The Singapore Free Press, 22 December 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N SINGAPORE. MONDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1952 PRICE FIFTI IN fS
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  • 132 1 HICAGO, Mon. Mle. 68. a formiudge, proved hold-up men it that he is just ;th his fists as Mi the bench. •I home be robbers i sun in his ribs. He imped a wrust the man and l him to drop the ner robber
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  • 37 1 More robbery with shots Fd the air as med robbed a ochew-Chinese :i Road ash tfc of the head heard a ra»-^-tat-tat back c Open up." •*n down and rate handkerese armed wi:h a n readd for
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  • 24 1 International Moscow an--ter d a v Mr. birthday award to the arid author. ibounr, ann iuding the ro singer. Paul
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  • 16 1 I man was incar hit a lamp Tth mile Bukit 1 Singapore, at
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  • 365 1 Liaison staff for U.S., France C 'wealth niPLOMvric IW^' Monday V\uV Vi offici alsm Washington consider n i A Els enhower\ Administration is ikely to agree to set up a South-East Asia liaison staff which would have great importance for Indo-China, says U.P. tn kPo^iL
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  • 50 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Superintendent of the i Singapore Naval Base. Commodore F. M. Walton, this morning received a letter an- nouncing the 10.000-strong ►Singapore Naval Base Labour [Union would go on strike inext Monday. Commodore Walton is exj pected to issue a statement this afternoon.
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  • 124 1 TANGIER. Mon. SIDNEY Paley, 32-year-old American businessman, was convicted on Saturday of piracy and robbery on the high seas and sentenced to three years in prison. Judge Milton Helmick of the United States consular court found Paley guilty of both charges in connection with the holding of
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  • 168 1 2 taximen robbed by night fares TWO Singapore Chinese taxi-drivers' were robbed by passengers during the week-end. At 1 a.m. yesterday, two Chinese hailed a cab in Victoria Street and asked the driver to go to Adam Road. About 100 yards down a side road one of the men held
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  • 38 1 The Coa§t Guard at Honolulu reported yesterday that an American merchant ship had run aground on the treacherous Pearl and Hermes Reef 90 miles east of Midway Island and is in need of immediate aid U.P.
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  • 35 1 PARIS, Mon. A new 15,240- ton liner, the Loa^. was launched yesterday and will soon take up service with the French shipping company of Les Messageries Maritime, on the Far East route. U.P.
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  • 49 1 ANCHORAGE. ALASKA, Mon. A PLANE loaded with 36 Hollywood entertainers i landed Saturday at Kodiak. ka, instead of Honolulu, where the passengers thought they were headed for. The troupe expressed amazement when the members stepped from the piane in the far North instead of in sunny Hawaii.
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  • 86 1 NEW YORK Mon. rE United Nations Assembly last night killed a Communist attempt to make a "package" deal with the West for admission of new members to the U.N In separate action it ur. the Security Council t 0 ap prove the applications Japan. Vietnam. Cambodia. Laos. Libya
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  • 30 1 A British Comet jet airliner thrilled Manilans on Saturday in a flight demonstration over the city in connection with the fifth annual Philin- pine aviation week. Reuter
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  • 21 1 President Truman and President-elect Eisenhower joined Jewish Labour leaders yesterday in statements condemning the recent Prague purge trial- A.P.
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  • 15 1 The Duke of Windsor ar- rived in New York from Europe yesterday.
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  • 35 1 Three Chinese houses within the distance of a miie in Dunearn Road, Singapore, j were broken into on Friday night. Two hundred dollars in cash was taken from jne and $150 from another.
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  • 24 1 When they opened the Salvation Army Christmas kettle on St. Catherine Street, Montreal, on Friday night, they found a $1,000 note- A.P.
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  • 124 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. THE U.S. Air Force announced yesterday the death role in yesterday's crash of a C-124 Globemaster at Moses Lake, Washington State, had reachel 86. The authorities at Larson air force base said two of the 32 survivors had died in hospital.
