The Singapore Free Press, 29 May 1956

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    21 1 The shingapore Free Press I.argest Afternoon Sale in Malaya V,, i I >SO. Sinsapoif, Tuesday, May 29, 195 G. Price 15Cts
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    Lock icon A CABLE WRECKED TALKS
    510 1 A CABLE WRECKED TALKS Mystery bombshell sent from Spore Holland on Singapore's future MYSTERY cable is Singapore merdeka ed the talks. The cable was being widely discussed in Singapore political circles yesterday. It is said to have been sent from a political party headquarters in Singapore to its delegates in
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    Lock icon Don't go to wsr rioters quelled
    153 1 Don't go to wsr rioters quelled iiNE THOUSAND police launched baton and tei gas charges yesterday against demonstrators who Invaded the railway station at St. Nazaire, France and swarmed on to the lines to stop 200 reservists reporting for duty for service- in Algeria. Cter clashes lasting two h'.i;:r.s the
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    Smart girl steps out
    50 1 >< MISS FONG WAI >> CHIN, Chinese opera star from Hong Kong > and now on holiday in > Singapore, steps out > for dinner and a show. > Miss Fong tops her blue satin cheongsam with a sihort brocade jacket. She wears a flower in
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    H-explosion poser
    225 1 •IAPAIV PIfKN ll» AIX Till: ISI AL SUMS |APAN'B Central Meleo- rological Observation Jerday claimed there 11 been a "hydrogen '"> explosion in the Atoll area' at about noari Japanese time terday, Fh« observatory said it J'«J this conclusion after I received and assess--1 'iH.rts of abnormally tio°***
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    Marilyn's new beau
    43 1 Hi* name Is Arthur Miller, and according to E reports from Hollywood S he's Marilyn Monroes E most likely candidate for marriage Arthur is a Hollywood playwright. E Now turn to Page 16 for the life story of M'ms Monroe.
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    Hunt and Co. are delighted
    95 1 Hunt and Co. are delighted Brigadier Sir Jo h n Hunt, leader of the successful 1953 Everest expedition, Sftid in London yestcr day he was simply delight cd to hear that a Swiss expedition had twici- reach ed the summit In the pa»l 10 days. please tel] them we send
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    Rubber price
    40 1 'I lie Sin^ripor^ Rubber Market opt ned thi morning •aii h fir f grade .Tune flip tnenl 76| cents n> I hree eighth i ol b i enl tn lon vf| rday' clom. XTm tone van ..i' ady.
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    TWO 'WONT TELL' VILLAGES ARE FINED £6,000
    184 2 TWO 'WONT TELL' VILLAGES ARE FINED £6,000 FEUDING CREEKS AND TURKS Pf NICOSIA TO BE DIVIDED -JUST IN CASE 4 £6,006 fine, the heaviest since the Cyprus terror aX campaign began, was yesterday Imposed on two "silent villages," Fano and Kato (Upper and Lower) Zoilhia, whose population has refused to
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    Colony using more power
    127 2 Colony using more power SINGAPORE'S <on sumption of tlectriI, ;y js r> sU'UdllV hij hum not reach a a i i the "«**t \i :i cirs. s.iid Mr. H Addle the CUv Electrical Engineer ye«lerd.i.v fore ti» Pasii Panjan i power station went Into commisalon, .1 Limfit i<.-ii in 1952
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    90 2 Capt. A. A Dacre, of th 17th Gurkha Signals in Kuala Lumpur, smilingly helps his bride, the former Miss Elaine Campbell, to cut their three-tiered wedding cake after their marriage at St. Mary's Church. The bride, daughter of Mrs. R. A. Campbell of Perth, Western Australia, is a nursing sister
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    Lock icon A-WORK RISKS 'SMALL'
    112 2 rpHE insurance of risks •1 arising out of the industrial use of atomic energy is a practical possibility, the British Insurance Association declared In London last night. They said that although the possibility of an incident causing great loss cannot be entirely ruled out, the precautionary safeguards
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    New hope for British bases
    43 2 Australian Prime Minister Mr. Robert G. Menzies and Premier Bandaranaike of Ceylon will discuss the future of British bases in Ceylon when the Australian leader stops at Colombo on Saturday en route to England, informed sources said yesterday.
