The Singapore Free Press, 9 April 1953

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    16 1 The Singapore Free Press IJS73. Singapore 1 I. us Apr. 9. 19-3. I'ri< c U (is
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    SINGING GIRLS IN PANIC
    267 1  - SINGING GIRLS IN PANIC SIT YIN FONG oiNGmr Hv Lore fiotes /fear oiNGmr t gimauui m,i. wirt- Ui a panic m Singap*re*i cafet laat might WlMn thi > heard that one t.l their numb r Mi- (hen Ml i Kvuinir, had been -tabbed h> someone unknown to her. Miss hen
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    Millions prepare to flee from volcano in Java
    162 1 Millions prepare to flee from volcano in Java CENTRAL Javanese authorities yesterday were completing plans for possible evacuation of 1,900,000 peaple threatened by rumblings m the Mt. Merapi volcano. Dr A. De Neve. Chief of Indonesia's Volcanologic Service. said 'round-the-clock observers had spotted a small flow of lava through a
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    Red warship will salute the Queen
    85 1 The Soviet cruiser, Sverdlov, will come to Britain to salute the Queen at a Coronation naval review on June 15, the British Admiralty announced last nie,ht. The cruiser, commanded by Captain I. Rudauov, join m firing a 21-gun Koyal salute as the Queen •>ads
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    Rubber price
    29 1 Singapore Rubber Market u-mM« uncertain this morning nf «c rst &*&*> A P ri l shipment, lnuM cc lts a Pound, i 2 cent be--1^ w J^te^3dosing. I
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    Thieves blindfold woman
    73 1 j\ SI NGAPORE Chinese houseWhif, Wifo sta ying m a house m blinHf e L Road was yesterday folded by a gang of four knifemen and stripped Of T^ €r Jewellery. ne woman was alone when the men entered. They pushed her Into a room :iftr banda^ir.^
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    2 TUBE TRAINS CRASH: 8 KILLED
    126 1 TWO CROWDED electric underground trains m London piled up m tunnel last night killing an estimated eight homeward bound city workers Seven people are still believed trapped m the coaches. Between 20 and 30 were taken to hospital, some seriously injured. One train ran
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    Arbitration on pay opens in public
    93 1 Arbitration on pay opens in public More than 100 people, including a number of Government employees, attended the public arbitration on the Singapore postal wage dispute, which opened at the Gan Eng Seng School this morning. The Deputy Financial Secretary, Mr. M. C. Compton, fur the Government, said: 'This is
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    SHOOTING WAR OVER VERY SOON -YOUNG SULTAN ARRIVES IN LONDON
    119 1 SHOOTING WAR OVER VERY SOON -YOUNG SULTAN ARRIVES IN LONDON I i COL. A. E. Young. Chief of the I ,1 y I .ondon Poln r who Mas loaned to the Federation of Malaya, said In Manila terdiv that the situation m Malaya had improved tremendously." He predicted ihst th*
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    SULTAN ARRIVES IN LONDON
    44 1 THK Sultan of Selangor with p.irty of 20 arrived m London last night for the Coronation on the Golden Arrow express from Paris. The Sultan wore a heavy silver grey sarong over warm trousers topped with a dark brown overcoat.
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    ADLAI STEVENSON STOPS OVER
    49 1 Mr. Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic Party's candidate m America's 1952 presidential election, arrived m Singapore at 1 30 a.m. today from Saigon en route to Jakarta. He will leave at noon today and return to Singapore on April 13 for his official sevenday Malaya visit.
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    MAU WAS A JOMO PLOT
    470 2 The 'master mind' gets 7 years MR. Itan>k>) Thackcr, o:_-\ car-old hen\a mau>trak\ told the bearded African leader. Jomo Kenyatta, m Nairobi yesterday that he w,is satisfied that he >us the "master mind" behind a plan to drive out the Kuropc»an> from the countn. He
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    As feather would have done it
    50 2 MAYOR Jak-r Smith ordered the noman defendant m a traffic violation case In Che peake, Ohio, to urite 200 tr- I shall not cross the line" or pay a $5 fine. She uas one of his former school teachers. The teacher paid the fine
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    ATTEMPT ON PEAK
    42 2 The Swiss Himalayan expedition left New Delhi last niejt for Nepal to try to climb an ur.conquered 26 795 foot Himalayan mountain. l)hau)# iri. No expedition has \tt climbed a mountain as high as Dhaulagirl—fifth highest m the world
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    Expedition finds a pigmy elephant
    87 2 Expedition finds a pigmy elephant AN Italian scientific expedition reported yesterday from Africa it had shot a tiny pigmy elephant of a species hitherto unknown. Capt. Antonio Ziccardi, radioing his report from Southern Somaliland, termed the expedition's discovery "one of the rarest animal findings ever made." He described the elephant
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    TURKISH SHIPS COLLIDE
    47 2 The Turkish liner "Ordu" 'bound froon Canakkale to Istanbul, was involved m a slight collision with another Turkish Bhip, the Bursa, m the Dardanelles late on Tuesday at the lame -soot where the Swedish freighter "Naboland" and thTurkish submarine "Durr/l.ipinar" collided on Saturday morning.
