The Singapore Free Press, 15 May 1952

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    19 1 The Singapre Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE Of MALAYA K» 18.392. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    40 S.T.C. BUSES BACK ON ROADS
    426 1 100 strikers return: union leaders appeal to men Free Press Staff Reporter ANE HUNDRED of the 1,400 striking Siitga pore Traction Co. busmen returned to work this morning to man 40 buses which the company sent out to serve the main routes to town.
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    THE MAIL PILES UP AT P.O.s
    98 1 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE'S postal strikers v r.tinued to picket the G Post Office this Ung. official of their union :ut they proposed to i the suburban post Dffi es today. B th the Government and sti fcers 1 spokesmen annced no change
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    Move to cut aid lost
    79 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. BY the margin of one vote yesterday the US Senate Armed Services Committee delated a move to cut an additional U*****,000,000 out JTthf foreign aid programme. in c vote was seven to six ■ftinsl the reduction. N* m the huge mutual security programme
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    TEA PROMISE
    27 1 The increase m the British tea ration to 2H ounces promised for August 10 would be made much earlier, the Daily Telegraph said yesterday. Reuter
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    Rubber stockpile not yet completed
    258 1 U.S. Senate Committee fold: WASHINGTON, Thursday. SENATE Armed Services Sub-Committee sources said last night that government officials had told the Committee m private session that the U.S. rubber stockpile had not yet reached the levels recommended by defence authorities. The Committee opened its hearings yesterday
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    THERE'S NO QUARREL -CHURCHILL
    115 1 THERE'S NO QUARREL -CHURCHILL LONDON, Thurs. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill resisted Labour pressure to tell the House of Commons about United States and British differences over the naval command m the Mediterranean. He said There is as yet no divergence of views between the governments. Discussions are proceeding between
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    Firm to close Shanghai office
    47 1 Theflritish wine and spirit tmportm, Caldbeck, MacGregor, yesterday announced tetenttoas of closing their atmngKki office, founded m 1864 when and if the Chinese Communists grant permisfilrector J. P. MacGregor said In his annual report the Shanghai branch Is a "dead loss." A.P.
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    SPY GAOLED
    25 1 Quenther Schuenemann, 24-year-old German actor, was sentenced to 15 years' prison by a UJS. district court m Munich yesterday for spying for Czechoslovakia.
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    Stay out vote
    36 1 picture. Four hundred S.T.C. strikers attended a meeting of their Union this morning at which they decided to continue the strike. Picture shows some of the men present at the meeting.—- Free Press
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    6 HURT IN ACCIDENTS
    52 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Six people, including a woman, were injured when they were involved m car accidents m different parts Of Singapore yesterday. The most serious accident outside the Joo Chiat market where a Chinese woman was injured. The others hurt included two cyclists and
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    SIAM AIDS BANDIT FIGHT
    139 1 ,LONDON. Thurs. BRIGADIER Fitzroy Maclean, Conservtive, asked m the House of Commons yesterday whether the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Lyttelton, knew of the support which the Communist terrorists m Malaya were receiving from bases m Siam. He asked what was being done to stop it. Mr. Lyttelton
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    TROOPS USED TO UNLOAD SHIPS
    51 1 KARACHI, Thurs. pOUR thousand dock workr ers agreed to return to work yesterday m Karachi's The Government declared the four-day strike was illegal on Monday, but the strikers remained out. The Workers' Union announced later that it was postponing "the strike one «iaal> »> Tnranf«-Ana
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    REPLY TO PROTEST
    24 1 Britain's Minister to Iceland, Mr. J. D. Greenway, flew to London from Reykjavik yesterday with Iceland's reniv to British protests over
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    Oil workers offered wage rise
    140 1 Oil workers offered wage rise WASHINGTON, Thurs. rpHE WAGE Stabilization A Board yesterday set 15 cents an hour ceiling on wage increases for 90,000 striking oil workers andunion leaders quickly called for a resumption of negotiations across the country. The CIO, AFL and independent union leaders asked the oil companies
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    Maulana's case under inquiry
    78 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A SPOKESMAN of the Special Branch, Singapore, told tine Free Press this morning that the case of Maulana Mohamed Akbar Khan was under inquiry by the Singapore Government. No details could be disclosed yet. The Indian Government has, according to a news
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    10 ADVENTURERS CRY FOR, AID
    132 1 SAN FRANCISCO Thursday. ACS. Coastguard cutter, the 83-foot fwto*> to standing by the schooner, Eloise, which is m distress 22 miles oil San Francisco. The 37-year-old sailing vessel had left with 10 adventurers for Hawaii cruise m the South Seas. She 1 Po. lftto a
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    $300,000 for picture
    45 1 $300,000 for picture jaunty yeUow flower paid 33,000,000 francs ($300,000 Malayan) yesterday for Paul Ce*a*ne's fapples «nd Co*** m th£|irßest auction held tttbr 'century iir France. Mrs. Jean Walter wife of the owner of the richest lead mines in> Morocco, outbid more than 500 collectors.
