The Singapore Free Press, 20 January 1956

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. 1417(1. Singapore, Friday. January 20, 1956. Price 15 C'ls
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    'DEPLORABLE'
    141 1 More expats going: Call for Govt. statement If OR ALE among expatriate officers of the Singapore Government is low. A senior officer said that 60 expatriates working under him consider the tension "a deplorable atmosphere m which to work." Consensus of opinion seems to bo that unless the Government
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    Jail quiet today after riot
    109 1 OEREMBAN prison was quiet today after yesterday's ten-minute riot m which three prison officials and eight Bjisoners were injured. The Deputy Commissioner of Prisons, Mr. W.J.W. Burton, flew from Taiping to Sereniban yesterday to make an on-the-spot investigation. The eight ringleaders who led the riot—
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    STRIKE DAY 4
    18 1 Today is tbc fourth day of the itrlke by the Bing pore N.iv.il Base workers.
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    106 1 This Australian Lincoln bon ,r« v* will c<» heme soon making nearl> st, terrorists during their tour of duty In Malaya picture *i> UK Hl l m their Ust I togetlur. From Trft ir« Flyil I ull* I lit I \tu\ NeilM-n »U nailer), uimnCommander C. II Spurgeon. •Ulcer of
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    RUBBER DOWN
    27 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning OO an uncertain tone with first «rade. February shipment, at $1,121 a lb, 2, below yesterday's closing price.
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    SHELL FALLS SHORT, INJURES TAPPER
    68 1 TROOPS shelling the jun»lf iv. ir Bemenyih new village yesterday injured a rubber tapper Chong Kwee, when one shell fell short into an estate. He received slight injuries. A Selangor Government spokesman said this morn- -it was an tmfortunat accident. 1 It is understood that
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    Lock icon TERROR SPREADS IN BOMBAY
    219 1 TERROR SPREADS IN BOMBAY 9 more die m noting by mobs MOBS of an^ry Marathas surged through Bombay streets again yesterday, looting and burning and attacking police m pitched battles is a protest against government plans to make India's second largest city a separate state. An official communique >aid nine
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    Lock icon Mrs. Oon at Merdeka party
    90 1 Mrs. Oon at Merdeka party A COCKTAIL party given to the Malayan delegation m London last night by Mr. Alan LennoxBoyd, the Colonial Secretary, was described as a very happy augury for the outcome of the selfgovernment conference. Top officials of the Foreign Office and Colonial Office were present "id
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    Japan to get H-warning
    36 1 The United States will give Japan advance information about safety arrangements for tfre hydrogen weapons tests to be held m th* 1 Pacific next spring, informled diplomatic sources s^id m Washington today.
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    Lock icon $8m. GOLD BARS STOLEN
    35 1 A truck bearing $8,400,000 worth of gold bars was stolen from Geneva last night m a daring coup by thieves who may have come from across the French border.— A. P.
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    Lock icon Saved by vote
    27 1 Tlie Sudan Government of Ismail el Azhari, defeated on Wednesday m a budget debate, yesterday won a vote of confidence m Par- liament. Reuter
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    74 1 Eight- week old Valeric Cushen seems to be so glad to be back on land she had just arrived at Singapore Airport yesterday after a long trip out by air from Britain. Valeric is the daughter of Sgt. T. Cushen, joining the UHh Air Formation Signals, Changi. and Mrs. Cushen
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    Lock icon HK SALES TO RED CHINA DWINDLE
    144 2 HK SALES TO RED CHINA DWINDLE EXPORTS from Hong Kong to Communist China fell by more than a half m 1955, official figures revealed yesterday. Hong Kong is China's biggest trade link with the non-Communist world. Her trade figures show that the Peking Government built up reserves of foreign currency
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    Hide-and-seek-by VIPs
    131 2 RITA HAYWORTH, Kid Gavilan and Alec Guinness played hide-and-seek with reporters yesterday on the Queen Mary before she left New York. The liner was far down the river before it was learned that Miss Hayworth was aboard. Kid Gavilan, former welterweight champion, was not m the cabin room
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    Lock icon A new Asia approach to learning
    94 2 VN ambitious scheme to promote a united South-East Asian approach to higher learning has been born at the conference, m Bangkok, of the heads of universities from eight countries, it was learned yesterday. They decided to form an association of South-East Asian institutions of
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    Lock icon Ike stands by Dulles
    350 2 'BEST SECRETARY OF STATE I'VE EVER KNOWN' PRESIDENT EISENHOWER M > news ference m Washington behind his Secretary ol State Mi Dulles, as the best secretary he rer known and as a man who thn ta present office had devoted bimseU wortii peace. th This was
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    Prayers for Ukraine
    66 2 Yesterday's US Senate session was opened with a prayer that "the struggles for freedom everywhere tpmember enslaved Ukraine, and give her love and moral support, with a hungry desire for freedom that Ls there." The prayer was offered by His Excellency, Metropolitan John Theodorovich of the Ukrainian