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    Lock icon ON TO BANDUNG
    33 2 Almost all members of the preparatory committee for the African -Asian students conference left Jakarta for Bandung yesterday to discuss the agenda of the conference tfue to open tomorrow. U.P
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    Lock icon Heroin seized
    29 2 Lebanese customs police have captured one of the big five Middle Eastern narcotics' smugglers and seized US$6OO,OOO worth of American-bound heroin, it was announced last night. U.P
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    $20.3 MILLION EXPORT DROP
    108 2 I M)O- Malayan trade last year showed a balance of nearly $11,000,000 in favour of Malaya. Kut exports to India fell by $20,300,000 compared to 1954, according to the annual report of th« Indian Chamber of Commerce. This was brought about L a new c^^'neation of
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    Scouting on their doorsteps...
    222 2 Scouting on their doorsteps HPHE Scout movement in A Singapore may expand to new housing estates and community centres. The annual report of tine Boy Scouts Association says the opening of "open groups" at such places would benefit thousands of boys who are now outside the movement. The report notes
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    Lock icon RAISE BIRTH RATE CALL
    66 2 (jJERMANY will vanish as a nation within three centuries unless the Germany have more children. Family Minister Franz Josef Wuermeling .said yesterday. He called for every German family to have at least three children. "Of 35 nations, West Germany has not only the lowest birth rate
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    Lock icon Mother not to blame
    70 2 THE criminal COUri in v Plata, Argentina, declared that b mother was not responsiblr for death of her 16 year old .son, who died from internal in juries as the n lull fall while he was runnn from her to escape ment she was about ti
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    BIG BOAC LOSS
    34 2 British Ovrr.sra Corporation expi overall loss of $1. lion this year becJJ rising costs and th. 0 of introducing net aircraft th€ BOA man, Mr. Orrard reported in Lond'u i day.
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      32 2 1 M LBT-4tN »3/ glowing 2T Uttlt boy protected and IH\ jflfife I SOAP i IRALIN I SIB----Illf < itic family- favi I I """^Hi""*" I l """"I s^~& iftmUptok. IN THE HOME
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    If they have any manners they hide them
    493 3 If they have any manners they hide them OMEN SHOPPERS ARE PUBLIC DISC RACE No. 21 SALESMEN HAVE DOC'S LIFE gINGAPORE'S women shoppers are the world's most discourteous. Housewives here spend most of the family income. They d<> the shopping for food and clothing. They spend more time in Colony
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    62 3 Anything you can wear I can wear better. I can wear three hats lots better than you. So seems to sing this young member of Staff Sergeant Elsdon's family, who arrived in Singapore on the troopship Devonshire at the week-end. Servant Klsdon, R.E.M.E. met his German wife in Hamburg when
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    Midget deer frolic
    86 3 [yir>f rF/r cteer only two fe( tall are 1 c a p i n g li kangaroos In the and gardens of I ilngton, Warwickne householder spotted a midget deer among his radishes and cabbages. "It sailed gracefully over a five-foot fence and vanished,'* he said. Harry
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    Nehru under fire
    34 3 The West Pakistan Assembly yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Mr. Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, for his recent statement challenging the accession of the mountain state of Chitral to Pakistan.
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    Lock icon To tour Far East
    79 3 THE U.S. deputy assist ant Secretary of State Mr. William 1. Scbald leave* Washington, Unlay on i six -week tour of the Fa; a< The State Department said there was "absolutely no emercrnry connected with this tout/* fir will confer with AmerlCAll and foreign of ficials
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    49 3 ouiK'iporr actress, Graela Tay, who is at present appearing in the London show Teahouse of the August Moon," wears a Chinese style brocade dress in midnight blue and carries a lizard skin handbag on her arrival at the Mansion House, London, last week to attend the "'Umpire Day' luncheon.