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    U.N. rejects Soviet 'Disarm' amendment
    240 2 THE GENERAL Assembly of the United Nations yesterday rejected a Soviet amendment on disarmament, which the I'nited States said would turn the clock back." As a consequence Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky. the Soviet delegate, voted against the majority when the Assembly approved by 52 to five
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    STOLE 4 KINDS OF CURRENCY
    74 2 A thief early this morning broke into the house of a European couple m Leonie Road, Singapore, and escaped with four kinds of currency, but no Malayan. He took 1.000 Japanese yen. 50 Hong Kong dollars. $25 U.S. currency, and 150 Siamese ticais. When the
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    WEAPONS BAN
    19 2 The Defence Department m I Washington yesterday banned public demonstrations of new weapons and military equip--1 ment.
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    Burning zeal
    28 2 Harold R.Haas, a volunteer fireman, was remanded on bail m Alliance (Ohio* after poVe had alleged he admitted ttart™litT*s&*" so that he could driv€ A. P.
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    Security approves comic muse—in verse.
    222 2 Security approves comic muse in verse. rIE Security Branch of the British Minisir% of Supph has tivrn a ruling on doggerel verve (i X thry MJ lo make a joking rhwne about a set t misviif v\ hi< h iu»t pM instead of sing". I hats no rime. The question
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    ATTACKS ON FRENCH OUTPOSTS
    126 2 ATTACKS ON FRENCH OUTPOSTS A CHAIN ot French outp> along th.> eouthern Hanoi defence perimeter beat off I strong pn attack! by j Communist '.trees m what the French Command said may be the prelude of a major Com- munist brd to invade the vital Red River erlta. Sharp fighting
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    Russia is told: Prove sincerity
    136 2 f^R. Konrad Adenauer, tb *r West German Chancellor -relay challenged the Boi Government to prove {he cerity of their "peace offensive*' ig free all-German and by releasing the 300.000 German prisoners of war now m the Soviet Union. The Chancellor, m Washington for talks with
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    35 2 picture. The Burmese Consul. Mr. U. Ba Thaung. cuts the ribbon at the entrance to the Union of Burma Airways' Marathon aircraft yesterday |0 open the Singapore end of the new Rangoon-Singapore service. Free Press
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    CENSURE DEFEATED
    41 2 The Political Committee w the U.N yesterday rejected by 40 votes to five with 14 absentions a Czechoslovakian resgu Lon seektaf to condemn al ed interference by the unit.d States m the interna la fa irs Soviet associated countries.
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    EDEN IN HOSPITAL
    34 2 The Foreign Secretary. Mr. j Anthony Eden, whose ill health has caused some concei n among his friends, entered the London clinic last ni^ht for a gall bladder operation todny. I
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    CUSTOMS SEIZE GOLD
    37 2 Revenue officers seized about US$lO,OOO m gold bars ficm a Swedish ahip before hw depa^ ton from OTI rr Je d n three Saturday and ari charge* Hong Kong Chinese on cnarg old smuggling-
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    CIRCUS ACROBAT
    37 3 picture. PRETTY SOMA STFVI) (?0> is one of the acrobats of the German Busch Circus which arrived m Singapore from Colombo yesterday. Sonia and euht other Steyds do trapeze and tight-rope walkin; acK- Free Press
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    Big drop in price of 'free' gold
    101 3 Big drop in price of 'free' gold BLACKMARKET gold has dropped by more than $30 per tahil since last week, Singapore dealers told the Free Press yesterday. Three reasons were given unsettled trade conditions, heavy drop m the rubber price, and reports of peace m Korea. Gold bars, which were
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    CHURCHILL SAYS: SORRY
    21 3 Mr. Churchill yesterday sent condolences to Turkey on the [Oil of the submarine Dumlupnar and her crew. A.P.
