The Singapore Free Press, 6 January 1955

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press I ,ri.cst Afternoon Sale m Malaya S§ HUH. SinKi|K>rr. Thurs.. Jan. 6.1955. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 32 1 Sir UwU c« Thorild *c and Si,, o OUr d «matk m Singapore on their :<™. India at the end Sit aw** d»e m Singapore Australia by plane. "»r Kidia tomorrow
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  • 211 1 Bangkok meeting to set up SEATO military section THE PERMANENT secretariat of the South-East Asia defence organisation, to be set up at the Bangkok meeting of the eight Manila Pact powers m February, will include a military section whose job will be *to prepare defence plans against possible on the
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  • 138 1 He makes me sick says Marie MARIE The Body) Me- Donald yesterday gave the reason for the breakup if her marriage to uealthy shoe manufacturer Harry Karl: She's allergic to him. McDonald and Karl veT divorced m Las Nevada. last Nov. 2 but after that they announced plans to be
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  • 962 1 .V "NDON denttel has re- treat women WJT JiP«ick. He has d a not »cc on his door declaring: "I will not attend to any woman with this filth on her lips. I am tired of getting it on my fingers and instruments." Reuter iBllll ill iMkMk^dUmUM
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  • 125 1 T*OM GOODMAN, the Sydney Morning Herald cricket r writer, today called for a drastic overhaul of Australia's test team. Other Australian cricket writers also deplored the failure of Australia's batting and called for changes. Goodman wrote: "The overhaul demanded after the debacle on the
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  • 83 1 More confidence on Singapore market Free Press Market Correspondent There was slightly more confidence apparent on the Singapore Rubber Market this morning following the drop of 5 2 ce#ts m the price of rubber over the last two days. More trade support was m evidence and there was less
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  • 44 1 MR. F. C. Barraclough, Warden at Malaya Hall, the social centre for Malayan students m London, is seriously ill with a throat infection at a London hospital. For 29 years, Mr. Barraclough was m the Education Department m Malaya Reuter
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  • 61 1 U.S. selling wave PRICES m the Canadian and American stock markets fell yesterday to their lowest point .since the beginning of the Korean war m a massive selling wave. On Wall Street the selling wave and the drop followed a Federal Reserve Board decision on Tuesday raising the amount of
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  • 276 1 Queen 's decree to be published soon T'Hi: Queens Orders-in-Council for Singapore's changeover to ministerial administration this year are expected to be published soon. The Orders, besides giving effect to other recommendations of the Rendel Commission, will state that English should be the oilicial language of
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  • 85 1 INDONESIA'S Government will send a delegation to J Sarawak soon to discuss the new outbreak of smuggling between Indonesia and British Borneo according to the Indonesian News Agency, Pia, quoting The Resident of East Borneo, Mr. Pranoto m Bandjarmasin yesterday. j Pranoto said that '•foreigners
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  • 64 1 Dagger men trapped in ambush A POLICE party laid an ambush and arrested two of a party of three Malays near the railway track near Kranji. Singapore, last night. One of the arrested men had a dagger tied to his leg. In his pocket was a knuckle- duster. The second
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  • 203 2 But peace hopes rise in big rail dispute 100.000 STILL DEMAND FLEDGE Sffi of the British transport Commission, which rum the railways, to on headquarters last night But aft' r the talk. Mr Jim I Campbell, iccretary of th« Kational Union ol Railwaymen, said The po Itlon I The talks
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  • 80 2 ATLANTIC A IR CLAIMS TO MONTREAL BY BOAC BOAC\ BRITISH Old MM Airways Corporation yesterday claimed :in ■■■flllill record of 11 hours and M minutes for a imi iMp. WClt Ummi fli«ht from London to Montreal. A BOAT Stratoeruiser commanded by Captain James j Howard of London arrived m Montreal
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  • 61 2 I)\.N AMI'KK AN World Airy* a>s \esterday claimed a new non-stop record for a commercial passenger plane flight from l>ondon to New York—ll hours, 47 minutes. The plane, a DC-CB, landed at Idlewild Airport with •{f. passensers and a crew of six. The pilot. Capt.
