The Singapore Free Press, 11 March 1955

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  • 21 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya \u 1 4 !03 Singapore, Fri.. Mar. 11, 1953. Price 15 Cts
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  • 220 1 Margaret: Decision has been taken, says U.S. paper 'rHE New York Times yesterday carried an article from its London correspondent declaring that well placed observers believe a decision on Princess Margaret'B marriage has already been taken. The correspondent quoted a London editor as living privately that the matter was discussed
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  • 118 1 MR. Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister. said m Ottawa yesterday that Australia has no objection to A-bomb and missile tests being held on her territory. He was asked if Britain planned its first H-bomb test there. That is nothing but a wUd rumour," he replied.
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  • 62 1 The Soviet Government apparently has given its women a big role m saving the nations agricultural programme. A resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party said: "Tens of millions of women farmers are actively helping to solve one of the most important tasks
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  • 51 1 A British soldier was killed and four other men were injured at Larkhill. Salisbury Plain, yesterday by a shell explosion during gunnery pracfice. The sh'-ll is believed to have exploded while a group was landing round an anti-tank gun at the School of Artillery.
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  • 30 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on an uncertain tone, with first ?rade, March shipment, at 88 cents a lb., seven-eighths of a cent below yesterday's close.
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  • 79 1 In the Telok Ayer division of Singapore one i=E m four or five of the electors is missing. This is just one of the interesting facts dis=E covered by a Free Press reporter m a new series E5 of articles on the elec- tions starting on Page 5
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  • 19 1 Military authorities have reported theft of 60 cast iron pipes, worth $300, from Gillman barracks, Singapore.
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  • 61 1 ]VJR. George Ward, British Air Under secretary, Hairned yesterday, that British air weapons were Miperior to Russia's. He told the Commons that w would be at "disaster" lor the R.A.F. to have to exchange its weapons with the corresponding weapons tne Russian air force has today and
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  • 122 1 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, the Prime Minister, yesterday turned down a Soviet proposal that members of visiting parliamentary delegations should speak m each others' parliaments. The Supreme Soviet (Parliament) passed a resolution last month suggesting the exchange of parliamentary delegations as a means of
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  • 353 1 VIETNAM WAR ON TWO FRONTS PIVIL war is racing on two fronts m South Vietnam, said the Paris evening newspaper France Soir. It stated last night that the opponents of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem were now m a position to overthrow him "within a few hours." "The Vietnam Premier, Mr.
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  • 31 1 The British Commonwealth is the most powerful force for good m the world today. The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies said m Ottawa yesterday.— U.P.
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  • 32 1 An Egyptian Government spokesman .said la.st night the forthcoming meeting m Cairo to draft a new Arab alliance agreement would be confined to Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt- U.P.
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  • 32 1 South Korea officials yesterday ridiculed North Korean Foreign Minister Nam Ill proposal for a reduction of military strength m both North and South Korea as another tham peace ofleiu>ive.- U.P.
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  • 57 1 CHINESE Communist Premier Chou En-hii hta coldly turned down all appeals so far for a negotiated Fnrrnosan settlement, authoritative diplomatic sources said In London yesterday. Mediation efforts m Peking hav<- drawn a complete blank and Mr. Chou has remained wholly uncompromising. He firmly rebutted "interference
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  • 192 2 Situation in Malaya much better MR. Richard Casey, Australian Minister for External Affairs, said last night m Melbourne that the internal security position m Malaya had greatly improved. In South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, however, the situation was not satisfactory. Means being taken to help them was a race against
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  • 143 2 SIR Richard Acland, a Socialist Member of Parliament announced m London last night that he was resigning his seat to fight the resulting election on the issue of the hydrogen bomb. Sir Richard will stand as an Independent. He said he could not
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  • 280 2 New building to cost $55 million BRITAIN'S contribution this year to the European Organisation for Nuclear Research has been increased eight-fold over last year, from £43.000 to £360.000. the Scientific and Industrial Research Department said yesterday. The department, m its annual report issued m London, announced first
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  • 106 2 PRESIDENT Eisenhower assured America's European allies yesterday that the United States will maintain m Europe, including Germany, its fair share of military forces so long as a threat to the area continues. The White House released the text of a message from the President
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  • 35 2 COMMUNIST China has announced that the two Lamas of Tibet are being allowed to return to their mountain homeland which will become an "autonomous region of the Chinese motherland." U.P.
