The Singapore Free Press, 3 January 1956
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Title Section19 1956-01-03 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale in Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Tuesday, January 3, 1956. Price 15 Cts.19 words
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123 1956-01-03 1 Man shot dead in midnight clash with detective OEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Kong Keng Cheah from Taiping. was fatally wounded in a midnight shooting drama with Singapore Detective Sergeant Merican Mohd. bin Kassim near the junction of Rochore Road and Victoria Street. The sergeant is in hospital with head wounds. His condition is123 words
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Article140 1956-01-03 1 IPOH'S biggest post-war fire last night destroyed a three- itorey furniture .shop In Hugh Low Street It was prevented from spreading to other buildings by a timely heavy rain which started at 1130 p.m. One ihop assistant, 28--year-old Wong Pak Ch was admitted to hospital140 words
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Article41 1956-01-03 1 A European family from the Singapore naval base was ambu.shed by 20 terrorLsts on the main trunk read between Gemas and Tampin in Negrl Sembilan. Hit> family drove through a ruin ot bullets but all I raped unhurt.41 words
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Article, Illustration167 1956-01-03 1 ZIP!. ..PING! AND ANITA I DASHED I FOR SAFETI\ lI7ELL, it finally hap- ff pened io one of E those girls with a strapless. low-cut evening gown. The j;irl was bosomy Swedish actress Anita Ekberg (left). The r scene was London's Berkeley Hotel. The time was New Years Eve. TheU.P. - 167 words
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Article54 1956-01-03 1 An Indian, Thomas Glory of Bukit Teresa. Singapore, was attacked with an a\e and parang in a tight at the Harbour Board Labourers Quarter^ last night and injured in the head and arm. Ho told Thr police he wont to the Quarters to get l*rm54 words
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Article22 1956-01-03 1 The first 1.800 men of the new Wehrmaeht started military training yesterday at six base, m Wert German v A.P.A.P. - 22 words
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Article514 1956-01-03 1 GOVT. TO ACQUIRE 10,000 ACRES THE MASTER PLAN SECRETS OUT TODAY THHE Singapore Govern- ment is likely to need about 10,000 acres of land for public and community development during the next five to seven years. There is little Crown land available. The areas in which the land is to514 words
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Article86 1956-01-03 1 SINGAPORE Chlneseowned bus companies arc to extend their services to Finlayson Green today. The owners met this morning to discuss whether they should confine the extended services to Finlayson Green or cover all STC routes. A spokesman said they would prefer to cover all STC routes if86 words
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Article12 1956-01-03 1 A slight earthquake rocked the Los Angeles area yesterday. A.P.A.P. - 12 words
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Article43 1956-01-03 1 There was only one serious accident from mid--111 lit last night up to 10.30 this morning. Six other minor accidents were reported. The Safety First campaign for an accident-free 24 hours started at midI night. Officials said motorre co-operating well.43 words
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Article18 1956-01-03 1 The Singapore Chief Minister. Mr David Marshall, who has influenza, has cancelled his engagements today. 118 words
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Article28 1956-01-03 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened steadily thi* morning with first grade. January shipment, at $1.28J a lb.. three-eighths of a cent above last Friday* closing price28 words
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170 1956-01-03 1 MALAYA'S Federal Ministers have been warned to be on their guard against issination tempts by Communlit t- irror; The wurii oy the Chiel Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, a few hours before h«* left Singai>ore by *ea lor London. He leathered round hji ministers, who had170 words
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Advertisement10 1956-01-03 1 I CHOICEST \CHOCOLATES/ RED LABEL ASSORTMENT DISTRIBUTED BY SIME DARBY10 words
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178 1956-01-03 2 POST NEAR ALGIERS STORMED BY REBELS A LGERIAN nationalist re J\ b.Ls carried out one o their most daring att.uk at 2 a.m. yesterday, whci they kidnapptd an outpos garrison of 13 men, includ ing six French troops. 21 miles from the city o Algiers. It wafl the fii*st timeA.P. - 178 words
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Article38 1956-01-03 2 CHIEF MINISTER Tengku Abdul Rahman, who is due in Karachi by sea on Monday will stay there for two days. He is on way to London for talks with the British Government ReuterReuter - 38 words
