The Singapore Free Press, 14 March 1955

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya 1 \l»3. Singapore. >fon., Mar. 14, 19."»5. Price 13 C'ts.
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    TWO MEN INJURED IN ELECTION SQUABBLE
    86 1 TWO MEN INJURED IN ELECTION SQUABBLE rp\VO men were attacked J with empty bottles and furniture during an lion squabble in Pasir Panjang, Singapore, last night. Mr John deMello, who is ting the division's Labiur Front candidate, had helpto put up an election bann at about 6 p.m. A shopkeeper
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    RUBBER UP
    29 1 The Singapore Rubber Market oixMied on an uncertain tone this morning, with first grade. March shipment, at 91 2 cents a ib., one cent above Saturday's close.
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    Lock icon Liner stands by
    44 1 Tlie p and O liner Strathedfn radioed yesterday that she was standing by to pick up About 20 members of the crew the 449-ton Greek trawler i lsoo which sank in the lonian Sea about 150 miles •rest of Greece. Reuter
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    MARGARET
    61 1 Call to Palace ALONDON Sunday newspaper Reynolds News, yesterday demanded that Buckingham Palace make a public statement about reports that Princess Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend may marry. "The truth must be known in court circles," said the paper. "Is it not time that court advisers decided to
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    Lock icon 100-FOOT FLAMES FROM BURNING FREIGHTER
    155 1 1 00-FOOT FLAMES FROM BURNING FREIGHTER All hands ordered ashore FLAMES leapt 100 feet into the air from me noia ui the 6,393-ton British freighter Sarmiento in Avonmouth dock near Bristol yesterday, when a 480--ton cargo of potassium nitrate caught fire anrt ex-P-odt^d. Two of the firemen who wore oxygen
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    Communist move to sway youth of East Germany
    93 1 POMMUNIST indoctrina- v tion of East German children aged between six and 14 is to be increased, the East Oerman news agency al>n, said yesterday. It ropolted that a conference of teachers and P">- 1 neer f youth leaden in Leipzig passed
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    Lock icon NO BANG
    11 1 Then* will be DO US. atomic bUst today.- Reuter
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    10 held in swoop on spy ring in Sweden
    156 1 10 held in swoop on spy ring in Sweden QWEDISH security police have arrested 10 people on charges of military espionage and espionages against, refugees on behalf of two minor East European states. The Public Prosecutor's office in Stockholm said the 10 alleged members of a Communist spy ring comprised
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    Lock icon Hush-hush on visit to Bao Dai
    82 1 Hush-hush on visit to Bao Dai TWO Vietnamese envoys who arrived at Cannes, in the south of France at the week-end to appeal to exEmperor Bao Dai to return to divided Vietnam, last night maintained silence about their mission. The messengers. Lai Huu Tai and Phan Ha. are members of
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    Lock icon Test held up
    22 1 There was no piay dciuillunch at Dunedin today third day of the test between England and New Zealand.— Reuter
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    MANAGER DIES IN RED TRAP
    175 1 5 in party wounded f plE manager of Penggarang estate Mr. K. 1). I*aul, was killed when 21) Communist terrorists ambushed a party of 1 1, including 11 special constables, near Kota Tinggi yesterday morning. With Mr. Paul in the party were Mr. E. Streeter,
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    British ship eluded Chiang guns
    169 1 British ship eluded Chiang guns C'iM vv members of the r>3gJ ton British freighter Westwav. which was fired on by Chinese Nationalist gunboats on March 7 in the Formosa Strait, said in Hong Kong yesterday that they watched another British ship escape gunfire from the same two Nationalist warships which
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    Lock icon Woman who Host family tells U.K. lof A-bomb
    454 2 Woman who Host family tells U.K. lof A-bomb rpilE effects of the atom I bombing o f Japan E were described in London E yesterday by Mrs. Shino- bu Hizume, 52-year-old E housewife from HiroshiE ma, Miss Kikue Ihara, 43E \ear-old teacher from E Nagasaki and two doctors, E Miss
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    Shortage of white workers in S. Africa
    111 2 Shortage of white workers in S. Africa SOUTH AFRICA is facing a shortage of wnite work--1 ers so serious that the whole future of the white race and its ability to maintain its superiority is threatened, Mr. Jan dc Klerk, the Minister of Labour and Public Works said in Capetown
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    Lock icon Baby was late—but too early for T.V.