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  • 183 2 STEPHEN GREENWOOD 61 >ear-old Briton, told Renter by phone from Lodz Poland, yesterday he and his brother Fred, 58. were re rased on Tuesday after near-" lv three years m polish prisons. They are now staying with a cousin m Lodz and
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  • 24 2 THE House of Commons will next Monday debate a Labour Opposition censure motion against the* Government on world disarmament.- Reuter
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  • 198 3 SEARCH FOR AIR VICTIMS AMONG HEADHUNTERS aN AMERICAN-CHINESE rescue party yesterday struggled slowly up a jungle mountain where unfriendly natives live m an effort to reach the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force passenger plane. Air Force officials said the search team may fail to climb the remote peak where
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  • 182 3 Ridiculous -accused sergeant SIX-FOOT grey-haired British Sergeant Frederick Emmett-Dunne, 32, was remanded m custody for a week yesterday charged with murdering his wife's first husband, found hanged 16 months ago at an army camp at Duisberg, West Germany. The Bow Street (London) Magistrates' Court was packed when the accused, wearing
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  • 110 3 A 19-year-old soldier was sentenced to death m Stafford, England last night for murdering a married woman on a piece of waste ground while trying to mak«> love to her. But the jury added a strong recommendation to mercy for the soldier, Kenneth Causer.
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  • 45 3 Private Chester Stalin of Bayonne, New Jersey, was formally charged yesterday m Kansas City with threatening to kill President Eisenhower. He is said to have made the threat m a letter to the White House on Feb. 7.- A. P.
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  • 24 3 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, suffering from a mild attack of gripe, stayed m bed for the third successive day yes- terday.- U.P.
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  • 35 3 RUMBLING earth tremors jarred the Kilau.a volcano a .t of Hawaii every few seconds yesterday. Thf I.5Mr(Ma enta of Pahoa prepared to evacuate their homes at a moment I uouce. U.P.
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  • 192 3 'Calculated, systematic fraud* TWO men were each sent to prison for four years m London yesterday for conspiracy to defraud the Pakistan High Commissioner m London of £55,883. They were Ernest Humphrey, 38, and Richard Land, 37, a former clerk m
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  • 210 3 Birth control the answer for Asia, says doctor |\K Sripati handrasekE mJ har. Indian author and population authority, says birth control is the only answer to the over-popula-tion problem m Asia He told a meeting of directors of the Planned Parenthood Federation of E America that Asian nations r would
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  • 156 3 SIXTY-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Jean Mathieson, who was alleged to have kept her weak-minded brother locked up m a room for four years was found not guilty m Ayr, Scotland, yesterday of treating him m a cruel and unnatural manner. She was also found not guilty
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  • 44 3 Reports that Turkey haa decided to participate m next month's Asian-African conference cheered the conference sponsor*: m Djakarta yesterday. They had regarded Turkey's silence as one of the bluest stumbling blocks to the success of the conference.- U.P.
