The Singapore Free Press, 7 May 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA Ha 18,385. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAT 7, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 306 1 Govt. streamlined Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. HE tremendous reorganisation and streamlining: of the machinery of government in the Federation since the arrival of the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, is detailed for the first time today with the publication of reports
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  • 135 1 Fed. police buying 12,000 U.S. carbines Kt MA LUMPUR. Wed. inWELVS thousand I American carbines a four million rounds o ammunition have I ordered by the p ration Police Force, the Federal Legislative C Mind] were told today \s in of $4 6 million has ib oeen approved for MUdiase
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  • 83 1 NEW YORK, Wed. t :::R£ has been a new deve- pmeni in the United tea steel dispute. Thirteen P ibliean senators introi i legislation to direct Secretary of Commerce, 1 irlea Sawyer, to give steel plants seized by G Vfemmeni and return *o their owners.
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  • 44 1 i P^rr calling for the i ation of racial discri- in :he Methodist •on speedy approval Mrhodist general con- m San Francisco J -v defeated, however. J Proposal to abolish the :i lunsdiction an l ••-•-=--ive unit consist- A. P.
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  • 81 1 HpHREE Australian news- papers said yesterday that Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh would visit Australia early in 1954. A high government source was quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald as saying that the British and Australian governments have agreed on this visit. The newspaper
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  • 25 1 British Ambassador, to I Japan Sir Esler Dening, pre- sented his credential's to Emj peror Hirohito at the Impe- rial Palace yesterday
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  • 496 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. HPHE most important of the new Federation x appoinments is that of the Director of Intelligence, who will be responsible for the full evaluation of the intelligence produced by all intelligence agencies. Formerly, the Director of Intelligence
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  • 117 1 'Persuaded' to tell the police AFTER being persuaded by the Village Committe, Eu Kok Tee, of Kampong Kranji, Singapore, reported yesterday to the Singapore police that he had been robbed last Sunday evening. Until then he was afraid to give information. Eu said that while cycling towards Bukit Panjang, three
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  • 73 1 picture. MRS. V. R. BALAKRISHNA of 253, Tanjong Pagar Road, the wife of a Singapore Army clerk, last night j had the surprise of her life. She cracked an egg to make j an omelette for her husband and out of its shell popped another egg
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  • 117 1 Their 'dead son 9 was alive Free Press Staff Reporter LONDON, Wed. IITHILE mourning the loss ff of their 19-year-old soldier son in Malaya, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Crane of Redcar, Yorkshire, learned yesterday that he was still alive, according to the London Evening Newspaper They had received a
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  • 27 1 Dacca, capital of East Pakistan, will be linked with London and Sydney by an air service to be run bv BOAC from today. A.P.
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  • 161 1 SULTAN SELLS 27 HOUSES TO GOVT Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Federation Government has* bought 27 houses in Johore Bahru from the Sultan of Johore for $3 million. The houses stand on 37 acres of land at Jalan Straits View, Jalan Scudai and Coombe Hill. The sale
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  • 66 1 AUSTR ALIAS second nationwide port stoppage in five weeks will leave 100 ships idle today. At midnight, 27,000 waterside workers began a 24-hour strike. They were called out so that mass meetings could be held at all ports to discuss pay grievances. At Sydney 6,300
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  • 44 1 SYDNEY, Wed.— A 33-year-old insurance inspector Kenneth Tracey Bull was convicted of bigamy in quarter sessions but the judge, after hearing pleas by both women, decided not to send Bull to gaol. He put Bull on a ten-year bond. Reuter
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  • 50 1 Three lallang fires broke out within an hour in different parts of Singapore yesterday. The first two, at Siong Lim Park and Delta Road, were attended by engines from the Central Fire Station. A Naval Base engine fought the third blaze at the 11 Vz -mile, Sembawang Road.
