The Singapore Free Press, 16 May 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE W MALAYA No. 18.393. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAT 16, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 368 1 S.T.C. service back fto normal tomorrow Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE TRACTION Company busmen ({aided at a meeting of their union this nit> ning to go back to work, some immediately and some tomorrow morning. Ir G. G. Wilson, acting manager of the S.T.C., irhen informed
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  • 173 1 GOVERNOR VISITS HOSPITALS Free Press Staff Reporter TBS Governor of Singapore, Mr J.F. NicolJ, spent one fcMH at the General Hospital i:. m inspection tour this ■ocntng ot hospitals, including Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Kandang Kerbau Maternity H it a. and Middle Road Boa ttaL a anpanied by the Direc-
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  • 25 1 British leaders decided yesterday to set up a statue and a phiiair.ropic fund m tte. 1 ;ry of King: G&orae VI. A.P.
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  • 104 1 Free Press Siaff Reporter. AN experiment is to be tried to ease the traffic congestion caused m Singapore by buses during the morning rush hour. The Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. B. C. J. Buckeridge, told the Free Press it had been decided to forbid
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  • 70 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rO masked men, after robbing a Singapore mee-seller Tan Chuan Seng, of $20 early this morning, assaulted him until he became unconscious. Tan was attacked m Kampong Yio Chu Kang while walking home after closing his stall for the night. One of
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  • 81 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE people -were beginning to respond to the appeal made by the public relations address vans for them to collect their mail as the strike of 600 postmen and messengers entered its fourth day this morning. People who had -been reluctant to
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  • 14 1 Shanghai Comm't^H; stitharMe* have banned with. effect from June 30 all trade
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  • 43 1 picture. Two British soldiers, patients m Kinrara Military Hospital received a pleasant surprise when singer Lucille Graham of the "First In" concert party dropped m to chat to them. The party is touring army units m the Federation. Free Press
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  • 299 1 STORM OVER KOJE BROWS Camp needs sgt. not general WASHINGTON, Friday. r< EN. Mark Clark, United Nations Supreme Com- mander m the Far East, has convened a special board of inquiry to establish the facts of the Koje prison camp incident, it was disclosed yesterday. Brig.-Gen. Francis Dodd was captured
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  • 32 1 The United States third Air Pbrce yesterday temporarily grounded all American jet fighter planes based m Britain after a thunder jet crashed at sea off Southern England on Wednesday
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  • 90 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A RAGING fire at San Peng Road on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur late last night destroyed a paint factory and three Large houses and rendered homeless about 200 people who lived m thirty small huts nearby. The fire, it is believed,
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  • 25 1 The House passed and sent to the Senate yesterday on a bill raising the pay of servicemen nearly US$5OO,--000,000 annually.- A.P.
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  • 52 1 Mrs. l&n Chin Tuan will broadcast on election registration as it concerns the women of the Colony over Radio Malaya at 8 o'clock tonight. This talk will be followed by a description of how to fill m election forms. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice will be
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  • 48 1 s WASHINGTON, Friday. TIE keel of America's first atom powered submarine will be laid next month, the Navy announced last nlfh It wffl be built at the Heetrie Boat Company plant at Groton, Connecticut. The wtual starting date will be I*** t^'^VSXJ^SS M^n'de? t he
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  • 171 1 Ship crash sets off oil blazo: four lost NEW YORK, Fri. A COLLISION with another ship ignited 700,000 gallons of high octane petrol m the American tanker F. L. Hayes (1,100 tons) early yesterdsy and four of her crew of ten were last night reported "missing, presumed dead." Five other
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  • 97 1 LONDON. Pri. U*X)D Minister, Major r GwUym Lloyd-George, said yesterday that Britain's pot of tea will be a bit bigger and there will be an extra sliver of meat on the menu soon. The weekly tea ration, he told the House of Commons, will go up
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  • 70 1 Mr. William Morris Hughes, former Liberal Australian Prime Minister, said yesterday that if the Dutch leave New Guinea "we must at all costs tajce over control of the country." "We must never Jet the Indonesians gain possession of New Guinea. Apart from the fact
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  • 147 1 LONDON, Friday. GEN. Dwight Eisenhower had lunch with the Queen and dinner with Mr. Churchill yesterday m a farewell visit to Britain. The general and Mrs. Eisenhower whiled through the first day of their busy two-day round of receptions and official functions. They had
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  • 312 1 No leakage by Admiralty —Churchill LONDON. Friday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, said yesterday *it was "absurd" to suggest that the British Admiralty passed a report to the French newspaper, Le Monde, m which Admiral William FechtclerJ United States chief of naval operations, was' alleged to have said war was
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  • 43 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A twelve-year-old Malay girl Zaharah binte Haji, was admitted to the General Hospital with severe injuries after she was m collision with a military lorry at the junction of Mountbatten and Fort Roads at 7.15 this morning.
