The Singapore Free Press, 1 May 1956

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press s, *****. Singapore. Tuesday, May 1, 1956. Price 15 Cts Largest Afternoon Sale in JVlala>a
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    Princess inspires a new look
    88 1 Princess inspires a new look Inspiration for the garments and hats displayed at a fashion show staged by M G.M. in London were drawn from Grace Kelly s latest film, "The Swan," in which she plays the part of a princess. She is, of course, now a princess in real
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    Rubber price
    30 1 The Singapore Rubber Miirkft opened this morning with first grade, May shipment at 86 5 8 cents a lb., unchanged since yesterday's closing price. The tone was quiet.
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    Copter Crash
    30 1 ••"tv technicians were led when a Royal Air Force Whirlwind helicopter, which they were flying hed on a test flight •u- Lyndhurst (England) yesterday. Fhe pilot was unhurt.
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    THREAT BY CUSTOMS MEN
    301 1 QUIET START TO MAY DAY IN SINGAPORE, DESPITE- MAY DAY started off "'tly in Singapore 1 trike by 100 Gov- n< customs men at > Pier. spokesman for the Mr. A Ponnu- said the strike would i if their demand to 'r an Asian officer ot
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    Ten injured by grenade
    136 1 THRFE cyclists passing a Chinese restaurant in Sungei Siput town at 9.15 p.m. last night, flung handgrenarte into the shop injuring four Australian servicemen, three Asian police inspectors and three other civilians. The Australians belong in the Commonwealth Infan- try Itriuafle and arc members of a
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    AGREEMENT? I'LL SIGN ON MY OWN MARSHALL
    346 1 AGREEMENT? I'LL SIGN ON MY OWN MARSHALL Crucial merdeka talks open today Special despatch from Harry Miller £JRUCIAL stage talks between Singapore's delegation seeking merdeka for the Colony and the British Government start in London today. A decision should be reached by the end of the week. I believe Singapore
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    Shock for Premier
    40 1 French radio technicians last nLght kept the Prime Minister, M. Guy Mollet, off the television screens in thousands of homes by launching a strike shortly before he was about to deliver an eve of May Day message
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    MR. CHAN CALLS FOR WATER SUPPLY PROBE
    313 2 MR. CHAN CALLS FOR WATER SUPPLY PROBE Kampong folk have a right to stand pipe facilities 50... 'More for Lorong 1' 'VUE vice-chairman of the Singapore City C oun- cil public utilities committee, Mr. Chan Kum Chee, yesterday called for an immediate islandwide enquiry to assess the water supply position
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    Lock icon Uplift for summer
    49 2 X There's a coolie touch about the hat and a butterfly effect adds up- f X lift to the cuffs of this summer creation shown in Paris last week, bui how many women would be brave enough to wear them is anothei matter. picture. Paul Popper
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    KILLEDas rocket explodes
    60 2 KILLED James Edward Lister a British scientist in charge of trials at the Woomera rocket range in Australia, who was killed by an explosion I recently. I He was one of a I group of technicians I caught in the blast of I a missile which ex-
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    'This would hurt the attap dwellers'
    233 2 'This would hurt the attap dwellers' THE Singapore Farmers' Association has criticised a recommendation by the Land Clearance and Resettlement Working Party to raise the monthly land rent i for attap dwellers. The association's secretary. Mr. Chan Chiaw Thor. toid the Free Press that attap dwellers would be hard hit
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    SENATOR DIES
    23 2 Senator Alben William Barkley collapsed and died while giving a speech to the students of the University at Lexington, Virginia. yesterday.
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    CARNERA SUES FILM COMPANY
    197 2 CARNERA SUES FILM COMPANY ROUNB-UP OF THE WORLD'S NEWS 1 ITALIAN BORN former heavyweight boxing champion Primo Camera yesterday sued Columbia Pictures in Santa Monica, California, for $4y 2 million. charging invasion of privacy in the film "The Harder They Fall.' The big boxer turned wrestler contends the picture has
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      137 2 i •/>' I Model 05 Ci^~~~~~~' a NX f **en'4 Boys' textile Monk Jfk f\\i \J shoes. Upper trom brown cor- w*/A f II *A [jJrJ duroy, rubber cork compound M-jffi' If/l/fi^^- V olcs Sizes 9 Bovs< %I '™'4s£l i Model 02 mi '*'> Boys' block or brown strong <•».