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  • 177 1 JLJ AUDE, the young female Brok monkey who caused so much excitement in Singapore's Robinson Road last month by dancing on the rooftops, is "on the loose" again. After her capture last month, Maude was taken to the lar?e monkey house run by the
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  • 145 1 1 LONDON, Wednesday. A MECHANICAL bug that jumps three feet in the A air caught the Royal fancy yesterday. Visiting the British Industries Fair here, the Queen bought the toy for her son, Charles, 3. Not forgetting baby Anne, 21 months, the Queen bought
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  • 27 1 A tornado swept across the district of Faridpur east Pakistan, yesterday destroying about 3,500 houses. Two people were killed and 200 injured.
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  • 36 1 THE price of rubber dropped by ft quarter oent per pound this morning in the Singapore rubber market, and was being quoted at 93% cents. The market reported fairly brisk buying.
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  • 22 1 The Western Powers* re^ly to the latest Soviet note on Grermany mav be ready for iispatch to Moscow this
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  • 243 1 LONDON, Wednesday. npHE Labour Party claimed last night to have gained 104 seats so far in the second round of Britain's "little General Election'* for local councils. The Conservative Central Office said such gains a« were made must be considered an "unsatisfactory performance" by
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  • 122 1 LONDON, Wed. T||R. Churchill and Abdul A'lpattah Amr Pasha, the Egyptian Ambassador, had a private halt-hour talk yesterday at the House of Commons on the Anglo-Egyptian dispute Officials maintained strict secrecy on details of the discussion, which was arranged by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden.
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  • 61 1 Taft gains over Ike NEW YORK, Wed. SENATOR ROBERT TAFT yesterday regained the lead over General Dwight D. Elsenhower in the race for Republican presidential nominating votes by the election of nine uncontested delegates in Ohio's primary. The nine delegates part of a 56-delegate Taft slate which attracted heavy balloting—gave
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  • 55 1 An official communique in Cairo yesterday proclaimed King Farouk a direct descendant of Mahomed, the Prophet of Islam. The King's ancestry was traced to the Prophet by El Sayed Mohamed El Bislawy, President of the "Society of the Prophet's Descendants." King Farouk is now entitled to
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  • 864 2 Nervous? Shy?— Consult an Understanding Doctor DKLJLDLDF faulty thinking is present re-education is necessary I'M 20 and I'm suffering from nervousness. This prevents me enjoying parties or talking to friends at social gatherings. My hands are always cold and I dread being introduced to friends. When there is a conversation
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  • 219 2 'THE chance of catchA ing leprosy, even after close and continued contact with someone suffering from the disease, is remote. The revulsion aroused by the word "leprosy" is priirarily a holdover from the old idea that the victim was "unclean" and because advanced cases present a horrible
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  • 49 2 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.--Across: 1. See 7. 7. 1. Not worth the candle. 8. Behold. 9. Fall. 11. Lees. 12. Coiner. 15. Csnvincible. 1«. Merrie. Hewn: 1. Catchpenny. 2. Noddle. 8. Lots. 4. Snub. 5. Attainable. 6. WeaX 10. Concur. 11. Lock. 13. Reek. 14. Wite.