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  • 121 2 15 DIE AS SWAYING EXPRESS HITS GOODS TRAIN JjiIFTEEN people were killed and 40 seriously injured m a collision between a passenger express and a goods train on Tuesday night. The accident occurred near Barra do Pirai m the state of j Rio de Janeiro. Three wooden passenger cars overturned
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  • 135 2 'Mild' drug addicts form cure club A "NARCOTICS Anonymous" dub with 15 members has been organised m Cleveland, Ohio, according to Angelo Oagliardo, the Chief Probation Officer. Oagliardo .said he wanted to te.st B theory that drug addicts and alcoholics have the same personality problems. Alcoholics Anonymous has helped to
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  • 101 2 KU.S.SIA and Yugoslavia signed m Moscow yesterday the Aral official trade i>;ic*t since Yugoslavia was expelled from the cominform m 1948 Tin paci provides for exchange ol goods worth a total ol $60 million. Under the pact Yugoslavia will send meat, I canned Roods,
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  • 34 2 Cardinal Prancla Bpellman 01 New Yo! .i! i ived m Baigon terday for .i three-day h-ii r tour oi camps sheltering hall b million refugees from tin Communist Vletminh re Klme Reuter
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  • 139 2 Bullets were off mark, fires homes EiARMBRfi of Utsunomiya, 'm miles north 0 up m arm. terday n the "ihh)i n ai i. man.viiip' ol Japan m c force A delegation which called on city offldali wrathfully charged that rifle machine run bullets and bazooka shell came rtreamini Into their
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  • 172 2 U.S. MAKES PROFIT ON AID OVERSEAS THE U.S. foreign Opera--1 tioiu Administration said m Washington that military. financial and technical aid given to allies had a stimulating effect on the United States economy. In a review of foreign aid programmes it said Japan and France provided two good examples of
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  • 194 2 SAUDI ARABIA put tne cum' of Algeria before the United Nations Security Council yesterday as a '-grave situation" likely to endanger world peace and security. The Saudi Arabian Ambassador. Sheikh Asad Al Faquih. said he would make a formal request for a council meeting on
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  • 137 3 Only two top bosses are now at large r rEHERAN'S military governor, Brig. Gen. Teimour Bakhtiar, announced yesterday that his forces had arrested all but two of the top leaders of Persia's Communist youth movement. Gen. Bakhtiar said the arrest/ of 63 me n and five
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  • 183 3 Diplomat tells U.S.: You're too scared AMERICANS CommuA nism and war too much, a £ung Indonesian diplomat > New York yesterday ,^-month tour of the ar-old brother of y .Man Foreign Mi- no, saw more of United States than most :a ns do In a liu-time. round the country and
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  • 18 3 A beautiful Oklahoma blonde. DeLois Faulknef of Sauisaw. :> the 1955 Maid of Cotton.. A .P.
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  • 19 3 Six leading Chinese jurists attend a conference of .lawyers due to open at itta on January 26
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  • 50 3 WILLIAM Wordsworth, great- great-grandson of the poet, filed a petition for a divorce yesterday charging desertion against his wife, actress Eva Bartok. The actress who wears hats shaped like flower pots once was squired about Europe by the Marquess of Milford Haven. I IP.
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  • 72 3 He borrowed a gun to kill himself *MER film director borrowed a pistol from SiMt \t an Buster K eaton and killed himself m a 1 Monica (California) restaurant rest-room. body Of Clyde Bruek- 60. was found on TuesPolice said he left a wmten i note asking them e »ver
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  • 97 3 STOP DANCING THE Z-BOMB IS TOLD J^ATIN American dancer. Margarita Meroado. better known here as "Margo, the Z-Bomb," has been ordered by the Immigration Commissioner at Manila to suspend her performances. The Commissioner .said the Puerto Rican-born dancer's temporary visitor's permit had expired on Jan. 2. "She may apply for
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  • 17 3 'he United states merclal dea£ ilock over iVon«i n agreCments t0 A. P.