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    INDUSTRIALIST DIES
    28 3 Seth Malchand Hirachand. °ne of India's greatest industrial pioneers, died yesterday at bidhpur. the western Indian Hindu Pilgrimage centre, after a long illness. He was 71.
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    Cheaper U.S. goods for Singapore
    126 3 Cheaper U.S. goods for Singapore MANY Singapore businessmen are "cashing m" on the neavy drop m the blackmarket exchange rate of U.S. dollars m H °ng Kong. r^« st mon «h the blackmarket jwe stood at $6.10 <h.k.) for one rm?: ollar Yesterday, it was h7„ 5- 9 0-just 11
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    POLICE O.K. BIKINI ACT IN STORE SHOW
    225 3 POLICE O.K. BIKINI ACT IN STORE SHOW Manager called on to 'explain it' yv.xiOK! s ne* GIBI m bikini show. wh.<i. vs.is staged for the eijjhth time list night h.is passed iwlice CENSORSHIP, and is to stay. Id the 1- nave no oh 1 In a waiting for the pol.
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    Fairy story
    121 3 MR. TAO H. SENG, g ter and top a r to Chiang Kai-shek, m Twpeh. Formosa, yesterday related, a story might have been put m Hans Andersen for m something like Once upon a time there was a wicked king called Stalin. He had two Ministers named Malenkov
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    First low-cost flats ready next month
    157 3 Free Press Staff Reporter TW: SlT's first low-cost flats at Buller Camp, of x Alexandra Road, will be ready for occupation next month. I A total of 900 of these flats are being built others at Outram, Norfolk and Kirn Keat Roads. The flats
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    MOSCOW MEETING
    21 3 The Indian Ambassador to Moscow, Mr. K. P. S. Menon, yesterday saw the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Vyachelav Molotov.
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    QUAKE IN CHILE
    24 3 A violent earthquake shook the central provinces of Chile yesterday. There were no immediate reports of property damage or injuries. A.P.
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    MOSCOW PAPER
    27 3 The Soviet Nav y newspaper, Red Fleet, has ceased publication after more than 14 years as the organ of the Soviet Ministry of the Navy.
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    It's flying too high they say
    125 3 It's flying too high they say VIM \Nt: for sale at VM.JidO? "No, Nr arr not interested said ofli i.ils m the Singapore partment of Civil Aviation and th *l Singapore 11% ing luh I li* v were commenting on a report from Penang m \eslerda\ straits Times 1.i.1, ..nil
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    5 MAU MEN SHOT
    57 3 A patrol of the King's African Rifles, aided by Kikuyu homeguards, yesterday shot dead five terrorists including a Mau Mabranch chairman and treasurer m forest clearing near Kiarnbo. They also round a post office savings Bank with a Mau Mau account totalling more than t: 100
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. April 9, 1953.
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      IT'S NOT AIL OVER
      385 4 rpHE terrorists still \pkXft some kick m them. Yesterday m an estate m the flunid Si put area of Perak. 20 of them ambushed a party of eisht special constables and shot six dead This vicious attack the first major incident of its kind for some
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    Red Satellites will NOT Revolt Yet
    778 4  - Red Satellites will NOT Revolt Yet JOHN FISHER STALIN'S DEATH HAS STARTED WISHFUL THINKING says M'k xt door neLghboiu at dinner part> week was a highl llipent young woman on *c starl be German mafic Mission m Londo:. V\ ;lking. as mast diplomats were .at evening, about wtaeti leath would
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    Wife for a King, but where?
    367 4 Wife for a King, but where? "Wanted a beautiful girl of Royal blood, interested marriage to tall, dark, good-looking King actively employed. Two palaces. All comforts." IF there were a royal publication anywhere m the world, the Belgian people would buy a want-ad along the above lines for young King
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      13 4 VtuM*£k on* M of a V^^B PHOM ?.SH T#-21. lIK.H ST- SPOIE. S
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    It's an all-girl circus (almost)
    236 5 FAMILY AFFAIR picture Free Press Staff Reporter THE performers of the famous German Busch C ire us which arrived m Singapore yesterday are nearly all women. Of the 30 members of the troupe, only about a dozen are men including two clowns, two trapeze artists,
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    THEY CAN SPEAK FOR UNIONS
    88 5 THEY CAN SPEAK FOR UNIONS PAID or part-time secretaries of trade unions m the Colony can represent them at negotiations. Government labour officials said yesteday. There is no law to prevent them from doing so, if the unions' rules allow it. The Registrar of Trade Unions. Mr. Sng Choon Yee.