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    Lock icon Boundary talks
    19 2 The boundary commissions of Pakistan and Persia will hold a joint conference at Teheran this morr Reuter
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    Lock icon Russia backs West in condemning Israel
    182 2 Russia backs West in condemning Israel 'y l\ I I uited Nations i Security Council, of which So\iet Russia is a member. >e>terday unanimously approved a Western resolution condemning Israel for its December 11 attack on Syria. The resolution called on l>rael to comply with its obligations m the future
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    Lock icon 6 Ministers elected
    74 2 Six out of seven provincial ministers of West Pakistan Province were declared elected when results for the 310-member interim legislature of the province were announced m Karachi last night. The province was created by a constituent assembly last October when the provinces of the Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan,
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    NO CHANCE OF NEW TALKS YET
    69 2 United States officials m nington said yesterday that there seemed no prospect at the moment of a confereru' beUFtU Mr. Johr. ir r Dulles, the American S^'cretary of Chou lai, the Pr>_ of China. The State Department has carefully studied the Chinese Foreign Ministry
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    Lock icon TRIP INTO FAIRYLAND WAS SO CHARMING
    281 2 TRIP INTO FAIRYLAND WAS SO CHARMING PRINCESS Chrysanthemum." the Japanese operetta for children with ballet, which opened a three-day run at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday, is a delightful excursion into fairyland. Producer Donald Davies ha assembled a large and talented cast, clad them m colourful costumes and given them
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    Lock icon POUJADE IS THROWN OUT OF ASSEMBLY
    106 2 SOCIALIST d'-putles bodily l antitax man Pierre Poujade out of the Fn-nrn National nbly last night and a movf dev^oped to invalidate the nof some nt his deputi' The plinterod Dew chamber met f<>r th t Mr.^t ttm e yesterday with 51 followers of
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      171 2 BEAUTIFUL GIRL WAS COLLECTED AS FIRST PRIZE IN SWEEP Most of you buy sweep tickets with the hope ST of striking it rich. But there have been M&W occasions when the prize winners collected a m beautiful girl instead of cash. It's unbeliev- W able, but it's true and you
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    FIGHT TO FREE POLAR SHIP
    257 3 THE British Antarctic x expedition aboard the sealer, Theron, is spending most of its time digging and dynamiting m an attempt to free the vessel from surrounding pack ice. n.»ons fh V ,f n h Fui h leader of the expedition, rt ports that the
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    Seato parley prolonged
    58 3 DELEGATES of eight Beato nations conferrIn Melbourne have cancelled sight-se< Ing trips scheduled for today m order to hold an extra session of their top secret talks. In five days' talks ending tomorrow, military adi and staff officers art- drawing up a.i over-all plan for n<v of
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    Lock icon NEW AMBASSADOR
    12 3 Ivan Fadeyevich Shpedko ointed new t ambassador u> Pakistan. U.P.
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    Lock icon Margaret visits her pastor escort
    256 3 Margaret visits her pastor escort PRINCESS Margaret and the Queen Mother, on a private visit to Cambridge University town yesterday had lunch with the Reverend Simon Phipps. a frequent escort of the I Princess. Mr. Phipps. 33. tall and good-looking is chaplain of Trinity College. Cambrige. He has been a
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    Lock icon Scrap fraud plot: R.A.F. men jailed
    146 3 A COURT MARTIAL In Hong Kong yesterday sentenced two Royal Air Force men to jail and a third to detention for conspiring to defraud by falsely representing that they werp able to sell scrap material from the RAF. Kaitak airfield. Senior Aircraftman Thomas Benjamin
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    Lock icon Envoy for talks
    29 3 U.S. ambassador to Mr Henry Byroade, will sit In on the Eisen-hower-Eden Big Two" talks In Wiushiimton this month, it was announced In Cairo toda U.P.
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    Lock icon EARLY TIN POOL BUYING POSER
    169 3 rriiK Financial T: I tible that the first m c mitiht take piA if idi BUt] economic affali "Tl uroikely effect ol tl tiit> t) -The r will to 15(K)0 tons and ultimate: LI the red :lt •On the basis of the I ire therr
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    U.K. now has a polio vaccine 'preferable to any made abroad'
    197 3 lit ß. R. H. TURTON, Britain's MiniTl ister of Health, announced m London yesterday that a British vaccine giving protection against poliomyelitis and preferable to any made abroad has been developed. The development of the vaccine was based on
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    Lock icon GRAVEL PIT WIFE SLAYER IS TO DIE
    80 3 GRAVEL PIT WIFE SLAYER IS TO DIE VPLYMOCTII. Massachusetts, jury yesterday found contractor Domenick L Bonom guilty of first decree murder m the gravel -pit slaying: of his wife, Mildred. The jurors did not recommend mercy. Superior Judge Frank Smith imposed the death sentence immediately but stayed the execution indefinitely.
