The Singapore Free Press, 10 February 1956

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Friday. February ie, 1956. Price 15Cts.
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    Lock icon TENGKU SAYS: WE HAD LITTLE TIFF OVER LOAN ISSUE
    330 1 TENGKU SAYS: WE HAD LITTLE TIFF OVER LOAN ISSUE rpENGKr ABDUL RAHMAN'S mission m London had "a little bit of a tiff" with the British CJovernment on the question of a loan to Malaya. The Federation Chief Minister disclosed this m a BBC broadcast last night. However, ho added, they
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    LEE'S TV MOVE REJECTED
    194 1 rrilE P.A.P. leader. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, Bttfgestfcd m the Singapore Legislative f-mbly today thai I commission be appointed to ret.immcnd the best means i <n placing broadcasting and vision under one authority. He moved an amendment to the one proposed by Mr. A. J. Braua.
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    CRACKERS
    72 1 The time limits Police this morning announced the time limits allowed for firing crackers In Singapore during Chinese New Year. They are: 7 p.m. on Feb. 11 to 7 a.m. on Feb. 12. 11 p.m. on Feb. 19 to 3 B.m. on Feb. 20. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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    Postal plans for New Year
    136 1 TIIKRE will be no postal delivery m Singapore on Sunday, Chinese New Year's Day. All post offices will be closed on Monday and Tuesday. There will be a complete delivery on Monday, but none on Tuesday During the two holidays, the General Post Office will
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    MISSING CID MAN A STOWAWAY
    131 1 MISSING CID MAN A STOWAWAY Ship radios police SINGAPORE police have received a message from the captain of the ship Cambodge, now on its way to Colombo, which says there is a stowaway on board whose name is Jones. A police spokesman told the Free Press today "It is believed
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    Lock icon Probe into 'blackmail by C.O.s'
    79 1 MR. Antony Head, British Secretary for War, has ordered a detailed investigation into allegations that National Servicemen In the Scottish regiments had been told that the alternative to being posted to Cyprus was to enlist as regular soldiers for three years. National Servicemen must do
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    Lock icon Probe into discipline in Navy
    70 1 DISCIPLINE m the Royal Navy to to bnreviewed shortly to bring it up to date with the Army and the R.A.F. Mr. R. A. Butler, Lord Privy Seal, has told the House of Commons that arrangements are now being made to set up a select
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    Lock icon RECORD IMPORTS
    21 1 United States imports last year hit a new record of US-;i 1.308.000,000 per rent more than m 1954.- U.P.
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    8 held in big dawn swoop by 300
    194 1 8 held in big dawn swoop by 300 A BOUT 300 police this morning combed a wide attap area off Henderson Road, Singapore, m search for arms and people suspected of having hidden them. Police lator disclosed that eisht people were detained m the operation. Six are believed to be
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    More troops for Malaya?
    47 1 Tho First Battalion, the Rifle Brigade 1 ancf the Fir>t Battalion, the Glow shire Regiment, arc to leave Kenya, it was reported m Nairobi yesterday. Malaya has been suggested as a likely destination for the Rifle Brigade. The Gloucesters may go to Aden.
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    RUBBER DULL
    27 1 The Singapore Rubbej Market opened this morning at $1.07 "a a pound, half a cent below yesterday's closing price. TJtie tone wa^ dull and listless.
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    Lock icon BALLOONS ROUND 2: U.S. HITS AT REDS
    169 2 AMERICAN officials m Washington yesterday accused Russia of launching camera-equipped weather balloons similar to the U.s type which prompted a Soviet protest. They said one of the R< d balloons landed on Hokkaido, Japan. Their charg< amounted to an unofficial U.S. reply to
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    Lock icon 'No' to rice offer
    23 2 Ceylon has declined a Hungarian offer to barter 70,000 tons of rice, obtained from Wnrma fnr r?ovlru-i goods. A.P.
