The Singapore Free Press, 6 February 1956

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malava So. *****. Singapore. Monday. February 6, 1956. Price 15Cts.
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  • 211 1 MULTI-lingualism will be practised on a limited scale in the Singapore City Council it the Government accepts the report ol the Local Government Committee. The c0 m mitt ee, it is understood hag recommended that member > hould be allowed to addr< council meetings* in
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  • 40 1 The Speaker of the Singapore Lcgislatire Assembly, Mr G E N. Ohlert. is due back today from his visit to Jamaica and London^ In Jamaica. Mr. Oehlers attended a meeting of we Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's general council.
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  • 31 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened thus morning on an uncertain tone with first grade. February shipment: at $1.06«2 a pound, one- eißhtn of a cent below la* Saturday's claslngjmce.
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  • 60 1 FOR perhaps the first time since Europeans went to Nigeria 100 years the Nigerians were now feeling "truly equal" and the British realised that, a Nigerian journalist said at Jos. Northern Nigeria, yesterday. "We have seen OUR Queen as well as yours and she has
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  • 48 1 A GROUP of Chinese tanners fled to Macao from Red China in a small sampan yesterday. Life in Red China wa* setting worse and worse day by day without enough to eat,* 1 they .said. The group included I women and lour children,
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  • 201 1 TttiE tiny church of Saint firans, on me miisiue at Jos, was packed with 100 Europeans and Africans when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh attended morning service there veste rdftV The Queen In a powder blue f rock and white hat. was met
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  • 71 1 Germans seek markets in Singapore A powerful industrial delegation left Dusseldorf. West Germany, last night for a six-week tour of the Far East to .stake the claim of West German industry 10 competition with the recent export efforts of Russia. The mission, headed by Fritz Berg, president :f the Federation
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  • 27 1 Madame Sun Yat Sen, widow of the -father of the Chinese revolution," returned to Peking yesterday from a tour India. Burma and Pakistan. U.P.
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  • 19 1 The Singapore Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, visited the General Hospital this morning: for a check up.
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  • 20 1 The Security Council meets in New York today to consider Sudan's application for United Nations m^m- bocship. Reuter
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  • 25 1 The Shah and Queen of Persia are scheduled to arrive In New Delhi on Februarj lb for a three-week; tour of India U.P.
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  • 17 1 The Malayanisation Commission will hold a public session at 5 p.m. today at Assembly House.
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  • 175 1 Nationalist warships .sank one Communist gunboat and scattered a fleet which included landing craft in a second sea battle around Nationalist Kaoteng Island, the Formosa Navy announced last night. It was the second battle iii three days near the tiny island which lies between the
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  • 214 1 THREAT of HUNGER STRIKE BY 1 ,080 Klang rubber workers to decide tonight THE 1,080 strikers of the rubber factory at Klang are threatening to go on hunger strike. A final decision will be reached at a strikers' meeting tonight. Officials of the National Union of Factory and General Workers,
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  • 110 1 50,000 may get sack in port row ANOTHER 50,000 Australians workers were expected to be laid off their jobs this week because of the waterfront strike that entered its 15th day today. A critical raw material shortage was anticipated because of the port stagnation. About 10.000 people are already out
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  • 127 1 The last word in merdeka talks THE Malayan "merdeka" conference in London draws up its, final communiaue today but this will not be released until the curtain is about to iall on Wednesday. It will be an historic document recommending that the Federation should now take a decisive step towards
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  • 25 1 Afghanistan's embassy in New Delhi released yesterday a 40-page list of goods being prevented by PakLsi tan from reaching Afghan- istan U. P.
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  • 149 2 CYPRUS LEADERS SPLIT ON POLICY BISHOP Kyprlanos of Pyrenia. one of the three senior bishops under Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus, yesterday openly denounced a self-governing^ constitution as a solution to the political future of the British island colony. Political observers in Nicosia said that his speech was the first definite
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  • 28 2 One fireman was killed and 11 others were Injured early yesterday when th» fire engine crashed they returned to answer fire alarm at Hachioi; Japan.— U.P.