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  • 26 3 Britain yesterday protested to Nationalist China against the shelling of two Bri-tish-registered freighters by Gen. Chiang's warships off the Communist mainland last Tuesday. Reuter
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  • 31 3 Ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, who recently abdicated the throne of Cambodia, will visit India as originally planned. He will lead a eroodwill mission to Delhi on March 16 Reuter
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  • 98 3 Captain blamed for warship grounding CiAPTAIN Roddie- Casement, y commander of the naval frigate Wrangler, was found guilty by a court-martial In Valetta. Malta, yesterday on two charges arising from th<» grounding of hit ship laM month. Captain Casement, whose home is at Rotate, near Midhurst Sussex, and commands the
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  • 292 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. Mar. 11, 1955. Opinion Real value of a vote [T WAS inevitable that there should be reports of attempts to bribe the electorate by some candidates m the elections for the Singapore Legislative Assembly. The reports will grow as April 2 approaches. The citizens of
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  • 951 4  -  George Hutchinson by Two men— unknown to the people of Britain— share the world's gravest secrets with Sir Winston Churchill; they are his living library of facts, his human barricade; they are the people he is always glad to see; they are the joint
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    • 129 4 Max Factor creates an amazing the only w p|> yet stays J CINDY on longer! fgS Internal. <ia. St&F Max Factor's n»u paletlcd COLOR-FAST lipstick keeps your lips always care^ingly and smooth. Yet it stays on longer lhan any "indelible" lipstick e\er couW. From now on, enjoy lip* that look
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  • 745 5 tree Press reporter pinpoints some poll snags Why worry us? Women retort to candidates \i'HL'RE are the vanish- cd 25 per cent of Tflok Ayer voters? "Search me," said one candidate for the Singapore Legislative Assembly. He is really puzzled because he cannot lind one
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  • 271 5 IJESPITE the Singapore Government's poliry on staff housing, locally domiciled officers now '"•cupying quarters will not be disturbed as long as they are m the service. cer.s returning from overseas training who had quarters before they left. The policy, which has
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  • 155 5 |>. JUMABHOY J\ (merchant), j7, IndependZ ent. Worked 40 E years m area. since age of 19. Municipal ComE sioner from 38E 48. served BMA E Advisory Conn E cil. then Civil E Advisory CounE cil after war. E Served m Leg. E Co. as nominE ated
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 242 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis >'' VH Ff P TIGHT* L^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M 9^M\. YOU TO WRITE--J TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs wF?~^fd* Js*s*'im lJ '^iJirM^^wrl L\ v r r^o* volp nr takzan veu-E^ I S-Oo>-^ c *cxrr >Ou to tv-€ i t/\. \-4^^wii yfat I P^*» *rT"^ TO«C HE
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    • 597 6 YOUR LUCKY I STAR IM)KN today, y ou lu\, a MJ tremendous s,. ri v )f duU and sometimes make a fetish I of being busy all the tim. You Use this a> an ex< v c tjot j to do things that >„» dont wish to do a mechanism
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  • Hound the World Market Prices
    • 224 7 LONDON. Mar. 10. Previous Today IM'BBKR No. 1 RSS eJ-f. European 25 1 buyers 25 buyers iM»rts March 25\ sellers 26 .sellers i j.KI X No. 1 RSS eSJ. European 25^ buyers 25\ buyers ports April 25\ sellers 26 sellers Xi BBER No. 1 RSS Spot 26
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    • 107 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 10. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 91.50 nom. 91.75 nom. TIN futures, March 90.00 bid 90.65 bid 91.00 asked 91.60 asked April 89.75 bid 90.35 bid 90.75 asked 91.25 asked May 89.50 bid 90.00 bid 90.00 asked 90.75 asked TONE Steady. SALES:
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    • 40 7 Spot Malabar quoted at 44 cents round. Awaiting release 43 '-j. 43. March 42 > a April Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib. 42 5... May 42. Sarawak spot 43 and Lampong spot 44 cents sellers exdock.
