The Singapore Free Press, 25 January 1956

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Wednesday, January 25, 1956. Price Hi ts
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  • 284 1 I^HK health of Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, who has been a sick man for nearly two months, is causing some anxiety among his colleagues and friends. They are worried because he still insists on doing some work at his Changi home despite
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  • 118 1 POLICE last night extended a curfew in greater Bombay wrecked last week by riots .sparked by government plans to redraw the map of India The curfew, due to expire this morning, will be enforced another eight days. The Bombay Government also appealed to the citizens to stay
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  • 38 1 Following the easier overnight markets in London and New York, the price of rubber for first grade, February shipment, dropped by three cents to $1.05% on the Singapore rubber market this morning. The tone was easier.
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  • 32 1 Sir Anthony Eden board e.d the liner Qu-vn Elizabeth which is to take him U) the United States t" r talks with Presldeni Elsenhower, at Southampton curly this, morning. Reuter
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  • 32 1 a Chinese living at Woodlands Road turned up at a Singapore police station curly this morning and confessed that he had beaten up a "friend" last night. The Dollce are investigating.
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  • 268 1 RED MENACE IN FAR EAST IS 'GREATEST IN S'PORE' IN A "special international report" the U.S. magazine Newsweek yesterday said that "a growing number of Overseas Chinese have become communism's biggest fifth column a massive threat not only to the West's thinning defence lines, but to struggling new countries of
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  • 300 1 UNION MEN DIDN'T KNOW OF QUIZ 'Not responsible for replies 9 COME Singapore trade union officials are understood to have answered the Labour Ministry expert's questionnaire on conditions of employment and related subjects without consulting their executive committees. Members of certain union committees said they did not even know what
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  • 145 1 Allan Lewis joins the Free Press race experts TIDAY Allan Lewis, one of the best informed men in Malayan turf circles, joins the Free Press team of racing experts. His first report on this morning's activity at Bukit Timah— appears on the back page. Every day there is track work
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  • 36 1 The Singapore Naval Base Labour Union whose 9.000 members are on strike, has intensified picketing at all entrances to the dockyard. Normal work in machine .shops and ships is at a standstill.
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  • 159 1 A POLICE inspector and a •*»> Chinese civilian were blasted with bullets by a Chinese gunman in a midnight shooting at Weld Road, Kuala Lumpur. The officer, Inspector K. Subbiah, married and with a family, this morning lies in the General Hospital fighting for his life.
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  • 117 2 DULLES YET HOPES FOR ASIA 'NO FORCE' PACT TTNITED STATES Secrctary of State John Foster Dulles, at his Washington news conference yesterday, said that he was still hopeful that the United States and Red China would reach a.n agreement on renunciation of the use of force in the Far East.
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  • 92 2 Mystery of Red note to Ike rFIIE Soviet Ambassador, 1 Mr. Georgi Zarubin, will call on President Eisenhower today to deliver a personal message from Marshal Bulganin, the Soviet Premier. The White House Press Secretary, Mr. James Hagerty, who made the announcement, said he had no information whatever about the
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  • 57 2 FORCES TO HE WITHDRA WN UNITED Nations communique issued in Jerusalem last night .•■■aid proposals aimed at easing tension in the £1 Auja demilitarised area on the Israeli Egyptian bor- der were expected to be implemented in about a week. Egypt has already withdrawn her forces from the zone. Israeli
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  • 374 2 MR. SELWYN LLOYD, making his first speech in the House of Commons as Foreign Secretary, said yesterday the conflict between Israel and the Arab states was the most baffling and perplexing problem the British Government had ever had to deal with.
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  • 30 2 r pHE Jordan govern--1 ment said yesterday that an Israeli patrol of seven penetrated inside Jordan early on Sunday and attacked Fifeh, south of the Dead Sea.- A.P.
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  • 20 2 The U.S Agriculture Department ha.s sold 1.000.000 pounds of Governmentowned .surplus cheese for export to Britain A.P.