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  • 196 2 STRICT security precautions have been taken in the tense city of Algiers to prevent possible trouble when M. Guy Mollet. the French Premier arrives today for talks on Algeria's future. Fou r battalions of French Foreign Legionnaires hav e been moved to th e city
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  • 42 2 The Soviet Government yesterday published a diplomatic note calling the delon of Soviet fishing vessels by Norwegian autholast week "a regrettabie misunderstanding." The note expressed hope that the Norwegian Government "will take nece.^ to the els prompt.. A.P.
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  • 299 2 OPPOSITION IN U.S. WILL HIT DULLES TALKS IN ASIA MR. JOHN FOSTER DULLES, United States Secretary of State, is not expected to offer any relaxation of the American attitude to Communist China when he visits Japan and nine other Far Eastern countries on a whirlwind
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  • 89 2 NEW 'REVOLT' IN EGYPTOVER CLOTHES EGYPT is to launch a "sartorial revolution" aimed at getting the people to dress more alike. The campaign reflected annoyance of the educated classes over the myriad clothing styles ranging from native gallabias— wide outer garments to Western-style suits. Wing Commander Abdel Latif El Boghadi.
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  • 15 2 Belgian steel workers have won their campaign for a five-day working week.— Reuter
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  • 118 2 Colonial attacks: UK may cancel K and B visit RUSSIAN attacks on Britain s colonial policies have given Whitehall second thoughts about its invitation to Soviet Premier Marshal Bulganin and party chief Nikila Khrushchev to visit London in April. A London government source said that unless Moscow s propaganda campaign
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  • 184 2 Wife wins loyalty battle PEKING Radio said today a Chinese who returned to Hong Kong from the United States and who chose to remain In Hong Kong has changed his mind and is returning to Red China. The broadcast said Liu Yung M;ng formally requested to leave Hong Konns refugee
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  • 168 2 RED WAIL AGAINST 'RADIO' BALLOONS RUSSIA has protested t« the United Btatea at of balloons carry, r. equipment and Automatic aerial camera! ov.t R issian territory, it Ls •'d. by U.S. military or- KanisaUona. A Soviet note, pub: In Moscow last night by the official news I Tass. also complained
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  • 119 3 Buddhist saints' relics go back to Ind ia, Ceylon ACEREMONIAX reception waj given to sacrod rellca of Buddhist apostles, which were taken to N W last night by Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, the Indian High Commissioner in London. Thr rel ca had been in the Victoria and Albert am in London
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  • 121 3 THE BOY WHO MADE THE QUEEN LAUGH BOW to Her Majesty" was the final instruction given to four-year-old Olu .libowu as he strode across to present a posy of flowers to the Wueen in the forecourt of the Federal Courts, in Lagos, Nigeria. But as Olu thrust forward the posy,
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  • 122 3 WORKERS ended six days of toil yesterday wTlen they recovered the body of a 32-year-old woman from a 134 -foot deep disused well which she fell into when a hotel scullery floor collapsed. The dead woman Ls Mrs. Phyllis Faithfull. chambermaid at the Royal Oak
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  • 69 3 HUSKY Soviet Minister of Culture Nikolai Mikhailov put hl s arms around a London housewife yesterday and sang her "an old Russian love song." Mikhailov. who is visiting England, gang Uie son^ to Ifll. Maurice Hartman during a visit to her apartment in
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  • 256 3 ABOIT 5,000 plumbers worked through the week-end to repair burst water-pipes as Britain said goodbye to the five-day freeze-up and wrestled with the problems of the great thaw. All over Europe people were f a< ed with the same problem— and to
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  • 214 3 DEFAMED HUSBAND: FACES JAIL IF SHE GOES TO ITALY AN Italian court sentenced Mrs. Joanne Patino 1 Ortiz to eight months' jail on Saturday, for having defamed her estranged husband, Mr. Jaime Patino Ortiz, a member of the wealthy Bolivian tin family. Neither Mrs Patino Ortiz nor her husband were
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  • The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Feb. 6, 1956. Opinion
