The Singapore Free Press, 17 April 1953

Microfilm: NL3672
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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya Hf'll.Hl. Singapore Fri., Apr.. 17. 19">3. Price 15 Cts
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    MALAN SUPREME IN S. AFRICA
    273 1 MALAN SUPREME IN S. AFRICA Minority vote election X 11^ B#«tfc African Prime Minuter, Dr. Daniel Milan, |MpJ Ntt to iron-clad ptWW on a minority \ote in the South African Venenj election yesterday heralding a danger-parked new era i n White-Hlack relation.. The stern ex-preacnv'i's National id ahead oi the
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    Mobs attack homes
    46 1 MOBS attacked American homes and Point Four offices m Shiraz, Persia, this morning and yesterday. But no Americans are known jo have been killed or injured. The rioters destroyed furniture and files. Shiraz, a city of 150,000 people is m South Central Persia.
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    Rubber Price
    28 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened quietly this morning Jitn May first grade shipment below Cen J s a P°u n d, y a cent oeio% yesterday's close.
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    THE DANCING MEN
    50 1 photo. ADMIRAL J. H. CASSADY, commander of the U.S. 6th Fleet, visited the Greek Fort of Istibey, on Mount Beles Picture show~, Left to right -Lt.-Gen. Themistocles Kets«s, commander of the Greek Third Army. Admiral Cassady and Govemoi -General Andrew Stratos, doing a traditional Greek dance. A.P.
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    U.N. says yes to armistice talks
    148 1 THE UNITED Nations Command agreed today to resume full scale armistice talks and at the same time suggested Switzerland as the neutral nation to handle Communist prisoners-of-war resisting repatriation. The decision was contained m a letter from Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, Jr., Senior
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    Shot dead in Singapore police H.Q.
    69 1 Shot dead in Singapore police H.Q. A 22-year-old Volunteer Singapore Special Constable, Tay Tai En* died m hospital after being shot m the stomach at the Central police Station during the thp night. It is understood to have been an accident. He was removing his revolver from the holster when
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    Russia: Ike didn't give facts
    172 1 JJOSCOW RADIO'S m the first E;*n£l faction to President vT ace P ro S r amme, W£,^ ht the President that ti qivo fact<s to P rove Worn blamp for present Policies n lies on Russian *asfc atic authorities m C" s g n n
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    SIKH DIES IN STREET FIGHT
    131 1  - SIKH DIES IN STREET FIGHT ROGER By All M\R oil) SIKH watchman employed by a Singapore firm. Suban Singh, was killed m d' Almeida Street last night. He had a deep rut under the chin, another wound between the eyes, and two more Injuries. Mr W. J. Parks. Asstatant Commissioner,
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    PRAVDA FLAYS THE 'AUTOCRATS'
    212 2 'One-man decisions 9 must end, it says PRAVDA came out yesterinst "one-person decisions m the leadership of the Commun calhd for collect iv U ship Said tire paper No mat how experienced the leadt no matter what kin-* ledge and titl they possess. Uivy cannot succeed
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    And Russia agrees
    47 2 The United Nations Political Committee yesterday approved unanimously a Brazilian resolution to keep the Korean truce negotiations at Panmunjom. It was the first case of unanimity between Russia and the Western powers on a major political issue since the start of the cold war.
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    44 2 This picture was taken 15 hours after two tvb P trains crashed between Stratford and Lfyton, London, killing eleven people. Steelwork has I been ripped ani itirhed. scats torn from the framework and lights hang from the roof of this shattered coach. Reuter photo.
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    New inquiry on Mike Calvert
    277 2 A BRITISH judge began an inquiry m Hanover yesterday into the evidence on which Major James Michael Calvert "Mad Mike" of the Burma Chindits— was convicted of indecency. Mr. Justice Byrne will reexamine the evidence and question some of the original witnesses. He will report
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    Mr. S.H. Yang is dead
    84 2 A WELL-KNOWN race horse owner and leader of the Singapor/ Shanghai community. Mr S. H. Yang, died m his home m Queen Astrid Park at 1 a.m. today. Aged 60, Mr. Yang was governing director of the Nanyans Structural Company, a director of the Overseas
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    Arms will mean death
    37 2 THE KENYA Government last night announced me imposition of the death penalty for illegal possession 0/ /w--arms, ammunition or explosives. Up to now the maximum pc nalty for this was lije impn sonment.
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    AIR CRASH KILLS 27
    26 2 A two-engine transport plane crashed and burned on the bank of the Red River near Hanoi yesterday, killing 27 per- sons. said.-
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    HE KILLS OWN FAMILY
    31 2 A maniacal killer. Peter Akulonis, hacked and shot to death seven members of his family m Massachusetts, on Wednesday and then killed himself as police closed m.