    177 2 Baby was late but too early for T.V. rplE baby who kept all Bri- tain waiting 10 days arrived early yesterday but too late for millions of televiewers to see the birth on their screens. For six months T.V. fans have been following a series on the progress of 26-year-old
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    Lock icon FOOD SHORTAGE IN E.GERMANY
    273 2 Soviet Zone cities run out of supplies I in panic buying Ij^EAR of a new food shortage has set off a wave of panic buying and hoarding throughout the Soviet zone of Germany, the Communist Press said yesterday. East German newspapers said housewives were buying up
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    Lock icon CATHOLICS IN PAKISTAN FIND IT TOUGH
    112 2 CATHOLICS IN PAKISTAN FIND IT TOUGH rPHE. Rev. Felix Pinto of 1 Karachi, Pakistan said in New York yesterday that the "fanaticism" of Mohammedans in his country is making it difficult for the Roman Catholic Church to survive there. Father Pinto, known as the "padre on camelback." said there are
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    Lock icon SUPER CARRIERS GET PRIORITY—ESSENTIAL FOR CONTROL OF SEA'
    212 2 SUPER CARRIERS GET PRIORITY— ESSENTIAL FOR CONTROL OF SEA' ryntj House 01 Kepresentatives Armed Services Com--1 mittee denied in Washington yesterday, that the Navy's controversial new aircraft carriers would be sitting targets for hydrogen bombs or radioactive fallout. The committee said the 60,000-ton carriers were so manoeuverable and would be
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    Lock icon BACK IN PERSIA
    26 2 The Shah of Iran and Queen Sorava returned to Teheran yesterday after a three month holiday in the United States and Europe.- A.P.
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    HE WARNS CEYLONESE OF RED TACTICS
    211 2 HE WARNS CEYLONESE OF RED TACTICS PREMIER Sir John Kotelawala yesterday a s K d every civil servant and loyal Government employee to put down disturbances created by Communists and othrr disruptive elements durinu the next few days. Sir John told a meeting in cen tra! Ceylon: "Do not get
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    Lock icon Volcano active again
    90 2 A NEW eruption was reported yesterday from the Kilaeua volcano, about two miles from Pahoa in east Hawaii, where 500 villagers have taken refuge in the past two weeks. Two policemen were driving along the road from Pahoa to^ Kalapana on the coast checking for new cracks
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    Lock icon HE'LL TRY TO BEAT THAT WAR OFFICE BAN
    273 3 HE'LL TRY TO BEAT THAT WAR OFFICE BAN So the Lolonel must rewrite 80,000 words i lEUTENANT Colonel L Alexander Scotland, former British intelligence officer, sat down yesterday and began rewriting his 80,000-word autobiography in order to evade a War Office ban on the book. The book which included his
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    U.S. PUTS CHECK ON WEST INDIANS
    236 3 A CONGRESSIONAL commita tee today advised the United States not to admit more immigrants from the ove-populated British West Indies from which more than 10.000 Negroes left for Britain last year. The Congressmen found during a visit last December that only the migration of
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    Lock icon 65 out of 70 confess—We have taken Mail Mau oath
    145 3 65 out of 70 confess We have taken Mail Mau oath ALL but five of seventy Meru tribesmen at a tribal meeting in Nairobi yesterday, stood up to confess that they had taken Mau Mau oaths. They agreed to appear before a special tribal committee to make their confessions in
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    47 3 picuire. Che Hawar binte Bakri, head of the women's section of UMNO, speaks to 2,000 villagers of Radin Mas at last night's IMNO-MCA Alliance election meeting for Mr. Wong Foo Na m. Alliance candidate for Pasir Panjang. Tungku Abdul Rahman, president of UMNO, also snoke. Free Press
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    Lock icon Cup for HK Regt.
