The Singapore Free Press, 3 February 1956
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The Singapore Free Press
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Title Section18 1956-02-03 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Friday, February 3, 1956. Price 15Cts18 words
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163 1956-02-03 1 S'pore Alliance plan emergency self-rule talk AN emergency meeting of the Singapore UMNO- MCA Alliance council will be called shortly to discuss issues connected with the Government's self-rule mission to London in April. Mr. Lee Kok Han, secretary of the Singapore MCA, told the Free Press that Alliance members were163 words
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Article98 1956-02-03 1 Peking accuses BRITISH Government official.s said ta Hong Kong yesterday t h were Investigating communist China's charges that TI.S. consulate officials there "tracked and hounded" a Chinese schoolgirl. The (C Wimunist) New China News Agency, quoting ix local newspaper story, said in a broadcast that U.S officialsU.P. - 98 words
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Article31 1956-02-03 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened thi s morning at $108i, a lb. for first yrade February shipment one cent above last night's closing price. The tone, however, was quiet31 words
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Article30 1956-02-03 1 The ex-Grand Mufti of Palestine denied in Cairo yesterday he had fomented riot s in Jordan aimed at dividing Arab Palestine from the Jordan kingdom. A PA.P. - 30 words
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252 1956-02-03 1 A BAREFOOT MUSLIM WOMAN GETS MEDAL FROM THE QUEEN A 33-YEAR-OLD wife of a blacksmith last night became the first Muslim woman in Nigeria to be decorated by the Queen on her current tour She is Malaraa Kubura, a primary school teacher in the remote emirate of Gwandu who receivedReuter - 252 words
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Article76 1956-02-03 1 About 30 pupils of the ISiglap Malay schools were warned this morning that Ithey would be dismissed if they did not obey school rules and continue to disregard the teachers' instructions. A Singapore Education Ministry spokesman said the students, who earlier in the w rt>k demonstrated at76 words
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Article29 1956-02-03 1 German steel magnate Alfried Krupp will leave Essen next Monday for a tour of the Far East in a personal effort to combat Russian economic infiltration.29 words
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Article137 1956-02-03 1 MALAYA'S talks with Britain on independI ence within the Common- wealth will end with a touch of drama next Wedn» The press and film cameras will record the signing of the document that will give the Federation l proud new status among Asian nations. TengkuReuter - 137 words
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Article186 1956-02-03 1 Marshall to take up case in London THE Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, today assured the 30,000 civilian employees of Service establishments that he would take up their case with the British Government when he visits London in April. The civilians are worried about mass retrenchment186 words
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Article76 1956-02-03 1 Bulganin says his peace again President Eisenhower has received a new personal message from Marshal Bulganin, the Soviet premier, it was announced in Washington yesterday. In it the Marshal reiterates his offer of a 20--year treaty of friendship between the U.S. and Russia and has offered ''to conclude similar treatiesReuter - 76 words
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Article102 1956-02-03 1 My health— by Marshal! GETTING STRONGER SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, is still not very fit but he Ls putting up a brave front and going to work for half a day. He hope s to be "fighting trim in time for the Legislative Assembly meeting on Tuesday. Mr.102 words
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Article31 1956-02-03 1 Admiral Earl Mountbatbatten, Britain's First Sea Lord, will leave London next month on a tour which will take him to India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. ReuterReuter - 31 words
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107 1956-02-03 1 ARCHBISHOP Makarios's reply to British proposals cabled to London by the Governor yesterday accepts the invitation of Britain to co-operate in drafting a constitution for self-government for Cyprus according to circles close to the church leadership. Britain's proposals involve the progressive transferReuter - 107 words
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Article16 1956-02-03 1 Four U. S. destroyers Blue, Cunningham, Evans and McKean— arrived in Singapore this morning.16 words