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    VIVIEN LEIGH SICK -GOES TO HIDEOUT
    142 2 Vivien Leigh was moved to a secret hideout yesterday to convalesce from a recurrence of a lung complaint," her agent said last night m London Miss Leigh, wife of actor Sir, Laurence Olivier, spent several months m a hospital m 1945 fur treatment for
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    EAST GERMAN ARMY
    49 2 The United States High Commission said yesterday that Communist East Germany had 120.000 men under arms or i March Ist this year. In addition 425,000 men were iin pre-military organisations like the border and transport po- I lice and the "Society for sport 1 technical training."
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    EDEN IS BETTER
    24 2 Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, "continues to progress" from his gall bladder operation. Mr. Eden, 55, was Derated on Sunday.
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    Japs told: Lay off oil
    47 2 |>KITAIN warned Japan yes- terday the Anglo-Iranian I Oil Company would sue any 1 Japanese firm buying disputed Persian oil. The Anglo-Japanese flare-up followed reports that Japanese tanker, NLssho Maru, has sailed from Abadan with 18,- 000 ton.s of disputed oil.— A.P.
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    A 71b. hook caused tube disaster
    124 2 4 SKVFN POl NI) hook **> ■Vtaging on the end of a chain caused londons worst ever smash between two underground trains eight days ago. ii nas stated at a (iovernment inquiry m London yesterday. Eleven people died and 41 were injured m the
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    Blazing ship abandoned
    78 2 Fire broke out m the engine room of a British freighter m the Pacific Ocean yesterday. The entire crew of 80 men abandoned the ship. A rescue vessel said it toon aboard "most" of the rren from the SS Menestheus. a 4.789- ton vessel. But the S3
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    TAKING THE CURE
    50 2 Mr. Arthur Homer, general secretary of the British National Union of Mine Workers, wa* yesterday given leave of absence of six or seven weeks for medical treatments Russia. He said it was the best wav "to get a complete break from work I am told I need".
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    No fumbling at this coronation says Dean
    128 2 No fumbling at this coronation says Dean l"<Uy that t'lmTtl^ crowning o f iSTc* »n 1937 will notL^"** Queen on JuaTz/ 1 The fumblinj u«k y^ <^ause some tidy JS? moTod a kit f^J* rt from the Cr«w«. M At the anal rehewtti k llr it was notic^d^i;* "J Anhhishop
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    FSRE DESTROYS SHIP: 27 DIE, 23 MISSING
    37 2 U.S. naval ships picked op H survivors and 27 bodies ife: fire had destroyed a small Rationalist steamer m the Former Channel on Monday. Twentythree other persons still tw missing.
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    NEW LINE TO EUROPE
    32 2 Norddeutscher LJoyd, of Bremen, and the Hamburg-Amerik Line. Hamburg, will begin ft' Eastern shipping services June. They will jointly operate m 10.000-ton vessels between hrope. Singapore, and HongKcr:
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    S.I.T. IS DESPERATE FOR MONEY-MILLION DEFICIT
    248 3  -  P. M. RAMAN Extra rents only fleabite. By TH K Singapore Improvement Trust's decision to increase tho rents „f its commitments" fleablte m co^P-nson with s.IT Among its other moves proRmSi t0 get the trust Ollt of trouble are: Pressure on Government to permit
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    Eviction doesn't scare 'em
    173 3  - Eviction doesn't scare 'em G. T. BOON By NOTHING prevents the Singapore Improvement Trust issuing eviction orders against tenants who refuse to pay the increased rents. "But how can it turn out nearly 25.W0 people." said Mr. Lee Choon En?, the City Councillor, yesterday. Mr. Lee was commenting on a
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    DUKE'S DENIAL
    32 3 The Duke of Windsor's London attorney yesterday flatly denied a report m the tabloid Daily Sketch that ex-King Farouk of Egypt is dickering to wy Windsor's "Abdication Home, Fort Belvedere.
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    RED QUESTIONS
    32 3 The Western Allies have agreed on a number of questions to put to the Russians on the safety of Western planes flying over the Soviet zone of Germany to Berlin..
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    CHILD CONSCRIPTS
    31 3 China Union Press said m Taipeh yesterday that Russia planned to conscript 150,000 Chinese children between the ages of eight and 12 for training m Russia thi s year.