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325 1956-01-03 2 RIDDLE OF VISIT BY 2-GUN COHEN A British press report j\ yesterday claimed that secret negotiations between Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and the Peking regime "opened some weeks ago." The Labour party's Daily Herald reporting this suggested that Red China and Nationalist China may make peace.U.P. - 325 words
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Article69 1956-01-03 2 The Singapore City Council has approved the purchase of 29,400 tons of In- I dian coal for its gas department at a cost of about j $1,403,650 this year. The coal is to be delivered in seven shipments subject to the approval of the terms by69 words
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Article149 1956-01-03 2 No new call to Russia, says Eden rE British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, last night turned down a Labour opposition proposal that the Western powers should invite Russia to join them in efforts to keep peace in the Middle East. The Prime Minister took this stand in a private149 words
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Article327 1956-01-03 2 MIKXDES'FItXXCE HATTUXG lI MI It AGAINST FAVHE SHOPFOLK CHAMPION IN STRONG RUNNING Here i s the latest stai the party groups in the French elections: Communists :>l teata Moderate Left 4t> scats Moderate Ki^ lit *>8 seats Extreme Right i<) teati TOHE supporters of formtReuter; A.P. - 327 words
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Article, Illustration23 1956-01-03 2 picture. ALMOST neck-and-neck, two Mala y kolehs tight for the lead in one of yesterday's sailing races off Collyer Quay, Singapore. Free PressFree Press - 23 words
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Article, Illustration131 1956-01-03 2 A MALAYAN doctor, Onp Bak Hin, is to appeal to the judicial committee of the Privy Council against a decision of the General Medical Council that his name should be erased from the medical register. The Council's disciplinary committee found him guilty of infamous conduct in aReuter - 131 words
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Article88 1956-01-03 2 LONDON, fan. 2. Previous Today TIN First Session spot £831'. bu\ers t«32'i buyers mmm £832 sellers "33 rIN Three Months £812' buyers £814 b £813 .sellers £815 sellers £832 £B.'i;< TONE: steady. TUBNOVER: 120 l«.i^ mid M-ssion Spot £833 buyers £834 b £834 sellers > ellers Thrr*. Months88 words
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Advertisement32 1956-01-03 2 ffi CEYLON TEA I v %7^ 1 >» V v I Y A f #V V^v V i— i\v v pSiTwCT V w I i >* Agents in Malaya:— SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PEN ANG.32 words
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Article348 1956-01-03 3 Ipoh men lost only one point in veteran car ryWO Ipoh civil engineers last night received $4,000 in prize money for driving a six-year-old itroen with 106,000 miles behind it to victory in the Shell Malayan Motor Rally which ended in Singapore yesterday. Rally officials348 words
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Article, Illustration27 1956-01-03 3 picture Winner of the Shell Malayan Motor Rally. A Brazier of Ipoh, receives his prize from Mrs FT Haddock, wife the Shell Company's Singapore manager. Free PressFree Press - 27 words
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Article428 1956-01-03 3 RESULTS IN FULL Rally winners received cash prizes worth $17,000 and trophies worth $1,500 at the Adflphi Hotel. Winners in the seven i ($l,OOO for first, $500 for second; were Class 1: F. J. HeftthcoU and F. R llenn (ICorrla Minor) 1; i* WUm and R. Blea^dale i.DKW) 2. Class428 words
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Article33 1956-01-03 3 Madame Sun Yat Sen, vice chairman of the standing committee of the Na- tional People's Congress of Red China, arrived in Ran- goon yesterday on a 13--day goodwill visit. A.P.A.P. - 33 words
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112 1956-01-03 3 A 300-year curse ended by wedding ELSA KARLSSEN has broken the curse of the Cossacks after over 300 years. Handed down from generation to generation the noble family of Czarist Russia from which she came, the curse, written on faded parchment, said that the last of the line would beU.P. - 112 words
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Article47 1956-01-03 3 SUADRUPI.ETS wore born to the 26-j Twifc of a postal worker in Lancaster general hospital In Pennsylvania yesWiduv *ul boy*. The parents. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hohenwater, have two other children. Mr. Hohenwater. 27. said bifl wife, Re id been u>id u> expect iwi.u*.47 words
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Article157 1956-01-03 3 rE British Home Secretary, Major Gwilym Lloyd George last night granted a dramatic reprieve to a convicted baby murderer only 48 hours after refusing to do so. The Home Secretary rep r 1 e v e d 28-year-old Thomas Bancroft from hanging t^day at Strangeways157 words