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    U.S. GENERALS FLAYED FOR 'STUPIDITY'
    293 1 U.S. GENERALS FLAYED FOR 'STUPIDITY' WASHINGTON, Thursday. rTHE Republican leader, Senator Style Bridges, yesterday denounced two American generals for "stupidity" m the Koje prison camp incident and urged Congress to investigate the entire "disgraceful affair. Gen. Bridges told the Senate that the capture of Brigadier General Francis Dodd by Communist
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    STADIUM DEATH
    32 1 One person was killed yesterday and 55 are m hospitals for injuries suffered m the collapse of stands m stadium at Lecne, Italy, during a track and field meet. A.P.
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    Steel men threaten to close mills
    160 1 Steel men threaten to close mills PHILADELPHIA, Thurs. rpHE Steel Workers Union agreed unanimously yesterday to close the nations steel mills m a new strike if the managements do not promptly grant a satisfactory wage increase. The 2,500 delegates to the Union convention rose and shouted approval of the resolution.
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    Baby blockade called off
    66 1 BERUK, Thurs. THE Russians lifted the "baby blockade" of Berlin last night just a week after they sealed off the Berlin-Helmstedt highway through the Soviet Zone against Anglo American military patrols. The temporary breatc m restrictions on traffic, grimly reminiscent of the first stage' of the
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    48 2 Ihnwrir BeUU 84. John from the musical play "South Pacific** now running m London has a piaster east of her hands made by sculptor Nick! Schntitt. The sculptor* Is "collecting" fimoua hands m the world of art Musicians, artists and sculptors (Including Epstein) have already sat for him.
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    They've Stolen The Hemingway Thunder
    809 2  -  Peter Quennell reviews new books m s U. K. UNDER REVIEW Lai It Ohm Down, by Paul Bowles. (John lahnwiin, 12b. 6d>. JaliNi, by Loom de Vilmortn. translated by Alison Brothers. (Harvffl Press, 10s. 6d). BELLOWING, pawing and raising the dust up and down the
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    Solution To Cronword No 661
    49 2 TESTEftDAY'S SOLUTION.— Aam: 1. Cotton watts. 7. Downing. S. «vt. t. Conformed. IS. Roundheadcd. 14. CBjC. IS. Pailing. IS. Walking shoe. D*wa: 1. Code. a. Town council S. Orioeld. 4. Wg. 5. Steamed fish. I. ttnenen 10. Opening. 11. Cracow. 18. Ogre. is. PJU.
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    SO THIS IS RUSSIA....
    602 2  -  JAMES CHAPMAN By MANCHESTER. GEOGRAPHY, when I was at school, was one of the least popular subjects. Even algebra and geometry were preferable, because they did not entail so much beastly memorising: What is the capital of What are the industries of What is the population
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    BOOKSin the SHOPS
    119 2 BOOKSin the SHOPS lie Dewn m Darkness,! by William Styrpn. (Hamish Hamilton. 155.) Unusually promising novel by young American writer— concentrated on one of those tragic, untidy, doomed* decaying Southern families, with whom the English reviewer, after reading about them for the past quarter of a t nowadays feels, himself
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    THE KON-TIKI AUTHOR'S THEORY
    105 2 rras leader of the Kon--1 Tiki- voyage, Mr. Tnor Heyerdahl, gave support to the theory, shortly to be tested by Dr. Bombard, that ship-wrecked men an rely for food and water on products of the sea. Mr. Heyerdahl, who Is In Paris lor the premiere of
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    YOUNG MAN WITH A KINK
    481 2  -  GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON kI THE CHOICE. By Marc Brandel. Eyre and Spottiswoode. SUSPENSE and satire rarely run m double harness. In this, short novel by the author of The Ides of Summer, they are brought together, producing a story uncomfortablygraphic and consistently entertaining. Its theme
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    Shakespeare 'trade' booms
    243 2 Shakespeare 'trade booms Pilgrims trowd to Stratford on-A ¥Cn mHE Shakespeare in- dustry, as Stratford citizens call it, Is booming as it has never boomed before. Literary pilgrims from many parts of the world poured m for the celebration of the 388 th anniversary of the poet's birth. The fact
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    Primate versus the politician
    160 2 OEST-SELLEK v Ur *re at present Ar* r Bevan's "In Piacc of ftS York's "In an £?e of "In Place of Feir M J^2.*fto« 2,000 sale. S,OOO a day; Sr. Otrbetri book about 1,000 a day At the lowest likely rovalt? mean £150 a day to
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      101 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR HUC IVTUiI, UIWIJ Mi*uuum& ■■■^■a* ayaajaißciic aiMi cxaaßfltva ai^piany y*» aa aa a«vaa«ac«. Taar mam- aveeeai it not always as aaay •alia aataaaaMty ankaa yaa Aayam* wh# la critical aaliTiHi aatay kajt jm wij •MM*!* fta4 H MaVnit ta dtocataagW Oa«a you kav« atafi tMa. wtfaaa\B»^^lf alW^^^^
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      135 2 New Crossword No. 662 CLUES ACBOSS 1. 7. A paper chate but not m the Waterloo Cup (4, 3, 6.) I. But thlt book thouldn't be torn up (4). t. Seaside Bock 1L A singular tort to money (6). 13. Carrots (3, 4). if. A three-fold volume It. Such *a
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    AVOID REDS, SAILORS WARNED
    238 3 AVOID REDS, SAILORS WARNED >3N, Thursday. Ci warnings to Sari ish seamen to deal of any kind N Mble are to be isdto inn going ashore S t-coairolled terte« instructions follow Lints cf -savage" sen--1 imposed by Communist >:i -iesior minor offences. of ships trading with T' Eastern Europe and
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    PILGRIMS MEET AT FATIMA
    50 3 T tusanda °f Roman Catholic pilgrims have gathot y. the shrine of Our Liiiv of Fatima, at Fatima, Portugal, to commemorate the anniversary of the anr. Bnceneni that three shepherd children had seen the blessed Virgin m a field near her on May 13. 1917, U.P.