    • 122 4 TENGKU'S SUCCESS 'THE "if possible" date 1 of Aug. 31, 1957 for the grant of indepenidence to Malaya has been agreed to by the British Government. This is a great concession indeed for Federation Chief Minister Abdul Rahman, for Britain could not afford lightly to accept even this seemingly simple
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    • 83 4 rTHE outstanding point *of Tengku Abdul Rahman's surprise new offer to meet Chin Peng is his categorical refusal to recognise the Malayan Communist Party. Key of the offer is what he means by 'liberalising" the terms to the Reds which he had set out at the Baling talks. Obviously
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  • 989 4  - The biggest bosses West of the Kremlin TREVOR EVANS An important news analysis by 'THE men at the head of Britain's State industries today are the biggest bosses in the free world. No private employer has 700,000 workers on his pay roll. Mr. James Bowman, ex-pit boy, will have 700,000
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  • 325 4  -  Beachcomber bvmbnnmnbmnmnm* FILM-PRODUCERS are losing their nerve, I saw a film the other day In which there was no night-club scene. No hideous young woman sang a dreary dirge about love in a voice like a chain-cable being slowly dragged over a waste of scrap-iron. What puzzles
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    • 29 4 ASAHI B~"LTURED PEARLS ARE ACCLAIMED THE WORLD OVER AS THE QUEEX AMONG CULTURED PEARLS, SEE THEfR BEAUTY, COMPARE THEIR PRICESRole Affcnts: S.P.H. do SILVA Ltd. SINGAPORE, K. LUMPUR IPOH.
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  • 66 5  -  adelaide Eastley BV.. COME 6,000 years 8.C., the Stone Age ancestors of Australia's aborigines dallied in Singapore on their is-land-hopping search for new homes. In their wake since then followed the Malays, the Indians and the Javanese, the British and the Chinese. The city lived through its darkest
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  • 53 5 OVERRUN BY 'COMMUNISTS' Then the Arab and Indian missionaries were scattered as the Colony was overrun by the Communists of the period pirah s who plied an unromantic brand of hooliganism and. gangsterfashion, fought one another to control the surrounding seas. In their hands the Island was a desolate home
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  • 293 5 SINGAPORE MILESTONES JUST 137 years iigo today, the British founded a new kind of colonisation and Singapore began to ftmerge In civilised aspect. And today an exhibition will open at Victoria Memorial Hall (continuing until the 11th' which will Illustrate visually the historical mileJttonei spanning the city's founding and her
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  • 110 5 A SPECIAL PARTY SING APOROSCOPE: When three people from Ulu Tiram come from the Federation for a party here, it'.s a certainty that it li something special. Such was the case a few nights ago when the Federation guesti were Mr. and Mrs. James Hill and Mr. Bryan Chapel. The
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  • 101 5 Only a few more days b<•fore ihe Leaves for India and Dr. Elizabeth Comber (Han Suyin) is preparing a Radio Malaya appeal for public support oi the X-ray Club, each 50-cent membership enrolment to help lick tuberculosis. When the cargo motorship Helikon lett harbour on Thursday
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  • 89 5 HAILED BY NOSES An animal-lover himself. Mr. Miles said on arrival here last week that he is I "thinking about making an I international incident" of the fact that the shoreside handlers ignore canvasi lifting-belts and haul the crttten to the dock literally bf noses- ropes attached to nose-rings. "If
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    91 5 A HAZARD ENDS HAZARD ENDS: Congratulations to Traffic Superintendent Ml F, < J Minn* lor having effected installation of a traffic light signal device at Robinson Road at the junc0/ that thoroughfare, Finlayson Green and Collycr Quay. The signal now gives the man-in-the-street a sporting chance at the crossing. Y
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  • 161 5 HELPING out in the kitchen cutting ham more or less expertly was Mr. Frank Bennett and a Scottish note wa s added to the festive scene in the person of Mr. Kenneth BuchananDavis. His uncle is MajorGeneral Sir Kenneth Buchanan. Producer Mr. Donald Dav i e s
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  • 175 5 'CHEESECAKE' ORDER VIGNETTES: That local lensman whose specialty is photographing pin-up cu~ ties popped in for luncheon in a Bras Basah Road eatery yesterday and automatically ordered a cheesecake sandwich. Among the missing (and DUlch missed) Singaporeans after March 1 will be Captain Hugh Birch. Qantas Area Manager, and Mrs.