    49 3 The Governor. Sir Alexander Grantham yesterday presented the Hong Kong regiment of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force with a cup from the Middlesex Regiment symbolising the close association between the two regiments which was forged during the defence of the Colony in 1941. Reuter
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    Lock icon Deaf and dumb pair married
    20 3 A couple, deaf and dumb dnce birth, were married at Canvey Island in Essex. Reuter
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    Lock icon Moroccan shot
    31 3 A Moroccan was shot dead In daylight yesterday In th* new Arab town of Casablanca —tlie sixth victim of cunmen in four days In a wave of terrorism- Reuter
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    Lock icon BRITAIN BUILDS GIANT SHIP-TESTING TANK
    113 3 BULLDOZERS have begun carving out a £2 000.000--project at Feltham, west of London including a giant tank nearly a quarter of a mile lons, to test model ships under 'Tough sea" conditions for the British shipping industry. blr t() The National Physical Laboratory, by J958-
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    Lock icon FORGED CHEQUES
    17 3 West German criminal police. nd yesterday that forged trailers cheques were being intirnationally circulated.- Reuter
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    Lock icon SOVIET FISHING
    35 3 Fifty three Russian fishing vessels, the largest number since Soviet trawlers first began arriving four years ago. are operating off the northern islands of the Shetland group of! the north of Scotland. Reuter
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    Meeting today
    40 3 British West Indian delegates meet in Port of Spain. Trinidad today to .seek a formula to protect Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados—the more prosperous Islands from a possible rush of jobseekerj following the proposed Federation of th«- West Indies.
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    Lock icon IN REMEMBRANCE
    28 3 Greek hospitals and cultural institutions will lower their flags to half-ma,st on the funeral day of Sir Alexander Fleming, British scientist and discoverer of Penicillin- Reuter
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    Lock icon Farewell march
    36 3 The first battalion Black Watch, led by then pipes and drum.-, yesterday staged a farewell march through the streets of Nairobi They embark for Britain later this month after 18 montoi In Kenya.- Reuter
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    THE JACKPOT
    19 3 tury by Khans of the •Golden Horde," the official soviet news agency Tfcai reported In Mo-scow yesterday.
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    23 3 Sir John Harding, Chief of Wf Imperial General Staff, feturned to London yesterday S pir from the Far East— Reuter
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    PEASANT HITS
    22 3 A TARTAR peasant baa dug up a jar containing nearly 20,000 silver and sold SStai itrock in the Hth ccn-
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    Lock icon MAN WHO PULLED KNIFE ON NEHRU HELD
    167 3 MAN WHO PULLED KNIFE ON NEHRU HELD BABU RAO, a rick.shaw puller overpowered on Saturday. as he approached Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru with a knife in his hand, was yesterday remanded In custody at Nagpur for 15 days The 36-year-old rickshaw puller, said on his arrest to be smarting over some
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    Lock icon FIRE IN SWAMP
    40 3 A mging forest fire, which is already estimated to have destroyed about 15,000 acres of timber land, in Georgia, America, is reported to be out of control on the east side of the vast Okefenokee Swamp. Reuter
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    Lock icon Sound idea ends up in court
    71 3 Sound idea ends up in court IRKED by the new Parks law banning car-hooters, Jean Col, an insurance salesman, mounted a large bell on his car. It sounded like an ambulance bell. A police officer hearing it held up traffic to let Col pass then saw him and whistled him
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    ELECTION FEVER RISING IN GO-AHEAD KATONG
    792 5 TODAY'S SPECIAL ELECTION REPORT W\ FREE PRESS REPORTER IS o\ KATONG E ARMANI! JOSEPH BRAGA. Labour E Front. (Lawyer). E Born Singapore. E Educated SingaE pore, Hong Kong E University. MuniE cipal Commissioner E for three terms beE fore fall of Singa- pore. Committee
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    A PIECE OF STRING NEARLY KILLS BOY