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  • 176 3 Australian Press hits Govt. T*HE arrest of a Japanese vessel, said to be fishing 1 within Australian waters, was called off at the last moment by the Commonwealth Department of Commerce and Agriculture, the Melbourne Age said. It added officials were puzzled by
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  • 19 3 Former left-wing Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz arrived m Switzerland yesterday "to rest and meditate." U.P.
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  • 14 3 West Germany had 1,287,638 unemployed at the end of 1954.
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  • 22 3 Former Senator Robert Hendrickson of New Jersey is to be the new U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand.— A P.
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  • 11 3 West German Chancellor, Dr Adenauer, was 79 yesterday
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  • 41 3 Two people were seriously injured when their car crashed into a Russian tank on the southern highway to Vienna on Tuesday night. Witnesses said the tank carried no lights at the time of the accident. U.P.
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  • 121 3 AMERICAN CRIME SET RECORD LAST YEAR SERIOUS crime m the United States increased by five per cent to a new record level m 1954 despite improved law enforcement, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said last night. Figures show that 1954 set "a new high
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  • 112 4 The key threat today is Communist infiltration and subversion which the authorities are finding difficult to prevent. Propaganda by word of mouth, manufacture of small arms and minor acts of sabotge have begun already. z picture. lllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllll.il z Delegates from France, Vietnam. Laos and
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  • 686 4 Bangkok fears these 50,000 refugees ILTHOUGH the indo- China war has been over more than S i x months. Siam continue, to be plagued by the p nee of some 50,000 Vietnamese refugees. Mo t ol them fled across the Mekong River into northtern 8iam eight yeans as:o, shortly alter
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  • 274 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Jan. 6, 1955. Opinion A WORTHY FUND lifOST workers fear the advent of old mainly because oi its attendant insecurity, it is then, when they are old and cannot do as much as they like, that they must, have something to iii.ll buck on. That
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  • 236 4  -  UNKNOWN J» M IE m W LEAPING into his new Thanatoe Six, Garth levdale, man about town, found himself behind enormous lorry loaded with a mud-dredger and a The lorry's progress locked by a column ol clrcu which had come ooting-brake which had broken down whil< towing
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  • 38 5 They a wait rotief picture rictima of Kampong Lima, off Payi Lebar Road. »tt their tired limbs as they wait their turn to and supplies from the Sineaoore Flood Relief 1 "nd at the village temple.- Free Press
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  • 314 5 Sow, he cannot even seal leaks m root uiR VEABS, Mali Ah Woon, 74 and blind, and his wife, 66, had L t i out a poor living from what they could get from IhHi it v Then the Hoods came to Kampong Lima,
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  • 76 5 m price of rice hai 1 en by an average of twc m Singapore since icemen! that the nment had deirn the rice trad? la last Saturday can now bu\ siam rice at 3C t] hicn li five tc :h< aper than it was f
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  • 292 5 This party has secret election plan rE Labour Front, In s bid for power m the ne\j Singapore Legislative As sembly. promises electioi campaign surprises for op ponents. A Labour Front ofTicia said: "We have a four-yea programme showing whicl parts of our proposed social Ist plan we shall implemen
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  • 133 5 Govt. plans new fish dock for Kallang k > APORE City council's Para" p lent of Marlne Katong, as a public ewrt may be slowed ne Government plans ket \t s n dock and a Kalians this year •'^^^f the Council -asked to allow the Wmd of f a j
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  • 156 5 SATA FUND NOW UP TO $1 5,000 GIFTS totalling $14,940 have been received so far by Singapore Anti Tuberculosis A.-vsociation towards its annual appeal. Latest donors are the Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. $25U. Caltex (China* Ltd., $250. Fraser Co., $100. Lewis Prat (Spore* Ltd., $50. The following Rifts were received
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  • 36 5 Fbt driving while under the influence of drink at midnight on Nov. 6. N. R. Creighton. 23, a commercial assistant, was sentenced to two months' gaol m the Penang Sessions Court yesterday.
