The Singapore Free Press, 11 January 1956

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Wednesday, January 11, 1956. Price 15 (Ls.
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  • 216 1 rWNESE Nationalist agents bribed a Hong Kong airport cleaner to put a time-bomb aboard the Air India airliner Kashmir Princess which crashed oIT Indonesia with the loss of 15 lives, including top Chinese Reds, on the way to the Bandoeng
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  • 147 1 FREE VOTE ON STATE LOTTERY rPHE Minister of Health, 1 Mr. A. J. Braga, will not after all bring up a motion to .start a state lottery m Singapore. It will be raised at the i La Assembly session next month by a private member. Mr. Braga told the Free
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  • 29 1 Final meetings between the Singapore Telephone Board Employees Union and the Board to settle outstanding pay claims ol the staff will be held tomorrow and on Friday.
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  • 34 1 vylonese govern ment official! said today there was still an excellent chance the U.S. would present an atom reactor to Ceylon for use In on atomic research and trainins centre U.P.
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  • 136 1 HURRICANE force winds and freak thunderstorms carved a trail of wrecked homes across SOUth-West England lust night. A two minute storm broke owr North D' where thatched roots wenripped from iarm cottage.*. A timber and Iron iports pavilion was uprooted and bounced over a Held. A
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  • 280 1 WOODLANDS FIRST OF NEW TOWNS Joint Govt. -private plan will cost $80 m. will be the finst of the three new towns to be developed under the Singapore Master Plan. About 16,000 houses are to be built on 3,000 acres for 80,000 people who will live and work In the
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  • 150 1 Swoop on gang: six held THE Secret Societies subbranch of the C.I.D. last night broke up a gang I believed to have been responsible for several robberies m Singapore recently and recovered a revolver j which had been stolen from j a policeman who was beaten up during the May
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  • 126 1 Govt. may run all transport A SINGLE island- wide authority to control and direct public passenger transport m Singapore is likely to be recommended by the Transport Commission, whose report may be submitted to the Government within a fortnight. The Commission may also indicate m its report ways and means
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  • 52 1 Mr. Donald James Sinclair of Kilburn Park. Singapore, formerly of Shanghai, who died last August m England, left estate there valued at £31.062 net, it was announced yesterday. Fourfifths of the property was left to his wife, Mrs. Clara A. Sinclair, and the remainder to his brother
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  • 26 1 Ten Vietminh soldiers were killed m an engagement with the Royal Cambodian Army m the province of Svay Rieng on Vietnam's northwestern border.- A.P.
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  • 29 1 King Paul last night signed a decree dissolving the Greek Parliament, 10 months before the expiry of its normal four-year term. Elections will be held on February 19.
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  • 31 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on an uncertain tone with first grade, January shipment, at $I.HP 4 a lb., three-quarters of a cent below yesterday's closing price.
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  • 19 1 Ceylon's parliament probably will be dissolved Feb. 23 m preparation for a general election m April.- U.P.
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  • 165 1 BRITAIN demonstrated good faith to the people Of Malaya m attempting to end the communist threat there, said Washington Post ye day. But Britain was now taring a dilemma m deciding how to meet the communists' refusal to disband their fore until the Malayans were giv.<n
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  • 205 2 A COMMERCE Department study given to Congress yesterday concludes that there is "a substantial world deficit m newsprint and an apparent substantial deficit for U.S. publishers for some years to come." Donald Shook, deputy director of the Forest Products Division of the department, said
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  • 55 2 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's profit for 1955. after providing for taxation etc. is HK520,580.320. HK54.000.000 is being written oft bank premises and a final dividend of £3 per share is to be recommended. It is proposed to carry forward a balance of HK510,606,689. These
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  • 22 2 Pakistan Prime Minister Mohamed Ali has been Invited to visit Japan after his tour of China next spring. Reuter
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  • 460 2 WILL DIPLOMACY IN ASIA CUT SUPPLIES TO CHINA? /COMMUNIST China is \j worried that Russia may usurp Chinese influence m Asia and that Soviet offers of aid to other Asian countries may turn out to be at China's expense, according to diplomatic reports from Peking reaching
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    81 2 STAFF Sergeant Stevens was at Paya Lebar yesterday to meet his wife and three children who had flown from England with other soldiers and their families m the first Hermes to bring troops to Paya Lebar. Previously all troop movements had been through hangi but now. under an Air Ministry
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  • 145 2 Early agreement reached THE Economic Council of the Bagdad I 1 yesterday reached preliminary agreement that an atomic energy training centre would t> set up by Britain m Bagdad manned by cxi from the British Atomic Station at Harwell, it was reliably learned. Brigadier A.
