The Singapore Free Press, 21 May 1952

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    20 1 The singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE Of MALAYA No. l^ o7 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAT 21, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    JAPS TO KICK OUT REDS
    455 1 But do not know how to tell Soviet Govt. TOKYO, Wednesday. fHE Japanese Foreign Office announced in Tokyo yesterday that no more Russians will be permitted to enter Japan and that those now living behind the high walls of the Soviet Embassy compound are not
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    African ORs. mutiny, beat up officers
    136 1 LAGOS, Wed. AFRICAN TROOPS mujp.led in the army command workshops at Yaba on the ootdkirti of Lagos yesXbo:- 100 African other ra- armed themselves with sticks and crowbars and attacked officers and NCOs. Injuring two, including the commanding officer. The rioters looted offices, tan
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    Across ocean on rubber lifeboat
    75 1 Across ocean on rubber lifeboat MONACO. Wed. A RUBBER lifeboat, in A whtdi three men intend tg toss the Mediterraneap and the Atlantic without lakin? food or water supplies, ma tested on the waters of M naeo harbour yesterday. Ibc voyage is not a stunt b< r i serious scientific
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    FORCIBLE ENTRY
    62 1 Melbourne police are lookg* for a real housebreaker. -ukes running jumps at and kicks them in if a k n ar^ er to his ring or towck su-^ests that the ocp a nt Ls not at home. mice not a description of SSr Wn l h e cashed
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    Thomas Cup Supplement
    66 1 Uf ILL Singapore's heat have any effect «n the play of the American and Danish Thomas Cup badminton teams? This question is discussed in a special article in an eight-page Cup supplement to be published tomorrow by the Singapore Free Press. Other features include Crusader's survey of
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    JOHORE BAHRU RECEPTION FOR MINISTER
    93 1 JOHORE BAHRU RECEPTION FOR MINISTER Free Press Staff Reporter fOMMANDER Manuel Sarmento Rodrigues the Portuguese Minister for Overseas Territories, who arrived in Singapore yesterday on a two-day visit, went on a sight-seeing tour of Johore Bahm this morning. He was due to attend a reception this morning at Istana Besar
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    Feud in 'Green Hell' over
    68 1 RIO DE JANEIRO. Wed. AN American civil aviation official and a Brazilian air force official, held as hostages at the scene of a Pan-American Airways Stratocruiser wreck in th* Brazilian jungle, were released yesterday alter Brazilian army parachutists had threatened to use force on their
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    52 1 picture. FLOYD ADAMS of Marine Studios "walks" a shark as a form of artificial respiration following its capture and before its introduction to the ooeanarium at Marineland, Florida. While being caught the 10 feet tiger shark became exhausted and had to be "walked" through the water to restore its normal
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    SOVIETS LOSE
    31 1 The Economic and Social Council in New York yesterday defeated a Soviet attempt to unseat the representative of Naionalist China by 14 votes to four with no abstentions. Reuter
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    SHELL KILLS 7
    27 1 An artillery shell exploded at an ammunition dump at Orbaneja Riopico in Burgos Province yesterday killing seven Spanish soldiers and injuring seriously two others.
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    TALK ON STRIKE
    27 1 Representatives of striking Singapore postmen will meet tb e Colonial Secretary at 2.30 p.m. today. Their counsel. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. will be present.