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    Much ado about nothing
    40 3 LONDON. Thurs. f*OUR carloads of police rushed to Buckingham Palace when reports reached police headquarters that a man was seen climbing over a wall. Redfaced, they discovered he was a workman cleaning the palace lamps. U.P.
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    Footsteps to echo on 'death' route again
    159 3 BANGKOK. Thurs. SIAM intends to construct a third international highway linking this country with Burma, Major-General Mom Luang Karb Kunjara, acting Director of the Public Relations Department, said here. This project, the third one of its kind, linking Siam with neighbouring countries, will
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    Woman's best friends
    41 3 GENEVA, Thurs. 4 LIPSTICK, powderpuff and hish heels are the b-st-known figures of the fi«ht for equality with men. says Mrs. Ana Figueroa, glamorous Chilean woman diplomat and one of the best-known figures of the United Nations. U.P.
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    BRUNETTE TELLS COURT OF SUICIDE PACT
    445 3 BRUNETTE TELLS COURT OF SUICIDE PACT ctPFAKivr w: LONDON, Thursday. S Cn^rt i^r!^ a P rett y tanaette told the would b. W« t^V 1 11 herself She The girl, Rosina May Waite was ffivina pvW SidS; c 2 t tb2;i r *«-i«. »R£s icA ton said that Pythlcy wanted
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    47 3 GOING MY WAY? seems to be the smiling question of blonde June Hawer, popular 20th Century-Fox star. But if June is out tor a day's fishing, she seems to have forgotten one essential her fishing rod. The musical star has just completed "Love Nest", a light comedy.
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    Q.C. snubs Dr. Maian
    68 3 CAPETOWN, Thuth. A LEADING member of the Cape Bar, Mr. A. H. Broeksma. Queen's Counsel, has disclosed that he has refused an invitation to act as a judge of South Africa's Supreme Court because he regarded the bill to set up a High Court of Parliament
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    PLANE CRASH: 5 DIE, 17 HURT
    55 3 A Brazilian airliner with 22 persons on board crashed and broke m two while attempting to make a forced landing outside Sao Paulo, Southern Brazil. Three were killed m the crash and two more the pilot and wireless operator dterjt &ter m hospital. The
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    HOTTEST DAY
    21 3 Karachi on Tuesday had Its hottest day of the season when the temperature reached 112 degrees at noon. A.P.
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    BUCKLEY
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    Chemical aids are banned
    55 3 The U.S. Government has barred the use of chemical "softeners" designed to make bread appear fresh for several days. Prohibition of softeners was based on the gounds that they would deceive consumers as to the age of the bread and that the chemicals have not been
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    Shotgun fertiliser
    46 3 QUEBEC. Thurs. FARMEitS m the Okana* gan Valley, British Columbia, now fertilise their trees by shotgun. A cartridge containing one-fiftieth of an ounce of pollen is fired from about 10ft. so that it settles on the blossoms. The pollen comes from the United States.
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    AIR FUEL SHORTAGE
    34 3 Australia is getting ready to cut commercial air services m view of the threatened shortage of high octane fuel from America as a result of the oil strike there.— Reuter AAP
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    PRESS ASSEMBLY
    22 3 Leading journalists from 23 countries are meeting m Paris for the first annual general assembly of the International Press Institute.
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    STAKE THREAT TO U.S. AIRMEN
    41 3 Two Canadian sports broadcasters m Vancouver said that they were told m Korea that United Nations pilots, carrying out napalm bombing raids, faced death of being burned at the stake If captured by the Commimisfcs U.P.