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  • 62 5 TOW -WHEELED MENACE "The two-wheeled menace continues to imperil lives. Cyclists continue to ignore the regulation against riding more than two abreast and turning without signals." ho said. Tr iI h a operators, he opined, are a shade more respectful of the law. "Most of these operators," said Mr. Shepherd,
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  • 305 7 TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Daphne Lea, six months a bride, was drowned at Portsmouth— because she stood In for her naval officer husband at a submarine farewell party. Drowned with her too. were two of her husband's closest friends, fellow cadets in his Dartmouth days. They are
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  • 65 7 Soon after midnight they made for the steps at H.M. S. V?rnon. a shore establishment, where they had left the dinghy. They started back. Minutes afterwards a quarter-master pacing the stone -flagged harbour edge at the submarine base heard cries ...cries like those made
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  • 83 7 With the skilled Ang- ers and critical eye of a craftsman, eight- year-old Anne Giles fashions a vase on the potter's wheel at the 300 year old Rummy Pottery near Cardiff, Walcs g Anne is the daughter of Mr. Ernest Giles 1 who now runs the busi-
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  • 176 7 T!HEY were all little things his wife did to him. x But eventually they were added up. They amounted to cruelty. Mr. Justice Barnard, in London Divorce Court, said Mrs. Maud Beatrice Davies did every petty thing she could think of to make her husband's
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  • 117 7 THE newly-issued second volume of the mammoth Afrikaans* Disctionary gives these definitions: English people: People who differ in behaviour from people around them. Tame Englishman: On^ who has adopted the Afrikaans language and customs. Raw Englishman who may also "smell of salt water": One
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  • 36 7 About 20.000 Indians packed the New Delhi Y.M.C.A. hockey grounds yesterday to hear evangelist Billy Graham therly love. irly 1.000 .stepped forward in answer to his call to accent Christianity U.P.
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  • 18 7 State police y< rued 13 passen board a bi. -)^od in 0 of Glen- U.P.
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  • 90 7 TTHIS is what happened 1 when 19 year old Giuseppe Apuzzo tried to marry his childhood sweetheart, 18-year-old Raffaelino. in secret: Thirty-one members of his family surrounded the church near Amain. Southern Italy. When the priest protested they locked him in the
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  • 232 7 Rebuff for Chinese Education Council rpHE Sin^ap:>n- Chin J Chamber ol Commerce has rebuff* d an approach made by Uu- Ch.: Education Council regarding "revival Colony primary Chinese school which closed down last month. The Yeh Lin School at Mandalav Road was closed because its management commit 'ff had to
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  • 41 7 The British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, is expected in New Delhi, next month to discuss BritishIndian relations since the visit of the Russian leaders to India, with special reference to the Bagdad Pact.— U.P.
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    • 51 7 j SINGAPORE :HIGH TIDES j TODAY: 5 .04 p.m. TOMORROW: li.'Mi am. J and 9.'!."> p.m. I WKDNFSDAi: 7 :>S a.m.4 and li.ll P»n. J raUSSDAT: ;».O: a.m.J and 10 It p.m. X J FRIDAY: a.m. and* Ills pin S\n RDAY: 10.30 am> SUNDAY: 11 N am* and 1143 p.m.
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  • 1571 8  - The Queen's plane will follow a road map STEPHEN COULTER POUJADE 'REVOLT REFUSES TO MARCH WITH THE TIMES by UfHEREVER the Queen flics in Nigeria, the Royal plane i> guarded by one of most thorough air rescue organisation* ever set up in any country. In West Africa, the impenetrable bush
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  • 438 9 I hey were perspiring pLAYBOY William Herbert Allen could never get away from HIS HANDS. They cost him a six-year jail sentence at the Old Bailey recently for a £14.000 swindle. Allen could disguise his appearance, his personality and his good family name. But he could
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  • 319 9 TIHE man with a golden roof has gone to prison for 12 months and has been fined £10,000 or a further three months. In the loft of his house at North London, Uszer Schaplra, a 58-year-old furrier, had stored: 1453 watches; 1.880
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  • 253 9 The fatal acts of folly... LMFTEEN YEAR OLD grammar school boy Warwick Armstrong accidentally shot a 33-year-old woman as she sat watching TV. She died. But for 24 hours he did not admit firing the uun. The police were told that something m the fire hud killed Mrs. Dorothy Bartie.
