The Singapore Free Press, 27 February 1956
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Title Section18 1956-02-27 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore. Monday. February *7, 1956. Price ts18 words
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289 1956-02-27 1 IjVDUR days ago Reading Writer Bernard Smith r of H.M.S. Newfoundland was playing football m Singapore when he was told to get ready for an air dash to North Wales where his mother was seriously ill. Last Difht he wasReuter - 289 words
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Article68 1956-02-27 1 (JV3RTY ONE pa.ssenuei\s were killed m a train crash at Bornitz, East Germany, on Saturday m Germany's worst railway disa.s ter since the war. More than 100 wore injured. The accident took place when a goods train overshot a signal during heavy fog and ploughedReuter - 68 words
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Article, Illustration86 1956-02-27 1 SNAPPED BEFORE TRAGEDY This picture of Mr. Robert Stevens (left) was taken by Free Press r ■■Minima Oswald Henry shortly before Mr. Stevens fell 100 ft. to his death during a farewell party to U.S. vice-consul, Mr. William Keoch. and his wife m the C'athav on Saturday night. Mr. Stevens,86 words
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Article49 1956-02-27 1 THE Singapore City Council la to new $30,000,000 loan to repay part ol the L 926 loan which is due to mature In April this year. tckholders will be given the option rt. The ial Will come up lon at a PC the council on Wednesday.49 words
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Article30 1956-02-27 1 A forged $10 noto bear•be number E/57-*****2 Is believed to bo m circulam Singapore. Anyone coming acn> m touch with l!() y at the Orchard i polic<30 words
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Article16 1956-02-27 1 Throe men at Uman Alipit night m Tra Sulalman wa.> ■tabbed iv the MClb16 words
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Article160 1956-02-27 1 AN Indian army patrol rcned pos>Hssion ol Ciiad Bet island, m the Rann ol Kutch. from armed Pakistani intruders, the Press Tru>t of India reported io r Ahmedabad yesterday. The report laid armed Pakistanis, who last week entrenched themselves on the inland tour miles inside the IndianReuter - 160 words
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Article28 1956-02-27 1 A delegation oi residents former Dutch camp m Tanjong Katong Road. Singapore, who have I otice to quit, will call on the acting chief iter tod28 words
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Article27 1956-02-27 1 Tho Singapore RuDber Market opened this morn•n an uncertain tone with fir.st grade. March shipment, at 95* cent pound unchanged from last Saturday*! doting price27 words
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Article321 1956-02-27 1 More arrive every year T*HE majority of the people entering Singapore since the immigration laws were tightened m 19.")'] are wives and' children from Red China. According to the Master Plan study groups' report published today, they arc coining m at the rate of321 words
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86 1956-02-27 1 THE Singapore Government has temporarily abandoned its plan to invite an UNESCO commission to Inquire into the problem of adult education. An Education Ministry spokesman said the Federation Government had said it could not at this stage .support the invitation as it86 words
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Article100 1956-02-27 1 Plan to Clear squatters A DEPARTMENTAL committee of the Ministry of Local Government, Lands and Housing, has drawn up a comprehensive report on the .squatter problem in Singapore. Mr. J. E Pepper, perminent secretary, said the report was now being considered by Government. The report suggests ways o! clou ring100 words
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Advertisement136 1956-02-27 1 i COSMETICS MOON DROPS A new out-of-this-world formula helps bring youth-giving moisture to ogeing or drying skin. Moondrops is NON-greosy. Moondrops gives you lubrication as well as precious moisture. NEW IMPROVED For mois«, luscious, younger looking LANOLITE LIPSTICK lips! You never thought a lipstick could look so luscious, feel so136 words
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Article300 1956-02-27 2 KHRUSHCHEV WILL BE THE FIRST AMONG EQUALS' THE Soviet Communist Party's 133-member central committee, announced m Moscow on Saturday, will meet m the next few days to select the Presidium with virtually complete power to rule Russia. They are pledged after the 20th party congress, whichReuter - 300 words
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Article149 1956-02-27 2 RUSSIANS will work fewer hours a week I under an addition to I i the sixth five-year plan adopted by the Soviet E Communist Party Coni gress and broadcast by Moscow Radio vester- day. Mr. Nikita Khrush- chev. Communist Party Secretary, told the con- gressReuter - 149 words