    79 5 A PIECE OF STRING NEARLY KILLS BOY '^E- YEAR-OLD Eric Hodgetta was playing with a eor .string on the stairs of nis home when he slipped. .string looped itself round <ck. caught in the banis-p-d the bov was left hangtn mid-air. His mother found him only 1 a minute afterwards,
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    Cruel gossips are breaking my heart says woman of 43
    218 5 an invalid since she was three, added: M> body a o '^''^e^Sers^he'Ss; started from .he moment last September when she announced her engagement to the sood-lookins Army private now Berring In BelB U Unkind and unknowing people are raying we
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    FARMER BUYS RABBITS – FOR HIS DOGS
    118 5 FARMER BUYS RABBITS FOR HIS DOGS FARMER H. T. Rudcliffe hftl I taken rabbits inoculated gainst myxomatosis. the rabbit plague, to the island of Ancle^y— because he wants to, keep hLs gun-dogs exercised That Rot him into trouble with the island's Farmers Thev ordered him to destroy the rabbits because
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    Wiles of wives to aid party
    113 5 SHOULD LOYAL UMNO. women, whose husband! have |oln( d other partletL uae their wiles to bring them back to UMNO? Che Kamarlah, UMNO Women's Section leader has ;i k»'d members to influence their husband.,, who have drifted trom UMNO. UMNO husbands, whose wives arc
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    Fined for road offences
    69 5 Private Michael John Quail, of tho First Royal Hampshlres, wa.s on Friday fined a total $25 111 the First M a^i-st rate's Court, Kuala Lumpur, on three traffic charges. He pleaded guilty to driving without "prescribed lights along Mount batten Road on Feb. 6, not displaying
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    Town bans wood dealers
    38 5 The Johoro Bahru Town Council will not permit charcoal and firewood dealen to carry on business in the heart of the town. Storage of charcoal ind flrewpod will be permitted beyond the town proper.
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      304 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis STAR I J f»i?^FIMM 'ssw^-lts^J I 8 °.».7.'-» -k Lji"*Lll!L J— <■ s^UZi^^C »ill be happ.^t m ->. EJECTED ME H N i^i* ,L A <" mm tor your MBBt -j i \ou ha\^ a macnftlc TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs HJH^S i
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    Fhey jump at chance to fight bandits
    290 7 Fhey jump at chance to fight bandits %000 DROPS IN THREE YEARS AT SEMBAWAJSG p VAI Air Force and K personnel who I for courses FfcT East Air Parachute Train .:oi at Chang:. made more than crops since the wai opened three ;:20. I men being r tatj with Nc
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    Union threatens strike:
    151 7 PWELVI hundred members A of Singapore Harbour 1 *rd Staff Association will next Thursday to disaction. 'his follows the Boards re- to open negotiations on claims for higher wages 1 better working conditions lome of them first submit two years ago. he Board rejected an ulfrom the
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    wAITING FOR ZERO HOUR
    8 7 wAITING FOR ZERO HOUR FLICiHT-LIEI'T. 11. J. SMITH
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    A CALL TO REPLACE HAWKER INSPECTORS AND SAVES 14.000 A YEAR
    188 7 A CALL TO REPLACE HAWKER INSPECTORS AND SAVES 14.000 A YEAR THE Organisation and Methods Department of Singapore City Council has recommended that three Hawker Inspectors be replaced by one senior inspector and two clerks. The department report points out that this will save $14,000 a year. The report will
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    Lock icon Query for the First Lord
    70 7 The first lord of the Admiralty. Mr. J. P. L. Thomas is to be asked in the House of Commons this week if he knows that yachts in the Mediterranean owned and manned by foreigners are flying the British flag, ai:d what he intends to
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    STUDENTS TO GET A BILL FOR $1,700
    107 7 STUDENTS TO GET A BILL FOR $1,700 OTUDENTS of Bristol University are to be sent a £200 <$1.700) bill to cover the cleaning of the city's statue of fifteenth century explorer John Cabot. Cabot was found sprayed with a bright blue dye. It Is rag week in Bristol and the
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    Boy is left £100,000 by grandfather
    131 7 Boy is left £100,000 by grandfather A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD schoolboy was called to the phone in his housemaster's study and told th.it his grandfather had left him £100.000. He is Peter Dearden. son of an RAF. pilot officer killed in action in 1942, whose mother has since married again.