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    'More cancer' now among women
    152 3 i CER of the lung seems to be now more common among women m Singapore, Dr. G. H. Garlick, medical director of the Royal Singapore AntiAssociation, said yesterday. Dr. Garlick said that the disease was only discovered among some women when they were being X-rayed
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    The Queen's own yacht
    109 3 THE Queen launched a new at goin ro y a l yacht aid ,u G Ja Sffow yesterday christened it Britannia. Cornn a ht was one f all «1 year's secrets. an?, nlv to thc Queen the b f< onit '»als before Jocki Chinff at Cl
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    BORDER PROTEST
    11 3 Hungary has protested to Yugoslovia against "continued border violations."
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    Police keeping close watch on ganja racket
    145 3 Police keeping close watch on ganja racket Free Press M.ifT Keporter IJIN<; A POKE imlice ar«- keeping v close watch on traAcfcftag m "f Jl" Indian hemp— in the Colony. y Know uibi vie <:o; .UK sold In packets at a dollar The» police recently solzed 150 of gani.i valued
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    High jump for Simba
    42 3 picture. Josephine Hamlett fa a showgirl at the Windmill 1 heat re, London's nearest approach to the Folies Bergere. Off the stage she turns dog-trainer and puts her \l i iiun Sim ha through some high jumps. Popper
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    NEW PHONE LINK
    24 3 A now radlo-telephor.p service is now beinfc operated by Cable and Wireless Limited between Hour Kong and Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia.
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    The Singapore Free Prees FRIDAY, April 17, 1953. IKE'S PEACE OFFER
    407 4 The Singapore Free Prees FRIDAY, April 17, 1953. IKE'S PEACE OFFER PRESIDENT Eisenhower's peace plan embodied In his first major foreign policy speech since he assumed office can hardly fail to stir the hearts and imaginations of men the world over. He proposes that the peoples of the world should
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    Rains May Force Mau Mau Show-Down
    650 4  - Rains May Force Mau Mau Show-Down Donald McCormick TURN OF THE TIDE Tills MONTH} By THE too -nipht and n our husl out on patrol with the i Poll .Km first tune mine went oil and left m hold the fort with my small dauKnter I couldn't make up my
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    CORONATION .CASUALTIES'
    277 4 CORON ATION .CASUALTIES' LONDON. AS June 2 draws near, Coronation arrangements are gradually changing the face of London. The beautiful facade of Westminster Abrey has almost disappeared behind high tiers of seats and the spcially built annex m which the Coronation procession will assemble. Other well-known landmarks along the route
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    PISTOL—PACKING PRIEST
    273 4 PISTOL— PACKING PRIEST In *nc puipir ramer rarncß McCiM tart fKc very devil out of May Mau m Kiktiyu spoken with a powerful brogue. Right, left, and centre he hat excommunicated Mau Mau oath men. In.Hieir first attack on Father McCiM Htey chased him across his recrea-.Son ground witfc pangas
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    POLICE CAST NET FOR THREE MEN
    152 5 They robbed seven Spore homes gflv noli" 1 arv keeping a liharp lookout for three of Singapore's Srimsuit gangs." A Milay. suspected of being aember of one of the gangs. Lj arrested m Malacca on Sdr.esday. Police are holding rfhJr suspects too. mar. was
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    Methodists to meet
    77 5 rRTY-EIGHT delegates irom four countries will attend the annual South-Eastern Asia Central Con le re nee of the Methodist Church at Wesley Church m Singapore from Apr. 21 to Apr. 26. The countries represented will be Indonesia, Burma, Sarawak and Malaya. The conference will discuss: The qualificai.ons.
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    2 5 P. RAMLEE
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    listeners nick best singers
    83 5 listeners nick best singers p. Ramlee, a local film Una and sin cr > and havl' k ret()rdin ff vocalist, ill en voled to P man •f lA 01 1 Malay sin ers cont f st m Radio Mala y a Singapore from Penan? three years aRO, received 877 votes
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    So Gillian celebrates her 50th transfusion with cake —candles
    113 5 So Gillian celebrates her 50th transfusion with cake candles SIX-YE«n-OLD Gillian Evans suffers from a rare form of anaemia and can only be kept alike by a succession of blood transfusions. Since the age of one month, she has received 80 pints of blood m 50 transfusions. When she had
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    BIGGER EAST-WEST ONE-WAY LOOP PLAN
    188 5 Extension to Sepoy Lines SINGAPORE traflic police may soon extend the East-West one-way scheme to Sepoy Lines- Mr. W. R. M. Haxvorth, the traffic police chief, will recommend to the City Council that the extension be tried out. "We are now studying the plan very
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    Father's fined AND Siti weds the man she loves
    122 5 Father's fined AND Siti weds the man she loves SITI Aminah wanted to marry the man she loved. Father said: "No." Siti got the man. Father paid a fine. Awang Hamat bin Deraham told a Kathi Court m Pasir Puteh, Kelantan: "I could not allow Siti to marry Abdullah bin
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    POSED AS A MAN FOR 25 YEARS
    50 5 A 62-year-old Salvation Army cook who had P<*«d m n»o 25 years was exposed m death yesterday as a woman. The cook, who used the name John Wilson, fell ill on Monday but refused to recelre a doctor. She died 24 hours later.