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  • 178 1 Free Press Staff Reporter T<HE SHACKLE CLl'B in Beach Road, Singapore, will be demolished to make wav for future Government offices. Mr. J. A. Harvey. Commissioner of Lands, told the Free Press this morning. Demolition work on the existing Nissen huts in the area
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  • 110 1 LOVERS LANE ROBBERY Free Press Staff Reporter FE first robbery in Singapore's "Lovers' Lane' since the City Council installed romantic Chinese lanterns in King George V Park occurred yesterday mon.. A Chinese courting couple were robbed of $170 in jewellery and by two men while they were seated on one
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  • 98 1 HOW WILL the Queen eelebrate Christmas this year? The fifth Christmas Supplement, to appear with the Free Press tomorrow, will answer this question in a special article, "The Royal Christmas at Sandringham". This great supplement will have 24 pages, packed with fine seasonal stories and articles: these
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  • 327 1 RIA, Burnei, Monri RRILUNG operations have begun into the bed of the South China Sea to locate possible underwater extension to Seria oilfield. :ilread> < laimed to be the biggest single field in the Brit mrr.onwealth. Drilling is taking place from
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  • 88 1 'BORSTAL' FOR S'PORE BAD BOYS SINGAPOF. A. M morning t soon Tra ,uig twe< T: Ptl ee It will be run (>t Bor.v The ;il train ing and a> ■■<i by a cou: Coir award a um am three veai> C.T.C or h cou: of a M' mg suitable for
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  • 86 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A FIVE-YEAR -OLD Chinese girl. Ang Kim Slow was among Singapore people who disappeared in 1942 after being taken away for screening by the Japanese military. Her name, with 191 of comprise the latest list of Jap massacre victims published
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  • 17 1 Capt I S been a of the ilar and < ental 4 ;Captai cently retired. Reuter
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  • 225 2 Is this man a MAN? rrna rHnau Yes, he's having a perm. He's just one of rhose 10 per cent of the m«« in Britain whom an expert thinks are "perm conc t o u s." A new mach+ne has been invented for them. No longer need they sneak out
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  • 22 3 A Japanese industrialist and former Minister of Commerce, Mr. Ichizo Kobayashi. aking a visit of several day to Rome- U.P.
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  • 24 3 A mob of 500 persons, led Communists, raided the Nepalese villages of apur and Sisha. looting ested grain from landowners 1 U.P.
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  • 56 3 LONDON. Mon. VN R.A.F. station was alerted and a fire brigade called out the other day— by a model airplane. It crashed into the glass r of the fire alarm on the airfield at Alvaston. Derbyit off. Derby Fire Brigade sent engines. Bu? all they found
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  • 23 3 •The ne w Pakistan Ambassador to Indonesia. Mr. Mudabblr Hussain Choudhury. has presented his credentials to Indonesian President. Dr. Soekarno.— Reuter.
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  • 18 3 The House of Commons has adjourned for the Christmas holidays. It reassembles on January 20. Reuter
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  • 66 3 MOSCOW, Monday. rE Soviet capital is soon to have a new hotel of 1,000 rooms. Expansion of the hotel system is a basic part of the present reconstruction of Moscow. The. new hotel, located near the Kiev railway station On the western bank of the Moskva River. i
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  • 204 3 Mrs. Beaton's sausages are out of date THEY'RE ILLEGAL SAYS A LAWYER LONDON, Mon A LAWYER waved a copy of Mrs. Beaton's Houseshold Management in front of seven magistrates and said This book, recognised as a standard authority on cooking, is now out of date. "If a person follows the
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  • 32 3 Admiral Patrick Brind. British Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces. Northern Europe, will complete his appointment on April 1. 1953, and be succeeded by his deputy. Lieut, General Sir Robert Mansergh.— Reuter
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  • 33 3 France has told the United Nations that she believes the future of the French Cameroons would be better assured within the French Union than as an autonom- ous unit.- A.P.
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  • 402 3 School takes action on girls rnuvi u LONDON. Monday. TCL l4 y 1 ar H? ld f w ourth f o«-mers were suspended for tTkinr n^r^ L nd n lrlS amm^r school •Tick un riri- A. an amaleur production of svhfi r *fV the teen a
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  • 138 3 SYDNEY. Mon. AUSTRALIAN Christmas shoppers, after "a slow I start, came out in full force in the second week of December. There was a record roll of notes in pockets and purses to spend on gift-buying. Commonwealth Bank figures showed a record high
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  • 60 3 NEW DELHI, Mon. A LEADING non violent Gandhian revolutionary, Acharya Vinoba Bhave has been dangerously ill in a remote village in Bihar State for the past six days. Bhave, 58, weighs only 90 pounds. He is suffering from malignant malaria but refused to take medicine saying: "God
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  • 46 3 Canadian Pacific Airlines are planning a non-stop air service between Vancouver and London over the Arcticroute. The service will connect with C.P_A's present nonstop service from Tokyo to Vancouver to provide th r I fastest transport between Asia and Europe. Reuter.