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    Lock icon NO ACCORD STILL ON CHIANG ISLES-EDEN
    315 2 NO ACCORD STILL ON CHIANG ISLES-EDEN SIR ANTHONY EDEN, the British Prime Minister, yesterday reported to the cabinet on his talks in Washington and Ottawa covering trouble spots in the Middle and Far East and the German problem. The cabinet, called a few hours after the Prime Minister and his
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    Lock icon HK PILOT IN 6-JET CRASH
    50 2 The pilot killed m Wednesday's multiple air crash m Norfolk was Squadron Leader R. J. Tumilty, based m Hong Kong, who was on a training course at West Raynham, Norfolk. Six Hawker Hunter jet fighters were involved m the crash. An innuirv opened yesterday Reuter
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    Lock icon TORY SUCCESS
    24 2 Sir Keith Joseph, Conservative, held the seat at Leeds, Yorks, for the government with a majority m yesterdav'c by-election of '5,869.- Reuter
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    Lock icon THAT'S NO BABY, THAT'S A DOLL
    45 2 A CHIC AGO television viewer watching a telecast demonstration on bathing an infant angrilyprotested to the station that a live baby should not have been used. The viewer was told that the demonstrators had used a lifelike doll.- U.P.
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    Lock icon SALK VACCINE IS 'ENTIRELY SAFE'
    43 2 Mr. Paul Martin, Canada's Health Minister, announced m Ottawa yesterday that the Salk anti-polio vaccine had been found to be entirely safe and 85 per cent effective m preventing paralytic polio, on the basis of 1955 inoculations.- Reuter
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    71 2 picture. .T»l. IV. J>. uiituuiv, I president of the Institute of Architects of Malaya, speaking at the institute's annual dinner in Raffles Hotel, i Singapore, last night. From left are the Singapore Minister for L oca I Government, Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, Mrs. Brundle, the
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    Lock icon Their merdeka talks saved
    190 2 SIX-HOUR I MEETINGS TO END DEADLOCK A THREE-HOUR meeting of delegates last night broke a deadlock which had threatened to paralyse the talks designed to weld Britain's Caribbean colonies into a nation. The conference, which opened m London amid nigh optimism last Tuesday, has since met
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    Lock icon Cyprus snow kills troops
    45 2 Two members of Britain.* security forces m Cyprus hav e died of exposure m the Troodos Mountains. The two mon left their vehicle stranded m deep snow and tried to walk back to camp but were overwhelmed by the cold.- A.P.
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    Lock icon Review on Red China trade soon
    123 2 JAPAN and the United States have launched an exchange of views on the question 01 increasing i trade with communist China a* a prelude to a fullscale multi-nation review of the i whole question In Paris m the near future. United States officials m
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    ALLOWANCE, NOT EXEMPTION
    58 2 rpHE Singapore Comp- troller of Income Tax. Mr. D. H. Tudor, explained today that industrial undertakings which put up new factories and bought pluiH had claimed the usual initial and annual allowances. This cannot be regarded as tax exemptions. In yesterday's Free Pres.s it was wrongly stated
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    Lock icon REDS 'COULD ATTACK MATSU ANY TIME'
    177 2 1 1 n1 w fct; xNaiionansi v> troops on the Matsu offshore island group axe prepared to repel any Communist Chinese invasion attempt, Major-Gene-ral Hua, Matsu garrison commander, said yesterday. He made this statement at a news conference on Matsu Island. It was attended
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      124 2 SPECIAL CHINESE NEW YEAR WEEK-ENDER FOR YOU THIS WEEK! j m Special features on the customs connected with this festival. X&jP-W Cemini writes about the New Year custom of "yamseng" (bottoms up) and can you keep your \jjr dignity when you yamseng? JF> 1c Read the intriguing details of the
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    Lock icon BRITAIN TO JOIN SEATO EXERCISE
    229 3 I>KITAIN will take part m the SEATo operation "Firm Link" near Bangkok next week although the invitation extended by Siam wa s received only last Saturday, the British Embassy announced m Bangkok yesterday. The British cruiser HMS Newfoundland and four destroyers from Honjj Kong are
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    Lock icon Strikers jailed, union fined
    57 3 Seven strikers were sentenced to jail. 40 others were fined and their union was fined $1,500 and court costs yesterday at Columbus, Ohio. The charges arose from 1 mass demonstration on January 3 at the gates of the Westlnghouse Electric Corporation at Columbus. Ohio, where strike
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    Lock icon CAVE-IN KILLS 4
    19 3 Four miners died yesterday m a cave-in at the Jharia coalfields. 100 miles from Calcutta.- U.P.