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 199 7 LONDON, JAN. 5. Previous Today mmv No i BSS eJJ. Europe** 28% buyers 27 buyers U lan 28 filers 27 sellers ../kklr \o I'RSS cii. European 28 buyers 26", buyers U/h 28 sellers 27 sellers i.| P krfr N« l'« Ms*»*s 31 buyers 281 bu y ers
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    • 96 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 5. Previous Today 1 1\ Straits spot and nearby 87.50 nom. DELAYED 1 IN luiutts Jan. 86.75 bid 86.10 bid 87.50 asked 86.50 asked Feb. 86.75 bid 86 10 bid 87.50 asked 86 50 a.^ked March: 86.75 bid 86 10 bid 87.50 a*ked 86.50
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    • 22 7 U.S. PEPPER-DELAYED DOW JONES AVERAGES NEW YORK, JAM. 5. '•■.Amm.,l F Z?iV S& i: il "mpositp \vera ff ri V. 150.61 147.62
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    • 77 7 COPR* Philip*** eJi, lIK/North PrrV OUS y E««pean deUwl weight per .V.:"^?,,,',^- n< UOte<l unquote T. £75. buyers DELAYED £'5 buyers KS! ()M s?* »«n err. £76 selleri gjJPJiI (ontinental ports m Hu\U I !iH Ja pM.!E >b £105 > 2 sellers DELAYFI) '••1. crudt eylon
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  • 67 7 Cadets of the Australian Air Training Corps, now on a three-week goodwill tour of Singapore and the Federation have their belongings checked (above) by Customs officers on their arrival at Tengah airfield on Tuesday. i It -Sgt. Alfred Lee (right) ia the only Australian-born Chinese m
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  • 214 7 AQUARIUM: BIG DAY TO BE FIXED TODAY THE estates and fire brigade committee of the Singapore City Council meets today to fix a date fpr the opening of the Van Kleef aquarium. Most of I the troubles are understood to be over. The aquarium advisory Doara uas cleared up most
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    20 7 A local Chinese leader, Mr. Wons Bens Hea, 0.8. E., has died at the Mission Clinic m Penang.
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  • 189 7 GROSS EXAGGERATION OF PETTY QUARREL' 1 tv r nt ln a sec Blngapore'« st. Brigade has ross exaggera- tty quarrel," the Commissioner, Dr tro ;aid yesterday! l parted m Novom- n flje superintend- Corps re-•-c I they quit bey .disapproved of hm^-style provias €d by o rhP^ as oroy other
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  • 33 7 An R.A.F. sergeant was found shot dead m a guardroom at Seletar. Singapore, yesterday morning. He was wounded m the head. His rifle was fuund near where he tell.
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  • 395 8 Polis man returned to U.K. smiling lOHN TAYLOR irai m the heart of the fccuaaor J lanclc irhen be f«ll ill uith poliomyelitis. His base, GuiyaquU, irai mttei away; he was m K«rat pam. Hut he was not to be beaten; be drove
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  • 70 8 TWO BR.WE smiles as John lavlor. hflplos m hi* iron lang, looks up at his mother. Mrs. Hilda T.i>lor. of Kenil-wortli-court. Putnoy, when hv returned to Southampton. Speaking of her son's pain-rarked drive through the jungle after he was taken ill. Mrs Taylor said: "That
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  • 20 8 Mi- Mn. who was believed to have been England' oldest motor-cyclist, has died il Devizi Wilt aged 96.