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  • 75 1 BOMBAY, Fri. l npHJE Bombay stock ex* change was closed yesterday to honour Indravadan, son of a multi-mil-^ lionaire trader, now deadf who renounced his father's profession to become it begging monk of the late faith. Observers called ft the strangest reason on record for closing
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  • 74 1 LONDON, Frl. ALMOST all British airmail going outside Europe will be delayed as a result of the flight cuts the British Overseas Airways Corporation announced yesterday. BOAC announced cuts because of the shortage of fuel caused by the United States oil strike. Freighter services to Singapore will
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    • 117 1 „i4i/i a, KcTA'L SINGAPORE, t F° 0D "'ftotities say how important if is that yon should get an adequate daily supply of vitamins and minerals. Your "eaith and fitness depend on if. This is why if is a good plan make delicious "Ovaltine" your regular daily beverage. moB lt 9rt
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  • 63 2 Second Day of- YESTERDAY'S SOL«TK»Bi.— Across: L Hare. 7. aad Bounds. 8. Rent. 9. Gibraltar. 11. Specie. 12 Red Hair. 18. Octavo. 19. Black Lead. 21. Udo. JJ.JLjme Regis. 23. Char. Down: 1. Heresy. 2. Ranger. 3. Entice. 4. Shareholder. 5. Bull. 6. Edgar. 10.
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  • 537 2 THE TUBBY HUBBY DIET Bernard WickstttJ runs into a skimmed mfk problem AS the second day of this Tubby Hubby diet for* heavyweight husbands draws to a close Wicksteed is still on his feet. He seemed to be wilting a bit after breakfast, but his trainers and seconds said that
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  • 1001 2 'Greetings, Folk With Wedgwood and Tweeds Welcoming the American, London says... —and Eve Perrick calls on the new visitors |N London the. casual passerby, perhaps will not notice anything different; but to the native the first signs of the annual changeover m the capital's complexion are clearly visible. The price-tn^toUar
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    123 2 Few dare to wash their favourite evening drej* themselves— they tend it to the cleaners. So did the American dancer, Betty Byrd, until four years ago. Then she cot a cleaning bill for fBH one month. Next day she went oat and bought as many clothes as she could afford—
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  • 454 2  - Boys in Britain don't like housework Judith Simmoas dfgdfg iXXJR of us— two boys and two girls —went out for the day. We came back tomy place for a meal, whicn my girt friend And I prepared, while the two boys played table tennis. After the food had disappeared, and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 80 2 New Crossword No. 66S I 1 I 1 i lin i in, I L_— J^— _l»— fJwmSI H CLUES ACROSS 1. BegUmal sphere (8). 6. Proverbial criterion of lack of vision (5, 2, 1, I). 8. A turning of the hay (4). 9. Inventor of vaccination £6)jll. I get- nicer
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  • 366 3 TWO WOMEN FOLLOWED MAN TO HOTEL BERDROOM LEEDS, Friday. A MARRIED woman told a Leeds court that she A looked out of a hotel window while her friend also a jnarried woman— and a man were making love m the same room. She said that when she turned around, she
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    49 3 AW MILLER, whom a c r :t:c once called "the dancer mth the talking leg\" has recently devoted vive time to films than to the rtifg. Now under contact to M.GM., she takes time out from her latest fktmrt, Lovely to Look A' to autograph photoprapfa for her fans.
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  • 186 3 Sleep pills dangerous -Watning LONDON, Fri. A WARNING about "this orgy of prescribing sleeping draughts" is given m the "Medical World", the organ of the Medical Practitioners Union. The article states: "While hypnotics (sleeping draughts) are of great value as shortterm palliatives m sleeplessness and for tiding a patient over
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  • 64 3 ADELAIDE, Fri. AT To yrars, the Antarctic explorer. Sir Douglas Mrasoa, has retired as Profcawt oi Geology at the Uni-v-rs«tv of Adelaide where he spenr 32 years. Ua expeditions to the ittaictic added 1,500,000 squir- miles to the Commonwealth <;i Australia. H.a first visit was with Sir
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  • 38 3 The Senate Armed Services Committee defeated by one vote an attempt to cut another U*****,000,000 from U556,900,000,000 foreign aid. Senator Byrd, Democrat, Virginia, said the vote m the 13-member committee W2ts 7 6.- A.P.