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  • 133 2 INFORMED sources in Washington said yesterday that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will attempt to lessen some of the misunderstandings between the United States and India by conferring with Prime Minister Nehru in New Delhi next month. American authorities, including Dulles, are said
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  • 29 2 Ingrid Bergman win play the lead m Joan of Arc at the Stake m a South American tour of five months starting m June. A. P.
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  • 158 2 Dangerous, crazy balderdash MINISTER HITS AT EDEN'S CRITICS DR. Charles Hill, Postmaster General, ?aid m Luton. Beds., last night that the 'supremely idiotic fiction" that the British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, intended to resign was "danger rrazy balderdash." Dr. Hill attacked what he described as "queer reckl&>s and hysterical"
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  • 77 2 WEARING black badges. Dacca students staged a black flag demonstration yesterday protesting what they said was betrayal of East Bengal m the draft oi the proposed Pakistani constitution. Slogans carried by the demonstrators ill d i cated they had three major grievances: East Bengal
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  • 310 3 CiRACE KELLY .stepped I" off a train yesterday at Pasadena, California, into a barrage of questions over where she will marry Monaco's Prince Rainier 111 and said coolly: "It makes no differ"nee." The chief of the prince's private cabinet had said it would be
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  • 161 3 Crispin 's sad day he's lost all his school books 800 1100." tried Crispin De Cruz terday. s a sad boy when he found out that all his new school text-books were lost m a taxi. Crispin is a Primary Four student of St. Anthony's Afternoon School He boarded a
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  • 97 3 Reds grilled climbers for 5 days rPWO Welsh mountaineers I said yesterday that they were grilled for five days running before their Red Chinese captors "pushed" them across the Tibetan border to freedom. They were given just 30 pounds of flour and ten pounds of sugar to struggle for 21
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  • 186 3 BABY WAS DRUGGED TO BEAT GUARDS I^HIRTEEN Hungarian anti-Communist refugees, who crawled through minefields and under barbed wire entanglements, have reached the safety of Austria. To make the flight, a mother drugged her yearold baby with sleeping pills >o the child would not cry out and awaken quicktriggered Hungarian border
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  • 35 3 President Stroessn^r of Paraguay was working m his office as usual yesterday as Paraguayans reacted with astonishment to Argentine and Uruguayan radio reports of a revolution. The country was normal.
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  • 269 3 T»HE weekly magazine Time 1 yesterday likened Hong Kong to "a fat canary on the shoulder of a hungry torn cat" which was frightened to eat it. It gave this description to Britain's crown colony off the China mainland m an article illustrated
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  • 255 3 Man freezes to death COM) weather gripped Asia from snowbound Northern Japan to tropical Formosa yesterday killing at least five people. The heaviest snowfall m 80 years blanketed Nagasaki as weekend blizzards swept across nearly all Western and Southern Japan, depositing snow falls as deep as six feet.