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    Lock icon THE REPLY WAS LEFT ON HIS CHEST
    141 3 AN American sailor off the aircraft carrier Shangl into an argument with two British sailors in Hons Kong recently about the respective merits of their ships. American woke up the morning and found horror that on his iad been tattooed a Union Jack
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    Lock icon No war, says Dulles
    104 3 Mr. John Fo.ster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, said yesterday in Washington that the danger of general war .seemed .somewhat less, "and that us an immcn.se relief." He was speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee barely 24 hours before leaving for Paris to attend
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    COVT. MAY SEEK AID OF DOCTORS
    322 3 COUNCIL RUNNING HUSH-HUSH SURVEY gINGAFORE Medical Advisory Council and the Alumni Association arc conducting top secret surveys fcfl find out whether private practi tioners should be asked to do part-time work in government hospitals. me medical advisory council has also farmed B SUb-COmmith. to
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    62 3 picture Just arrived in S Malaya is St. John E nurse .Miss Itarbara E Eleanor Copeland of Chelsea, London. She E is to join the St. John E Ambulance Brigade E teams who ;trc working E in the resettlement E areas of Malaya and E among the inhabitants E of
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    62 3 Joan Rice is seen here with a toy cat she has I been usinu at rehearsals. It is a stand-in for a real I <;it she must find on arrival at every town where I she wiil bo playing in Britain in the play "Bell, 1 Book and Candle." This
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    Lock icon Police alerted in Tokyo for May Day
    60 3 Police alerted in Tokyo for May Day More that) 15,000 polio Including 9,000 detective* will be on Ikuul to control today's huge May Day parades in Tokyo. Labo u r union head quarters have announced more than 1,600,000 workers will take part in parades throughout the country. In Tokyo some
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    Guerilla tactics now
    100 3 EIGHTY-THREE Algerian i rebels and nine French soldiers died on Sunday in I a day of bitter clashes, it was reported in Algiers. Security forces killed 60 of the rebels in operations in the Constantine Department, Fourteen other t rebels died in an attack on Tamessuida army
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    GOVT. TO TAKE OVER MINING
    50 3 The Indian Government will take over all future development of heavy industries and mining. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told parliament in NewDelhi yesterday. He announced a wide programme of nationalisation for India, which reinforces and extends India's "social economic policy," first adopted eight years ago.
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    Lock icon THIRD ISRAELI SOLDIER DIES
    48 3 Another Israeli soldier died yesterday following Sunday's mine explosion under a military vehicle near Nir Izhak village close to the Gaza border, it was officially announced. This brings the total of border victims on Sunday to three killed and one wounded. A. P. photo.
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      5 3 hudr t R ARE EXQUISITE
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    The Singapore Free Press Opinion Mr. Lim on 'wrongs'
    243 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion Mr. Lim on 'wrongs' 'I UESDAY, May I, 105< Muim, a lead< r oJ the Singapore Liberal Socialist Party, Ls repoj! d to have made remarks in London fchai are as astonish ing as they are sweeping and misleading. All in Singapore, he told his
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    What are the luckless young to do?
    700 4  - What are the luckless young to do? ADELAIDE EASTLEY WHEN THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO PLAY BUT JUJTXJJRJ|TS AND NO TOYS FOR AMUSEMENT'S SAKg^ asks STANLEY STREET, thickly populated, many children at pi^y among hawkers carts and the dangerous traffic. The voices ol children floating from open school windows. Sing-song
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    BY THE WAY
    597 4  -  Beachcomber ADF SOME years ago a French polisher In Minehead tried to market tortoises without their .shells. In America the idea is bein^ applied to e^gs. According to a document sent to me, e^.s are stripped of their •'hells by a m a chin e, smeared with
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    Award visit to America
    69 5 Mr Chec Ke n g I ong, sul) accouni; a t the Singapore branch of the First National City Bank of iiiiiiiiiilillllllllllllllllllllllllNllHlt New York has been given a three -month visit to the United States for outstanding services. He left the tmiiiiiiKiiiiiiiiiii, .iiiiiiii iiitiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiii Colony at
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    WHO'LL LEND ME A FARTHING?
