The Singapore Free Press, 4 February 1956

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Mala > a No. *****. Singapore, Saturday. February 4. l«>r,6. Price 15 Cts
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  • 340 1 MARSHALL RIDICULES OFFER BY PAP THE Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, spurned the People's Action Party offer of support and ridiculed its attempt to claim credit for the Government's achievement!. In a statement issued today he declared: "I note with Interest that the PAP. Is trying to make out
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  • 91 1 Archbishop hits at Graham THE new Archbishop of York, Dr. Arthur Ramsey, writing in a Durham diocesan magazine says there is evidence that the American Evangelist. Dr Billy Graham, "has taught the grossest doctrines'" and presented a "very distorted" picture of the Gospel. He said Dr. Graham's statement that "the
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  • 48 1 The official General News Agency in Taipeh reported ioday that the Chinese Communists are building JO more gun emplacements «tween Amoy and Foochow n the Fukien coast. The additional artillery positions are expected to be completed before the end of April, it said.- U.P.
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  • 181 1 MALAYANISATION BIG RUSH TO FINISH REPORT npHE Malayanisation ComJ. mission is working at top speed to complete its report this month so that it can be considered by the Council of Ministers before the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, leaves for the talks in London in April. Mr Marshall is
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  • 140 1 Private jobs of junior ministers —Assembly query THE official status and private interests of x the four Assistant Ministers in the Singapore Government will be queried at the Legislative Assembly meeting on Wednesday. Mr. John Ede (Prog. Tanglin) will ask the Chief Minister to give details of any rules by
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  • 280 1 MALAYANS IN RAF TO GET PAY RISE PAY and conditions of service of locally enlisted officers and men of the Royal Air Force are now being reviewed by a joint Services committee. An RAF spokesman told the Free Press today that when the committee had completed its work and the
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  • 183 1 Pledge of loyalty by 18 million NIGERIAN chiefs and emirs representing 18 million Africans ui the vast northern region of Nigeria last night pledged their allegiance to the Queen in their regional parliament at Kaduna. The Queen, who wore an evening gown and diamond tiara, heard Sardauna of Sokoto, premier
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  • 136 1 Warning on tin reserves SIR Ewen Fergusson, chairman of the Straits Trading Co., Ltd., said in Washington yesterday that Malaya's mines, which product 1 about one-third of the world's production, were facing depletion with no more than 10 years' reserves. He said tin extraction was not being replaced by new
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  • 42 1 Alan Cann, 16, went up to the attic of his home in Upton. England, to thaw out frozen water pipes and found the body of his grandfather, 75-year-old William Cann, missing since last September. A. P.
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  • 24 1 Tlie Singapore Rubber Market opened quietly this morning with first grade, February shipment, at $1.07 a lb., unchanged from yesterday's closing price.
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  • 56 1 'Relax China trade ban step by step' BRITISH Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden said at a news conference in Washington, yesterday that he proposed to President Eisenhower that trade restricI tions with Red China be relaxed "step by step" until they are the same as those i which govern trade
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  • 30 1 FIGHT FOR The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Harold Macmillan said in London yesterday that Britain must wage an urgent right against inflation to protect the value of the pound.
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  • 26 1 Actress Judy Garland filed a suit for divorce in Santa Monica. California, yesterterday ivov\ actor's agent Sid Luft. _tie alleged extreme cruelty. A.P.
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  • 103 2 PAKISTAN BLAMED FOR LOSSES AFGHANISTAN yesterday again accused Pakistan of imposing a complete economic blockade on her. The charge was made in Bangalore at the plenary session of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) during a discussion on the economic situation in Asia. Afghanistan delegation leader
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  • 74 2 T\HE man indirectly respon--1 sible for the death of millionaire sportsman. William Woodward. Jr. was sent to jail for 10 to 20 years at Mlneola. New York. Paul Wirths. a 23-year-old German immigrant, was charged with burglary of another house before the Woodward accident.
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  • 19 2 The first contingent of the U.S. sth Infantry Division arrived in New York from Germany yesterday.