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Article29 1956-02-27 2 The conqueror of Everest, Tensing Norkay has personally selected twelve first class Sherpas for this spring's Japanese assault on the 26,458-foot tmrlimbed Manaslu Peak.- ReuterReuter - 29 words
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112 1956-02-27 2 FRENCH police opened fire on an inflamed mob of Algerian Muslims yesterday and beat back an attack on police barracks m Oran. Officials reported one rioter was kiled and several wounded m the clash. Simultaneously, police charged angry European mobs m Constantine, 30C miles eastU.P. - 112 words
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Article103 1956-02-27 2 Adenauer to go it alone now CHANCELLOR Adenauer \j emerged from his biggest government crisis yesterday m Bonn with a sharply reduced majority. An open break with the rightist F: Democrats and their explusion from the government ended seven years of political alliance and virtually destroyed the coalition which hasU.P. - 103 words
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Article24 1956-02-27 2 Syrian President Shukri Kuwatli has accepted King Hussrin's suggestion that heads ol states should m Amman. B Jordan official ipokesman said yesterday.24 words
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Article50 1956-02-27 2 A fleet of 19 Russian ing boats was reported yesterday to be op< rating on the west .Mdc of the Shetland Islands. In previous winters they have fished mainly to the north and east of the islands. The ships ranee from eight to ten tons.- U.P.U.P. - 50 words
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Article17 1956-02-27 2 Eight Russian dt-l< arrived m Tokyo by air tolo attmd the Asian ioiial rorifen-nn A.P.A.P. - 17 words
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Article, Illustration59 1956-02-27 2 picture. OUTSIDE it was blazing hot but it was so cool as Alice Sing (5), Hazel Lee (7) and Susan Lee t9> splashed away in the pool of the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday. It was Children's Day. and a grand programme for tots was arranged, includingFree Press - 59 words
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111 1956-02-27 2 She's flying round world -with a dog MISS Jane Wood and her dog. Cindy, took off from Van Nuys, California, yesterday m a single-engined aircraft on a leisurely 30.000-mile sightseeing world tour. Miss Wood, 34-year-old skier and skin-diver, plans to come down at four United States airports, and then shipReuter - 111 words
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Article95 1956-02-27 2 To talk on Cyprus amnesty? BRITISH Colonial Secretary Lennox-Boyd, who arrived m Nicosia last night by RAF. plane, said he would obtain firsthand information on the situation and hoped his visit might lead to happier relations. No meeting has been arranged between Mr. Len-nox-Boyd and Archbishop Makarios, leader of the95 words
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191 1956-02-27 2 TO AVERT NEW RED VICTIMS -DULLES SECRETARY of State John Foster Dulles said yesterday that there is no need to be panicked by Russia's new economic policy but he called anew for greater leeway m U.S. foreign aid spending. Without the limited longrange authority sought by the administration, Dulles said,A.P. - 191 words
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Article32 1956-02-27 2 A biLs filled with Chileans ■>d for an outing at the h resort of Villarrica overturned at Temuco terday, killing four and toluring 38 people.— A. P.A.P. - 32 words
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Article63 1956-02-27 2 WARNING ON B K VISIT CATHOLIC clergymen m North London yesterday started up a petition urging the government no! to lei the •McomiriK visit of Russian leaders, Premier BulL'anm and Communist Party Chiei Khrushchev M be conducted or celebrated m such a way v to imply to]. -ration of theU.P. - 63 words
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Article55 1956-02-27 2 Envoyi ol 12 nations m< m Lgtun ioday to create an Internal agency that may Lnclud world bank ol flssiona materials to be leased ceful atomic proj< ition ol the at bank hinges on Russia ceptance ol the status ol I be worked ull duringU.P. - 55 words
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Advertisement35 1956-02-27 2 I ANNUAL I Si IE 4^ I" i I i r I S I E 2 a g NOW ON AT i; IiWASSIAMULL'Sii i HIGH ST jj < HEAVY REDUCTIONS > i IN LADIES MEN'S > jT DEPTS.35 words
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Article172 1956-02-27 3 BODY OF CLENCHED FIST WIFE BURIED EN CEMETERY pOLICE scientists were yesterday studying the remains of a woman dug up from a shallow grave in Hampstead, London, cemetery to find out how she was killed. But Sunday newspapers predicted that the clever killer who hid a bodyReuter; U.P. - 172 words