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  • 39 3 House of Representatives investigators in Washington have recommended immedij ate resumption of a New York grand Jury investigation of American Communists in the United Nations after hearing testimony which, they said. made their "blood boil." U.P.
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  • 217 3 LONDON. Monday. A WOMAN tried— and failed— to awaken the man with whom she was living after he said he had taken sleeping tablets, it was stated at a Croydon inquest. The inquest was on Peter i James Gordon, 24. of Farnley- road. South
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  • 208 3 Gof licence without a driving test IPSWICH. Mon. A MOTORIST told Ips- wich magistrates recently that when he went to the local motor taxation office for a motor-cycle licence the man behind the counter told him he would have to take a driving test. He replied: "I won't bother, then."
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  • 41 3 Long wait is over WELLINGTON. Mon. A 72-year-old law clerk, t*. Edwin Cornford, of Napier, New Zealand, has been .dmitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court after waiting 30 years. He passed all his subjects after World War I— except
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  • 410 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Monday. GAMBLING, "sponsored by men of God", is as illegal in California as anv other form of gambling. Raffles, lotteries, dice games and the like may not be used to bolster church finances, according to State law enforcement officers. Those
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  • 62 3 Treatment of Nazi prisoners The Allied High Commission for Germany said in Bonn that the seven top Nazi prisoners at Spandau Prison run by the four Occupation powers in Berlin were enjoying greater facilities than were provided in German prison regulations. The commission's statement issued to the Press was in
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  • 13 3 Britain and Japan will soon sign an aviation agret ment Reuter
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  • 18 3 The West Bengal Government has banned with immediate effect future trading in jute goods. Reuter
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  • 359 3 dealer A K 10 7 I <? 7 OA7 t 4> Q I u» snr e, a A HI! K Q J t 4 t J It I AiU] A 1 ROUTH ft Q«f t I 941 Q• I K J The bidding South W«Mt 4v? «*> All
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  • 26 3 Israel has complained to the United States what she claims were illegal arms shipments by an unnameri the Arab 0 1 1 T*l Reuter
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 475 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are a person of action who is impa with those who can't make up their minds. The stars have riven you a certain amount of Intuitive foreit which makes yon appear to act upon impulse hen actually you know exactly what you are doing:
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    • 44 3 Solution To Crossword No. 849 rCSTCKOAI VOLITION. Across: 1. Retrench. 6. A.T.S. 7. Arcanum. 9. Doone Valley. 11. Tissue paper 12. Diorama. 14. Wee 15 Assessor Down: l. Responses. 2 Tea 3. Enclasp. 4. Can-dle-power. 5. Mandated. 8. May tree* 10. Educate. 13. Ass.
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    • 439 4 tj^HETHER it is more; pleasant to clean; kitchens in Japan than freeze in the trenches of Korea may be a matter of opinion. But some o: the British! Commonwealth troop s who have been in the Ebisu camp And were due to return to their units have
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    • 166 4 THHIS is the season of X "peace on earth, goodwll to men." By a not very strange coincidence, a Congress of the Peoples for Peace Is now being held in I Vienna. The Communists taow. better than the I Western democracies, how ..^wV 1116 thelr Propaganda. At this
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  • 805 4 THE ABADAfi REFINER*" IS HOW ADEAD. LOSS TO PERSIA AND THE WORLD BUT says J. L. HA YS WHATEVER happens in the Aden Supreme Court these next few days whether Anglo-Iranian or the Iranian National Oil Company are found to be the owners of
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  • 101 4 PIPE-LINES— the new-style trousers with tapered i legs are drawing women of I all shapes sizes and ages to I London shops. "This is the biggest irouser fashion craze we have known. a buyer for a Bond Street store, whose sales of pipe-lines have reached nearly 200 a week,
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  • 84 4 TTOANKS to Canadian forex sight and enterprise, Britain's Comet Jet airliner will appear over the Pacific soon. 1 ree years a Mr Grant I McConachle. president of Canadian Pacific Airways, himself a pilot, visited Britain, flew in an early type Come: and immediately ordered two of them. I
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  • 564 4 CHRISTMAS TREE IN LONDON'S CENTRE 1 11l Hill Si LONDON'S Christmas trees are already being prepared. The great one for Trafal-gar-square is up. The Queen's trees have been selected. One of tnese is put up year after year in accordance with a tradition established by her grandfather in the nave
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  • 588 4 Two-way 'squeeze' on Britain BRITAIN'S neighbours try to bring her more closely into the European line-up. They make urgent recommendations. These are analysed here by SYDNEY SMITH PARIS. EUROPE is putting a big two-way squeeze on Britain. Targets are 1, houses; 2, troops. SQUEEZE No. 1 comes from the 18-nation
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  • 314 4  - That Rotten 'Something' in Communism Frank Macmillan CEexh triah f qr« 0 dum By IIfHEN Rudolf Slansky and Vlado Clementis and the other broken puppets of Stalinism were hanged in Prague recently there could be no pity felt for them bv the oppressed people whom they had sold into slavery.