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    Lock icon Now less tension
    49 3 Major General E. I, M. Burns, chief of the United Nations Palestine Truce Commission Who arrived in New York from London yesterday, said there had been a relaxation of tension in the Middle East. "I think things have taken a better turn," ho told reporter.,. Reuter
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    Lock icon Rough landing
    28 3 Iwo tyres of an Air France Super Constellation burst as the plane landed at Shannon Airport, Ireland, yesterday. Fifty-ei^ht passengers were .shaken but uninjured A. P
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    Labour group
    14 3 Spain has joined the International Labour Organisation, bringing membership to 73 countries.
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    TUESDAY, May 29, 1956. Opinion Red plight worsens
    178 4 TUESDAY, May 29, 1956. Opinion Red plight worsens T»HE time is past when Federation terrorist bandits could exploit for propaganda purposes any raid or lie* tins occupation of a village. Such raids today are merely evidence of the increasingly desperate plight of the the terrorists as a result of the
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    THIS is the report of MANFISH
    970 4 MEMBERSHIP CARD @^J ManfisA JK232 One of the strangest legacies of the war is this: that the daring and desperate exploits of the frogmen the men like Buster Crabb have over the years so revolutionised the attitude of the peacetime holiday-maker to swimming that
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    I HAD TO EARN MY 232
    36 4 I HAD TO EARN MY 232 Down I go, wham! They dressed me in this terrific outfit. The sea was grey and choppy. It began to rain. Then, wham, I went straight down to the bottom.
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      31 4 7/ie Finest Portable Typewriter in the World. HAROIAL SINGH I SONS UP /6.KAMKS ClAc f MNGAPORf I TALKING POINT That empty and ugly thing cauea popularity n i Bt( v< tiAon,
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      41 4 A SHORT CUT TO SUCCESSFUL GARDENING MquiMurE B-am I Bets An ideal liquid manure containing all the essential plant nutrients. Simply dilute with water and apply to all growing plants The results will be first class. A SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO.JJ3L
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    TQC PROSECUTES AND DEFENOS ...
    208 5 Defeats own arguments, too M\£n R °!r t D cassel. Qc sturt l ott as th e pnaeeuta at how Btreet his own ar^mems 1 U S S h b( a defendin X counsel and defeated H< 1 prosecuted 18-year-old Thoma-s Elliott, of Highbury New Road,
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    Remper suit
    48 5 Vivacious blonde < Barbara Archer has an all-the-year-round outfit in her "romper j suit" of pre-shrunk gingham as a playsuit for the summer months and as a neat long-sleeved blouse which cannot ride up under a skirt. She is now appearing- in the film The Feminine Touch."
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    Clarinet is now vindicated
    165 5 Clarinet is now vindicated It < I 3 ago the clarinet j looked upon with lon, especially by Army bandsmen. Itories that it caused chest complaints were in cirul ii m and many a ewly joined bandboy de- c led to i^ive his life's work to the cornet rather t:
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    Lock icon U.S.A. car glut
    22 5 than 1,600 workers "ord Motor Company in Motuchon, New Mlt of work for Lrtinß from Montir,j lf ovorproduc- A.P
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    ACCUSED HAD NO COUNSEL
    145 5 ACCUSED HAD NO COUNSEL Was .standing. If I am right— as a prosecutor— he commits at least two offences, and I permit the offences -which is absurd.'' "The Act says 'Drive away,'" .said Mr. Cassel. "I .submit 'driving' is not an apt word for a cycle or motor-cycle." The word
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    Guess where
    54 5 W<*'ve won a minor battle in our war on readers Only live people |Ot the answer right yesterday though several more tame through with wrong guesses. The second skirmish is on today. Where do you think THIS picture was taken? Yesterday's was taken at the Central Polite Station.