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  • 249 2 CABINET MAY NOW CALL IN TROOPS rjRASTIC Federal Govern- ment measures to end Australia's crippling dock strike are expected next week, observers in Canberra said last night. Mr. Harold Holt, Labour Minister, forecast government intervention after the unions had rejected a settlement formula he submitted on
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  • 97 2 FRENCH troops and riot squads fought a pitched battle in Oran yesterday with inflamed Algerian nationalist mobs looting and burning European shops and cars and the army clamped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the tense port. Hundreds of Algerians, including students, shouting nationalist slogans rampaged through the
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  • 27 2 Indonesia has set a deadline of 6 p.m. yesterday in Geneva for the Dutch to decide whether to deadlock the Dutch-Indonesian talks or not. U.P.
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  • 18 2 Russia said yesterday it was building the world's largest circular synchrocyclotron, a machine for atom-smashing. A.P.
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  • 182 2 UKITAIN DOWN? NONSENSE ]lIR SELWYN LLOYD, the British Foreign ITA Secretary, said yesterday that the British economy was expanding and developing, showing industrial confidence and vigour. Speaking at a lunch of businessmen in Chicago after attending the AngloAmerican talks in Washineton, Mr. Lloyd said:
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  • 102 2 BELGIUM TO SELL IN SINGAPORE BUILDING MART A Belgian expert in con •traction materials, Mr W. L. Julin. has Just completed a surrey of trad< posslbihti. i m Bingapor< with a view to Belgium I peiing in the market for tropicalised materials for building and construction. A n M tive
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  • 142 2 SPOKESMEN for Canada's rubber manufacturing industry yesterday expressed fear that much of the expanding market may fall to low- wage foreign competition, forcing Canadian plants to close. The market has already been damaged by a flood of footwear Imports from Hong Kong, produced
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  • 183 3 A high basont or a flat one? Fashion experts can 't agree CUSHION designer Madame Jacques Fath yesterday A showed ultra-feminine I9M creations that were in direct contrast to the thin silhouette of hristian Dior. Madam > Fath s Paris spring collection emphasised the hour-glass figure with high bosom and
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  • 141 3 Four days of merriment ahead I)RINCE Rainier 111 has presented Grace Kelly with a second. flashing engagement ring to replace the minor ruby-and-dia-mond bauble he gave her in New York. The Prince of Monaco has been bu>y the pa.^t few days arranging a schedule for
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  • 254 3 The worst winter of the century JUST as icebound Europe looked for a let-up in its worst winter of the century, which nasi already claimed more than 100 lives, new Arctic blasts are heading toward the continent. From behind the Iron Curtain have come hints
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  • 57 3 Senorita Chelo Alongso is the name of this sensational Cuban "H-bomb" dancer who is now performing at the Raffles Hotel. Singapore. And this captivating dance is the "Samba Brazilera." Senorita Alongso, who is on a world tour, has appeared on television and in Spanish films. Just
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  • 73 3 THE Queen was told in Kaduna yesterday of i the discovery of a new drug by a British research biochemist to protect cattle from the ravages of sleeping sickness. The discovery was announced when the Queen visited the West African Research Institute
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  • 46 3 The United States Government yesterday banned the travel of American citizens to Hungary This was announced in a State Department note which accused the Hungarian Government of persecuting Hungarian employe the American Legation in Budapest and In curtailing freedom of the press.
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  • 26 3 A delegation representing West German industry will leave next Sunday on a goodwill tour of Japan, Indonesia. Siam, Burma. India and Pakistan.- Reuter
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  • 18 3 The U.N. Security Council will meet on Monday to consider Sudan's application ior membership.- A.P
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  • 41 3 A dozen attractive girls, each garbed to represent a month in the year, will vie for the honour of being chosen the "Girl of the Year" at the New Year dance at the Chinese Swimming Club tonight.
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  • 15 3 India is considering a Communist Chinese proposal for a 12-country conference on Indo-China.