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  • 139 9 WHEN a 20-year-old apprentice bricklayer was accused at Oxford Assizes. Mr. Leo Clarke, defending said the young man's friendship with a 15--year-old girl had been encouraged by both sets oX C "This is an instance of a genuine love affair which unfortunately, went too far." he added.
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  • 99 9 PROBLEM of a teenage starlet— how to become a British Marilyn Monroe when producers would keep offering her very young parts? To help her find the answer 18-year-old film and television actress Avril Leslie who was born in j Johannesburg:. South Africa— went to Riche the Lon- don
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  • 62 9 THE MAN WHO COINED HIS MONEY A MAN who made a fortune although he could not rvad or write is to h:iv e a road named after him in Alperton, Middlesex. The road will be called Haynes Road after Ht-nry Haynes who died in 1910 aged 79. One o{ Mr.
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  • 194 9 'Gestapo' charges against council A COUNCIL listened to charges of a Gestapo and corruption among its members and staff. Then it decided to carry on with the plans which started the row. The allegations were made by a deputation of Croydon businessmen and property owners, members of th e Magna
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    353 10 (Row witkO, OH mi aivuf fywafdtkm<{ aitdfui Comma THE Southern Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni held a very successful reunion at a popular City night spot with Sir Robert Black, the Governor of Singapore, as chief guest. About 180 persons attended. After a sumptuous Chinese "makan",
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  • 319 12  -  JOSEPH TOBIN By TiHE tax man li now puuing in more than ever before from the people of Great Britain. At the same time the number of folk with big incomes in Scotland, England. Northern Ireland and Wales is rising. The number of those with
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  • 584 12  -  STEPHEN HARPER THAT'S HOW IT FELT IN TEST CHAMBER Mini RY tun NOW I know what spending a night at the South Pole can be like. Just before dawn the other day I was shivering in 92 degrees of frsst yet I was only
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  • 408 12 AUNTY GOES TO BED RELUCTANTLY BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT UNWILLINGLY, at 1-30 a.m. Baroness Agnes de Stoeckl went to bed after her 82nd birthday celebrations. "Aunty Ag"— as she is known to the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and most of the world's royalty —told me at her home on
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  • 300 12  -  ARTHUR SCHOLES By MANY of Australia's half-civilised Aborigines who would like to adopt fullv the white man's civilisation are prevented from doing so by an ancient tribal form of income tax. A few of the 45,000 Aboriginal population have achieved world renown in 20th
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  • 359 12 SENIOR GEOGRAPHY FCR MALAYANS, by E. H. G. Dobby, Professor of Geography at the University of Malaya, published by University of London Press Ltd. newspapers today tend to give an opposite impression, the physical state of the world is more important to the human race
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  • 460 13 and special precautions are necessary, says the SINGAPORE DOCTOR T^LOODS arc a major calamity In i din but in the tropics it causes more damage to health than anywhi the problems < 1 health that em< during a flood an I energetically tackli the resulting
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  • 39 13 FIUENDS can be a problem to the rat —or man. I her diet, the] may offer ridicule tempting tidbit So the woman who trying to streamlim hr r figure should diet to hersell vi.! eight
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  • 317 13  -  SYLVIA LAMOND by I GOT so thoroughly down I went to my understanding docand I want to tell you about his prescription because it did me a lot mo] d than the usual bottle of tonic. ■Have an early n with hot milk," he
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  • 303 13  -  CHAPMAN PIN CHER by 4 new vaccine capr able ot giving considerable protection against poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) has been developed in Britain. Half a million children etc to be vaccinated with it this year if their parents agree and millions more later. This news
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  • 97 13 'AIR WALL' KEEPS OUT THE DUST British scientists— in a round about way— are advising housewives Put away your broom keep dust away with an air wall." This device to banish dust and litter is (ly working in a ai Croydon, south of London. An "air door" keeps from ever