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Advertisement6 1956-02-03 1 EXTrTtODAY: 12-PACE CHINESE NEW YEAR SUPPLEMENT6 words
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Article418 1956-02-03 2 Give economic aid where it is most needed CUR ANTHONY EDEN, the British P Prime Minister, gave the United i States Senate yesterday, a threepoint answer to "Soviet blandish!ment and threat, offers of arms and l menaces to individuals." These, he said, would implement theReuter - 418 words
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139 1956-02-03 2 MR. John Sherman Cooper. U.S. ambassador to India, is strongly urging President Eisenhower, other high officials and congressmen to take a new look at U.S. economic and political policy with respect to India. Cooper, home for a month-long series of consultations, argued thatU.P. - 139 words
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Article57 1956-02-03 2 Mrs. Mamie Schneider Trigg. 72, was struck and killed by a car yesterday while on her way to mass at Nashville. Tennessee. Her husband, W. A. Trigg, died at th e same spot 23 years ago of a heart attack suffered on his way homeA.P. - 57 words
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Article21 1956-02-03 2 1 1 die in bus crash A bus crashed into a 200--foot abyss near Valparaiso yesterday, killing 11 people. A .P.A.P. - 21 words
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62 1956-02-03 2 14 WOMEN ARE IN RUSSIAN POLAR PARTY FOURTEEN women are included in the Russian Antarctic expedition, French scientists reported yesterday on their return to Hoba r t Tasmania, aboard the Norwegian polar ship Norsel. The Frenchmen said they had contacted most polar stations by radio during their recent trip toReuter - 62 words
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Article288 1956-02-03 2 BUT VICTORY OF GRIFFITHS WAS NARROW MR. JAMES GRIFFITHS, 'I veteran Socialist politician, was last night elected deputy leader of the British Labour Party, defeating left-wing leader Aneurin Bevan. It was a narrow victory for the 65-year-old Labour moderate. Labour members of parliament who decided the288 words
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202 1956-02-03 2 t>RITAIN was reported last night to be ready D to make an early approach to Saudi Arabia's King Saud in the hope of ending the dispute over ownership of the oil-rich Bureimi Oasis. Official sources in London said that was the meaning ofA.P. - 202 words
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Article28 1956-02-03 2 I Madame Sun Yat-sen vice-chairman of the Chinese Republic, yesterday flew ,to Calcutta from Dacca after her ten-dav tour nf Pakistan.- ur of ReuterReuter - 28 words
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188 1956-02-03 2 PRESIDENT Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala warned yesterday that Communism will unleash intense and vigorous action this year to win a new foothold in Latin America. He said every American nation is threatened. But he believed the Reds can be blocked if the 21U.P. - 188 words
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Article23 1956-02-03 2 Fifty-six ex-prtoonen of I the Korean war who r> I repatriation will ti y from India for Brazil tomorrow ReuterReuter - 23 words
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Article28 1956-02-03 2 The Japan Textile Expor' Association announced m Tokyo it has set a $723 million cotton cloth and $66 million cotton yard export poul for 1956, A.PA.P - 28 words
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225 1956-02-03 2 CONSULTATIONS among the Big Three Western powers on action to prevent aggression in the Middle East will include an attempt to frame a test by which an aggressor state ran be identified, diplomatic quarters said in London yesterday. Britain and the United States225 words
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Advertisement19 1956-02-03 2 SALE ENDS TOMORROW YOUR FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO BUY AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES!! RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE TELEPHONE ***** (5 LINES)19 words
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222 1956-02-03 3 IKE GETS FDR's 1941 PLEA FOR HERO'S SON A famous letter Franklin j* D. Roosevelt wrote 10 days after the 1941 Pearl Harbour attack to "the President of the United States m 1956" has been delivered from the National Archives in Washington to Dwight D Eisenhower. The letter asked considerationA.P. - 222 words