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    'CREEPING DESERT ADVANCES
    73 3 NEW DELHI. Ttiurrf. INDIAN scientist* are working on a 20-year 'plan to halt the "creeping desert" tne rate of half a mile each year. A great forest belt is to be planted to check the ripsprt'Q sinister encroach- reclaim some of the land it has swallowed up
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    Church reviews napalm bombs
    385 3 LONDON, Thurs. T*kE protest by the Archbishop of York, Dr. Cyril Garbett, m a recent Diocesan leaflet about the use m Korea of the napalm (jellied petrol) bomb has brought comment, and questions, from Canon L. J. Collins. I "Let nothing be said of done to
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    British cars gain favour
    88 3 TORANTO, Thurs. MR. Leonard Lord, chairman of Austin Motors, revealed m Toronto that his firm intend to build cars m Canada as soon as financial and supply conditions permit. Plans are being made to manufacture new engines at the company's plant at Hamilton, Ontario, and this
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    CARTOONIST DEAD
    20 3 Gino Boccasile, 51, of Bari, one of Italy's most noted cartoonists and commercial designers, has died m Milan.
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    Bridge Quiz
    472 3 LTOtaT Mds are the foundations r upon which the partners must stand m their reaching for the ultimate contract. Other situations may be mere complex, but there is seldom a more important bid m the auction than the first one made by each partner. Both sides are vulnerable.
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    2 DIE IN CRASH
    33 3 The two occupants of a private Piper Cub plane were killed when it crashed m flames over a rubber plantation at An Lock, 95 kilometres north of Saigon.— Reuter
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    Planes collide in mid-air
    72 3 RIVERSIDE, California, Thurs. AN Air Force B-29 bomber and a Navy fighter plane collided m the air off CataUna Island. The March Field Public Relations Office here said the crash occurred over the Pacific Ocean about 10 miles south-west of the island. It was not known
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    RAISE FOR G.I.
    32 3 Congressional leaders have planned early approval of military pay increases ranging from three dollars a month for privates and seamen up to $65 for two-star generals and admirals.- A.P.
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      175 3 Radio SINGAPORE 9.35 a.m Schools; 9.55 Interlude; 10 News; 10.05 Music While You Work; 10.45-12 Schools; 1 p.m. Sidney Torch Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45 Hubert Rostang Sextette; 2 Schools; 3-5 University of the Air; 6.15 Calling All Hospitals; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News; 7.15 Radio Scientist; 7.30 Radio Orch.; 8 Have
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 15, 1952.
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      Unhelpful critic
      348 4 COMMENTING on some of the recent speeches of the Governor ot Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, the Manchester Guardian has been poking fun at him. This shade of a once great newspaper has become fond of demonstrating literary virtuosity at the expense of sound sense. It has been
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      False Pride
      110 4 anotfter page we publish complaint from the Blo*apor* Union of Postal ***c Pr*H to th* pfw* cd. About that we are sorry. But what is the burden ot the complaint? Is it that we are accusing the clerks of being blacklegs, or is it simply that toe clerks'
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      Bad Move
      135 4 NO similarity exists between the Singapore postmen's strike and the irresponsible and dangerous action of the drivers, conductors and Inspectors of the Singapore Traction Company. They have no industrial dispute with their employers. Their stoppage is an attempt to meddle with the law. Ons of the greatest safeguards
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    QUEEN GIVES FIRST ORDER
    952 4  -  JAMES DOW The Coronation By So silk worms get extra rations for June, 1953 THE letter from Clarence House* said: "Her Majesty would be very pleased if the Coronation robe could be made with silk from the Kent farm". It was addressed to Britain's only silk
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    14 4 M.CC Gentlemen please to acquire consignment of cricket batf made m Japan very cheap?'
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    Red Arrow Go es Non-Stop —But You Can't Eat
    803 4 Red Arrow Go es Non-Stop —But You Can't Eat (ARIL RAY on life m the Soviet Union And it takes 12 hours to do 400 miles! WHEN I left Moscow f there was mimosa on sale m the streets of the still snow-bound city flown up from the sunny Black
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    Indian Ambassador Meets Friend
    65 4 Mrs, Kumudesh (left), wife of the Indian Vice-Consul m New York, greets the new Indian Ambassador to Brazil, Colonel H. H. Rajah Sir Joginder Sen Bahadur of Mandi (right) and his wife, on their arrival m New York aboard the liner Queen Elisabeth. The Ambassador arrived
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    A, 'Rum Go' on Rhum Isle
    288 4 A, 'Rum Go' on Rhum Isle WHEN m n ff ing on tneV'of Rhum :,>> twenty), t^': Coast of S ,tlaS i backs 100, a covered with gut sheets of ,T M glass, but the su- ing on the hordes ol midget which never settle on them Rhum is <L
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    THREE QUIT TAX DEPT: MORE MAY GO
    179 5 THREE QUIT TAX DEPT: MORE MAY GO They want higher pay JWO examiners and one assistant examiner have resigned their posts m the Singapore Income-Tax Department during the last month. The resignations may affect the collection of income-tax, it is reliably learned. More officials, it is gathered, are considering resignation.
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    Penang rubber exports drop
    139 5 Penang rubber exports drop PENANG, Thurs. WITH AMERICA buying only 3,149 tons, more than 2,500 tons less than In the previous month. rubber exports from penang dropped by over 6.000 tons last month. Britain maintained its position as chief buyer, with 5 533 tons at $13,591,146. Russia was again a
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    ON THEIR WAY
    38 5 JOH ORE BHARU, Thurs.— pajl Mohamea Amln, Under Secretary to the Johore Government, left today for Mecca g >rpanied by his wife. l:\che Rahman Musu Is a.- tin s as Under Secretary m h.> place.
