The Singapore Free Press, 7 February 1956

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Mala>a No. *****. Singapore, Tuesday, February 7, 1956. Price 15Cts
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    Lock icon FEDERATION POLL NEXT YEAR?
    306 1 READY FOR THE HANDOVER ORITISH and Malayan negotiators agreed in London yesterday on a two-stage programme to set up Malaya as an independent state inside the Commonwealth within two years. Officials said Britain, as a first step, has promised to grant the Federation government virtually full
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    MISSING GIRL DEAD IN CAR
    79 1 'PWELVE-year old Nenak 1- binle Hashim was found dead on the buck seat of a car parked in a Lane off Madras Street, Singapore, at 7 a.m. toda) She had head wound /he discovery was made by the owner of the car. -enak It* ft
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    Inquiry into Executive Service
    123 1 Inquiry into Executive Service A STEERING committ< Singapore Government and staff side representaU to be appointed to examine the proposal to rorni an Executive Service. It is intended that suitably qualified clerkj entering the Service should be able to to the top depending on ability and initiative. R,»utin c work
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    RUBBER STEADY
    27 1 The Singapore Rubber Market oj>ened steadily this mornim- with first grade. February shipment, at $108 l a pound. IK cents above yesterdays closing j price.
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    They don blouses for the Queen
    65 1 They don blouses for the Queen IJUNDREDS of ample- 1 hipped African women did an impromptu Marilyn Monroe type wiggle-waggle to welcome the Queen yesterday to Enugu, Nigeria. Usually the women of this hot and humid area of Nigeria wear only lap; half -length skirts with nothing above Yesterday in
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    BABY ABANDONED ON ROADSIDE
    59 1 A week-old Chinese baby was found abandoned by the roadside at the 9\* mile Tampenis Road, Singapore last Thursday, it was di.^ closed today. A woman. Lim Giou Boe. saw the baby, took him home with her and only made a report to the police four
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    OVERALL PLAN FOR SCHOOLS
    171 1 THE Singapore Government intends to integrate all English and vernacular schools into one stream with bi-lingiial and if neceuanr. a tri-ltnguai education Mr. Chew Swee the Minister Utr Education told the Free Press, today. Mr Chew said it was also intended that all aided schools, whether
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    OVERSEAS FIRMS SAFE HERE
    211 1 OVERSEAS FIRMS SAFE HERE Marshall gives pledge CD A O7 A CATEGORICAL assurance that foreign investors and financial interests would not be singled out for victimisation in a self-govern-ing Singapore was given by the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, in an interview to the Free Press. Mr. Marshall said certain
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    Lock icon Judy goes home, calls off divorce
    110 1 JUDY Garland has made it up with her producerhusband, Sid Luft. after a one-day separation that Judy blamed yesterday on his busy career. Judy surprised even her close friends on Friday when she filed suit in Santa Monica Superior Court to divorce the man
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    Police probe rubber racket
    244 1 HUSH HUSH MOVES TO TRAP DUTY DODGERS POLICE and Customs men at Porf Swettenrnm are conducting "hush hush' In--ations into what might prove to be large- vasion on rubber export duty. A ring is bed to be involved. The inquiry has bwn in progress several days
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    Bowl of rice vs. the vote
    179 2 THE REAL ISSUE IN ASIA-BY LLOYD fTIHE British Foreign Sccre--1 tary. Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, declared yesterday that the Wesi had to make an "allout effort" to meet the Soviet challenge in the un-dt-r-developed areas of the world. Addressing a luncheon meeting in Ottawa. Mr.
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    59 2 The History of Singapore exhibition, which was opened at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday by the Governor, Sir Robert Black, will continue until Saturday. The opening was preceded by a historical pageant performed by students. This pageant will be repeated on Thursday and Friday. The Governor is seen (hatting with
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    Lock icon Mollet gives way and Catroux goes
    114 2 Mollet gives way and Catroux goes FRENCH Premier Guy Mullet has accepted the resignation of General Georges Catroux, Minister for Algeria in his week-old government. M. Mollet who arrived in Algiers by air yesterday from Paris to try to end violence in Algeria said he had accepted the Generals resignation
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    Lock icon TWO JUNKS SUNK
    26 2 Chinese Nationalist planes sank two 50-ton Communist armed junks midway between Ouemoy and Matsu yesterday, the Nationalist Air Force announced last night. U.P.