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    Lock icon THE CANCER TOLL
    23 7 Cancer kills 80.000 people a year in France, Mr Bernard La fay. Health Minister, said in a broadcast yesterday Reuter
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    ROUND ABOUT SINGAPORE
    355 9 UYI UIUYI UIUYI marked Saturday night drew full houses to most of the Colony's nightspots where extensions kept revellers on the dance floor into the early hours of the morning (top). Among the cabarets Les Kirdalls from Viennaearned a big hand from appreciative Singaporeans. Highlights included a
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    NIGHT BLINDNESS
    423 10 The SINGAPORE DOCTOR tells about MISS M. had no appetite for over three months. She was slightly pale, but seemed well nourished. She came to see me because she was unable to see clearly In semi-darkness. She tota me she ate mostly rice and fish. She did not
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    These men are not 'expendable'
    630 10  - These men are not 'expendable NORMAN LINDHURST by IT IS the boast of most armies outside the Communist bloc that they will spend any amount of money, and utilise all of the vast technical resources available in this modern age, to save any soldier's life whatever his rank. Manpower may
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    Lock icon Open-jawed welcome
    43 10 picture The bear at the Dudley Zoo, Worcestershire, wears a come-hither look that betrays a fancy for a slice of raw cameraman. But the photographer's daring in cettin* so close, speaks of a toughness that might spoil the "teddy-bear's picnic." Reuter
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    Dwellers use thier
    524 11  -  JOHN CULMER IN MADRID [FLATS, WHERE SPACE IS AT A PREMIUM^ By DURING these past months since I came to Madrid I have come to conclusion that a folding bed is by far and ay the most popular item of furniture In the whole of Spain. since
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    41 11 picture Jacques, as portrayed by Eric Porter, broods upon his staff during dress rehearsals of the Old Vic production of As You Like It" which opens in London. Costumes for the Droduction are by the new Italian designer, Domenico Gnoli Reuter
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    77 11 (11l III! Air. Herman Hold, the 41-year old American architect, accused ot being "an American a«ent M and jailed for more than five years in Poland, was recently reunited with his family in Britain, lie had travelled from Switzerland with his wife. Kate, who met him in Zurich last November
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    They haven't time for fashions
    169 11 WHILE men in other countries particularly Italy and Americacompete for the title of "The Best Dressed Male," New Zealanders cheerfully accept, and even, boast about, the fact that they have been voted the worst-dressed men in the world. An American writer recently summed up the
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    Kissing in these cinemas can land you in jail
    141 11 AN an ti -kissing campaign in Italian cinemas is landing unwary romantics in the audience Ui trouble— and in jail. In Milan a hundred people were detained when police swooped on three dnemai Victims included youm ««J and teenage glril caught
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    There's nowhere to go for a bite at night in London
    346 11 There's nowhere to go for a bite at night in London WHAT an extraordinary city is London! There it lies, the largest, almost the oldest of its kind, and yet, I declare, the world's only capital where a good meal is virtually impossible to find in the early hours of
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    Lock icon She dabs face cream on HORSES!