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  • 1610 14  -  BEVERLEY NICHOLS i py inn DID IT HAPPEN? Another story to keep you guessing. The answer willbegiver^oinon^^^ lAr The voice was all that I had ever dreamed ...and more. It was innocence, it was moonlight, it was Spring... ¥N 1932 Beverley Nichols published Evensong
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  • 462 15  - CURVES ARE BACK FOR 1956 EILEEN ASCROFT FASHION FRONT! la SO I was riffht about the new look, if overenthusiastic about the old. The feminine silhouette HAS returned to London. The woman with the small waist, pretty bust and curves in the right places that I forecast in the New
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  • 53 15 I AST week's disco\eries for the kitchen store-cupboard j include a srrnted household bleach, a long-lustiiiu liuuid floor polish, which is applied with a brush and a new renovating shoe polish. It helps to restore colour and feed the leather, but its most important quality is water-
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  • 138 15 AND NOW- rERE is a new look for spring faces the Fluid look It started with American experiment on ike up for coloured television. The results are new ■olimrs that not only photograph to perfection but ar a i s o more flattering for everyday skins. Foundation
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  • 277 15 I DIDN'T TAKE MY OWN ADVICE —So here I am— the dullest girl in town and sorry too for myself! IJERE I am, a victim of my own propaganda. The dullest girl in town, still wearing the Tube Line the day alter it became dead as a dog's dinner. "Never
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  • 1122 16  -  William Hickey -LONDON'S NOT AS BAD AS ALL THAT? I ONDON was rather L* black at lunchtime the other day but not as black as the crime-ridden London which the American columnist Walter Winchell described to his readers the previous week. He starts. "In England, when
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    382 16 IWtli-Nontli vnlmrablo Shi ill dealer A CCORDINO to the system followed by some players, a strong opening two bid may be dropped short of game If the opener merely repeats the same BUiU This is a sound idea, because It makes the two-bid available for borderline hand* with
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    • 209 16 CLUES ACROSS 6No whisper for a state of 1 A killer loses a tetter (5) Possession (9) 4 Ceased and discarded (4, 3) 7 Mu 8 u > e word f f r ft f[ ft 8 Nylons for clever girls? (13) «> ftor arrangement (6-7) 10 DescrlDtive of Bruce's
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  • 365 17  -  HAROLD HEFFERNAN But nobody knows where the lady is Says IT'S a colourful Japanese scene on the of "Mother Sir," and for this Far East holiday shot prop men went to Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, coming up with tiny paper umbrellas, lanterns and s to trim
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  • 249 17 HOLLYWOOD has got word from Bob Hope in London that be still suffers headaches ;ls a result of the freak holiday accident in I< eland when a professional strong woman dropped him over her shoulder. Friends at his studio were recalling Bob's .sensitivity to physical
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  • 186 17 kTTRACTIVE blonde I\ newcomer, Dani Crayne 'real name), ponders the distinct personal advantages o f a plum role just handed her n v Hollywood studio in "The Gentle Web.' 1 This is a suspense drama co-starring Esther Williams and George Nader, a«c/ Da«i p/ai/.v
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  • 246 18 THE 7,000-odd crowd at the Happy World arena on Saturday night brought out an extra special cheer. Rikidozan, the heavyweight wrestling champion of Japan had entered the ring the idol of all Singapore wrestling fans. Then came the booes! Entered King Kong,
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  • 63 18 KING K()N(; looks as though he has got the right hold on Rikidozan. Yes. it's shoulder lock and from the looks of Rikidozan, he is not happy about it. but he got out of the trouble somehow and he gives Kong something to groan
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    • 187 18 r\ C>V/14 I I I I yillLlil FOR WORK. Rear seat fold* forward mr to extend the load platform. 47 cubic feet of space for 1 5 cwt. load r niir»"'~~** J i»« > j' Jflr «m^'bh /aM irJl^^^^ -it's two cars for p^^^jf/^ ine price ot one FO r
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  • 174 19 I CREDIT IALAJfd (Im|MR) beats Strong Beam (Franklin) with Coffe eExporter (Geyer) third at the finish of Race One at Bukit Timah on Saturday. IjOi'S TIPPI.K (Mawi) is i two-l.nuth winner from Geifani star (Lartta) and White Heather (Mortimer) at the finish of Race 1.