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    Lock icon SLEEP OF DEATH
    28 2 A fire apparently started by a carelessly-left candle swept through a two-storey frame house In Pusan, and burned to death six sleep- ing Koreans.- U.P.
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    MEDICAL ALARM AT POPULATION RISE
    409 2 'TWO big factors have caused Singapore's Director of Medical Services. 1 Dr. R. H. Bland, to wonder whether the supply of staff and provision of buildings can catch up with the fast growing demand for medical facilities of every kind in the Colony. They are
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    Lock icon SIX IN ONE BLOW
    28 2 The Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish Republic yesterday dismissed six j high state officials. No rea- j sons for the dismissals were giveu.- U.P.
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    Lock icon 'SECURITY NEEDS MORETHAN ARMS' SAYS DULLES
    60 2 'SECURITY NEEDS MORETHAN ARMS' SAYS DULLES The U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. John Foster Dulles yesterday in Washington told Congressmen who have been urging increased arms for Israel: "The security of states in the Near East cannot rest upon arms alone but rather upon the International rule of law and
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    Lock icon BURMA NO TO RED DEMAND FOR TALKS
    128 2 BURMA NO TO RED DEMAND FOR TALKS BURMESE Prime Minister U Nu said yesterday in a broadcast to underground Communist rebels that their leaders' demands for a negotiated settlement of the nine-year-old insurrection were out of the question." He called on rebels to lay down their arms and surrender under
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    Lock icon Moscow ruse has failed, says Eden
    120 2 RUSSIAN attempts to spin Britain and the Unit* d States in their efforts t« maintain peace In the world have failed. Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden said >•• terday in Ottawa in a spa to the Canadian Parliament "You will have noted th« attempts
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    Lock icon POLICE BREAK UP HUNGRY MOB
    48 2 Police hurled tear gas bombs to Dreak up a demonstration near the parliament building in Khartoum, by a group of unemployed Sudanese shouting. "We want food and clothing:." Five hundred demonstrators were on their way to present a petition to the premier. U.P.
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    Lock icon RED TRAWLER POACHERS TO PAY $267,500 FINES
    158 2 RED TRAWLER POACHERS TO PAY $267,500 FINES THE 16 Russian skippers whose trawlers are detained in Allesund, Norway, have decided to pay a total of 629,500 kroner $267,537— in fines and confiscation for poaching in Norwegian waters, said a police official last night. As soon as an embassy guarantee is
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    Queen in 'fever country'
    228 3 118,000 NIGERIANS TAKE PILLS AND JABS IN ALL-OUT HEALTH DRIVE rpHE Queen arrived in r African "fever country" yesterday when she landed at Enugu by air amid the most intensive bacteriological warfare campaign ever launched in Nigeria. A torrential tropical downpour the night before made it
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    Lock icon 300 FLING EGGS AT NEGRO GIRL STUDENT
    169 3 And chant 'you gotta go' 4 N angry crowd threw eggs at a Negro woman student at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, yesterday as she came from her first class. The incident marked the third demonstration in protest Against her attendance at the
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    37 3 picture. A woman who lives in the Bed ok resettlement area holds $1,814 which she has just received from a Singapore Social Welfare worker to help her rehabilitate her farm damaged in the recent floods. Free Press
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    Lock icon Passengers take to lifeboats as ship burns
    158 3 HPHE 4,625-ton Danish cargo liner Paraguay radioed yesterday it was ablaze in the North Atlantic off the icebound Scottish coast. Its SOS, received by Wick, Scotland, coastal radio, sent coastal shipping on a rescue alert just as Europe was digging out of the
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    Lock icon Shots in air warn students
    60 3 British troops fired warning shots in the air when student rioters showered stones and bottles at them in the east coast port of Famagusta yesterday. One soldier was injured and a Cypriot youth shot in the leg Several rioting students were reported to have been
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    Lock icon $99M. FOR SIAM DEFENCE, AID
    28 3 The International Co-ope-ration Administration announced in Washington yesterday that Siam would receive $99,900,000 to bolster its defence forces and for technical assistance. Reuter
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    Lock icon THEY FEAR KILLER'S SPIRIT
    89 3 AFRirAN chieftains have asked permission to watch the hanging of axekiller Elifasi Msomi next Friday to make sure he is not whisked from the gallows by an evil spirit. Msomi, convicted of 15 killings over the last two years i s to Ik executed at Pretoria
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    Rubber piling up
    106 3 CEYLON GATHERS IN CHINA QUOTA CHEET RUBBER for Communist China is piling up in Colombo at what Ceylon's Rubber Commission officials term an "extremely satis- factory" rate. They said some 5.000 tons have already accumulated and pointed out that only 6.000 tons were needed by the end
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    Lock icon Cheaper rice from Burma blow to China
    100 3 Burma has agreed to reduce the price of rice, K. Alvapillai, permanent secretary to the Ceylon Ministry of Agriculture and Food, reported yesterday upon his return to Colombo from Rangoon. Alvapillai said Burma has agreed "as a special favour" to supply rice to
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    Lock icon JAP TRADE TALKS
    21 3 A six-man Japanese mission headed by Shunichi Itsumi arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday for trade talks.- A.P.