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  • 74 2 She Eats: With Her; Feet. Miss Rosaline Mary who lost her hands through frostbite when the Ml tab flaring the Revolution has accomplished the astonishing by replacing her lost hands with her feet Here, she holds a cup of tea with her feot at the home of her brother and
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  • 492 2 Af TER 26 YEARS IN A MYSTERY HOUSE, SAYS JAMES DOW that he never left his small room. IN a bright hospital *ard overlooking the rolling beauty of the Cotswoid countryside, 42-year-old Harry Tucker is making his first real mental effort, his first attempt at
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 124 2 YOUR LUCKY SXAR HORN today, you have m many qualifications for an outstanding success that if you miss, it can only be your own fault for not toking advantago of opportunities when offertdo. You are genuinely cooperative and like to be "in" everything that to going on. Vne more actlrity,
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    1429 3  -  JOHN MATHER Concluding the ««rte« i i 111 fll I I II I^l I I P% l fIH lilll What of his influence and those who might influence him? by r r( )NSII)ER the v Queen. She has dad obvious advant Tl s and not-so-ob Vimis disadvantages in her
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  • 746 3  - America's 'horse and buggy' constitution JOHN H. MacCALLUM SCOTT by yfUEN in November the Americans will elect one of several candidates to what is unquestionably the most powerful position in the world, the electors will be deciding far more than the domestic, issue of which party is to govern their
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  • 572 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. May 7. 1952. Thedouble deal •PVKKYBODY in the Western World has cause to be grateful to the Government and people of the United States. But how far that feeling will survive 93J-cent. rubber can only be surmised. Any man who loves freedom as conceived in
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  • 740 4  - 'Bof fins' for the Army Now General Sir Brian Horrocks Stralgjht-from-school tcclu»l«al jjgw^ officers will stud? icftittifi* warfare By npHE Anny is starting shortly a remarkable new scheme of recruiting potential technical officers at the age of 16 from the secondary and grammar schools. A new college is being opened,
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  • 431 4  -  CECIL WILSON By TLIZABETH Schumann, one of the last of the great school of opera and German lieder singers who flourished before the war, died recently in New York. Death denied her the chance of settling in England. She had just obtained a Home
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  • 140 4 Schnbert— SonaU la B Flat (Fwtk:) played by* Arthur litfcart* H.M.V. D.B. fMt-tL Thia It another memorial Ml tar the great Schnabel. The later Schubert had Beethoven proportions and w«*wit*nl If at home with the one as with the other. There Is less violence and bitterness and more
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  • 1232 4  - A Test for Gieseking -and S'pore PRESTO Mutic topics by WALTER Gieseking's recital tomorrow at the Victoria Hall is a musical event Singapore will cherish for years. Here we have a pianist in the flood tide of his powers undertaking the four great Beethoven sonatas, the Pathetique the "Waldstein", the
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  • Article, Illustration
    16 4 Famous composer Igor Stravinski and his wif e seen at <*lyJUrgrt, attending an international cultural exhibition.
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  • 150 4  - Death of b Spore Trumpeter FELIX By ANE of Singapore'! w best trumpet pi av crs, -60-year-old Alejanl dro Martin died at the General Hospital i A week. sl Thousands of peo»; e have heard Martin duj ing the past fiv e y^ at the Raffles Hotel hJ had been
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  • 265 4 DAVID EOSE AND HIS OR. CHESTRA: Someone To Hatch Over Me, Why Do You Pat* Me By (M.G.M. 485). Gershwin s "Someone to c«fcjc over me" is outstanding amount this week's releases. The bro«] tone of David Rose's &Lnngc prominent throughout. OSCAR AIEMAN P« Df OSVALDO NORTON: Delica*
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 512 5 Power must be got from water KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Federation's natural hydro-electric resources must be developed as early as possible* because of the acute shortage of coal for local power stations, says the annual report of the Central Electricity Board, tabled at the Federal
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  • 169 5 COLONY FISHERMEN BRING IN MORE FISH Free Press Staff Reporter ABOUT 2,008 tons of fresh fish was landed in Singapore during the nrst quarter of the year. This represents an increase of 35 tons over the figure for the same period last year. Landings from Indonesia showed a slight decrease
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  • 127 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rB Governor of Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, has consented to be patron of the Singapore Battalion of the Boys' Brigade. The battalion's former patron was Sir Franklin Gimson. Members of the Boys' Brigade win go under tents for a sevenday camp
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  • 48 5 TELUK ANSON, Wed. Yunus bin Mat Zin, a special constable, was fined $50 or one month's imprisonment when be was found guilty of desertion from the Police Force. Yunus absconded from the Kuala Bidor police post on Apr. 3 and he was arrested on Apr. 28.