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  • 642 19 ORCHESTRATION WON TOP EVENT WITH EASE ON SATURDAY THE Bukit Timah Cup (Cl. 2. Div. 1), the main event on Saturday, went to Orchestration who completed a double for the meeting, giving Franklin his second winner for the afternoon. Orchestration followed the pacemaker until after entering the straight. Franklin then
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    • 26 19 .HAIC'S WHISKY OCEAN PARK HOTEL'S FAMOUS QUINTET} Are Band of Singapore S with MISSSALOMA I the Mala/ >> ihn Monroe" Ring 41->:.l for Table << Rt'M t itl.lllS <?
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  • 570 20 rpilE final of the RAF. 1 Singapore inter-Station knock-out competition was play at < hangi on Saturday and resulted in a win for Seletar over Tengah by two goals to nil. As in their 2-1 win out Changi in the seniilinal last Wednesday, Seletar
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  • 121 20 TALAN EUNOS, the holders. were easy winners in the final of the inter-club badminton tourney for the McKerron Cup when they beat Pasir Panjang 7-0 at the Katong Boys' Club on Saturday Results: (Jalan Eunos mentioned first) Singles: M. Salleh Abdullah bt. Leong Pens Chan 11-15,
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  • 86 20 I. (lant Thomson, the Sussex i;i.-f -medium bowler, is being flown to Pakistan on Thursday to reinforce the touring M.C.C. A" team. He is being sent out because Of the concern over the fitness of Mike Cowan, the Yorkshire fast-medium lefthander who recently had back
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  • 19 20 CiHINESE Athletics beat f Indian Recreation Club 3-1 in a soccer friendly at Farrer Park yesterday.
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  • 27 20 Lunch .score in the third di;, of the first Test at Dunedin today: West Indies 353, New id 74 and 197 for mx Reuter
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  • 300 20 WEIGHTS for all eight races on Saturday, first day of the Selangor Turf Club's Gold (up meeting are: CL. 1, DIV. 1 1M South Pacific 9.00 Bearer Bond 8.13 Zabaglione 8.10 Little Pappa 8.04 Nazakat 803 Barakat 8.0? Wver A Blank 8.01 Three Rings 8.01
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  • 23 20 20 Words $f> (minimum). STEPHEN: On February 3rd. 1956, at Singapore Nursing Home to Margaret Mary, wife of Robert Stephen, a daughter.
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  • 33 20 20 Words $6 (minimum). WATSON: On Sunday the sth of February, whilst convalescing at Cameron highlands. Eric Clarence Watson, for many years resident at Singapore Club, Partner of Langdon Every, Laidlaw Singapore.
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  • 195 20 9-3 WIN FOR WALES PUTS THEM IN SIGHT OF TRIPLE CROWN SUCCESS WALES took a clear lead in the five-nation Rugby Union championship by defeating Scotland by nine points (three tries) to three (a penalty goal) before a crowd of 60,000 at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday. The Welshmen, who
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    29 20 photo. MARTI NIQI'E ridden by Tim Brookshaw here, is a 10-year-old who is entered for this >ear s Grand National to be run at Aintree on March 24. Reuter
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  • 98 20 MURRAY ROSE, 17-year-old Australian swim mer, bettered the 1,500 metres freestyle Olympic record of 18 min. 30 sec. set by Ford Konno (United States; at Helsinki, in Sydney yesterday. Rose clocked 18 min. 20.8 sec— l.B sec. outside the world record set by Japan's Hironoshin Fu r
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 50 20 ]|||lIIIIIIIIC3HIIIIIIIIII[]||IIIIIIIIIIUIIIII TODAY'S SPORT iiiiniiimiiiiiiniiiiimiiiicjiiiiiiiiiiiic: RUGGER Seven a side (preliminary rounds) R.A.S.C. "B" v R.E.M. E. "B"; G.H.Q. "B" v Signals "B"; Naval Base v R.A.F. Tengah; R.A.F. SeleUr "B" v S.C.C. "C" all games at padang, Friendly R.A.F. SeleUr "A" v R.N.A.S. Sembawang, Sembawang. BOXING Singapore Base District Individual championships.
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