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  • 304 3 GIANT TELESCOPE WILL PICK UP INVISIBLE STARS MANCHESTER, Friday. lUORK will start this summer on building the world's finest radio telescope at the Manchester University research station at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. The task: will take four years. The Department of Scientific Research and the Nuffleld Foundation have decided to pay
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  • 60 3 NEW YORK, Fri. MR. Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate, assured the United Nations Disarmament Committee that although h e had no "precise" figures at hand he could say that the atomic energy industry m the Soviet Union was of "no small side". He said: "The atomic enterprises
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  • 37 3 The Asian-Arab countries, with help from Spain, have blocked a French move to attach Tunis and Morocco, newly elected members of the U.N: World Health Organisation, to the European regional group of the organisation. A.P.
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  • 54 3 Missing trawler U.K. protests The British Embassy at Moscow has sent a note to the Soviet Foreign Ministry inquiring into the reported arrest of the British trawler Valafell. The note asked the Soviet authorities to Confirm the vessel's arrest and to state the reasons for this and the present whereabouts
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    54 3 THE TRANSMUTATION of base metal into gold aim of the ancient alchemists— is reverted by this product of atomic science. Here, Jean Reid seals a mercury isotope electric discharge hi mp which utilises the nr#rcury isotope 198, produced by the bombardment of fold »Mii •»n^»n. m *h* inter mr nt
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  • 53 3 MELBOURNE. Fri. ONE hundred diners m a Melbourne restaurant left their half-eaten grills and rushed for the door when the lights went out and the room suddenly filled with smoke after a fuse box explosion. Waiters said that when order was restored only six returned to
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  • 249 3 Ten large ladies forgive cruel cut LONDON, Fri. A LUNCH for ten large A ladies— nearly a ton of them was held m London at the Bagatelle Restaurant. And m the middle of them, a half -pint among Jeroboams, sat Miss Dorothy Dickson, the actress with the 34-in. hips who
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  • 112 3 Britain names site for A-test LONDON, Frl. BRITAIN has named the Monte Bello Islands off Northwest Australia as the site where her first atomic weapons will be tested. An announcement said the test would involve the three fighting services and the Ministry of Supply. The Australian Government and fighting services
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  • 24 3 One hundred and sixtynine Australians died m Korean fighting up to April 30. The war cost Australia U5530,800,000 up to Feb. 29.
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  • 570 3 OIDDINO method* hive changed a great deal In the last half a- men yearg. It wasn't to long ago that players would open with a pre-emptive three bid on a sixcard suit headed by the Jack-ten with, perhaps, an outside queen to 'solidify the hand.. Hie idea behind
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  • 121 3 SYDNEY, Fri. The bride of 56 and *M gro&m of 39 had been on their honeymoon only a; few days when the wife de~ died the wanted her, mother. The couple agreed to spend the rest of the honeymoon] at a beach nearer home. They set
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 162 3 miwmm^ m^m tsJks-by Peter Ustinov: 5.45 Jack SINGAPORE Jackson's Record Revels; 6.15 m m mmt.- innq ttattnw Sports Round-Up: 6.30 Tbe News 10 ajn. News. 10.05 Matinee. News Talk 645 mte,!^. mD d 11-11.30 Symphony of Strings; 1 Daily Quotation; 6.50 From the pjn. Radio Orch.; 1.30 News: 1.45- Effltarials^
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  • The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, May 16, 1952.
    • 411 4 NEWS thai 13 bandits have given themselves up m Perak is the best Malaya has had for a long while. But that Is not al. Reports of operations In the last few weeks— contacts with the enemy, k! Il<f »gF and surrender! Indicate that the jungle tenortoto
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    • 156 4 FItHE spectacle of a general J held captive by his own prisoners is hardly .dignified; neither does it appear to the curious, old fashioned British mind as seemly for another general to ha^le with the captive captors over his release. Gilbert with the musical assistance of Sullivan could
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  • 936 4  -  GEORGE SCOTT by This Oath of AUeglance--7 swear to Almighty Qo&, that 1 tWK be faith ful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second, her Helm, and Successors, according to law. turn been abused by strangers with British passports.