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    MR. MOLOTOV AT MOSCOW PARTY
    62 5 Mr Vyacheslav Molotov, the yet Foreign Minister, and SL l Mik °yan, Minister of ti ce d aT l d F reign Trade aN FinnS, S reception at the rrart.iL Em °assy on Monday to mm e fiftn annlvesary of the mS of the Soviet-Finnish
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    MEDICAL TALK
    25 5 Sin K annr Wll L be a meeting of the the K re Pediatric Society m CS ral Hos P ital 8.15 p.m.
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    OUR LABOURERS ARE TOO SPOILT, SAYS MALLAL
    227 5 OUR LABOURERS ARE TOO SPOILT, SAYS MALLAL 'Unemploymen I doesn *t exist talk of unemployment m Singapore leaves Mr N A. Mallal. Colony Legislative Councillor Void" sn___l_r >' esterda y 'I don't think it MMMM. There is a shortage of labour, especially of skilled He 3Mi4 that labourers m Singapore
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    35 DIED
    15 5 Pneumonia killed 35 people m Singapore Tor the week rmiinf? Mar. 28. I
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    CHURCH BAZAAR
    38 5 The Fairfield Methodist Church. Singapore, will hold a bazaar at the Fairfield Girls' School m Neil Road on Saturday. The bazaar, m aid of the church fund, will be open from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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    POLICE BAND
    20 5 The Singapore Police Band will play at the Botanic Gardens from 5.30 pm. to 6.30 p.m on Sunday.
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    Service for Newton
    50 5 MRS. ELMER SEWTON, widow of the late USIS chief m Singapore, at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday with Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald after a special memorial service for her husband, who died on Sunday. In the centre is the Archdeacon of Singapore, Yen. Robin Woods. photo. Free Press
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    18 are told: There's no Change Alley in London
    209 5 18 are told: There's no Change Alley in London Free Pre» Staff Reporter SIM. PORKS Public Relations Secretary. Mr. f_ U. Thomson, yesterday srirrxr<d the If officers from Ural armed farces who will represent the < alany al tha C ornnatian nai to bargain when they shop In London. When
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      108 5 il RACE I NKHI [ATTRACTION 5 THE BLIND a_ fne GREAT WORLD CABARET I Sat. 11th April, 8.30 p.m. t* 1 a.m. I "JOCKEYS on PARADE" a 9 JOCKEYS ROTARY DERBY Horses Jockeys m fall kit/ The CAR CAR Dance Q FRANCISE FLANNERY B lACQULENE JMITH PHYLLISE TANKARD g GEORGETTE
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    THREE OFFICERS GAOLED
    360 6 She says: Don tlike to think you can 't trust a policeman (4NK night m December 1 the sound of crashing ""glass shattered the silence Of I Manchester street It disturbed a woman who sat up m bed and \s atoned through _Mff window And it stalled
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    THEY ARE ONLY HALF WED
    150 6 THEY ARE ONLY HALF WED WITH the Wedding March pealing out. a couple walked down the aisle but there had been only "half a wedding" and they were still not husband and wife. The bridegroom, Mr. Bryan James, 23-year-old accountancy student, of Kensington Park Gardens. London, arrived for his wedding
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    Limit 'L' tests, says police chief
    55 6 Limit 'L tests, says police chief LEARNER drivers who keen failing "L" tests should be barred from the roads, it was urged In Britain recently. Shropshire and Staffordshire road safety committees fay tests should be limited and Wolverhampton's chief constable said: "I've heard of one case where a driver took
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    DOPE AGENT GAOLED
    41 6 Frank Maldonado was sentenced m El Paso. Mexico, to five years m prison on a charge of buying 10.718 grams of marijuana to sell m New York. Maldonado told the judge, "I planner to smoke it all myself."
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    MAYER WARNS
    36 6 The French Prime Minister. M. Rene Mayer, warned yesterday that there would be a real risk of world war if the Western allies were persuaded by Soviet peace overtures to relax their defence efforts.
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    We won't pay, say the 40 wives of Jericho
    77 6 WHEN they turn on their taps housewives at Jericho Bury, get a trickle of water only. Sometimes there is none at all. Babies, they say. cannot be bathed, meals cannot be prepare d. Officers of Irwell Valley Water Board are puzzled.
