The Singapore Free Press, 28 January 1956

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. H177 Singapore. Saturday, January 28, 1956. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 180 1 SINGAPORE'S new political group, the Liberal Socialist Party, warned today that a call for an immediate general election may be made at the next Legislative Assembly meeting on February 8. The line f attack will be determined only after the Chief Minister,
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  • 130 1 LABOUR MEN TO DISCUSS MERGER Some important political resolutions are expected to be moved at tomorrow's meeting of the Labour Front General Council. Mr. Keng Ban-ec, secretary general, said some of the ilutioru would be moved by the central (executive) committee but he wa.s not yet free to disclose them.
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  • 27 1 The Singapore Rubber Maiket opened this morning with fli February shipment, at $1.11% a lb.. l>2 cents abovi Thursday's closing price. The tone was quiet.
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  • 26 1 Los Angeles born "Tokyo Rose." due to be released from prison today alter servin tor treason, may be deported the United States. Reuter
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  • 78 1 The Queen flies in early r PHE Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh left Tripoli early this morning m the 8.0.A.C. airline r Atlanta on the last leg of their 3.500--mile flight to Nigeria. The airliner had a brief stop for refuelling and crew Change before resuming the (light to
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  • 298 1 MALAYANS THE MOST POPULAR CADETS AT SANDHURST FEDERATION Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, yesterday visited Sandhurst, 33 miles SOUthof London where at the Royal Military Academy he met 36 Malayan cadets. Thirteen of them will be commissioned next July. Of two will RO to the ured Car Regiment. onv to
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  • 319 1 FLOOD FIGHTERS STAND BY The weather will be rainy and cold again today. Weather experts say there will be intermittent light showers and occasional heavy rain during the next 24 hours. l Bedok hit again: 300 evacuated ABOUT 300 people were evacuated last night from the Bedok resettlement area m
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  • 104 1 sandstorms block Suez Canal T'HE Suez Canal yesterday was ordered to be closed until further notice because of the heaviest sandstorms m years. The Suez Canal Company said 15 ships caught by the storms were anchored along the banks of the Canal, Europe's vital link with the East. A Soviet
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  • 42 1 $3M DAMAGE IN FLOOD AND FIRE Flood, explosions and an inferno of floating flames caused at least $3,000,000 worth of damage to Ford's factory at Long Beach. California, yesterday. The plant was knocked out of service lor at least two months. A.P.
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  • 37 1 At Pearl River, New York, yesterday Indonesia accepted an American donation of 5.000 tubes of aureomycin ointment for the emergency treatment of Indonesians afflicted with trachoma, an eye ailment which often lead, to blindness.. Reuter
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  • 26 1 Communist Chinese and Nationalist^ exchange artillery fire m a brief duel between the mainland and the Nationalist held Matsu island group yesterday U.P.
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  • 30 1 Major Dan Gov, Israeli military spokesman, said m Tel Aviv, that an Israeli patrol was attacked by Jordanian infiltrators near Beersheba yesterday. There v ere no casualties I
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  • 146 2 BAGDAD PROTEST BY FRANCE ANGERS UK AN open split developed m western Big raree A Middle East policy last night just before British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden's meeting with President Eisenhower on how to stop Red infiltration m this vital region. VhP hrearh came over the controversial Bagdad "northern
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  • 163 2 Clumsy bid to split Ike, Eden MARSHAL BULGANIN has suggested to President Eisenhower that the United States and Russia agree to a treaty of amity and non-aggres-sion under which the two countries would undertake not to use armed force against each other, according to diplomatic sources m Washington yesterday. This
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  • 172 2 I ANDLOCKED Afghani tan yesterday accused Pakistan of impasing a "crippling economic blockade" on the transit of goods to Afghanistan. The accusation was made by Mr. Mohammed Sarwar, leader of the Afghan delegation to the industry and trade committee of the Economic Commi>sion for A.sia and the
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  • 57 2 The conservative backbench committee of the House of Commons have sent a radio message to Sir Anthony Eden aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth that it affirms its confidence m your leadership and sends its best wishes to you and the Foreign Secretary (Selwyn Llovdi for the successful