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  • 202 2 New switch in Red bosses AIR ALEXANDER PUZA- NOV. chairman (or Premier) of the Council of Minister- of the Russian Federation, has been moted and replao d by Mr. Mikhail Yasnov, Mayor of Moscow who visited London last year. Mr. Puzanov had I in a
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  • 173 2 A final bargain rescues Faure M. EDGAR FAURE formally resigned last night as Premier of France following the election of Socialist Andre Letroquer as Speaker 01 the new French National Assembly. President Rene Coty was expected to name a new Pnemier-designate tomorrow. Letroquer. fleeted with Communist support, wo., on the
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  • 46 2 The Japanese delegate. Mr Koichiro A.sakai. WM in the chair at the formal inauguration ceremony of the eighth session of the ECAFE committee on Industry and trade which opened in Bangalore yesterday Mr. Ashraf .said, leader (i i the Pakistan delegation, elected chairman.
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  • 24 2 Jean Lacombe, 36. of Paris, has reached San Juan Puerto Rico, after crossing the Atlantic in a 17 *aili»i£ 1; A. P.
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  • 273 3 Marry for love: So 'Bride for sale Betty is talked out of plan OETTY TAYLOR, a 20-year-old Glasgow girl who announced she would marry anyone who would put up $850 to settle her father's debts, received a cable yesterday from an American offering her $850 to scrap the idea. The
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  • 41 3 Joe AdonLs. former New gambler and rackets er 'who cl W Naples, in preference to prion, gave $1,500 yesl to help repair the village church in nearby Montemarano where he waa horn. 11. to Monti marano A.P.
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  • 38 3 Slnfapore toi»i> i r broker, Mr Kohrrt Son Teon Bitf, was married yesterday In K«Hk Road residence t .\iis> Irene Onf. The reception irai held Ri the Tai TtOf ResUUrant In tin* Men >Vorld Park
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  • 149 3 PAPAL BAN COULD K.O. MARCIANO {lOCKY MARCIANO. the V world heavyweight champion, would be one of the Drat to be affected if the Pope condemned professional boxing. He is a Catholic. Officials at the National Catholic Welfare Conference j in Washington yesterday received a news dispatch I from Rome quoting
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  • 38 3 I>USSIA. seeking to resume 1 membership in the Unit Nations World Health Organisation (WHO i alter seven years' absence, yesterday offered a token "payment' of 5 per of its 'unpaid contributions A.P.
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  • 268 3 THEN CAME CANNED BEER —BY AIR THE THERON, a tiny sealing ship carrying Britain's Antarctic expedition, yesterday won a four-week battle with the killing icepacks of the Weddell Sea. A British Admiralty message said the Theron had rammed through to open water from the ice trap
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  • 176 3 ALLOW ASIANS INTO AUSTRALIA' HINT UNITED STATES Representative Mr. Franeis Waiter (Democrat -Pennsylvania) In effect advised Australia yesterday to open its sates to i immigrants from Asia. Addressing Australia's annual Citizenship Convention the American con- greaaman made no direct reference to Australian legislation which bars grants of the Asian ract
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  • 101 3 Rita now in France -may see Aly again RED-HAIRED Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth slipped into France ye day on the Queen Mary to visit her children Yasmin and Rebecca— and possibly meet ex-husband Prince Aly Khan. Her arrival coincided with widespread reports that Prince Aly will soon main curvaceous Paris
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  • 20 3 The Qu<vn and the Duke of Edinburgh will pt t>> Copenhagen in the ipring oi 1 J57.- Reuter
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  • 206 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25, 1956. Opinion THE NEXT BIG JOB rpHE special concern of 1 Tengku Abdul Rahman on his return will be to crush Red terrorism in the Federation. And the Malayan Communist traitors, impervious to the velvet glove treatment, will be made to feel the