    599 12  - She dabs face cream on HORSES! Anne Sharpley IT'S ALL PART OF HER BABY' CURE SAYS ELIZABETH ARDEN rpHE combination of racehorses and cosmetics m the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Graham (Elizabeth Arden) is just as bizarre as might be supjosed. Mrs. Graham. MM of the world'a shrewdest buslneM w
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      226 12 CLUBS ACROSS: 3 Volcanic matter Rains heart 2 He does nothing in a compara- and becomes grub (5». tive wry <5» 4 A body of troops Is reduced into sls a politician taken in by a course of living (7) them? (4). 5 The middle of all thrillers <3>. 7
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    Two 'QUEENS' look and learn
    222 13 Two 'QUEENS' look and learn THE Ice Queen and The 1 Flame turned up as twin celebrities at a masked ball last week in Home. The Ice Queen was Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, the American Ambassadress. The Flame was Oina Lollobrigida, the sultry Italian film star. And a fascinating contst
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    It's tough on these wives
    93 13 THE German farmer .s xun 1 is complaining— to the German Agricultural Society —that life is too hard for her in these days when she has to s£end some 50 per cent of her time on housework, 27 per cent on tending the livestock and
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    102 13 Whatever your walk of life you've got to know Ihe tricks of the trade. And when you are becoming a mannequin the most operative word is walk itself. Whether it be up or down a room, or up and down stairs, there is only one correct way, and now. during
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    Mink trims the Party line...
    445 13  - Mink trims the Party line Colin Lawson Up (joes the Iron Curtain on the shop window of the tost ...to prove once again that it's a wojnan's world as Russia woos with elegant mink and China with the richest silks. T'HE Russians are say- inu it with caviar and vodka.
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    Bridge Hand
    337 13 THE fa.st players nag an advantage o\t*r the slower one, provided he doe.- not sacrifice uccuracy Joe Low. a speed demon, Wldooi Bivei up ft thing by his last nace but often coaxes hl s opponents COimkfl errors, or to furnish information which can be turned Into tricks.
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    Tennis queen hated the Press
    402 14 Tennis queen hated the Press ||M the most roil trover sial If MM in sport was Mrs. Helen Wills Mood>. of San lraM<is<o. California. With the prerogative of genius she Ma* temperamental, Mid she w,is not afraid to show her tantrums on the world's lawn tennis courts any more than
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    Lock icon Amateur dubs' TV problem
    343 14 rpHE sports television controversy has reared its head x again. This time it is amateur soccer which can't make up its mind whether TV is a blessing or a curse. Representatives of the six main southern amateur leagues met in London recently to discuss whether they
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    GAMES IN OHIO
    18 14 The Pan American congress announced the award of the 1959 Pan-American games to Cleveland Ohio
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    Lock icon New European cruiser champ
    109 14 WILLI Hocpner of Hamburg won the European lighth«*avywright title in Hamburg with a victory over Berlins reigning champion Gerard Hecht, who retired with a damaged eyebrow at the end of the second round. The crowd of 7.000 and even Hoepner appeared displeased when German referee Otto
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    SOCCER CHIEF FINED £25
    180 14 FRED STEELE, manager of Second Division Port Vale, and Re£, Potts, the team's vicecaptain, have each been fined £25 for a breach of the Football League's bonus payment rules. A League commission whose findings have iust been revealed also ordered them to pay the costs of
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    NEW CLUB
    44 14 Frank Neary former Queen's Park Runneis and Millwall centre forward, lias been signed by Gravcsend and Northfleet. the Southern I-earcue dub \vh 0 last month set -u red Jimmy Logie from Arsenal. Neary hM l)een with Sittingbourue, Uie Kent League club. < 1
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    POTTER OR PUTTER-THE TENSION IS THE SAME