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Article, Illustration38 1956-02-27 3 Mr and Mrs V. Dukamp who won a silver troph> awarded to the best dmncen on the Uoor in the KufTle^ Hotel ballroom last night Six hundred people attended, the o<tasion being a 'Torres Night."38 words
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Article24 1956-02-27 3 The Czechoslovak trad" commissioner m India. Mr. O. Czivis, arrived m Katmandu yesterday to explore possibilities of a trade agreement with Ne.24 words
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43 1956-02-27 3 Group.s of French mm gathered around th< it radios m Saigon yesterday to hoar the last broadcast over "Radio Franco Asie," the French station which has been closed at the request of the South Vietnam Government ReuterReuter - 43 words
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93 1956-02-27 3 RED ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION SHIPS TRAPPED The Soviet Antarctic expedition ships Ob and Lena are trapped m Ice some distance from Mirny Base, and two Russian helicopiiuve evacuated their crews and scientists to the Moscow Radio said yesterday. The radio, broadcasting a report from a correspondent with the expedition, >a\d constructionReuter - 93 words
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Article35 1956-02-27 3 VTATIONAL Nothing i\ Week" be^an in Birmingham. Alabama, yesterday proclaimed by Mayor James Morgan because he said he was fed up with weeks dedieated to "this, that and the other."- RcuterReuter - 35 words
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121 1956-02-27 3 4 NTI-RIOT precautions were put into operation on Saturday ni^ht at Dartmoor Prison, on the bleak moors near Princeton. England, when a fire broke out m a store within the prison walls. The Are was m a twopaint and general store Wh storey buildingReuter - 121 words
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175 1956-02-27 3 4,000 'HOT ROD' FANS FIGHT POLICE YEARLY 4.000 "hot rod"* enthusiasts fought police and firemen for five hours at Daytona Beach, Florida, yesterday before reserve troops carrying rifles finally dispersed them. About 100 youngsters were arrested. The youngsters also r stoned film actors Barton Mac Lane and James Craig who175 words
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Article, Illustration63 1956-02-27 3 More than 1,000 members and quests attended the dinner riven by the Singapore f-'oochow Coffee, Restaurant and Bar Merchants' Association at its club m Queen Street In celebration of its thirty- fifth anniversary. Above are otticials of the association (from left): Messrs. Thin Tien Kee. 'hua Knjj Una. Moon Vv63 words
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Article27 1956-02-27 3 Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, permanent United 8 to the United us. arrived m X toum yesterday at the inon of the Bud < nmi'iii. ReuterReuter - 27 words
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Article194 1956-02-27 3 nr.KMP ERATURES rose X above freeiing point m Britain and many European countries yesterday. But the coming thaw raises the threat that Hoods will replace the havoc caused by the big freee over the past four weeks. British and United States troops itood by m GermanyReuter; A.P. - 194 words
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Advertisement29 1956-02-27 3 Cultured Vcaris •1 N 7.H M V A S, S A E tN S SUR T A R N A C? E B^L D fN T C D S,NCAPORE29 words
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Advertisement20 1956-02-27 3 for Best Quality Latest Style IBs k I^H tut. JrSsH IMHto^ri' A *f g lSlt 81, Hitfh Street, Tel: *****20 words
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209 1956-02-27 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Feb. 27. 1955. Opinion THE PHONE HOLD-UP SINGAPORE people who want a tele- phone— and there Is a long waiting list of them will heartily support the Telephone Board m its latest effort to urge Government to take steps to remove a major obstacle to209 words
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1109 1956-02-27 4 HARRY F. KERN - U.S. switch in Middle East policy HARRY F. KERN by The author of this revealing report on top-level U.S. foreign policy is an independent writer and authority on foreign affairs; formerly editor-in-chief and executive editor of Newsweek Magazine's international editions. During the past two years he has visited the Middle1,109 words
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Article352 1956-02-27 4 Beachcomber - Beachcomber gkghk SHOULD the necessary holes m the leather thongs attached to a sheet of cardboard reinforced with zinc be bored by leatherworkers, cardboardworkers or zincworkers. The Birkenhead strike, even if it does nothing else, will throw a wavering light on this question. There has been no352 words