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  • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Feb. 4. 1956. Opinion
    • 127 4 PMPLOYEES of the Naval Base have lost $600,000 in wages due to the 16--day strike ordered by their union leaders. The strike decision was based upon a flimsy pretext. To what purpose? The strike has been a total failure and the workers are back at work poorer
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    • 71 4 OARENTS in Singa--1 pore, through ignorance or prejudice, condemned 41 children to death from diphtheria last year. All these fatalities, out of a total of 460 cases admitted to the Middleton Hospital, occurred among those who had failed to Umm% immunity injections. The incidence of diphtheria is still
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  • 348 4 T^HE first ten months of "no hooting" in Paris sent down the road accident figures compared with the same period in the previous year. In Britain, where you can hoot as you please till 11 p.m., the accident figures are still mounting. The ban on hooting,
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  • 943 4  - Kenya 's new Threat ERIC DOWNTON The Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya have been beaten -for the moment at least. But the real battle for the Colony has just begun. The Mau Mau spirit has folded its wings behind a lot of sullen faces and is waiting M ml fl
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  • 68 5 Married woman elopes HE was the firstflautist in the 8.8 C. Concert Orchestra; she was th e second -fla ulist. They feU in Jove and went off together But she was married to a violinist And in the London Divorce Court Mr. John Jezard was granted a decree nisi °n
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  • 273 5 HER SCREAMS FAIL TO AVERT POND TRAGEDY A WOMAN looked out of her bedroom window at dusk and saw four little boys run on to a pond covered with melting ice. She screamed for help. It was too late. All the boys—
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  • 137 5 TOHE Army Intelli- gence Corps has not got a regimental band. But it has got a regi- mental march. And Captain Henry Kerby. Tory M.P. for Arundel and Shoreham, is annoyed "Useless expenditure." he called it. "What's the use of a march to them?
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  • 74 5 Dial DOC to get a doctor rE public should be able to get in touch with a doctor at onc e in th e event ;of emergency by dialling DOC. or some such easy code. Mr. Barnett Janner (Sod. Leicester N.W.) sug- gested in a Commons ques- tion. Dr. Charles
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 458 5 Tomorrow's church announcements CHI KCH OF ENGLAND St. Andrew's Cathedral: 7 a.m. Holy Communion; 8 a.m. Sung Eucharist and Parish Communion; 9.30 a.m Sunday School, 10.30 a.m Matin*; 11 a.m. Mandarin Service; 6 p.m. Evensong. St. Hilda's Church Katong: 7 a.m. Holy Communion; 8 am. Choral Eucharist; 10 a.m. Junior
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    • 437 5 METHODIST Straits Chinese Church: 8.45 a.m. Sunday School; 9.40 a.m. Service—Rev. E. S Lau (Eng.); 10.30 a.m. Service— Mr Choo Beng Lam (Malay >; 5.30 p.m. Service— Rev. E. S. Lau. Paya Lebar: 8.45 a.m. Sunday .School; 9 a.m Service in Malay —Rev Wee Chin Kam; 10 a.m. Holy Communion
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    • 18 5 SINGAPORE CHI'RCH OF CHRIST 22 Prince Phillip Avenue (Alexandra Road: Bible Study and Preaching 4 and 7.30 p.m.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 212 6 MAiXMiitKE by" <*« a 'b I'liH Pavis pp, u^ sAg^S Sigifj TARZAX bv Edgar Ri«*e Burroughs THE S Al\ I by Leslie Charier iw JAM; bv Hubbard UKE TMAT, G&OB&E— I MU6T 3Av\JK COULDN'T WELP PrTy/MGyFOQ. WEAVERS SAKE, OIRL,'- > I TWOUGWT >Ouk BE PLmTASEP/ j\ I SHALL BE ALiMOST
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    • 735 6 I i^&^Tm^M^) I 'T\l^> —^vC _iV /f** _T_r>v <► "OORN today, you have the spirit of J[ j MJ an innovator and have very de- •> o finite ideas about what you are going j[ to do with your life J[ V Quiet and self-contained, you may <► o not
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 184 7 Previous Today RUBBER No. 1 RSS c.i.f. 31 buyers 30 buyers European Ports February 31% sellers 31 A sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS cJi. 31% buyers 30^ buyers European ports March 31% sellers 31 sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 31% buyers 31% buyers 32 sellers 31
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    • 103 7 NEW YORK. FW> 3. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 9 J*™ nom. 99.00 nom. TIN futures February 96.00 bid 96.50 bid 98.50 asked 98.00 asked March 94.50 bid 95.00 bid 96.00 asked 96.25 asked April 94.00 bid 94.50 bid 95.50 asked 95.65 asked TONE: Quiet
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    • 37 7 Six>t Malabar/Lampong 31'j. 30. Sarawak spot 30. awaitinj RWaitinf release and afloats 31. release, afloats and Jan. 294 Jan. 30. Malabar first half Feb. I Sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb.