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    Not our fault, says Eden
    256 1 TRADE WITH CHINA CUT LONDON, Wednesday. rpHE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, yesterday A endorsed the decision of British firms to leave China under conditions of "acute strain and anxiety" and blamed the Communists for the failure to increase Anglo-Chinese trade. Mr. Ederl told a labour
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    Parmiter to win Cup
    53 1 PROVIDED there is no more rain the going this afternoon at Bukit Timah will be rood. Allan Lewis's best bets are Parmiter (Summer Cup), Solperion and Harrovian. He suggests Newmarket and Self timer as a double likely to pay well. Best outsider: Binocular. TRESPASSER recommends Woodcote
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    Crematorium plan backed
    113 1 free Press Staff Reporter REPRESENTATIVE organisations, in Singapore this morning agreed with the recommendation of the Burial Grounds Committee that a crematorium should be prorided as soon possible. s* matorium the less would be the problems of availability of land for burial. Most Chinese would not object
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    ROBBER TRIES TO RIP OFF EARRINGS
    180 1 ROBBER TRIES TO RIP OFF EARRINGS Free Press Staff Reporter A 13-year-old girl, Yeo Ah Leng, was robbed of two gold bangles, worth $80, yesterday near the Henderson Road bridge, Singapore. She was waylaid by a Chinese who grasped her by the neck and forced her head down towards her
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    Car smashes into wall
    83 1 Free Press Stair Reporter rriHREE Chinese, including a A woman, were injured in two road accidents between 9 p.m. and midnight in Singapore yesterday. All were admitted to hospital. One of the men was hurt badly when the car in which he was driving and smashed
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    Quit order to union leaders
    79 1 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. WHREE more European J> trade union leaders in South Africa were yesterday ordered to resign their posts by Minister of Justice Charles Swart under the Suppression of Communism Act. The order was issued against Israel Wilfson of the Tailors' Union, Ronald Fleet of
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    KOREA BILL
    23 1 The UJS. House of Representatives yesterday passed an "urgent" Defence Appropriations Bill, approving US $1,401,000,000 to fight the Korean war. U.P.
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    GOLD SEIZURE
    22 1 Hong Kong revenue officers yesterday seized gold and watches valued at HK$5OO,OOO aboard the Hal Lee bound for Singapore Reuter
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    NOT A BANG, NOT EVEN A WHIMPER
    117 1 NEW YORK, Wednesday. AN atomic weapon mounted on 300-foot tower strung with a maze of wires failed to explode in a scheduled test involving 2,000 soldiers yesterday at Las Vegas, Nevada, and surprised scientists did not know what went wrong. Aa electricity at
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    Threat of secession in South Africa
    252 1 CAPETOWN, Wednesday. V* ATAL will secede from the Union of South Africa 11 if the Malan Government "tears up" the constitution by creating a high court of parliament. Senator 6. Reaton Nichols, leader of the Opposition, told a hushed Senate yesterday. Dr. Malan's move
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    GAS KILLS 12-MINERS
    39 1 GAS KILLS 12 -MINERS Twelve miners were killed when gas entered the galleries of a coal mine at Frugieres, near Clermont Perrand, France, yesterday. About 100 miners were working in the gallery when the gas seeped into it.— Reuter.
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    RAGHAVAN IS NAMED ENVOY TO PEKING
    102 1 RAGHAVAN IS NAMED ENVOY TO PEKING NEW DELHI, Wed*, MR. N. RAGHAVAN, 51--year-old lawyer, now Minister to Switzerland, has been appointed India's Ambassador to China, it was announced yesterday. H e succeeds Mr. K. M. Panikar and in turn will be succeeded in Bern e by Mr. Asaf All, 62.
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    Big 3 talks on Far East
    66 1 PARIS, Wed. A 810 Three conference on the Far East, North Africa and other world problems, is expected to be held here early next week after the German contractual agreements and the European Defence Community treaty have been signed. It wUI be attended by
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    KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED
    1010 2 KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED while you read this article HOW H^n^tittn ffmf T«jt f ■■!>>? TRUTHFULLY. *«d *w«rd JWMf M 1 tf^— mam tf-jt§iyr .void walking under ladders? Afcrayi (2), Sometimes (1). Never (0). m mwbcn on a bus ticket? Usually (2). Occasionally (1). N«wr <0). 3. Wlim you fcaow
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    Tonsils Protect the Child From Germs
    818 2 HGFHJGHJ With age they shrink and become less troublesome 'THE tonsils which 1 can be seen at the side of the tongue between the two muscular pillars in the throat are part of a chain of lymph glands which surround the back of the
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    FIGHT FOR MARKETS
    730 3  -  MICHAEL NEWMARCH Japan and Germanypose threat to Britain's export drive. by r* 1 prospect of :i 1 -rim trade w»i w j|h two old military i vs— (itTinany and V.^in— -is worn-ins British businessmen, Germany and Japan ttt netting an increasr share of the overlS trade Britain
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    49 3 "PICK OOP MUSKET, Sam!" A heinous crime in the army but the Duke of Toyland takes a lenient view of musket-dropping on parjade in the dress rehearsal of the Toy Soldier Parade at Haslar Barracks, Gosport. Hampshire. The Toy Soldier Parade will be given at this year's Royal Tournament.