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Advertisement26 1956-02-27 4 ASAHI CULTURED PEARLS AREACXXAIAfEDTHE WORLD OVER AS THE QrEEX AMONG CULTURED PEARLS, SEE THEIR BEAUTY, COMPARE THEIR PRICES. Sole Agents: S.P.H.deSILVALtd. SINGAPORE, K. LUMPUR A IPOH.26 words
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Advertisement55 1956-02-27 4 UNDERWOOD 150 NEW FROM EVERY ANGLE X7fcr^-« IT HAS EVERYTHING 4^4?lT^t\ FOR IN TYPING EFFICIENCY mj* TO MAKE YOUR WORK EASIER. I FASTER AND BETTER BE SURE YOU CHOOSE THE UNDERWOOD 150 V_ r <.EO. WEIIRY A CO. (M) LTD UNDERWOOD I BUSINESS MACHINES DEPARTMENT 9 OALMCIOA STRICT, SINCAPORC. BRANCHCS55 words
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234 1956-02-27 5 'Peanuts' risks 800 ft. fall in rescue AWARD of the George Medal to a 20-year-old ex-National Service subaltern h.rs been announced. Peanuts is hi. s nickname, courage is his middle name, and Trevor James Davies is his real name In Bye years he has made two rescues and won three234 words
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Article17 1956-02-27 5 An Indonesian Navy delegation headed by Rear Admiral R SubljaJcto has arrived m Peking. A.P.A.P. - 17 words
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Article372 1956-02-27 5 Mother had false name in hospital I OEI ORE she went into <> D hospital to have a X baby, a mother arranged to give the child away to [j another woman. The MOTHER. Mrs. -f Nora Bensusan, aged 32, of Poplar.372 words
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103 1956-02-27 5 A SILVER-HAIRED housewife of 63 has been revealed to be the writer of poison- pen letters. They went to happily married women and churchgoers m tiny Fp niton (pop. 1 300) near Honiton, Devon. Si c wrote to a postmasjtcr ["Keep your prices down"],103 words
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Article267 1956-02-27 5 nonna Jones, a pretty 17-year-old schoolgirl, as 1 *^modern as any other girl m jazzy harlequin spectacles and a feather-cut bob, is going to die soon from a disease which she refuses to let the doctors cure. Since birth she has had an Internal complaint that267 words
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Article17 1956-02-27 5 Tne trade agreement, Debween India and Indonesia I was extended yesterday until June 30.- A.P.A.P. - 17 words
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268 1956-02-27 5 Paid off a debt but it puts him in jail (CLEARING his conscience of a £235 debt has put William Henry White, a hard-up car dealer, m jail for seven years. He was sentenced at the Old Bailey, London. Desperate for cash to meet i longstanding debt to a friend,268 words
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Article141 1956-02-27 5 A POLICEMAN plunged into the Thames to rescue his 73-year- old father. But as a dinghy rowed them to safety, the old man fell m again and was >wept away. Mr. George Boulden was m the garden of his son's home at Putney, London, when141 words
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314 1956-02-27 5 Sixpence sends a mean gang leader to six years in jail SIXPENCE, the sixpence that gang boss ••Jet" Jeffery wits too mean to spend, got him a sixyear jail sentence, That sixpence also smashed up his gang of safe robbers wanted for raids all over Britain. I And it got314 words
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Article182 1956-02-27 5 /CONDUCTOR Leslie Bren\u nan. who revealed on television a fortnight the passenger-dodging of some bus crews, went back on commercial TV and said: "I have been sent t > Coventry." The original programme, m which Mr. Brennan ap* peared with two clippl rted a182 words
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Advertisement114 1956-02-27 5 ASiiA 9 S far NEW! AMERICAN "DACRON" READY MADE TROI SERS READY TO WEAR WASH WEAR Big Range, Plain. Fancy Stripes. Sizes 28 to 40 NEW! DACRON SHIRTS Dacron Shirts by SHERBROOKE Dacron Shirts by MANHATTAN Dacron cotton shirts by MANHATTAN Sizes 14i to 17 42 High St. The invulnerable114 words
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Miscellaneous333 1956-02-27 6 VIWIIHAKIi by Lee Talk ami I'liil 1 THIZT I 1-=?*lL -v\ I LOTHAR,COME AWAY I --JUST 810 BUGS/ J FROM THERf/YOU'LL J \ME FIX THE MANTIS ATfA/ NORMALLY, THEY KILL >>- \m( BE KILLED/ _rff —\S /fif SOME OF YOUR THINGS MANY TIMES LARGER a (J/M¥^ RADIOACTIVE /I THAN TMEM9ELVES.'333 words
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Miscellaneous177 1956-02-27 6 j (l!>^^l_V J fjORN today, you have an c\ \li Uonil imagination ani your art;>tK' idi-als an- high. Since you 1 cannot endure the commonpi 1 you spend your life attempting to thlU WhiCh hS UglY l X be m literature, POetrj or drama. |«{S^uIiSSSSSJ*« b* 1 happiest it >'■177 words
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196 1956-02-27 7 Train jumpers not to blame for crash THREE men whose 1 scramble to get m a moving tram caused the guard to apply his emergtney brake were not to blame for the rail crash which follo w c d a few moments later at Luton on December 22. it id.196 words
