The Singapore Free Press, 1 February 1956

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No lt4B s '»K.»l>orr. W.d.iesday, February 1, 1956. Price 15 Cts
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  • 109 1 Ike-Eden deadlock on easing Red China trade ban BRITAIN'S desire to sac< existing control on t«"ade with Communist China was discussed by President Eisenhower and Sir \nthony Eden at the second day of their talks m Washington yesterday, but views on this matter were deadlocked. A possible meeting between U.S.
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  • 135 1 THK six-:i.. par--1 llamentary delegation Inquiring into the complaints o; desk paaaenaerj to Madras said yesterday th»> would coi i tion the Indian, Committee m Singapore power.-, In connection with the booking of passagavoid the possibility ol cor:id black marketing oi deck tick
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  • 23 1 Indonesia chlei of staff. Rear Admiral Raden Suhjtjakto arrived m Washington from Ottawa yesterday for talks with U.S. defence official A.P.
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  • 22 1 Singapore' 3 Health Minister. Mr. A. J Bl nitary inspectors training course at the neilur health rent re this ling.
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  • 23 1 French offlcfal I announce! tl it V rebf" had been k I()Urs m a seri<- d L n gaiirniCUvta. A.P.
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  • 84 1 If. GUY MoHet, 50-year- old Socialist leader and former schoolmaster. was last night elected Premier by ;i majority of 420 Itn to lead Frances tend postwar government. M. Mollet will head a minority left -centre coalition government the first since the election of
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  • 29 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on an uncertain tone with first grade February shipment, at $1.06 l a lb., one cent below yesterday.-, closing price.
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  • 23 1 Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's chancellor of the Reichsbank, has joined the Baden-Wuerttemburg Free Democratic Party ftj an ordinary member.- Reuter
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  • 315 1 NOW POLICE INSPECTORS SAY: LET EXPATS STAY SINGAPORE police inspectors have joined the rank and Ale In urging the Malayanisation Commission to retain the services of the Commissioner of Police and .senior expatriate offien as Long as possible. In a seven -point memorandum, the inspect urged that I irkha contingent
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  • 78 1 GRENADES: ALERT BY POLICE 6PECIAL measures have been taken at all Singapore police stations following last night's bomb attacks at the C.I.D. Headquarters, Robinson Roac\ Geylang Police Station and the Reserve Unit HQ at Jalan Eunos. But a police spokesman ad- milted: 'it is difficult to prevent surprise attacks of
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  • 91 1 Singapore girl stabbed TERESA Thangasamy, an Indian girl clerk m the Income Tax Department, Singapore. was on th e left Moulder as she entered the back door to the General Post Office Build- 1 ing this morning. Her assailant was Immediately pinned against the wall by Mr. W. Gordon. Administrative
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  • 34 1 The Soviet official news agency Tass announced toI day the Russian Minister of 1 Internal Affairs Sergei M. Kruglov is "released from I duties'' and replaced by N. P. Dudorow.- Reuter
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  • 44 1 British and Malayan Government officials m London last night agreed that defence and internal security arrangements should prevail after Malayan Independence takes effect m 1957. A Colonial Office spokesman said details would not be announced until the constitutional conference ends.
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  • 35 1 The price of petrol today m Singapore is $1.49 a gallon an increase of two cents. Bulk kerosene has gone up from 73 to 75 cents a gal- j lon. A four-gallon kerosene
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  • 24 1 Two U.S. Navy destroyers will be transferred to the Republic of Korea tomorrow as part of the mutual defence assistance programme. 1
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  • 18 1 A strong earthquake shook parts of Slovania in Yugoslavia yesterday, causing considerable damage to buildings.- U.P.
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  • 203 1 Brutal, cowardly attack by Reds, says Marshall HPHE Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Mar- shall, is distressed and very angry over the Communist attacks on the police stations, in which 18 people were injured. He told th e Fre e Press; "It must be clear even to th^ir one-time friends
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  • 49 1 A. A. Milne, playwright, novelist, essayist and writer Of light verse, died last night at his Ha/tfield. Sussex home. He was 74. A man of gentle wit, Milne created possibly his greatest success with two children's books, "Wlnnie-the-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corn>r
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  • 43 1 Ec Poh Kong wa s robbed !of a watch and $102 cash 1 outside a hotel m Tembeling Road, Singapore, at 3.30 a.m. today. He told the police three Indians had earlier waylaid him and beaten him up.