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    JAPAN, KOREA STALEMATE
    31 3 The Uniterf States has told Japan and South Korea it hopes they can settle through "friendly negotiations" their long dispute over rival claims to pre-World War II assets.
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    Tone gets divorce from Barbara
    135 3 LOS ANGELES, Wed. ACTOR Franchot Tone, with a few well-chosen words In court, ended his tumultous marriage to blonde actress Barbara Payton in a tenminute hearing. He was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce on his testimony that she embarrassed him in front of his
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      296 3 New Crossword No. 667 11l m—^ ~~-^^^^^M"""*^™* t- xiei a kick oih ol paying 4. 3, 4). 8. Erect 12, 3). 1 call for a flowering shrub (5). 10. None paid Mum— what an upro*ri (11). 12. Poetic spice (5). 14. Not it seems, a busybody (5) 15. Dissentient viewers
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      47 3 Solution To Crossword No. 666 Yesterday's Solution —Across: 1. 0.0P.U. 4. SP.Q.R 8, Stocktaking. 9. Soldo 10. Liked. 11 Dhobi. Aged- 11. DIM 13. So-so. Ugly. 16, Tent. Down: 2. Goodlooking. 3, Unknowingly. 4 Small profit 5. Quick return 6. Isis 7 Aged 11. Dihs 13. So-so.
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      210 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR gORN today, you are one of the kindly, sympathetic and helpful people of the world. You seem to have few personal ambitions and are usually happiest when you are helping others. Yea always have an eye oat for the one who hi underprivileged or unhappy. Once yoa
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    The singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, May 21, 1952. Loss to Britain
    536 4 The singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, May 21, 1952. Loss to Britain r? would be idle to pretend that the decision of the British China merchants— which is supported by the Government in London to withdraw from that country is anything other than a commercial disaster. The fact that this course
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    A Trade 'war' in South America
    935 4 American methods are kighJfand&l, says G. WARD PRICE BRITISH business men in Brazil feel that Britain is not setting a straight deal from the United States in their efforts to re-establish with South American countries the British trade which to a great extent passed
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    IN MEMORY OF 'FATS' WALLER
    376 4 EVERY year, since the death of Thomas "Fats'* Waller nine years ago, a National Memorial Week has been held in America to remember the ace pianist. This year, May 16 to 23 was set aside as the memorial week and hundreds of disc jockeys have
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    41 4 Alain Lombard did »ot begin tg study music until lie was nine years old. Then he took up the piano and violin. That was two years ago. Now, at 11 he is the youngest orchestral conductor in Franc* .Tod&v h* arm
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    17 4 Italian-born Artnro Toscanini at Orly airport, Paris, on his way from the U.S. to conduct in Milan.