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    • 34 7 NEW YORK, FH>. 3. Previous Today trt InHmlH.I. 473 43 477.44 g&EStf 1 ***** 40 Domestic Bonds JJJJ 9908 15 Utilities 64 35 b4 68 64 Stocks Composite Averaffe 168.39 169.55
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    • 102 7 COPRA Philippines c.i.f. L.K./ North European delivered weight per lon* ton Feb./Mar (OI'RA, Slraits, cif IK/North European delivered weight per long ton Feb/March. Mar/April COCOMT OIL crude Straits c.i.f. IK North European in bulk, per long ton. Prompt COCONUT Oil crude, Ovlon c.i.f. European ports bulk
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  • 358 7 Firewood dealers hold up new coastal road COMPLETION NOW DELAYED BY THREE MONTHS I3ROGRESS on Singapore's new Esplanade Road is being seriously retarded through the difficulty in moving firewood sellers from the Beach Road reclamation area. The target date for the completion of the new coastal highway is likely to
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  • 174 7 UNIVERSITY GOES AHEAD f^ESPITE an Oxford lecturer's refusal of a pro- fessorial appointment in the proposed Department of Social and Administrative Studies, the University of Malaya will still try to establish the department by next October. This was stated yesterday by the Vice Chancellor of
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  • 192 7 These are safe if you follow the rules LONDON dealers' telephones fang with the question asked by many owners of electric blankets; Are they dangerous? For an electric blanket, it was revealed, caused the fire which burned out j a bedroom In the home of the Queen Motherniece, Mrs. John
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  • 44 7 MORE and more of the world's ills are being cured by British medicine. Value of exports of drugs and medicines last year was €35.900,000 an increase of C 3.800,000 over 1954. Australia was the best customer (£4.000.000) followed by India (£3.000.000).
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  • 36 7 M Guy Mollet, French Socialist Prime Minister, will fly to Algiers on Monto tackle the problem of restoring order in Algeria, where 15,000 rebels are tying down over 200,000 French troops- Reuter
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 59 7 I SINCAPORE j |j HIGH TIDES j X rODAY: 4.37 pm J IO.MOKROW: ill a.m.; > and 6.10 p.m. MONDAY 5.20 a.m. and! J Sill p.m. X TUESDAY: 6.36 a.m. and* 9_w p.m. X X WEDNESDAY: 7.58 a I and 10.11 p.m. rHURSDAY: 9 .0 1 a.m.* I and 10.4!)