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    Lock icon BLOOD GIFT
    24 3 More than 2.000 bottles of blood plasma from Dutch donors were shipped to India from Rotterdam yesterday -a gift from Holland.- U.P.
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    Lock icon Women rule city – with underwear
    131 3 Women rule city with underwear ITEMS of women's underwear went on the poles of many Cologne houses yesterday to show thai it wa a the "Women's I ival" the day when women rule. About 20.000 women. many masked, gathered on a Colonse .square to Prince Carnival, his prinand the "Cologne
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    Lock icon Marilyn-by Sir Laurence
    195 3 Marilyn- by Sir Laurence SHE SUGGESTS NAUGHTIEST LITTLE THING THEN... MARILYN Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier announced m New York, yesterday they would costar m the film version of TVrrence ftattigan's London stage hit "The Sleeping Prime" The British star and the glamorous Marilyn made a dramatic entrance into the
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    Lock icon Lord Nelson seeks lump sum for 'theft' of pension
    243 3 Lord Nelson seeks lump sum for 'theft' of pension A DEMAND THAT ex-Malayan Earl Nelson, a A descendant of Britain's sea hero, should be compensated for the ending of his £5,000 sterling perpetual family pension was made m the House of Commons yesterday. Lord Nelson was once a rubber planter
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    Lock icon CURIOUS YOUTH HAD TO DIE TO FIND OUT
    63 3 CURIOUS YOUTH HAD TO DIE TO FIND OUT A 19-YEAR-OLD Shawnee, Oklahoma, youth was curious about reincarnation so he killed himself to rind out about it. The youth, Richard Dean, Swine, borrowed a .22 rifle and got into a truck to kill himself. He left a note under the windscreen
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    THE QUEEN'S PLANE DODGES A STORM
    121 3 QUEEN ELIZABETH and the Duke of Edinburgh Bew round the edgo of a tropical storm aftrr having Benin City last night to continue their Nigerian tour. Lightning forked down from piled up stormelouds and thunder rumbled overhead as the silver Heron aircraft of the
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    Lock icon REDS VISIT BASILICA
    52 3 "It's marvellous 9 THE first Soviet tourists m 40 years visited St. Peter's Basilica yesterday. The Russians gathered first before Michaelangelo's "Pieta," a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the body of the dead Christ. "Marvellous, simply marvellous," they murmured. They spent nearly an hour m the
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Feb. 10. 1956. Opinion BUS FARE RACKET
    200 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Feb. 10. 1956. Opinion BUS FARE RACKET TTWO Peoples Action Party-linked unions have dealt a further blow at the cause of trades unionism m Singapore. They are the Bus Workers' Union and the Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union. Conductors are accused by the Transport Commission
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    RURAL AREAS GET NEW DEAL
    1355 4 RURAL AREAS GET NEW DEAL Four district councils will be training ground for future government m IA/V/fdf C P. M. RAMAN summaries the report of the Committee on Local Government which is now being considered by the Singapore Government T*HE average kampong leader will find plenty of scope to serve
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      27 4 Exquisite i DIAMOND A. GEM SET Jewellery m ll.< I lsl.io.lS of I he Moment." I A,PHHENDRY, > < Manufacturing Jeweller 78 North Bridge Rd., S'pore-6, and K. Lumpur.
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      89 4 your beauty must be perfect #j^\ i Bk w^^^^M SET AN EXAMPLE OF 0000 GROOMING, WITH NEVER A "MADE-UP" LOOK I The exquinitc mairhing M H i..r Holl) wood Powdei it- tilk) ->!t lexiui ii- i« i r y lightnew offei vii ""'> n w complexion -u-aiinn. It puff- on
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    SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    1288 5  -  Adelaide Eastley BY.. DRIXC'K JOHN LOEr WENSTEIN is en route from leave m England and will be back at his desk at the Raffles Museum m three weeks. This curator of anthropology has something up his sleeve m the nature of grand artistic expansion at the museum but
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      11 5 1 T» HAIC 5 II 'X, f# l I SCOTCH WHISKY
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      146 5 Welcome to Chinese New Year WE WISH OUR PATRONS FRIENDS A HAPPY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR "'-"a m. *.T MM k-T "LADIES A MEN'S" WEAR SAMS AHi: HH.il AM* USHVC Our Research Department has Combined skill and Craftsmanship of Generations, together with the Styling; and Fashions. Designs of many Fascinating Garments.
