of Staff, told Senators here that commitments bringing America into war in any part of the worm were "the price of leadership—the price paid by Britain for a century".
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    71 8 picture. A FLAMING American Thunderjet fighter plane crashed into a bank building at St. Peter's, close to Broadstairs, Kent, recently, killing the pilot and a man and wife who lived above the bank. The plane was apparently trying to make a forced landing but failed to clear the built-up area.
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    'Share the wealth' cry in Germany
    166 8 BONN, Mon. PIFTY thousand German refugees gathered here yesterday to demand a share-the-wealth programme in Germany before German participation in Western defence. They sang Deutschland CJber Alles (Germany above all) and shouted catcalls against Bonn Government leaders who were not present. The refugees came
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    16 8 American bacteriologists have announced the development of a microscopic atom bomb to treat cancer.- A. P.
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    U.S. PILOTS FOft BRITISH TESTS
    47 8 Some of America's top pilots are now in Gloucester to try out Britain's latest Delta Wing Fighter. The group, headed by Oen. Albert Boyd, senior test pilot of the UJS. Air Force, were invited to this country by the British Government A.P.
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    2 men search boat for girls
    212 8 PLYMOUTH, Monday. NORMAN FOWLfiR and Edward Allcard tacked out of Plymouth Sound for some port in California yesterday after Searching their 40-foot yacht to be sure she harboured no tall, dark, flash-eyed, well-shaped stowaways Portuguese may be. Fowler who is 25 and comes from
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    U.K., U.S. row over Med.
    279 8 LONDON, Monday. THE ROW BETWEEN BRITAIN and the United States over the Mediterranean Command may come to a head when Admiral William Fechteler, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, today opens a series of discussions with top-ranking British military and political leaders. The talks may bring
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    Feasting on pills
    76 8 Feasting on pills BOSTON, Mon. PRESIDENT ROBERT Chandler of the University of New Hampshire, said in a speech in Boston last night that the world would be better off and more peaceable when people lived on food pills. Scientists would perfect synthetic food as they had synthetic wool, rubber and
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    AGREEMENT
    28 8 Hungary and France have signed an agreement covering an exchange of 4,000,--000,000 francs worth of goods in the coming year, French Legation officials in Budapest said. U.P.
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    CHILE BREAKS U.S. COPPER PACT
    219 8 SANTIAGO, CHILE. Mun\* rjHILE yesterday brose $ff a year-old agreement to* sell 80 per cent, of her copper at a fixed price to the United States and announced she will enter the world's free market with her wnole output. The country's mines controlled almost completely
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    RICE FROM SIAM
    22 8 A shipment of 50,000 tons of rice from Siam is due in Manila within the next two weeks. Reuter
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    NEW PLOT UNEARTHED IN TUNISIA
    124 8 TUNIS, Mon. rpHE French authorities last X night were investigating another "plot against the security of the stale," in which some "leading" Tunisians were involved. Several Tunisians, including Sheikh Rouhou, VicePresident of the North Tunisia Chamber of Commerce, have been brought to Tunis from forced
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    ISRAEL DECISION
    19 8 The Israeli Government decided yesterday to transfer the Israeli Foreign Ministry from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Reuter
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    EARTH QUAKE
    16 8 light tremor lasting two seconds was felt in Acona, l.i Adriatic port, yesterday.— Reuter
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