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    Lock icon A-AID OFFER
    24 3 Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin is reported to have offered to give Pakistan technical help to develop peaceful use of atomic juiergy.- U.P.
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    Lock icon PLAN TO MAKE THREE Rs A MUST
    200 3 PLAN TO MAKE THREE Rs A MUST INDONESIA this year will take her first major step towards the Introduction of compulsory education. "Pilot projects" will be established in selected areas and in the next five years gradually extended throughout the country. By 1961. if all goes well, ••very child aged
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    Lock icon YES TO SUDAN
    16 3 The U.N. Security Council yesterday unanimously approved the Sudan for U.N. membership A.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 1956. Opinion MERDEKA TEST
    192 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 1956. Opinion MERDEKA TEST AN all-party British Parliamentary delegation is shortly to visit this colony to find out if Mr. and Mrs. Singapore have the feeling and capacity for independence. The Singapore Chief Minister is confident of the outcome But it will take
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    Lock icon BOUNTYwith hand in pocket
    1196 4  -  TOM WHITNEY by The peoples of Africa, Asia and the Middle East— areas now in turmoil—are under a new kind of Communist pressure. Throughout these areas, the Reds are pushing an economic offensive calculated to win over millions from the West. Here is how the Kremlin
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    HE HAD HEMP FOR 40,000 CIGARETTES
    276 5 Jailed but keeps £600 WHETHER 47-year-old Jaffar Shah is a high! priest or not he will not be raising money for chanty for some time. He has been jailed for five years for having 301b. of Indian hemp, enough to make 40.000 doped cigarettes.
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    Crash may lead to ban on A-station flying
    102 5 NEW regulations, which may restrict flying over Britain's atomic energy stations. are being considered following a Canberra crash near Cumberland's Winscale and CalderhaU station. Mr. F. Anderson, M.P. for Whitehaven asked the Air Minister it it were reasonable for planes to be
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    Lock icon Herald proclaims Richard III film
    69 5 Herald proclaims Richard III film picture. t STARTING from Leicester Square I for the 130-mile ride from London to Nor- J wich is Mr. Kenneth <■ Quick, in the regalia of *j a Plantaganet herald. He is proclaiming the <- first presentation out- J| side the West End of <-
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    Winter's rain solved the mystery of missing wife
    442 5 Winter's rain solved the mystery of missing wife T^HE Mystery of the A Missing Wife was an open-and-shut case to detectives. They suspected her boss. But suspicion alone was not enough. There was no body. It wa.s three months before the mystery was solved and the police suspicions proved right.
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    AIRLINE ORDER
    18 5 Air France has ordered $300 million worth of new i airliners. Including ten all•jet Boeing Stratoliners.
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    Mystery of pea-soup fog in this block of flats
    137 5 Mystery of pea-soup fog in this block of flats Till, smoke that blows down instead of up is baffling: experts and angering housewives in Birminfhain'f new six-storey block of flats at Hollybank Koad, King's Heath the flats that are filled with pea-soup fog. For the rusher the flats the more
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    SAFETY FIGHTER WAS FOURTH VICTIM
    139 5 MRS. EDITH SIMPSON, a 68 -year-old alderman, campaigned for years against the dangers of Gipsy Corner, Western Avenue, Acton, London. Three people had been killed -there within a few weeks. She strongly supported moves to try to force the Transport Ministry to build a fly
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    $42M. BARTER
    19 5 Greece and Czechoslovakia will exchange $42 million worth of goods this year under a new barter Pact.