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  • 100 2 FIVE leftist leaders, including a woman, were arrested m Bombay yesterday under the Preventive Detention Act. The arrests were made "to prevent a breach of the peace ln the city." police said. This is the second swoop on Leftist leaders, the first being some
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  • 179 2 Harding meets Makarios in new talks FIELD Marshal Sir John Harding, Governor of Cyprus, held new talks last night with Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Cypriot Greek campaign for union with Greece. The Governor, back from London after a week of discussions with Sir Anthony Eden, the British Prime Minister
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  • 262 3 M.Ps. hit at powers over colonies BRITISH Members of Parliament yesterday discussed the respective merits of the House of Commons and the Privy Council, which advises the Queen as a legislative body for colonjul affairs. The Issue was raised m the committee stage of the Leeward Islands Bill which proposes
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  • 182 3 A M KHK'AN scientlstjs hope to send the lirst man-made "moon" on an earth girdll] course roughly following the equator. Officials of the International Geophysical Year directing the satellite programme, said m New York last night that the foot-ball-size object would circle the earth 16
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  • 70 3 TH E Moroccan Algerian frontier was closed yesterday a s French troops and police hunted for outlaws who kidnapped flve French and two Algerian soldiers m a bus holdup m Western Algeria on Thurs- day, Two of the soldiers were found dead yesterday near the scene
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  • 227 3 Minister's warning at opening of laboratory m* THERE is an acute shortage of men with a sound knowledge of the principle, methods and technidiies of science m Singapore, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, Minister of Education said yesterday. Mr. Chew, who was the guest speaker at the
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  • 21 3 Switzerland's 10-man 1956 Himalayan expedition will set off from Namche Bazaar In Nepal at the end of February.- Reuter
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  • 104 3 lilIE master of the Bri- tish freighter Pachumba who on January 24 rescued 15 Indonesians south of the Tanimbar Islands, about 300 miles north of Darwin, yesterday radioed that he had ordered the Indonesians to abandon their craft owing to rough seas. rhis order
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  • 163 3 SOME married British service officers out of their pay can only afford to spend $1.35 a head a day for food for their family, $42.50 a head a year for clothes and $240 a year for holidays for family of five. And these officers are
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  • 28 3 Dag Hammarskjold, United Natl Secretary General, said m Beirut, Lebanon. yesterday that he feels "continued optimism" regarding a "near settlement" ol the Pal problem. A.P.
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  • 213 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion TENSION TALKS SATURDAY. Jan. 28. 1956. IUHILE world attention is centred on the Middle East, where Russia has recently succeeded m building up tension to a dangerous pitch, the Eden -Eisenhower talks due to begin m Washington are certain be cover a much wider territory
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  • 751 4  - Adventure for two on the High Seas HUGH MABBETT Z&ZX&ZZZZ&Z'ZX^s M ABBETT, a New Zealand^ has tried most things «ta^is M 25 years-but never saUmg vs S e n 7 hey are a pest Zealand, and was paid for do ng it Dec ted for there, has felled trees for
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  • 308 4 TWO young American Southerners, m Singapore for four days, yesterday visited the Free Press to plead for a better understanding of truths regarding racial problems m America's southernmost states. They were Mr and Mrs. William B. Gray, of Atlanta. Georgia, aboard the Norwegian motorship Tamesls from Japan
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  • 116 5 Prisoner is free two hours A PRISONER escaped from Broadmoor for two hours because, he said, he wanted his case reviewed, as he believed he was not certified insane. Later the Home Office said the prisoner Antoni Caachar, 29--year-old Pole, sentenced to four years m July V.Kvl for the man
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  • 297 5 M'lud, my learned friend is P.C. 363 HE STUDIED ON BEAT WHEN P. C. 363 Dou- glas Evan Probert Price, a West End policeman for 20 years, gives evidence m court, the barristers' benches hold no terrors for him. He i_ as well qualified m law as the bewigged and
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  • 154 5 Engaged to be married when she was 15 A 15-YEAR-OLD girl who appeared at the juvenile court at Enfield, Middlesex, wrss engaged to be married six months ago, her mother told the magistrates. Since then, the mother alleged, the girl had been arriving home at midnight 'nearly every night" and
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  • 29 5 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands concluded his three-day visit to Washington yesterday as luncheon guest of Admiral Jerauld Wright, Supreme Commander of Nato naval forces.— U.P.