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Article, Illustration85 1956-02-03 3 CHRISTENING ..AND WEDDING Mr. William Harrington Baker, a Singapore lawyer, leads his bride, the former Pamela Kathleen Harrison, after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. The Bishop of Singapore officiated, and the reception was held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. 11. Withers-Payne The couple plan toFree Press - 85 words
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74 1956-02-03 3 MP's WIFE IS JAILED ON DRUGS CHARGE MRS. Harry Pursey, 44, wife of a British M.P. was found guilty in Montreal yesterday of drug possession and was sentenced to six months imprisonment. Mrs. Pursey, who has been in and out of courts and hospitals since she arrived in Canada inU.P. - 74 words
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82 1956-02-03 3 THE Ford Foundation is noted for the millions of dollars it spend iranti for research Now it has jWen on< (18 to 12 year old buj "rocket research. The boy. Jonathan Shapiro. Of New York, went to the foundation and told Its officer* he82 words
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190 1956-02-03 3 44 freeze to death as cold grips Europe EUROPE has frozen over in the worst cold wave of the century. It has killed at least 44 people; upset transportation schedules and trapped ships at sea in ice. The 44 deaths from cold Include 14 in France, eight in Germany, fiveU.P. - 190 words
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Article49 1956-02-03 3 Mrs. June Claney, 41, of Chicago who sued her husband for divorce on grounds he would not provide a home for her show dogs, has drop- ped the court action. She said he has just bought a $100,000 home— 1 with kennel space. U.P.U.P. - 49 words
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173 1956-02-03 3 THE HIDDEN A-CONTINENT -THAT'S ASIA ASIA was an "undiscovered continent" so far as looking for the raw materials for atomic energy development was concerned, said Mr. Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, at the opening of the 12th session of the ECAFE conference at Bangalore yesterday. Mr. P. S. Lokanathan. theReuter - 173 words
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100 1956-02-03 3 Woman bitten by spider fights to live A HONOLULU housewife bitten by a rare poisonous spider fought for her life in an iron lung yesterday. The spider's venom apparently paralysed her respiration system. Mrs. Ethel Tanabe. 42. was bitten on her hand on Monday by a cheirocanthium diversum spider inU.P. - 100 words
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Advertisement125 1956-02-03 3 ONE OT UU IOHh.MOSI \ILUI-*l'l>M* IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA bxr riff lac /m Bookings:- TEL: No. ***** For your entertainment we have engaged Hong Kong's most popular Singers to render the latest English and Chinese Song-Hits. Dancing nightly on 14th 15th Floors to 2 First Class Bands. GRAND OPENING ON sth125 words
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211 1956-02-03 4 FRIDAY. Feb. 3. 1956. The Singapore Free Press Opinion Touch of conscience rpiHE People's Action Party, which has been blamed for much of the past year's unemployment causing labour unrest, is now worried about the growing number of jobless people in Singapore. So much so that two top P.A.P. officials211 words
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Article886 1956-02-03 4 REFUGEES WHO GO EAST In this article a Free Press Special Correspondent in West Germany, ANTONY TERRY, tells the "hushed-up" story of the thousands of refugees who escape across the Iron Curtain, sample life in the West and flee back again to Communism. WE HEAR much these days about the886 words
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Article, Illustration46 1956-02-03 4 picture. Confident smiles were on th 8 faces of the British Prime Minister. Sir Anthony Eden, and his Foreign .Minister, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd (left) as they boarded the liner Queen Elizabeth at Southampton en route to the United States for important talks with President Elsenhower ReuterReuter - 46 words
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Article191 1956-02-03 4 A CORRESPONDENT who read mv story of the fly on the music-score tells me that a cashier who could not balance his books found that a fly had been trapped between the pages, and when brushed away had left its leg behind in the pence column,191 words
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Advertisement27 1956-02-03 4 Exquisite IM \MOM> GEM SET J#wetlrr j in "The Fashions of iltv Moment.*'?? >> At*- ss << P.H.HENDRY, >> Mannfacturinjr Jeweller 78 North Bridge Rd., S'pore-6, >> << and K. I umpur.27 words
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Advertisement94 1956-02-03 4 This latest model of the VITO series is designed for those photographers who prefer an all-metal camera. Modern large-scale production methods* have enabled us to fit the VITO B with the world-famous COLOR -SKOPAR 1/1.5 and f/2.8 high efficiency lenses at an unbelievably low price, and at the same time94 words