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    Girl says: I gave no consent to either
    364 6 Girl says I gave no consent to either ANE of two men who were alleged to have taken two girls for trips m a lorry had not been traced by the police, it was stated at West Bromwich, Staffs. The other man, William Watton, aged 19. lorry driver's mate, of
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    THE PRIVATE LIFE OF a WINDOW CLEANER
    309 7 iiiiNG how a man replied to an advertisement by ll of two sisters. Mr. Walter Frampton the ma*is- turned to him as he stood m the dock at the h Western Court. London, and said: "Your trouble you are tied up with too
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    NCO held parties for the girls, court told
    294 7 iN Army sergeant iiic_„ Vnterer gave three or four 'JrtS ri week for Naan girls Sused two bottles of spirits night, an Oswestry court martial wa s told. n d when the officer ln charge 0 < the __ea_ accounts asked jor
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    MAD MEN AT LARGE
    43 7 mlh Fren eh Police armed wltn lh f^ guns yesterday comb?d »c woods and hills of Proven.LIT lunati three of them SSSSSi; who tscaped fri,m m*?*? y farm house«. doors M windows were barred Men 2^en indoors handy and
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    Grandmother of 48 has triplets
    98 7 Grandmother of 48 has triplets TRIPLETS were born recently to a 48-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Ivy Spencer, of i Hove. Sussex, All were gir.s. One died; the others weighed 4 Ib. 3oz. and 31b. 10 oz. The matron of the Sussex: Maternity Hospital, Mrs. E. M. Hyslop. said: "The mother and
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    Fire, water—and water
    42 7 Fire, water— and water fl H 'U Areme n poured water into a blazing hunaaiow m "^rnpton Court Road. Twickenham. Middlesex, salr'ue th f r jL Mmped water out of the house next door where nea L of the names burst pipe.
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    ROYAL INVITATION' FOR GAOLED MAN
    163 7 A LASTAIR MeKENZIE, 22-year-old painter serving 21 A days' detention at Maryhill Barracks for failing to do his Territorial duty, has been invited to apply to take part m ceremonial duties during the Queen s visit to the West of Scotland m June. iv me
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    SHE BIT POLICE TO SAVE HUSBAND
    66 7 No one. not even the police, can get away with trying to take Lvi Sai-kui's husband away from her. A police officer arrived at her house the other day to arrest her husband for an unspecified offence. What did she do about it? She
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    She eloped with a diplomat's son
    118 7 I OTILI Jarkir Moran is not only pretty Li and talented i.ut is r< porUnt peopir he wife of Manuel Moran Jr who is the son of the Philipo.ii. \rnba_sador to Spain. Jackie sttrted dan. kat when Nhe wax three years old ll*r mother
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    It's necks bend, here comes Sheila (6ft. 3)
    265 7 r OOK up, all you lofty pirl six-footers look up to 6ft 3 m. Sheila Bax, a 15 year- old schoolgirl, of Wise Lane, near Sittingbourne. Kent. Surprise? Well, meet the rest of the Bax family. Ie la 12-year-old Tony at 5
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    HER FAMOUS LAST WORDS END A ROMANCE
    154 7 HER FAMOUS LAST WORDS END A ROMANCE YVONNE DE CARLO, the Hollywood star who has turned down or at least denied romances with some of the world's most eligible men, has found the position reversed. This time it was the man Carlos Thompson, the Argentinian actor, interviewed m Hollywood who
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    SUBSIDISED G.I.
    38 7 A council house tenant at Bishops Stortford. Herts, who sublet his house to an American soldier without permission, has been given notice to quit because the council "cannot allow Americans to be subsidised by British ratepayers/*
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    TOY ELEPHANT
    18 7 A nine -year-old boy swallowed a plastic toy elephant at Chesterfield. Derbyshire. He is m hospital.
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    'Murder in the thedral'
    526 8  - 'Murder in the thedral' IAN GRANT T. S. Eliot's* the Victoria I Look to your behaviour; you were safer think of penitence and follow your master. 9 Archbishop Becket to the First Tempter (Denis Snowman). Traitor traitor traitor One of the knights to the Archbishop (below). TS. ELIOT'S verse- drama
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      471 10 MANDRAKE, THE MACICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis yp*V T 7 1 I TMIQNIrYf I YOU LET HIM G£T .Vt'vE 0»E CKOU6H. hK)T JKUL AFTE* OKAY. EvW- AMAHN6 QKLMBIAXI re.*,, J'N 4 w ''J. A^YrW^OULOA TWI^ AW G£TTIW TME BIG SHOW. BOOVuBE ri W.O^4A. fIjTMF b> 1 MPT? WYMO
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    WHERE DREAMS BECOME YOUR INHERITANCE
    491 11  - WHERE DREAMS BECOME YOUR INHERITANCE Egon Larsen V MM-.'All itetrirl i i' f Uw ""^ftir rear thousand* d SSrtheli wishful his hOB little as t look v s orn i; d o So mf Ste, of H-. Seams of Invent Britain and all over >he world. Here, they arr given
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    Bridge Hand
    354 11 p!9 was another deal from the I World Championship Team of »ht Match which helped the Amer- team, captained by Howard &Mn. to pile up a part of it.« PRpdnt margin of victory. A oiddlng that told the 2__* In this deal there w MM of link added.