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    Kelantan padi tests successful
    148 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. FOE Federal Department of Agriculture yesterday said its experiments m the use of fertilisers with padi In Kelantan had been successful. It was shown during the last season that a dressing of 200 pounds of standard mixture of artificial fertilisers produced an increase
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    Nicoll elected
    20 5 Mr. J. F. Nicoll. Governor of Singapore, has been elected an honorary member of the Singapore Rotary Club.
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    S'pore postal strike
    76 5 S'pore postal strike IN a report on the Postal and Telecommunications Uniformed Staff strike which appeared m Page 1 of your issue of May 13, you have stated that clerks swept floors. I am directed by my executive council to inform you of their deep concern over this statement, and
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    Blackout schedule
    79 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load *3 shedding tonight are: Great World. Ho Hong Oil Mills. Alexandra Incinerator, Havelock Rd.. Malayan Brewery. A.B.C. Brewery. Diethelm Co.. Tanglia Rd., Phoenix Park, Alex. Brickworks, Pasir Panjanf Reformatory Rd., Oxygen Factory. Cressonite. St. James, Miri Rd.. Silat Rd.. Bukit Pasoh. 8.A.T.. Trafalgar St..
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    TOOK BICYCLE
    30 5 TELUK ANSON, Thurs. Munusamy, a labourer of Sufigai Perak Estate, was fined $250 or three months' gaol m Teluk Anson for criminal breach of trust of a bicycle.
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    Only one attended these lectures
    134 5 Only one attended these lectures Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Council for Adult Education will soon make a new effort to give cheap lectures to the public on the appreciation of music, Mr. P. K. Hcrnon, organising secretary of the council, said yesterday. When an attempt was made to give
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    He was absent without leave
    75 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— After an absence of more than four months from the Kuala Lumpur Police Depot, a National Serviceman. Chung Fan Mook, was yesterday fined $100 for absence without leave and criminal brtch of trust of his uniform. Another National Serviceman, Chai Swee Chye,
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    Marine Parade: Plan to keep sea cleaner
    185 5 T*HE City Council may, as a preliminary to the x development of Marine Parade as a seaside resort, require house owners m that area to connect the sewage system to their properties. This would keep the sea at Marine Parade cleaner. At present
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    HE SMOKED CHANDU
    39 5 KUANTAN, Thurs.— Ang Gee Tan, of Kampong Balok, was sentenced to three months' Imprisonment m the Sessions Court, for smoking chandu. A party of police and kampong guards, while searching Balok area, found Ang smoking chandu.
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    23 5 MR. AND MRS. ONG BAK K IM who were married at Loronr Ah Soo, Singapore. The bride is the former Miss Annie Tan.
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    Beaver service curtailed
    63 5 Beaver service curtailed KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. BECAUSE ol restriction m the supply of aviation fuel from the United States, the Federation Air Service flight on the south-west route will not operate on Tuesday, May 20, and Friday, May 23, it was stated yesterday. This route, flown by Beaver aircraft, is
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    160 pass an exam
    51 5 160 pass an exam IPOH, Thurs. A total of 160 men and A women teachers have passed the English examination held m April for teachers m vernacular schools. Most of the candidates were teachers of English m Chinese schools while the others were probationers attached to English schools for special
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    DEPENDANTS GET $1,000
    54 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.^Nearly $1,000 has been paid out to the families of 12 T.B. sufferers by the Selangor branch of the MAPTB under a relief scheme approved last month. This scheme provides for the payment of an allowance ranging from $36 to $100 a month to the
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    CHINESE VIEWS ON SCHOOL BOOKS
    147 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ABOUT half the contents of the geography and history text-books used m Malayan Chinese schools deal with China while .the other half should deal erually with Malayan and International subjects, Chin(ese educationists have told t*e SinqraDore Chinese The conference has been
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    Busmen wait outside the courts
    40 5 Busmen w ait outside the courts picture. SINGAPORE TRACTION COMPANY employees waiting oo tside the police courts yei>; rday to hear the result of a case In which two of their colleagues arc charged with criminal breach of Free Press
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    HANDICRAFT MAY BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS
    172 5 HANDICRAFT MAY BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS pLANS to introduce handicraft lessons m all Singapore primary schools are now being considered by the Colony Education Department. The acting Director of Education, Mr. R. M. Young, told the Free Press yesterday that hisdepartment hoped to get about 10 Normal Class teachers m
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    49 5 MISS ENGELINE ENG NIO GOUW, a graduate student of the University of Malaya, who has been granted an award by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to participate m the foreign student summer project to be held this summer. Miss Gouw left Singapore for the United States yesterday by plane.