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Article, Illustration1335 1956-02-03 5 Adelaide Eastley - Adelaide Eastley BY,. WHO is Singapore's TT smartest nurse? If you think you are. you'd better hurry and send in your application to enter the "smartest nurse" competition to feature Woodbrid^e Hospital's Recreation Club's first annual dance at Raffles Hotel on March 2. Chairman Mr. John Murray (secretary1,335 words
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Advertisement42 1956-02-03 5 FA C U A C >\ *> n >* 3 FASHION FOR MEN JB f Jfl I 18 fl fl ■fl 2 'Mi PF^ Iw ■y LATEST -NEW- ARRIVAL BIG RANGE SIZES 28 TO 40 Buy Them i4f House of Fashion ,/\.dfrH./V. House of Novelty42 words
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Miscellaneous304 1956-02-03 6 MA\im\kl bv Lee Falk and lPWlDjjJ* I r- v"" "^---a1 [--and this is it- fme hope W^l-P 1 J YOU*RE ISAIOWE'DGET A GRASSHOPPER IS ONLY GETTING A -Jlfft'^S- OFF IF WE SAW JZZT A A f B IGASA AMD^T Ql v '^'Slfr OFF? WHY* P^Mll ANYTHING //^^aK- HORSE--n^rY o7^, 7o304 words
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Miscellaneous707 1956-02-03 6 X IJORN today, you are affectionate O and loving. Your native warm- X A heartedness goes out to all whom you <► meet. You are eager to succeed, your- J self, and want to take all your X I friends along with you on that shiny j road to success.707 words
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Article184 1956-02-03 7 LONDON, Feb. 2. Previous Today RUBBER No. 1 BSS cli. 31% buyers 3l t buyers European Ports February 31% sellers 31% sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS eJI. 31 buyers 31% buyers European ports March 31% sellers 31% sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 31% buyers 31% buyers184 words
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Article103 1956-02-03 7 Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby M* ra g-JS TIN futures February 9« 50 bid 96.00 bid 99 50 asked 98.50 asked March 98 00 bid 94.50 bid 99.25 asked 96.00 asked April 97.75 bid 94.00 bid 99.00 asked 95.50 asked TONF: Weak. SALES: Nil. RIBBF.R103 words
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Article36 1956-02-03 7 Spot Malabar/Lampong Ills, awaiting release and afloats 31. Jan. 30. Malabar flr.st half Feb. 30. Sarawak spot 30. awaiting release, afloats and Jan. 29' Sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb.36 words
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Article36 1956-02-03 7 NFW YORK. Feb. 2. Previous Today N Industrials 473.28 }2*| M Railroad* 158.70 158 47 40 Domestic Bonds 99 07 99 08 15 Itilitie* 6*oB 64 35 •I stocks Composite Averagfe 168.32 168.3936 words
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Article98 1956-02-03 7 COPRA Philippines c.i.f. l.K.' North Kurop«-:in delivered weight per lunx ton Ken. /Mar OPRA. Strait^. <if IK North Kuropean delivered weight per long ton Feb./Manh. Mar April < OCONI'T OIL erude Straits .i f. IK North Kuropean in bulk, per long ton. l»rompt COCONUT OII^ crude.98 words
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Article, Illustration111 1956-02-03 7 AI R COMMODORE M. F. C a 1 d e r (above) is the first New Zealander to be appointed to one of the top posts in the Royal Air Force in Malaya. He arrived in Singapore yesterday, in the P. and O.Free Press - 111 words
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321 1956-02-03 7 THE 'CISCO KID' WAS TRAPPED BY NAME rpHE Cisco Kid found an I answer to "What's in a name?'* at London's Old Bailey. For him it was: 18 months' jail. He stood in the dock as Ronald Charles Wright, 33-year-old, shock-haired speedway rider who thought that a catchy nickname would321 words
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Article217 1956-02-03 7 CCIENCE. which has O baffled many a good man. now produces the ace conundrum of the automation age. It is cheaper for a business house to give away mechanical cups of tea freei than to allow workers to buy their own from a trolley217 words
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283 1956-02-03 7 OVERNIGHT SIX IN FAMILY BECOME MILLIONAIRES SIX Britons awoke last week and found that they had become millionaires overnight. They had inherited their millions under the £25,--000.000 will of Sir James Dunn. Canadian steel tycoon. The six are Mrs. Bridget Bromovsky, a daughter living in Chelsea, Lady Sherborne, a daughter,283 words
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Article171 1956-02-03 7 A FACTORY in Birmingham has closed because 700 workers demanded an increased production bonus and a greater share of the profits and started a work-to-rule campaign because they did not set their own way. Production slumped by half and the firm, Birmingham Sound Producers, announced: "It171 words