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    • 30 7 NEW YORK. Mar. 10. Previous Today it Industrials 404.90 406 83 SI Railroads 148.27 149 82 10 Domestic Bonds 100.07 100.02 ■I SUxks Composite Average 151.59 152.47
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    • 122 7 OI'KA Philippines c.i.f. UK /North I uiop^an delivered weight per loaf ton March April (<>!'KA Philippines f.o.b. Manila delivered weight per long ton I oI'RA Straits c.i.f. UK/North Kuropoan delivered weight per teaf ton March April f April May COCONUT OIL -rude, Straits, c.i.f. I uiopean
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  • 183 7 JAPAN MUST IMPORT 3 mil. TONS OF FOOD YEARLY FOR NATION JAPAN must import four million tons of food a H for her 88 million people, 'fording to Mr. Ken N'inomiya. the Japanese Con- ■il-General m Singapore This represents 20 per cent >f her total staple food con,umption, he added
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  • 416 7 $25-BRIBE OFFERS TO SWAY VOTERS ARE REPORTED ORIBES ranging from $10 to $25 are being offered to Singapore electors to induce them to vote for certain candidates m next month's elections, the Free Press reliably learns. Bribery attempts, it is understood, have so far been confined almost entirely to Chinese
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  • 67 7 Teoh Bok Leng 26. a godown kepala m the Malayan Railway yard, Kuala Lumpur, was yesterday bound over for $600 for two years by the Session.* Court for assisting In the disposal of 100 bags of stolen rice. The rice, worth $5,000. had been sent from
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  • 337 8 I accuse police, he says I ONDON police connive at West End street walking, a Socialist M.P. said m the Commons. The charge was made by Mr. Richard Stokes (Ipswich) and was bitterly resented by Mr. Lloyd George, the Home Secretary. It was a sudden
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  • 306 8 rpHE quietly spoken, I well dressed guest from Koom 7 at Sheffield's Albany Hotel is being sought by police throughout Britain. \A\d they have been warned to t a k c no chances. \s he left the hotel before dawn, after a three-day
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  • 185 8 SLIGHTLY more beer is to be available m Navy ships, but sailors should not expect too much! The news was given m the Commons by Mr. Wingfteld Dlgby. Civil Lord of the Admiralty. He said with gravity which amused M.P.s: "Considerable thought has
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  • 216 8 WOMEN BUY FREEDOM FROM REDS AT £1,000 EACH IRON Curtain countries are selling freedom to old Jewish women at £1,000 each. Fifteen of them who have I Just been let out to cmi- grate to Israel arrived m j Naples. They were all over 60. With them was a lame,
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  • 37 8 Two wards were closed at Luton and Dunstable (Bedfordshire) Hospital because some of the nurses have sore throats. Some of the 50 patients were sent home, the rest went to other wards.
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  • 61 8 A Scot. Mr. R. Robertson, told the Socialist Party's week-end conference m London recently: "I can wear a shirt for a week m Aberdeen —not just because I'm a Scot but because the air is so clean. In London I can only wear it for one day."
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    94 8 Major E. W. D. Coven- try of Norwich (neartst camera on right* and" j Lieut. J. R. Oldfield of Bedford (wearing rain- coat) with l party of eight O.R.s left Blackbushe airport m I Britain recently as the advance party of i parachute volunteers from the Ist. 2«d. and 3rd
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  • 53 8 NINETEEN -YEAR-OLD Gunner Ernest Bailes was found shot dead m his guardroom— just after being told he must serve four months' detention. He had been court martialled at Larkhill, near Salisbury, for going absent. He was found with a rifle near him. Gunner Bailes. from Sydenham,
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  • 25 8 Ontario will recruit no more teachers from Britain year bemuse of the lOC cam. last year intend I stay m uieir Jobs.
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  • 168 8 WHY I VANISHED -BY THE SAD BALLERINA T^WENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Jacqueline Rayet, the 1 ballet dancer who fled from the backstage "ridicule" of the Paris Opera when she did not win stardom, has turned vp m a town 45 miles from Marseilles. For five days since she disappeared her husband. Robert Pomie,
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  • 374 9 Bride, 14, still at school, tells of love A GIRL of 15, late of form 3A, broke off from cooking a mixed grill supper for her husband to tell the story of her courtship. Diamante earrings sparkled as she talked at her Parents' home m Birmingham:— "I met my husband—
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  • 58 9 rpHREE complainants m a 1 theft case at George •Cape Province) magistrates court yesterday were named George Feltman, George Fisher, and George Shaw, all of the George Hotel, George. and employed at the George Bakeries, George. When magistrate George Keyser called George for African
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  • 26 9 The Auckland Transport Board of New Zealand have placed a .€320,000 order with Transport Vehicles Daimler). Ltd., of Coventry, for 70 sin-gle-deck vehicles.