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    WIVES REBELUNG-BBC TALK WARNS
    326 6 WIVES REBELUNG-BBC TALK WARNS women are go'iiii- to hospital* all oxer the eountr> < \>htplaininu to doctors that the> feel tired and depressed. This \\ii- reported m the H.H.( 'Woman's Hour" feature h\ Dr. Doris Odium, who is president of the Women** .Medical Federation. She said it was clear that
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    NO SECRETS, SHE SAYS
    32 6 NO SECRETS, SHE SAYS There's no secret formula for sex appeal, says lovely Corinne Calvet, 20th-cen-tury Fox star. Love of life and en "inner fire" U what appeals m men, she says.
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    Now the new mayor will have to go by bus
    236 6 JF the next mayor of Stockport (pop. 134 800) has to ride to his mayoral duties he'll have to take a bus. It's that or nothing. Stockpcrt refuses to provide an official car for its mayor ("an extravagance," says the
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    Detectives keep guard on a wife
    142 6 T\ETECTIVES and uniformed *J police are keeping day-and-night guard over 29-year-old Mrs. Violet Baughan and her three children m their home m Turner's Place. Shoreditch—a narrow cul-de-sac with only one street lamp. And police throughout London have been alerted to be on the lookout
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    WONDER GIRL HAS NEVER LOSHT A RACE
    173 6 ONE of the most remarkable feats In recent British sporting history has been achieved by a slim 20-year-old Birmingham laboratory analysist's assistant. She is MLss Diane Leather, who has just won the English Women's National Cross-Coun-try Championship. She went along to watch Birchfield
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    ZSA ZSA!
    8 6 VIVACIOUS Zsa Zsa Gabor, M.G M.
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    The man who bought the bank
    118 6 The man who bought the bank hrm oil Unken ()the 600,000 tont*?l>it a cost of £38,7503ii 11^ c owner wit^^g^JS rfFcaT ¥Js^ Amerlcta m Mont* t new £I^. 000 scheme for m Oder 44.. rebuilding v SJJg but lojQj^; Monaco Pnr. kings and a! perors once r. p xed. bought
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    SOUTH ENGLANDS LOVELIEST THREE
    55 7 These charming girls took the first three places m the final of th c South of England Beauty lootest held at Brighton, Sussex. From right to left: Joyce Cooke, 19, of Brighton, the winner; SheiU Handsley, 18, also of Brighton (second); and Lr Jervis, 17, of
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    Scout clips hedge for Mr. Gromyko
    301 7 AIM) GETS 2s. 6tL "PIIK |»ri\rt hrdu»- outside the I .nudon home of Mr Xndrri (irom\ko. Russian Amli.issadfir to Britain, lo(.ks very sm.irl \nd tliis is why. As dusk was railing o up u»«* th of the B mil Qfure, sft, lOin. tali, wearing
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    Pain-killer for all—if the men had the babies
    114 7 Pain-killer for all— if the men had the babies IP it were men who had babicn. rvrry garage would br stacked with analgesic equipment (uiM*d for ensuring painlnm childbirth) Mrs. Norah Hinka, of Birmingham, told women Liberals at llfracombe. The conference the annual council meetings of the Women's Liberal Federation
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    OH MR. GARDENER!
    21 7 Prizes worth £2,000 are being offered m a Coronation garden competition between 833 London Midland Region railway stations.
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    WANT A HUSBAND? BLATT WILL SELL YOU ONE
    326 7 WANT A HUSBAND? BLA TT WILL SELL YOU ONE n lv PATRICA FISHLET to buy a husband? Mr. Jack Blatt, president of the Bachelor Society of iu*Ki enca w sell yOu one at his auction mart for eligible bachelors, m oetMehein, Newhampshire. Here, men are paraded m carts, so that
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    From pitboy to judge—with Us wife's help
    111 7 From pitboy to judge— with Us wife's help JUDGE H. Walter Samuel, Q.C., began work at the age of Swanc a coalmi ne. He died In S ge °f the Mid-Wales County Circuit since 1933. It was his first wife, a school*Z£!]T' who su gg«sted that he W, re d
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    Wife breaks the bank
    39 7 Q^* kindly wife who sent a pair of trousers for flood re«c/ may have given away her husband's private bank 0/ V ei not *s found m m the pocket was handed to wicn police.