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Article78 1956-01-03 3 BRITAIN'S Comet IV jet airliner may use midair refuelling next year to enable it to compete on the Atlantic run with long-range American jets, informed sources in London said yesterday. By refuelling in mid- air, the Comet IV, which is scheduled to go into service withU.P. - 78 words
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213 1956-01-03 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Jan. 3, 1956. Opinion The Traffic problem MOTOR traffic in the more congested areas of Singapore has far outgrown the streets built in the days of the gharry when a car was a rare sight. And for most people, both motorists and pedestrians, movement in213 words
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Article, Illustration1094 1956-01-03 4 Dylan Thomas The legend the book The man at the Poetry Centre has written an astonishing story... I read it with a horrid fascination." EVELYN IRONS I reports from New York I HAVE just read a book which has the same horrid fascination as photographs of murdered bodies on front1,094 words
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Article231 1956-01-03 4 Brockcomber - Brockcomber B>: rE Belgian hatter who advertised his wares bv saying that he was the only hatter whose uncle had been bitten by a whale, sold hats by the ton. Psychological Relations Officers employed by advertisers have been puzzling over this for months. Not on e of231 words
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Advertisement12 1956-01-03 4 UWgO mWrK PRECISION WATCHES MODERATE PRICES (Manufactured by Amida Watch Co., S.A.)12 words
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Advertisement34 1956-01-03 4 SCOTTISH SPECIALITIES Chkktn in Natural Jelly. GfWMW in Port Wine Jelly. Partridge in Sherry Wine Jelly. Haggis. Ko> »1 Game Soup, Chicken Broth, Rral Scotch Broth, Scottish Prrsrrves. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO. LTD. i34 words
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Article, Illustration492 1956-01-03 5 HE SHOWS A WAY TO HALT INFLATION SPIRAL 'Hold prices down at cosVs call to nation A SOLDIER turned leader of industry has challenged industry and the Government alike to halt the march of inflation threatening Britain's life. General Sir Edward Spears four times wounded World War I officer, diplomat492 words
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Article237 1956-01-03 5 Briton has the dollar touch FARMER James Hodge, dressed in a neat blue suit, went up to London with a 71b. sack af wheat which may save Britain 10,000.000 dollars (more than £3.300.000) in imports a year. Mr. Hodge. 37 and a pipe--1 smoker, from Writtle. Essex, went to see237 words
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Article123 1956-01-03 5 DON Calogero Sajeva. parish priest of Montaperto, had killed himself, ruled the Church. The bishop said he could not be burled in the cemetery. But Ms 300 parishioners in the tiny iicilian village saw to it that their beloved Don Calo was buried in123 words
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305 1956-01-03 5 Thieves miss the historic 'Family Nail' AN HISTORIC diamond brooch, known as the "Family Nail," was overlooked by thieves in a £4,000 raid on the Mayfair home of Lady Strathcona and Mount Royal, it was disclosed. The raiders, one of whom is believed to have been a woman, ransacked every305 words
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Article134 1956-01-03 5 ONE GIRL WOULD NOT EAT A GIRL of 14 died because she refused > to eat. She was afraid of getting fat. For three months Doreen Butterworth, of Roy ton, would eat nothing but eggs and apples, her mother told the Oldham coroner. Mrs Kutterworth add- < ed She lost134 words
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Miscellaneous202 1956-01-03 6 "MA^ORIi'KE b> Lee Falk ami IMiil Davi% V" "1 |SoOo£/V!Ly MAHDRAK£% I LOOK.' THAT WE 1 I HW^THAR. WHAT US v|P HYPNOTIC ILLUSION VANISHtS. < BOULDER DIDN»T U MISSEO WE MUST GET TO// nNOWHEN THE BOULDERS it IT'S- f PLY BACK UP. IT A *EM. THIS THE TOP, FAS Te//202 words
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Miscellaneous680 1956-01-03 6 J[ |>ORN today, you have a fund of <* IS jovial good nature, which makes <> J" you the life of the party wherever J| J! you go. You are affable, demonstra- tive and seem to know how to make jj 1* people feel at home. <! ]I Your great680 words
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Article405 1956-01-03 7 DEATH RIDDLE OF QUIET BOY TRUANT QHY and quiet lan RusseU was one of the bright u boys of Form 4D. And yet— he played truant. He forged his mother's name on an "excuse" note. Then, when the school headmaster wrote about his absences, he disconnected the gas poker, lay405 words