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    OLD BEDS FOR THE NEW WORLD
    253 4 OLD BEDS FOR THE NEW WORLD A FAVOURITE practice with Americans who amassed a fortune but had no ancestral portraits to glower down on them from the walls of their sumptuous homes was to buy old pictures, hang them and pass them off as "My greatgrandparents". Now the Canadians are
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    A SINGER WITH A PROBLEM
    1196 4 A SINGER WITH A PROBLEM Music topics by PRESTO MOST of us have become familiar with the voice of the Chinese songstress. It is thin, often piercing, sometimes rather flat but it has a naive charm which, in certain songs, is hard to resist. It has nothing in common with
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    New records
    162 4 BERLIOZ. Overture "Beatrice and [Benedict" played by the Philhai-monia Orchestra (Kletzki) Col. LX 1529. A beautifully clear, resonant recording of a spirited overture played with brilliant, controlled attack. The mood, except In the andante, a bread, melody compounded of familiar Berlioz elements, is one of high spirits. It
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    VICKERS DEFENDS A HOSPITAL
    849 5 'Some attention to many is correct policy' JHE Director of Medical Services, Dr. W- J. Vickers, yesterday answered in the Singapore Legislative Council criticism of the shortage of beds in the maternity hospital at Kandang Kerbau. He said, in reply to Dr. C. J. Paglar (Prog.Ghangi),
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    11 DIED ON COLONY ROADS IN APRIL
    189 5 11 DIED ON COLONY ROADS IN APRIL Free Press Staff Reporter tiLEVEN died on Singapore roads in April, Three were pedestrians, three cyclists, and five passengers. Seventy-three other people were seriously injured in 1,033 accidents which occurred last month. Nine hundred and nine occurred in the city area. Kallang and
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    Blackout schedule
    149 5 QCBSTATIONS liable to load O shedding tonight are: U.B. Network, U.E. Factory, Adelphi, Newton I*2. Wayang Sate, ■■taiTal li, Dalvey Rd., Union BaUdln*. Hub* Pipe, ■hrra. Ford. Bin Sen*, Wire Mesh, P.WJ>. Quarry, Nanyan* Bffr, BoUt Panjan* National Carbon, Princess Elizabeth Estate. Dairy Farm, Uhi Pandan, Jurong 1.
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    Entries won't go by post
    144 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Camera Club will ask its members to hand their photographs for the club's annual exhibition to one of four of the club's officials instead of posting them, because of the postal strike. The officials are: Mr. J. A. L. Pavttt,
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    DRUNK FINED
    17 5 KU AMrAJt Wed.— Abo Bakar bin Ahmiid and Leong *ttr*r. mmrt* pact* find $10 In
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    HAD RED DOCUMENTS
    48 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Caught with a circular to terrorists ordering them to keep their firearms clean and a document asking Malayans to unite under the Red Flag, Suppiah, a 20--year-old rubber tapper, was yesterday sentenced to two years' simple imprisonment in the Supreme Court, here.
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    ANNUAL MEETING
    13 5 Singapore Y.W.C.A. will hold their annual general meeting on May 30.
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    LEADERS CRITICISE UMNO EXPULSION
    157 5 PENANG, Wednesday. f OCAL POLITICAL leaders yesterday criticised the A* decision of UMNO to expel its representative on Penang Municipal Council, Inche Ismail bin Matt. for joining the Independence of Malaya Party. 4 *This retrograde move by tJMNO shows that it still believes in jcommunalism, despite
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    20 5 Bicture. Commander Manuel Redrigues, Portugese Minister for Overseas Territories, talks to girls from the Portugese Mission, Singapore, yesterday. Free Press
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    Malaya helps rice countries
    216 5 Malaya helps rice countries KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. AM ALAYA'S research work on rice production was ifX benefitting not only this country, but also all the rice producing countries of the world, Mr. R. B Jagoe, acting Chief Research Officer of the Federration, told the Free Press yesterday. Mr. Jagoe and
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    KAMPONGS FORM CLUBS
    72 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. KAMPONG CLUBS are being formed in the Kemaman, Besut and Dungun districts of Trengganu. The movement is spreading to mukims in other districts. Applications have been made to RIDA for a $500 grant to each club for sports gear and other equipment. The Amil,
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    Curfew in Tapah
    62 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. r TH£ whole of the Tapah police district in Perak has been put under a curfew, from 7.30 p.m. to 5.30 ajn. For the wired-in areas of Tapah and Temoh towns, however, the curfew will not start until midnight. Road and rail traffic will
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    NEW FILM GAZETTE
    86 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The latest gazette of the Malayan Film Unit, is to be shown in cinemas in Singapore, Ipoh, Penang and Kuala Lumpur today. It contains shots of a patrol of the Ist Suffolk Regiment in the Jungle, the visit of the Deputy High Commissioner, Mr.