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    26 7 Yvonne Marsh, a younff British starlet. Sh* acts m 'Trial by Jury," sequence of the film "Gilbert and Sullivan/ a Launder— Gilliat production for London Films.
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      114 7 Which of the three /k is worth most to YOU? All three are equally good as typists And still the one m the middle Is worth most to you. Why? Because she can manage more m a working day and still be less fatigued. You see she Is using a
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      AN on the Rotary Club'
      276 8 THOUSANDS, most of h t 1 children, flocked to the M World Amusement Park L IB fun fair organised by the «Unl I W pore Rotary Club m XT wW Association for the Blind I I There were ridei on the ferry whi-i I I
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      Boys' Band Played
      279 9  -  P. L. KOH Story by a BAZAAR and fun fair m aid of the Fairfield Methodist Church fund was hold m the grounds of Fairfield Girls' School In Neil Road. Singapore. Mr. G. G. Thomson. Singapore Public X Secretary, opened the one-day fair which was favoured with
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      302 10 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I T~5 1 \Tu[raa*OLoc»i I I w*o's that,sam?is I I don't II by the ancient rule m [fj fT| WHAT CM YOU 00 WOW? YES.YK/ f^s*fSf//g{^ _jfT 2/ |COMIN6TH»S PERSONAL COMBAT j^' LOTHAR.W»OEMBfATH£ fjS,nit f -snVVAT PO« THE TnAONf r TARZAN
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      253 10 YOUR LUCKY STA >°« do. Yo« •*nd ton uit. T^ ■■H^ »Pt to lean, ZtSj?jZ "wo* 5 f-t U itou S fr^ti 1 J you do not iurVL 1 1 •^•-luUly. saosU l if nothing tIK. uitfcjjft degree. ■Hfcf.TV^ for the fine twJTta^ tt? and hof^Sf.^tSfflg; P'«t if yoa wed
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    Can You Trust Your Freinds With This 20 Cents'?
    592 11  - Can You Trust Your Freinds With This 20 Cents'? K. S. By A RE YOU a person who can implicitly tr a friend? Or are you now retting the day you ever believed that a friend could be trotted? There are scores ot people m Malaya and Singapore today who
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    poison-pen wife goes to gaol
    196 11 fmir years workers at a F° B department store re- 2* -SXipen- 1 letters m a Writing they did not. red And every letter "sign?jS?- SSh three hisses:' *c* received by lana£ine director of .the fjS heads of departIps t f and shop assistants. S
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    Reds run dope ring
    84 11 Reds run dope ring rTHE United States yesterday 1 accused Red China of operating a vast dope ring to sabotage the morale of United States troops and to earn huge quantities of dollars and strategic materials. Mr. Harry Anslinger, United States Narcotics Commissioner, told the United Nations Commission on Narcotic
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    WRONG BOMBING
    27 11 An Allied plane accidentally dropped a bomb on the Tenth Corps sector of the eastern Korea front yesterday killinc; one South Korean and injuring two.
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    Bridge Hand
    396 11 East-West vulnerable West dealer NORTH 10 7 0A J 3 ♦KQ j 2 4J8644 X 0 fi f k 7 4 3 SOUTH 4A 6 3 9 X II 0 10 7 6 ♦A 9 8 The bidding; West North East South Pass Pass p MB iw p
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      79 11 IT'S SPEEDY! IT'S ECONOMICAL! IT'S ROOMY! Nothing can touch the Austin Seven... for economy m price and upkeep. It's speed, 100, is sparkling! Truly 9 Excellent a mighty little aloin! Seats four, on comfortable foam- Ventilation^ nibber seats trimmed with leather-cloth. Ample luggage room as well. And so cisy to
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      201 11 Today's Crossword r ACROSS 1 H^ "™T^™^ T^ mm "T*"^™^*^^^^^l^^^ this sunba: H_l_]_ I L_^ fish,? p, 1 8 1 IHf I^^H $F^* j»?r Ml am between ir- r _^BL__ J 1 The G-ae..c n fcMß~~TMtf*^ wear one" 1 14,' '19 .^_JB ?<^ *;ndows 7 i 20 mKSt ■Hr^^^^^^^^W^^H *<?ntat:ve!