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  • 43 5 The 35th session of the Sino-American ambassadorial talks due to be held m Geneva on February 3 has been postponed until the next day, it was announced m Geneva. No reason was given by either side for this postnonement. Reuter
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  • 53 5 Flying saucers some round and some square have been spotted daily over various parts of Afghanistan, the Afghan Embassy m New Delhi announced yesterday. The announcement said that flying saucers had been seen over Herat, about 50 miles from the Soviet and Persian borders, and at several
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  • 38 5 The U.S. Army said yesterday that two-thirds of the 40,000 American troops m South Korea still are living m tents. But it promised all of them regular housing by the end of this winter A.P.
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  • 32 5 A Communist Chinese mission has arrived m Cairo to open a trade office there under the terms of the three-year trade agreement signed by the two countries last August. A.P.
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  • 25 5 A U.N. source said yesterday that it is a fifty-fifty chance that the 1956 General Assembly will be held m Rome.
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    • 938 5 _ni i. ii nir rvri ivn ROMAN CATHOLIC I Rang Road): 8 am. Breaking of t ill K( 11 urn EPUI__JUI Cathedral of The Good Shep- Bread; 4.30 p.m Sunday School; St. Andrew's Cathedral Dedi- herd (Victoria St.): Mass (Ser- I 6 p.m. Gospel Service— Mr. Lawration Festival: 7 a.m.
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    • 676 6 X f/UmmtW^^ X t I>ORN today, you have a fine mind J I O and should make the best pos- X t sible use of it at all times. The arts 1 and sciences, alike, will interest you. 2 It is likely that your early train- J t ins and
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 199 7 LONDON, Jan. 27. Rirnnc Previous Today Rlßßfcß No. l RSS cAi. 31s buyers 321* buyers i uropean Ports February 32 sellers 32 sellers Xl HBER No. 1 KSS c.i.f. 31% buyers 32 buyers European ports March 31^ sellers 32« i sellers Xl BBLR No. 1 RSS Spot
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    • 100 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 87. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 102.50 nom. 103.00 norn TIN futures January 100.50 bid 102.25 bid 101.50 asked 102.50 asked February 99.50 bid 100.25 bid 101.00 asked 102.00 asked March 99.25 bid 99.50 bid 100.75 asked 100.50 asked TONE: Steady. SALES:
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    • 40 7 Spot MalaJx-r/Lamponp and awutintj release 32 1 afloats 32, Jan. 31 a Malabar first half Feb. Above prices quoted 31. Sarawak spot 30 traded awaiting release afloats and Jan all 30. Sellers ex-dock. m U.S. cents per lb.
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    • 35 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 27. Previous Today SO Industrials 466 82 466.56 2(> Railroads 155.80 155.19 40 Domestic Bonds 98 87 98 94 II rtllltira 63.35 63.44 64 Storks Composite Averafe 165.86 165.66
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    • 100 7 Jan. 27. COPRA Philippines c.i.f. U.K./ Previous Today North European delivered wHfht per long ton Feb./ Mar $177 sellers $178 sellers COPRA Straits c.l.f. TK /North Furopean delivered weight p«r £64 b ym s £64 buyers lon* ton Jan./teb £65 se ij ers £65 sellers fc
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  • 320 7 'Appalling conditions 9 m hospitals bared A HOSPITAL group chairman refused to tour a mental hospital because a previous visit so upset him that he could not sleep for nights afterwards. Mr David Rhydderch disclosed this at a public meeting at Shrewsbury. And
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  • 215 7 MR. PETER MASEFIELD, go-ahead new boss of the Bristol Aircraft Company, has set up a new department to give the world's best after-sales service to airlines who buy the Bristol Britannia. m une oi me ]iDes oven levelled at British aircraft manufacturers is that if
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  • 185 7 WHEN 19-year-old Peter John Henry Walker 'takes off" m an Army car— he has done it twice —things happen. He was m court at Chester, caught after being chased through London by Mrs. F r a ncaise Tollemache, daughter of the French Ambassador to
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  • 114 7 ALL through one week between j shows assistant stage j manager Laurence Nolan worked on Cinderella's golden coach. The stage manager had said: "Give Cinder's coach a good clean and polish." Then one day, when Larry, 26, of Liverpool. married 21 year old Vi d a Paterson, an
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    • 47 7 1 SINGAPORE I HIGH TIDES >> TODAY: 10.58 a.m. TOMORROW: 12.20 a.m. and 11.46 a.m. MONDAY: 12.52 a.m. << << and 1230 p.m. TUESDAY: 1.24 a.m.» and 1.14 p .m. WEDNESDAY: 1.54 a.m.)? and 157 p.m. THURSDAY: 2.26 a.m.« and 2 44 p.m. >S FRIDAY: 3 a.m. and 3.35 p.m.