    720 14  - POTTER OR PUTTER-THE TENSION IS THE SAME HENRY LONCHURST By THE snooker "possible' of 147. recently compiled by Joe Davis, may well represent the greatest feat of ball control, not excluding professional juggling, ever accomplished by man He itl early on. ho told nif. that this particular frame might be
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    34 14 picture. Yes. it's a goal for Arsenal, despite this gallant leap bv Preston goalkeeper Thompson The shot came from Arsenal inside-right Tapscott. Arsenal won this Div. 1 Englisn League match at Higtibury 2-0. Reuter
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    Lock icon AUSSIE CYCLISTS QUIT THE OLYMPICS
    413 15 Row flares over track \ISTRALIAN cyclists will not compete in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, unless a concrete track is built, Mr. W. Jones, secretary of the Australian Amateur Cyclists Association, said yesterday. Mr. Jones said the Association could not prevent cycling events being
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    Lock icon Results of U.K. Rugby Union
    180 15 Blaokheath 6 Cardiff 6: London al 12 Royal Navy Engineering e Keyham 20; London Scotish 22 United Services (Portsmouth i 5; Old Blues 6 Metropolitan l< lice 14; Old Cranleighans 6 Saracens 19; Old Paulines 0 Old Millhillians 9; London Welsh 14 Old Merchant Taylors
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    JOHORE OUST SELANGOR
    48 15 Trailing by one match to two at the end of Saturday's play Johore won two singles yesterday to eli mlnate Selangor by three matches to two in their second round tie of the Chua Choon Leong tennis tournament on the Lake Club courts, Kuala Lumpur.
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    SANTEE WINS
    21 15 Wes San tee won the mile in the fifth annual Milwaukee Journal indoor track games in 4mln 8.6 sec.
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    A day of incidents at Bukit Titnah
    644 15 A day of incidents at Bukit Titnah Free Press Course Correspondent IT WAS an eventful day at Bukit Timah on laturday, opening day of -he Singapore Turf Club March Meeting. A 16-year-old record was tcred when Euphrates won the Club Plate over 9f. In Imin 52 sec, three-fifths of a
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    This mistake brought Awang Bakar a goal
    54 15 This misunderstanding between goalkeeper Clark and right fullback Waring enabled A want; Bakar (left) to open scoring for Singapore in yesterday's charity soccer match between S.A.F.A. and Army /Navy for the Joe Chappel Memorial Cup, which resulted in a I—l1 1 draw at
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    Lock icon 10-man Wolves knocked out
    294 15 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERER, English league leaders, and one of Europe's best club sides, were eliminated by Sunderland in the quarter linals of the English Football Association Cup on Saturday. Sunderland won at home 2-0, but the Wolves, who had been warm favourites to carry of the coveted
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    Lock icon 3-HOUR FINAL
    44 15 Fausto Oardlni, the Italian Davis Cup player, won the men's single* title in the Egyptian bftWII Tennla Championships in CMTO vtlUidajr when he beat Pred Kwaleski of the Unfted State* 6-4. 62. 1-fi. 46, 11 9. "Hie maU-h lasted three hours Reuter
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    SELETAR WIN
    16 15 Rovjil Air Four SHefar beat Corinthians 31 In a soccer friendlv yesterday at Selet&r
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    OLYMPIC SKIER'S COMEBACK
    37 15 Olympic Ski Queen Andrea Mead Lawrenr c yesterday won tht 0.8 National Salom title to make eISAO &\neep of biff MCtng comeback The 22 year-old rarer hud earlli i won the natlfttwi downhill chamCioashjlps.
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    TITLE TO LOCKE
    30 15 i,hv I^xke won the South African pinfsjilnnii nsatch play Bnal li. I'r'-t'.n.t Ru.iii Ell more of Town, 7 and i idler UJin; '1 up al UM 18^
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    ROUSING SPRINT BY STARRY
    276 16 Timed over 3f in 36 2 ls sec Tree Press Course Correspondent STARRY cracked 37 seconds for 3f. in a rousing gallop on the training track at Bukit Timah this mornings With a riding boy astride this speedy ?eldin^ clocked the smart time of 36 2/5.