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    ALTERED AGE TO JOIN ARMY
    54 5 KUANTAN, Thurs.— Mohd. All bin Bongs u was cautioned and discharged m the Sessions Court, for altering his age on his identity card. He told the Court that an army recruiting officer rejected him as he was 17 years old. So he altered his age
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    Acts as deputy police chief
    87 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. Douglas Broadhurst, who returned to the Colony from leave In Britain 10 days ago, has been appointed acting Deputy Police Commissioner. He was former Assistant Commissioner m the C.I.D. Mr. Broadhurst won the D.S.O. for his part m the Malayan
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    U.S. Aviation on Appauds the Comet
    1246 6 U.S. Aviation on Appauds the Comet DON IDDON'S DIARY AMERICAN aviation A applauds de Havillands and congratulates the Comet. I was m the Wings Club m the Biltmore Hotel the other evening and there wa3 a group of -Canadians and Americans there talking about little else than BOAC's flight to
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    54 6 A young visitor to Frankfurt's ghost town peeks through tij steeple to see the altars and pews of one of the churches m the town. Built J>7 I 0^ 01 0^*^?^ m the garden of his home, the toy-town has fW houses several churches, office buildings, hotels, a coal mine,
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    EAST AND WEST STILL MEET IN OLD VIENNA
    841 6  -  Ritchie McEwen says yiENNA is one of those cities like Edinburgh and Oxford —which one feels instinctively belong not to any one country but to the world. It has a freshness and a charm which is all its own, but it also
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    comment on the Bible -From Rome
    489 6  - comment on the Bible -From Rome Frank Brutto By THE six Biblical da x m which God cre ;l* ed heaven and earth may have added U n eons of billions of year, Comment m two Cta Testament editions be Ing prepared m R o!ne wiU make it clear that
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    2 NEWCOMERS IMPRESS AT B. TIMAH
    889 7  - 2 NEWCOMERS IMPRESS AT B. TIMAH ALLAN LEWIS Watch Woodcbte Inn Saturday By uOOIMOTE INN (Bagby) and Zanzibar (Padek), two recent newcomers, were the m ost attractive workers at Bttkit Timah this morning when the second grass track, which U fat, was used for galloping. Woodcote Inn a j Zanzibar
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    EXHIBITION BY CUP PLAYERS
    35 7 Malaya's Thomas Cup squad— 14 players— will give a public exhibition at the Happy World stadium next Monday night, it is undeiatood. Details of the programme will probably be announced tomorrow.
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    UNKNOWN
    35 7 They expect hard games The Athenian League soccer team now m the Colony fes pictured above tofethe* with BJLFJL official* who met the v»itor» their arrival at Kalian* airport last afternoon from Ami Kong.
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    Athenians play tomorrow
    406 7 T*HE Athenians are here. They arrived m the Colony by air yesterday afternoon from Hone Kong looking quite cheerful m spite of the terrific heat. Their Hong Kong tour was quite a success, Athenians played three matches, winning two and were held to a one-all draw by
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    THEY WIN APPEAL
    173 7 Corinthians AFTER deliberating for an boar and a half, Singapore Amateur Football Association Appeal! Board decided at a meeting last night, to cut the suspensions imposed on Singapore Corinthians Club and its officials. The players were not considered as they did not lodge appeals. Corinthians Club which
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    REME KEEP IN LGE. TITLE HUNT
    380 7 ROYAL Electrical. Mechanical Engineers yesterday kept themselves well m the hunt for the Singapore Amateur F.A. Senior League title by defeating newly promoted Fathol Karib by one goal to nil m a thrilling match at Jalan Besar Stadium. I Though REME were well on
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    WESTER HITS 100 NOT OUT
    92 7 tils flrsc wMM»— M^ncei ewer Sif any wicket at Nee 8000— (Mtml (he cricket match between Nee Boon Gtfriaon and R^ill yeeterday. to thl* record partnership Winter «cored MO not cat end MeKeerer 67 not out and Nee Soon won by 10 wlcketa. WLMUM. feetled
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    Aldershot wins Adelaide Cup
    73 7 lilt, H. G. Raymond* Aldershot <*rfK*uitt» ««S£' the EAS^OO Adelaide Cup. run orer twolSles ol the MorphetTUlt course, Adelaide, on Tuesday. Winston's dft *v «ee«id with Double Blank m third place. There were IS ronaers. Aldenhot, carrying 7.12, started at S-l* Winston's Gift 5.12, »-l Double
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    SOCCER FILMS
    32 7 Through the British Council and Shell Co. it baa been arranged for a few films on aoccer to to shown to member* of the KadayaBoom Tbealrette tomorrow at 5 DJB.
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    Boon Leong may play on Sunday
    90 7 Boon Leong may play on Sunday LITTLE Chla Boon Leong, Singapore Malaya Cup left-Inside may be seen m action again at Jalan Besar Stadium on Sunday, when Sine-Malay* meet Athenian League. Boon L^ong has not played this season. He decided to take a re&t after a rather crammed 1951 season.