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  • 54 9 The Queen's dress designer. Norman Hartnell. will hold a f^hion show on ice m South Mrica m May— part of a festival based on "Mardi Gras" to popularise the Natal coast. The mannequins, all South African girls. will appear s hed by skaters on
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  • 40 9 The correct use of gas and foke would save 14 to 15 milion tons of coal a year—by fitting rid of oDen fires, *ud BU Harold Smilh, chairman 1 Gas Council, m London "lllliiiiiiih '"iiiiMiiiiiiiiiii i mmi
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  • 57 9 A TAPE recorder was f* Put before the magistrates at Stalybridge. n «*r Manchester. From it poured a record ngliage used *»y Mr VHliam Dodd's neighbour. T ne Bench regarded the toan next door !jt's the drink," he a »a, and was bound over [or 12
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  • 65 9 Romance has broken the partnership of the world ice dancing champions, Jean Westwood, 23. and Lawrence Dem my (above). Lawrence is now engaged to Pat Kram. 17. of Manchester. The newlyengaged couple (left) are seen on the ice rink at Manchester. Meanwhile, Miss Westwood is looking for
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  • 331 9 rPHREE inquiry agents acting 1 for a doefofl wife were keeping an all-night watch on the doctor'! novae. At 3.30 am they began to ring, knock, and kick the door. They shouted and yelled, The doctor spoke through the window The agents
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  • 232 9 PILOT IS WARNED BY MUSIC IN PLANE LANDING a jet aircraft on the deck of a modern aircraft-carrier is now a.s simple as listening to an organ. For a new British invention, the Audio, works on the principle of an electric organ. The Audio, an additional aid to angled -deck
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  • 49 9 A n»-w flat race, tbc first to be named after the Queen, is U) be run at Ascot on Septcm ber 24. It will be railed the Quern Elisabeth 11. Stakes .md will have £5.000 prize iimiiv i It will co*t £60 to run j. bornti
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  • 597 10  - The Surgeon of Rome Probes the Spirit of Love GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON by ghfhfhfhfhg A Ghost at Noon. By Alberto Moravia. Seeker and Warburg 12s. Cd. 223 pages. \LBERTO MORAVIA began his career as a novelist early, before he was completely cured of the bone tuberculosis which afflicted him until
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    22 10 picture. A new picture of Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, leaving No. 10, Downing: Street for the House of Commons. A.P.
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  • 213 10 HIS FAITH WAS NEVER SHAKEN THE death at the age of 87 of Paul Claudel, the poet and dramatist, removes the most impos- ing French literary figure since Victor Hugo. Like Hugo, he wielded an Immense influence m his own lifetime, and generations of Frenchmen have been brought up on
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    22 11 c# i.» ins nf the Bristol Zoo, hold* »»a<k the lin^»EWjaa." ira jhi ,i Stephanie la beiuy pampered a little.- Reuter picture.
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    73 11 picture. Prince and Cinders, the three -month-old lion rubs at London's Whipsnadc /<><>. look out over the deep snow which su rounds their enclosure and they don't really mind it at all. In spite of all the cold weather, the cubs are thriving "thanks to tkc Rood care their mother
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  • 354 11 Planned parenthood for animal pets NOW THE GOAL IS- ANEW humane movement m America has its goal planned parenthood for animal pets. The Americans are a cat-a:id-dog-loving people. No lUintry spends more money m the care and feeding of its Probably no other couniias as many animal hospitals —or cemeteries
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  • 459 11  -  JAMES WHITE says afler a visit to Greenland jVf Y FRIEND Nanok, the iTX Greenland hunter, calls his country Oratsiluni "The Land of Beautiful Big Igloos." Compared with his own, Nanok might find civilised homes big. but even his primitive eye would find few of
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    51 12 picture. Inspiration rame from the Orient for this attractive coolie shape Spring and Summer hat m Chinese lacquer paribuntal straw, christened "Chinese Lantern.' The fluted brim is embossed with cut-outs m black velvet, which is also used to edge the hat and the head clasps. Retail price is approximately 549.