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  • 60 3 SPLASHES CAN BE COSTLY FOR DRIVERS PEDESTRIANS .still have rights m New Hampshire. Motor Vehicle Commissioner, Mr. Frederick N. Clarke warned motorists yesterday that if they splash at pedestrians, they could face damage claims, or the incident could be regarded as indication of improper driving. "Don't splash," he said. "No
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  • The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11, 1956. Opinion
    • 108 4 T*HE suggestion that the Government should provide an inducement to set up additional industries m Singapore deserves favourable consideration. The inducement, m the form of tax concessions m the first year, does not seem unreasonable. However, it is to be assumed that the president of the Chinese Chamber
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    • 65 4 YjUCH has been said of 1?1 the necessity for industrial expansion m Singapore, for which facilities have been provided and land set aside. But mere expression of the need is not enough. There is much idle capital, both domestic and overseas, awaiting investment. As a contribution to future prosperity,
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  • 1420 4  - The Twilight World of Espionage KURT SINGER by This is the second of two articles on Dr. Otto John, the former West German intelligence chief who had gone over to Red Germany and last month went back ALTHOUGH the scandal of Dr. Otto John was inevitable, it cannot be wholly
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    • 133 4 Helena Rubinstein's for Young Beauty Dw/. Cleantw Skin Llruruig Crtam M, iuafj rntm Utaul) CfUi/u Pretty, Pink and Priced to phase No* For yoiinjr hearts and sKtmIit purs* II< li-n.i I{ul»in-t»in jimdmni pun qi \xn i torn of m wwM finnwM beaaty prrparatioas in new 4 y(Ming' >-i/.rs pretty, pink
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  • 1320 5  -  Adelaide Eastley BV., "TF WE must find 1 fault, let us find it m ourselves," said Mrs. E. V. Davies, at memorial services honouring Indian womanhood's "Holy Mother," Sri Sarada Dcvi, held on Sunday at the Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home. Talks on the spiritual Obligations of womanhood were
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    • 136 5 goddess JF^ fell Sole Agents: Town Country Boutique: Corner of High St North Bridge Ro.id. Dress Salon: 1 Meyer Chambers, Raffles Place (Next Door to Robinson's) Ef^ ft ft ft Conductors X^C\ a-^ World Famous (j^3i »m* II Cj World Famous Art.sts WLRPM^W f^ t LONC PLAYING Decca, Brunswick STANDAR
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    • 252 6 >I\MN(VKI b> Lee Faik and Phil Pavia I 'ALL WE DID WAS SHOOT WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? K&UT &jffij> yT WITH OUR RIFLES— AND RIFLES CANT DO THAT! IT'S YOU SOT THEM!] HIDE tMt WE THEY BLEW UP— IMTO v^_^ j^^>^ TRUE s*-\ &^>^ DID YOU HIDE I V COULDNTFINO
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    • 665 6 t i <'. pORN today, you arc practical and J O have true gift for leadership. <> J> However, your emotions are cocked at h a high pitch and you are easily guided o 1 into impulsive action which may not X seem to make too much sense at the
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 193 7 LONDON. Jan. 10. ■*BBEH No RSB ci... SS7SU SJV,, European Ports January 34>', sellers H v »v KUBBER No. 1 BSs' cj.f 34-; buyer! 555 Hr£!K? l orta 34% sellers 34 seller" KLBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 14% buyers 14* buyers ri RD.n sellers 34 sellers KTBBER
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    • 99 7 Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 107.00 nom. 108 62 norn TIN futures January 105.00 bid 104 50 bid 106.00 asked ios'7s asked February 103.50 bid 103.00 biu 104.50 asked 104 25 asked March 102.50 bid 102.00 bid 103.25 asked 103.00 asked TONE: Dull.. SALES: Nil.
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    • 43 7 Malabar and i.unpong sjwt 36. awaiting reli*ase 35-, afloat* 35 to 34, Jan. 33. Milabar Jaii./M;ir. 33, Saravuik >pot 32, awaiting release 32, afloats 31 l j to 31, Jan. 30V4. Sellers ex-dock Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib.
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    • 34 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 10. Today Today JO Industrials 479.74 476 12 20 Railroads 158 .09 157.68 40 Domestic Bonds 98.49 93.56 15 Itilitics 63.61 63.45 64 Stocks Composite Average 169.38 168.30
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    • 117 7 COPRA Philippines c.I.f. U.K./ North European delivered weight per Ion* ton Jan.. Feb. COPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila in bulk per ton COPRA Straits c.i.f. UK/North Furopean delivered weight per long ton Jan. /Feb. Feb. /March COCONUT OIL crude Straits cJ.f. IK North Furopean in bulk. p»T
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  • 264 7 Preparing pamphlets m local languages FAMILY planning is 1 practised In Singapore "somewhat extensively," the Singapore Family Planning Association's medical adviser, Dr. Mary Grove-White, told the Free Press. But she added: "Not as extensively as we would like We are not satisfied at the
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  • 47 7 When Mario Aspromonti was accidentally shot in the head 25 years ago, doctors in Rome said it was too dangerous to remove the bullet. The other day his nose was blocked. Mario gave a good blow and out popped the pistol slug. A.P.