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  • 203 2 8 more Russian boats seized EIGHT more Russian herring boats were arrested by the Norwegian navy yesterday for alleged fishing m Norwegian territorial waters, making a total of 13 seized B ince Monday morning. The Norwegian Foreign Ministry said last night that the Ambassador m Moscow had been instructed to
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  • 11 2 Sudan has formally applied for United Nations membership.- Reuter
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  • 64 2 picture. Captain F. L. W.| Lammert, Senior! Officer of the Sin- i gapore division of the Malayan Naval Volunteer Reserve, takes the salute at a farewell ceremonial parade heW in his honour yesterday in Telok Ayer Basin. He is returning soon to England on long
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  • 241 2 UNRULY BUT COULD BE CONTROLLED fTHE Manchester Guardian m an editorial said yesterday that the unruliness of Singapore during the past eight months "hardly recommends it as desirable member of the Federation." "It is likely to become more rather than less explosive," it added.
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  • 36 2 rE British Labour Party yesterday threw its full support behind Sir Anthony Eden's Washington mission and urged the strengthening of the Anglo-American alliance "as a factor of extreme importance for world peace.
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  • 82 2 Call to mail New Year Cards early rE Singapore General Post Office expects to handle more than one million greeting cards during the week preceding the Chinese New Year. The Postal Department yesterday appealed to members of the public to cooperate by posting their cards as early as possible. Aii
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  • 25 2 The External Affairs Minister. Mr. Lester Pearson, said m parliament yesterday that Canada would continue to withold diplomatic recognition of Communist China. Reuter
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  • 140 2 Australia to train S'pore Govt. officers rE Australian Government ha>s offered to train a few local officers at a six-month seminar it is organising for Asian government employees under the Colombo Plan. The seminar will start m June. It will consist of lectures, training and guided observation covering aspects of
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  • 210 2 NEW LOOK PLEDGE FROM MOLLET MGUY Mollet, leader of th e French Socialist Party, m a speech befor«' the French National Assembly yesterday said that his Government "will make a new approach m agreement with our Western allies m an attempt to break th e present deadlock m East-West, conversations."
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  • 172 2 BRITAIN will consult Russia before sending a reply to Communist China's proposal for a new meeting of the Indo-China armistice powers to consider the post-war situation m Vietnam, the Foreign Office said m London yesterday. Peking recently proposed such a meeting m a message sent
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  • 417 3 'BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IS THE ONLY EFFECTIVE LEAGOE OF NATIONS THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN' JHE British Commonwealth is the only effective league of nations the world has seen," said Abubaka Tafawa Batewa, Nigerian Minister of Iransport m an address of loyalty to the Queen
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  • 108 3 FLOWER BOY MADE THE QUEEN LAUGH A LITTLE Nigerian boy teetered over to the Queen m the forecourt of the Federal Courts at Lagos yesterday and thrust forward his posy of flowers. Then he suddenly spotted a line of photographers and, instead of giving the Queen the posy, bowed to
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  • 59 3 A French Judge ha.s ordered the exhumation of former French ear king Louis Renault following charge i thai he vrae murdered m 1944 while Awaiting trial for collaboration with the Nazis. The chargee were made 10 days a^o by Renault's widow who claimed he was tortured
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  • 294 3 'MEMORY OF GIRL'S DEATH IS ENOUGH PUNISHMENT'- JUDGE THE mother of 22 year old Doris Jean Ostreicher, who arranged the abortion which led to the girl's death, was freed yesterday by a judge who said the memory of the tragedy would be substantial and overw helming punishment." Shortly before, a
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  • 29 3 Venezuelan officials said yesterday that all 10 people m a private two-engine plane were killed when it crashed on Saturday m the Capaya Mountains.- A.P.