    229 5 pOCKNEY financier George Dawson, reputed to have made millions out of postwar scrap deals, fumbled In his pockets for a farthing outside the High Court, a few days ago. But ho could not find one. "A pity, it's the one day I couid have used
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    Lock icon Queen Juliana is now 47
    30 5 Qiu Juliana of the •lands was 47 yesterl the Dutch people ted her birthday >rass band concerts, eworks, street organ and open air dancing. U.P.
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    Lock icon 1,500 m.p.h. jet fighter soon
    52 5 The world's fastesi and longest-range jet fighter la in its final stages ol completion at the A. V. Roe Aircraft Company plant In Maiton, Canada, sajn the Toronto Telegram. The tighter, the CP-105, win streak across the skle at 1,500 m ph., the Telegram said.
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    20m. PRISONERS
    37 5 Tiie Bitematioi il Cora mission Again t i ncentra turn Camp Practices estimate thai aboul )f > million people are being detained in 297 concentration campi in Communist China of this number nv uuilion axe uitciicctuuU.
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    'IT'S A PAGAN PRACTICE'
    387 5 'IT'S A PAGAN PRACTICE' >ost Scripts, IN YOl'R issue of April 26 you say: 'With lew, if any. exceptions the act of cremating tin* dead does not go counter to any religion.' Correction, please It goes explicitly counter to the Roman Catholic religion, and one who is cremated forfeits the
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    Forgot his own motto 'BISHOP IMPRISONED
    316 5 Forgot his own motto 'BISHOP IMPRISONED THE motto of St. Andrew's Colliege, Catford, London, was Semper paratus Always ready. But when the Parents' Association and Scotland Yard called, the 49-year-old headmaster, James Fitzgerald Crawford, was not ready. In his study DetectiveInspector Leonard Herbert found diplomas hanging on the walls. One
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      221 6 II \\IHI ;'\KK l»> lii Falk and l p liil »avi« I KH£H TH£Y'P 01 I BAC>, 1 NO i>MAb[ lALK ILL br f /O K- i?>4^< 7H£Y WASrfP) A^A f i AiSFGU X GET I 6LAPTO. J ft 1 *VHF^ i BRING mM tIGKT Ik VO7/M£ L^ k A
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      649 6 1 JML BORN today, you are one 0! tn 1 I steady, reliable people upon whom Others always ca n depend. You at- tract responsibility and arc a natural leader of gUv rs Vuu haw p< n t 4 trating mind and are able to anah J people whom you
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      179 7 Previous L NDONI Vpril 3o so RSS c.i.f. 25% tJSyers LtUri European ports UV 25% .seller. 25% no 1 Rss c.f. 2,s buyers 25* buie« European i».»i U June 2 .i 2 5% seller* KH'.F.IK N.» IMi Spot 2ti\ buyers 2U\ buy*'," KlliHl.lt Ne. 1 RSS Settlement
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      New York prices
      113 7 NEW YORK, April 30. Previous Today li\ Sti spot and nearby 99.37 nom. 98.50 nom ll\ tut arcs .May 97.00 bid 96.50 bid 98.25 asked 98.00 asked June 96.15 bid 95.65 bid 97.25 asked 96.85 asked uly 95.95 bid 95.45 bid 96.50 asked 96.25 asked ION!.: Barely
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      U.S. PEPPER
      33 7 I Malabar Laming spot, await- I awaiting release 27 u afloats SnnSS^Q^l ISSl 29 May shipment 26, June It Sarawak spot, Sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      30 7 NEW YORK, April 30. Previous Today 1 Industrials 512.03 516.12 Railroads 176.96 176 63 0 Domestic Bonds 96.50 96.54 15 Utilities 65.01 f>5.24 >!<»;.-. Composite Average 181.74 182.51
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      114 7 LONDON, April 30. COPRA Philip,**. c.l.f. U.K./ F V T y N "tii furopran delivered wpi K l)< ,y^ r long: ton May/June $195 nom. $198 sellers COPRA, Straits c.i.f. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton Apr. /May £70 buyers £70U buyers £70 S. sellers
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    Lock icon Leadership course