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  • 891 4  - Nasser bribes the Arab Legion SEFTON DELMER m 0 M Egyptian intrigue, Arabian gold, mob violence are ranged against British influence in Jordan A reporf by DOLLAR -LAVISH agents sent by Egypt's Premier Nasser are trying to bribe the Arab Legion of Jordan into a revolt against its British commander,
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  • 291 4 AN American military research team has come up with an answer to the No. 1 question of ocean travellers: Which pill will keep me from getting seasick? The first report of the Joint Committee for the Study of Motion Sickness. to be Issued soon, will state that
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  • 1335 5  -  Adelaide Eastley BV_, TWO Australians, Mr. I L. J. Cooper and Mr. William Carson of Sydney, have stopped briefly in Singapore en route to Kuala Lumpur Where they are about to j undertake the training of nearly 100 instructors in carpentry, fitting, metalwork, mechanical drawing and other technical
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    • 248 5 D6CCB POPESERIES Hrr^) "Tops in Pops" 78 r.pjn. Standard Records >> POPE 7012 MEL CAYNOR How important can it be?; Just! a man. (Both with Bob Sharpies his Music). )> 7019 VICTOR BARRETT. A Blossom Fell; Softly,? >> Softly. 7020 CHARLIE KUNZ. Piano Medley No. 117: Stranger in Paradise: Prize
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 678 6 VIWIMIAKi: by Lee I alk and W^ 1^ 7 *\ibS?>7 J*^ j F~" I IWHATtSAUr HAPPENED: I I NOW- WHAT'S ON TOP OF THE I W r p N 17^ k TO r t MANDRAKE MERELY HYPNOTIZES MESA THAT YOU'VE TRIED SO WELL GET BACK lu/ f>ORN today, you have
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 175 7 BUBBtK S. 1 ESS .J.t. huropean Ports January 31 se ii er KIBBEB No. 1 ESS cAf. u£ buyer S s 30^ buyers furopean Ports February ug sellers 31^ sellers KIBBEB No. 1 ESS Spot 3i" tt buyers 3 IS buyers 32 sellers 31 4 sellers KI'BBEB
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    • 107 7 NEW YORK. Jan M Previous Today TIN Straits spot and oearby 104.25 nom. 103.87 nom. TIN futures January 103.00 bid 102.50 bid 103 75 asked 103.50 asked February 101. 50 bid 101.00 bid 7 102.25 asked 102.50 asked March 101.00 bid 100.50 bid 102.00 asked 101.25 asked
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    • 34 7 Bpo4 llalabar/Lampong 34H. awaitii 331--tu 33. Jan. 33. Malabar Jan/Mar. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Ib. 31' Sarawak spot 32. await Ing release 31^. afloats 31. J;m 30'.. Sellers ex-dock.
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    • 27 7 NEW YORK. lan. M Previous Today M Industrials 462.35 J67JI IMilrn.ids 153 97 lg ,0 DojjjOlc Bond; gg ."I 1 SUut C «n,|^.l. Average
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    • 76 7 fma. M. COP1A Philippine c.i.f. l.K./ Previous loduy North I .urop«Mii J**?*** tlU MQer| $174 M »ri K ht |ht lon K ton 1... M.ir. SITd sellers t(>PK\ Straits c.i.f. I'K North I urop«;in delivered wrtRht per 64 bu lone ton Jan. /Feb. sellers buyers rrb./March
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  • 314 7 ARTISTS TEAR UP SHEETS FOR TOGAS Modern painters turn classical T*HE contemporary artists of Cornwall, who paint cubes and carve shapes of strange dimensions, turned classical overnight. They cut up their bed sheets for togas, and stripped the library of its volumes of Greek and Roman history. For that was
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  • 185 7 Opera boos caused by rival, says Walton SIR WILLIAM WALTON believes that an unknown enemy a rival composer— organised the whistling and catcalls that greeted his new opera Troilus and Cressida" at Milarfs famous La Scala. Rarely has a performance taken such a beating at the hands of musical Italy's
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  • 149 7 WILFRED ANGUS was so bone idle he refused to fetch the National Assistance money and made his wife walk two miles each way tor it. t prosecutor told Wakefield, Yorks.. Magistrates Court An' unemployed, of Undaay A\ .led guilty to neglecting Ms childr .ill
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  • 25 7 Pakistan has received "no firm offer from Czechoslovakia" for any large-scale economic or technical aid. a senior government official in Karachi yesterday.