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  • 74 4 A BREAKDOV. negotiations between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the American TV chains over the i of Alms for Canada's new TV system gives Britain bsr biggest chance to break intc a big dollar market. Canada is a memb* the Commonwealth Broad casting Conference and *1 be given every
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  • 84 5 Colony plea to Jakarta on trade I i Aft Reporter igapore trade I el eonsiide between ■d the much imrj appro by for :ering Indonesia 'olony. hat the Gover n m e n t ade .ere to gr "nout apRecommendation "he Sino the for g was attended by •ves of
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  • 24 5 Irerasa's Convent, Sinmove into 5170,000 building next the Free Press undernew building is being the present school. Kampong Bharu, Singa-
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  • 11 5 I elling dismonth dealt <09 new cases. They revisits.
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  • 145 5 China relatives tell Malayans: Cut remittances TT S, "gapore have been Communkts tn ,r la «ves in China that the moneTsen?t«7h£ k f n ,arffe part of the for KoreJ n,m here t0 bu y P ,an es to r reiatives not averse of
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  • 30 5 For ten days beginning totht- Sri Senpaga Vinair Temple, Ceylon Road, apore. will celebrate Thiruvempa Pooja". The temple committee will also celebrate another festival. "Vingayagar Chashdi." eht
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  • 44 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Mon. An armed robbery was reported in Province Wellesley on Friday night when four Chinese, armed with knives held up a Chinese shopkeeper at Sungei Derahaka in Bukit Mertajam. The robbers took $150 cash and a pocket watch.
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  • 117 5 'THE Singapore Naval Base Labour Union announx ced yesterday that it would go on strike next Monday. The announcement followec the rejection by the union oi the Base authorities' conditions for entering arbitration The Superintendent of the Base. Commodore F. M Walton, had told
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  • 26 5 Poor children get free milk Singapore Government Health Department distributed free milk to 2.260 poor children last month. The department also gave 282 mothers free milk.
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  • 90 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: \rthur Kii Park View Hotel Swimming Hub Tg. Khu. I vard. Khu Iruvs \.in\anj: lie Nkv r| Kauns. Broadrirk RU. s>ea ir-.« Hotel, Ea*t Coast ltd. lelok Ktirau Ocean Park Hotel Bed ok hanji .t mile and Prison. I anah Merah
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  • 29 5 MERSING. Mon Inche Osman bin Mohamed Yassin A.S.P.. O.SP.C. Mersing Police has been transferred to Malacca. His place at Mersing has been taken by Mr. J. t. A.S.P.
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  • 28 5 MERSING. Mon.— Law Kim Khee. 32. was fined $25 by the Mersing Magistrate for refusing to produce his identity card to a uniformed police officer.