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  • 59 3 LADY Mountbatten. wife of the last British Viceroy of India, joined Indian leaders m paving homage to Mahatma Gandhi on the 7th anniversary of his assassination. She stood barefoot with Indian Prime Minis! Jawaharlal Nehru at Raj ghat, where Gandhis body cremated, while President
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  • 77 3 COUSIN OF THE COCOS 'KING' MARRIES picture. Leaving after their wedding at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Clunies Ross. The bridegroom, a cousin of the present Cocos Islands •King," is the son of Mrs. Irene Clunies-Ross and the late Mr. Coamo CluniesRoss. The
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  • 205 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1, 1956. Opinion THE RED 'PROMISE' COMMUNIST Chinese Premier Chou En-lai has called on the Chinese m Nationalist Formosa to assist m the "peaceful liberation,, of Formosa by returning to the mainland. Those who return peacefully will be provided with "appropriate" Jobs, Chou has
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  • 1098 4  - Rather the H-bomb than Communism GEORGE GALE says YOU have recently read attacks on John Foster Dulles' contention that the people of the West must be prepared to go to the brink of war if they are to avoid war itself. Today, read this defence. It is not a cold
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  • 209 4 Scout 'pep-up' campaign in Far East A CAMPAIGN to douable the membership of the Boy Scout movement m the Middle and Far East is being directed from the Boy Scouts' International Bureau, m London. There are 6,500,--000 Scouts m the world twice as many as m 1939— but only 1,500,--000
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  • 100 4  -  Beachcomber fdgdf gdfgff gdf FGFDGF SDFG A GIRL who has fainted three times at Strat-ford-on-Avon while watching Titus Andronicus has fainted only twice at the music-hall where an American singer performs. They both do something to me.'' she said yesterday. "But Shakespeare's more vital After watching the
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  • 1069 5  -  Adelaide Eastley By* ILK. SINGERS AT NEW NIGHT CLUB Singapore's newest restaurant and night club, the Sky Palace, opens Sunday it p.m. The flittering new bistro occupying the 14th, 15th and 10th floors of the lata Bailding is modelled after Hong Kong'i most BUmptaona restaurants, its streamlined de.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 273 6 M _^^»^^«^«(i««««M«M^^^^M^«Q^a^^^BiiMiMi^^BMMi^^^^^MIIIIIMMBMMMMBMIIIIIIB^^^^^^^^^B^^^^^^^^^B^^B MVMMIAKI by Lee Falk and Phil Davis M&m* I COULOH'T BELIEVE MY SAW.ATSIXTV JUMP CLEAR OVER iK^^^BSi^^l vJ&E&m £V£S--A GRASSHOPPER MILES AN BRAKES- 7/V£ LOCOMOTIVE.'" W^m^ TARZAX bv Edj»ar Hire Biirrou^tis -"'Wr ""•'vJSin WINGS* AMP BOe£ THE %i THE SAINT ky Leslie Charteris HP 1^"" Xa MECHANICAL FAILURE
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    • 619 6 !t 1JORN today, you have a great deal O of nervous energy and appear to I be capable of doing a great many different things all at one and the same time. You enjoy nandling Im1 portant affairs and dislike petty detail, although you can handle both T with equal
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 178 7 LONDON. Jan. SI. BUBBER N. 1 ESS cJJ. BUBBER N«. 1 ESS eJi. 31V4 buyers 30^ buyers *rX3?V Or J 8 J l S' cl1 3l sellers 31 seIlers EUBBEB No. 1 ESS Spot 32 buyers 31% buyers 32 H sellers 32 sellers RUBBER No. 1 ESS
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    • 106 7 MEW YOKK. Ian. 31. Previous Today TIN straits spot and nearby 102.00 nom. 101.37 nom. TIN futures February 99 75 bid 98.50 bid 101.25 asked 9990 asked March 99.00 bid 97 75 bid 99 75 asked 98.60 asked \pril 9875 bid 97.50 bid 99.50 a-sked 98 40
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    • 41 7 m Jar i ampon 32-,. awaiting relea.se 82, afloatt 314. J:m 31 llaltbar first half Feb. »tt. Sarawak spot and awajing release 30. afloat* 30 to 29',.. Jan. 294 Sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per lb.