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    BELL UNABLE TO RIDE
    54 16 JOCKBI Kill Bell, who was injured when his mount lu l h. Mini II stumbled and Ml in Race Five at Bukit Tim ah on Saturday, will be out of the saddle for some time. He is suspected to have a ruptured kidney. His condition I
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    Lock icon OLSON HELD TO POINTS WIN
    34 16 Carl ißoboi Olson, the wo r ld middleweight champion, gained a unanimous points decision over Willia Vaughan. a California middleweight In a non-title Hollywood bout on Saturday night.' Reuter
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    POLICE CRICKET
    22 16 Herak Police defeated Penang Police by 61 runs In an inter- state Police Cricket match on the Ipoh Fading yesterday.
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    Lock icon Eddy Choong beats David for title
    101 16 EDDY CHOONG, of Malaya, beat his brother David Choong 15-3, 9-15, 15-3 in Bonn last night, to win the men's singles final of the first German International Badminton championships. The Choong brothers took the men's doubles title, beating a Danish pair. N. BucMlst and
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    Lock icon TENNIS TRIUMPH FOR BRITAIN
    95 16 Tony Mottram of Great Britain yesterday won the Cannes Tennis tournament men's singles championship with an easy 6-0, 6 4, 6-3. victory over Tony Vincent of the United States. In the women's singles finals. Patricia Ward of Great Britain defeated her countrywoman Shirley Bloomer 6-2, 6-4.
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    GAVILAN FINED
    41 16 The Miami Beach Boxing commission fined former world welterweight boxing champion Kid Gavllan and his trainer US$lOO each on Saturday for protests they made to newspaper reporters after Gavilan lost a close decision to Hector Constance on Feb. 23.
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    Cardiff triumph without stars
    248 16 "lITHILE their stars were helping Wales to beat Ireland. Newport j defeated Wasps, the London club, by six points to nothing in Saturday's U.K. Rugby Union programme. The Wasps, a man short In the second half, put up a hard fight and did well to restrict
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    SOCCER DRAWN
    15 16 Holland and Denmark drew oneall In an international football match at. Amsterdam yesterday.
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    Lock icon A SHOT AT COAL
    44 16 Dicture. Federation's centre-forward Tliillin.tth.in (right) takes a shot at goal while Pakistan fullback Atif tries to intercept. An incident in Saturday's game at Seremban when Pakistan beat Federation of Malay a XI liv 4-0 in tli* third "Test". Free Press
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    Lock icon A SURPRISE WORTH $9O
    44 16 picture. Clickity Click (Patterson), on Ihe rails, beat Bright Eyes II (J Jones) by a head at Bukit Timah on Saturday in the last race <CI. 3. Div I—7f.)1 7f.) For this upset win (lickity Click paid $90.- Free Press
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    Lock icon JAP ATHLETES WIN MEDALS
    69 16 ALL four Japanese athletes participating in the Philippine National open track and field championships won gold medals or> the last day of the meet yes* terday. Akira Kiyofuji won two gold medals and his teammates Yoshitaka Muroya. Atsuko Nambu and Tanaka Midori won one gold medal
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      Lock icon Singles take a beating but US team wins
      171 16 THE United States a Canada by matches to four m their North American zom> tie In the Thomas Cup Badminton competition it Winnipeg yesterday. The U S. contingent, which took a 3—l lead o n Friday ingnt. will now come to Sin»-i
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      FAVOURITE OUT
      61 16 Argentina's Osraldo Suarez won the first championship of the second Pan-American Games yesterday when he outclassed a large field in the 10,000 metre run. The favoured Gordon McKenzie of the New York Pioneer Club United States champion in tiw speciality, led by a long margin early in the
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      Lock icon FERRARI TRIUMPH
      45 16 Italian race driver Pierro Carini yesterday captured the Grand Prix of Dakar Sports car race over a hot track only 15 degrees from tae equator. Hls average speed was 118.4 miles per hour. Ferrari cars took three of the top flve places.- A.P.
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      BROKEN LEG
      22 16 Katherin Toda of Japan fell and broke her leg on the icy Cannon Mountain ski course at North. Conway, yesterday.
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