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  • 78 5 300 SEEK 32 PAWNSHOP LICENCES Free Press Staff Reporter ABOUT 300 people in Singapore have applied for tenders to run 32 pawnshops Government calls for tender. lonce in three years. The licences for the existpawnshops expire at the end of this year. Government is expected to announce the names of
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  • 90 5 SINGAPORE Governmeni will get 15,000 new typ< anti-rabies vaccines in January, next year. Mr A. H Foster. Veterinary Surgeon told the Free Press. The new vaccines will b< brought by ship from th« United Sta:es. The manufacturers of thi: vaccine claim that it will
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  • 32 5 A Chinese lifeguard at the Katong Park swimming pool yesterday saved a 10-year-old I Chinese boy from drowning. The boy got into difficulties while swimming in the s
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  • 212 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. T*HE Federation's new $4 million tuberculosis A sanatorium to be built in Kuala Lumpur will be paid for from profits of Social and Welfare Services i lotteries. The project, inspired by Templer. was called the Templer Sanatorium at yesterday's annual meeting of
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    59 5 THE Gandhi Memorial building in Race Course Lane, Singapore, is expected to be formally opened on Indian Independence Day, Jan. 26. next year. The building is almost com- 1 plete It is being furnished. The ground floor will house a library. There will be a lecture hall, a
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  • 11 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— .1- *~n/-.„-5 MfT havp been
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  • 91 5 Cheaper tyres from today Free Press Staff Reporter r<AR tyres and tubes will be cheaper in Singapore and the Federation from today, the spokesman of a leading rubber company told the Free Press yesterday. The reason: lower manufacturing: costs and lower rubber prices. There are about 150 kinds of tyres
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  • 51 5 43 new T.B. cases Free Press Staff Reporter THERE were 43 cases of tuberculosis reported from Singapore's rural areas last month. This compared with 55 cases during October. Other infectious diseases reported during November were: Chickenpox, 16, diphtheria, 6, poliomyelitis. 1: leprosy, 2. One case of tropical typhus was also
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  • 33 5 A car overturned in Aljunied Road, Singapore, on Saturday. The two passengers inside the car escaped with minor injuries. A cyclist who was also involved in this accident narrowly escaped.
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  • 43 5 TWO ORDAINED PRIESTS Two Church of England deacons, the Rev. Geoffrey Marrison and the Rev. Charles Samuel, were ordained priests at a two-hour 1 ceremony at the St. Andr Cathedral yesterady. The Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H W. Ba conducted the
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  • 146 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City and Legislative Councillor, Mr. M. P. D. Nair, said yesterday that Government should establish slaughter houses in the rural areas. He was commenting on the warning given by the Chief Health Officer, Dr. M. Doraisingham, that worm-infected pork from
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  • 122 5 Plan to stop water wastage 'mine, ouigapure U-iy uuuucu A is considering whether it should install a wate r meter in everv one of the City Council Cabour line blocks to prevent wastage of water by the labourers. Mr. W. S. Stredwick. City Water Engineer, said that if meters were
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  • 188 5 BUILD MORE FIRE STATIONS OUTSIDE CITY, SAYS SHAW SINGAPORE'S fire chief, Mr. I, Shaw, yesterdav warned that unless fire stations were built in the Colony's outskirts, the rural areas would not have adequate fire protection. Fire destroyed $2,000,000 worth of rural property last year. The City s fire engines answered
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  • 35 5 A debate on won.emancipation sponsored j terday by the Malay Youth Literary Society. Singapore, was won by three M.. girls who spokf tor ema: pation against three Malay boys wl fee again
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  • 22 5 The RAF. children's part* for children up to thf age of «ix will today and chil en to 14 tomorr
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  • 147 5 Aid Indian deck passengers, he says KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. BETTER dian passengers rt Swettenham and Pfii.Mg wnere suggested by Mr V A Mohammed H .sain, president of the Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce, at its half-yearly meeting Hi K^d that Indian passenger ships be allowed to go a le the
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  • 43 5 RECRUITS are urgt qu: They need not hav< in engineering iOwledge of tin and excavating -lcome. The new unit will be the Alle; Oeorg rrxod with the Bomb osal Branch of the h re naked th«* Corpa Road Telephone *****.
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  • 484 6  -  JIM CHAMBERS Bv Cardiff hold leaders to a goalless draw WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS, top of the first division of the English football league, battled a gale and a sturdy Cardiff City defence on Saturday to earn a point from their scoreless draw. In dismal conditions Wolves forwards
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  • 143 6 GIANT TO INVADE S'PORE GARGUANTUA, the giant German wrestler, is expected to arrive in the Colony on Dec. 29. The German, is 7ft. 6in. high and weighs 490 lb. He will be the biggest man to step Into a Singapore ring. Garguantua will have his fir^t right on Jan. 3.