    42 7 picture. Cadets going over the tree walk with thunderflashee bursting to give the wartime affect at a Leadership Course for Combined Cadet Force Units of Public Schools and Grammar Schools at Stanford Practical Training area in Norfolk. Army News Service
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    GIRL SAW MOTHER MURDERED
    476 7 GIRL SAW MOTHER MURDERED A LITTLE girl with her pigtails tied with red ribbon sat beside Blackpool coroner in his high chair. She told him about the Sunday morning when she saw her grandfather murder her mother with a hypodermic injection of cyanide. Nine-year old Sandra Brooke lived in Palmer
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    Lock icon Rubber faces new threat
    128 7 Rubber faces new threat Presidi D| EJ nh met ngrei r< rday thai industry has i--- >ped i grnth< c ni\u i. rubb <■ r which proml i a •> ustly simplified" nation*] i <■ tj programme in the future The Pn ildent aid f hrce companiei in ne i
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    WALKOVER FOR U. Nu
    46 7 Premier U Nu swept to a walkover victory in Burma .s second general election, .-■'•ire independence, yesterday. This antl-FaBCiBt People's Freedom League .scored 45 more victories, The.se seats r-ombined with the 64 won the day before gave the government an overwhelming lead.
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      51 7 I SINCAPORE IHICH TIDES TODAY: 3.11 p.m. TOMORROW. %.t% am and 4.02 p.m. TIIIKSDAY: 517 ain and 5. (Hi p.m. I IRIDAY: ill ami and 5.16 p.m. I SATURDAY: 5.43 am and 7. 1f) p.m. I SUNDAY: 710 a.m. and 7.19 pm MONDAY: X 'I ;i m and K 17
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    The INNOCENCE of EDMUND GALLEY
    1416 8  - The INNOCENCE of EDMUND GALLEY DAVID A. THOMAS by THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES sji i >\\ i.v i deliberatelj Jud Baron John Williai pla th< I on h i i[i (1 up to I thi d courtroom h; E x tei Jastle an I the two n n In the
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    BRIDGE HAND
    509 8 lloth sides vulnerable J^oulh d«-alf;r NORTH A y 10 2 '> A J OK9 a 7 6 54 &I-.ST KAS'i ♦I*•>K J 9 8 7 'y 9 B (> r > V 7 2 OAS 0 4 4 K 9 73 2 J 10 a SOUTH 4 6
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    Guess where
    59 9 Thought we made a mistake yesterday? Many did. That's the statue you had in about a week ago said many crowing callers. Outside Raffles Hotel again, they said in triumph. They were wrong. It's the same man Raffles but this one is out- side the Raffles Museum. Better
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    SCHOOLBOY AT WORK AT 4 A.M.
    183 9 IT was four on a cold February morning. Down a Birmingham Street strode a small boy. Police patrol men asked him what he was doing. iff to work in a bakery." he said. But he —was taken back to bed A court heard how
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    No money for beer: Six quit
    125 9 No money for beer: Six quit gIX miners are handing in their notices because are too many strikes the colliery. ■ighth strike of the us once again Drought Kilnhurst Colliery, Mexborough, South York hirv, to a standstill. Mr Cal Taylor, National uon of Miners 1 branch itary, .said: "There will
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    Mr. Giles keeps out of the dock
    149 9 FARMER William Thomas Giles went to town at Liskeard, Cornwall, to answer a summons at the local magistrat He wai up for not paying National Insurance contribUU Wne°n heilot to the court. Farmer Giles, of Down Hill Farm. Minions, flatly refused to enter
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    Cynthia is chosen as airliner hostess
    175 9 Cynthia is chosen as airliner hostess „Y' PHIA MAKINS. 20I daughter ol Makins, Brissador to the been picked us Hying ambaschosen to act hostess in the Brimmed version of >rican Convair air- hieh goes on a U.S. tour In August. Ma kins, who works the British Joint don In Wash-
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    Frost in Japan
    29 9 A cold spell which has hit large sections of the main Japanese island of Honshu has caused frost damage to mulberry trees in many agricultural regions.