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  • 231 8 AND FOR AN HEIRESS, NEW GLORY, npHEY called her "poor little rich girl* 1 m the *****. when her aunt and mother wrangled over her m the courts. She inherited more than £1,500,000 when .sh<» was 21. And now, at 30, she is tfoin^ to
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  • 63 8 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. R. A Butlrr. has jiven a guarded BudK'.-t hint m a letter to Mr. Rupert Speir, M.P ior Hexham. Northumberland. He wrote: "i shall certainly bear In mind your demand tor a reduction In the p tax when I
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  • 11 8 !1 In eight American ea built this year wil air-conditioned
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  • 184 8 Yf R. ERNEST CLARKE has tried to get m touch with itl every one-legged man he can find. He needs those men badly to take boots and shoes off his hands the odd ones that are scattered among the 1.000 brand-new pairs
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  • 153 8 Store baby may get new 'father' TIHE story of baby Derek McCormack, who was abiuioned among the milling Christmai crowds at a West Knd store, may have a happy ending. Mr Paul Bennett. V.C the Marlboroujjh street magistrate, recently released baby Derek's mother from custody, and told her to come
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  • 138 8 Whit Ing mai h iry Oxen ham, 44--jremi Ihi r ol two daughter: ho live Ad< I ri<;«r X told th< Ctrl* tive Council at Nottingham: "I am surpi anyone should think washing j luxury "This li an inc. countr Ins coal. And it a
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  • 253 8 A GOVERNMENT sciei h;i Invented m hi 1 :rne B Dl( n. ol I pcti lea] pov er "fre< i point here any t I no hui i h\ < trie power pi if laboratory n i I m m the v i
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  • 45 8 pVK HUNDKKDWKKiHT of china rups and Baueen won -I rV, 1 1 T l tl( rn:u i ;ill r:i van collision at Lelcestw In the wreckage was a bonk th<- driver lnd bin leaned, n «ai called Flying Saucers Have Landed?'
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  • 363 9 GANGSTER'S BOY ASKS COURT FOR MERCY Magistrate gives former bootlegger a chance ROBERT WYNDHAM-SMITH, whose youthful years were spent m the furious, dangerous company of American bootleggers, stood m an English court and pleaded for mercy. He got it. He was put on probation for one year. He could have
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  • 144 9 While awaiting second trial M Lillian Pursey. the mer Hungarian who recently married Commander Harry P»«ey. the M.P. for East Hull d work m a dress Montreal, Canada. Shr says: "English currency don't allow my to send me enough to on." Mrs. Pursev was
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  • 287 9 The junior girl typist is now director SHE was the new junior typist, just 16, and very keen to know ALL about work at the embroidery manufacturers. She started work at 8 a.m. and left at 6 p.m. the first day. After that Miss Lilian Field decided to stay on
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  • 13 9 Arthur W. Kelly. t Chaplin's manager, lied m Nice, aged 63.
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  • 70 9 A SEASONAL toast from J\ Claire Bloom and Kenneth More (above), two of Britain's most talented film stars. Claire fs at present making "Richard HI" at Shepperton an^ Kenneth H starring m "The Deep Blue Sea. Pictured below are Olivia de Havilland who has just
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  • 219 9 SECRET OF THE SWAN LAKE One stays put and the other six stay loyal CIX young swans should have left for ever the gravellake on Hayling Island. Hants. (England) where they were hatched early this year. the way of swans is to fly away as soon as they have learned
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  • 100 9 His 'no-test' licence is no good A LONDON motorist took out a driving licence m Northern Ireland, where there is no test. At Croydon he was disqualified from driving until he has passed a test In England. The motorist was Robert Brooks, of Upper Norwood, and he was found guilty
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  • 26 9 Cleaning of a wall In an Arezzo < Italy i church has revealed an almost intact painting by the 15th century master piero Delia Francesca.