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Article74 1956-02-27 7 (COUNCIL CLERK, Mr. Alma Hatt has bought a stop-' watch cost 41s. to keep a time check on speakers Ithey are allowed live minutes; at Basildon. Essex, urban council meetings. Says Mr. Hatt 'Councillor's with the gift of the gat) will now be controlled to the second. "Before74 words
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Article, Illustration146 1956-02-27 7 Sherwood Fuehrer, 14. E Ueft) has a keen per- E Konal interest in "Gis- mo" the six-foot-tall E robot who offers the E lady a piece of candy. E Sherwood made "Gis- E mo" from a small elec- trie motor and from E pieces ofFriends Magazine - 146 words
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Article51 1956-02-27 7 Motorists must not splash i walker unduly, even if he is m the rniddlg of the road. A van driver was lined £5 at Chesham, Bucks, for not showing consideration to other road users Snow waSi melting and the walker, it was said, was swamped with51 words
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Article31 1956-02-27 7 I^HE modern trend of people to stay more at borne means they do not BUCb lar-io wardrobe.-^. Mr. E>errk Walker-Smith, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Tiude, iuid.31 words
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407 1956-02-27 7 MAJOR FOUND IN BATHROOM BY HUSBAND m Cook€>rtj visit When a husband and two inquiry agents called at his wife's flat they found a retired major in the bathroom, said Mr. Commissioner Latey in the London Divorce Court. "They were kept waiting ti the door and then the wife, Mrs.407 words
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264 1956-02-27 7 THE STRIPPING ORDEAL THE conscientious Ob- a gale of laughter. Hobbs lector who had to wait^d m an d underjecior wno naa w s whih? a sergeant "wait m civilian under- went to ask an adjutant pants m cold weather," what to do.264 words
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Advertisement40 1956-02-27 7 lust unpacked BAIRNSWEAR KNITTING WOOL m complete shade assortment We have also complete range m Baby Bairnswear Wool So call early at Cian Singh's for your requirements. GIAN SINGH CO., LTD. < 30-1. Rattles Place. Singapore-1. Phone: ***** 6 l^^^iE^ XJ40 words
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Miscellaneous51 1956-02-27 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDESTODAY: 11.43 am. TOMORROW: l im and 12J04 p.m. g WEDNESDAY: 1 18 a.m. and 1.04 p m. THURSDAY: 1.16 a.m. a and 1.1? p.m. B FRIDAY: 111 am. and l.l'l p. in I SATURDAY: 14 a.m.g and '■'> Uti p.m. SUNDAY: :.18 a.m. and" 100 pm. 151 words
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Article, Illustration1402 1956-02-27 8 STANTON HOPE - STANTON HOPE Peter Kurten was a good and gentle man. A famous psychiatrist described him as "quite a nice man. And yet he admitted to thirteen murders and many more criminal assaults by RETURNING homo after a day's work, Frau Kuhn was overtaken by a neatlydressed1,402 words
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Article60 1956-02-27 8 TEST-TUBE DISCOVERY IN a discovery which predict may one enable Man to actually create Ufd scientist! York Uni- of Biochemistrj ted molecul< a test-tube. The discovery mv one of the basic pro. for life the joinir. molecules together chains like bead, on string. The present discov confirmed by Harvard Washington60 words
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Miscellaneous501 1956-02-27 8 BRIDGE HAND ff U(.ukl h.t\e made c odd. 1 [olal po.nl leam-of- our fdav ftfe Qf diamond> n<ld fc Holh sides vulnerable right It wasn't, so de< South dealer had to be content uith mak only four. NOKTII He was more than cm 8 732 when he dls<o\ered what hi.501 words
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Article55 1956-02-27 9 SECRET radio transmitters xoorried the Swiss coun-ter-spy service. They worried the police too. For the short-wave messages endangered land-air circuits at Zurich Airport. The radio stations were traced. Police swooped on all of them at the same time. Spies? No. College students who found it cheaper to talk55 words
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Article40 1956-02-27 9 ]%|RS. Olive Gower, 29, of I*l Laindon, Essex, gave herself a hay-fever injection. She died from shock. A doctor said at the inquest that her death was the first recorded m 25 years of similar injections. Verdict: Misadventure.40 words
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Article41 1956-02-27 9 SIR Alastair George Lionel Miller, Bart., of no fixed address, was jailed for 12 months at Torquay for obtaining credit, without disclosing that he wa*» an undischarged bankrupt, while he and his family were staying at a Torauay hotel.41 words