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Article30 1956-02-03 7 THE final of the Asian All Blues, rugger competition between Kedah the holders, and Selangor will be played in Ipoh on Saturday, starting at 5.15 p.m.30 words
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Miscellaneous59 1956-02-03 7 singapore Jhich tides 1 E TODAY: US p m. E TOMORROW. IJ& am E and 137 p.m. E SUNDAY: 1.22 a.m. »od= E K.IO p.m. E MONDAY: L2I am. ands E p.m. E TUESDAY: 6.36 a.m. and E 9.25 p.m. S WEDNESDAY: 7.58 a m S E and 10.11 p.m.59 words
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Article, Illustration1136 1956-02-03 8 I dance among the night shadows of Lagos Today ANNE SHARPLEY writes of the Nigerian town that the Queen is visiting. By day it is a town of a thousand colours. In the evening, it is a different story. IMAGINE a town where every street is a Petticoat Lane, the1,136 words
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Advertisement60 1956-02-03 8 Jf THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE IS UNNECESSARY -says A6NSS boehm Wives are warned in this week's WEEKENDER that they are to blame if "the other j|^W aot the better of terrorists in on ambush. #Islm lli&ii AND YO(/K WEEK-ENDER ALSO II GIVES YOU ALL YOUR FAVOURITE FEATURES SflT/P CARTOONS /ONES GALORE60 words
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Miscellaneous11 1956-02-03 8 ARTIE If "Well, r bet could make it skid, dear I"11 words
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Article339 1956-02-03 9 'CYPRUS? AS SAFE AS PICCADILLY' A 17-YEAR-OLD drummer boy serving in Cyprus was mentioned by two important people in Westminster his mother and the War Secretary. Said the War Secretary, Mr. Antony Head: "I do not think the risks to boys in Cyprus are greater than on the Great West339 words
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Article145 1956-02-03 9 Little things mean a lot NORMAN HARTNELL has said it -"The least important, part of a welldressed woman is her dress." Hartneli the Queen's dressmaker and designer of some of the most wonderful dresses in the world remember the Coronation gown? What then should a welldressed woman put her pennies145 words
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Article32 1956-02-03 9 Chiropodist Harold Emiley and a group of inexperienced explorers are heading for the Guatemalan jungle to live with a "l<«t tribsavages, most of whom smoke cigars. U.P.U.P. - 32 words
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Article25 1956-02-03 9 Detectives posted a guard around the Soviet consulate at Pretoria. South Africa, yesteroay following a threatening telephone call to the police.25 words
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Article23 1956-02-03 9 The New York Journal of Commerce yesterday said a United States loan of $300 million to Turkey appears "DoubUUi. A. P.A.P. - 23 words
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Article60 1956-02-03 9 Milton and Rosalie Schwartz, jailed for their part in the abortion death of food chain store heiress Mrs. Doris Jean Ostreicher had their sentences reduced in Philadelphia yesterday. Milton Schwartz had his cut from a period of three to 10 years to 11 months, and hisA.P. - 60 words
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Article29 1956-02-03 9 The 11 -day Australian dock strike has now tied up nearly 200 ships In 53 ports at the height of the wool- ex port season.— A.P.A.P. - 29 words
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370 1956-02-03 9 THEN JAIL IS THE ANSWER MAGISTRATE A LONDON magistrate has attacked the driving of "vast numbers" of London's busmen. He asked reitly if it were true that road fines were paid out of a central "kitty" and that therefore the men370 words
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Article, Illustration53 1956-02-03 9 picture. Colourfully clad residents, one with a bucket on her head, mingle with motor cars in the gaily decorated streets of Lagos, Negeria, through which the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh drove this week. This was the opening stage of the Royal tour ofReuter - 53 words
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Article126 1956-02-03 9 OLD BAILEY HEARS TAPE RECORDING A SOUND machine was a "witness" at the Old Bailey for the first time recently. Its tape-recording of a conversation between three men was played back to a jury for half an hour. A police superintendent said he could identify the voices in the recording.126 words
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Article, Illustration359 1956-02-03 10 This happy American girl (left) is today the prouci owner of a racehorse— though H has never won ;i race— by a thousand-to-one chance. It all began when she wrote to the men responsible for the sale of the famous Nashua at S3'. million. ThePopper; A.P. - 359 words