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  • 402 8 Mayflower II is now taking shape Rapid progress is being made in I phanis shipyard at Brixham, Devon, with the construction of the Mayflower 11. the 183-ton wooden replica of the vessel in which the 102 Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America in 1620. She is expected to be under sail
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  • 57 9 picture. E The scene in Salford Cathedral last week during E the ceremony of enthronement of the new Bishop 5 of Salford, the Right Reverend G. A. Beck. By the light of a candle, the new Bishop reads the E Gospel during the solemn Pontifical
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    • 35 9 SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT 0£ YOU* _V_vj4g OF CEILING FANS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE CITY ELECTRICITY DEPT ON HIRE AT ONLY $1.00 PER MONTH. CONSULT YOUR ELECTRICAI CONTRACTOR OR RING: PHONE 2419 EXTN. 352
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  • 912 10  - STEVE WINTERS INVESTIGATES KATHLEEN HICKLEy fi/daf M $1 t/otouj fof THE STORY SO FAR THE famous private detective, Steve Winters, comes to Malaya on a case and is anxious to meet a I Chinese schoolboy. Ah Lee, whom he thinks may help I his investigation. However, Ah Lee is kidnapped
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    • 735 10 I CHILDREN'S PAGE SEE how well you can colour this picture with paints, crayons or chalks, and you may win one of four $5 prizes (two for boys and two for girls). Fill in your name, address and age and post to Aunty Wendy, c/o The Singapore Free Press, Cecil
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  • 1723 11  -  John Christopher by m DID IT HAPPEN? 1 Another story to keep yoa guotf tog, k The answer will be A given oo Monday... A J AS m Wr, tmmm Chrisiopbwf VOi Ml arid fwwwwf W teknew tkHmrn. Thit wdmCmthm hwt mmi mm4w him Kwntfti, but it dot
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  • 529 12 A Miss Heine did it too! ITS all happened before, you know," said the distinguished old man with whom I lunched. "I beg your pardon, sir," said I, not quite grasping what he was talking about. "Why," he replied, "young Rainier marrying this actress girl. His greatgrandfather did the same
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  • 508 12 I qiioteJ ii "Waft stay in <S 1?1 Trinidad wan <( >> brief," said Mr. Alan SS L e n n o x-Boyd, the N SS Colonial Secretary at a ss U party the other night. >> SS "Afy plane flew in at 11 >> night, and I
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    • 184 12 LHiiiiiimiiiiiii imiiiii.iiimiiiimiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiii£ because she's happy j\ V iV^ E her skin is clear... How p.oud her mother feels how m i s >^</^ E thankful too, that her teenage I I E E daughter used Solution 41; the l'i\ < SJ^^^ E miraculous preparation that %>\\•\.,, Jt^** E banishes that
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    • 113 12 lib I iLf /I 3 ___f fl I/a r mnll/1 Jl/1 U /ti T/9jf 5 3 I I thank l their many thousands of customers for their patronage g 5 during the Sale Period s_i i i I and apologise 5 to those who came too late I 5 and
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  • 639 13  - A strike threat wins teachers' pay battle RITCHIE McEWEN by EIGHTEEN months ago, to become a schoolteacher in Austria was to enter the worst paid category of civil servants in the country. Today however all that has changed, and Austrian teachers now enjoy equal pay and the same substantial pension
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    • 276 13 DAILY CROSSWORD I B______H S__(£f£ifl__£' I _l Hl___^ ___^____B 1 CU7EI ICBOM busy worker 16). 2 A doctor appears early on in 11 Edith returns so far for a this kind of payment <9>. A^ (3) 8 Hat with a soft centre (ft). 14 Shines a new way for a
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  • 760 14  -  MARGARET KROHN by WEST GERMANY'S women are girding for a showdown battle in the Bundestag over lons-deferred (stalled off, say the women) equal -rights legislation. Next year is election year, and West Germany's women are canny enough to know that if they aren't proclaimed the
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    42 14 picture. This unusual square bridal bouquet is made of fresh white hyacinths and mixed blue flowers surrounded by a frill of finest embroidered Sudan cotton. It mate -lies the spring bridal gown and square headdress designed bv Ronald Paterson of London. Reuter
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  • 429 14 HOW sound are your tactics when partner's take-out double of dealer's opening bid Ls redoubled by the opener's partner? Do you bid with strength, and pass with weakness? Do you pass only with strength in the opponents' suit? Veal North East Suulh I 4 Dbl 11.-ibl Ml hat
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  • 441 15  - SPORTSMEN? DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH Gerard Walter -By OAMMY SHAW, the announcer at the Royal Albert Hall on the other day calling upon the erowd to take their seats, described them as "sportsmen." Some of them may have been, but I would not describe as such those who created the