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    QUEEN WILL MAKE HISTORY IN FIRST GUARDS' CLUB
    100 5 ii7 H kn the Queen dines with officers <>t First Guard.;' W Club at Grosvenor House, London, on June l she will probably b<> the lirst woman In the club'a history to do so. The dub is one of the most exclusive
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    A-POWER PLANT
    21 5 Hungary plans to have her first atomic power works in operation soon after 1960, reports the Hungarian News Service
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    Markets clsse
    14 5 Financial and commodity markets throughaut the United States will be closed tomorrow.
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    Device to find atom dust
    37 5 A device, consisting of a geiger counter and a miniaj ture radio transmitter at- tached to a balloon, to detect radioactive du>st in the air, has been built by a Tokyo .scientist.
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    Coal price rises
    36 5 Britain's state owned coalmining industry, suffer- ing a big financial deficit, announced today that the price of coal will be increased by an average of about 6s. Bd. a ton from June 1
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    Designers will fight 'pirates'
    121 5 j t nvafitit** already well known gsj^.stfuS'S?^ Spin Kr&u, the slogan. ■■Pirates w n f u^ v r ,.si,t,T designs of firm of Llnzi Dress-.. v, nn Coll.Ttion. by action In the HiCl t.'"» rt At present a drew Pj»2vSssed dress, tato it. g walks into
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      103 5 SPLIT SOUND kW/ SpM«io«ml:rwof*p ch.mx.Mwo SC/Uira/CS //)Cf/lf m«\f#m v i" ri i. hrrs two sptMji knid M.||J .1" lull, ..lint-.l i.i il,. 1,,- 1 HK i.'W c|ucn<i<% i<> !»<• ftproJutcd ~^*«v^ ■X F "'K fl 7 -"X' rrmirkiWf A, n rt,r Vtirtiro f>< ihrl't,,!,^ S^rUk PMIIIfS ilcvrl.M.nuf.i rnullini mm >'
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      267 6 lim i\ilHtKV b\ Let" Fa Ik and Phil Oavi* V i I J. HTI I 'TiAonA /uiKT HAVE V EXACTLY! I I THIS AAAN THINKS Xl PIP, YOUR ->^T lAM IN TROUBLE ALREAPYf E] 4. VVHdt I 8g 5^W THE Vi HIGHNESS--I^^^^, i Cant stop now. iMUSjy^s? K^JSSS oabf Yvl
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      674 6 BORN today, your culm extert w lies the tempestuous nat ur I"" tl I lies underneath. You have a m^B v tic personality and oiu- i U «V*- M j; people to you. You have th* y. to speak well in public and can^'W y large audiences with the forwfuSS
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.k. closing prices
      182 7 Previous Today M, m No. 1 RSS c.i.f. 22 > 4 buyers 22 buyers 3uikj" P*> rls Jun 22?s sellers MH sellers iKI It So. 1 KSS Spot 23 H, buyers 23 buyers L 23 '-a sellers 23 sellers ML; g \,>. 1 RSS Settlement 23 buyers
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      New York prices
      98 7 NEW YORK, May 28. Previous Today Straits spot and nearby 96.75 nom. 96.00 norn futures May 95.75 bid 95.25 bid 96.00 asked 96.25 asked June 95.65 bid 93.90 bid 97.00 asked 95.40 asked July 95.55 bid 93.80 bid 96.85 asked 95.20 asked M: Easier. BBEB: futures: May
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      U.S. PEPPER
      41 7 !r lampong spot and ?lease at 30%. Afloats May shipment 30. June 29. awak spot 29 1 awaiting re- lease 29. afloats 27%. May shipment 25 V&. June 24 sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per lb.