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    SPORE ZEBRAS Are ABUSED
    245 12  -  ROGER By Pedestrians anger motorists QJINC. APORF motorists are boilin?— with race. They are protesting at the manner m which certain pedestrians are using zebra crossings. "They are abusing the privilege of their right of way." said one irate driver. They take drii^ht m crossing singly,
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    100 12 Singapore m the lint*r. WMJ%. Major-General E. B. de Fonblanque, Inspector-Gen-eral of the Home Guard, received the statuette from Mr. 11. J. Payne, a personal Iriend of Sir Kugen m a simply ceremony on board the liner. The MaUra Tcpphy is dedicated to the memory of members of the Home
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    Any grouse?
    32 12 HAVE you a grouse? Have you a bright idea? Have yon seen anything strange, or unusua'? Then write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBAG briefly
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    PINT FOR PINT
    109 12 REGARDING Dr. (Mrs.) Gibson-Hill's statement to the Press, that she was disappointed at the poor response from blood donors during the recent Health Exhibition at the Singapore Victoria Memorial Hall— what about it No one m his right senses, unless he wanted to see his picture m
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    TROPHY SENT TO MALAYAN HOME GUARD
    49 12 KNOWN as the Malaya Trophy a .silver staturtte of two South American warriors presented by Sir Eugen Milling ton -Drake.j former British Minister U> Uruguay, to Sir Gerald Templar for competition at the annual weapon training meeting of the Home i.uard. arrived m
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    The Pressman's POSTBAG
    145 12 The Pressman's POSTBAG that form of shock treatment and concentrate on intravenous saline Injections M.*ny a patient goes into the General Hospital and dreads being given a blood transfusion when out for the count, and un;.ble to remonstrate. I. for one. should hate to have a blood transfusion it would
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    YOUNGEST?
    57 12 Malliques, the centre-for-ward of the Singapore Combined Schools is still under 14 years old. He was born m Singapore m August, 1939 and his full name is Zainal bin Abdul Mallique. Inche Abdul Malliques bin Ismail, his father was also a footballer m his young days and Is the
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    FORTUNE OF WAR
    98 12 ABOUT three months ago the Straits Times published an article about a general who is a fortune teller. He said that he was no quack and stated that an unknown general would lead the Chinese Nationalists to victory m their struggle against the Communists m May or
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    APARTHEID
    16 12 IT is absurd to ban smoking m buses as most of the passengers are smokers
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    NO PRIZE!
    33 12 THE French Mission m Singapore is selling tickets at a dollar apiece, the money to be used on repairs to its church In Bras Basah Road. Isn't the French Mission rich
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    Girl wants to be student teacher
    40 12 picture. S B L2IS^^ O !2I^ l ?lJs£; A Wmi1 f She waa one of the 140 applicant*, who were interviewed to posts as stadent teacher m th« Teacher^' Training College, Singapore. Free Press
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    Men with lipstick & girls' hats on
    128 12 Men with lipstick girls' hats on pOUR men were arret Texas. n wh^t ?l uls." n of g*£t AttSr^ Vfij Walker. ma d e th/lL* 1 1 0 I Mast of the men «ere booted on mi«2l** .Uori' wedding Police said th« cHmtj of tk. convention" *M U» htve JL
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    Letters must by short
    42 12 If the girls are complainin? and would like to enforce -he ban, why not have a special bus for the non-smokers? SYED OMAR ALSAGOFF. Klang Road. Singapore. Then it wouldn't be a btiwhich is just short jor omnibu
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    So Many Hair Styles Are Out Of Date
    631 13 So Many Hair Styles Are Out Of Date You would not wear the tame dress for years, why have the same hair-do, says JUDITH SIMONS |X>NDON. T is a lunny thing H I 'woman *h. ild Jf dream of \m..miik a Uls cut m of ■II go on ,t with
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    Mind your Cigarette Manners
    475 13 Mind your Cigarette Manners (ADVICE To\ TEENAGERS CHE'S 18. she's becoming v popular, and she wants to cut a social dash. What does she do? She starts smoking. And that miejht be the beginning of the story of every woman who feels on edse without cigarettes m her handbag. You
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    EXIT MADAM PERLE
    200 13 |> L U M P, party-loving, > 1 party-giving Mrs. Perle < Mesta has been told that S her appointment as Amer- ica's Minister to Luxemburg has expired. > Like all other Democrat < ambassadors appointed m S the days of Harry Truman she offered to resign