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  • 87 7 Click ends boys bid to escape FIVE Borstal boys making an escape bid beat un a potrol officer, took his keys ;ind then rrappcel them- selves behind a self-locking door. It happened at Buckley Hall Borstal institution.! near Rochdale. As Mr. George Williams. 60. opened a dormitory door on a
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  • 138 7 SIR— the R.N. door is opening IT may be "Sir" in- L stead of "Mister" in the wardroom for the Royal Navy's senior commissioned warrant officers. The Admiralty plans :to raise tlie status of these men. who never went to Dartmouth but Erose through the ranks. They may br fiven
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  • 35 7 Premier Jawaharlal Nehru told a private political meeting in New Delhi that India must take serious note of Pakistan's membership in the U. S.-supported Bagdad Pact, it was reported yesterday- U.P.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 45 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES 1 y TODAY: 10 27 p m TOMOKKOW: TM)B a.m and 11.10 p.m. FRIDAY: 10.07 am. and II.KJ v SATURDAY: lor.S a in. SUNDAI 1Z2% a.m. and 11.44 a in MONDAY: 12^2 am. and I*3o p.m. TUESDAY: IJM am and Ml PMk.
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  • 357 8  -  FREDERICK ELLIS reports on safari among South Africa's mining tycoons IT the 1 D in U bar in I en tha t the mining induly, are lust thouA them And the t ng the r :i f Yo i cannot .m my m in
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  • 347 8  - New drug kills even the memory of surgery ALTON L. BLAKESLEE by UOOX you may benefit from two new painrelieving drugs, including one that leaves you no memory of your sur- or tooth extraction. Experimenting with them is Dr. John S. Lundy, .senior consultant in anesthesiology at the Mayo clinic
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  • 71 8 NEW PORT SEVILLE, fourth Lai city in Spain, with a population ol 380,000 become an Inland capable of handling snips up to 30.000 tons. Work on a 42 mile canal linking the city with the mouth of the Quadalqu River is to be^in th. Simultaneously, a n< w railway line
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  • 212 9 Lost on the moor, she sang alt night WHILE police with dogs searched fur a 50--year-old widow on the bleak moors above Halifax, she spent the night in a derelict hut, holding an umbrella over her head and singing popular songs to keep up her spirits. The widow, Mrs. Winifred
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  • 317 9 Tainted water rumpus in holiday island rHE villagers of Bembridge, holiday resort in the Isle of Wight, are drinking Vichy water from bottles in a big way. They prefer it to the water which comes through he taps. That is contaminated by il, they say. The taint Ls more Lottceable
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  • 170 9 i^ew of the sequence* in 1 the Wrmblrv. Mid-ii.-,,-x. Ht- .show "Robinson Crusoe" were original, it was .said by witnesses in ♦,he High Court. After hearing thLs, Mr. w Tookey. Q.C., for Mr Walter Alexander South, said that he was instructed not to carry on with
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  • 337 9 \IARY, the ex-chorus girl, was told by her doctor "You ought to get mar- ried." She saw an advertisement in which Cornelius Kool, a lonely widower, was asking for a wife. She answered it. In 1949 they married. He fell
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  • 142 9 Fall kills a lonely pianist A 20-YEAR-OLD English music student whose only ambition was to be a concert pianist was found dying beneath the window of his room in Rome. Charles 'Sabin, of Chatsworth Road, Brighton, studied in the United States after he left Cheltenham College. Last year he went