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    Lock icon Six boys drift 700 miles
    238 3 EXERCISE BOOK MAP HELPED THEM AFTER MONSOON STRUCK UASSAN bin Ali, 19-year-old captain of a party of six Indonesian boys, told Australian Government officials m Darwin, they drifted for 700 miles and into Australian waters after a monsoon had "sprung up out of no-where," ripping
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    IN ARAB LEAGUE
    16 3 The Sudan was yesterday admitted to the Arab League as its ninth member.-
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    Lock icon Loan settlement talks bogged
    30 3 Franco-Japanese negotiations for the settlement of the four per cent. 1910 loan which started last November have so far made little progress, Paris sources say. Reuter
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      174 3 LAST 3 DAYS! Q.Don t miss seeing /V^fcWt*\> The Greatest Show On Earfrh nyy^ THE KINOSHITA CIRCUS at the CREAT WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK (Kirn Seng Road. Singapore *^^^^^ift THRILLS! LAUGHS! SUSPENSE! ACROBATS, CLOWNS, DEATH-DEFYINC TRAPEZE < ARTISTES. STUNT MOTOR-CYCLISTS (fcafuring one and only woman Sfunt Rider) PERFORMING SEA-LIONS. ELEPHANTS. FRIDAY
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 1956. Opinion TO FORGET IS EASY
    205 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 1956. Opinion TO FORGET IS EASY PLANS prepared by the Colonial Office during the last war speedily to provide administration for liberated territories are now invested with sinister motives. To bolster up an argument, one leaflet prepared before the defeat of Germany is
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    France may decide IKe's future
    722 4  - France may decide IKe 's future MARTIN S. HAYDEN by The acute danger arising from the French election is that a third of the deputies are frankly against NATO and all its works THE utterly fantastic French election outcome has added enormously to the already numerous pres- sures upon President
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    THE RESULT as seen
    75 4  - THE RESULT as seen Cummings The new political monster by Reading from right to left_ Hi the five headed Uoatieur Pierre Poujade. M. MmdrsFrance i trader of the R e pub I icaii Front). 9 9% M. Edgar Faure (Premier and leader of the Cenfre-riyht Front i. Jacques Durlos (leader
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    BY THE WAY
    233 4  -  Beachcomber I HOPE the appeal for left handed window cleaners will not fall on deaf ears. Many people think that the necessity for using the left-hand can be avoided if the cleaner starts on the right of the building, rubbing each window as he comes to it.
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      22 4 Exquisite DIAMOND GEM SET Jewellery m "The Fashions of the Moment.' At:PHHENDRY Mannfacturinp JeweUer 78 North Bridge Rd., Spore-6, and K. Lumpur.
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    SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    1289 5  -  Adelaide Eastley BY.. TN its quiet way, Sin--1 gapore's Y.W.C.A. has determined upon an approach to youth problems which may be far-reaching m remedial scope. Teen-agers will be challenged to begin 1956 by pledging their support of '^"-sponsored ventures designed to harness and direct youthful energies. Toward this
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      51 5 YOU WILL LOOK MARVELLOUS ON CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL i BUY-LATEST-NEW-ARRIVAL PETTICOATS AND SKIR TS BLO USES I LINGERIES I IN- NEW -FASHIONS 1 BY WOVENTEX DONT-DELAY— SHOP EARLY PICK THE BEST LIMITED STOCK AT ASMIA> *S 42.lirGHST.\ PACKING I as bu I TRANSPORT STORAGE LTD. j 173 CECIL STREET.
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      452 6 k JmaklW^ w\w \|%v|k|t\Ka I»v Lee Talk and IMiil If avis 6^P *J UNO£R MIGHT OF NUMBERS... J FROM BEHlMh^. 6WL^ \ft f Q> <' OORN today, you have a vivid im_4S MANDRAKE AND LOTHAR F16HT f^\ \i/»\ i—^ ;?^CAL^'lifc'-" D agination, an active mind and TH£ GANG ATOP TH£
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      U.K. closing prices
      200 7 LONDON Jan. It. "VST h lss <•'•'• 32 i i »ni M an Ports Januar J 33 sellers 33 sellers RIBBER No. 1 RSvS cLf. 32 buyers 32« 4 buyers European Ports February 32 sellers 33 sellers RLBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 32^ buyers 32 "s buyers
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      New York prices
      101 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 1» Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 105.00 norn 10^.12 nora. 1 «N futures January 103.25 bid 103.50 bid 104.25 Mked 104.75 asked February 102.50 bid 102 50 bid 103.50 asked 104.00 asked March 102.25 bid 102.00 bid 102.75 asked 103.25 asked TONE;
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      38 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Previous Today 30 Industrials 472 89 468 49 M Railroads 156.84 155 53 41) Dotm-slic Bonds 98 74 98.88 IS t Ulitics 63 71 63.22 64 Stocks Composite Awafe 167.53 166.06
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      U.S. PEPPER
      40 7 Malabar. Lamport spot I4H, awaiting rgl— w 34. a floats 33 1 to 33, Jan. 33. Malabar Jan. Mar. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib. 32... Sarawak spot W, relea. 1^ and afloat.s 31 J... si.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      100 7 Jan. 19. <oPK\ Philippine* c.i.f. I.K./ previous Today North Furopean delivered weight per long ton Frb./Mar. $174 $172 sellers COPRA Straits c.i.f. IK North Furopean delivered weight per long ton Jan./Feb £64' i buyers £64 buyers £65 sellers CM% sellers Feb. March £64 v; buyers £64
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    24 7 Mr.s. Jamei W. Gerard. 80. widow of the World v. American ambassador to .any. has died m New York :i|; illn AP
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    MORE TOURISTS WENT TO U.K. LAST YEAR
    249 7 MORE TOURISTS WENT TO U.K. LAST YEAR But hotel space short rpilE Board of Trade 1 estimates, In figures published recently, that 300,000 visitors went to Britain from •dollar" countries m 1955. It is estimated that one million tourists (a record > went to Britain last year and spent £150
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    MPs get a £2 topper
    54 7 British M.P.s have a new top hat to wear when they raise points of order m the Commons. Sir Charles MacAndrew, Deputy Speaker. has bought one for £2. It is a second-hand opera hat. which cost £6 before the war. but was never worn, he
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    The next mayor...