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      28 7 NEW YORK, May 28. Prerious Today Industrials 472.49 468.81 Railroads 165.56 161.60 Domestic Bonds 96.56 96.43 1 lilities 65.13 64.35 M.xks composite Averagfe 170.75 168.49
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      101 7 °I'K\ Philippines cJ.f. U.K./ ««th European delivered welfht per long ton May/June <>I'R\. Straits cJ.f. UK/North delivered wWfht per '""K ton May/June June/July OCONUT OIL crude Straits V l European In talk, lonij ton, Jane/July OCONCT OIL crude, Oylon Mi European ports bulk per '-'is: ton
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    'Four tricks in all magic'
    327 7 'Four tricks in all magic' METHOD OF WRAPPING UP GIVES VARIETY: EXPERTS Two English magicians! bound for an International Magician* Convention in Australia, stopped long enough in Singapore on Sunday to say: "Only four tricks have been done since the beginning of the world." The two men Torn Harris, "t
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    The jovial magician
    14 7 The folding cigarette packet and "Hey, where did that mouse go?"
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    Lock icon POSTAL FREAK
    38 7 A postal worker in Peking, Hu Tsung -h.se in who, it l.s claimed, ha.s .sorted 5,660,000 letters and packages in less than a year without making a single mistake, has been nominated aji "outstanding worker." Reuter
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    Sandys in Kremlin
    29 7 Mr. Duncan Sandys. Briti ,h Mini *er tor Housing and Local Government. WM received in the Kremlin by Marshal Nikolai Bulganin Soviet Primi iftnlstet y> << rday.
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    Jobs for blind
    24 7 Th' 1 vv'f ti German Fede Pii organisation for mind has placed 1 wo people Into job in indu 'v dttrtni
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      49 7 SINCAPORE I HICH TIDES I TODAY 111 f.m. TOMORROW: IN J am. and 1,49 p.m THURSDAY: 2.99 Mid El p.n» FRIDAY: %M am and 4. i:> p.m. SATURDAY: 149 a m. and B IS p.m. SUNDAY: I»7 m I and 1.91 l» in MONDAY: 9.11 •m* and 9.53 P.m.
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    GET OUT AND GET BETTER RESULTS
    351 8 Sunny Giam gives hints this week on salon work rpOO little contact with the outside photo- iic world \b one ol the reasons for the low standard ol pictures submitted by lensmen from the n mote smaller towns oi [ndom ia and Born< <>.
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    Lock icon Calling all photographers
    378 8 SOLE Malayan winner in the "A. P." Annual Slides Competition 1956, sponsored by England's best selling photographic periodical, Amateur Photographer, is Mr. Leow Beng Keat of Telok Anson. He won a Silver Plaque for his "Little Darling' and another of his slides "Hnlrl Me Tight" was selected
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    US FIRMS NOW MAVE EYES ON CHINA TRADE
    241 9 t M UtSHALL A. i soiii i* Canadian liiii man, said in v that a number American business DS mrere interested in prospects of trade I, o m m v n i s t Ina j r rohnson, who is re- presenting
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    C'WEALTH TALKS ON FORMOSA
    104 9 C'WEALTH TALKS ON FORMOSA USTRAUAN Prime Mm I ter Robert G. Menzies aid in Canberra that reitions With Red China rould be a major topic at he Commonwealth conerence in London. Menzies indicated the alks would involve the 'hinese Nationalist posiiions on Formosa and the >ffshore islands of Quern and
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    Lock icon RECORD HAUL
    15 9 total fish haul set a new postwar' 1 of hi, BlB million A.P
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    Lock icon Drift from schools
    213 9 <-*■:' HEADACHE FOR THE R£o3 ]> lA) CHINA'S leaders tola 3 are worried about 11 >rt and more middle jjnd primary school stu1 withdrawing from npol before completing t 1 studies. especially noticeable in lr ai ureas where, the ""i-ot authorities adStUdenta have been ;i tK>m the
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    Lock icon 'No' to Reds on Korea
    30 9 rilllK 16 nations Which UK r 7on Intel .greed in 1 J e n Tlfca( talk!. rhin..N i"-"P"" l f r s refused <» illmlok U.P
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    Lock icon US PARTIES IN ACCORD ON CHINA POLICY
    96 9 CHINA POLICY is an area of relative agreement between the Republican and the Democratic parties in this U.S. presidential election year. Spokesmen of the two major political parties and bi-partisan committees of the U.S. Congress have made it clear that disagreement on China
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    Lock icon More students now going fo Formosa
    321 9 More students now going fo Formosa JPHE number of overA seas Chinese students studying in Formosa will increase to more than 5,000 this year, Mr. Chen Yen Feng, chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, said in Taipeh. He said 2,400 new students were expected to enrol between now and
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    Lock icon Glimpses
    121 9 Ceylonese Premier Solo mon Bandaranaike, reply intf to invitations to Visit Russia and Red China as a State guest. .^aid in CoIOIXI bo. "i shall bo pleased to ko at an early date, but M win certainly not be right now. due to prea (ure ol v/'>rk at home."