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  • 55 4 JUSTICB James Down of Nevada has Just decided that he has set up a record. H e claims that he married more than 7.000 to 1961. This Is move than any other man In the English-speaking world. •te?2sy %u s eao 1 a day
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  • 784 4 LONDON. LET me introduce you to Dr. Leopold Figl, Chancellor (Prime Minister) of Austria. He is one of the very few men to cock a snook at Stalin and get awajr with it He has managed to keep his country In the Western camp with
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    29 4 Royal Marine Commandos storm Culver Cliff n+ar San1 wvertn from fellow com. S^SS™ 8 cHfr tssaolt was of an •Croud HL" m mmiur«d for students «f th* thw** 8^
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  • 417 4 SHORT STORIES A MERICA'S new "PottAed Giant" tank— a 48-ton "medium" monster armed with a 90 mm. high velocity gun is now on its way to strengthen the West's defences m Germany. The tank (official title the M-47) recently completed battle tests on America's Eastern (Maryland) shore
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  • 501 4 Frtance's new 'Pinny' N emnhncß <* peapUt Antoine Pinay of Franc*, A Ltomold Figl of Austria* By Frank MacMillan r) cartoonists aU over OMk world, France has always tieen a little girl called Marianne wearing a Phrygian bonnet aikf* short print dress. Well, during the last lew weeks, when the
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  • 79 4 ASHTRAYS ill the :i:y of modern cars are quit* inadequate, but Mr Chorcb--111 has two particuJarif large ashtrays built into the arm-rest of the back seat of his car. They look wide enough to take the stoutest cigar and long, enough to ensure a minimum of
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    • 23 4 r 'Modern Rings <4 Distinction For Every Occasion. P. H. KNDRY, Manufacturing Jewtiier 78 NOtTH BRIDCi tOAO SINCAPOtf. 4 tATU tOAD. KUALA LUMPUR
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    • 169 4 Everybody wmfc Itibena RIBENA is pure bladtcamni jsfee wuto cane sugar, fruit «y>«o* It b exceptionally ndafaaasafalVltaieauiC Tlwbody cannot store Viu*"^ -40 take two glaaaof defciow RIBENA daily, aad stop feeling lirrd COMPAHf O mm och«r ViT I H »rtbyCu-th«rldwKliiiutural H Hi ll' lIBIIW «t«llT fOMCEIimTIO Take t»o I not
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  • 165 5 PLAN TO FIGHT DENIAL DECAY t luonne may be added to water SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT is studying plans to" add fluorine to natural water to check dental decay among: the population. Many towns m Canada and the United States have succeeded m reducing dental decay this way Mr. N. H. Gittins,
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  • 151 5 TEMPLER TOURS A NEW VILLAGE 00 i i EHWORTH, Fri. UN bis to* visit to Pro!KC Wellesley yestt the High Com.r. General Sir Gerald Templer, covered 69 'miles and saw 500 MnaUeis* huts m the £ew Val dOr village m fcss than four hours. Ar ompanied by Penan** acl Resident
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  • 125 5 f|\HE Singapore Malay Union •■> will hold an emergency meeting at their premises this evening to decide whether a public meeting of Malays should be held to protest against the proposed conversion of the trade fair m Changl Road into an amusement park. Inche Sidik, City Councillor
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  • 33 5 PORT DICKSON. Fri.— Ahmad bin Tusoff who pleaded guilty to house trespass, was bound over m the sum of $100 to be of good behaviour for 6 months at Port Dickson.
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  • 99 5 800 answer quiz on traffic jams IJUGHT hundred motorists m £j Singapore have replied questionnaires issued by the traffic authorities to try to learn where ton wont traffic jams occur and when. Mr. W. R. M Haxworth, Singapore's Traffic Superintendent, said yesterday: "We are going through the replies to the
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  • 61 5 IPOH, Fri. The Krian I and Se'ama Co-operative j Banking Union has appealed i to the Perak Urban Co-opera-tin Society for a $70,000 loan t taaacc padi planters m its district This loan Js to be used to combat the notorious padi kuncha system of credit
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  • 108 5 IPOH, Frt A VERDICT of murder against person or persons unknown was returned yesterday by mche Wan Bulalmin nln Pawan Ten at an inquest on a 70-year-old woman. Wong Klok Chow. Wong was found dead si 7.30 ajn. on Dec 29. fl v e mites
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  • 106 5 QUBSTATIONS liable to load •3 shedding tonight are: Aljunid Rd., Sims Avenue, Paya Lebar Pomps, Joo ChJat Place, Jalan Yasin, Jalan Ennos, Rangoon Rd.. Towner Rd., Serangoon Rd., Seaaett Estate. Kolam Ayer, BfcPherstn Rd., Khn Chuan Rd., Boandary R4L, Florence Rd., Opper Serangoon. Yio Chu Kang ltd., Govt.