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Article, Illustration52 1956-02-03 11 picture. An odd-looking shape, except to an engineer. But this steel monster under construction at Halesowen, Worcestershire, is a symbol of the future for millions of Pakistanis. It is a movable mould being built by a Halesowen engineering firm for making a 14-mile long concrete tunnel atReuter - 52 words
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Article, Illustration147 1956-02-03 11 picture picture. Left: Karl Attlee, a former Socialist Prime Minister, in hi* robes at the House of Lords before his formal introduction last week. For the ceremony, the new peer wore hired robes. In these days, a full set of robes trimmed with real ermine would costReuter; Popper - 147 words
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331 1956-02-03 12 HARRY C. DRAKE - HARRY C. DRAKE Ry AIR IORRESPOXDE.XT BRITAIN has plans for building a revolutionary super-speed aircraft that may encounter the "heat barrier." That puts the machine into the 1,500 m.p.h. or more class. All details are highly secret but existence of the project was revealed331 words
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Article193 1956-02-03 12 A CONTROVERSIAL mural by Diego Rivera, curtained for eight years, will be shown publicly soon —minus its quotation denyIng God's existence. The 18 x 36-foot painting is in the hotel Del Prado in Mexico City. It depicts Alameda Park in the heart of the city, withA.P. - 193 words
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577 1956-02-03 12 COAST IS GIGANTIC BEEHIVE OF WORK IyHAT used to be frozen Arctic waste, the stamping ground of caribou, polar bears, Eskimo, and a few white trappers, has suddenly blossomed forth into a highly industrialised area an area which is rapidly becoming a second Eldorado, but577 words
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Article731 1956-02-03 12 RENE McCOLL IN LAPLAND SAYS IT'S SMART TO REINDEER RULE ECONOMY WHEN my plane landed me at Rovaniemi, Lapland, the other evening I stepped out slap on to the Arctic Circle— it runs right through the middle of the airfield. A herd of reindeer731 words
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Article638 1956-02-03 13 Eton sacked the prying Don A book review by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON VICTORIAN ETON AND CAMBRIDGE. By H. E. Wortham, Barker, 21s. 327 pages. fISCAR BROWNING v was the most famous snob of his time, and one of its most eccentric figures. The author of many books which are never638 words
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Article, Illustration58 1956-02-03 13 picture. It's an outsize nail file for an outsize foot. Mary, 18--year-old elephant in Chipperfield's Circus, is fastidious about her appearance and everything goes smoothly when she has her pedicure before the show. Applying the file in Walsall. Staffordshire, is Irene Jaekson, 18, who works with Mary in the ring.Reuter - 58 words
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Article678 1956-02-03 13 J. P. w. MALLALIEU - The only sailor who gave in J. P. w. MALLALIEU by M. P. rpHE ship went down 500 miles southwest of Iceland on a bleak November day in 1942, and the survivors took to the boats. After some days adrift, a middle aged Scotsman, who was the ship's carpenter, huddled678 words
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Article109 1956-02-03 13 The Visitants. By Ernest Frost. Andre Deutsch. 12s. 6d. 254 pages. Henry Taggart, painter in the sixties, marries Sheila, 29-year-old niece of an old friend. The marriage starts a chain reaction of events comic and not-so-comic, in a novel which switches all through from being good and not-so-good.109 words
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Article, Illustration16 1956-02-03 13 Love I Debra Paget strikes a n alluring pose for her new film •The Last Hunt."16 words
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Advertisement62 1956-02-03 13 CYMA $L When you become the happy f^&^±\ owner of a CYMA you will /< vs^#*i ea#n the admiration of all your Jm^" > *«iC/ Ifriends. Your watch, magnificent i \tt*^ 'Mr in workmanship and splendid \j^L* v, tjm in reliability, will be regarded s^^f\ everywhere as the ultimate i/ffftm"62 words
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Article, Illustration1624 1956-02-03 14 Christopher Landon - Christopher Landon iiiiiiniiiiiiithy iniiiitiiiiiii As we drove across the sands the ghost tracks followed us, sometimes running round the far side of one of those flat hills but always returning CTONE COLD DEAD in the Market— published just a year ago— is the bestknown novel of1,624 words