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  • 315 6 RUGBY TRIALS FAIL INTERNATIONAL trial matches dominated Saturdays U.K. Rugby Urfion programme. In the second English trial, played in deplorable weather at Exeter, the Probables and Possibles tied at 12 p each, and in the first Scottish trial at Melrose the Rest edged Scotland. 8-6. English selectors, learned little It
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  • 73 6 Barrow 13. Swinton 0: Bradford Northern 12. Oldham 8: Dewsbury 4. Wakefield Trinity 0; Doncaster 6. Cas'leford 7; Featherstone Rovers 15. York 12: Huddersfield 3. Leigh 3; Hull Kingston Rovers 5, Hunslet 6; Keighley 4. Halifax 4; Leeds 23. Hull 8; Liverpool City 7. Whitehaven 3: Rorhdale Hcrnets
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  • 426 6 Solomons is away, so—- IT is surprising how the absence abroad of a promoter can appear to quieten down the boxing activity, but with Jack Solomons on the high seas, bound for Australia, there certainly is inactivity among the major stars of the ring
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  • 113 6 'T'HE Singapore Badmmton Association's open championships finals will be played at the SBA Hall on Dec 29 at 8 p.m. Admission charges will be $1/md 50 cents (gallery The ties are: Mens singles: Ong Poh Llm <F Ismail bin Marjan (Shell*. Women's singles: Helen Heng
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  • 17 6 Wales 1-0 in an international soccer match played at Seletar yesterdi
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  • 26 6 The December mixed foursomes plav at the Royal Singapore Club yesterday, was won by Ackers and M.M Paterson "with a net score of 34
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  • 23 6 RUGGER: S.C.C. B" v RE.. padang. HOCKEY: S.H.A. quadrangular, R.A.E. v Navy. S.R.C.. 4 p.m.. Army v Civilians. S.R.C.. 5 p.m.
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  • 57 6 DIMINUTIVE Filipino tennis ace Felicisimo Ampon took a doubles partner for life yesterday. The 30-year-old world famous net star married .Miss Angeles Arceo in a simple ceremony The news of Ampon's marriage came as a surprise to Filipino sporting circles. Ampon was dubbed "the greatest tennis player
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  • 275 6  - Trabert shows something t o worry Aussies GAYLE TALBOT By T»HE Australians became full L United States has an ex t rem, ah hat th. singles player for them to t s,kf "r^ Davis Cup challenge round at > In trouncin Gardini on Saturday, in th< the inter-zone final b
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  • 8 6 HUMEZ IS READY FOR TURPIN >|Mb N A.P.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 88 6 MdndrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya flt\ I They carry their deadly loot I the uranium thieves! taking "V rSJ -v. <=3ZT^--v HURRIEDLY TO THE MYSTERIOUS EXACTLY TWELVE BARS! BUT HOW In the uranium vault, the peopl e [V 'J p -LtT\ C^- cao£ in m,CH t^yhave
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  • 110 7 To be watered if there is no rain From JACK HKAt'MOXT pHEI B no fast work this morning when ;;en m the final stages of pre,n tor the Penang Turf Club's hristnr ls ar meeting which begins on FHH- 1 T ck wUI th vSSi
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  • 54 7 Five States in shield hockey IV Singapore, t Penang, v ind Perak (the be held the Christh will be 0 a.m. on Fn'erak and "ation te Chris* the Pen- -elation ..1 be p. be pre.re -*:ll be a ind om are the fixPerak v Penang; .r.g; Sings»:apore v Nev Pe:
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  • 135 7 I comf or of the trie r.roff. A fill that vital replay aga noroughly rourth All the grade. ell. kicked stronge bouncing ball above all. tackled low and -owned a brilliant i try. he match B hat he had State g <hadowed Shah scored rjet -,ed a
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  • 84 7 $1 55,000 STADIUM FOR IPOH JJY Um middle of next year, it is hoped that Ipoh will s stadium, m m commi of the I Queen E 1 1 Stac in r »mprising reof soccer, r hock- ket-ball and Cour. Town rd Government lias projer has made a o be
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  • 45 7 REMBAN. Sun.— Ulu L<r jockey team from K righting 2-0 to Neari Sembilar. Chinese RC on the b padan. :ed once in each :e-left John Siow and ah. re on the Club p -1. Score were Ibrahim :der Singh replied for
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  • 43 7 ALA LUMPUR. Sun. l School team from he Kampong i ground today. I led 1-0 at half time but two goals by centreforward Zainal in the second half gave :o the K.L. boys j Xhf ore Malay School lty.