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  • 283 5 mHREE thousand six hunJL dred and sixty-eight people m Singapore have applied to be registered as voters since registration centres opened a month ago. Of tnis number, 1,036 want to vote m both the Legislative Council and City Council elections, 1,085 m the
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    14 5 m toa pjptv rv* iw»!H vest»rday at tlie wsidence of the U.S. Consul-Genera! m
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  • 149 5 PREVENTIVE Branch officers of the Singapore Customs Department made a record haul of 865 lbs. of raw opium, worth over $3tt,ftt6, which smugglers tried to ftring into the Colony m the first four months of this year. The figure Is double the amount seised during
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  • 137 5 Officials won't be Board members PENANG, Frl. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Of the Penang Rural Boar will not m future be full members of the board, it was decided at a meeting of the board wiien it rejected by seven votes to one a motion by Mr. H. R. Watts that executive
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  • 114 5 'Form branches party urged Free Press Staff Reporter OINGAPORE Electors' Welfare Council has been asked by voters from the various wards m the Colony to form branches m their areas, Mr. V. S. Padmanabhan, the secretary of* the Council, said yesterday. He said the formation of branches m the wards
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  • 48 5 IPOH. Prt Yahya bin Alang TaJib, a 20-year-old exspecial constable, was allowed $250 bal when he appeared m the Magistrate's court yesterday on a charge of having stolen $8 from Aisha, a woman, at Kampong Bengali The case was postponed to May 19.
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  • 58 5 School plans new class SINGAPORE Shell Company's English school at Pulau Bukom may add another class early next year. The school, which has five classes, wants two English teachers who will be given quarters on the island. About 150 boys and girls— mostly children of Shell employees—attend the school. Until
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  • 69 5 KOTA BAHRU. Fri. DR. Frank Laubach. the literacy expert, arrived here yesterday. He will be here for six days training adult education association teachers. The coarse, which will start tomorrow, will be held at Union Club and Zainab School. Dr. Laubach yesterday attended a tea party
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    31 5 THE ILLUSTRATION m the foster, held by a picketing Singapore postman outside the General Post Office yesterday, tells of a common hazard telegraph messengers face while on duty. Free Press picture.
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  • 113 5 DR. PAGLAR WANTS AN INQUIRY income-tax Dept. T|B. C. J. PAGLAR, Member for Chanel In the Legislative Council* will ask Govern- merit to appoint a committee to inquire Into the working of the Income-tax Department, when the Council meets on May 20. He said he had been informed that certain
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  • 43 5 SINGAPORE Shell Com- pany'* Malay Employees Co-operative Credit Boclety, formed three yean ago. now Ims $16,000 m the Post Office Savings Bank. The third annual general meeting of the society will be held at Shell House at S p.m. on Sunday.
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  • 228 5 Fewer patients at SATA clinic Free Press Staff Wtopmtm I\R. G. H. Garlick, v medical director of the Singapore AntiTiih*rf*ulfMUJK A Mfy*JQ t.lrm said yesterday thai 11,838 people went to the S.A.T. A. clinic for treatment last month— B76 fewer than m March. New cases registered In April were 238
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  • 1780 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS Has the form to beat top weights By TAKING a line through Springbok's last start second to Uninsured over seven furlongs at Ipoh and without any great change m the present slate of the tracks at Bukit Timah, he should be able to
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  • 26 6 FOLLOWING hones will not start tomorrow: Cherry Ling, Fifty Grand, Tudor View, Northern Circuit, Croydon, Colonel Whatnot, One Three One Byron and Trafalgar.
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  • 342 6 Rebuke is a safe wager REBUKE looks a fairly safe bet In the Cl. 1 IMv. 2 race over 6 P. I am also very impressed with the appearance of No Clouds. Though I have not seen this recent newcomer working fast, his appearance indicates that he has done a
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  • 255 6 pTVE of the runners m this x Cl. 1. Div. 3 6f. field are making their Malayan debut. The best of them seems to be Parmlter, who looks fit enough to win at his first appearance. He meets a very .weak field and I understand
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    5 6 NAULU fights Paras
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  • 541 6 WOODCOTE INN READY TO WIN AFTER his promising debut at Ipoh, Woodcote Inn looks ready to win his nrst race. Despite a rise of one division, I think he is now forward enough to beat this Cl. 1, Div. 1, 6F. with 12 lb. less than he carried at Ipoh.