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    INDIAN DRIVE TO REGAIN TEXTILE MART
    103 5 INDIAN DRIVE TO REGAIN TEXTILE MART IMIE Government of India has sent an otlicial to pure to improve the market lor Indian textiles. He is Mr. R. H Notaney, an agent of the Govern-ment-sponsored Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council. Mr. Notaney's headquarters will be in Jakarta, but he will visit
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      231 6 I I -ANO If WE SEE A PRETTY BLONDE AIA NiARBYLAK^THE I NAME OVAL, WE'RE TQTEILHER^ PRETTY BLONDk-'VAL Ujf Jv^ V^T^fc FEUA V SAYS Y SEEf^/'FELLA' HUNTS J THE BEE GOT AWAY/>^ (J\ \*jJ**'- 4 WkOW^J^TJI TARZAN by Edgar Riee Burroughs TV* VONSTeOUS BSAE BEUUDWC7 AMP |Mt /tt» I S.?Sil7
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      625 6 BORN today, you are keenly inter- < ested in all the important pro- 1 11 blems of the day. You want a fair- 3 II and-square deal for everyone and will spend much of your life in fightI ing for the rights of those who are 3 considered the underprivileged.
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      201 7 LONDON, Feb. 6. Previous Today RUBBER No. 1 RSS r.i.f. 3 7 buyers 31 i H buyers European Ports February 31i h sellers 31% sellers Kl BIJER No. 1 RSS c.i.f. 30 7 buyers 31 buyers European Ports March 31 > s sellers 3 Pi sellers Kl
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      New York prices
      112 7 NEW YORK, It I"r«\ious Today TIN Mi OH spot Ml marby gJJ 99 25 JIN tatarcf February bid 9 7 00 bid J 98.00 ask- d 98.50 a>.ked Varrh 95 00 bid 95.50 bid 96.25 a^kiv. 967 5 iv .^ed April 94.50 bid 95.00 bid 95.65 asked
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      U.S. PEPPER
      24 7 ,;>ot 31'.. 0131 M.il.iJur Feb. 31. Sarawak sj>ot 31. awaiting renaii W Brfkn ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cCJits per lb
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      26 7 NEW YORK. K.I. I Previous Today 477 4-i 478.57 JO IndiMrUU 15y22 74 •0 Railroads oo 09 I Stocks (om^ite Avrrm«¥ ***** 170.06
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      107 7 OPKA Philippine ci.f. U.K./ North Furopean delivered weight per lonj? ton Feb. Mar. OPKA. Straits ci.f. UK/North r un»pran dWivrred weight per long ton Keb. March Mar April COCONUT OIL crude Straits i f. IK North F.uropean in hulk. |Kpr long ton, Feb. Mar. < OCOM'T
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    PRISON FOR DOING A McSPORRAN
    193 7 1 TWO sailors were eourt-martialled for "doing a McSporran" striking an officer. William Cheley. 20-yrar-old mechanic from Swansea, was sentenced at Devonpnr* to a jrear'i jail and dismissal from the Navy. James McGinlay. 18-year-old tc:lcgraphist from Glasgow, was sentenced at Portsmouth to six months' detention.
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    Wife did not know she was a mother
    176 7 Wife did not know she was a mother ARTIST Mrs. Judy Rudman woke up at her home at Hove. Sussex, with a pain. She thought it was indigestion. But the pain did not go away and her husband sent for the doctor, who told her: "You are going to have
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    22 7 Marshal Chu Teh. Chinese Communist Deputy President, culled on Mr. Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist Party leader In Hfonrnw yesterday. Reuter
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    Welfare officer
    35 7 Mlu Doris Blake has I [appointed State Welfare Officer. Johore, in succession to Mr. Ci. C. Watts who has sailed for Britain lon leave. Miss Blake was formerly State Welfare Officer, I Kedok.
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    Fined? Then I pay no more fares
    259 7 Barrister who parked car at rail station A BARRISTER caught a train to London and left his car parked in the station square at York. It wa.s there 34 hours. And the barrister, Mr. Edward John Parris, was summoned at York for breaking
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    THEY CAN STAND EASY NOW
    122 7 THEY CAN STAND EASY NOW AIRMEN are throw- E E l\ ing away their but- E E ton sticks and bianco brushes most of the E E webbing equipment, E E which they previously E E had to scrub and E polish every day. has E been put back into
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      48 7 SINGAPORE j| :HICH TIDES! TODAY: IJU p.m TOMORROW: 7JI a.nv I and 1014 p.m t THURSDW: |.#2 am and 10.49 pin FRIDAY: 9.25 a.m. and^ t u.iB p.m. X SATI'RDAY: 10.30 am. SUNDAY: 11 06 a.m| and 11.43 pm J. o MONDAY: 12.06 a.m.;^ V and 11.40 a.m.