    34 7 Alderman Daniel Thomas Williams, leader of the Tory ftroup on Cardiff Council has been nominated as the next lord mayor of the city, now oilicially recognised as the capital of Wales
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    MISS AND NEAR MISS
    66 7 Miss Giselle Charbit > (right) recently elected < "Miss France 1956" ar- S rived m Paris with her friend Mass Maryse J Fabre (left), who was originally picked the < winner but had to stand down when the election was declared void. Now that everything has
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    Jail for Dartmoor warders
    328 7 Jail for Dartmoor warders TWO Dartmoor warders will now learn what It is like to be behind thf bars. They were jailed recently for two years. A jury at Devon Quarter Sessions had found them guilty of conspiring to effect the escape of Cyril Bond and aiding his escape. The
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      47 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES TODAY: 3.09 p.m. IOMOKKOW :i a.m. and 4.10 p.m. M \I>\\ 1 a and 5..>.") p.m. MONDAY: II am and 7.44 p.m. lUESDAl i, ;i a.m. Uki :s p in \\1 I)\K>I>\\ a.m. and 10*7 p.m. THUB8DA1 IjM am .itul 1 110 p. m
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    GEORGE V saw the Flying Dutchman
    1353 8  - GEORGE V saw the Flying Dutchman ROY MACNAB by The grim sequel bore out the legend that to encounter the phantom ship was to court disaster THE WORLD'S 1 STRANGEST STORIES L_ I CAILORS do not take their legends lightly and for them the story of the Flying Dutchman is
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    Problem of too much food
    223 8 Problem of too much food T*HE United Stat- a surplus stock of wheat, maize, sugar, cotton, and other products worth nearly £3.000.000.000 sterling for which there Ifi no ready outlet. One Of President Eisenhcm tasks is to deal with this. In a world whine million! of people are Insufficiently fed,
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    A CLOTH-CAP MAN GOES SHOPPING
    500 9 A CLOTH-CAP MAN GOES SHOPPING Spikes Red lie EXPERIENCE IN SWAGGER ARCADE OHABBILY dressed Frank Golding, a labourer from London's East End, shopped m the dignified glitter of Burlington Arcade m London's West End. He found courtesy everywhere. Now Burlington Arcade is the arcade of which Pete: Fryer, the Communist
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    SEA TOLL: 63 MEN, 21 SHIPS
    93 9 SIXTY-THREE British seamen died and 21 British merchant ships were lost last year. But no farepaying passengers lost their lives. A Ministry of Transport report issued said the vessels totalled 39,993 gross tons of which 11 were of 100 gross tons and over. Most
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    After battles, life dull....
    160 9 HERBERT LAURENCE PICTON -CLARK possibly found life In the Post Office leas exciting than the battlefields abroad, suggested his counsel. Detectives m dark glaises were keeping watch, peering into the .sorting office where he worked Perhaps, said Mr Derek Curtis IWnnett, Q.C at the Old Bailey,
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    114 9 Polio, which she contracted three years aj, r o. halfway through her drama course, ruined the chance of a stage career for Delia Dudgeon, 27. During 15 months m hospital she prepared for her future by taking a correspondence course m photography, completing the practical part of
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    Four counties get breakfast 'quake
    207 9 T<HE volcano which '■once towered 10.000 ft. where Sunday trippers now picnic at Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, has been dead for 500.000--000 years. But recently it shrugged Its ancient shoulders. Somewhere deep underground millions of tons of rock began to lUp* It may have moved only
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    Elephant crushes circus man
    145 9 Elephant crushes circus man A 70-YEAR-OLD circus ringmaster was attacked by a four-ton elephant and his arm was crushed but he carried on with the show. George Lockhart took a woman visitor backstage at the interval to see the animals at Manchester's Belle Vue. Then Burma, an elephant, hit out
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    The Queen is worried about view
    108 9 The Queen is worried about view T'HE Queen's concern for London's "river view" has been revealed by Professor Richardson, 76-year-old President of the Royal Academy. She expressed her private fears that St. Paul's. Tower Bridge, and the Houses of Parliament might be blotted out by new buildings when she opened
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    Ike's 'open skies' plan can work and here's the proof
    757 10 Ike's 'open skies' plan can work and here's the proof s E B E G I N N I N G TT all sounds rather vague doesn't it? President Eisenhower's open skies plan. It's a phrase that's been thrown round the world, used with varying modifications at all levels of
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    SOUND PEACE CAN BE ACHIEVED BY FOLLOWING A TESTED ROAD
    380 11 SOUND PEACE CAN BE ACHIEVED BY FOLLOWING A TESTED ROAD THE American people are determined to maintain and if necessary increase their armed strength for as long a period as is necessary to safeguard peace and to maintain our security. 'But we know that a mutually dependable system for less