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  • 231 9 i BAN NAME IN RABBIT PROBE i THE Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty < to Animals has clashed with its chairman Lord V Merthyr. over his part in the Government's myxo- matosis investigation. V The 55-year-old farmer-peer has been told he J much
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  • 440 10 UNKNOWN HOMEWARD-BOUND HOMEWARD-BOUND wwerwe RFTI RNINC. to f;enoa after rnmpleting a business visit to Colombo »n<l >in^.ipore, Raron Mario dr Odino. a member of one of the oldest Italian families, spent his last evening in the olom, dining and daneing at a popular nightspot. In his party was Quebec-born blon:te
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  • 625 12  - 'Copter is a man' s best friend C. GREGORY JENSEN mmmmm By mmmmm THE SWEDES HAVE THEM AS MAIDS-OF -ALL-WORK HELICOPTER rotors are biting into the i icy northern air once j more as preparations get under way for this month's resumption of the world's oldest helicopter mail service. American-built
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  • 694 12 I FIRST saw Charlie Cairoli at Blackpool circus a few years ago. I knew, and know, nothing about circuses. I can't remember any other clown I've seen in my life. So I have no standards of criticism on which to judge. But I thought then, and
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  • 534 13 Louis finds pals wherever he goes LOUIS ARMSTRONG, America's ambaa sador without portfolio but with horn, is willing to continue making friends for America wherever he's sent even behind the Iron Curtain. "Russia? That's Okay with me," he says. "They .y the Russ laria don't like music, but that couldn't
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  • 773 13 TTOS U if un- usual discs. Xop of the list is a remarkable recording by tin ima Kabuki Musicians of Nagauta music and of original music and arrangem< nts from the older classics of Japan. The recording followed the visit to America and Europe of the
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  • 336 13 "I NEVER wanted to set the world on lire," says Dinah Shore. "So I never had to burn any bridg< s behind me." 1 i Although she has yet to burn a bridge, Dinah has been spreading quite a conflagration through the entertainment world for
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  • 1762 14  - MR. FINCHLEY'S LAST SPEECH J.P.W. MALLALIEU werwer 'lIIIIIIIIIHII by DID \.ytonlivs stary— "RENDFZVOr.S IN Rl S BELL SQUARE," bj K«.s;ira (;avrilovir ;utually happen? The .mswer Ls: nS. ERIC FINCHLEY was already something of a national figure when I was first adopted as a Parliamentary candidate 20 years ago. His progress
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  • 455 15  -  JOHN FRENCH I- mii yj *TI IjL <mmr~mjm m^JmR Wkrjm Br Tor V **<* *^B by AS CECIL BEATON SAID OF MRS. DUDLE Y WARD... 'JUST RIGHT FOR THE TIME -AND THIS GIRL JENNIFER HOWL AND IS SO 1956' (lECIL BEAj TON remarked about that
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  • 98 15 Isn't it odd that now a woman can buy a nanni'ide mink coat for £45 is moth-proof and mildew-proof needi no summer .storage and no iik, is odoui lc.s.s when Jft and easily cleaned. tai'l it odd that she J V(>uld still much rather for the
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  • 204 15 CHEAT-he stops the treatment rE new smart place to go to be slimmed is a clinic in London where they claim to take 20 lb. off a fat girl under 25 years old. and up to 151b. off her if she is over 25 in one course of six treatments.