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  • 47 7 The De Havilland Aircraft company said m Toronto yesterday its experimental jet aircraft Comet 111 was forced to return to Montr* a! from a Trans-Atlantic takeoff on December 22 because bolts m the tailpipe ijave way. It said the fault was minor.- A .P.
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  • 169 7 r rosCA, the dog that bit people, has won a reve from the death senHut he hud to '4') (1 join the Fo: The two-year-old Alsatian was condemned to die last November after biting a policeman. His owner, Mr. Graham Henderson, of Herbert Road,
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    32 7 Mr. Goh Yong Meng. a teacher at St. Joseph's Institution, and Miss Lily Tay Sian Keow who were married m Singapore. The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. Tay Quee Liang.
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  • 169 7 The beach bikini starts row A GIRL m a bikini who beckons folk to join her on the beacll has started a rumpus at Ramsgate. report m England's south i>t. "She doesn't belong here take her away," says one section led by the vicar. "She docs belong and she stays/
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  • 1427 8  -  BASIL FRANCIS by The rickety $1,530 plane took off from New York for California. Twenty-eight hours later, m Ireland, they gently broke it to the pilot that he was 6,000 miles off course THE WORLD'S STRANGEST S&RIES 44 A LITTLE nonsense now and then." wrote Horace Walpole "is
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  • 128 8 BIG LOSS ON NEW RAILWAY lOMDOM li t. tnilUon v railway and |1 oi £2,250,000 a year. The line is to be bttwetn Viet, ria terminal In Westmii arid Walthamstow, an Industrial and residential Miburb of 120,000 peo Sir John Elliott, elman of the nation I ondon transport organisation, explained
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  • 306 9 LM)K years good neighbour Reginald Broad picked up four friends at the Ked Lion at 8.30 a.m. drove them to work, and brought them home again at 5.30. It was his good turn. He laid he never wanted to irge for it. but
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  • 1233 9 Tanks for Egypt row: Full inside story HOW 415 SURPLUS SHERMANS WERE SOLD AS SHERVICKS FOR £155,000 MR JOHN DAWSONiTI ELLIS, 47-year-old London jeweller, was the brain behind the deals which resulted m 415 surplus Sherman tanks converted into tractors for the groundnuts scheme being sold to Joseph Peeters, the
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  • 51 9 DOSSIER GOES TO FOREIGN OFFICE VITAL documents, naming the men who have shipped war scrap into the Belgian loophole, have orrii handed to the Foreign OlTice m London. They were secured by the Daily Mail. It tells of how a Belgian arms exporter obtained 415 Sherman tanks. adapted as heavy
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  • 139 9 THE woman who is too house-proud was criticised by a vicar m his parish magazine. Said the Rev. Arthur Jordan, of Porchester. Nottingham, about the woman who won't let her gardening husband into the house without taking his boots off:— "Material things are Kiven us to
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  • 187 9 HOW long dors it take to sober-up after a really shocking night out? The answer was Riven to Lastbourne magistrates by an expert. Mr. Lewis Charles Nickolls. of Scotland Yards laboratory. Be said that the amount of alcohol m any man's system disappears at a
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  • 561 10  - ROUND ABO UT S'PORE Oswald Henry I Weekend picture round- nd-up by A CHANGE m the fortunes of local mannequins that's what Joan Booty is hoping: will happen this year, because the last Christmas season was a big disappointment to many. Singapore had no fashion shows and professional models like
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  • 493 12  -  PETER CLIFTON By PORTUGAL BULLIES ITS PEOPLE INTO GOING TO SCHOOL TWENTY-FIVE yean *> ago two out of ever: three of Portugal'; 9,000,000 inhabitant could neither read noi sign their names. In 1930 only three out ol 10 Portuguese children went to school. Now. however, with
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    15 12 PRINCESS Anne photographed as she drove from Buckingham Palace to a party recently.