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  • 23 5 The annual meeting of the Friends of Singapore will be held at the British Council Hall on Friday at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 91 5 Free Press Staff Reporter HOKKIEN members of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce have decided to raise $400,000 as their contribution towards the proposed new building for the Chamber. The drive for the fund is being led by Messrs Kwek Soan Loh and Chuang Hui Tsuan
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  • 193 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A FINAL decision on whether the Singapore City Council should ko ahead with a ponding scheme for the alleviation of Hooding In the Grove Estate area. Singapore, is expected to lie taken by the Council's Public Works Committee whlvh meets
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  • 119 5 CJINGAPORE may not send delegates to thi* year's meeting of the Oouncil of the Wo r ld Assembly of youth, which win be held in Dakar. Stnecal French West Cheriak I president 'of the -KTlSEtl^vmttH council. Mr. Cherian sai4 that tois was because the
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  • 221 5 SINGAPORE representatives of British radio manufacturers will hold a radio exhibition in the Happy World Stadium from August 2to 16. This will run concurrently with the annual trade fair. The exhibition which will be organised on the lines of the National Radio Exhibition held in
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  • 151 5 STC runs more 'fast' services Free Press Staff Reporter QINGAPORE Traction Company has increased its "express" bus services between Finlayson Green and Katong and Tampenis. The company recently increased its "limited stop" services to 18 between Tampenis and the city and to 21 between the City and Telok Kurau and
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  • 195 5 Advice for women Free Press Staff Reporter MISS Ethel Weed, a former 1 SCAP official, told a group of prominent Singapore women yesterday: "There is great urgency in all countries for educated women to improve the lot of women in the lower income groups." The problem, she added, was a
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  • 61 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rtfl. W. H. TERRELL, of Pasadena, California, has been appointed Visiting Professor in Prosthetic Dentistry at the University of Malaya. He is expected to arrive in Junr Applications are being invited for appointment to the Chair in Prosthetic Dentistry. This branch of
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  • 24 5 TELUK ANSON. Wed Maimunah bintl Mat Isa was fined $25 or three weeks' imprisonment for failing to possess h an identity card.
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  • 164 5 Rubber slump hits trade Free Press Staff Reporter THE drop in the price A of rubber, which began last Saturday, has adversely affected, in general, the commerce of Singapore, Chinese rubber dealers said yesterday. Thev added that th e present price offered no hope for raw rubber to be imported
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  • Article, Illustration
    53 5 picture. SILHOUETTED against the bow of a chip unloading cargo, is the Governor of Singapore, Mr. John Nicoll, who paid hie first visit yesterday to the Singapore Harbour Board. With b>n is the Chairman of the Board, Mr. P. A. T. Chrimes (right), and the Traffic Manager, Mr. I. W.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 376 5 'm P •^afTt^n'SwSpTui W^^^m n jTi ilti i lip v^9 r^L^^^^^^ ROBERTO INCLEZ HIS ORCHESTRA I p e mini tonight; At last, at last R 3499 FREDDY RANDALL HIS lANO f B Baby won t you please come home f,ght nes »494 s SIDNEY TORCH HIS ORCHESTRA S P t
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  • 67 6 Horses not accepting rE following hones will not start tomorrow: Cobro, Fla* <M J5«2» Proctor. Albert M. Brecongill, Jeanette, Palitoy, Liberty FtefcT. M***** Eavsr. Running Footman, Lundy Isle, Payeor, Irish Fame. Ttftuilla, Linkshir, Good Advice. Musketeer, BaU. Skyscraper, Exeter BiV Money is a doubtful Jockey Spencer will not ride at
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  • 318 6 'TRAINER W. Lewis looks to have the answer to the Cl. 3, Div. S, race over 5^ P. with Trobella, Honourbrlght and Wlnagaln engaged. Kind Regards and lUffrttHa are the only other posslbUltiea. Trobella won her only start at Ipoh, over the 5 F. straight
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  • 1010 6  - SEALED ORDERS IS A SAFE WAGER ALLAN LEWIS By SEALED ORDERS should DC a saic dcj in the main sprint tomorrow, second day of the Penan* Turf Club's Summer meeting. His Kuala Lumpur form was excellent. He finished second to Steeltrap over seven then spreadeagled a good field over six.