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    RAF Changi took their opportunity
    474 14 RAF Changi took their opportunity Only goal decides match v. R.EM.E Svrrice* Swmr round-up CORINTHIANS TAKE OVER IN 2nd HALF K\F CfeMfJ 1; R.K.M.E. 0. rpHK airmen took their thaiuc it came m the tenth minute of the second session and won vesterduy's United Services Division One League tie at
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    One-goal margin
    127 14 RNAS 2; Terror 3. AT one stage* m yesterday's Division One tie at Sembawang the visitors from HMS Terror led by three goals to nil. Keeley scored Terror's two goals m the first half. Plumridge opened the second half with another goal. Royal Naval Air Station fought back,
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    F.B.W. WIN 4-0 v. ATHENIANS
    51 14 ITN the play-off of their postponed April 14 Division One fixture Flying Boat Wing beat Royal Air Force Seletar Athenians by four goals to nil. At half-time the Wing led threenil through goals by McMullen, Purdie (penalty and Edwards. McMullen scored again m the second
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    MELBOURNE HORSE SNAG CROPS UP
    108 14 MELBOURNE HORSE SNAG CROPS UP Till-: International Olympic Committee Chairman, Mr. A very Brundage is "afraid" Melbourne will lose the 1956 Olympic Games unless the Federal Government relaxes the quarantine restrictions on overseas horse* This was stated yesterday by the- .Melbourne Herald who reported that m a radio-phone interview Brflndage
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    REME 2nds BEAT SPARTANS 3-1
    38 14 REME beat RAF Seletar Spartans m a Division Two match at Aver Raja Road yesterday by three goals to one. Half-time score was one-all. Outside-right Hunter t2j and cen-tre-forward Mudie scored for REME.
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    WING BEATEN
    29 14 Royal Naval Air Station Sembawang 2nd XI beat Flying Boat Wing 2nd XI by two goals to one m their Div. Two Services tie at Seletar yesterday.
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    SAPPERS XI
    50 14 The Royal Engineers cricket team to play RAF (Changi) at Changi en Saturday is: Maj R. M. Manning. Maj D. S. James. Capt F. Reynolds. Capt Robinson. Lt MeConnell. 2 'Lt Morton, Sgt Gidlow. Sgt Baxter. Sk T t McKnight. Cpl Barston. Spr Holden. 12th Man: Sgt Skillington.
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    HORSE SHOW
    28 14 The Italian Equestrian Association announced yesterday that a sixmember Belgian team will participate m the international horse show m Rome on May 5 and 6. A.P.
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    G.H.Q. WIN WITH 2 LATE GOALS
    175 14 r r O goals m the last ten minutes saw G.H.Q. FARELF gain full points m their Services Division Two fixture against Royal Army Medical Corps at Tanglin yesterday. RAMC opened scoring m the eighth minute through centreforward Welch. Outside-left Taylor evened the scores
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    ***** promise of action
    221 14 ***** promise of action Stadium tonight, promise Singapore firht -.-.....p, v v n- iiuin bin ii iruining performances, tonight's boxinp should be a slap bang affair —that's if the local boys intend to mix it. There's nothing fancy aboul these Aussies as Raines told me: "We figure the *uv who
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    BETTER THAN EVER
    229 14 BETTER THAN EVER BRITISH horse racing ha last its champion runner, The Irish National Stud announced yesterday that Tulyar, the four-year-old colt which it bought from the Aga Khan for £250.000 would be retired to stud. Pressure from the Irish Gwr--ment, which finances the nw«ii stud, ended Tulyars track career.
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    TAKE EUPHRATES FOR SPRING CUP
    511 15  -  TRESPASSER ll\ 4 VFKV "i" race I pick EUPHRATES, h»ur vear-l-tlbv Mir/.t 11. to win Urn Spring <up f or (I v !HL over a i" iltß and 27 Yards at Bukit Timah *2Jrrow |st (||V of the Sln X a P° r P April
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    Horses not accepting
    26 15 Horses not accepting I>R<m\m.K wrratchuu tornorn v Billdaw. < vprr«K Point I nmsurrd. Who Kr^rrts, Our |>arl.n r 1( (l m K^r Sudan. nrißadoon. Piraciu and C'alypvo.
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    TOURISTS LOSE
    37 15 kft ff n T n Bs second eleven beat Bangui™ Un verslt >' of Moral and Political science by four goals to one at soccer vkiJr ri Green yesterday. The S^arriS.* 6 fiCld an hOUr aU€r
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    COLONY TEAM
    38 15 Tomorrow the South Korean soccer tourists meet a Singapore eleven at Jalan Besar stadium. Singapore's team is: Yew Chang: Boniface, Teow Keng; Vass, Hoon Leong, Yassin; Omar Awang. Boon Khim. Ismail Yusoff, Boon Leong, Alan King.