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  • 969 16  - OSCAR'S LUSTRE NEVER DIMS: It grows brighter HAROLD HEFFERNAN says s THE entry box has closed. Time now to rig for the Big Show. Excitement mounts daily throughout the film capital. It will continue to do so until that feverish evening in March when the closely guarded envelopes are slit
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  • 247 16 Awards mean more OSCAR, the American Motion Picture Acal demy Award, will soon be finding a new 1956 home. I won't stick mv neck out be predicting which star will be taking home the prize but I I can tell you something jj about Oscar himself. Oscar was born in
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  • 271 16  -  "tyAR AND PEACE" would run 34 hours if they used afcl the film shot! The finished version, as you will see it at the cinema, runs about four hours....Success evidently agrees with Frank Sinatra. He's gained two ounces! Frank Love.joy gave wife Joan the
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  • 502 17 They must now surrender —to the SEA! TWICE PERSECUTED AND DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES- DESCENDANTS of a persecuted people who twice found refuge under British rule are being uprooted again this time by the mammoth St. Lawrence Seaway project. The unlucky people are the descendants of the German Lutherans who
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  • Article, Illustration
    362 17 Tram of four play Hoth sides vulnerable v "uth dealer 'j'KAM-OF-FOUR play k an excellent way to di *hich of your faults and what kind of hands are costing you the must points. it Ls axiomatic thai total Point team games are won by 'Ursome that makes the
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    • 242 17 DAILY CROSSWORD DLtJBf ACROSS I Not the quicker road to >**•" iiiside i^SmUkSrtii^im 4 Shade of pmk for a West- Jptter in a whole number (2, nuiibUT lepre&enuitivp finally 3) ((i) 7 Is this legal permLs.sion for 0 A writer' (7) Masefield to write? (6, 7). 10 A small CToup
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  • 941 18  - My only regret is that I didn't pass Sir Jack Hobbs' record of 197 centuries in first class cricket-but then you can't have everything. ..can you?— says Len Hutton ROBERT FINDLAY -By LEN HUTTON, of Yorkshire and England, elbowed his way towards the pavillion as the members argued the merit
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  • 440 18  -  ARCHIE QUICK by 1 There has been a sudden spate of deaths in the football world. Sir Amos, Brook Hirst, chairman of the Football Association, Mons. R. W. Seeldrayers, president of tho international Federation, and Mons. H. Delaunay, secretary of
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  • 93 18 GIL SHEA of the United States beat the young Australian prospect Roy Emerson in five sets to reach the third round of the Australian lawn third championships in Brisbane yesterday. Shea won 6 —3, 6 —B, 3__6, 6—l, 6—2. Rain delayed the start of play yesterday
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  • 44 18 H. M.S. Crane beat R.A.F. Selator Greyhounds in a rugby friendly at Selatar yesterday by 12 points (two tries, drop goal, penalty) to three (penalty). Tries were scored by Redpath and S ullivan. Davies scored the other points, Russel kicked Seletar's penalty.
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  • 46 18 Victoria took first Innings points against South Australia in their Sheffield Shield same which ended In Adelaide yesterday with the final Scoreboard Showing Victoria 400 for nine declared <N. Harvey 147. S. Loxton 119>. South Australia 278 and 220 for six Reuter
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  • 143 19 West Indies fight back to take lead WEST Indies, 160 for 7 after dismissing the osition for 82, gained a nay lead over WaiHi Hamiton yesterday irting U >nd ■i ol their Hi m Zealand home side had 50 the board lor the 1 Of only one wicket nut then
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  • 78 19 IT KITH MILLER, Austra- lian Tost all rounder who has been troubled bv back injury, is unlikely to pUy for New South Wales in Hield Shield match Victoria in Sydn-'Y on Friday. MUlrr said ve.4erdav that In I take the risk with the injury
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  • 450 19 R.A.F. NOVICES BOXING A START was made on the K.A.F. Malaya and Singapon lean and individual novices championships at hanu \estcrday and six preliminary bouts were fought off. Seren more scheduled tor today and the finals will he hrlti tomorrow. i The first
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  • 90 19 JAPAN'S Postal and Comnmnic.itions Ministry has Iced the government to i late With Australia to d I direct wireless circuit between the two countries before ti tart of the < Olympic G ember. The circuit would "cope with the expected volumi communic during the 56 games/
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  • 359 19 Richardson and Close put some life into M.C.C. batting in Test photo. IF the M.C.C. should lose I the first unofficial Test > against Pakistan. which i ends in Lahore today they. 1 must blame their batting. 1 But this does not appear likely, for after Pakistan I had declared