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      181 6 -^^UUU^AWJVW^MA^ ]»I A.\ DRAKE by Lee talk and Pbil Davis I i-^^^U I )"Kt>^\ tc t thh h E out VWsA) A£y£^ TARZAX by Edgar Rice Burroughs TBE SAINT 7 by Leslie Iliarlrri* JANE Bubbard rwMAT TWE BLAZES V' CX?n6 it, \nol*W'\ TuOU&fT MAYBE >OU'DA w/4Ajg^ &LOOO #L//VG COLO... j/sugE.-ME-^IE
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      692 6 4 y it X ¥>ORN today, you have excellent ]> X |S judgment and a kindly and sym- Jj pathetic nature. Fond of the home J t circle and with close ties of kin. it is I not likely that you #U1 be happy try- f ing to live alone.
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. dosing prices
      180 7 Previous Today RIBBER No. 1 RSS c.i.f. 3,, buvpi< 31'. buyers K u /o°r an Poris Februal 7 31' sellers M% sellers IIIBBLR No. 1 RSS c.i.f. 3 bl 31 buyers mKnvn n K r tS u? AUh 31 filers 3P.se:. KIRBLR No. 1 Kss >pot n
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      New York prices
      82 7 MI U FORK, refc. 9. March ked 98 -0° asked j:» bid bid April 98.00 asked 97.30 a.sked 95.75 bid 95. .X) bid rONI Btoty. !*T ..sked 9G 70 asked RUBBER futures March SALKS: Nil. 38.55 to bid Maj 38.50 traded 38.55 a.sked 36.50 traded 36.50 traded
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      33 7 NEW YORK. Feb. 9. Previous Today 30 Industrials 471.M 467.22 |!0 Railro.uk '1 T 54.81 tn Domestic Bonds 99 99.09 I itilitics 65.2tj (34.92 Ml Stocks Cotnxw)site AvorajjV 107.71 lHti.32
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      103 7 (OI'RA !*hilippin«"s c.i.f. I.K. North Ir>pcin iellvwed weight p<*r lon^ ton K»'b. Mar. nI'KA, StraiLs c.i.f. IK North I nro|H';in dVliverwl wpit;lit per ion- ion l '•••>• Marti Mar. April <>( ONUT OIL <rii«Ji- Str;iits f h North European m hulk. Mr long ton. Feb. M.ir.
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      U.S. PEPPER
      34 7 bar i tnpoo .^pot 32. ■3m to 31. first half Feb. 31. Barawmk spot 31 awaltli md afloati SOH, dnt half 30. SWlers cx-dcx-k. Above prices quoted m U.S cents per lb.
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    Lock icon In training for the Pancake Derby
    91 7 They're off i" a practice run anyway. These hardly hou>e- uives of Otaey m Buckinghamshire, get m training fur the j annual Shrovetide pan- take race against j transatlantic competi- j tors from Liberal, 1 Kansas. The race, m which housewives cover I 11.")-
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    Anger over 'township tie moled to village'
    184 7 Anger over 'township tie moled to village' SINGAPORE Katong residents are planning a protest meeting against the recommendation of the Committee on Local Government that their flourishing .suburb should come under a district j council. They consider this is equivalent to calling Katong a rural area, which it U not.
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    DUCE'S SON GETS BIG WELCOME
    65 7 ROMANO MUSSOLINI, son oi Dictator Benito. a big hand at San Reno .0 on the Italian Riviera as a pianist. He was given a hysterical welcome by the crowd who queued ior his autograph. Romano, who is 28, p five piocr swing band a val.