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  • 237 9 Her marriage to Frank Sinatra \s rumoured i more to be on the rucks. Frankie?" she said. "I am too tired even to think about that. Soon she Ls off to Spam where on her last visit bull fighters wrote effusive verses to
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  • 26 9 Daily all-cargo flights across the Atlantic will be m operation within 12 months, announces Mr. Juan Trippe, boss of Pan American World Airways.
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  • 21 9 FIREMEN at Oravesend, Kent. Installed an aquarium m their recreation room to watch tropical flih while waiting fur calls.
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  • 384 11  - It costs a fortune to join Jhis club JOHN CULMER says ID rt week at tl Puerta de Hierro, Spair i lslvc club ar v one of the most c: m Europe. The entrance fee is $2,12 .vice that charge by the X V.uiit Squadro: the cpensive club i Britain,
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  • 45 11 IUI th minimum of stops between countries. Frontiers will flash by the window as all Customs formalities will be carried out on board. Ihe cost of travel will be slightly higher than for ordinary trains but should I < worth it.
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  • 639 11  - Pack your memories into strips of tape JAMES BARTLETT HGGHTYTR NEW RAGE PAIR; IMIIIIHIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMHIIIIIIIMimiIIIMIMIIH OFF WITH THE lIIIIMHItIIHIIIIMIMIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIMI VIEWING AGE ItIMHIMIIMM till II lIIIMIIHIMMItI 'THE Duke of Bdin--1 burgh is using a new tape recorder. Thai means that a soundalbum of Royal Family voices particularly those of Prince Charles and
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    46 11 ith her picture. Julia Lot'kwood, the young daughter of .Margaret Lot-k-uood, the British film and stage actress, is starring in a new children's play "The Adventures of Goldilocks'' in London. Here Julia meets some of the strange animal characters api>earine with her in the show. —Popper
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  • 440 12 lj boU i for women tea ■erred to light organ music girlish chatter m seemhc nt'ht time and plac( ,i, Which tO ob.servc the American i to find how she r I( where what the talks it, and where ibe comei from i Ktet
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  • 328 12  - Its a GIRLS' WORLD in this hotel tot WOMEN EVE PER RICK: Says a tally cvi )n<> or the hii is th« that aut Amefe." only for 1 N which 11 brown d build on ln« 700 v. >men, and n I Moor. Bix-huodri ty-six hnttv from -hoi 60 to
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    • 60 12 JP^Nt, XJPICTURES /y rtC UCAITU I rIEALIn T» j(|^jp> ||P Mvery picture tells a story Sound aranayagi Penan i; and here's a tale that is thrice W§BM?-- y k w ''™Wffls&&&Msi t.»l«l a tale of three happy, Well- &>$ V proportioncl yoVDgttcfl M'hose W bright eyes and fine limbs eloquently
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  • 143 13 Too little discipline displeases Junior lAT does your child think of you? An enterprising editor tly decided to find and 500 children between the ages of six and fourteen were asked: What annoys you about y our lather. Your mother?" shocks; little Japanese boy X: "Parents do every"Jing for us,
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    88 13 Depends on the indivi- dual approach whether these 1955 drawers with the 1855 motif are worn as undies or pyjamas. < The knee-length style, called "Sevenses" was 3 one of the highlights at < a Keystone lingerie par- 3 ade at the Criterion Res- < > taurant, m Piccadilly,
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  • 417 13 Neither side vulnerable South dealer NORTH 43 9J 8 4 0 X Q 10 7 ♦KQ J 6 5 WEST EAST 4 X 5 4 4 10 62 9 A X 9 6 3 9752 0850 A J 6 3 *8 4 9 7 3 SOUTH ♦AQ J
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  • 467 13 The Reds now laugh at the blues GOVERNMENT short comings and muddle headedness m the Com munist dominated count ries of Satellite Europ are proverbial. So, to blunt the shar] <dge of ever rising dis content among thei sullen subjects, the Re( rulers now resort to th< well-tried and provec