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Article65 1956-01-03 7 Four girls fought a shop fire in Chelm.sford as crowds were shopping. MLss Doris Barton, manageress of a wool shop in Tindal Street, London, tried to extinguish two shelves of blazing wool but other shelves caught fire. Three girls from a shoe shop opposite65 words
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Article, Illustration102 1956-01-03 7 Dandini is still rci-og- 4 nisable as BBC televi- <> sion announcer Mary <> Malcolm, even if the <! tights do reveal more of her than is usually shown on television. <► But who's her buxom j| companion? Under the <> check dress is im- <>Reuter - 102 words
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Article147 1956-01-03 7 Mining accidents show decline SERIOUS pit accidents in Britain during 1953 were fewer than in any previous year since the war years brought full employment. There were 392 deaths, 1,958 with 1952 this meant 28 fewer deaths and 151 fewer serious injuries. Those figures are recorded in the latest report147 words
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Article228 1956-01-03 7 TEN years after the war no young employee of Britain's two great air corporations BOAc and BEA has been given a chance to work to the top, the Commons were told. Mr. Frank Beswick, Socialist M.P. for Uxbridge, made the cumplaint when ■peaking In a228 words
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Article70 1956-01-03 7 Police chased a motorcycle travelling at 50 miles an hour through a built-up area in Woolwich, London, and found the rider was a learner-driver, aged 16. Ten minutes later, the same police crew saw the boy doing 45 miles an hour, it was told at70 words
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Article230 1956-01-03 7 RUMOURS WORRIED THE TOWN CLERK WORRIED about rumours to which his name had been attached, Blackpool's town clerk took 40 sleeping capsules and half a bottle Df spirits, said the coroner. Recording a verdict of Suicide while the balance Df his mind was disturbed on 54-year-old Mr. Trevor Treharne Jones,230 words
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Article35 1956-01-03 7 The death sentence passed by an army court in September on Dr. Morteza TajBdi, founder of Persia's Communist Tudeh Party, was yesterday commuted to life imprisonment hv a decree of the Shah.- ReuterReuter - 35 words
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Advertisement30 1956-01-03 7 in association with 85, The Arcade, Sinfas»re. Tel: 88W1 I U»«« 1. Kodt;cr Street, Kaala Lumpur. Tel: 4317 THE LAffST IN LIGHTERS/ N0 FLINT 'NO SOOT *NO WICK j. M30 words
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Article1137 1956-01-03 8 JOHN SYDNEY - The Marine was also a lady JOHN SYDNEY A hearty, hard-sweanng, fire-eating front-line fighter kept an astonishing secret throughout years of service by I THE WORLD'S I STMK6EST STORIES BRITISH MARINE climbed out of th< trenches and, yellinj loudly, ran toward; the French lines. Th< place was Pondicherry India; the1,137 words
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Article313 1956-01-03 8 WORK is starting on the site of the great ceremonial causeway along which the funeral procession of the Pharaohs ascended to the Pyramids of Giza. Its lower terminal, the Valley Temple, which is believed to lie buried deep under the modern village of Nazlet es Famman,313 words
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Article, Illustration45 1956-01-03 8 picture. THE YOUNG PRINCE Don Juan Carlos (left) passes with hi s fellow cadets be--1 aUl Pr«m«/S R n dU i II X th cerei V o^, nf *nce to the fl ae of the IV Promotion at the General Military Academy in Madrid.- PopperPopper - 45 words
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Article379 1956-01-03 9 Nipped down, borrowed £1,050 OFFICER WHO PANICKED AT ACCOUNTS CHECK A MONEY check was being held at a Naval Base supply office. An officer told the lieutenant inspecting his accounts: "Half a minute, I want to nip down below." He then borrowed £1,050 to make up a deficiency. Tnis was379 words
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Article131 1956-01-03 9 Comet IIs tested for the RAF PVERY four minutes a Comet II jet airliner is naking the equivalent of a Lhree-hour flight at de Kavilland's Hatfteld, Berkshire, aerodrome. These test flights are being made under water in a tank long enough to hold the first of the new Comet IVs131 words
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Article47 1956-01-03 9 Tons of waste paper crushed a woman to death as a lorry trailer overturned outside a Roman Catholic church in Canton Street, Poplar. She was Mrs. Lilian Cuthbert, aged 48. a widow, and she died beneath an Illuminated crucifix, outside the church.47 words
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Article84 1956-01-03 9 OKLAHOMA State has cabled an invitation to the Queen to attend its 50th anniversary celebrations in 1957 Representative Lew Allard, chairman of the State Show Commission, said: "We'd like the Queen to bring the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret with her. We can promise them84 words