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  • 543 12 'LOST GENERATION' HAS NO MORALS JOHN IVEY reports on South Africa's pagan children OF ALL the social problems with which troubled South Africa is beset, the one causing the greatest public stir today is the widespread decline m the morals of the nations youth. Youngsters are being described by their
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  • 194 12 Why some people are THIN others are FAT THREE thin men- have made gluttons of themselves so that doctors could investigate why some people with hearty appetites never get fat. They stuffed themselves with 70 per rent more food than they really wanted for a fortnight. They gained an average
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  • 311 12 U.S. needs engineers, scientists Big rewards for trained men BECAUSE of steady expansion of the electronics and aircraft industries m Southern .California, the demand for engineers and scientists cannot be adequately met. The Riant corporations concerned are advertising daily m Los Angeles newspapers, and weekly and monthly m the national
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  • 841 13  -  YANA SAYS to Kenneth Allsop TO meet Yana latest girl with a single-barrelled name, but fully loaded m all other respects I trod shabby, cracked linoleum up three flights of stairs. At her fourth-floor flat I stopped abruptly on the brink of Mayfair
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  • 581 13 rSffV^l^ ii— "^^saT^^i^^^P^P^B pifi^S fci^rj I j it was i tiappy 1 thought to couple on onr disc two of the more popular compositions of the "modem" French composers Vincent d'lndy and Canaille Saint-Sat ns. Saint -Saens died m 1921 and d'lndy m 1931. The
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    2326 14  -  COLIN MORRIS [DID IT HAPPEN another Jtory m the series that Keeps you guessing by pOLIX MORRIS wrote and starred m Reluctant Heroes. As an observer officer he was himself at El Alamein with the Eighth Army, and m 1913 at Syracuse be captured 130 armed
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  • 476 15  - BEAUTY from a SICKBED EILEEN ASCROFT by E WHENEVER you may E be confined at home with a minor ill- ness that prevents you from going to work or 5 exercising your duties as a housewife, why not put the time to z good advantage by E learning and practicing
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  • 442 15  -  CLIFF HANLEY I FASHION CORNER strictly for MEN by AMERICA'S discovery that men wear shorts is still producing the excited repercussions you might expect, and the Transatlantic male knee is rearing Its ugly head m large numbers, it N i ms Nothing funnier has yet happened
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  • 225 15 DID YOU SAY A DRY MARTINI?' THE Eileen As( roft stopwatch on the trail of New Year parties, in London, timed Bob Hone and Belinda Lee shaking a dry Martini. American comedian Bob came ofT the Pinewood set. where he is filming "Not For
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    96 15 NOTHING m the realm of art is more refreshing than the spontaneous efforts of children to t people, houses, animals, and other aspects 0) world about them They lore COIOUn and painting for must <■■ them is sheer '<>.'/. This was m th( ul World Children's Art" exhibition he, ly
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    • 47 15 Jnr "I wouldn 't let -*^fen MY baby drink .;s7ntt^--. iU Ik" YOUR BABY NEEDS A jL FEEDRITE/Q we itfonaet* babis feeder /f "7/ KEEPS MILK WARM f^Sh-fl PREVENTS GRIPE a WIND \J~^>tM •It THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. 33 R.ifMcs Place. Singapore Cold Stor.isc Arc.idc, Orchard Ro.id.
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  • 899 16  - Conversation is difficult in a lighthouse WILLIAM HICKEY Which explains why the keeper visited the Boat Show bff I HAD a wonderful morning at the National Boat Show which opened at Olympia last week it was all sails, gleaming metal and woodwork, nylon ropes as soft as silk, sleek, wellgroomed
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    435 16 llolh vhlch ulnt-ralile North ilrdlrr I'WO-THIRDS of Amerirn A bridge players will probably find this heresy, and n this doesn't include you it is apt to include most of your partners. But it is the mission of this column to present the best methods not necessarily the most
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 241 16 DAILY CROSSWORD CLUIB ACROSS 3 Tmt ranges may be severe 1 The first of August finds (10)< Mama confused inside (6). 5 One part of a hospital 4 Cornish reptile? (6) worker (7). 8 One's time changes m 6 studles m a way without a muslc W- final coin (6).