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  • 58 6 Captain Brian R. Hawes, 29--year-old Malayan Airways pilot, who was involved m a racing car crash at the Gap Hill Climb organised by the Singapore Motor Club last Sunday, succumbed to his injuries at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday morning without regaining consciousness. The funeral will take
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  • 12 6 TP AMIL Brotherhood Association x and Indian B.C. 'A* fought
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  • 265 6 Radrodro plus two Fijians fight next Friday Free Press Boxing Reporter rIREE Fijian boxers will be seen m action at the Happy World Stadium next Friday nifht. They are Radrodro, Nauiu and Dinalari. Radrodro has already shown his wares m Singapore, but -when Naulu and Dinala^i clirtio through the ropes
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  • 126 6 Draw for the first round of the Bobbie Earl Cup golf competition at Keppel Club to be played tomorrow and Sunday Is: K. 8. Lee t Bye: T. J. Winder v R. H. Fennie; J. Wilkinson v W. T. Dudley: H. R. Billings, v Bye: C.
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  • 76 6 THANNY Campo, flyweight champion of the Orient, yesterday challenged the winner of the Dado Marino v Yoshio Shirai world title bout scheduled to be held m Tokyo on Monday. The 23-year-old Campo, said he is willing to meet the winner anywhere at any time. Philippe Menard,
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  • 82 6 SOLOMONS' 'FIND A HEAVY'BET DOXING promoter Jack D Solomons, always a careful irn with his money, bet £10 yesterday he could find a British boxer to win the world heavyweight title within five years. But Jack made sure he got good odds— l,ooo to 1 Solomons said that if he
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  • 113 6 MALACCA. Thurs— Malacca! cricket team to meet Negn Sembilan on the Malacca Club ground In a two-day match starting on Saturday is a better balanced team than any put up by Malacca since the war. The Malacca attack hai generally acquitted itself well but matches
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    • 128 6 MSlldrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya a^-^ r m I loOk'ulce to YOU 5 wFa?? ol^ vcc Lm I yAii^' f JANE Prelusive tn the Singapore Fre? Press m Malaya J. ANO WWAT MAKES H SWE COMES^^^J BLTT WE NEED A j^fc^^^^BESlDES, WE CAN SUBPOENA YOU TWINK'MEUA
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  • 187 7 Runs fastest! three on track i <fOP (Russell) went brilliantly on the F wind *rass track at Bukit Timah this to reel off three m 36 2/5. This is the f Zt three furlongs recorded to date for this L'itin* and brings Full Stop right
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  • 97 7 TED HAKFER will not be riding at the Singapore Turf Club's Summer meeting. Harper met with an unusual accident on the second day of the Penan? meeting. Moist riding Binnton. Bupei became unbalanced ■too the hone swung away jr r. the barrier and was
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  • 50 7 One of the Athenians League touring team's officials Mr. a. Kimber, who Is honorary secretary of the Athenian League Referees Committee, wfll -gije a talk on refereein* at BAFA headquarters, Jalan Besar stadium? on Monday at 6.30 P-m. AH referees registered with S.A.F.A. are invited *>
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  • 54 7 R. A.F. SPORTS IN K. LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR, M AIN °W ert the toarVi ifX RJLP. (Kuala Lumpur) annual athletic meeting to bt had on the HQ Malay a ground on Saturday is to select the team to represent the Combined KJL. and Butterworth aide at the RAP (Malays) championships
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  • 436 7 THE Indian cricketers finished the second day of their match against Cambridge University yesterday; 74 runs ahead with nine second innings' wickets standing and unless there is some rain a draw seems certain. Cambridge, thanks mainly to their two Test batsmen David Sheppard (59)
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  • 257 7 S'GOR B. A. OFFICIALS PUZZLED QELANQOR Badminton Association officials are nonplussed. Their Association received a telegram from the Singapore Badminton Association yesterday informing them that the Americana and Danes would not be participating m the Selangor Open Invitation Championships scheduled for June 4, 5, S and 7 m Kuala Lumpur
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  • 91 7 The R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) units In Singapore will compete In 16 main events at Changi airfield today m the Regiment's first athletic meeting. Qualifying heats will take place m the morning. The meeting proper will be held In the afternoon. Events include races from three
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  • 156 7 MALAYA'S Thomas Cup •trainees' will make their final public appearance prior to the staging of the Challenge Round, at the Happy World Stadium on Monday. Ten players win participate, m this exhibition which wil) consist of two singles *A twe doubles matches, ©f Urn* sets