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264 1956-01-03 9 Detectives rode in hide-and-seek express THE station announcer called it "The 7.55 for St. Pancras," and that's how it was listed I in the time-tables. But in the files of the I Railway Special Investi- gation Branch it will I always be known as the Hide-and-Seek Express. I For three264 words
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Article199 1956-01-03 9 PURCHASES of marijuana in the West End of London were described in a statement by a coloured American airman read at a Manston, Kent, court-martial. The statement— by Aircraftman Third Class Clarence Lovett, 22-^s£id he had been smoking cigarettes containing marijuana since he was199 words
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104 1956-01-03 9 rE case against a 19--year-old soldier beaten up by four other soldiers who accused him of molesting a four-year-old girl was dismissed at Chester Castle magistrates' court. The soldier. Signalman Gordon Donald Aufcery, whose home is at Lozells. Birmingham, pleaded not guilty to indecently104 words
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Article175 1956-01-03 9 A BUILDING tycoon who was once sentenced to prison left his "blessings" to four judges in his will. THE MAN was Robert Tarran. the British pro- fab kine who was once head of a £3,000.000 business employing 10.000. THE JUDGES Pritchard (who took his trial),175 words
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Article200 1956-01-03 9 'Get out' wife's suicide A HUSBAND told at the inquest on his 31-year-old wife of a quarrel they had on the day she died. "As a result,'* he said, "I gave her £10, and told her to get out of my sight. "I did not know quite what she would200 words
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Article214 1956-01-03 9 HUNDREDS of middleaged men and women have come face-to-face with examination papers again and for the majority it has been a trying experience. They were the over-fortio.s applying for Civil Service jobs. When the Government announced it was reserving 600 pensionable clerical posts for the214 words
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Article34 1956-01-03 9 A Royal Marine major on the last day of a commando course was swept to his death at Bickleigh, Devon, when he fell from a rope crossing a Dartmoor river.34 words
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Advertisement63 1956-01-03 9 PACKING I as 4_b, 1 f TRANSPORT STORAGE LTD. 173 CECIL STREET SIN6APORE The fluted core is the NEW feature of Qp erspee j The finest solder in the world if "SUPERSPEID won't wider it, it M/m f con t be soldered. W J&j; From all good radio on* electrical63 words
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Article, Illustration182 1956-01-03 10 The cares of the wards on this pace were forgotten for a while when the nurses of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital threw a hrist mas and New Year party at the Ceylon Sports Club in Balestier Road. And cameraman Johnny Quek certainly captured the spirit of182 words
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Article, Illustration50 1956-01-03 11 Above: An informal pose? Well not exactly. It's Miss Molly Tan and Bob Kennedy holding still during the statue dance. Miss Eileen Ng (above, left) cools off happily with an ice-cream. Left: And here are four lovely smiles from nurses Sarojini. Wan Kam Vit, Marion Neville and Kalthun binte Satipan.50 words
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Advertisement41 1956-01-03 11 W-..1 yQ ~SING~APORE CITY COUNICIV ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT e£ yOUK'MMNS OF LARGE STANDARD «ktC» COOKERS with large oven space two boiling plate^ and grill-boiler Available on hire at $2.00 per month *y u Consult your Electrical Contractor or Ring 2419 Ext. 35241 words
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Article646 1956-01-03 12 AND MAKE A GOOD WIFE FOR A MAN Bertha Wimhurst, 19, was refused per- mission to marry because she could not cook. She and her fiance appealed to the magistrates to I overrule parental opposition but the rnaI gistrate agreed with Mr. Wimhurst. Philip Harben, the television cook646 words
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Article350 1956-01-03 12 rpHERE are a great many Italians—millions of them, in fact— who still believe in witches, black magic, and the evil eye as their ancestors have done for countless generations. In the cities of modern Italy, while twentiethcentury traffic flows through the streets and jet planes350 words
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Article743 1956-01-03 12 AND BECOME BETTER WIFE milllllllHHlllHUmUHH"'"''"' 1111 mi"'; Eve Perrick enters I the lists on behalf of the tin opener brigade and dedicates her piece to: Ex-Sergeant Cook Henry Wimshurst, who opposed the marriage of his daughter Bertha be- cause she was unskilled in the culinary arts743 words