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    PULSE
    38 9 ...featuring news and vi wg about Asia today Nai Vadhana isarabhakdi of Slain (left), first S.E.A.T.O. full-time Executive Secretary, is seen being congratulated by the Philippines Ambassador in Bangkok, Mr. Manuel A. Adeva upon his formal installation.
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    'US KNOWS IRIAN ISSUE BETTER'
    137 9 'US KNOWS IRIAN ISSUE BETTER' In DO N Bfl iI n Foreign Mini.ttT Roealan Abdul* Until laid In NfW Yon: that the United States has a 1 OWlli under standing" oj Indonesia's claim w Dutch admlnJ tered [rian, iWt rt Hew Guinea i Indonesia cont end t hftt th* Dutch
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    Lock icon The MA GIC that is MARTINE
    408 10  - The MA GIC that is MARTINE D. Morton Davies H It started at the airport. SHE LOOKS BEAUTi ANYWHEI tUL "W HO an unknowing friend, "is Martine Carol?" "Who," I repeated in amazement, "is Martine Carol? Do you mean to say you've never beard of Martine Carol?' <>h, he'd heard
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    BUT THESE EAGER STUDENTS DON'T HAVE 70 WAIT FOR THE POLYTECHINC
    361 12  - BUT THESE EAGER STUDENTS DON'T HAVE 70 WAIT FOR THE POLYTECHINC ADELAIDE EASTLEY ffifrvj TECHNICAL education is already available in Singapore. It is not necessarj for eager students to wait for the prospective sio million Singapore Polytechnic School to toe built at She is tan Way. C lass< are Rourishinfi
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    KEEN YOUTHS INSPECT AERO MODELS
    35 12 KEEN YOUTHS INSPECT AERO MODELS Some boys of the Junior Trade School in Balestier Road, Singapore, examine aero models built by school instructors. The instructors were encouraging the boys to make models after school hours.
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    Pelham Groom meets GLOOM
    404 12 I HAVE just come across the most depressing fellow that I have ever met in Singapore. He lives In a world of his own, [i world of perpetual gloom at which at any moment Jove will hurl his thunderbolts. To him the universe tee ters on
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    All aboard the Gold Dust Express
    378 12 THE pint-sized "Gold Dust Express" Canada's most northerly train— is now puffing over its historic route with its biggest cargoes. Today, however, instead of the gold which it carried when it was built into the Yukon 57 years ago to speed up the working
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    Gipsy horscope led a girl to her knight
    1238 13  - Gipsy horscope led a girl to her knight GERALD BOWMAN By THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES ii iili I' si ill in her 'teens Isabel Arundell wrote m in her journal a description Of the man she n tended to marry. "He is a Hercules of manly strength. He lias black
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    PROUD CHIEF
    17 13 c WacWC life of men like this Abi/ssinum titraottf Sir Richard to Jar ojj lands.
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    Hello, pardner?
    43 14 STEWART GRANGES, in his role as a buffalo hunter in a film being >hot in South Dakota holds little Gerald "Coco" Millard. a Sioux Indian child discovered on location in the area and i picked for a role in his picture.
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    WATER-JETS ARE SO OUTDATED!