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  • 1240 17  - LIFE IN PARIS? that 's for me! MICHAEL RUDDY by SAYS GARY WHO LIKES IT THERE IN THE SPRING •■••■■••■■■•■■■■■■•■■■■■■■■■■■■■■•■•••■■■•■■■■■•■■■■r THE young German actress, Marianne Koch, s who last year won an > award m the Berlin International Film Festival, for her part m the film "The Devil's General." has
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  • 677 18 There is some public sympathy for his attack on the Press IS IN THE HEWS AGAIN: THE BATTLE BETWEEN GORDON PIRIE, BRITISH TRACK STAR AND SPORTS WRITERS CONTINUED ALL LAST WEEK. Quite a large proportion of the British public discussing his attack on the sports writers when being presented with
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  • 474 18  - Now Solomons turns his eyes to Israel... GEORGE WHITING JACK SOLOMONS, the jew who restored big-time boxing to the sports curriculum of the Gentiles after the war, is now going to exercise the same shrewd magic m Israel. He is off to Tel Avi next month. Solomons has been keeping
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    47 18 photo. AT TOP SPEED: Chiharu Igaya of Japan, who is a strong contender for the Salom title at the forthcoming Winter Olympics, won the event at the second annual inter-nation ski tournament at Adelboden, Switzerland last week. Here he is negotiating a bend at top speed. A.P.
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  • 167 18 GENOA police haw reopened Investigation of the citizenship status Ol Eddie Firmani. South Alrican-born inside forward whom 8a doria secured for i: 35.000 from Charlton last June. The police move followed reports thai Firmani was reluctant to give up his British passport. He will be heard
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  • 70 18 A UCKLAND has applied to I A the International Olympic Committee to stage the 1964 Olympic Games, Mr. Edgar Tanner, Secretary of the Melbourne Olympic Organising Committee, said m Melbourne yesterday. He said the deputy chairman of the Auckland Provisional Games Committee 1 Mr. Rex Moon,
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  • 218 18 AN unnamed champion skater bearing the symbolic Olympic Torch will glide across the ice of the i new stadium at Cortina d'Ampezzo on the morning of Jan. 26 to mark the traditional opening of the seventh Winter Olympic Games. The torch will burn throughout the
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  • 21 18 THE Kings Own Scottish Bord- erers trounced RAF Seletar Dynamos 13-2 In a soccer match at Scleraiifl oix Monday.
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  • 550 19 Fijians win 22-3, but Selangor will face final with confidence SELANGOR'S chances m the H.M.S. Malaya rushy final on Saturday arc Rood anybody who saw yesterday's match between the State and the Fijians at Kuala Lumpur will tell you that. The Fijians won the game 22-3 but Selangor made them
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  • 357 19 N.Z. FIGHT HARD TO SAVE TEST: LEGGAT 61 NOT OUT N'\\\ /I MAM), though certain to lose the series, arc making ;i Bghlinß Wd to sue the fifth and final ri< k«t Test m Madras i Form! to follow-on 328 tuns m an the fourth day's play jr< day with
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  • 97 19 TWO Kumanlan rrivtd m Melbourne by air ye>terday, mainly to In ranpmeHs v ttHf Wul affect ountry'i Olympic QtBMl representatives. Rumania will have n (pain of 7n men and 10 women. 'Itu- two oflletell are Samoil Baranyi, oT the Rumanian Olympic Committee, and Dr. Train DrumiteMU. a physical
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  • 47 19 DENIS Compton, the England and Middlesex cricketer, left a London hospital yesterday after undergoing a .slipht abdominal operation on Dec. 30. He has made a good recovery. Two months ago, Compright knee cap was removed and while m hospital he continued his treatment.- Reuter
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  • 117 19 TMIE Singapore Hockey 1 Association will eelctheir Silver Jubilee on July 8 thus year. A Suo-C'Diumittee comi n Oehlers, (chairman). Mr. S. Yogarajah (secretary), Mr G. X faosain, Mr. J. V. Jolly, Dr. V. Mcnon. Cdr J. M Palmer and Mr. Cecil Wong will organise the
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  • 170 19 PASCUAL PEREZ, Argentina's world tyweifht chain pi.vi who won the title m November 19M from Yoshio Shirai (Japan), and retained it by knocking out the Japanese fi K hter last May. defends his title m Buenos Aires today against Leo Espinosa (Philippines^ This fight,
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  • 44 19 THE draw for the second round of the Singapore i Hockey Association's knockout tournament (senior and junior) will take place m the SRC. at 630 p.m. tomorrow. Clubs still In the tournament should send their r< presentatives to the draw.