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    NEW CHINESE JOURNAL
    53 5 A new Singapore Chinese journal. th e Champagne Post will start publication early next month. It will be a biweekly entertainment paper, the sixth of its kind in Singapore. The publishers of the Post will hold a cocktail party at the Happy World Cabaret on Sunday to
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    CROWN LAND FOR FISHERMEN
    132 5 PENANG. WS$E>* AH aussurance that .about 50 acres of reclaimed Crown land at Tanjoii 1 Tokong would be reserved for Malay fishermen was given by thg feeting Conimßsl&er Rr. lT Ward, yejterday when he met f our ore.9Hntfttive.«; of thp Lembata HP by the Land Office
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    Govt. measures to boost food production
    178 5 Govt. measures to boost food production MEASURES being taken by the Singapore GoverniTl ment to increase food production in the Colony were disclosed in a Government reply to a question by Mr. N. A. BfaHal at the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday. The measures include: preliminary surveys on marketing,
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    ANOTHER K.L. GIRL MISSING
    61 5 ANOTHER K.L. GIRL MISSING KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. AN 11-year-old Malay girl, Fatimah, has been reported missing in Kuala Lumpur. This brings the number of Koala Lumpur children missing to five since April 27. She left the house of her guardians— an Indian family —in Swee Ouat Road, off Pahang Road,
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    'I'm mad vith that Volf'
    186 6 'I'm mad vith that Volf' —says Kong By MATMAN V ING KONG, fit again, 11 takes on old rival Chief Little Wolf at the Happy World Stadium on Saturday night. Said the 340 Ib. Kong yesterday I'm fit again, I'm so very happy." An injured knee has kept the Hungarian
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    SPORE MISSED BAKAR
    449 6 SPORE MISSED BAKAR Athenians score late 4-0 win Free Press Soccer Reporter Athenians 4; Singapore 0. Athenians won, Singapore had all the chances, especially in the first half and oh, how they missed a man of Awang Bakar's calibre in the forward-line. Singapore had most of the ball, and were
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    'Indians will lose $8,000'
    158 6 |L| R. Jagit Saxena, Manager of the Indian Thomas Cup team, said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday that the All-India Badminton Federation will be losing abu $8,000 on their inter-zon t.e against the Danes on May 24 and 25. But Mr. Saxena is not to3 worried about
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    NEW CHAMP IS SOUGHT
    51 6 T»HE National Bo*n£ Association has announced plans for a tournament to produce an "interim" wor» featherweight champion until title-holder Sandv Saddler Is released from the Ann/. f .^eNAA in accordance with the British Board of Control said that featherweights would take oart in an •Mmmation tournament
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    U.S. CUP TEAM WARM UP
    176 6 rE American Thomas Cup team is good. This is, no doubt, the unanimous opinion of all those who watched the VJS. stars limbering up last night, it waa not possible to gauge from their performances however, just how good they are, as they were working
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    BUT IT WON'T BEAT 'THE FISH'
    341 6 Neo's time beats record By WATERMAN A NEW Malayan and Singapore mark for the 400 metres free-style was achieved at the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday by Singapore'? crack swimmer and Olympic hope, Neo Chwee Kok. k iA e was taking part in an official
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    DAVIS CUP WIN FOR BRITAIN