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      131 8 V w I i H^ H v^^^r .^m JUK ff IC Ih I ■HM I M^VM m. vm m^v 1^ A^^ I f ffli^ra^ I mfci%r II and for every carton you buy between J two beautifully made MACKESON'S I ->^| savour, and as a stout its lack r n»E
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    DOLLED UP-BUT SHE HAD 4-INCH KNIFE
    345 9 TEDDY HOY? HARDLY —JUST A COWBOY ]t|RS. MAUREEN BURGESS, 21 and attractive, ifl was accused at Norwich of "being in possession of an offensive weapon" a pearlhandled knife with a four-inch blade. But she said with a smile: "I am hardly a Teddy Boy.
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    51 9 A long bill probes tlie surface of a pool at the London Zoo— an alarm signal to any fish which happens to be in the neighbourhood. But judging by the E gleam in the eye of E this Australian pelican, E evasive action is al- E ready too late. Reuter
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    'The Bad Braxtons' menace ends
    223 9 'The Bad Braxtons' menace ends (CUSTOMERS hastily swallowed their beer and landlords puled when the whisper went round the bar: "Here come the Braxtons— the Bad Braxtons." As the Braxton family— a father and two sons— arrogantly swept in and jeeringly helped themselves to the stock the licensees were told:
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    BAD BEHAVIOUR—SO NO HUNT
    203 9 BAD BEHAVIOUR— SO NO HUNT MEMBERS of the Whaddon Chase Hunt ignored a watch-our-reputation warning, the Master of the Foxbounds, Mr. Dorian Williams, TV horse show commentator, said. That til why he cancelled th e hunt's meet at Oving Buckinghamshire. Said Mr. Williams; "Unless we have the goodwill of farnier
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    'Spacemen' get a gentle warning
    189 9 'Spacemen' get a gentle warning JET MORGAN and his J fellow Spacemen have got a gentle warning. All very nice, this popping to and from Mars. No doubt respectable stuff, and exciting, too. But when it comes to a clear choice small boys and their sisters feel that the good,
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    Don't put all eggs in one basket
    317 9 Don't put all eggs in one basket Midi TRAVELLED Herb e rt Loader. 40-year-old senior sales engineer, is a man of vast experience who has just added a little more experience to his stock. He travelled 14.000 miles in getting it. Von might sum it up as: Don't put all
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    Ceylon exhibition
    43 9 A photographic exhibition of Ceylon's peoples, cities, customs and folklore, will be officially opened today at 5.30 p.m. by Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall at the Ceylon Sports Club. It will be open to the public from tomorrow until Sunday.
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    Lock icon 2M. UNEMPLOYED
    9 9 West Germany has about 2,000,000 unemployed- A.P.
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    Day's work was nearly over when...
    73 9 Day's work was nearly over when... pOR laundry van-driver Joseph Doyle and his 15-year-old vanboy. John Robert Convery, the day's work was nearly over. Mr. Doyle waited at the wheel in Monkville Avenue, Temple Fortune, as John, of Hall Street. North Finchley, London, handed change to a woman customer and
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    Lock icon Vietnam recognised
    17 9 The Iraqi Government has decided to recognise th o now repubhc of Vietnam. A. P.
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    Faster it goes, the cheaper it is
    576 12 NEW HELICOPTER SHOWS OFF ITS SAFETY PACES TUIE world's largest jet-powered transport helicopter the 40-passenger Piasevki YH-16A Turbo Transporter was recently given its first public demonstration flight at the International Airport, at Philadelphia. At that time It was announced that the huge rotor
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    'MADAM TEACHER' WORKS WITH TIRED DAM-BUILDERS
    600 12  -  JOAN PERCY They want to learn English TjHE five o'clock hooter signals the end of the A day-shift building the giant new dam on the Kizilirmak river in central Anatolia. For a small, tough group of Turkish dam-builders, however, the five o'clock hooter only
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    250 SAIL WITH A-BOMB SECRET
    312 12 250 SAIL WITH A-BOMB SECRET rVO hundred and fifty sailors, all pledged to secrecy, are now at sea on the way to take part in the most vital mission since the war. Their ship, Narvik, will lead a Navy squadron for Britain's second atomic bomb test. Highlight of the tests.