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104 1956-01-03 12 r<AY shirting us a must for the well-dressed monkey-about-town these days. The fashion Ls being srt by orang-outangs who are arriving at London AirS port dressed with a fine regard for the latest trends. But quite apart from the sartorial splendour involvi ed, the104 words
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Article401 1956-01-03 12 Social life in lazy isle By lAN MERCER LIKE everything else that happens in Majorca, entertaining is not at all the same as elsewhere in Europe. Thus, casual calls, except between the most intimate of friends, are regarded as a rank breach of good taste. The reason for this is401 words
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Article, Illustration834 1956-01-03 13 Singapore wins the big prize at K.L. show SUNNY CIAM reporfson photogtaphy in Singapore and the Federation TWO Sultans and many top ranking government officials attended the opening of the Fifth Malayan International Exhibition of Photography sponsored by the Selangor Camera Club at the Chin Woo Auditorium in Kuala Lumpur834 words
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229 1956-01-03 13 City looks after Rome' s vagrant cats ONE of the many strange sights of Rome is the ancient city's tribes of semiwild cats, who live in their thousands among the capital's many historic ruins. These cats have no owners, but the city administration takes responsibility for them. At six o'clock229 words
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782 1956-01-03 14 EILEEN ANDERSON - EILEEN ANDERSON I- By 1 THIRTY years ago Mr. Norman Hartnell gave his first fashion show. He was a nervous, worried young man. His future depended on the results of this show. His present was mightily troubled by financial difficulties. Hauled from his hiding782 words
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267 1956-01-03 14 JEAN WISEMAN - JEAN WISEMAN 1^ 1 IF you can't find a silver lining in the sky, you can have a gay lining in your coat. That's the Paris way of beating the cold, wet and grey days. There ar<- several ways of doing it. Jacques267 words
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Article, Illustration24 1956-01-03 14 This blue and pink close-fitting cloche hat has simple but effective trimming. The pink (rosfrftin ribbon fasten* through a gilt buckle on the crown.24 words
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Article, Illustration19 1956-01-03 14 Rosalind RusseU dances and sings in her first film^musical comedy from which thU nose was captured by the camera.19 words
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Advertisement47 1956-01-03 14 FREE PRESS SHOPPING GUIDE Wishing all outcustomers Cf friends a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR CRAFT SHOP 33, NORTH BRIDCE ROAC TEL: ***** SINGAPORE Travelling by:— SEA AIR LAND TftAOC \^K9fr MARK ftCGISTCftEO WING HING CO. 77, North Bridge Road, Singapore. Tel: ***** New Stylet Fibre Leather LUGGA6E47 words
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Advertisement133 1956-01-03 15 I'l \HI AI-SI 1»| It Electric SflWI lIS One year's (•uaranti <•' *£n<J^^ for A.C. D.C. Current adjust able on 110 or 220 Volts. Parked in beautiful leather case with Zip-fastener. Retail Price $55/- each Postage Tax Extra. Sole Agents: M. PRAGER LTD. 159, Cecil Street, Singapore. Tel: 6938, PO133 words
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Advertisement133 1956-01-03 15 Diamond Gem Set ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS A Hide choice of styles and prices. LANKA Jewellers <THE HOUSE FOR CEYLON GEMS) 20. BATTERY ROAD, SPORE-1 PHONE: *****. EASTERN ARTS TABLE LINEN CAMPHOR WOOD CHEST ETC. Jfo NO: 173, ORCHARD Rl). Hranch: 6, Raffles Place, SINGAPORE. For Qualify Call Af 309133 words
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Advertisement139 1956-01-03 15 Just Unpacked... A wide rang! of Ench.inting Fashionable SILKS COTTONS from England. Switzerland the Continent for CHINESE NEW YEAR Buy with confidence dt vour favourite store BAJAJ Textiles Limited 71. HICH STREET. TEL: 5921 1 &Wm 'MPT. STORE/ 22 tfW B?/Kl #0. SPCJ?£ W P#O*{s 7Si£-7*S6 Just Unpacked "NASH" Plastic139 words
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Article, Illustration703 1956-01-03 16 NORMAN LINDHURST - EscaDe to freedom but its only a beginning... NORMAN LINDHURST itiiimmiiiM BY minimum' SHOTS in the night, the explosion of a land mine, the lurid glare of trip flares— —and, somehow another fugitive from Communism has slipped through the Iron Curtain to freedom in the West. So far so good703 words
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Article434 1956-01-03 16 CYRIL MARSHALL - Adam will set the pace for Eve CYRIL MARSHALL i By ADAM and Eve will soon be names on everybody's lips in Sweden for the names are those of two atomic power stations the Swedes will be operating in the nottoo distant future under a scheme promoting the peaceful uses434 words