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Article, Illustration56 1956-02-03 15 HOLLYWOOD'S newest and most glamorous mother. Pier Angeli (wife of recording star Vic Damone in private life) poses with her little son Peter for the camei/man. The proud papa was not far. however. He stood by the photographer and beamed while the picture was being taken. A ce-.«, .--r'^'r^ rs„56 words
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Article, Illustration369 1956-02-03 15 GIRLS, get in on GARLIC! PEOPLE ARE \X AK I UP... OI\E MAN ALONE NOW SELLS li TONS A WEEK IT used to be considered chi-chi and Bohemian 1 to like garlic. It used to be the preserve of the red wine and Provencal cooking snobs, the Hungarian ragout girls,369 words
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144 1956-02-03 15 SPEAKING as an experienced garlic consumer myself I prefer mine< in the simplest forms. < Slivers of garlic bored into a l e g of lamb before roasting; garlic! mayonnaise served with ice-cold fresh prawns; crusts of bread well! salted and rubbed with garlic144 words
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375 1956-02-03 15 IS there anything to equal the sparkling eyes and happy laughter of the children who are crowding into the shows in Britain? Yes there is. It is the sparkling eyes and happy laughter of the men who bring the children crowding in.375 words
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Article, Illustration421 1956-02-03 16 DRUSILLA BEYFUS - The Princess isn't scared... DRUSILLA BEYFUS sars >T<HE Queen, has bought a new pony for the royal stables at Windsor— a four-year-old mare called Greensleeves. It is for the future use of the two distinguished little figures in jockey caps, jodhpurs, and jerseys who come over from Winsor each week421 words
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570 1956-02-03 16 JOSEPH FRIED - They battle with stones in the shadow of this tower JOSEPH FRIED reports Fthe midst of the race for modern arms in the tense Middle East, Israel and one of her Arab enemies are battling in the shadow of King David's tower with the same ancient weapons their forefathers used570 words
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Article137 1956-02-03 16 MILLIONS of rainbow trout eggs from New Zealand pass through London Airport on their way to many parts of the world. One order for 50,000 was for the Kerguelens. French islands just north of the Antarctic. The eggs were sent from New Zealand's North137 words
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Article, Illustration599 1956-02-03 17 HAROLD KEFFERNAN - Keenan looks to Grandpop for inspiration HAROLD KEFFERNAN by -AND EVEN HIS BOSS AGREES! KEENAN WYNN impersonates his own grandfather in Frank Sinatra's own film release, "Johnny Concho!" Grandpa was the late Frank Keenan, celebrated dramatic .>cucr signs autographs. star of the legitimate theatre and silent pictures. He is still599 words
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Article, Illustration396 1956-02-03 17 Iota! point Ira* plav Vilhrr side vulnerable South <lealer I hi bidding Soalk Vest NortJi Caat I 9 Paa-i 3^ P.sa 3NT All Paaa THE kibitzer got a rare surprise when Watt chose his opening lead from this hand. What would you have opened? At the other table,396 words
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Miscellaneous274 1956-02-03 17 75 l I^l ~f^^_K__f<^l fl __M Uj M -fe H _i I I I I ____r"-"— _____^L______ _H___H______B^ T^^^ a_B_i I I I I I a_rp I l n its ICBOSI 5. Print* Hire plu (7) 1. Sticks for employees? (6). 6. Bullet t«>r someone In a 4. Former holiday274 words
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Article, Illustration43 1956-02-03 18 SQUATTING on the tow-path, the Cambridge coach, C. B. M. Lloyd, has called in his crew to give them some advice during their training for the tforthcoming interUniversity boat race against Oxford on the River Thames on March 24.43 words
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260 1956-02-03 18 T)LI CKY Tenley Albright, choking back the pain of an injured leg, and teen-ager Carol Heiss, won gold and silver medals with a dazzling performance in the women's figure skating yesterday and sent the United States into sixth place in the team standings of theA.P. - 260 words
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Article149 1956-02-03 18 JOHN P HAMILL - Seletar sports letter JOHN P HAMILL _)y rpHOUGH suffering from a very poor response from entrants in the Singapore-Mala-ya novices championships, Seletar did very well by taking 3 out of 4 contests in the finals. F/Sgt. '•Jock'' Prior should be feeling quite pleased with himself and his team. Cpl. "Paddy"149 words
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124 1956-02-03 18 MISS ANN HAYDON, 17--year-old English table tennis player, beat Mrs. Angelica Rozeanu (Rumania) six times world champion in the biggest upset of I the French international championships in Paris last night Miss Haydon won 21-19, 18-21, 21-18, 21-18, and will now met Mrs. Linde WertlReuter - 124 words