    391 14  - WATER-JETS ARE SO OUTDATED! JENNIFER JOHNS Says WHEN a drugstore warehouse not two blocks from my Washington office caught lire the other day I was one of the first on the scene not only because I have always been morbidly fascinated by what the Fire Department calls "conflagration" but also
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    What made her pose in the nude?
    1220 16  -  W.K. BLISS CONTINUING TOE MONROE STORY By IT WAS 1942 and war- time when Marilyn embarked on her first matrimonial venture, and became Norma Jean Dougherty. it appears to have been a loveless affair between two immature youngsters she In her sixteenth year;
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    First 'flicker' was a foursecond affair
    338 17  -  JAMES BACON says VhWS REELS showing the Japanese fleet, steaming out of Tokyo to attack Russia may be seen publicly some day. according to Kemp jJivi r, a photography txp» rt. The newsreels will be dated of course somewhere around the turn of the
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    SLEEPERS WANTED
    59 17 SLEEPERS WANTED S A WIDE-AWAKE < -til Manhattan concern < < prefers to hire sleepy- < headed office girls be- j cause the firm uses < them in testing their > product pyjamas. A cot is set up in the > office and clerks take turns snoozing: i n the
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    To the moon in 20 years
    179 17 picture —!t runs four seconds and is called The Neeze "I never know what we'll find next. One title a panoramic view from a bridge, turned out to be the first night motion picture. It was of the St Louis Fair of 1898. Then
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    A TISSUE OPENS A NEW ERA
    119 17 TH E American Cancer Society has announced In Denver that a University of Colorado biophy.siclst has grown human tissue from a single cell In the laboratory for the first time in known scientific experimentation. Thp society said the new discovery by Dr. Theodore T.
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    Bridge Hand
    376 17 CiOUNTXNO only high-card*. J north i<:c niiio pointi and li wbl ihort oJ a three no-tnunp bid But a long iH e.s*p« tally ;i i trong one lil Pfoi th whi o ft< wnpanied by I pretty Hire re-entry la worth more than can be ■i ;S n
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      210 17 I fivTJOT 1 DAILY CROSSWORD W-J I I I I I I j li CLITBfI ACROSS 6 Emigrates without gear of a 2 S:i 1 in which to hear klnd (s >« '"-^(9). 7 Thus through has failed (l in n them aV ?s) a Ut H Mr.' Rees or
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    Lock icon SCHOOLS SPORT
    113 18 Ag linn, big effortand he's over) picture*. Members of the Hartley Road Secondary school team which took part In the Inter-school relay at ttjf %u^ toria School athletic*. kliOM LEFT AXE: Larry Xavier. Jacob Verghese, Ualakrishuau. and Anthony lc° Free Press I,KFT: Samuel DeVMMMM who was the outstanding
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    A PROMISING SPRINT STAR
    50 18 Kesavan Soon who broke th« sprint records. Kesavan shared the school championship with Sarbo and nad the honour of winning thr best performance trophy ror the necond successive year at Victoria School. m Hr J k »<*ed 10.4 sec. for 100 yards and 23.6 *cc. for.