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  • 357 8 LH)R 3,500 of Singapore's underprivileged children, last Monday was great day— for they went, many of them for the first time, to the circus. As guests of the Kinoshita Japanese Circus, they saw all the elephants, the acrobats, the clowns, and the trap*/* irtists
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  • 154 8 Fun -for young and old The wonder and excitement of the trapeze act is always suspenseful. but when the daring clown steps m there is much mirth. Picture above shows children from a Social Welfare home, watching wide-eyed at the antics of "Mr. Garo" the clown, who at that moment
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  • 582 10  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY jStmwnf ft 4fH IfOU*Uj #lf A YOUNG Chinese schoolboy, Ah Lee, gets a letter from the famous private detective, Steve Winters. It says that Winters is coming to Malaya to investigate a ease, and Ah Lee may be able to help him. The letter is
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    67 10 See how well you can colour this picture with paints, crayons or chalks, and you may win one of four $5 prizes (two for boys and two for girls). Fill m your name, address and age and post to Aunty Wendy, c/o The Singapore Free Press, Cecil Street
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    60 10 f AST week's prize winners (each of whom will receive the $5 award m due course) are: CI) Miss Chan Mei-ling (13), 161, Rochore Road, Singapore. (2) Miss Shirley Ang (6), 24. Imbi Road. Kuala Lumpur. (3) Master Jimmy Cairns (10) 119. Ayer Itam Road, Penang. (4) Ma.ster
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  • 590 10 lot better." The famous detective smiled. "This is only the first round," he said a little grimly. "So far all the advantage has been with the enemy. It won't be so m future" WHAT'S the plan?" demanded Simon excitedly. "Just this. The enemy knows who we
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    • 353 10 /■'&^d_l fer' IS I£BB_ml CS WE! L_ *#_,<* _*&_J After the earl has sounded hil Liege." he cries. "We have call he and his *on gi/e a:ross hounded those varlets. your count i'v and Rupert climbs tp a enemies, t to the very gates of their bratnh to get a
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  • 2005 11  -  STEPHEN POTTER \by DID IT HAPPEN? M Another story to keep yoy goessiog. A The iniwer will be A gives os Mow-iy... A WHETHER you think this story is true or untrue is not so important. What matters, so far as Tightness or wrongness is concerned,
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  • 525 12 Remembered with affection I WILLIAM HICKEY'S NOTEBOOK j j WHEN the Duke oJ Windsor, as Prince of Wales, made hi* entry into public lift immediately after th( first world war, he appointed, as one of hi. equerries Captain Pier. Legh. It was the same Piers Legh who was one of
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    162 12 picture. IN Teheran they have been having trouble with "Teddy Boys-only they cal them /•■spin*. specie, is the same—characteristic style of haircut, clothes, etc. The hairstyle is fashioned after that worn by film star Cornell Wilde. A thin romantic moustache known as the Douglas alter the style of Douglas Fairbanks
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    434 12 IT OFTEN happens that a poor choice of first response by the opener's partner is responsible for reaching a bad contract. The pitfalls are many The responder must avoid forcing even for a single round with too weak a hand; yet he must avoid sounding discouraglngly weak when
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  • 434 13  -  JOHN IVY by [>EHIND the recent decision by the South African Governent to limit hirepurchase baying is the story of a country ensnared m the "nevernever" system and whose people are the permanent slaves of next month's pay packet. In South Africa today, almost
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  • 88 13 tion amazingly simple. The inventor has beet commissioned to erect the first drum m MoenchenGladbach. and has reveived orders for 50 more from various other cities. TVD COPE with mounting 1 parking, problems many German cities are planning multiple garages m the shape of
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  • 202 13 SO many young Spaniards want to become lawyers that Spain's universities are now officially full up and unofficially far too full with 'standing room only In the lecture rooms. Of the 70,000 students who will dock tn the various faculties when the unh re-open
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    • 75 13 SAYS Senator Eden (representinc Grenadier Guards fall Yankee know-how solves the Califomian P tmm mm U rnpro c mei its ram I OffJ'O Fn *_and State) leaves to into line with U.S. Army London traffic problem remove that stuffed shirt altitude to Prii tttag II ou s t I take-his.