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  • 137 19 EIGHT members ui the New Zealand cricket party which recently toureu India and Pakistan art included in the team announced last night to represent New Zealand against the West Indies in the first Test starting at Dunedin on Feb. 4. Others are J. E. F. Beck
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  • 64 19 OTAGO GO DOWN BY 8 WICKETS WELLINGTON beat O1 by eight wicketa in piunl f match in V P. J. Hail, former CamUniversity p 30 of Otago's second innings total of 102 Scores: Otaf«: 219 «L. D. Smith 34, P. J. Hall 33' and Hall 30 1. Wellington: 271 LJ
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  • 158 19 Olympic torch for Winter Games well on its way THE Olympic torch which will burn at the seventh Wintei Olympic Games befftaning at Cortina D'Ampeno wr Thursday arrived al Venice yesterday aboard a militar; plane. The torch was lit Sunday on Rome's Cap! Hill by Mayor Salvatore Rebecchmi and carried
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  • 59 19 SI N G APORE R< Club drew l-l with Royal Air Force 1 their junior knockout boc tie on the yesday. Recs opened scoring late in the first half through centre-forward Edwin Tessensohn. Tenfiah equalised a few minutes later liirough centre-forward lac Page. After ime
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  • 124 19 Pro coach for Aussie swimmers NEW South Wales Amateur Swimming Association last night took the unprecedented step of 'nominating a professional i coach to prepare Australia's swimming team for the Olympic Games. The Association nominated Mr. Frank Guthrie, who .supervises the training of many leading swimmers, including Sydnoy's 17-year-old world
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  • 47 19 ENGLISH and Chine* School girls had theii badminton coaching cours< from Wong Peng Soon ai Raffles Institution yesterday. At times Pens: Soon spok< Mandarin to the Chinese School girls to explain 2 point. Today's session will be ai Victoria School for Grout C boys.
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    • 127 19 I II lllllllllll MCllllllllltlllllME lllltl TODAY'S SPORT I It 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 III I II II 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 rr: RCGGER FAREEF (Singapore zone) final: R.E.M.E. Workshops v Singapore Engineer Regiment. G.H.Q. Tanglin; Sanderson
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  • 71 20 Rikidozan to defend Orient title on Feb. 4 Kon" in Tok™o recently and won a gold belt presented by the Wrestling Association of Japan. Rikidozan will arrive by air from Tokyo on Sunday EXS«UW? S-rn will leave for the uSßed Staffs where he will have a return mltch against the
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  • 294 20 University shock the champions SINGAPORE Recreation Club "Reds" the defending champions, were i surprisingly beaten by Um- versity of Malaya by two j goals to one in the nrst round of the senior knockout competition. University deserved the victory and might have been winners by a wider margin had it
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  • 49 20 Reuter 30 CYCLISTS IN MASS PILE UP MORE than 30 cyclists. among them Australia's former world champion Sid rson, were brusied and battered in a mass pile up of riders on the North Essendon board track In Melbourne last night. The crash occurred In a practice spin before an
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  • 308 20  - KIIKIT TIMAH TRACK REPORT •By international meeting. In a race amons the "survivors," Italy's Mario Morettini won from Hector Sutherland of Australia.— Newcomer Quiny in smart 3f gallop ALLAN LEWIS INHERE was no track work of value this morning at Bukit Timah except for two interesting barrier trials. (A few
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  • 43 20 Garnet rode in Melbourne during his short stay and brought in five winners from about seven Mr. R. BILLET, former Straits Racing Association's official starter is on a short holiday visit to Singapore. Mr. Billet retired about two years ago. MALAY B.A. TOURNEY
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  • 50 20 The Singapore Malay Badminton Association will hold its 1956 Championship Tournament at the S.B.A. hall on March 9 at 7.30 P ?ntries for the Junior women's and Veterans' ■vents close on Feb. 1». Entry forms are obtainable from S Abdullah Mattar, 4, Lorong 27 Geylang Road, Singapore 14. SAILORS HELD
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  • 142 20 Singapore Cricket hud drew 2-2 with Royal MalaI van Navy in their hockey friendly on the padang 1 yesterday. Interval score I was 1-1. Ron Barton avenges defeat RON BARTON, who In March fights for the vacant British light-heavy-weight title avenged his Duly professional dei e a i Khen he
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  • 77 20 Reuter Selerang school in 4-0 victory SELERANG beat Seletar 4-0 in the Services in-ter-schools soccer league at Selerang yesterday, scoring through E. Stanley (3) and R Whitham. In another fixture at the Naval Base Seletar 'B" beat Naval Ba*c 1-0 with a goal by Clark. photo PRACTISING with a javelin
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