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    Lock icon $600M. LOAN
    19 7 The International Bank ha i l°nd Egypt $600,000,000 for cou;ction of the Asman idio reported .1 Reuter
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    A PRIVATE EYE LOSES HiS WAY TO FAME
    238 7 THE ambition of 1 handsome Francis Corre Exton Nicolle was to win fame as a private detective. He studied books and opened his own agency. But the first big crime which came his way found him well on the wrong side of
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    Now don't be an ash...
    79 7 RULES for smoking m bed -displayed m all room the Hotel William Pitt m Ontario's Chatham l. Tell the management wh wish your remains •it; 2 Let guests m the next room know you intend endangering their lives. Then the hotel alarmed by the number
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    PAY RISE FOR THE CHORUS
    105 7 PAY RISE FOR THE CHORUS CHORUS girls In London* West End theatres are to get more money. The new minimum goes up from i"7 to €9 10s. a week- and up from to to I'll for twice-nightly she Mr Gordon San general secretary of Equity. the actors 1 trade union,
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      57 7 SINGAPORE j •HIGH TIDES? ]J TOIMY 11 l« P.». J >MORRO\V: 10.31 ft.m.3 and 11.43 p.m. SI M> AY: 11 J MONDAI 1I Wl a.m.^ nui 11.48 -m. X X 11 ESDAI 1I -S i -m and 12.13 pm. WEDNI SDAI 12.52 I J a.m. and II M p.m. rHURSDAI
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    Death of a Rat
    1336 8  - Death of a Rat LESLIE THOMAS by THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES Three shots m the South African sunshine ended the life of James Carey, the once respected Dublin councillor who planned the Phoenix Park murders— and sent his own brother to the gallows for the crime WITH the sun climbing
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    VIENNA BECOMES 'CITY OF SPIES'
    268 8 COMPELLED to play the unenviable role of a Cinderella among the capitals of Europe for the last ten years, occupied by the armies of the four powers, shunned by tourists, Vienna is now determined to exploit her new status to the full as the most
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    SOLDIER REFUSED TO WEAR UNIFORM
    347 9 A MAN who became a conscientious objector after doing his (National Service said that these things happened to him at Colchester military corrective establishment:— When I refused to wear uniform they took my civilian clothes away and left me m the cold m underpants and
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    ROAD-SIGN TO SAY 'YIELD'
    37 9 A new road traffic sign i s be m? introduced to Britain -a "Yield right of way" sign, simil.tr to mO m America. The fir.st ten Me be me In at Slough, Buckinghamshire.
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    £30.000 smoker
    33 9 The fire that caused about £30,000 damage at the Ad- miralty m December was probably caused by a match or cigarette end, it was stat- i ed In a Commons answer.
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    Piccadilly lights
    11 9 Fluorescent lighting was amended for Piccadilly at Westminster Council.
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    135 9 The deep freeze E which has been grip- E ping England froze E E Pipes, burst boilers, E and cut off gas and E electricity. Almost; E every district m the E E country had some *E E story to tell of the E E effects of the
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    NEST EGG GANG FAILED THREE TIMES
    206 9 NEST EGG GANG FAILED THREE TIMES 'THE nest eg£ of 72A year-old John Perm when be retired three m ago from his little shop at Lowestoft, Suffolk, was £1,000 all m notes. He took no chances. He kept it under hi s bed, and slept on it. But a gang
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    It's raincoats for airmen
    48 9 Britain's airmen th< R.A.F.'s "other ranks —car. now wear raincoats. Bir only if they buy them. Th» coats, approved by thi Queen, are m blue, loose-fit-ting gabardine. Tht cut In the style Of the rain I worn by R.A.F. officers but without the belt.