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    £1 DAMAGES SAVES TWO £1,000 BILL
    85 9 TWO printers, awarded BU JMJAges in T the Hl»h COOrt fur assault and wr,n"lul lmpri»nm,n.. W«W saved a 61,000 bill for co«M by 810 „r U the J»«nageihftd been £>» Hnskvn. 48. ut Broußlitou UaU. LcicU worth, would have been unable to eiaim costs.
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    ANTI-VICE MAN LOSES PENSION
    289 9 Court reiects his plea and*. t;*X-INBPECTOR Charles Reuben Jacobs, formerly with London s J squad sat with ins head In ins hands and heard hii battle to buck Into the force end In failure, His wife held bis arm as two High Court Judges rejected his
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    Today's laugh
    11 9 Today 's laugh There, now have I earned my tracker's badge?
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    Lock icon Mid-Channel fashion show
    292 10 ABOVE: Looking happier than they did at their wedding, Prince Rainier and his bride, former Miss Crace Kelly dance at the Formentor Yacht Club, Balearic Islands, off the Spanish coast in the Mediterranean during their honeymoon. A. P. picture. RIGHT: This play set. consisting of bra., shorts,
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    Lock icon The wor news pictur ld in es
    97 10 The wor news pictur ld in es jur.ru,*. LEFT The now Hollywood st.ir, 22-yc.ir old blonde Mis, Shirley Jon. s who flrw from N. w York to London rWtHfly for Nil fill P'cm.cr O f her f.lm C.irousr I Nil C.irlton Th.U-, ABOVE: Mis, Mmdy Mill, r. 11 y ir
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      55 11 CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME ORIENT. MEYER CHAMBERS TEL: *****-9. BUILDING LOTS FRANKEL ESTATE from I. to 15,000 Bq. fl. $0.80 i<> $1.25 per m,. fi. BINJAI PARK NEAR SWISS CLUB ROAD. from 12.000 to 28,000 sq. ft. .50.70 io $1.20 per -<|. ft. SHOPHOUSE LOTS from 1.000 in 3,120 bc|« t\,
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    Lock icon BEWARE OF THE PIGEONHOLE
    446 12 or... Where has inv car ffone? iMii-: ft bin to c >me v.iii be somi thing like the spiral mi i i In the Pi szale Roma at i Italy, 11 plan for the multi!ii w i foj v. u d this year. Paj:ing, the Automobile
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    Robots to work in stations
    203 12 Robots to work in stations (HE i it] i; oj a robot in which would be aoable oi doing mainten ance work close to nuclear reactors Inside Britain's atomic pon r stations Is envisaged by scientists, according to Mr. vv. Grossmith, managing director oJ a Bristol engineering firm. Mr. Grossmith,
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    Shock kills volunteer
    53 12 Shock kills volunteer A major w;i.s killed and two sergeants Injured when an army truck touched Inch tension overhead cable;-; at Allerton <fcngl:ind> on Sunday night. The truck belonged to a Signal* Unit of the Torntoflal Army which wa:, on a U I- 1 I.* i■> i m ii 1
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    Cancer: Figures
    448 12 BEFORE YOU READ TNIS PUT A TICK 111 THE SPACE THAT M APPLIES TO YOU W Taml I NON-SMOKER I AM 40 AND SMOKE 20 A DAY I SMOKE LESS THAN 20 A DAY 'THE risk of lung can- cer for a man who smokes more than 25
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    Ex-missionary dies, aged 80
    52 12 Charles Myron Worthing ton. 80. one of the first missionaries to penetrate tne neadhunter territory in Borneo, has died in J irk sonville. Florida, after a Drief illness. For 30 years ho was a Methodist missionary Borneo Sumatra, Java :ma Vfalaya'. He made tils am Tip
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    WHY APPOINT EXPAT?