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    46 7 p wre) beat ..ish School. Batu i points < 2 goals to d open game of i rugger plaved «t Victoria School j ground on Saturday. After a scoreless first half, Victorians went on to score two tries left -centre Charlie C Oiee Cheng converted
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  • 247 7 S'pore Quad Hockey Civilians 3; Royal Navy 0. rjIYIIJANS moved to the top of the Singapore Hockey Association's Quadrangular Hockey Competition with a convincing victory over Royal Navy, at Changi yesterday. They have no w won their two games in the meet. Civilians' last game will
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  • 343 7 New pool opens on January 1 SINGAPORE swimmers have no qaalms about the sides being rough when the new City pool .at Yan Kit Road opens its gates to the public for the first time on New Year's Day. There will be no danger of nmers injuring themes on the
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  • 294 7 ROYAL Air Force can count themselves extra lucky to have held a spirited Army team to a one-all draw in their Singapore Quadrangular match at Changi yesterday. The Airmen started off well and within the first ten minutes were a goal up. They looked all set
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  • 18 7 fi- G.L 6. dislocated his right elbow' Raffles had the better of *•<-_ hilt Q Q
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  • 66 7 PORT SWETTENI,AM. Sun. Men of HMS Whitesand Bay had a field day today when 'hev Port Swettenham Youngster.cricket and Dravidians at soccer At cricket they won by 37 runs Their highest scorer was White with 45 runs not out. The visitors beat Dravidiaus by six goals to
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  • 72 7 CELANOOB Hockey Assn. decided at a special general meet- i itiß at the Victuri.t Institution hall yesterday to make provision in its rules for the transfer of players from one club to another during the playing season. As revised, the rule now states that each club must
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  • 216 7 "Never kayoed F.P. Boxing Reporter MEL BROWN. the A American Negro li^ht-heavyweight who claims to have a date with Britain's Randolph Turpin in February or March, displayed his wares at the Happy World Stadium yesterday morning. And what Mel ha^ to show certainly signalled a
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  • 48 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Owing to heavy rain the Negri Sembilan V Selangor soccer match in aid of i the F.A M. Building Fund which I was to have been played here today was called off. The University v Selangor Combined Schools hockey fixture was also cancelled.
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  • 301 7 LIM KEE FONG meets Yeoh Teck Chye for the singles title in the Selangor badminton championships. The holder, Abdullah Piruz, is not competing. I Kee Fons; and Teck Chye j were members of Malaya's j Thomas Cup team of 1948-49. Last ni^ht Kee Fong beat
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  • 32 7 photo. MEL BROWN, skipping at the Happy World arena yesterday morning during; a training session. The American Negro will have a workout again today at 11 a.m. Free Press
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  • 133 7 Sportsletter Sir, Your article Of Dec. 19 on Who is the referee for Dec. 26?'\ I do not think that ont Of the wcsent day croo of referees anyone could be better than Eric Dunsford. He has the couraae of his convictions, knows the game inside out
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  • 29 7 A hat-trick by Alderman helped Royal Air Force Seletar to score a 6-1 victory over H.M. Cusl in the SHA junior knockout competition at Seletar on Saturday.
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  • 291 7 Footballer in hospital after 'free-for-all' Police-M.O.R. Cup final Free Pre et Reporter Special Constables 3; K\^( 0 IVHAT promised to be a thrilling: cup final betw the Polite Spec i.il *.nstabulary and the Rov.tl Army Service Corps at the Poh til hool ground on Saturday was marred by a ten
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  • 33 7 CHAIRMAN I N' the i f nn old iham a i i a Square OCI r Jol "an ner, subject to d Pres> card had of <(\ 6 iello
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  • 508 8 U.N. TO DISCUSS P.o.W. DEATHS Russia charges US with murder NEW YORK. Monday. IHE UNITED STATES yesterday agreed to have the I'nited Nations General Assembly consider iet charges of the murder of Communist war prisoners in Korea, but termed the accusations a shabbv propaganda trick. The U.S. delegate. Dr. Philip
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  • 249 8 CHICAGO, Monday. THE Brodie Siamese twins are righting for life with amazing tenacity more than 63 hours after an operation which separated them. Attendants and officials at the University of Illinois research and educational hospital warned that the babies were in as much danger as
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  • 39 8 Mr. Frank Gannett, proprietor of a chain of newspapers in New York State, has proposed to Presidentelect Eisenhower that the Federal Government establish a department of peace, headen bv an official with full cabinet rank.— Reuter
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  • 33 8 The Duke of Edinburgh has accepted an invitation to attend the All-England badminton championships at the Empress Hall, London, next March, the Badminton Assoelation of England an- nounced yesterday Reuter
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  • 38 8 The United Nations Economic and Social Council have agreed to invite Italy, Hungary and Finland to the next meeting on trade promotion to be held by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East- A.P.