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  • 223 12  - Those HORRORS turn up again ANNE SHARPLEY It's time ALL furniture makers gave the designers a chance WHY do some members of the furniture trade not realise that a piece of furniture needs the attentions of a trained designer just as much as a house needs an architect or a
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  • 58 12 A STRANGE new role was allotted to atomic scientist Frederic Joliot Curio, Communist ex- Atomic Energy Commissioner of France. He was named as one of three experts to say whether seven people whom Madame Marie Besnard of Loudun is accused of murdering, died by arsenic
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  • 530 12 Robb HUNTS MINK IN MAYFAIR Where the Pick is m the Pink IJOW many minks make a mile m London? The question has been bothering me since I came back from Monte Carlo where, you remember, I was nearly stifled with mink. So. early one morning. 1 went off on
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    • 72 12 N t W SHEEN The Cream-to-Liquid Lustre Hair Dressing a new and really wonderful aid to hair beauty an essential food for the hair a replacement of natural oils. Used regularly as a dressing and always for setting, it will give your hair a much greater brilliance than brilliantine WITHOUT
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    • 283 12 z^ 1^ CJLI'ES ACROSS: capital (5). I Painful piece of work for a 6 A shilling may! (4). seamstress? <6». 7 Family vegetation? (4). BNo south east directions for; a 10 A beach news-conveyor? (4-5) rescuer 12 Often follows the sea (4). 9 A Shakespearean forest fills the 13 Concerning
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    56 13 Airport officials, one of them holding two walking sticks help the Aft Khan as he arrives at Nice from Cairo. Apparently much recovered from his recent Illness, he left by road for his villa at Le Cannet, where he plans to stay for the next three months. The
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  • 188 13 BRITISH travellers are oh, so polite! AND THEY NEVER MAKE MID-AIR PASSES A REPORT by an airline 1 hostess that "Britons ire the best travellers to deal with" has led— in Denmark— to the pubUion of a comparative review of airline travelers. hostess concerned Birthe Lunn of dlnaYian Airlines) rvthat
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    80 13 HOW man> wordi Of lour letter* or more ran > o v make from the letter* In the mj ii ar e on the' left? In making each word the letters In Mil squar^ ma\ f,e u »fd once i h«- iar or must ronUin iWa^J^E »n the centre
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    317 13 WHAT I like about Blackwood" South said to hifl unfamiliar partner at the beginning of the rubber.. -k that ts a simple system. You arent likely to eet tangled uu m H. &> let play Blackwood for slami. Okay agreed North although he looked a bit dubious A
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  • 575 13  - The Holmes' touch gets that letter delivered ROBER T ALLEN ;i ii iilliiim i i I by SERVICE IS HALLMARK OF SWISS POST OFFICE AN Wednesday, last v week, my doorbell rang and with a cheerful "Good morning, sir," the postman handed me a small nickel coin worth 50 cents.
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  • 84 13 They drink German beer AN export boom m beer is bringing prosperity to German brewers. The German Brewers' Association reports annual sales abroad have risen by 20 per cent, and almost 40,000,000 marks (nearly $29 -mill ion, since 1952. West Germany is now exporting about 41.100.000 quarts of beer, and
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  • 219 14 U.S. zone final tonight THOMAS CUP IV3P-RANKING badminton players from Canada and the United States, will meet at the Winnipeg: badminton club today and tomorrow m the North American zone of the Thomas Cup. Canada's six-man team will be Wd by 1955 .singles champion Don Smythe. 30-year-old ex-football player from
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  • 200 14 Bad Boy Bo becomes box-office rpOO old for the game at 20. Not ■I enough speed and zip any more. Going to retire. That's what the pan ther- like Czech Bohumil Vana, said m 1939. Now. as the 36-year-old "mystery man." bounding Bo returns to London for the English table
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  • 100 14 "PNGLAND have made only one| change m choosing the team to meet New Zealand today m the Arst of two cricket Tests. Reg. Simpson, the Nottinghamshire amateur, replaces Denis Comptoti who has not made the trip to New Zealand This U the only <l» m«e
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  • 84 14 GAY Donald, outsider of the nine runners at 33-1, provided the biggest upset of the National Hunt season by gaining a runaway win from the fancied horses m the Cheltenham Gold Cup yesterday. Always with the leaders. Gay Donald jumped brilliantly and drew right away
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  • 101 14 The Queen Mother Elizabeth saw her Grand National entry M'As-Tu-Vu beaten m the three-mile National Hunt Handicap Steeplechase. Six other entries for the March 26 Alntree race tried their luck— and all were defeated by 7-1 Limber Hill. Quare Times. 100-8 joint favourite for the Grand
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  • 28 14 Bobby Johnstone Hibernian and Scotland inside forward has been transferred to Manchester City. The fee was about £22.000, the biggest m Hibs* history.