    169 12 WHY APPOINT EXPAT? LOCAL staff associations of Singapore City Council yesterday criticised the choice of an expatriate as a deputy engineer. The associations said it was "gross discrimination against a local man. The associations said the establishment committee consisting of two nominated members and a Liberal Socialist had recommended the
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    Picture trio to the Sea Dvaks
    583 13  - Picture trio to the Sea Dvaks SUNNY GIAM OF INTEREST TO PHOTOGRAPHERS i>y SINGAPORE photo graphers may invade Borneo early next year, to take pictures of Sea Dyak.s. A handful of adventurous lensmen from the Photographic Society of Singapore will sail for Kuching, probably in April, to Join Mr. K.
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    LECTURE ON PRINT QUALITY
    170 13 (kIK. KWAN CHEE YEW, t1 twii medal-winner Malayan Photograibitions. will give lecture on "Api to Print Quality*' Photographic Soof Singapore premisshin Street, on May e talk will be followed y a cine show. (AST day for entries to J j 4th Pan Malayan phic Exhibition is
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      140 13 l .isement m Royal start for I your baby ra can have an rqual I e if Mothers would 1 r U just any milk, is Jv enough tor their R When as win happen, I, 1 own milk tails, it IJv uty to give her baby W\. next-best thing.
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    Lock icon ALL ABOARD FOR HAPPY ISLAND!
    1394 14 ALL ABOARD FOR HAPPY ISLAND! Forty eager orphans have a memorable trip but two of their guardian angels' are almost lost' en route. ADELAIDE EASTLEY, who was one of the two, tells of this hectic experience. IT twilight h<- u! 20 young orphans singing icred Vedic hj thn* drifted ov<
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      33 14 IVvititing Pictures Make arrangements NOW for your photographs to be taken l>\ a FREE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER Telephone Singapore 2800 FREE PRESS PHOTOGH VPHIC DEP I ll.i- srrvirr i. O nlv AVftiUblc in SlflgapOTC
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      126 14 FREE PRESS i SHOPPING GUIDE A Bungalow Flat Room to furnish Visit SUN WAH CO. (1951) LTD. 74-2 Bras Basjh Ro.id. Singapore 7. for Contemporary, Modern Furniture of Hifc;h Quality .it reasonable price Tel. ***** HIGH FIDELITY Audio Equipment LEAK ROCERS Amplifiers Pre-nmps WHARFEDALE Loudspeakers CONNOISSEUR Turntables Pickups STENTORIAN HF.
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      103 15 Mf! lit I 'ascription Scrvici |u g [.in. riti>i 6333 incere Dispensary Limited. 0 12, HILL STREET (Open ■"I' l 8 p.m.) TAtofcßA and IGAhtTVE LIGHTER Fnquirirs at: INYEAR TRADING CO. 10 (ollyor Qu^y.^ *ih the Sivlv lai belongs l«» |<1 Nen Life to your iHome Kif<' with IVcm Modern
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      131 15 JAOE COLLECTION CHEONG KEE CO. Singapore Oldest Cucos HOUM Ccltman Street T.I. ***** New ZEISS IKON Cameras S]H'« ial offer I I (lavs All lrs> .>;,<, Swpi v Ikonta 1 'IVssar F '2,8 $465 IV P/3,5 $374 „111 Novar F/3,5 $264 Ikonta AT Tessar F/3,5 $l\?> F/3,5 sis: rtt/^W vV
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    The F.B.I. serves up a few similises...