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Article339 1956-01-03 16 ROBERT MOON - ROBERT MOON By i > HPHE biggest man- made explosion in Canadian history will, in July 1957, blow the top off British Columbia's notorious Ripple Rock, a gigantic undersea boulder which in the last 80 years has sunk 100 vessels and claimed more than 100 lives.339 words
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Article, Illustration1173 1956-01-03 17 SHE DIDN'T TAKE HER TEST IN HER CADILLAC 8 U a f^nfTP Ma ii > thing* of |«'«*N < O9lS4t|ll< IH r Hi. in business* happen flail? in films. ..anil li'in-p«'i-s arc f raved on i hr river bank ami oiifsnh' the slaij«' door. you can't get any sense out1,173 words
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Article, Illustration390 1956-01-03 17 Neither Huir vulnerable JWtK de.lr, The bidding: NorU, iMll P— 2 0 P BS 2f P... 3.N r AliP.. t J^ONG before King Richard 111 is reputed to have offered hLs kinpdom for a horse, there have been occasions when items of trivia] worth suddenly skyrocketed. In today's390 words
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Miscellaneous234 1956-01-03 17 DAILY CROSSWORD (LM I ACBOSfI 5 Local with the end not In its 1 TbtM dramaa may make usual place < 7) learned men! «u>. J A H™! 1 ua te^' M r v 8 Birds for unsuccessful bate- .J A e w a ter l dlC n^ f men234 words
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Article, Illustration861 1956-01-03 18 Vernon Morgan - 'TOP SPORTSMAN' AWARD TO PIRIE ONE OF BIG SHOCKS IN 1955 SPORT Vernon Morgan by m ONE of the Mggett surprises of the 1955 sporting season was reserved for the dying days of the year -the selection of Gordon Pirie as the "Sportsman of the year" by the British public.Reuter - 861 words
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Article53 1956-01-03 18 MIKE GREEN, of Miami Beach, ending a long string of upset victories for John Skogstad of Coral Gables. Fla.. won the Junior Boys singles title of the Orange Bowl Junior tennis tournament in Miami yesterday. Green, the >t-cond ranking Junior in the U.S.. defeated Skogstad53 words
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402 1956-01-03 18 ARCHIE QUICK - Five-aside indoor football is new rage ARCHIE QUICK toy— FIVE a-side indoor football competitively is becoming a growing force. Professionals, amateurs and the public alike find It attractive. Reasons for this are that the rules are few and simple and there are no irksome stoppages. No offside, no charging, no402 words
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Article101 1956-01-03 18 Big scores by a little town pLTLANDSIIIRK may > IV be England's sniall- est county, and Oak- ham its county town. > but there is nothing > little about the local X Rugby Club's scoring. From twelve matches this season they have totalled 218 points, with only 72 against them.101 words
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Article161 1956-01-03 18 WORLD mile record holder John Landy will return to competition after a break of more than 12 months in a special carnival in Melbourne at Olympic Park tomorrow. He will meet Lon Spurrier of America in the half mile event. Two other Awrricans, Bob Morrow and ParryA.P. - 161 words
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Article, Illustration136 1956-01-03 19 Miss \i/nir GIBSON, the Aaerfcaa Ntgrt tennis player, won two titles in the Asian lawn tennis championships in Calcutta yesterday. In the singles final she beat Japan's Sachiko Kamo by 6—3, 9—ll. 6—2 and in the final of the mixed event136 words
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152 1956-01-03 19 Nkale fraser, a lefthander, stamped himself as a new force in Auj>tralian lawn tennis when lie defeated Davis Cup itai Lew Hoad In the final of the South Australian >tate championships in Adelaide yesterday. Fra.ser, who brought off some incredible shot.s particularly In the152 words
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Article137 1956-01-03 19 14 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force held Singapore Cricket Club "A"" team to a three-all in a rugger friendly on the pad. terday. Club were "awarded a penalty in one of their raids and Harrison, who was outstanding, converted from a difficult angle. Kiwis .scored137 words
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Article37 1956-01-03 19 Murray R<> > of Syn broke the Australian fr styl( swimming r< >(i r<! 1.650 yards with a time of 18 mm. 35 sec, in .Sydney I nlfht lippod 23.9 lee. off the prcviuui record. ReuterReuter - 37 words
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Article120 1956-01-03 19 Jl PA AT. captain of France for whom be ha.s played in 38 internationals, is not included at his own request in the team to play Scotland in by Un. rnationa] championship at Edinburgh on Jan. 14. Paat and his brother Mautold the ■eiectonReuter - 120 words