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  • 258 13 PRESIDENT Eisenhower 1 is making culinary as well as political history with his famous "stag dinners." The invitation, signed "with warm personal regards Dwight D. Eisenhower," requests the pleasure of the recipient's company (preferably m a dinner jacket) at a meal where
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  • 751 14  -  DESMOND HACKETT Says WILLIAM AMBROSE WRIGHT, captain courageous of England and Wolverhampton Wanderers, first gentleman of football, is proudly presented to you as my Sportsman of the Year. There I the air of a knight In shining armour when Billy Wright goes into
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  • 91 14 (MIKD WILT, Owner oi vie i world two mile indoor re- J cord oi Bmln M.T ec, returna to bli favourite event on January 15 iii the LtrtV( c two mile run at the 29th Knighti of Columbus Gam< at Boston i Qarden Wilt'fl entry Insures
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  • 64 14 Club from many parti ol ►rid hav< invited i o tak< pai l m tin- silver Ju\)iU < ol Bi iti h veteran can at 81 1 a1 ford on Avon on July 7, tO bi fOllOW( d Concoui eg nee ;it mlngtoi Bnti i from
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  • 46 14 nr v\ iiiiiniu iiiuiiijtMn mi me \jiris Sport* Club'j Christmas raffle, di iah at their Now Year. i Dan< i\ the Badminton stadium I No. 174 H. Second No 2477 Third No. 1144. Fourth No 2057 Fifth No. 01 1G c
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  • 41 14 ii Than win be mooting of the Singapore Cricket club iii In liif Club-house, at 5.30 t pin tomorrow. ah member! i Interested In playing poccer or m c iirijini to administer the soccer laectton, art requested tv attend.
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  • 551 14 HIF Dftfll C«P IMW returned home to the Inited States where, .">:> years as<>, it was conceived as i world-wide lawn tennis trophy by an American flinlomat Mr. Dwight Davis. (iiliiuiiia -ug h iv (> b(i(>n the mQst regular wini|l r> then
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  • 79 14 JOEY KLEIN of New York, an 11-9 underdog, upset Gerald Dreyer of South Africa last night on a technical knockout at the end of the seventh round when the feature bout at Eastern Parkway Arena, Now York, was stopped because of cuts on Dreyer's face.
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  • 305 16 Manila scramble Free Press Boxing Reporter HIM KM (HAN- Bfhl fwn«i Cossentyns. irho m rated No. 1 among tinworld* bantamweights, i> creating mucli concern m Manila. 0. i day Kee Chan i I !i from Manila promotei A R Mun I i flght the npion of
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  • 63 16 Perai Rugby Union' scraU h Lde beat I'll.- Re by 31 polnta i try :iikl i pen iky) to 6 point i try ;m<i penaltj I m ;i itate trial m Hip ipoh* padang ye terdaj ihc |ame mv In preparation ton the lelectlon <>! the
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    31 16 picture. Pierre Cmmmtm (right), Helgian bantamweight champion and ranked No. 1 m the world, leads off against colleague and spar mate Jo Janssens it the Police Training School yesterday- Free Press
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  • 140 16 IyfSE Belgian boxers had their first sparring session t the Police Training School estcrday against each other. Bantamweight champion lent Cossemyns displayed is skill as a boxer m four ounds against Belgian lightweight champion Jo Janssens, ;ho is a sheer slugger. Janssens will tight the ough
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  • 66 16 Jaroslav Drobny, Egypt, and Hugh Stewart, United States, advanced to the ftnali of the Parisian indoor Tennis rournament yesterday by defeating Jean Borolia and Xavier Perreau-Bausslne, France. 5-2, 6-3. 8-1 Butter Patty, U.S. and Knit Ni.'l- •11, Denmark, defeated Giuseppe Mario and Orlando Sirola. Italy, Ki-H, 6-4,
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  • 20 16 French boxer Ray Famechon will defend his European featherweight title against Sergio Milan of Italy on January 29.
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