    1450 16 't I i ''■■''■it i x^ X 'I i met < 4f ii i 1 S- I y £&■'s' •&■ss&& v) €^r^^^%>^■■^^^^^^■■■'■^- JOHN TEHRAN T, Engi.-.h newspaperman, is mk mg the hv la*ci ELLEN CONTENT, on American secret ogent whom he met on
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    No, NOT another movie,
    778 17  - No, NOT another movie, Sheilah Graham iB X flit "^^H x i S fi£b S 4 j aB AD li I V HEPBI RN'S Bp i ure offers could B p hef lined up until Mm:!., i all were ac B(.pf;i. I -atest on her if The Chalk mr_ h
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    Her career's booming now!
    257 17 yERA MILES, lovely "Miss Kansas" of 1948, but otherwise famous in Hollywood as the actress who was fired successively by three studios before making good, thinks today's pace in movietown leads straight to nothing short of a nervous breakdown. In signing a three-year contract with director
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      49 17 i il/rl^t A KO l 1 1 I V^W ii f Ruqqcd COnilfuftmn X. V J I MmlA fl corrpottnc«i nn,i ,1. I r^^^V/J (xnilnbU prrlormon V^^^^^/r m o h r Bit Boom th.most powerful iomp uf H HlAW^^Hy lfs hind %lf^BK fiOL TEN SIMON T«* 4522 4 M/<M
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      198 17 < 1.1 is ACROSS 6 Would our Tim never do this a toe busier nil ln a broadcasting proA '<' Prune this a V hi gramme? ,3, 4, 4). M J«*n this measure 7 headMar that rise lor firl's name (4) to a way. finally 'lit. manv a euiun 11
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    KENYA SENDS BIG-GAME HUNTERS TO OLYMPICS
    523 18 KENYA SENDS BIG-GAME HUNTERS TO OLYMPICS By HENDERSON GALL I/"KNYA Is to take part in the Olympic Games this year for the first time. Although conscious that she Is only "small fry" m the international Held, Kenya hopes to pui up a fair showing. The Kenya Olympic A»sSOClation hope to
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    GUESS WHO?
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    Time trial for cyclists
    48 18 Royal Air Force Singapore Cycling Association will hold a 50 mile time trial <t wo up) at Chang] circuit, Singapore, next Sun. day. An Olympic trial run, organised by th^ Singapore Cycle Racing Association, i will be held in the Colony, iou Sunday, June
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    Blackest night for boxing
    462 18  - Blackest night for boxing ARCHIE QUICK By it was English boxing's black- BSt night. Two overseas fighters took less than in minutes between them to dls- i pose of England's two leading j Heavyweights. The tragi-comedy of it all was that neither Kitione Lave of the Friendly Isles— a misnomer
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    cricket CUP
    36 18 cricket CUP The T. \V. Hindi H lenge Cup" presented h J t Mr. Chen Jan Jee, IV>ideaW^ of the A.C.S. Old lio.> .üßsociation, Singapore, this year's annual n-ukflti match between l\bt anßj[ Present Hoys M
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    England beat Belgium 3-1 at hockey
    136 18 ENGLAND beat Br^rJßj 3-1 after leading by 2W at half-time, in their hot'kcH international in Brussels. Wr It was the scvi nth :yi 'wm} in<j between the two counHj ries and Belgium have i only once, drawing one losing four oi the I'urii^K encounters.
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    RUGBY UNION
    30 18 Results on taw ni h union pamea were Brklunul n. c.p:.:? H Keys 11. Newpori 8 Npnfh 5; Pontypo* loir 3; pont.vi>ii<l'i Torquaj 3, S« insea i m
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    SELETAR GOLF
    10 18 uaf litotof p B Krppol Coll ('I i
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      39 18 Tvsi jour s|uir| s W!iaf is going on here? Who N I personalities involved in the picture on *k li Soft, and what is the trophy? II Who won the cup and by whjf margin? ANSWER TOMORROW I J
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    1686 19  - Jack uruce has easier task MANLY, TRES BIEN ARE SAFE BETS RACE ALLAN LEWIS iCE by by jack DRUCE ill, who mistu.s first engement, should in the main ra ce, Class 2, Div. 1 6f. at Penang tomorrow. He was a good thing b< aten in his tst race at
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    Horses not accepting tomorrow
    46 19 Horses not accepting tomorrow r pilL follow ing horses will not start tomorrow: Kheng Hua, Masterpiece, Festivity, Dusty Bridge, Omayah, Tryas, (iay Hunter, Bi maroon, Martelle, Brown Booty, Rip Kirby, Periwinkle, Spitfire 11, Flox, Fortune's Wheel. La Ronde, High Hopes and Irish Elegance are doubtful starters.