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  • 1286 14 MIGHTY MOUSE' MACIAS DISHES OUT A THRSHING R\TON MACIAS of .Mexico won the N.B.A. version of the world bantamweight title m San Francisco, by scoring an 11th round tk.o. over hamroen Songkitr.it of Siam. The referee Intervened midway through the second-last round. Mexico's "MUhtv Mouse had iust knocked Son^kitrat down
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  • 55 14 THE Ist Battalion Fiji Infantry Regiment from Malaya, whose rugby XV is m Hong Kong to contest the final of the FARELF inter-unit championship, beat a Combined Civilian team 41-0. The Fijians scored seven goals and two tries Skipper Radrodro converted seven tries Outstanding players
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  • 403 14 OLYMPIC Officials m Melbourne, have issued emphatic assurance to world travel agencies and the public, that accommodation will be available for everybody at next year's Olympic Games. The Games will be opened by His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh on November 22, and
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  • 58 14 WALES XV v. IRELAND Oarfield Owen *J£»ES! choice because of a fltnjjs is the only new cap m J t Rugby XV to meet I ™wi Caidiff tomorrow The team G. Owen K. Jones "IJJg^ A. Thomas <Llanelly> G. <.MJ H. Morris (Cardiff.. w Bcctive and/- R. WillU .Cardiff' -J^..
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  • 62 14 T ONDON Hospital Jf d in L Thomas the holder.^ the Hospitals Rubd> Semi-final at Rl n ™Xn Hosp«in the Bnal nd f on tne Otr/i m eet the winners ol )Uy versus St. Marys serm^ Floodlit Rugby Leigh 4 Rochdale Home Rugby Union: Coun»>
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  • 16 14 Weymouth will w wells placf In Speed" Division next season 1 lu vi
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  • 2200 15 NAZAKAT BEST FOR BIG RACE TOMORROW TRESPASSER on the first day of the Singapore March meeting Pace ana stamina will help her vW/AKAT, a five-year-old Hyacinthus mare, looks W an «t«l good thing m the Class 1, Division I—9 furkMlfi handicap, the main race at Bukit Timah tomorrow. This wonderfully
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  • 49 15 |>lU)lt\m.l N.rahlnncs I at Bukit Timah tomorrow arc: Three Rings. atnpus Belle, Twinkle Toes. Asmara, Pommie. Sadoura. Loyal la)\c. Pride of Phoe nix. Channel Patrol. Acrobat, Silver Screen. Wedding Day. Tolyar. Irmine, Well Being. Dend rite, I.irvflinc. Secret Flißht. The K«iinr is likely to be very »;ood.
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  • 139 15 IJACING driven from Europe, Canada. Mexico and South America began converging on Scbring, Florida, yesterday for the Florida 12-hour Grand Pnx of endurance to be run on Sunday. The Sebrlng event is the only race m America m which point* accumulated count toward the world sports car
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  • 25 15 To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the Singapore Badminton A.vw>eiation a luncheon will tx 1 held .it the Capital Chinrve Restaurant w» Sunday.
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    • 35 15 DON'T 'vk FORGET v_ C\ OFFERS WASSIAMULLS Enjoy Yourself at THE OCEAN PARK HOTEL Splendid Entertainment Programme featuring Personal Appearance or MISS BELLA LING The most applauded Singing Star from Hongkong Ring ***** for Reservations
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  • 473 16 All India player nets the winner ABGOS at the Stadium Tigers 2; Kuta Kaja 1. PUT the best players together m a soccer team and it still doesn't mean they will click. Tigers had the talent, but they won this SAFA Div. 1 league match
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    19 16 Arshad, (lie Kola Raja goalkeeper, leaps to clear his line m a tangle of arms, brads and striped jerseys.
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    23 16 picture Kota Raja lnside-!cft Mokhtar first-times a shot m mid-air before Chong; Kum, Timers fullbark, can trap the ball. Free Press
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  • 24 16 IyfORE than 250 players from ITX 15 countries \uii compete m the All'Eogland badminton championships m Lonaon from March 23 to 26.