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  • 343 15 he is cleaning up boxing in U.S. A STOCKY, grey-haired man who had seen only two big fights in his life before he got the job of Cleaning up boxing in New York, is the new "Mr. Big" of the ring. Julius Helfand is the name and he
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  • 115 15 RIVALS AND COUSINS OIVALS in a race for an individual 100 League goals are English International cousins Jack Froggatt (Leicester City) and Red fern Froggatt (Sheffield Wednesday). Redfcrn has 82 and Jack 77. but Jack is mostly playing at half back these days. VIVA AYR: You can hear the shout
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    34 15 photo. MRS. LEONARD CARVER'S racehorse FSB. ridden by jockey Tim Molony, takes a jump cleanly during a race at Haycock Park. He is entered for the (irand National on March 24. Reuter
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  • 369 15 II ever the Players' Union calls a strike, that will be the end of the Union. The Executive Committee mifhfl pass the resolution but the main body of members would resign. Chairman Jimmie (iuthrie must realise he has no solid block behind him." So says
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  • 109 15 T'HE draw for the Foong Seong Cup Challenge Round between Singapore, the holders, and Penang was made in Singapore last night after the arrival of the Penang team. Play will commence tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m.. and adi mission to the Badminton Hall on both
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  • 164 15 THE Sultan of Selangor will i lav the foundation stone of the Selangor Turf Club's milliondollar grandstand on Gold Cup Day. Feb. 18. The ceremony will take place at 4.30 p.m. Just before the big race over I* mUes for the handsome gold trophy. There will be
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  • 238 16 RAIN restricted play to less than three hours in Dacca yesterday when M.C.C. in their second unofficial Test against Pakistan, scored 96 runs for four wickets on the opening: day. It was here that three days of the recent PakistanNew Zealand test were
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    31 16 picture. SS i^RAWTHORNE Wood (West) beats Cul_EE vardo (Baxter) on the EEE outside and Triwalh. (Franklin) on the rails. to win Race 2 at Bukit S5 Timah on Wednesday. Free Press
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  • 85 16 LANDY IS NO DANGER, SAYS DANISH STAR GUNNAR NIELSEN, Denmark's joint holder with the Hungarian Sandor Iharos and Lazslo Tabori of the world 1.500 metres record, said there will be no threat from John Landy, Australia's world mile record holder in the Olympic Games 1.500 metres this year. "Landy has
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  • 53 16 JOE Louis, former heavyweight boxing champion received another staggering blow from the Internal Revenue Service. A new income tax demand for US$ 11,351 was filed against him yesterday. This brought the total of such demands against Louis to U551,210,789 for the years 1946 through
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  • 54 16 The Singapore Malay Badminton Association will hold its 1956 Championship Tournament at the SB. A. hall on March 9 at 7.30 p.m. Entries for the Junior women's and Veteran's events close on Feb. 15. Entry forms are obtainable from S. Abdullah Mattar, 4, Lorong
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  • 24 16 Fathul Karib will play against the King's Own Scottish Borderers in a friendly soccer match at Fairer Park at 5.15 p.m. today.
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  • 146 16 RIKIDOZAN. heavyweight wrestling champion of Japan, was not in a good mood yesterday as this picture of himself above will suggest. "I always get that way in a bad mood when a fight is drawirn near." he said. The Japanese champion said he was quite
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  • 35 16 THE Fijians' line-up for today's game against the Singapore Cricket Club on the padang is: Balekana: Levula. Domoni.Baba. Mula.se; Tubuna, Mucunabitu; Lagilevu, Wa--1 qavolau, Taubale. Bale. Ko- rovulavula. Revula, Sekov Rayawa.
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  • 44 16 W/CDR. C. N. Foxley-Nor-ris and W/Cdr. J.G Topham (34» won the sta--1 bleford bogey greensome two-ball competition at the FEAF championships. Runners-up were Air Vice Marshal A. D. Gilmore and G/Capt. AH. McM. Healey who had the best score over nine holes.
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  • 139 16 npoNI Sailer, 20-year-old A Austrian plumber made Winter Olympic Games history yesterday when he won the men's downhill ski race and thus captured all three Alpine gold medals Sailer, an allround sportsman he is a fine soccer forward and lawn tennis player had previously
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  • 361 16 Ramadhin takes 6 for 23 in N.Z. batting collapse: Weekes 123 n.o. WEST INDIES gained tirst innings had of luO with seven wit kets in hand against New Zealand when the first Test opened In Diinedin on Thursday. New Zealand, still seeking their first Test win, were all out for
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