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      572 11 WlmJ:kW:W9^ THE BALL' c gl r y r J g4,000 PRIZE MONEY/ i+ f|fr*/H! RULES CONDITIONS OF ENTRY What you have to do Over a per<od ot two months six different sports pirtures w.u he appearing m Malaya's newspapers Each picture *viil appear for one *v#«ek Today feature* Basketball and
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      188 11 Today s Crossword M *CROSS. 1. li Bpac l_> r~f^^^ ~____B~ ~f^^ Sounds' MH MBSJ ■H^BHH~*^__l aK 'Mt* »a n 4l 1 _P I**r.t htv* •wm __l _Js_HW_B— "io t*. i? i l7 >. _n 1 H____l^_ LssJ *«3D*r ek. *v. ___________a^^^____ 1 ix> s Mr* *th T.jya \u m
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    GIRLS EXPLORE IN LALLANG
    408 12  -  ot i ins <ni i n ixto fmck i>hi:ss shut <oit\i h Climb feature of holiday camp By P.L. KOH AIIIKI by lf> Singapore Ciirl (iude> and four oflicers from the 11th mpllj (Central District), who zigzagged their wav to the summit of PMftf Panjang Hill
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    WHITE RIDERS
    156 12 letters must h<> short CAN anyone help me solve a traffic problem? While I was riding my motor-cycle on April 2 at 8.20 a.m. along Upper Serangoon Road, two smartly dressed traffic lords, m spotless white, riding expertly, trailed me. I have no objections to this. After observing
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    The Pressman's POSTBAG
    404 12 The Pressman's POSTBAG RIGHT ANGLE new machine that a speed merchant m front of their four eyes escaped unnoticed. I should have followed him and avoided the trouble of being stopped. May be however these two kings of the highway had never seen a shabbily dressed person riding a new
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    TIME EXPERT TO DO SOME
    221 12 r ude, uouli insist on reunbwfcs him. But all offers were brisk. aside. "Onlf too willing to oblige," m :w. "It's a hobby of mine. I can usually repair any watch" The bait was laid. Out would comt f lie landlord's wife's gold watch thu
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    Any grouse!
    32 12 HAVE you a grouse? Hire you a bright idea? Have you seen anything stranfe, or unusual? Then write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBAG briefly.
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    Witch exorcised
    60 12 A VICAR conducted a service of "purification and blessing" m a cottage said to be haunted by the legendary Witch of Wookey at Wookey Hole, near Wells, Somerset, England. Now it is hoped that the ghost will appear no more. And Mrs. Adele Webber plans to return to
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    AT DOLLAR STALL
    27 12 out a nunl^ I Nine-year-old Gloria Chia (cf n re from the cloth bag on the dollar School Easter Fair m Singapore. Free Press
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    STEP TO CRIME
    75 12 I agree with 'Super-Humbug that an accounts clerk should not call himself m accountant. This leads to confusion and deceit. We do not call a dresser doctor nor a summons server lawyer. and so on. The peoP l who try to blow themselvfc are always vain and
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    Einstein 'Disowns' the A-bomb
    658 13 Einstein 'Disowns' the A-bomb A scientist on peace and War r_2__K-« WASHINGTON. A^rttv rest* Aff nn the them capable ol bio* i£sVking<t«m-come i *st month man of binary Uttte man '^c prime mover of the WgJ^ io believe But i_ 'the rather of the ,j b He made this statement
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    HOLLYWOOD-WITH THE LID OFF
    535 13 HOLLYWOOD-WITH THE LID OFF 'From nder Mv Hal." Frederick Mailer) HEDDA HOPPER, the Hollywood columnist who specialises m gossip about the film people, has feuded with stars from Chaplin to Orson Welles. Now she has written a book* about her feuds. About herself this butcher's daughter says: "Hollywood hams don't
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    'Death or Glory's Boys
    525 13 'Death or Glory 's Boys COMMANDOS WERE OFTEN FRIVOLOUS, ALWAYS FEARLESS James Lessor reviews a book by one of them. had cut through thn graph cables n fomth Ul teens could h' ne the MUM Atterwards. Churchill wrote thunderously. "Let there be no n ore silly fiasco* like this..." Ther<-
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    HEAR MY STORY-SAYS NENE
    280 14 lie writes to the BBBC and NBA 1 ree I >s Boxing Kepoi I Mill: NENE, SlnfmptW promoter and manager ol boxMI lim Kee M h.in and little I'aras. who has been suspended for two years bj the basing bole m America. Britain. Siam and Japan,
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    KEE CHAN IN A SPORE FIGHT
    185 14 LIM KEE CHAN, who has been barred from boxing m the Philippines, Britain, America. Siam and Japan for varying periods, figures m the main event of a card promoted by Little Nene, who himself has been banned, at the Happy World on April 17.