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    Scandal is good for a woman
    700 12  -  Sylvia Lamond «v Up early to keep a seven a.m. date with Eartha Kitt A SPLIT GOWN LOOKED MORE EFFECTIVE I'M NOT KIDDING ABOUT GLAMOUR I WANTED to meet The Most Exciting Woman m The World so I rang her up and she said
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    HOUSING SHORTAGE ENFORCES CELIBACY
    529 12  -  JOHN CULMER Couples think twice about marriage THOUSANDS of young A Spanish couple, particularly m overcrowded cities like Madrid and Barcelona, are being prevented from getting married by the increasingly acute housing shortage m Spain, according to a recent study of this alarmins social problem. In
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      26 12 Wedding Pictures Make arrangements PHOTOGRAPHER Telephone Singapore 2800 or write to FREE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHIC I>EPT. 140-146 Cecil Street Singapore The service is only available m Singapore
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    63 13 Watched f>y students, attractive Instructress Pat Walker negotiates a sheer cliff face during a climbing class at the National Recreation Centre at Plas V Brenin, Capel CuriK- m Snowdonia. North Wales. Pat. a 22-year-old hoolmistress frt>m Rridlinuton. Yorkshire, spent her nation tcachint; students the rudiments of climbing. Plas V Brenin
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    'MY PROFESSION IS NOT RESPECTABLE'
    492 13 'MY PROFESSION IS NOT RESPECTABLE' Cecil Beaton's self-analysis IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE. By Cecil Beaton. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 16s ONCE upon a time Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, 50-year-old son of a timber magnate, photographer extraordinary of the twentieth century, said, replying to a quiz about his likes and dislikes,
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    The Archbishop kicked out the boy genius
    583 13  - The Archbishop kicked out the boy genius GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON A book review by MOZART'S LETTERS, Edited, Eric Blom. Penguin Books, 3s. 6d. 278 pages. WITH mounting in- dignation and alarm, old Leopold Mozart read the letter which his son Wolfgang had written -from Vienna. The boy, instead of being
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    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    86 14 pETER TOWRY is not only an authority on art bat an author, not only a fallery official hot a novelist, short- Z story writer and broadcaster. His second novel. Lord Mini- 1 mur a heroic comedy baaed on Jeffery Hudson Charles S I's dwarf was published early
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    THE TRUMP CARD
    1589 14  - THE TRUMP CARD PETER TOWRY DID IT HAPPEN? L by DID yrstrrday's story I RON I IKK |\< I hi NT." by J. Clifford Kin* .i< tuAlly happrn? Thr answrr is I Fwas the droop of her shoulders. She stood, isolated, at the end of the long official corridor, mourning
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    I'm bothered about beds...
    943 15  - I'm bothered about beds AMANDA MARSHALL by Modern ideas far brighter bedtimes have sot me all confuted. Should I plump for black silk sheets or roses or My pillow? Seeking guidance, I look into fie night lives 0f PETER USTINOV VOLAMIE HOMW stowi i» si aiiii: pVER since wide- <"
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    BRIDCE HAND
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    132 17 IN THE midst of a X rush job editing the George Gobel > Mitzi Gaynor comedy, > "The Birds And The < Bees," for release a > major iilm company < can't decide between a couple of goodies. > The one most I favoured at the moment
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    200 17 LOYD NOLAN never has been m any rush to have the recognition he deserves, and is really just now getting. Nolan has been a top actor m Hollywood for s, yet never have the bigeest role* and the top am come his way. It took hks
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    Are jockeys too brave? Take the case of Francis
    334 18 bury m spectacular but unrewarding style. He tried the terrain with his nose, shoulder, and arms alternately ending up the year with a forced landing on Pondapattari m the final Newbury handicap 'chase of 1955. After his crash on Spring Corn
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    42 18 photo. GOALMOUTH TABLEAU: The trio forming a "tableau" are Sunderland's left-half Aitken (striped shirt), Chelsea inside-left Stubbs and Sunderland goalkeeper Fraser during an attack on the Sunderland goal m the Div. 1 match at Stamford Bridge, London. The result was 2-2.- Reuter
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    85 18 SAMMY McCarthy, former British featherweight champion, is willing to pay for a chance of meeting the South African holder of the British Empire lightweight title, Johnny van Rensburg. m Britain. McCarthy, who has his first fight as a lightweight against British champion Frank Johnson
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    WHOOPS! NO HORSE!
    45 18 No mount m sight as Mr. J. A. Renfree nose dives after crashing at a fence m the Godstone Handicap Steeplechase at the Lingfield, Sussex, meeting on Friday, Jan. 13. Renfree's horse War Whoops stayed on the other side of the fence.