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    • 32 7 NEW YORK, JAN. 31. Previous Today 30 Industrials ***** 470.74 '0 Railroads 155.15 1D8.JD 40 Domr*Uc Bonds 99 04 15 Utilities 63.76 63.88 64 Storks Composite AtrraiV 165.98 167.64
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    • 89 7 Jan. 31. Previous Today COPRA Philippine tUVJU tt STS» A'M $179 sellers $177 sellers COPRA Straits c.ii. UK North Furotxan delivered weight per KT'Sli Jan. Feb. £65 nom. £65 nom. Feb. March. £65 nom. £65 nom. COCOMT OIL crude StndU rif Ik North luropean in bulk,
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  • 190 7 YTNITED NATIONS assistance was welcomed by the leading political parties m Indonesia, Mr. D. Owen told the Free Press. Mr. Owen, executive chairman of the L.N. Technical Assistance Board was m Singapore on his way to the ECAFE conference m Bangalore. With him was Mr.
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  • 158 7 IDENTITY CARD AGES WRONG, SAY UNIONS TTHE Singapore City Council Labour Unions A Federation does not want the City Council to accept the age stated on the identity card as the correct one for daily-rated workers who have to retire. The retirement
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  • 197 7 Worst still ahead for them TTHE SIX British uni- versity undergraduates, who left London on Sept. 1 on their 13.000-mile motor trip to Singapore are expected to arrive here next month. This was disclosed yesterday by the local spokesman of the Rover Co., Ltd., which has provided the undergraduates with
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  • 46 7 Colonel J. J Astor, on whom the Queen has conferred a barony, is to take the title of Baron Astor of Hever, of Hever Castle, Kent. Another new baron. Sir Frederick Godber, has chosen the title of Baron Godber of Mayfield, Sussex.
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  • 71 7 riE Postmaster-General has refused to allow commercial station Radio Luxembourg which claims 10 million listeners m Britain to use news bulletins "piped" from a London studio Luxembourg intended to relay news by land-line from London, feed it into the Luxembourg transmitter and bt am
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  • 126 7 Withdraw discharge notices or... a delegates conference on Jan. 23, which the federation wants the the City Council to settle quickly. The conference, said Mr. Rengasamy, considered as "improper" the serving of the discharge notices and demanded that they should be "withdrawn immediately." Mr. Rengasamy warned that unless urgent action
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  • 153 7 Work to begin on new homes rE Singapore Government has approved the development of 21 acres of hillside land for a housing estate at the 6th milestone, Holland Road Costing over $1 million the site, to be named Holland Grove Estate, will be built In several stages. For the first
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  • 73 7 Squadron Leader Ronald Healey, given leave to appeal against a flve-year sentence for stabbing his fashion-model wife at Manchester, has decided to abandon his appeal. In hearing the 36-year-old flier's application m the Criminal Appeal Court. Mr. Justice Stable took a different view of the sentence
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  • 49 7 British cinema will be dominated by Hollywood films unless the close-down of Britain's studios is checked, warns a statement sent to M.P-s by the Film Industry Employees' Council. It says six studios have closed since the war and urges a survey of the industry.