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  • 1071 14  - BONUS for babies ups the birth rate NORMAN KING by For the capital of feminine fashion, Paris is a disappointing city. Most Frenchwomen just cant afford to dress well. But a wife can double the family income if she becomes the mother of four children A COLLEAGUE m Paris said
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  • 108 15 A L WEILL, manager of A heavyweight champion Rocky Mareiano. discussed a possible title light m May at Havana against Nino Valdes. Cuban contender, for a guarantee of U*****,000. Weill met with Ken Later, representative of William Lefty) Clark, a Havana night club
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  • 689 15  - HOW LEN FOOLED THE AUSTRALIANS PAT MARSHALL I by I HIS TEST BATTING RECORD will remember 0 Len Hutton, who has retired, as the man who batted for 13 hours and 20 minutes to score a Test record 364 against Australia m that crucial final Test of 1938. Others will
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  • 420 15 Too old to referee a league gamebut he can handle a F.A. Cup final! rE ridiculous Football League rule which compels a referee to retire at the age of 47 will act against Mr Mervyn Griffiths, of Newport this season. Mr. Arthur Ellis, of Halifax (Yorks) is generally dubbed world's
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  • 262 15 FINN WINS FIRST COLD MEDAL AT WINTER OLYMPICS FIRST gold medal winner of the seventh Winter Olympic Games was Veikko Hakulinen (Finland) who yesterday won the 30 kilmoetres (about 185 miles) cross-country event m 1 hr. 44 mm 6 sec. A 29-year-old forestry inspector m southern Finland. Hakulinen won the
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  • 49 15 THHE Singapore Hockey Association's senior knockiout games between Latin* Wanderers and BODCA, 'and RAF. Changi and 1. A., were postponed because of 'rain. Two friendly hockey matches on the padang and the cricket fixture between Ceylon Services and Ceylon Sports Club were also washed out
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  • 46 16 rpHE world welterweight cham- pionship fight between the holder, Carmen Basilio. and Johnny Saxton. has been postponed from Feb. 15 to March 14. the International Boxing Club has announced. Spokesman said Baslllo was suffering from a "mild case of influenza." Reuter
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  • 32 16 THE North v. South rugger match will not be postponed owing to the bad weather. The match will be played at Jalan Besar Stadium 2%i 5 p.m.
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  • 369 16 LEWIS HOAD staged a great recovery against his former Australian Davis Cup colleague, Mervyn Rose. to reach the men's singles semi-finals m the Australian lawn tennis championships m Brisbane yesterday. Hoad had to call on an his ability and experience before winning a tense
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  • 127 16 BOWLERS generally held the mastery m Christchurch yesterday when the West Indies touring side began a three-day match against Canterbury, the New Zealand province champions. Canterbury's strong batting side was put out for 227 but m about half an hour towards the end of
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  • 299 16 ENGLAND and Surrey spin bowler Tony Lock, again I Droved his all-round value to the M.C.C. touring side I yesterday when he scored 36 runs, including five fours, I and claimed two East Pakistan Sports Federation wickets I for
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