    96 6 ORITAIN beat Yugoslavia i7 *5 y three rub &ers to two in their second round tie of ;J^ Cup EuroDean zone at Belgrade on Monday and will meet Italy in the next stage Monday's results were: Vlatumer Pctrovich (Yugoslavia) R B«*er (Britain) 6-1. (Britain) beat
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    COMB. EUROPEANS XI FOR TODAY
    39 6 rjOMBINtD Europeans eleven to stadium today is: Wood 18.C.0J; Stoker and Hardy •AUwnlantl, Morton (Rovers) Skins'* I^AF>\ FI^ her < Athenians): Ha* sS2Ljj*ttenlMM). Oujthrle (Rovers). Stroud Sorensen and Bennett (Athen.uSSded*" M in tl PfCe MMes
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    ALL THE COUNTY CRICKET RESULTS
    168 6 VEST'RDAY'S UK County 1 cricket results: S«rrey beat Sussex by tea wiefcete (Oval): Sussex 365 for declared and 136 (Lock, leftarm spin. 5 tcr 28). Surrey 432 Mr 7 declared and 71 for no wicket. Hampshire beat Somerset by n»«»s (Pertsneatli) Hamp•Wre 253 for o
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    SILNET IS FAVOURITE FOR THE DERBY
    199 6 TORENCH horses continue to head the betting on the Epsom Derby, major British classic race being run on May 28. At the Victoria Club callqver in London on Monday five of the first six horses called were French. M. Paul Dubasq's Silnet is now
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    WOODCOTE INN MAY NOT START IN THE SUMMER CUP
    1274 7 WOODCOTE INN MAY NOT START IN THE SUMMER CUP Latest hints from the Bukit Timah track By ALLAN LEWIS \yOODCOTE INN was still a doubtful starter for the Summer Cup (Race 6) at the racecourse this morning. His connections said that he would not run if there was any further
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    165 7 I AIXAN «W1» TMBPASBH BOM CAIX sOLPERION SOLPERION i Harrier White Carnation SOLPERION SOLPEEION TANTALUS 3 Matiaee Avllor Avilor The Monarch B»dybelt Al f£ A S. S^E^P 1211 VASCO D r^sii FREE ENTRY VASCODAGAMA 145 if"? i. 0 1 KSL^I? 3^ F^e Entry Tmn la GftM
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    131 7 t, r.DAM Tradiig S.C. were 1. a one-all draw by Chemica] Industries in s.: „jore BHFA game OH SRC. padang j k teng scored for 1.C.1. -*ed for Rotterdam M: Hi an TILE Bank S.C. scored two-all win over Oversea Bank SC in a SingaBHPA match
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    P.I. CAGERS LOSE 79-39
    64 7 U ughout the four quarters s;ngapore"s Nanyang Pm basket bailers handed 7f-5J beating to the Manila ■.>.■ rs Um Resonnance Cagers, a Um H.ppy World Stadium last i... -a haU time. Resonnance were I .:.> oeh:nd They MM :o la.^: tim terrific pace ■ri :he:e was
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    Army cricket XI v. Police
    71 7 Army cricket XI v. Police ARMY Cricket XI to meet Sin- gapore Police at the Garrison ground. Nee Soon on Saturday and Sunday is: Maj. J. Bennett (capt.), CbL O. S. Knox, Capt. P. C. Reynolds. Capt. L. J. A. Diplock, Capt. C J. Catternach. Capt. W. H. Parry, Lt.
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    JAPAN OLYMPICS?
    30 7 HPHE Tokyo Municipal Assembly has formally decided to extend an invitation to the International Olympics Committee to held the 1960 Games in Japan, it was announced. Reuter AAP.
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    Race card
    1123 7 ACCEPTORS and probable jockeys at Bnkit Timah A today arc given below. The Double Tote will be on Races Five and Eight and the Big Sweep will be drawn on Race Seven. Race 4—2.15: Class 2, Div. 4—6 Furs. 1 -00 Fair Sir Charles 9.00 Mr. W. Gordon
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    FOUR WINS FOR U.S.
    100 7 rPHE seeded-all Americans advanced into the second rcund of the French lnternationel tennis championships on the clay courts at Roland Carros Stadium, Paris, after yesterday's opening matches. Dick Savitt and Hamilton Richardson each lost one set. The other three leading Americans swept through in straight sets.