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  • 241 6 Elegant Kid to score a double THOUGH up a divi^ with 3 lb. extra. Efe, gant Kid should win this CL 5, Div. l, 6F. race complete a double, i derstand Padek will ft* Elegant Kid in preference to Wayang so the 7i b allowance will reduce his weight to
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 101 6 MdndrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya il I SI^aISF II lS TRuf II I NOW 1 SEE/ THATGUNPIIU I I I MANDRAKE, I CHIEF, YOtM GOTTQ 1L j r-i DIAMONDS 'N THIS ME SAW. LAST NIGHT WE IA^ENT LJ I THISrYOU HELP USGE T 'C JA N
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  • 353 7 Best men in Cup squad J)ANISH THOMAS CUP prospects have been put to a special training programme for the past seven months and the squad to make the trip to Malaya will be at their best, Mr. N. P. Kristensen, President of the Danes Badminton Forbund,
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  • 91 7 The Jcnore Badminton Association will stage aa exhibition tournament In aid of the association at the Jchore Bahru Road Transport Shed (former J. M. F. drill hall) at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow. A feature of the evening's programme will be the singles match between Thomas Cup players Wong Feng Sooa
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  • 605 7 (Cont. trmm p*t* S.t9, Matterhorn i.04, Bugs 8.04, Landy Isle t.03. Dinar 8.02, Payevr 8.0i). CL 5, Wv. 2-6F: rTJfBMA should complete a double by taking fte Cl. 5, Div. 2 race over 6P. He carries 41b leas in this higher division, but the extra half furlong will compensate
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  • 192 7 DAVE Sands (Australia) defends his British Empire middleweight title for the first time since he took it from Dick Turpin in 1948 when he meets A. Bourke, Victorian champion, in Melbourne on Friday night. The fight may be toucher for Sands than it appears
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  • 348 7 Rovers S.C 5; S.R.C 2. r*OOD combination between a lively set of for- wards and a solid defence helped Rovers Sports Club to triumph over Singapore Recreation Club by five goals to two in a keenly contested Singapore Amateur F.A. Senior league gam t at Jalan
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  • 244 7 ANLY a limited number of invitations will be issued for the Thomas Cup interzone final (May 27 and 28) and the challenge round (May 31 and June 1), to be played off at Singapore's Happy World Stadium. Ttoey will be to the High Commissioner, Federation of Malaya. the
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  • 239 7 REST OF SOCCER \r M.M.A. notched six goals with. out reply to score an overwhelming victory over P. 4fc T. in their SAJ.A. Div. 3B tie on the BODCA ground last evening. Two goals were scored in the first naif and both these came from inside left,
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  • 262 7 REG. SIMPSON. England batsman who has written a book on brighter cricket. <»ave an example of it yesterday for Nottinghamshire aerainst Kent In the only first etofls match not ruined by rain. i He scored a carefree 78, W ttoWnorha'-nshire l^ft to "^t 22^ ut
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  • 239 7 R.N.A.S. LUCKY TO SHARE THE POINTS R.A.F. Lodgers 0; B.N.AJS t. rjOLOURLESS soccer was seen at Sembawang yesterday, when R.A.F. Lodgers and R.N.A.S. played their United Services Senior Division tie to 15*5^ Lodgers outplayed the star studded R.N.A.S. side in aU departments of the game, but were unable to get
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  • 46 7 SOCCER: Snr. Lge., REME W. BODCA—J. Besar. BUSINESS HOUSES: Stanvac Hongkong Bank 'A' Police ground; Bate v. Breweries— Farrer Park; Cold Storage «B» t. Boasteads— C. Union. SAFA Dlv. SB. BODCA 4 A» Cosmos— Geylan* SVSC t. SHB PoUce—CYMA. CRICKET: St. Patricks v. Raffles—RJ.
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  • 162 7 CHANGI SCORE EASY WIN n A.F. Changi scored a com- fortable four-one win over a disjointed R.A.O.C. side in a very one sided Services Senior Division game played at Changi yesterday. R.A.O.C. entered the second period two down and though they tried hard they could not keep the Airmen from
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  • 47 7 Chasing butterflies and moths for his collection has contributed to the stamina of mile runner John Landy, fourth selected distance man for the Australian team to the Helsinki Olympic Games. Landy is a third year agricultural science student at the University of Melbourne. Reuter
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  • 69 7 In spite of a two-nil lead at half time, Aryan Gymkhana had to acknowledge defeat at the hands of the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club in their fixture on the Headquarters Malaya Ground at Rifle Range Road, Kuala Lumpur. Staging a brilliant recovery in the second period,
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  • 18 8 GORDON. Baby Igor ™W> Anthony infant son of Nicholas and Madia at Bungsar Hospital, fourth May 1953.