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  • 19 16 Jfl Words $6 (minimum) EVERS: To Marjorie, wife of Antony Evers on 9th March, at X.X.. daughter, Catherine.
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  • 76 16 20 Words $,t, (minimum) SEAH: Seah Chong Atnm, a^ed 61 years, Manager, New World Amusement Park. Singapore, passed away peacefully ;tt the General Hospital on Thursday, 10th March. ii>ss at 9.30 a.m. after a short Illness. He leaves behind a widow, 2 sons. 4 daughters and 1 son-in-law to
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  • 25 16 Italy's Fausto Gardlni yesterday qualified for the semi-finals of Egypt's International tenlns championships by defeating self-exiled Pole Ladislav Skonecki 6-4. 6-2. 4-6, 6-1.
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  • 192 16 -WALTHAM 'T'EDDY Waltham Secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, said yesterday it would be ridiculous to recognise Raton Madaa of Mexico as the reigning world bantamweight champion. Maci/.s stopped Chamroen Songkitrat of Thailand in the 11th round of a scheduled 12-rounder in San Francisco
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  • 50 16 Dai Dower of Wales, the British, British Empire, and European flyweight champion at the age of 21, was presented with a gold watch and a scroll as •the Best young Boxer of 1954" at a dinner of the British Boxing Writers Club last night m London.
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  • 150 16 AUSTRALIA open their cricket tour of the West Indies with a match against Jamaica at Kingston tomorrow week. The first of the five Tests will be played on the same ground, starting on March 26 The Tests will each last six days. Australia's fixtures,
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  • 206 16 SWIM RECORDS FALL AT MANILA TWO Australian girls, Miss Lorraine Crapp. j 16-year-old world record holder, and Miss Dian? Knight of Melbourne, broke allcomers open records yesterday m the i Philippines National Open I swimming competition. In the 400 metres freestyle heats Miss Crapp had the fastest time of smin
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  • 25 16 NEGRI LOSE 3- 0 Negrl lived up to their tion of being fighters oi their home p 3-0 to the P bocfcej tourist m Seremban.
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  • RACE FORM Special
    • 7 1 RACE FORM Special Friday. March 11, 1955.
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    • 514 1  -  ROBIN GOODFELLOW ±■***** Byilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Cheaper backing for the punters rpHE scope of Totalisator betting on the British Turf 1 will be extensively and attractively increased during the forthcoming flat-racing season. The Racecourse Betting Control Board— the Tote to you and me announce* (I) An
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    • 110 1 THE Jockey Club has been seeking to get the Government ban lifted against the St. Leger being run on a Saturday and for the race to revert to the traditional Wednesday. It was last run at Doncaster on a Wednesday m 1946 and changed
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    • 78 1 Boy jockey's debut- his name is Wynne! 52 jockey Henry Wynne on Mr Re* Deakin's five-year-old Ili«h Rej*l, the horse he will SSIS March 23 m the Lincolnshire Handicap his first race m public, Ijeakin's stables, where h e i> apprenticed, at Bruntrid^e Forest, Balcambe, Su**x. Wynne, Liverpool Ud who
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    • 17 1 JAMBAXAN MAS Two star candidates bidding for honours at the Singapore meeting. EVER GLORY
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    • 12635 2 Form Guide For S'pore Race Meeting HOLLOWING are the horses entered for the Blmaptw Turf CM Marck Meeting. Class One ADHAIDF STAR *< KM* tllli: ltl»M X L. 8 12 6F 1h« H< ngg< k r Mcmi l Cl 1 Ul\ I I: „cc WON t.irt«tii 12-2-55 Xl MIM 'M
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      • 50 4 seethe 1955 VAUXHALLS These brilliant new Vauxhalls are now on display at Orchard Motors SINGAPORE Xl ALA LIMPI R HrFHtSrsTID ClSIV*mC»»€ IN TMC rtDCB»TION BY BOMNCO MCOWS LTD r We cater for: Wedding Parties Cocktail Parties Singapore Airport Hotel Ltd. PHOnE ***** IWSji. INDIAN. CHINESE, I Ij PAKISTAN CARPETS RUGS
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