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  • 230 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. THE Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the United States Government's lending agency, realised a net income of $15,345,651 for the 1952 fiscal year, which ended on June 30. from Its synthetic rubber, tin and abaca fibre activities. Mr Harry McDonald, administrator of the corporation,
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  • 35 8 Mickey Spillane. a mildmannered young author whose mystery novels of sex and sadism have sold millions of copies, has announced the sale of film rights to his books for U*****,000.— A.P.
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  • 73 8 Reclos Manari. chauffeur of the Italian Communist chief. Palmiro ToglicUl. an- i nouncen in Romp vesterday would give 10.000,000 lire (£5,750) to the Italian Communist Party from a football pool prize of 54.000.000 lire he won a fortnight ago. The new lire multi-millio-naire said in a message
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  • 25 8 The German financial expert. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. for Bonn yesterday after a week's consultations with the Syrian Government on fiscal: anrf economic problems.
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  • 37 8 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in New York yesterday in the Queen i Mary to spend a few days in New York before going to I Tallahassee, Florida, for quail shooting.— Reuter
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  • 173 8 KATHMANDU, Mon. rE SWISS expedition which tried to scale Mount Everest last month gx>t I within 2,320 feet of the I 29,002- foot summit before they were beaten back by rold. Two main reasons were ven for the failure: 1 A 100-mile an hour gale
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  • 99 8 LONDON. Mon THE Duke of Edinburgh soared off on his first solo flight on Saturday and passed the test easily after a single month of flying lessons. The 31-year-old husband of the Queen took a trainer plane into the air on his own for 15 cautious
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  • 58 8 LONDON. Mon GROUP CAPTAIN Peter Townsend. an extra equerry to the Queen, won a divorce on the grounds of the misconduct of his wife. Mrs Cecil Rosemary Townsend Capt. Townsend formerly was Deputy Controller of the Royal Household at Buckingham Palace. John Adolphus de Lasclo. son of
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  • 161 8 QUARREL KEPT THEM APART FOR 51 YEARS LONDON, Mon. MRS. Agnes Mathieson, 73-year-old Saltcoats widow, has married her sweetheart of 60 years ago, Mr. James Jarvis. also 73, of Bellingham, Washington State. The wedding might h taken place 51 years ago but for a lovers' quarrel. For it was then
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  • 53 8 BORDEAUX M APPROXIMATELY 1.000 persons were moved from their homes in the north section of Bordeaux ape the bo: of the Garonne rl e decision to move inhabit. d farm am: from the area cam the waters broke two openings in the dyke ;ha: had been built
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  • 36 8 The competence and pc of the Indian field ambulance unit serving in Korea has won many friends for their nation. Eighth Army Chief Surgeon Brig. -Gen. Holmes Ginn said in Seoul yesterday. U.P.
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  • 25 8 The first Japanese priest to go to India to preach Buddhism since the war sailed from Yokohama for Calcutta yesterday Reuter-A.P.P.
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  • 18 8 Mr. Joseph I. Linton. Israel's first Minister to Japan. ha> I in T with his wife. A.P.
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  • 162 8 LONDON, Mondav. THE British Patent Office has just celebrated its A centenary with an exhibition which threw i spotlight on some curious aspects of human inventiveness. Main part of the exhibition was of straightforward inventions and historical documents. Officials with a s< of humour,
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  • 44 8 Ten Syrians died in a passenger plane which crashed into a mountain top about 56 miles north of Damascus while searching for a Dutch Catalina flying boat. The hostess and a journalist are among: the victims. There were five survivors. Reuter
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  • 18 8 Italian guards seized three tons of illegal cigarettes on the peninsula of Gargano near Foggia.— A.P.
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  • 137 8 Bound for Red China TAIPEH, Mono A MERCHANT freighter believed to be on n to Communist China with 1,000 tons of iron other strategic materials was turned over to the Nationalist China authorities after the ships crew mutinied, it was reported yesterday. The Nationalist authorities
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  • 8 8 A crisis looms in Royal nursery asdfasfjsjpa A.P.
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