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272 1956-02-27 9 CURRENT MRS. P. HELPED SPEND £23,000 FORTUNE A SHABBY old man sat m a dusty room and talked about divorcing the 21-year-old wife who helped him to spend his £23,000 fortune— —and then left him. He talked of how the money272 words
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Article139 1956-02-27 9 A MERICAN industrialists, i\ who pride themselves on the finish of their products, are now admitting that m one direction at least they cannot match the skill of British craftsmen. A consignment of Nottingham lace is on its way back across the Atlantic to be139 words
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Article, Illustration78 1956-02-27 9 The Shah of Persia, accompanied by Queen Soraya, were given a rousing reception when they arrived m Delhi recently on a state visit. They were met at Pal am Airport by the Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, and the president. Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Here Queen Soraya talksPopper - 78 words
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Article108 1956-02-27 9 THE DRINKS HAD A BITE IN THEM rOMAS SPEIRS gave a party. He drank green Chartreuse mixed with brown ale. He was also hit on the head with a bottle of brown lie. After all this it was not surprising he did not remember biting a guest, Thomas Allen, on108 words
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Article323 1956-02-27 9 Accused of faking the accounts A COUNCIL'S assistant surveyor was publicly told that he had falsified accounts. It was alleged that contractors had agreed they were overpaid by £1.390 on certain contracts. The council official was told he would be surcharged with that sum. Mr. G. Russell, district auditor for323 words
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399 1956-02-27 9 PAINT RESOLD TO FIRM THAT MADE IT THOUSAND gallons of top-grade cream paint made for the War Office less than three years ago were bought back by the manufacturers at a recent surplus sale. They paid 10s. a gallon "much less" than they charged the War Office. The firm's representative399 words
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Article45 1956-02-27 9 fjXDUR occasional licences granted at Beacons fi e 1 d, Buckinghamshire, were for a police dinner, a police dance, a wedding reception for a police superintendent's daughter, and Uxbridge magistrates' dinner. "The police have no objection." said Chief Inspector W. Hull45 words
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Advertisement43 1956-02-27 9 V whenever mi Ik jr/ j^ W IDEAL MILK is pure, whole ISO/vJ^ S milk concentrated to the lOw^fTfA/cn J5 consistency of cream nothing vJJSjL added; only water taken 5^ ANOTHER OF jo ts%sf**t* try a fin fOudt/ S^ x GOOD THINGS X43 words
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Article, Illustration346 1956-02-27 10 NOT 'ye ancient lock-up' m the stocks for a pretty young Miss but a spectacular "execution' by Colony Illusionist and member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians of America Mr. Khoo Teng F.ng as he demonstrates his skill at a popular nightspot. The willing victim was346 words
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Article, Illustration111 1956-02-27 11 CURTAIN CALF, and a word of advice from hubby Viennese trick cyclist Oskar Scheicki before Ines, dressed as a gypsy (with tambourine), goes out to face the audience in the ballroom of a Colony nightspot. Ines. a former balle:ina in the Vienna State Opera, and now111 words
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Article, Illustration536 1956-02-27 12 JAMES MAYS - JAMES MAYS LOOK WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR LIVER FASHION buyers, losing their way on the Paris Metro between dress shows, are being asked by a flashing sign at the Opera station "Are you quite sure you're sober?" Before they go further they are confronted with a536 words
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Article, Illustration742 1956-02-27 12 THOMAS R. HENRY - THOMAS R. HENRY The maths of getting sozzled BEER is not intoxicating mathematically. Or so concludes Dr. Leon A. Greenberg, associate professor of physiology at Yale University. It's almost, if not quite, Impossible to drink enough beer to put enough alcohol m the742 words
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Article, Illustration728 1956-02-27 13 You can get BALD for many reasons says the SINGAPORE DOCTOR |>ALDNESS was a.s worrying to a person m ancient E^ypt, 5,000 years ago, as it is today. Then, according to one ancient medical text, the recommended treatment was an incantation to the god Ra over a large pill containing728 words
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Article616 1956-02-27 13 Dr. ARTHUR CHESBY - Dr. ARTHUR CHESBY by QO President Eisenhower has been ordered to give up golf. Excellent, I would go further and order EVERYONE well, almost to give it up. The President has, of course, been advised to abandon the game because of his heart. But it616 words