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    3 changes in Scots XI v. England
    226 14 SCOTLAND'S team to meet England m an international soccer match at Wembley on Apr. 13 shows three changes from the side which drew with Ireland last November. One new cap is included m Cowie of Dundee who replace.Aitken at left half. Docherty ot
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    EVERY TIME A RECORD WITH GORDON
    190 14 EVERY TIME A RECORD WITH GORDON A SALLOW faced little man, crouching so low m the i saddle that his knees were almost level with his mouth, I flashed past the finish on two more winners yesterday to set j two more world records for i winning jockeGordon Richards rode
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    DONS IN GUP-FINAL
    26 14 Aberdeen defeated Third Lanark by two goals to cne yesterday m a replay of the semi-final round of the Scottish Football Cup. A.P.
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    S'GOR CIVILIANS WERE TOO GOOD
    59 14 QHI IEH Civilians four-nil win over Captain Harold's team, composed of players drawn from the c and Army, In yesterday's soc- j ear m.i'.h M\ the Kuala Lumpur tag. The game was ln the nature of a for BalanfOi i HNt B M.ilaya Cup mat
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    Why Kramer MUST beat Sedgman
    362 14  -  WHINTNEY MATIN By nothing: personal about it understand Kramer wants badly to beat his tennis olarSS k num. Frank Bcdgman. But It's strictly busing Not only wants to,** >"* P^ns for ni* 2 tour are materialised I've ?ot tc beat to make it stick,- thTS
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    Japsbuy up racehorses
    85 14 Japsbuy up racehorses JAPANESE buyers paid top price Ln the yearling sales m Sn 3,40 r a colt. The colt, i by Midstream Australian .sire m the 1351 and 1952 ie progeny h.i\e won nearly half million p Australian I akThe Japanese buvci paid 1 600 and 1,500 guineas for
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    Russian iron man sets world record
    35 14 U.P. THE Ru.ssians claimed a new wiu id weight-lifting record yesterday BakaonOT, performing at a Soviet army meet m the semi-lightweight cUtt, lifted 107.5 kilograms In a town-hand jerk.
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    Death affect stud plans!
    61 14 tv EATH of Whlrlaway. one D M:iJ'Tr,r? French so"; Ca U met rh e one-time w' tucS bred who won the Preakneaa at the l ,941 died on Mord^ lay Parma ol m» tissue «j ruptUr the £2 of tllP 5-year-old m Whirl* way 8 oriil'
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    67 14 HE'S LOST HIS HEAD, We've heard of bald heads but her* 'a a ball head. It's just one of those unusual pictures caught by our cameraman on the padang, Pulau Bukoms centre forward. Othman. heats a Hongkong Bank defender (the ball head) to the ball. It was an incident m
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    AUSSIES SEND SPECIAL MAN TO MEXICO CITY
    124 14 IN a surprise move yesterday Melbourne City Council decided to send a special representative to Mexico City on April 17 to substantiate Melbourne's claims to the 1956 Olympics, The representative will be Victorian Health Minister W. B.ury. He will leave Sydney by air
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    Scots suspend 4 footballers
    50 14 dreu down susptjZ! Woodburn. the rii v suspended for tlire c I^JO nf r.laseoH Ran V1 aWI put out ol the same J i0 frf 4 Woodburns susn^C »*1 wi» not be able to D i, Kanu.rs m their Scottish r^ on April ~^u «opfJ A.P.
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    S.A.F.A. TO GET TOUGH
    278 15 'Pirate lour' lo be investigated: 'serious matter Soh <_hee Soon, vice president of the Singapore Amateur Football Association said: I think this is very serious matter, when unauthorised tour by a soccer team called the Pe/muda Singapura was discussed at a Council meeting of SATA yesterday.