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  • 494 8  - ROUND ABOU T S'PORE Oswald Henry I Weekend picture round-up SDFG dfgf dsfgfdg THIS young couple had lota of fun breaking into a spot of Jiving as they took the floor for a lively MWJg If Val Ortega's band at a Colony nightspot. They did it so expertly that, despite
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  • 1541 10  -  ANTHONY HECKSTALL-SMITH DID IT HAPPEN? Another story to keep_^^L_guessin^_The_answeij^ill^ by It had been made for Prince Murat, Napoleon's brother-in-law, and was a thing of perfect elegance and craftsmanship. It stood m the hall with an umbrella and an old i shooting-stick. Then one day it was stolen
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  • 63 10 Darkroom killer is SAFE A LITTLE known cnemical used m photographic darkrooms, called aminotriazole, has been found to be an effective weed killer. Field tests show that the chemical is capable of destroying weeds, including quackgrass, thistle, poison ivy and some poison oaks. Non-poisonous to humans and animals, aminotriazole kills
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    • 555 11 The 'Magnolia Street' man finds someone to keep his home fire really burning... AUTHOR Louis Golding ("Magnolia Street" and all that) marries Mrs. Annie Winetrobe on March 12: she for the second time: he for the first. Note the "first," for Mr. Golding is 60. And the question at least
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    • 833 11 MARRIAGE, at 60, is no longer a trap ALTHOUGH there is to date no record of anyone taking back her mink from whence it came, it has been "Change your Christmas present for something else'- season at the stores. Apparently the gifts most men rushed to convert were the ties
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  • 743 12  - Police chased him through three continents WILLIAM MEHLMAN by ERICH KATZNER, a 35-year-old Israeli customs agent with an eye for a fast dollar and a talent for a quick getaway, is cooling his worn-down heels behind the locked doors of a Genoa prison after having led police of three continents
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 12 picture. An advance party of forty all ranks of the Highlands Li«ht Infantry, led by Lt. Col. F. B B Noble, commander of the First Battalion, photographed before boarding their plane at Blackbushe Airfield. Hants, for Cyprus. Popper
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  • 869 13 dfgf sdfg dfgdfg fdgf T!HE choice record not onV oi this week but of m*ny months is rhe magnificent performance of Nicolo Paganlni's rediscovered fourth violin concerto m D minor by Arthur Grumiaux and the Lamoureux Concert Orchestra under Franco GallinL Paganlni. the greatest violin
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  • 636 13  - She swung her hips and the Italians went berserk HENRY THODY by THE world's "teley" 1 baby has become an overnight hit after two years of failurethanks to a hip-swing-ing gal from Brooklyn and a weird, littleknown musical instrument. A few weeks ago Italy's TV chiefs were m despair. The
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  • 731 14  -  William Hickey It isn't only marriage that could cause another crisis says THE talk m London was all about the Royal Family— and Princess Margaret m the Church of England Newspaper entitled "Royalty m the 20th century." It is edited by a forthright man,
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  • Article, Illustration
    364 14 TN rubber bridge. South wouldn't dream of disturbing the one no trump contract. He'd pass and. m all likelihood. East would get set a trick or two. But because the game was for match points (the hand was played m the Life Masters' Pair Championship m Chicago earlier
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 279 14 CLUES ACROSS perfume? (7). 2. Manner a Spanish noble- 5. Swan or horse (3). man? Mostly i5). 8. With a new additional 5. Cease without a direction bead these could be re(4h marks ft). 7. What a deft sewer has? 10. Alternative writer for an (4). artist (5). 8. A
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  • 343 15 'THE KID' GIVES 'EM A SHOCK It's strip tease ...by request 1 m gERIOUS MINDED citizens, concentrating on the beauties of brandy bouquet and similar important aspects of life m a Wardour street restaurant the other day, dropped their drinks abruptly as Kid Gavilan, former welterweight champion of the world,
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  • 1035 15  - STATION BOXERS SHOWED UP WELL IN NOVICES CHAMPIONSHIPS RALPH BLAKEMAN ft R.AF Changi sports round-up by FHE Changi boxers and their A trainer. W/O L J Dowries, had every r< be proud of their combined efforts In the R.A.F. Malaya ..nd Singapore team ar.ci individual novices championships, held at Changi.