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129 1956-01-03 19 ■JAPAN'S skiing wonder, Chiharu I^aya, won the year's first pre- Olympic test in Adelboden. Switzerland, yesterday, in a field of 34 entries, including the leading Swiss, French and American Olympic hopes. \gaya. a serious contender for Olympic honours at Cortina D'Ampezzo later thisA.P. - 129 words
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Article65 1956-01-03 19 RESULTS of yesterday's U. K. rug b y matches were: Rugby I'nion: Rosslyn Pa r k, 8. Fettesian Lorettonlans 0; Ballymena 9, Stewart's College (former pupils) 25; Northern 8, Leicester 11; Watsonians 11, Swansea 0; English Schoolboys 8, Scottish Schoolboys 6. Rugby League: Leigh 6, St Helens 20:Reuter - 65 words
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57 1956-01-03 19 For Asians: Eng Slang (try) converted by Lim Mui, 1 Oiir Hoon (tl R.A.F. BeleUx beat R.N.A.S. Sembawang in a rugby friendly at Seletar yesterday by 11 points (goal, two tries) to three (penalty). French scored two unconverted tries, and Bow another which Pape57 words
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Article, Illustration647 1956-01-03 19 Joe is broke— but he's a sadder and wiser man DOLLARS nearly Jive million of them—rained down on Joe Louis during his career as heavyweight boxing champion of the world. But Joe, now sadder and wiser, somehow lost gifht of them and he tells in the Saturday Evening Post ofA.P. - 647 words
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166 1956-01-03 19 EMIL ZATOPEK. triple gold medalist at the 1952 Olympic Games, will compete in the 10.000 metres and the marathon at this year's games in Melbourne. This was announced yesterday by the Czech .Jewi Agency Ceteka. Zatopek won over those distances, andReuter - 166 words
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Article85 1956-01-03 19 HORSES transferred by the Straits Racing Association afti* the Penang Turf club's Christmas-New Year meeting are: From Class 1 to 2: Battle Creek, Sirdhana and Zatopek. From Class 2 to 3: Dinna Forgt t From Class 3 to 4 Balkan Chevalier, Cliona, Sporter. Entertainer, h laxley Green,85 words
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Miscellaneous99 1956-01-03 19 iiiiitmiimitiimimmiimiiiiiiiii TODAYS SPORT mmiimiiMiimiiiiimiiiiimiiiir: KUALA LUMPUR RUGGER: Selangor United v Ist Fijian Infantry Regiment, T.PC A. Stadium, 5 p.m. HOCKEY: SH A league, Div. 1: Selangor Club v T.P.C.A., padang: Div 2: Young .Men's Sikh Association "B" v Y.MC.A, YMCA SINGAPORE HOCKE\ S II A senior knockout: Silt. "Blues" y99 words
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331 1956-01-03 20 Allen's hattrick gives W Brom victory over Newcastle A LTHOUGH yesterday's A sweer programme was largely a Scottish one, it being a traditional Scottish holiday, there were some important games in the English league, chiefly concerning Northern clubs. A major surprise was the home defeat in Division One of Newcastle,331 words
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Article277 1956-01-03 20 Ramchand 106 n.o. in drawn Test rE fourth Test between India and New Zealand in Calcutta ended yesterday in a draw, though the closim stage produced plenty of excitement. After three days' play in this game of fluctuating fortunes. New Zealand appeared well-placed to force their first win in Test277 words
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Article, Illustration60 1956-01-03 20 Reuter photo. DOROTHY TYI.ER. former world high jump champion, who is tr;iininij hard for the Olympics. Here she is jumping over the heads of her two sons David (left) and Barry. Dorothy who is 35, competed in the l^'> Games in Berlin and the Games in London In IIUB. *erReuter - 60 words
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Article179 1956-01-03 20 DIVISION ONE Bolton Wanderers 2. Huddersfleld Town 2; Manchester City 4, Portsmouth 1 Newcastle United 0. West Bromwlch Altol- i on 3; Sunderland 1. Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. DIVISION TWO Blackburn Rovers 2 Nottingham Forest 2; Middlesbrough 1, Port Vale 1. LEAGUE 3 (NORTHERN) Barrow 0. Grimsby Town179 words
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168 1956-01-03 20 INDIA have made three changes in their Uam to meet New Zealand in the fifth and final Test startinu at Madras on Jan. f» compared to the side which yesterday drew the fourth Test. C. T. Patankar < wicketkeeper G. Sunderam andReuter - 168 words
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298 1956-01-03 20 r)NY LOCK, who took six for 57 and Fred Titmus, three for 48 spun the M.C.C. to a fine victory by 74 runs over the Governor-General's team of Pakistan Test J olavers in Karachi yesterday. All of the Governor-Gene-ral's XI have appeared298 words
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Article205 1956-01-03 20 MCC Ist. Inns: 163 (F. Tit- mus 43; Fazal Mahmood 1 for 59). MCC 2nd. Inns; (overnight 26 for one^ Richardson lbw b Zulflqar I Ahmed 17 Close c Mathias b Fazal Mahmood H Stephenson c Imtiaz Ahmed b Fazal Mahmood Tompkin b Fazal Mahmood 6 > fiutcliflc cReuter - 205 words
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