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Article, Illustration2172 1956-02-27 14 CAPT. FRANK SHAW - BREAD on the WATERS CAPT. FRANK SHAW gkgkhkkghk =**********1111 MBW IHIIINNIIi^ E f\ SHIP commander E 5 Vt m World War I, E naval observer m I World War 11, Captain E E Shaw has lived pre- E cariously all his life, E E but that has not pre- E2,172 words
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Article, Illustration706 1956-02-27 15 ANNA LANDAU - ANNA LANDAU El THE GREEN SPIDERS MATCHED HER DRESS ...WAS I A SLAVE IN AN ANCIENT TEMPLE? tj^ARLY one evening J m a small bungalow on the borders of Afghanistan, a visiting Englishwoman flung down her book, rushed out to the side of the706 words
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Advertisement123 1956-02-27 15 1 1 lY~^jl\ YOU CAN f J-^f jl RELY ON y h(k) rr< V h?) IPACKED IN SLB. 2; LB. AND ILE 7 I j Doctors agree that, from about the Vtr*^. ninth or tenth month, healthy babies i require a FULL CREAM MILK aS an lKlf|^f^)[s)/fi\V important part of123 words
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Article, Illustration541 1956-02-27 16 SHE WEPT WHEN SHE SAW THIS 'REFLECTION' A WOMAN sat weeping m a darkened studio watching her own life flash by. Fame at 15. Stardom at 18. The agonies of an alco- holic at 20. Nursing homes, arrests, attempted suicide and a new life at nearly 40 But Lillian Roth541 words
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Article, Illustration713 1956-02-27 16 HAROLD HEFFERNAN - RED BECOMES RUSSELL HAROLD HEFFERNAN -But she just can't sell it to Junior! says 'THE shapely redhead A who strolled into the studio commissary was followed to her table by curious stares, a chorus of admiring "ohs" and "ahs" and surprised comment from diners all over the crowded room. These713 words
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Advertisement36 1956-02-27 16 Iliil.flHMMMißlll Wedding Pictures Make arrangements NOW for your photographs to be taken by a PHOTOGRAPHER Telephone Singapore 2800 or write to FREE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPT. 140.146 Cecil Street Singapore This service is only available m Singapore36 words
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Article, Illustration1103 1956-02-27 17 NOEL ANTHONY - NOEL ANTHONY 'and Anne fttmvs! I CONTINENTAL DIARY by SINA LOLLOBRIGIDA, tamed for inituting lawsuits agnst people, is m anher hassle. Her progonist this time is me Vernon, French tress, otherwise "The Mouth." It all began over a film incy've just made called1,103 words
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Advertisement23 1956-02-27 17 YES 1 NO f) Pui yewr Mfc »poc« ot<ne amd Nf thn potfl bt roe until tomorrow Of *Biwv will to 8' y»*23 words
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Advertisement71 1956-02-27 17 SOLE AGENTS: HAGEMEYER TRADING CO 'W») LTD. A RECORD OF THE WEEK ttixa A Hi-Fidelity Recording^/,9 J iy m\ INESIIA nd Flomenco V 7r*7 dences. Hear the click of the cost:.- JL Jf< the tap of flying feet, ond tne thrum ct M BB0&W& J m this breath-taking f wBU71 words
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Miscellaneous200 1956-02-27 17 I I I I B»SW ■|I|^l^l___^^^^J ■SSSfIBJB^H 1H CM'ES ACROSS nne e g^-on inside' (IV 2ls this vtet a current doef 11 Fine t |>^ mft 8 What every single-minded manner^ (7).^ f<x person has is>. 1J v (3)> 9 Link pulp With an oar (7) «J^ tll > o200 words
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Article, Illustration1728 1956-02-27 18 GEORGE WHITING - GEORGE WHITING The greatest day of their lives 'a^H SILENTLY, respectfully, uncomfortably, and with a steely-eyed Russian sentry staring us out of countenance over his bayonet, we filed past the embalmed bodies of Messrs. Lenin and Stalin in the black marble mausoleum under1,728 words
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Article214 1956-02-27 18 JRELAND beat Scotland by fourteen point* to I i" the international rugby union match in Dublin On Saturday after leading 6-5 ftt half time. Ireland, beaten by Franc and England, had completely overhauled their .side making sight change John O'Meara. the Irish M-rum-half. made aReuter - 214 words
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Article50 1956-02-27 18 Inge Vogler bent Ilitt Totta Zehden 9-7, 2-6. 8-6 m the all-Ger-man women's singles final of the Ceylon Lawn Teniu Championships m Colombo yesterday. Miss Zehden Partnered Ceylon's Bernard Pinto to win the mixed doubles 6-2 9-7 against Mrs Vogler and Pouglas Fonseka (Cevlom ReuterReuter - 50 words
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Article, Illustration53 1956-02-27 18 Dhoto. Ri i ■•\merlcan k*-lkateff Jinx Urk keeps fit hy horse-riding, ghc stared ridin K on hrr father s ram h in Texas at the ftfc of six. 8h« has takrn p»rt in wild vwst shows and rodeos and horns t« t,L,. part in jumping content* inReuter - 53 words