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    Umrigar 9 short of 100
    217 7 ryHEN Indians avoided the Tf follow-on early In the day at Lards, the ultimate result— a draw —appeared inevitable, but with a little more enterprise Indians could have forced a victory. Bailey, the M.C.C. captain, made a generous declaration in leaving them 2hr. 40min to
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    MANCHESTER WIN 5-1
    49 7 li/TANCHBBTSat United. English iU PA. league champions, beat a picked team of New York Stan of American League by five goals to one in the fourth game of their tour of the United States and Canada on Sunday afternoon. It was 3-0 at the interval.— UP.
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    No score on wet pitch
    391 7 No score on wet pitch Services soccer H.M.S. Terror... R.N.A.S. 0, IN the only United Serves Football Association Senior League match play* 1 yesterday, Royml Naval At Station Sembawan* anl H M.S. Terror made the most of wet conditions at Naval Base, but neither sice ecu Id score. Considering the
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    FINANCIAL SNAG
    42 7 TTRUGUAY may be absent from the Olympic Games this y«ar for the first time since winning the soccer title at Paris in 1924. A lack of funds may prevent the Uruguayan Olympic Committeee from sending any representatives to Helsinki. A.P.
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    Rubber, tin tax clarified
    273 8 V LONDON, Wed. MR. RICHARD BUTLER, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday gave the House of Commons details of the amendments to his Finance Bill affecting rubber and tin companies in Malaya published earlier in the day. Most important of them, he said was the question
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    DIVORCED BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO WORK
    171 8 HOLLYWOOD, Wednesday. FkOLORES Ethel Blythe Barrymore, 22, daughter of late John Barrymore, obtained an uncontested divorce yesterday from Thomas Alexander Fairbanks, who "refused to work because only peasants work." Her testimony was corroborated by her mother Dolores Costello Barrymore Mrs. Fairbanks, who had her
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    TRUMAN CONFIDENT U.N. CAN WIN THE PEACE
    396 8 TRUMAN CONFIDENT U.N. CAN WIN THE PEACE NEW YORK, Wednesday. PRESIDENT Truman said yesterday that the Kremlin's desire to dominate the world is obviously unchanged, "but I believe we are well on the way to preserving our freedom without paying the frightful cost of a world war." "The plain fact
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    RUMOUR DENIED
    34 8 A State Department official yesterday termed as "absolutely false" a report published in Manila that the United States had sent a warning to friendly Asian countries of a Dossible Communist attack.— U.P.
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    Highland fling flung major into trouble
    368 8 LONDON, Wednesday. WHAT made 40-year-old Major Peter Bayne Ritchie stagger in an eightsome reel at an officers' mess dance in Chester Castle? Was he drunk? Or was the explanation that his Highland dancing was 31 years out of date? That was the issue put
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    Panties' raiders 'steal' cop
    188 8 Panties raiders 'steal cop NEW YORK. Wed. MORE than 1.000 Northwestern University male students went on a gleeful "pantie raid"" in Evanston, Illinois, stealing "all the underwear in sight" and carrying a bewildered police sergeant on their shoulders A few diehard rioters were still carousing in the girls' dormitory area!
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    LADIES GIVE LUNCH
    40 8 LADIES GIVE LUNCH THE COMMISSIONER General Mr. Malcolm MacDonald speaking- at a luncheon party given by the Chinese Ladies' Association at the Adelphi Hotel. Singapore, yesterday. The president of the Association, Mrs. Tan Chin Tuan is on Mr. MacDonald's left.
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    U.S. needs Asian aid, says Dewey
    197 8 NEW YORK. Wed. r. THOMAS E. DEWEY, Governor of New York, last night urged Americans to be less "condescending and critical of Asian countries and to learn more about them. In a speech prepared for a dinner at Adelphi College. Mr. Dewey said Asians
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    Air appointment
    35 8 Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur P. H. Sanders, new Commander-in-Chief of British Middle East Air Forces, has arrived at Port Said by ship to take over his new command at Moascar, Ismailla A.P.
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