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    Lock icon BURMA VISIT
    27 12 The United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjold arrived in Rangoon yesterday by air from New Delhi for a threeday official visit to Burma. U.P.
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    14 12 A six-man Japanese trade mission Is due in Bagdad fcOUU. A.P.
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    Art Society's last photographic exhibition
    956 13 Art Society's last photographic exhibition SUNNY CIAM reports on matters of interest to cornermen fTHE Singapore Art Society's 7th Open photographic Exhibition was opened by the Society's President, Mr. Ho Kok Hoe. The Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, who \\as to have performed the ceremony, was unable to attend due
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    No one wants the war toys
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    1610 16  -  JEANNE HEAL by (Did afaifyfyMt? took the cutting it u/is the rcpjrt of the judge's summing-up at the, trial. THE daughters and wife of architects. Jeanne Heal studied architecture in France and Germany before invading; London journalism via police-court reporting in the provinces. Since 19*1
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    BRIDGE HAND
    391 17 N.trtl. >oull» vulnerable Ea-,1 <l< alcr TP YOU were at the National Championships in Chicago recently, you may have heard the t-\pert,s complaining about the 4-3-2-1 point count. Not that it didn't work although it doesn t aUays. Wliat they were complaining about, a* summarised by Lee Hazen
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      244 17 DAILY CROSSWORD < CLI ES ACROSS 3 me in a plane (37 1 Many Imitate a Rarment (4). a dha (4) Se s^ r C 4 h eS 6Barma^l? (4). 7 Shakespearean hara. lev and 7 Never pu^ and UK.easeC musical instrument (s>. *>y a direction (b>. 9 "Mr PlccadiUy'
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    1806 18  - FAME...RUIN Then God called me to preach HENRY ARMSTRONG By WORLD FEATHER WEIGHT CHAMPION, 1937. WORLD LICHT-WEIGHT AND WELTER-WEICHT CHAMPION 1938. RETIRED 1945. It's an astounding story of a life that plumbed the depths and reached the heights. Henry Armstrong found salvation when he was in the gutter— in God.
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    450 18  -  Ernie Jarvis -By MAKE way for the battle of 1956 a contest between champion promoter Jack Solomons and challenger Harry Levene. And the title at stake? Undisputed king- pin of British boxing. Solomons has already drawn first blood by fixing two world title fights before
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    491 19  - RAF Changi sports round-up RALPH BLAKEMAN by TPHE big event of the week was Saturday's open crosscountry race of about five miles at Mcßitchie Reservoir, staged by the Achilles Club. The course lay over undulating country, with a short stretch of road. Weather conditions were ideal but recent rains had
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    INNINGS DEFEAT FOR NEW ZEALAND IN TEST: BECK HITS 66
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    STATION WILL MISS SOCCER STAR NICK CARTER
    789 19 D. Burgess beat Wg Cdr. J. B. Ross, 2 and I. The final will be played off shortly. Next Sunday's competition is one of the niaiw events of the year, when the Cup presented by No. 11 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, will
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    106 19 West Indies—lst. Inns: 353 (E. Weekes 123). New Zealand —Ist. Inns: 74 (Ramadhin 6 23». New Zealand—2nd. Inns(overnight 158-6). Sutcliffe c Binns b Valentine 48 Leggatt lb\v b Ramadhin 17 Guy ft Binns b Smith 0 MrGregor b Smith 11 Reid run out 23 Blair c Sobers U Smith
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    INTER-STATE YOUTH SOCCER
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    89 19 A USTRALIA beat the UnitJ\> ed States by s—l5 1 in a two-day international tennis tournament which ended in Sydney yesterday. The lone American victory was a surprise victory yesterday by Herb Flam lover Ken Rosewall 6—3. 11—9. LpwLs Hoad beat Gil Shea 6_l, 6 o
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    67 19 KID GAVILAN IS FAVOURITE v. WATERMAN I£ID Gavilan Ls a strong betting favourite to defeat Britain's Peter Waterman in their 10--rounder at Harringay Stadium tonight. The 30-year-old former world welterweight champion is 4-7 in the betting. Those betting odds are in direct contrast to what many British sports writers think.
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