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551 1956-02-27 19 ALLAN LEWIS - Distributor ana Kam Loong had main race to themselves ALLAN LEWIS -By A DISAPPOINTING FIELD OF ONLY FIVF WENT TO THE POST FOR THE MAIN RA( E (Cl. Div. 1— 7F.) AT PENANG ON SATURDAY. OPENING DAY OF THE PENANG SPRIN(i MEETING. The winner was IMstributor who beat Kam Loon?551 words
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Article, Illustration128 1956-02-27 19 ACTOR H (Bougoure) wins the first race by a length from Splendour (Leong) with Bis Andy (Hudson) on the rails third. MYSTIC (ODE (No. 7) ridden by Bougoure is a half length winner from Barracuda (Ransome) nearest camera. at the finish of Race 2. Thin!128 words
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74 1956-02-27 19 rpm: PREI PRKss racing tipster PELANDOS, had an- other Rood d:iy at Penang on Saturday. =IE His three i esl beti ire re: SFLENDOI R (second m Hare 1 $14), TRAILER (winner of Rare ?22 and SE S7) and OCEAN PEARL (third m Race74 words
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Advertisement25 1956-02-27 19 [OCEAN PARK HOTEL'S FAMOUS QUINTET Are Band of Singapore V> > with <<! j MISS SALOMA the Matof 'Marilyn Monroe" r> S Rin^ ***** for Table >> rvations.25 words
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382 1956-02-27 20 Pakistan all set for victory in third Test PAKISTAN are on the X brink of victory in the third Test in Peshawar, against the touring M.C.C. team and are virtually certain to win the unofficial four-match series by a convincing margin. When play is resumed tomorrow, they will need only382 words
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260 1956-02-27 20 TOP-FORM TIGERS HIT MARINES FOR A FOUR TO WIN CUP MARINES, last year's SAFA League and Cup champions, were humbled by four goals to nil by the League runnersup, the Tigers at Jalan Besar yesterday. There was only one team playing football yesterday and it was the brilliant Tigers and260 words
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Article310 1956-02-27 20 PEN ANG WEIGHTS FOR WEDNESDAY Vy EIGHTS for six races on the second day of the Penan; Turf Club's Spring meeting are: Cl. 2, Div. 1— 6F. Avenger 9.00 High Hopes 8. 13 Stage Show II 8.12 Banker Boy 8.1? La Ronde 8.11 Purple and White 8.10 Firebird 8.09 Acrobat310 words
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Article35 1956-02-27 20 /'ERHARD Hecht ref -lined his J European lteht-heavywek'ht title yesterday when he scored technical knockout virtory over France* Charles Colin m the 13th of their 15-round title bout. i' -St. NaziUre, France.- U.P.U.P. - 35 words
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Article48 1956-02-27 20 TN the semi- Anal replay of the 1 RAF Seletur inter-section knockout hockey competition yesterday ARS beat RAF iMalava) by 3-1. Barter and Goodman (2> .scored for ARS and Pereira for RAF (Malaya). ARS now meet Admin. Squadron m the final on Wednesday.48 words
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Article53 1956-02-27 20 Greyhounds MOTtd ;t 19 pom" is, 3 1 1: to 10 1 2 |OtlS) vv The Blacks at rugger at Seletar yesterdny. Greyhounds Mortrt: Andtnon try, converte<l by himself), S!e«' <ti y converted by Ander«;orJ v Holmes (try i One Choon TTr 2 trie:-, converted by53 words
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Article18 1956-02-27 20 Argonauts boat RAP' Chang] 1-0 m a socror friendly at Chanizi yrstorriay. scoring through Drxtor Boyd.18 words
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192 1956-02-27 20 BRIAN Hewson, Britain's four minute miler, smashed the Trinidad allcomers record for 800 metres when he won the event in 1 min. 51.4 sec. in the Southern Games which opened in Port of Spain on Saturday. Hewson clipped over 3 sec. off the previousReuter - 192 words
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152 1956-02-27 20 TIHE English Football League fl > iv -withdrawn from th<' joint standing committee °f which they were members with the English Football Association and the Players' Union. The committee was form•d in 1949 on the recommendation of the National Arbitration iribunal of the Ministry of152 words
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169 1956-02-27 20 A HALF century m 35 minutes by Ft. Lt. Leray high- lighted the cricket fixture on the padang yeserday when R.A.F. Singapore beat Singapore Recreation Club by 43 runs. Leray hit all round the wicket for his 59. while Ft. Lt Turner169 words
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Miscellaneous169 1956-02-27 20 NOTICE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Matriculation Examination The University of Hong Kong proposes to establish centres In Singapore, for the Matriculation Examination to be held from about May 28 to June 15, 1956. i Applications to sit the examination at these centres will be accepted up to March 20, 1956169 words
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