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    641 18  - It's winning that counts today at the Olympics VERNON MORGAN by WITH THE START OF THE OLYMPIC YEAR CONSIDERABLE CORRESPONDENCE HAS BEGUN IN THE BRITISH NEWSPAPERS LED BY THE MIGHTY TIMES ON WHAT IS TERMED OLYMPIC SPIRIT." Letters have appeared trom noted sportsmen members of Parliament and the public on
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    115 18 IS 8 Tenley Albright. **1 America's 20-year-old world Agure-fkattoi champion lay sashed her ankle with the blade of a skate and the injury may effetf hei rhances of comprtinu In next week's Winter Olympic Gamr Miss Albright foil while practising In the new
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    McINTYRE TAKES CROSS-COUNTRY
    40 18 T>AP S^ '»> 38 points. beat a combined ChangiTengah team <3^ p..r ts> In cross-country run l Seletar. LAC Mclnfyre of Seletar was :he 5>.« mil« count m 28mln. 25m lAC Sunn iSeJe .sec.. an<; M \C Woods
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    Form and weight favour Orissa in top sprint tomorrow
    956 19 Form and weight favour Orissa in top sprint tomorrow Pick your winners with... TRESPASSER I TAKE Orissa to beat five first /•Swum winners /wj Motion Picture, SB ''i^y* Holiday DM light, The mtn Vizard and Hun- tier's Call m the 1 f lass 4, Division VVi 6 furlongs race Ifj
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    DOUBTFUL STARTERS
    28 19 pKOBABLE scratchings tomorrow are: Entertainer, The Wizard, Golden Serenade, Marvel of Peru, Sealed Orders, Timor, Foire, Kingfold, Proud Moment, Fay's Harvest, Tide OGold, Park 11, Gilan.
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    729 19 Westoth was scratched on the first day to be especially fit for this run. She is well handicapped m this division and she has I only step up on her last start form to beat the opposition. In her last appearance Westoth was a close
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    127 19 A QUARTER of the Held m the 26th Monte Carlo motor rally railed to com.h« C m UM 2 600 mUet road section Of tern trst of cat and i-nd.-d *>v drmrhed V n m Is anr 2.5 of th c 303 had iel
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    Lock icon SADDLER STOPS ELORDE IN 13 AND IS BOOED
    229 20 SANDY SADDLER retained his world featherweight boxing title when he beat Flash Elorde, of the Philippines, on a 13th-round technical knockout »n San Francisco on Wednesday. The referee stopped the fight because of a cut over Elorde's left eye which required six
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    89 20 pictures. HOLIDAY FLIGHT (Hudson, winnin g the fifth race CO. 4. Div. S-M. straight) from Producer (C.eyer) and Stream Son* (Leong) at Ipoh on Wednesday. r niv *>— 6f) from Melbourne Hope (Schiller) and Sybil's r.P <C\ ■-> Div 8M from China Town 11 (Mawi) and Mystic
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    Lock icon FANGIO, MOSS IN CLOSE FINISH
    62 20 JUAN Manuel Fangio, Ar- 1 gentina's world motorracing champion, and Britain's Stirling Moss, finished within one-tenth of a second of each other m the first official time trials for Sunday's Argentine Grand Prix, m Buenos Aires yesterday. Faneio led the trials with the fastest lap,
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    Dull hockey trial ends in a draw
    211 20 "YESTERDAY'S Singapore Hockey Association trial match between Colours and Whites did not produce anything for the selectors to go by. It w;i.s a dull match with combination and speed lacking. Colours had the better of the game m the first half and took
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    Lock icon M.C.C. pick 12 for first Test against Pakistan
    171 20 rpHE M. C. C. yesterday an- nounced 12 names for the first unofficial cricket Test ■inst Pakistan which begins In Lahore today They are: D. B Cirr. D B. Close P E. Richardson. M. Tompkin. W. H H Sutcliffe. X Barrington. A
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    53 20 THE 30 Battalion R rmj Ordnance C will d.-t.'-id the An< O.H.Q. 1 I m the finals ol Inter-tii <m br rhan <n 30 at th<- Biidminton Hall. $3/. $2. $I. and 50c. for gallery, obtainable from HQ 3 BOD.. Plani (iPO TVI 2410 ext. BOD.