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    GILL BOWLS, BAT'S WELL
    175 7 xpSCm GUI turned to good performances utth the bat and baQ for Raffles Institution yesterday, on SI. ground, scoring 48 runt and taking atfwn wickets for 10 runs. Raffles beat 8t Andrew's School by 88 mas. pi* nttimanathiTi c and c Nair IT. Kajaslnghe b Yaaig
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    POMPEE WINS
    30 7 LONDON. W— W»pee, Trinttwl ngftt-hewy-w^bt, Kicked out Oiuliano Mndnl ©t Italy m Iba third round of scheduled ten-round boot «t Royal Albert HaU, London, on Tuesday ni*ht.- Reuter
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    HOLLAND HELD
    17 7 HftPuM mud Sweden drew 0-0 m an amateur soccer international played In Amsterdam yesterday.- Reuter
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    BROWN INJURED MAY NOT PLAY
    61 7 Freddie Brown, the Northamptonahlce rutt^l I^, la unllfcety to lead the MCC team agatest the Indiana at Lorda on Saturday. Brown hart nit lag rat&e oew at Trent Bridge on Tuesday aad retired lor treatment, it is understood he haw tern ligament and the injury
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    K.O. CRICKET
    46 7 SO Btn. RAOC beat OHQ figaeli Bejtb by 71 mug In flritround match at Alnandra yeeterday In tike B^"£tiir?f t District crlc* ket knockout coroptUttutx Scores: Btx RAOC 101 <Law*on 32, Dlplock SI. Welcome It). QHQ 81gs, U CWptock S-13, Douglas 4-17, Jaequss 2-0).
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    W. GERMANS WIN
    32 7 Western Germany beat a British Olympic trial eleven by two goals to one In an amateur soccer International m Daeneldort yesterday. At half ttm* thft German* led 1-0.- Reuter
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    ENGLAND NAME TEAM FOR ITALY
    92 7 MB ■ttsmi team to play f Italy m th* International •occe* match at Florence en Sonday was Selected yesterday as follows: Merrtck (Birmingham); tUm*y (Tottenham). JHfrett Broadi* {Manchester City) !*>«- houfo (BoIUm). Peanoo (Manchester Ut«U, «mott (Bamlojl. •me sMe show* 00* «•<£>>& from Urn team
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    MARINO IN TIP-TOP FORM
    167 7 MARINO IN TIP-TOP FORM WORLD flyweight cham- pion Dado Marino of Honolulu said yesterday he is m 'top form' for his title 15-round fight with challenger Yoshio Shirai of Japan on Monday night, May 19. The Honolulu-born Filipino scrapper appeared lean and strong and confident of retaining his crown. Asked
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    POLICE DRAW
    23 7 In friendly «occer match played at Thomson Road y«terday, tbe "F" OhMoa <Paya Lebar) Folio* held Otrrkha Holice to —itt draw.
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    RAMCHAND HITS A MERRY 134
    237 7 p S. RAMCHAND, who played m Lancashire Leafve cricket last year, hit the Indian team* fifgt century yesterday m the mate* against the Unirersity at Cambridge Already lUranhanrt had ihown hlf north on the tour as an opening bowler and now he has left no
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    Denis Compton scores his 98th century
    384 7 Denis Compton scores his 98th century FIVE, HIT 3-FICURE TOTALS HIGH scoring marke<J English first-class cricket matches which began yesterday m fine weather on perfect pitches. With the first Test at Leeds only three weeks off England batsmen Denis Compton (Middlesex) and Len Hutton (Yorkshire) and the Indian allrounder G.
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    OTHMAN NETS A HAT-TRICK
    351 7 DULO Bukom S.C. teat Shell SjC. by three joe* to o»* to their Singapore SOFA Div. 1 fixture at Thomson Botfl las* evening.. Five minutes after the start* Pulo Bukom went Into the ltad with a goal •coved by Othman Daud off aeentae Mb Mohamed Din.
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    SCRC ELECT OFFICIALS
    53 7 Lm«; Vk* fWiMlttU. Mr Lt* Stow Kb«, Dr. C. X Pnfc. Mr. Ite Luang Kirn; Amtt. Bml Sm. «nd Ttcuorar, Mr. Khto Onf U«; OmM Commlttet -Mr. Nf Cheiif ICMB, Mr. Nf Wood Xv, Mr. Qwoqb TUrn 9Ww, Dr. Onf Bwee Law, Mr. Ku Obmm Chy, Mr.
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    INSURANCE RATES CUT
    30 8 China ports shipping risk rates were reduced yesterday the Institute of London Underwriters announced. The reductions are for war and strike, riot and civil commotion risks.- A.P.
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    SCHUMAN WARNS OF WAR PERIL
    136 8 PARIS, Thurs. fTHE French Foreign Minls--1 ter, M. Bchuman, warned the Western world yesterday that it must form its policies as if war were possible at any time. M. Schuman quickly added that he did not consider war was inevitable and said the world was
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    DEATHS
    92 8 CHARLES AESCHLIMANN, Chief Delegate for South East Asia of the International Red Cross Committee of Geneva, at Clarem -Montreux (Switzerland) on 3rd May, 1952. ON 12th May, 1952. at No. 117. Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore, Tan Soo Jin, 72 years. The funeral will take place on Friday. 16th May.