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  • 21 7 AMATEUR RACES AT K. LUMPUR mm S newlyf ormed* M*la?jn II *x Amateur Racing AssoeiatMll •hi hold their first meeting m||
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  • 230 7 STRONG single* flay a*d improved doubles combinaUons should send the American badminton team into the final of the Thomas Cup c— petttWw this month with a good chance to dethrone tke champions, Malaya* says Robert B. Williams, member of the six man United States
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  • 107 7 Scratching* and order of running for tomorrow's Bukit Timah races are: Race 1 Cl. 2, Div. 2, 6f. (2.15) No scratching*. Race 2 CL 2, Div. 1 6f. (2.45) Trafalgar. Race 3 Cl. 1, Div. 3, 1 mile (3.15) Byron. Race 4 CL 1, Div. 3, €f
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  • 68 7 TAIPEI, Thurs.— Chinese Nationalists have decided to send a team to the world Olympics m July at Helsinki, Finland, it was announced today. Further details will be decided on as ad hoc committee, headed by Governor K. C. Wu, is scheduled to hold its first meeting
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  • 343 7 BY scoring the only goal of the match against the run of play, Singapore Cricket Club were extremely fortunate to take full points off Indian Recreation Club m their S.A.F.A. Div. 1 game on the padang yesterday. I.R.C. were on top for the full hour
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  • 348 7 'TIGERS moved a step nearer the top of the Sinx gapore Amateur F.A. Senior League table with a convincing five-nil victory over Amicable Athletic Association at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Amicables battled hard, but could do very little to hold the goal hungry Tigers. Tigers settled
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  • 181 7 ]VI RS Cavanagh beat Mrs. B. iTA James on the 20th green to win the Island Club women's championship m the final held on Sunday In the semi-final round Mrs. Cavanagh beat Mrs. Weeks 2 and 1 and Mrs.* James won her match
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  • 434 7 Washbrook (182) hits season's highest score fiYRIL Washbrook, Lancashire and England opening batsman, m scoring a fine 182 against Oxford University at Oxford yesterday became the highest scorer of the season so far. The previous best was 171 by Peter May for Cambridge University against Yorkshire, while Harold Gimblett reached
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  • 227 7 Rough play at Park REST OF SOCCER SIME Darby S.C. beat Malaya Publishing Hfntsf by tfr»tie goals to nil m tbetr Singapore Business Houses P. A. Dtv, l match at Fairer Park yesterday. The winner* played a most aggressive game and set the pace from the commencement. Ismail scored Sime
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    • 79 7 Today's sport SOCCER FRIENDLY: Athenians v Comb. Europeans at J. Besar stadtom. DltTsT Chinese Athletic *A» v Star Soecerites at Geylanjr. DIV. SB: YMMA v HaHcowyii at CYMA; Seletar Vflle v Fir* Brigade at BODCA. BUS. BSE. LGE.: F.*N. v Chartered Bank at F.AN.; Malayan Airways v Breweries at YMCA.
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  • 83 8 HAWES. Brian Reginald at General Hos-rtal 15th May. Funeral at Bidadari 5 pjn. 16th May. ON 12th May. 1952. at No. 117. Pasir Panjang Road. Singapore. Tan Sco Jin. 72 years. The funeral will take place on Friday 16th May. 1953. the cortege testing his residence at 2.90 p.m.
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  • 135 8 WASHINGTON, Pri. riTOE Atomic Energy Oom- mission is releasing next Tuesday a motion picture showing m flaming colour what an A-bomb does to buildings. The film was made last spring at Eniwetok where the AEC tests its most powerful atomic weapons. The picture is called
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  • 84 8 WASHINGTON, Pri. T*HE U.S. State Department A said yesterday that it is up to Japan to decide its future -relations with the Soviet Union. Department spokesman Mr. Michael McDermott was pressed by Japanese correspondents at a news conference for American reaction to reports that
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  • 357 8 U.S- report on South-East Asian needf WASHINGTON, Friday. AN ESTIMATED 670,006,006 people of Asia's more than 1,300,000,000 are living "under the heel of the dictator*', according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber says the fate of Western civilisation may depend upon
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    49 8 M. VINCENT AURIOL, President of the French Republic (bespectacled jwith ribbon across his chest) stands back after rekindling the flame m the |Arc De Triomphe, Paris, on the seventh anniversary of the victory over Germany. On the right of the President is the French senator, M. Jean Guitter.- A.P.