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    S'pore hockey teams for weekend
    89 20 S 'pore hockey teams for weekend CfINGAPORE tram to meet the Pakistan Navy side on Saturday at Jalan Besar Stadium is: E. N. Filial: R. Mosber^en. A jit Sinjh; P. Pennefather, S. Vellupillai, D. Hay; F. F^mand<»7, A. Vijiaratnam. N. Nupent. Sheikh Mansoor. LAC. Suppiah. I'mpire: B. S. Soin. The
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    37 20 RAF. Rest Depot <Ch beat 92 L.A.A (Selet.in 4-1 yesterday m the replay of their second round fixture m the. RAF Regiment iM.ilaya) knockout hockey tournament. Previously they hud drawn 2-2
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    SELETAR Y.C. REGATTA SUNDAY
    69 20 R.A.F. Seletar Yacht Club I annual regatta will be held at Seletar on Sunday at 9.30 a.m. Tomorrow, an open race will be held from RAF. Changi up to R.A.F. Seletar. The following clubs will take part: Royal Singapore V.C NftYft] Ba.se. FARELF. RE R.A.P. Changi
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      296 20 „m int;- •ni»«'» Straits Times Free Preti f (For the convenience of odver- risers our repre»entotive c ±*J floor, SINGAPORE COLD STOR- 5 AGE, ORCHARD ROAD, will rt- I eelve smoll odvertlsemonh ond answers to box numbers. Classified advertisement* «.ov I also be handed to: CITY BOOK STORE LTD Winchester
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      Masthead
      11 1 Woman Home FREE PRESS MALAY MAIL SUPPLEMENT Friday, January 20, 1956.
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      The Way To Elegance
      765 1 visitor nt.x .11:11 m us. art khutor or a utxnox HYM/IVS MAGAZIXE II Ml II A WORLD-WIRE i'IRfULATIOX. WARXS MALAYAN WOMEX: PRESERVE YOUR lUtSUIHH.iI I EASTERN FASHIONS BECOME YOU—SO WEAR THEM; DON'T IMITATE THE WEST I AM leaving Malaya after an all too short visit, with
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      The secret: Always be neat
      99 1 Fashion reporter Ma ELEGANCE is an laf national word thousand m n togenl refinement gra iln ways of coui Any woman any naUoaalltf can .ng as the follows 01 the basic nil< dressing. A Nfl ngsam. a saronu. even ,11 ran look elegant. But all
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        228 1 MMj rm. your search ava js^^'Wv. ;^^^B iag^ >S*n!y^^ *^< ■<;.. >;; v The in»t«nt you smooth it on, you look an<fj Bbb% feel poised, cool... adorably lovely. For I Creme Puff brings lo your face an utte^ M _^|p smoothness of texture -a heart-stirring \t lightness of finish that
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        275 2 p. i|i^ j/wif »'/T*^ ffUUUCU NON-COMBUSTIBLE AND ECONOMICAL W IT V3 LJ Cti O lillAJ p\ m .km v w\ DEPENDABLE i —^=r 1 a reflective insulation c electric cooker r^^g^asi LET SIME DARBY PHILCO HWr> REFRIGERATORS S X BJBV |B^ Mff 0% I b ir\ I FREEZERS STAINL E
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      CUT OUT THE SWANK
      1139 3 Are your parties social playgrounds— or battlegrounds? ■■■■■•■■■■■■a lADELAIDE EASTLEY, WHO GETS AROUND,! GIVES A SIMPLE FORMULA FOR FUN... j Informality is besf IyHAT kind of party manners do, Tf you have? j Are you the obnoxious, objection- i able "life of the party" type? Or;
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        55 3 mmm. ~a just received! fflffll* *^f l m tH §Uilt IVEIV RANGE OV I H>l J SOFT FURNISHINGS 11 |I!I] jL I Vjf^jS' IN CONTEMPORARY DESIGNS. l^\ 48 WIOEi PRICES FROM s3>s per yanl P^ SV^i^^jKpTjl A HV//t- M/.v.-- i.V for samples or oil! on mr display: RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE:;
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      Once a week -no make-up
      240 4 HERE are a few hints for your daily make-up routine: i GO WITHOUT make-up at least one day a week. E This will give your skin a rest and give it a chance to breathe. BEFORE making up splash cold water over your face. It
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      DON'T WILT!