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  • 88 15 THE two Sheffield clubs. United and Wednesday, are used to experiencing promotion and relegation with some regularity. At the moment United are last but two m Division One; Wednesday head the Second Division. When League football was resumed after the War, United were m the First
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  • 218 15 NEWCASTLE UNITED, the Cup-holders, were made 13 to two favourites for this year's competition last night when a callover was held at the Victoria Club, London. They were at 100 to seven at the last callover but their form in the fourth round together with
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  • 47 15 YOUNG Australian batsman Bill Wa f hit 109 for New South Wales In the Shrllield Shield cricket match against Victoria in Sydney y< day. Scores at th e close on the third day were Victoria :i40 and New South Wales 415,
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  • 70 15 BOWLERS were well on top on the first day of the two-day match between the touring West Indies cricketers and a Southland side m Invercargill, New Zealand, yesterday. Nineteen wickets tumbled for 270 runs. The home side were all nut for 139. but at the close
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  • 125 16 HARRY Hopman. Australia's Davis Cup captain, said In Melbourne yesterday that Lewis Hoad's thoughts of a professional tennis career had "changed drastically.** Hopman writing m the Melbourne Herald said Hoad refused an American offer to turn professional m October because he did
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  • 76 16 RUGGER S.C.C. "A" v 50 Bn. R.A.O.C. padang; R.N.A.S. Sembawang v Royal Engineers, E.E. ground; Tengah Nomads v Royal Signals, Tengah: R.A.A.F. Ist Sqdn. v R.N.Z.A.F. 14th Sqdn.. Tengah, HOCKEY S.H.A. trial, padang; S.H.A. junior knockout cup: Y.M..S.A. v Changi Prisons, Changi; C.S.C. "B" v S.C.R.C. "B". Balestier
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  • 39 16 THE Achilles Club will hold a cross country race at the Macßitchie Reservoir on Saturday. Entries for the race, which is over five miles, should be sent to L. O. Valberg, S.H.B. Fire Brigade, by tomorrow.
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  • 26 16 KANDANG Kerbau Rangers beat McNair Youngsters 3-1 m a soccer fripnrjjy at Farrar Park yesterday, scoring through Ahmad Wahid, Salim and Hong Chia.
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  • 45 16 DONC ASTER ROVERS beat Bristol Rovers by one goal to nil under floodlights last night when replaying their fourth round Football Association Cup-tie which was drawn on Saturday. The winners are at home to Tottenham Hotspur m the next round. Reuter
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  • 22 16 SINGAPORE Cricket Club hpat Victoria Institution (Kuala Lumpur) old boys 2-1 In their hockey friendly on the padang yesterday.
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  • 110 16 RIKIDOZAN, the heavyweight wrestling champion of Japan who fights King Kong at the Happy World on Saturday, yesterday presented $200 to the Singapore Youth Council Sports Fund. The donation was made to Mr. H. F. Clements, the treasurer. Mr. Clements said that he hoped other
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  • 56 16 THE Ceylon Sports Club •B" team to meet Singapore Chinese Recreation Club "B" m a S.H.A. junior knockout fixture at Balestier Road today will be selected from: S. Thevarajan, Retnam, S. D. Williams, W. Ponnambalam, Shavananda, S. K. Kulasingham, Vilvaratnam, Maniam, V. Kandasamy, M. Thiligalingam,
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  • 290 16 ENGLAND'S Rugby Union selectors have made three changes from the team which lost to Wales for their next international against Ireland at Twickenham, on Feb. 11. In the side announced yesterday, the halfback partnership of Smith and Jeeps has been discarded m favour of Regan
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    • 397 1 THE FREE PRESS i| ALLAN LEWIS TRESPASSER if Race 1. PRESIDENT COPACABANA 2.15. Little Psalter President (opacabana Balkan Arab ii ''EATHER NECK CTHORNE^VOOD~ «.*5. drecian Knight Parwaaz > Parwaaz Culvardo 1 Race 3 ROLGHNIT BAJAN i\ 3.15. Merry Xmas Dragon Seed v Rogation Grand Rapids 0
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    • 979 1  -  ALLAN LEWIS says BEST BETS Best Brts should be: LEATHER NICK, PRESIDENT and LORD AKK<><.\\( Best Outsiders: (ASH CHEQUE (Race Six), STEALTH (Race Seven). THE most persistent tip at the course this morning was for Leather Neck m the second race.
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    • 50 1 THK last two days without rain has raised hopes of a good track at Bukit Timah for this afternoon's racing. Mr. D. Brown Clerk of the Course said this morning, that the track has dried out remarkably well and without further rain the going will probably be yielding.
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