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    SCHOOLS WILL BENEFIT
    41 15 at 1 lan S° r Schools Sports Council Instih,M gural meeting at Victoria S£?S i fs, v la 1 Lllmpur yesterday MaSS?. 1 11 m llne with Perak and allS rts Councils by promoting ZJWfo In Selangor schools.
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      PROMOTION SHOULD NOT STOP BEST TIP
      425 15 TJEST TIP is promoted two divisions with Ib. more. 13 but she won with so much In hand last week that it is difficult to ignore her claims m the 6F sprint for CL 3, Div. 1 horses. Her timing was even belter than
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    Millionaire is back in form
    176 15 Millionaire is back in form IF Brigadoon accepts, he will i win thil race— Cl. 1. Div. 2—l M. This Pink Flower gelding scored ever six at Ipoh, but is better over a distance. His two successes m England last season were over a mile and 10F. If Brigadoon is
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    I.A. CRICKET
    87 15 Indian Association cricket teams for matches this week-end are: Against Sinhalese tomorrow on I.A. ground at 2.15 p.m.. Sitharam leapt), Dr. Sen Gupta, N. X Devaraj. N. K. Sivaraj, Roy Sharma. Vaithilingam. D. Lall, B. S. Soin, Ar\in Rai, Narayanan, M. S. Gill. Reserve: Yunos. Against GHQ on
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    The day's problem race
    181 15 T HI^I- 3, Div. 1-9F.-U the Problem race of the day. his SSI! Ulus ls Penalised 5 lb. for day i over seven on the first to thk b c can concede weight n smart lot of Cl. 3 stayers Gow ce r n ni t
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    These moments that keep a goalie-and crord-on their toes.
    51 16 Left: It goal. Korean goalk eeper Duok V o n g dives full length but just fails to reach the ball. Fed c rations scorer is Siang Teik. Right: An anxious moment for Douk Yon;, but this time nothing comes of
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    Olympic entrants may have to pay a fee
    320 16 Olympic entrants may have to pay a fee r\\\ Singapore swimmer Neo Chwee Kok pay his own expenses to the 1956 Olympic Games m Melbourne? He may have to if he wants to compete and if a proposal put before the International Olympic Committee becomes law. The 1.0.C.. now meeting:
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    AUSSIE YOUTHS DUE TOMORROW
    39 16 The youth boxing team from Western Australia will arrive m Singapore by the S.S. Charon tomorrow afternoon. The ship is scheduled to berth at 4 p.m. The Australian Commissioner of Singapore will meet the boys.
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    New law to stop bumpers
    135 16 New law to stop bumpers M.C.C. and Australia have now reached agreement on the wording of the rule they have framed to prevent persistent use of the fast bumber. A cable was received at Lords yesterday, from the Australian Board of Control accepting M.C.C.'s alternative draft to law 46. This
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    SPORE BOYS V. JOHORE TODAY
    72 16 IT shoQld be a grand game at Jalan Besar Stadium today, when Singapore Combined Schools meet Johore Combined Schools m their annual soccer match. Perhaps there will be little skill, but excitement and thrills will be there. The Singapore boys have had the benefit of
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    U.K. SOCCER
    32 16 English League Football results: DIVISION II: Hull 1 Leicester 1; Swansea 3 Leeds United 2. DIVISION 111 (South): Leyton Orient 4 Aldershot Ij Northampton 2 Colchester 0; Watford 0 Gilling-
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    RUGBY UNION
    25 16 U.K. Rugby Union remits: Gloucester 8 Cheltenham 0; Pontypool 6 Penarth 13, Teignmouth 16 Plymouth Albion 6; Bedford 13 Reuter Durham University 9-
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    R.S.G.C. v Keppel Club on Sunday
    166 16 STARTING times and pairings for the R.S.O.C. golf match against Keppel Club on Sunday at the Keppei Club course are as follows cR SG.C. players mentioned first) 8.15 a.m. Owen (7) and Markham (I) vs. Pennie (8) and Peace (8). 8.20 a.m. Harrison (8)
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    Rangers' first win
    123 16 rr-ALKING things m their stride j from start to finish Tiong Bahru Rangers defeated Kota Raja "A" in yesterdays S.A.F.A. Division Two league match at Geylang Stadium by five goals to nil. It was Tiong Bahru's first win of the season. They pave Kota Raja's goalkeeper Ahmad
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    Tourists show improved form
    360 16 .South Koreans 3; F.A.M. I 1 AT last the South Koreans have found' their 'J I **> Making a determined effort to redeem kat m 3 they chalked up an impressive victory mi n a fceen stru»l against the Federation of Malaya team at Jala* Sß
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