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    299 19 100 RusT.am. 100 8 Chan telsey, 100 6 Roistar, 25 1 Montery, 28 l Cash and Courage. Fina] Court, Haut Hrion, Buisson Ardent and Rumetnll, :w 1 Idle Rocks, 4(1 1 Kine David ;m'l l)i'> njsio; 50 l Hamama and Oillei De R»z, M i Bpen
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      30 19 OCEAN PARK i HOTEL'S FAMOUS QUINTET j Arr Band »»f ljng»ptfl 1 > i < km q MISS SALOMA M Ihr M«I«T ".Vl*rllvn MOWS" o()(>— Mug II Ml for TsMi Rrsrr ali«>ns
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    INDIAN BADMINTON STARS INVITED
    210 20 Singapore not sure if it wants them but"" |/<M K top ranking Indian badminton players have been invited to play in Singapore «ind Malaya. They are t v Sethi Nandu Natekar, (i. lleinin uly and Mono.j (inha. Tn< Selangor Badminton Association wants 'i'-!!i to compete In
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    U.K. SOCCER
    80 20 Results of last night's Association Football matches were: DIVISION TWO Blackburn Rotherham 1 DIV. THREE SOUTH MillwaJl 5 I.< vton 0 Shrewsbury 2 Crystal P, 0 DIV. THREE NORTH An riii^toii 4 Southport 2 Halifax 0 (irimsbv 1 HartlrpooU 3 Carlisle <> SCOTTISH 4< A" Celtic 1 I
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    PROMOTER KILLED
    33 20 fSMAEL Pa c e, leading South American boxing promoter, wn.s killed yesterday when the car In which he was riding collided with a truck near Las Floro.s in Hucno.s Aires Province
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    SCORES
    102 20 At Lords, MCC 202 and 103 tor two. Yorkshire 186 (Watson 117, Thomson live for 53). At Cambridge, Surrey beat Cambridge University by an innings and 78 runs. Cambridge University Bfi and 120. (Laker four for H9). Surrey 284 for eighi declared (Barring ton 5!), Mclntyre 50) At Southampton,
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    DAVIS CUP TEAM
    59 20 I> k i iain will be represented by four youngsters In Davis Cup tennis matches again t Yugoslavia from May 10-13, Oldest of the three players will be Roger Becker. 23. Othen uiu> v.iii compete to the second round cup matrhe.s in Zagreb or Belgrade will be
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    MCC 103 FOR TWO AGAINST YORKSHIRE
    180 20 MCC 103 FOR TWO AGAINST YORKSHIRE V/I C.C. were pressing Yorkshire hard yesterday m despite the brilliant century by Yorkshire and England left-hand batsman Willie Watson. Yorkshire were all out for 186 in reply to M.C.C.'s 202. In their second innings M.C.C. were 103 for two wickets at close of
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    89 20 All arguments about the controversial decision which gave Peter Waterman of London a points victory over Kid Gavilan of Cuba were settled when these two boxers met for the second time at Earl's Court London. Gavilan, the former world champion, outclassed Waterman over ten rounds. Gavilan,
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    GIBSON TAKES IHE TITLE
    43 20 Slender Althea Gibson the U.S. tennLs champion In 1950, won ihe women's title in the Florence international tournament, yester- day. Miss Gibson scored a cleaß cut 6-2, 6-2 victory in the final against Thelma Long ot Austral Ha. I
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