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    A Cinderella rise to fame
    486 19 A Cinderella rise to fame 1 Orient to the second division of the football League for the tiTßt time is somemore than a ucc ss story. It is a romance of sport. The Ul i r of a Cinderella c; and a fairy godnamed Alec Rto* k--I M. Stock drifted
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    HONG KONG PLAYER WINS FEAF TITLE
    271 19 HONG KONG PLAYER WINS FEAF TITLE GIVING a polished display of tennis, I s\( Willett (Hong I KomjJ won the Far j East Air Force Singles i title yesterday. He beat S-t i unstead (Changi) in two straight sets at the Fairy Point Courts. i Changi. i j Tunstead made
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    Holland beat India at hockey
    26 19 ND bcit India 2-1 !l «<" third round of pena international ifnamemt in syd- "lay. Jgjand and South i^ 1 gained undefeated
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    Lock icon Japs get Olympic help
    86 19 JOHN R. Snedekar, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, has announced that the foreign community in Japan by mid-May had raised almost 4.000.000 yen ($32,000) to help Japan send a strong team to the Melbourne Olympic Games. A co-ordinating committee, representing nine foreign
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    BOY SCOUTS HOLD FIRST SWIM GALA
    501 19 BOY SCOUTS of the Singapore Eastern District held tlieir first annual swimming gala 0V« the weekend at ScleUir. Eighty boys took part. Most exciting race was th« CUb'l one length free stylo, bej ween Ivan Myall and Donald Drake. They stnnkrd tnTOUgn the water
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    British promoters urge war v. TV
    298 19  -  ORITAIN'S boxing chiefs were apprehensive about the future of the sport when they had their annual general meeting in London. "Television is a monster and it will kill boxing unless it is strictly controlled" declared promoter Jack Solomons. ''Boxers and their managers mast play
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    Lock icon TOWNSEND RIDES
    36 19 Reuter (irouj)-Ct|>t I'ftrr ToWnt6Xld I', txpCCtCd to be one of in my loM'Ujn ritU-tv ho will :.tke ()iirt in the in'rni;i lornt] ainat.»'iir hor.'.c tO b6 (Mid at Kiarnli'*iihor" Copenhagen, OO June i 23
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    SERVICES CUP TEAM
    55 20 SINGAPORE Joint Services soccer team toi meet Malacca at Malacca on Saturday in the first round of the Malayan Cup competition is: Wallace (Army) Mallinder (RAF), Boyne (RAF); Gallagher (Army), Hough (RAF), O'Neill (RAF); Koh (Army), Jones (RAF), Gunn (RAF), Procter (RAF), Rlackwood (Army). Reservers: Webster (A
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    KENTUCKY PRIDE IN GREAT FORM
    921 20  -  ALLAN LEWIS Jiv ITENTUCKY I'KIDK (S. Kami*) showed all his usual training "track brilliance ;it Ipoh this morning when he ran three In 87 from a itanding start. Kentucky Pride did his work nicely on the hit and Has a COtipk <>1 horses out from
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    MCC fight to avert follow-on
    170 20 MCC fight to avert follow-on A US THALIA'S touring cricketer.s, helped by left-hander Neil Harvey's highest .score of 225, were in a sound position at Ihe end of the .second day in their match against M.C.C. MC.Q. scored 190 for ;seven i wickets In reply to (he Australian first innings
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    MORE NOVICES THAN EVER
    227 20 TTIE biggest entry ever will contest the annual Singapore amateur novices boxing championships this week. Preliminary bouts to reduce the field win be held at the Police Training School tomorrow. Semi finals and finals are scheduled for the Great World ;irenu on Friday and Saturday, Medical
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    Lock icon HE DIVED IN VAIN
    44 20 picture. Selangor's Arthur Dews just misses this attempt at a diving catch off Singapore's Lewis King yesterday The wicket-keeper is Winchester. The three-day fixture Loncluded on the S.C.C padang yesterday with a victory for Selansor by 41 runs. Free Press
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    Statham strikes for 10-wicket win
    137 20 ORIAN STATHAM, who is almost certain to share the burden of England's Test attack against the Australians, snatched five Glamorgan wickets for 13 runs yesterday to give Lancashire a resounding; ten wickets victory in two days at Old 1 Tra fiord. Glamorgan's dismal second innings
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    MYSTERY CABLE
    116 20 From Page 1 members say there is no- thing very much the party can do about it. But they said the onus of choosing a successor, and then launching him to the "perilous path ahead." would be that of Mr. Marshall. There is a move, if Mr. Marshall
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    Singapore batting was a failure
    259 20 Singapore batting was a failure SCT to make 174 to win 255 minutes s nln batting failed dismaUv^ terday on the paS J bt'langor won the th*. day fixture by 4-» hlee 35 minute* to spare King and Appunj offered v. M.onge,t resistance 3JJ he wickets were dov.n to. i?
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