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  • 55 8 LONDON, Pri.— T&e sixman Bamangwato delegation which came here from Bechuanaland m an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the British Government to raise its ban on their exiled chief Seretse Khama flew home last night. Senior tribal chief Keaboke Kgamane said: "We are leaving England very disappointed
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  • 46 8 Ivy Wickens is a free woman today after Retting a divorce on grounds of desertion. She told the court her husband had himself committed to a mental hospital shortly after their marriage and for 20 years had refused to come out.- A.P.
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  • 31 8 An Egyptian court martial m Cairo yesterday sentenced six Egyptians to terms of imprisonment ranging from one to five years for their part m looting and setting
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  • 37 8 The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Leopold Figl m Washington yesterday met with the Mutual Security Director, Mr. W. Averall Harriman, and his top staff experts for an. extensive discussion of the Austrian economic situation.- U.P. picture.
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  • 263 8 LONDON, Friday. rpHE British Government will not reduce Its stock A pile of rubber here, i\ is understood. The policy of running down stocks of materials m order to save foreign currency does not extend to rubber which is a sterling commodity. If the British
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  • 30 8 M. Andre Francois-Poncet, 64, French High Commissioner m Germany, was elected m Paris yesterday to the Academic Francaise, a society which lays down rules for the French Language.— A.P..
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  • 25 8 Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Ambassador, left yesterday for Havana to sign a treaty of friendship between Cuba and the Phiiinnin* Republic- A. P.
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  • 237 8 COPENHAGEN, Friday. fTHE municipal hospital at Aarhus yesterday received its oldest case when an ambulance rolled up with the body of a man reported hanged m sacrifice to a pagan goddess 2,000 years ago. The almost perfectly preserved body was put on a stretcher and
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  • 17 8 Persian police yesterday banned dancing girls from cabarets and night clubs "to preserve public morality." A. P.
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  • 121 8 $15 MILLION BLAZE IN HONG KONG HONG KONG, Fri. N estimated $15,000,000 (Malayan) worth of goods were lost m a fire, which destroyed a local fourstorey godown stocked with inflammable plastic and chemicals. The fire broke out m a Liv Chon* Hing Savings Bank godown at sunset. Its cause has
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  • 21 8 Pour New York policemen were dismissed "yesterday because a gambler, Harry Gross, testified they took bribes from him. U.P.
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  • 58 8 One American airman was killed and another injured m London last Tuesday when the jeep m which they were riding overturned after a 70--mile-an hour chase by police. Police reported that the three-hour chase began about 3 a.m. m the northern outskirts of London after
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  • 26 8 The Arab countries yesterday renewed their pledge to boycott any regional meeting of the World Health Organization m which an Israeli delegation took part.
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  • 132 8 Exotic, she off ered to wed anyone HOLLYWOOD, fTi. MRS. ANONYMOUS— a di--1» vorcee wjio offered to marry any man who could give her $15,000 admitted yesterday that the had had no takers. She lamented that apparently chivalry wa s dead. A former dancer she recently placed an advertisement m
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    • 259 8 YOUR LUCKY STAR B^L U %Lu W I •f* rt f !r > J he genenl m rather.than back v sharp, retenlive memory run of people. You are apt down an inch! Remember, a which can store up data for to get a Uttle "one-sided" m good fighter for any
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  • Free Press RACE FROM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FROM Special Friday, May 16, 1952
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    • 2063 1  -  a ?PRENTICE jockeys A have made their oresencs felt on the Malayan turf during the past one and a half v its. At present there are three apprentices riding tn Malaya, they a: George Straker, Walter Basjby Junior tnd Mohamed Padek, the latter showing his hini
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    • 330 1 |OHN Manning Junior J Is the latest addition to the ranks of Malaya's apprentices. He has just been apprenticed to his lather, who trains exclusively for Penang sportsman Mr. Teap Hock Hoe. Young John, who has only turned fourteen, has been riding track work
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    • 4671 1 RAcegoers like to back their months CTRAKER, Bagby and Padek have now become names accepted by the Malayan racegoer. They will support the mounts of these young riders with the .same confidence as they do the more experienced boys. In recent months I have often heard racegoers discuss the prospects
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    • 494 4 (Continued from Page 1) MOHAMED Padek, who rode his first winners at the recently concluded Penang Summer meeting is apprenticed to trainer Jack Spencer, who has been practically his only tutor. Padek had his first race mount at the June meeting at Ipoh last year. He had been
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    • 72 4 (Continued from Page 1) the course and even during the running of races. This latter advice is always most helpful. I was told that when young Straker won his first race on Longchamps II at Ipoh, Doug McPherson looked after him throughout the race and advised him to
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