      374 4 m. IIIIIIIIIIIIII" Hollywood experts i tell how to stay glamorous all day long THE GIRL who looks cool and glamorous on a long, hot day can command more attention than a thousand of her more beautiful sisters who look wilted. Furthermore, m looking cool and glamorous, much of
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      BEAUTY IN THE BATH
      356 4 WARM WATER CAN WORK WONDERS HOLLYWOOD'S busy beauties do not merely take baths— they take "glamour baths," says Max Factor, Jr.. Hollywood beauty advisor. You have a veritable "hot springs right m your bathtub, and. when used as such its therapeutic values to tired muscles and
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      LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOWS
      1027 6  - LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOWS TERRY FAULKNER By T HAVE just discovered a new and infinitely superior form of domestic lighting, all done by tubes. "Fluorescent lighting at home?'' I can almost hear the dismay m your voice. "Oh, no!" And that is exactly what I would have said myself up to
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      Air hostesses take high road to altar
      469 7  -  JOHN KILLLIN THESE GIRLS TOP THE MARRIAGE MARKET «v A PRETTY face is very often a girl's pass-port-to a job but, to the chagrin of many employers, it is also the quickest way out. Not unnaturally, jobs that require attractiveness, poise and personality
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      196 7 HERE is the recipe for Mamie's million dollar fudge"— the bait that helped lure the second lieutenant who later became President of the United States. Mrs. Dwight D. Elsenhower says that it is not she but her husband, who Ls the cook m the family. When
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      Gar young blades give way to age
      200 8 Gar young blades give way to age pENTLEMEN, you don't stand a chance of turning feminine heads these days unless you're past 40 and your hair is tinged with grey. This is an age of experts. And Women, it seems, prefer men of experience to shy young lovers. Latest Italian
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      WHAT AN EFFORT TO RELAX
      172 8 Laments Eve Perrick mm, THE fashion designers are once again nagging: usE to get all dressed up when Wt have nowhere tor go. In these modern times the art of relaxation is a= many sponsored imng. But how I hate this E tight trousered ap-
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        180 8 f f m i I f I ,1/7 C\ the art of being helpful v J r* We can't help the ducks to cross the road But we I 1 \^ZJ can most certainly help you solve your Furniture Removing and S* '"i y^ Storage Problems. I s*~ I FURNITURE
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      The Bedroom-Holy of Holies
      669 9 The BedroomHoly of Holies IN DESIGN IT MUST BE PRACTICAL, IN EFFECT BEAUTIFUL REVERE IT! QNE of the most difficult tasks that lie ahead of a young married couple is furnishing their house or flat on the minimum amount of money. Modern living calls for economy m space and expenditure
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      Dress your cupboards
      249 9  -  ERNESTINE CARTWRIGHT Says I^VEN m the prettiest house, you can receive a rude shock when cupboards are opened. Hangers of all sizes and colours crowd the rods; shoes act out a de Mille crowd scene on the floor; hats lock leathers on the shelf. Such embarrassing confusion
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      CRAFT WITH COCONUTS
      33 10 UNIQUE LAMPSTANDS exhibited recently at the Inter-Club Arts and l Crafts Exhibition at the Bukit Panjang Community Centre They won first and second prizes m the coconut crafts section. t
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      503 10 Meals for a day A LEADING MALAYAN COOK MAKES SOME SUGGESTIONS -The MenuBREAKFAST Iced papaya Grilled baby rainbow trout, j Toast and butter Coffee or tea LUNCH Avocado pear M.ih mcc Fresh fruit salad and cream Coffee DINNER Hors d oeuvre varies Hot consomme clair Supreme of chicken Souffle omelette
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      FRY YOUR OWN NUTS
      162 10 NEW WAYS with nuts are on their way here and to make the most of nuts housewives should cook their own. Poanuts and almonds blanched m a new way to their vitamin will soon be sold m packets which keep them fresh for two yea You
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      Consider your jewellery: does it become you?
      269 11 r^EW women can resist 1 the attraction of a jeweller's window. The fascinating medley of trinkets is like a magnet to the feminine eye. But few have the knack of wearing jewellery. Many women buy trinkets simply because they take a fancy to
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      Fashion's straight and narrow year
      541 11 CLIM is the line, light is the weight and wandering is the waistline of 19&6 fashions. American designers are unanimously agreed on the sheath silhouette for daytime— straight, narrow and severe. But they do new tricks w:th it, In the form of floating back panels.
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      467 12 VITAMINS HELP WARD OFF T.B. SINGAPORE doctors are fighting a continuous battle against disease, and particularly against tuberculosis. The Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic wages an ever intensifying campaign against this dread disease which kills and maims so many citizens every year. Rich or poor are treated free of charge if
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      MECHANICAL SLEEPERS
      83 12 MECHANICAL SLEEPERS THIS machine gives E a matUess 10 years' E wear m 60 hourv E Two metal bodies, r E one weighing 12st. and E the other 9st. are turnE ed mechanically to find E which part of the mat- E tress fails first under E E wear. E
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      Baby needs solid food early
      307 12 WEANING baby is one of the first problems a mother must face. At 151 b baby begins to need some solid food m addition to the normal milk diet. Early weaning is not just a new fad. It introduces baby to new foods gradually and
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        396 12 N. /^^Z/tw *V Receiver* naTV tubes" and° 3 wave-bands^ a £g£» —^M^yj^ /^g^Pßs2rsr B^ new built-in ferrite-rod aerial, and a special lt^-"'"'""'"'-*""*."X?i^S A ISS^ dm^JoKf\ MM Mf4 il double-cone speaker, all features so far ffe '^•<^'^'/^y-' < rX mWK&Zf VtiM i§ W§ Mt* on\y found m the more expensive type
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      Hard-boiled? Never!
      87 14 HERE'S a gadget which will solve that soft-boiled f egg problem for the busy housewife who always 5 forgets to turn them out m three minutes. The secret is m the two rubber suction discs. The upper one is attached to the perforated metal E disc on which
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      PURE TINNED MILK FROM SWITZERLAND
      413 14 PURE TINNED MILK FROM SWITZERLAND IT IS NOT generally realised that besides tinned condensed sweetened, condensed unsweetened (evaporated) and powdered milk, there is available m Malaya tinned natural fresh milk, sterilised, that is equal to the best fresh milk anywhere m the world. Bear Brand sterilised natural milk is fresh
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      313 14 fHOOSING materials for chair coverings and curtains must be done with caje. To the average housewife, they are a long term investment, because of the cost of materials and upholstery. Here are a few hints on what to do before you buy the
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