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    'TEDDY KING' JAILED FOR FIVE YEARS
    378 9 Wounded PQ hit two girls ANTHONY CHARLES REUTER weighed 14st He was big and powerful. He was also a coward. He hit women. He had called himself the "King of the Teddy Boys" m a series of Sunday newspaper articles m which he had
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    Elliot chosen
    24 9 Mr. Walter Elliot, conservative M.P. for Kelvingrove, is to be Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
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    Lock icon REGAL SPLENDOUR
    364 11 A CONTRAST 2 On the way to the Nigerian Federal House of Representatives, Lagos, for the: visit by the Queen, is the Nigerian Minister for Labour. Chief Festus Okotie-Eboe. with his wife, Victoria. The Chiefs 20-foot train is carried by a bearer who wears the end folded round
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    TOWN NAMED AFTER MAN WHOSE SHIRT-TAIL CAUGHT FIRE
    609 12  - TOWN NAMED AFTER MAN WHOSE SHIRT-TAIL CAUGHT FIRE RALPH FRIEDMAN Hwhere LAST CHANCE led to LOVERS LEAP IF Hollywood ever runs out of names for the raw-boned towns m its B-grade westerns, it can turn for inspiration to the monickers of the roaring "forty-niner" gold camps of California's northern diggins,
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    A NEW STAR FOUND
    280 12  - A NEW STAR FOUND THOMAS R. HENRY By niSCOVERY of a super- giant star, more than 1.000.000 times the size of the sun. which has another giant star inside its shell, is reported by Carnegie Institution of Washington Astronomers The celestial colossus, studied by Dr A. J. Deutsch of the
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    Lock icon MOSQUITOES v. SCIENCE
    323 12 MOSQUITOES v. SCIENCE Ami the insects are winning ltf OSQUITOES from Afl yellow fever to malarial vectors are getting tough. They're fusing to die. Think that insecticide you spray your house with bumps off all the nocturnal buzzbombers? Scientists declare they are losing the fight— to the bugs. "Insects are
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    Lock icon But medicine beating leprosy
    374 12 OINGAPORE'S Ministry of Health has an eye on every person suffering from leprosy m the Colony, with the exception of "one or two cases." declared Dr. R. H. Bland, Permenent Secretary to the Ministry and Director of Medical Services. When asked whether the Ministry of Health
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    The Bridegroom went to gaol
    755 13 The Bridegroom went to gaol Straw berry J*' 1 Oslicrt Uyndham Hewett. Murray. 18s. 279 pages. THE loading Liberal hostess, the most IS political but- of mid-Victorian and, was the fair, tall, graceful daugh- of a famous Jewish or, and the granddaughter of a Manrhester dancing master. She began M
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    65 13 At a showing: of millinery designed by Lady Newhorou^h m London, it became apparent that to he m the fashion this spring m Europe one must wear hats adapted from styles worn 400 years ano. Here is a typical example of a 16th century headgear, when ladies actually made their
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    39 15 Jin tin r. H IN ni' A U KI V'm I of u Mon V° W lh hls '""'•»<• *<-. American actress Grace Kellv, photoKraph.J «t Mlvs Kellv s home m Philadelphia shortly after their en*a*eme*it had ILn announced. Camera Press
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    110 18 Ice star to be honoured AUSTRIA'S triple Gold Medal winner at the recent Winter Olympics, is to receive the great medal of honour of the Austrian republic, from Dr. Theodor Koerner, Austria's president, next Monday. Austria's Olympic team is to have a round of receptions during the coming week-end when
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    TABLE TENNIS MEN START DRIVE TO RAISE FUNDS
    167 18 'T-'HE Singapore Table Tennis Association, at a mettinx held at the Singapore V.M.C.A. dub hou.se yesterday, outlined the plans to raise their t sum of $9,000 to send a team of six players to take part m the 23rd. World championships m
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    Tanah Bijeh to win top mile event tomorrow
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    58 20 ALL schools and colleges m Dacca were closed yesterday m celebration of Pakistan's victory over the M.C.C. "A team m the Cricket Test on Wednesday. Later m the evening public organisations arranged firework displays at Dacca Stadium where the celebrations were attended by the Governor
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    48 20 jyfRS LEE CHIN GHEE, wife of a former president of the A.C.S. Old Boys' Association, will open the new ACS. sports pavi- lion at Barker Road, Singapore, at 4.30 p.m. on Feb. 26. A Past versus Present soccer match will be held after the opening.
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    33 20 lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH HOCKEY S.H.A. Senior Knockout: (Quarter-final): S.C.C. v I'niversity, padang. SOCCER INTER-Srhool: Victoria v St. Josephs S.J.I. ground. Friendly: A.C.S. v United Rovers, A.C.S. Indian Brotherhood v RN. Kranji, Farrer Park.
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