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  • 52 19 CPL. S. Naylor and S Tech W. Parkinson (two up> I won the RAF. Seletar Golf Club's Bisque Bogey fouii somes yesterday. Runners-up were FO Huli me and Sst. J. Graham, all I square after a count back ever the first nine holes with Todd and
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  • 53 19 BEVERLY Bainbridgc, 15--year old Australian swimming star, set I nvv, national record for the women's 220-yard individual mi'dley event m Sydney last night with a clocking of ,2:56.2. Miss Bainbridgf. Australia's hope for an Olympic Gold Medal m the butterfly swimming events, lowered the former record
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  • 70 19 RAF SeleUr "Under 21s rugby team yesterday beat St. Andrews. School at Seletar by 17 points (goal, three tries, penalty) to three (try) Russell scored eight of Seletar's points converting a penalty goal and his own try Edwards scored two tries and Holden one. Yong Chye
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  • 39 19 BURNLEY beat Bury by one goal to nil m their Football Association Cup third round tie at Bury yesterday. Burnley are now at home to Chelae* m the fourth round on Jan. 28. Reuter
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  • 378 20 Commonwealth to meet British Isles at golf in July A GOLF match m which professionals resident m the British Isles including Ireland, will oppose professionals from the Commonwealth and Empire visiting England, will be played at Prince's (Sandwich, Kent) on j luly 20 and 21 this year. It is hoped
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  • 372 20 REME ENTER ZONE RUGGER FINAL WITH LATE POINTS BY beating District Signal Regiment by 14 points (goal, two tries, penalty) to five (goal). REMK Workshops entered the final jf the Singapore District zone m the FARELF inter-unit rugger competition at Princess Mary barracks yesterday. District Signals reached the semi-ftnal by
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  • 26 20 20 Witrdi $K {minimum). WAIT: Suddenly at 26, DcssW(xxl Place. Aberdeen on Jan. 3, George Andrew Watt <retnsulUnfl Engineer, Singapore >. husband of Lilian Scott Stewart.
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  • 85 20 RON ARCHER, the Queensland Test all-rounder, failed to pass a fitness test yesterday and has withdrawn from the MaileyTaylor testimonial cricket match which begins on Friday m Sydney. His place will be taken by John Power, the Victorian allrounder. Archer was chosen to play for
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    50 20 THE "blue water" classic of Australian yachting— the Sydney-Hobart race over four days was won by the 34--ft. yawl Moonbi seen here ploughing her way on the southern course towards Hobart. Skippered by Hal Evans, the yawl won the race on handicap m three days. 9hr. 21 mm. 3 sec.
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  • 157 20 INDIAN Recreation Club won the challenge cup m the final of the Tamil Festival knockout soccor competition when they beat Gymkhana Sports Club 3-0 at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. IRC won the cup two years running and with their victory yesterday, will keep it permanently.
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  • 139 20 SELANGOR. who have been defeated only once this season, will travel to Singapore this week-end for the hockey triangular tournai ment against Negri and Singapore. The 13-man Belangor con- tingent will be accompanied by Mr. Gui'bash Singh Sambi, president of the Selangor Hockey Association, and
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