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  • 57 8 THE FAMILY of the late Mr. Emile Aloysius Webb thank Mr. A D. Williamson, doctors, the Lady Almoner, nurses and stall of Ward 19— Eye Ward— of the General Hospital Singapore for their kind attention during his last illness, and also friends and relations who attended his funeral or
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  • 396 8 iMfMNi fore* is -mmm Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. SWEEPING changes in the Federation Police Force O establishment, both at Headquarters and contingent level, are to be made following the recent announcement by the Commissioner of Police, Col. A. E Young, of the
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  • Article, Illustration
    69 8 picture. THE PEACE TREATY between the United States of America and Japan went into effect on April 28 as the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson (right) handed over the U.S. ratification of the treaty. Receiving it (left) is Mr. Adrian Fisher, State Department Legal Adviser. Standing between the two
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  • 112 8 OIL WORKERS TOLD TO END STRIKE WASHINGTON, Wed. fTHE Government Wage 1 Stabilisation Board itself under investigation for its handling of th e steel dispute, yesterday asked 90,000 striking oil workers to go back immediately. The message requested an immediate reply from the striking unions and 70 or 80 oil
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  • 32 8 More than U555,000,000 (£1,800,000) worth of goods have been stolen from the United States army in Korea, and much of the pilferred supplies has gone into the Korean blackmarket.— A.P.
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  • 124 8 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint 7fiA**iuc6t(U Hollywood Hand lotion applied as an all-over body lotion before raking a bath will help enhance your skin beauty. For a lovely skin, such as Ramsey Ames', massage your body with hand lotion and then take a tub bath. Soak in warm water for fifteen minutes
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  • 130 8 RED CHINA HITS OUT AT U.S. LONDON, Wed. r*OMMUNIST China charged V* yesterday that the Japanese Peace Treaty means the United States is bent on "intensified preparations for a new aggressive war, directed against the peoples of China and the Soviet Union and menacing all Asia." A lengthy statement issued
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  • 103 8 QUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: St James, Mirt Rd., Silat Rd., Buki't Pasoh. 8.A.T., Trafalgar St., Alison Rd., Tionff Bahru, Sago St., Ramah St.. Peoples Park. Nanson Rd., Lam Soon Oil Mills, Guan Hln, U.E Network, U.E. Factory, River Valley Rd., Killiney Rd., Orchard Rd.. Armenian St.
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  • 132 8 GENEVA, Wednesday. r}R. Juan Salcedo Jr., new Philippine president of the World Health Organisation, yesterday condemned excessive publicity for so-called "wonder" drugs. I He wa 3 speaking at the inaugural meeting of W.H.O's fifth assembly at Geneva. Press reports, he said, glossed over
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  • 18 8 The newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Mr. George Forest Kennan, arrived in Moscow yesterday. Reuter
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  • 236 8 LONDON, Wednesday. rpHE Government yesterday promised to consider J- reforming the 900-year-old House of Lords as soon as the country has weathered the economic crisis. The Marquess of Salisbury, Government leader in the Lords, said the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, would carry out his
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  • 190 8 Naval dispute goes to the top LONDON, Wed. rpHE 18-month-old Anglo--1 American dispute over the naval command in the Mediterranean is be referred to the top political level, it wa« learned authoritatively yesterday. The decision follows the failure to resolve the issue in Monday's meetings between Admiral William Fechteler, United
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  • 132 8 FRENCH FREE TUNISIAN 'REBEL' TUNIS, Wed. nORMER Tunisian Premier, Mohamed Chenik, and three members of his deposed cabinet have been released from house arrest. The four had been held on the island of Djerba since March 26, when the Bey of Tunis acceded to a French demand that he fire
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