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    CALL FOR LIBERAL U.S. POLICY IN RUBBER
    526 8 CALL FOR LIBERAL U.S. POLICY IN RUBBER Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. SIR JOHN HAY, chairman of the United SuaBetong, Robber Estates, m a supplement to his statement to stockholders, says that the unusual prosperity enjoyed m the last two years was last departing a.nd the outlook was uncertain. He
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    RIGT SPREE IN PRISON
    53 8 Convict's shout "Let's have some excitement" touched off a brief riot m big Dartmoor prison Princetown, England yesterday. Two guards were mauled. Reinforcements beat down the rioters within 10 minutes and pulled the guards off the parade ground before they were badly hurt. Order was restored
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    TOLL OF WAR
    20 8 Announced U.S. battle casualties m Korea reached 108,413 yesterday, an increase of 241 since last week. A.P.
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    80 8 DSOUZA-HESSE: The engagement was announced between Earle William, son of Mr and Mrs. E. A. D'Souza of Singapore, and June Patricia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. O. Hesse of Kuala Lumpur. MR. J. H. DALOLIESH AND CAPT. M. A. VIZARD (WRAC): The engagement Is announced between James Hunter,
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    BOLIVIA TO NATIONALISE TIN MINES
    133 8 LA PAZ, Bolivia, Thurs. fFHE new revolutionary govJ» eminent of Bolivia yesterday took the first step towards nationalising the tin mining industry, basis of the country's economy. The Cabinet approved a decree setting up a commission to study ways and means of expropriating mines controlled
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    Plans ready for Pacific
    68 8 Plans ready for Pacific WASHINGTON, Thurs. rE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson said yesterday that arrangements are nearly completed for establishing a new Pacific Council composed 1 of the United States, Australia and New Zealand On the Council, which was provided m the three-power Pacific pact will be
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    18 8 Britain signed a contract with the Soviet Union yesterday to send her £850,000 worth of cured herrings. Reuter
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    4 convicts carry off woman, girl
    269 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. COUTH TEXAS police achieved a partial success yesterday m a f reniied search for four tough prisoners who kidnapped a screaming young woman and her small daughter after escaping from Ramsey state prison farm, at Angletoir. Tfco of the men were
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    U.S. warning to Russia
    242 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. nPHE SECRETARY OF STATE, Mr. Dean Acheson, served blunt notice on the Soviet Union yesterday that the United States, Britain, and France are determined to resist any new Communist blockade moves m Berlin. Mr. Acheson told a news conference that the United States is
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    A small box aids safety
    87 8 LONDON, Thurs. BRITISH aircraft constructors announced yesterday an additional refinement to the ejector seat a tiny gadget that automatically brings the pilot safely to earth even if he has lost consciousness. The invention is a barometric box the size of a packet- of cigarettes. It
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    HIGHEST PAID STAR
    45 8 picture. MARGARET LOCKWOOD became Britain's highest paid film star when she recently signed v***™* Herbert Wilcox and Anna N eagle for £90,000. She will make six films m three years. Here, the star shows the contract to her 11-year-old daughter, Toots".- Popper
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    £30,000 DAMAGE
    23 8 Fire swept through a rubber and chemicals warehouse m west Hong Kong last night. causing damage estimated at HKSSOO,OOG (#0,000).- A.P.
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    COMMUNISTS QUIT
    22 8 Thirty-seven Italian Communists, Including: three candidates at forthcoming local elections, have left their oartv m the oast few days.- Reuter
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    New French 'get tough' policy in Tunisia
    247 8 New French 'get tough' policy in Tunisia TUNIS, Thurs. TiRANCE stuck back sharpie ly at the defiant Bey of Tunis yesterday, stationing a detaebment of guards near his palace after he was reported to have refused to sign a decree extending martial law m troubled Tunisia. French mobile guard* took
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    HUNT ON FOR MISSING GUARD
    74 8 Scotland Yard yesterday asked West "German police to start looking for 43-year-old police sergeant, Alexander Mitchell, security guard at Queen Mary's London residence, Marlborough House, who has been missing for a week. German police at once made enquiries at the home of a young German
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    Five hours sleep is plenty
    42 8 Mrs. Pamelia Everman, 101, of Kokomo, Indiana, yesterday agreed with Thomas Edison's theory that five hours sleep is plenty. She told birthday visitors: "Mature takes five hours, habit seven laziness nine and wickedness 11 hours' sleep." A.P.
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    DEAN BARRED
    32 8 The Communist Daily Worker* said yesterday that South Africa had refused admission to the Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, known as the "Red Dean" for his pro-Soviet sympathies. Reuter
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    PROFESSOR CLEARED OF JILTING CHARGE
    149 8 TAIPEI, Thursday. TpHE Supreme Court yesterday upheld the acquittal of a 56-year-old college president whose alleged betrayal of a woman teacher was said to have caused her to take her own life. The college president was Dr. Wang Shi-han of the Provincial Engineering College at
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