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Article63 1956-02-03 18 npHE holders. Jalan Eunos, and Pasir Panjang will meet in the final of the boys' clubs badminton tourney for the McKerron Cup at the Katoflfc Boys Club tomorrow. m Eleven clubs competed in the < tournament which Is sponsored by the Federation of Boys' Clubs. Mr.63 words
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369 1956-02-03 18 I.O.C BOSS - I.O.C BOSS -SAYS AVERY BRUNDAGE, president of the International Olympic Committee, stated in New York yesterday, that "we've let the totalitarian countries take over sport and they get stronger and stronger while Americans get softer and softer." Brundage, inU.P. - 369 words
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382 1956-02-03 18 of Ciungi were congratulated for their boxing. McDonald lost on Doints. J/T Duroe light-middle-weight, won his fight on a knockout in the third round and gave a real rugged and hardhitting exhibition, Thev all received Cups. •GOLF. At her farewell appearance, at the382 words
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Article89 1956-02-03 18 JOHN Landy, Australia's world mile record holder, has received invitations to run in Finland and Canada in the next few months, but he staled yesterday that it was too early to say whether he would accept. It was at Turku. Fianland. that Landy set the mileReuter - 89 words
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Article, Illustration2007 1956-02-03 19 ALLAN LEWIS - ALLAN LEWIS RACE by RACE by Atlantic Flight is day's best bet OO WHAT, O Kam Loons, The Camel, Nick, Orchestration and Golden Melody look the pick of the Bukit Timah Cup field, CI. 2, Div. I—9F.1 9F. main race tomorrow, final2,007 words
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Advertisement49 1956-02-03 19 RIKIDOZAN is back againu HAPPY WORLD, TOMORROW NIGHT AT 9 P.M. FOR THE HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP J*\ OF THE ORIENT. Eg/ SPORTSMAN ENTERPRISES PROUDLY iSf RIKIDOZAN ljP i (Champion of Japan and Asia) VERSUS RIKIDOZAN KING KONG -asr (Champion of the Orient) jn NO RETURN MATCH!! BOOKINGS: WINSTONS: (Phone *****)49 words
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Article, Illustration305 1956-02-03 20 TWO very big gents met at the Happy World last night. And what a row! On one side of a table was the man who gets booed the most in SingaporeKing Kong— and at the other end was the Japanese champion Rikidozan. They305 words
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Article59 1956-02-03 20 SINGAPORE Gun Club will hold their monthly competition at their Bukit Timah range on Sunday starting at 10 a.m. The competition will be in three stages. Stage 1: Ten birds double rise Stage 2: Five high birds from right to left, and five single rise released simultaneously.59 words
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Article46 1956-02-03 20 RESULTS of yesterday's two Football Association Cup fourth round replays were: Chelsea 1. Burnley 1 (after extra time). Score after 90 minutes play was 1-1. Sunderland 2. York City 1. Sunderland meet Sheffield United at Sheffield in the fifth round on Feb. 18. ReuterReuter - 46 words
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Article, Illustration276 1956-02-03 20 AUSTRALIA'S most famous horse race, the Melbourne Cup will be run this year on Saturday, Nov. 1< eleven days later than the traditional first Tuesday m November. wrt The Chairman of the Victoria Racing Club. Sir Chester Manifold, said that his club276 words
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163 1956-02-03 20 QARRY HOPMAN who has been non-playing captain of "the^Australian H Davis Cup team for six years, is unable to take charge of the Australian team which will go overseas this year. He told the Australian Lawn Tennis Association this yesterday but addedReuter - 163 words
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Article66 1956-02-03 20 SCRATCHINGS AT B. TIMAH TOMORROW THE following horses will not start tomorrow: Maori Chief, Little John, Banker Boy, Acrobat, Snow Blaze, Kheng Hua, S.S Commando, Sooka, Triwalla, Grecian Knight, Leatherneck, Scone Stone, Ever Glory and Montana. Steady rain from early this morning until about 8 a.m. kept the tracks heavy.66 words
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Article57 1956-02-03 20 MURRAY Halberg, New Zealand's star mile runner whose best time for the distance Is 4 min. 2.2 sec yesterday lowered the New Zealand three-mile re- cord to 13 min. 38.8 sec. The existing record is 13, 544. held by W. Baillu 1 although F. Williams hasReuter - 57 words
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