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    Singapore XI for Asian Games
    252 15 Singapore XI for Asian Games SIM.MMWK Amiluer Football Association de cided at a meeting ycstrr day to file an application through the Singapore Olympic Sports Council to enter a team for the Asian Games m Manila next year A plan to bring a Swedish team to the Colony for a
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    Bakar scores in Kota Bahru
    82 15 PEMUDA Singapura beat a Bangkok side by two goals to one 111 Kota Bahru yesterday. The Pemuda team was made up 'of we'lknc wn stars, including Awang Bakar. A Mat Noor centre saw Dollah open accounts for Pemuda m the 20th minute. Awang Bakar increased
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    SPEED ACES TALK IT OVER
    96 15 ANJTINE speed are.s Juan Manuel Fangio and Jose Froilan Gonzales are expected to arrive m Italy shortly to dLsouaa with the Maserati car factory their activity m the 1953 automobile race season m i Europe. A spokesman for the Maserati company said the definite arrival
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    St. Joseph's too strong for A.C.S.
    305 15 St. Joseph's too strong for A.C.S. St. Joseph's 5; A.C.S 2. ST JOSEPH'S INSTITUTION, With a strong forward line and a sound defence, gave Anglo Chinese School their worst defeat yesterday m a SA.FA. Youth tourney fixture at Victoria School ground. St. Joseph's could have scored twice as many goals
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    QUARTER DECK IN FASTEST WORKOUT
    772 16 Final gallops for Saturday R I o»- Press R.u »r respondent QDAKTEB DECK, top Hl fhl printer who showed i tic return to form ;.t I :oh. did splendid _allop on the training track at Bnkil Timah this mornii With Colin Tniioh astride, Quarter Deck
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    BOXER RALLIES FOR POINTS WIN
    64 16 \iIDDLEWEIGHT Joey Giardello, three to one underdog, rallie 1 m the la;e rounds to defeat his hometown Philadelhia rival. Gil Turner, by a unanimous division m ten rounds last, night. Turner started fast. For the A six rounds he seemed to outclass trn slow p.v
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    EX-CHAMP DIES
    23 16 TACK FORBES, 64, referee of more than 7.000 wrestling bouts and retired undefeated world Ughl heavyweight champion, has died m Toronto.
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    Wartd billiards
    96 16 IZINREY MATSUYAMA, the Tokyo expert, is the kef today to the lead m the world'_ three-cushion billiards tournament. Matsuyama out of fitle contention himself, plays both the co-leaders, 24-year-old Harold Worst of Michigan, and Ray Kilgore. the San Francisco veteran. Worst and Kilgore each have won six matches
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    Fancy soccer did not pay
    413 16 Fancy soccer did not pay pULAU Bukom stuck to fancy football against Hon_; 1 Kong Bank "A" on the Padang yesterday- and found themselves beaten by three goals to nil It was a Division One Business Houses tie. Perhaps if they had been more direct In their methods and less
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    VARSITY HELD BY SCHOOL XI
    49 16 UNIVERSITY of Malaya and j Raffles Institution drew with two goals each m their soccer matcn yesterday at the R.I. ground. University led two-nil at half-time t hn ugh uoals by centre-forward Roznhan. Rafflesians crow level In the second session through Saharl and Omar.
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    REST OF ARMY TO PLAY RASC
    69 16 THE -Rest of the Army" will play I trial soccer match agatnal the RASC at REME ground Aver Rajt Road next Monday, ktekofl MS p.m. Team to represent the Rest': A. N. Other (R. Bigs); Morlartf (REME). Taylor (GHQ); Walton <APIV>. Tierney (RAOC>. Cook
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    ROCKY DOES HIS WIFE'S SHOPPING
    126 16 111 \t .Mucin MMM* chum- pion Rotkv Mama no hell .m,» his respite training chores this week to help his wife shop f.,r furniture for their new I s ranch type home. i MM title defence against Jerse> Joe Walrott h. ls heen delayed until
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    South Korean soccer XI plays Sat
    124 16 South Korean soccer XI plays Sat gOUTH Korean a^^ by air ia §_2 last night for t 3* matches. Fiy e membe* Party represented Kom J 1948 Olympics In On Satarday the tourist. scheduled to meet Sinn. A team inawana Mp V Jalan Besar Stadiw. The Singapore side win tx
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    YMCA TENNIS RESULTS
    48 16 Yesterday* results In [YMC A open tennis t:_ ment at Bras Basah Read: Men's doubles (quart finals): G T Holloway aa C. Beattv bt. Lionel Teo Michael Wee 6-0. 6-0: Dr I Khoo and Tracy Jones bt Kirn is and A. 0. B. PakJ 9-7.
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