The Singapore Free Press, 14 March 1957

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. *****. Singapore, Thursday, March 14. 1957. Price 15 CU.
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  • 608 1 ALL SMILES AT THE LONDON M-TALKS Lim and Boyd give nothing away, but it's,,. Today is big test FROM FELIX ABISHECANADEN THE FIRST REAL DAY of negotiations to give Singapore selfgovernment ended happily. The Colonial Office confirmed acceptance "with certain modifications" all that Britain offered to last year's Merdeka delegation.
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  • 288 1 PRESIDENT SUKARNO is expected to agree to a compromise being worked out between the Nationalist Party and the Nahdatul Ulama for the formation of a new Cabinet following the resignation this morning of Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo and his Ministers. However, this move is
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  • 30 1 April first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore this morning at 91% cents a lb., down one-eighth of a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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  • 122 1 THE aircraft that is expected to bring the father of Miss Janet Grigg, 34, who has been m a coma for the last five days after a fall from a horse f mm New Zealand to Singapore today has been delayed by 24 hours. Miss Grigg,
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  • 86 1 A BOAC Britannia which should have arrived In Singapore at 8 p.m. on Tuesday flew into the Colony this morning at 1.30 a.m. It was held up m Calcutta with engine trouble." The "Whispering Giant" should have left for Sydney an hour later after its arrival m
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  • 28 1 The 21,800 Inmates of British prisons, as well as prison staff, are to get a pay rise, the Home Secretary, Mr. R. A. Butler, announced yesterday.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 51 1 GALA CHARITY PREMIERE m aid of Y. W. C. A. CATHAY CINEMA, SINGAPORE of M-G-M CinemaScope Production "THE BARRETTS lit lif WIMPOLE STREET" on Wednesday 27th March 1 957 at 9.30 p.m. TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM Y.W.CA. Collyer Quay PRICE $20.- $10.- $5.- $3.- and $2.Space donated hy SANDILANDS BUTTERY CO.,
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  • 101 2 E k COMMITTEE of I E the University of E Malaya is studying the g E possibilities of admit- t E: ting students U> the E 3 university for certain S Ei part-time courses. E The Vice-Chancellor, E Prof. A. Oppenheim, E told the Free Press
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  • 304 2 Government's new education policy causes... More Chinese classes THE Government's policy to accord equal treatment to all aided schools and open more Chinese schools is apparently causing a setback to English education m Singapore. The latest information about the progress of school building indicates that only 430
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  • 34 2 Colony piano students who want to play with Julius Katchen and his orchestra m July should write to the Singapore Musical Society, P.O. Box 2190 as soon as possible.
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  • 76 2 The Glenn Miller orchestra, directed by Ray McKinley, will leave New York on April 1 on a four to six weeks tour of Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The jazz concert tour is part of an international exchange programme of the American National Theatre and Academy.
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  • 105 2 WATFORD Chemical Com?T pany of England and its allied companies m Toronto and New York were stripped of export privileges by the U.S. Government today for shipping M 53,750.000 worth of chemicals, drugs and dyestuffs to Communist China. This violates American law. The Commerce Department said
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  • 75 2 DUE to arrive m the Federation next week is the final shipment of the longest "packaged" railway warehouse to be exported by a leading firm of British manufacturers. It is the last consignment of a 900 -foot railway building; for the Malayan Railways extensions at Port Swettenham. This
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  • Article, Illustration
    52 2 photo. SEEING DOUBLE: You can't believe it— so I alike are the Croft twins, the dancing sisters. Leila and Valeric, who have recently returned from a nine-month assignment m Paris, are I pictured at last week's premiere of the film The Good Companions at the Warner Theatre m i London.
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  • 157 2 'Relationship' talks on NEGOTIATIONS are taking place between the University of Malaya and the Muslim College of Malaya m Klang to work out a scheme of "formal relationship.'' The chairman of the college, Dato S. I. O. AlsagofT, told the Free Press that two meetings had already been held between
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    • 50 2 Br iffb tNAME IN MOVIES..! William HOLDEN of a Handful of Very Special Men-m. of a Handful of Very Special Pictures! KINK OF HELL Presented by WARNER BROS, m WarnerScope WarnerColor I J 'J j L^B ill fi 1 T^^^^TBBk al 'i V I A I I B^CT^ ffi^ 1
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  • 454 3 BRITAIN SHOULD FORGET ABOUT THE H-BOMB U.K. can give moral lead to the world A gesture of true greatness FOLLOWING the report of the World Health Organisation on the serious dangers caused by radiation from atom and hydrogen bombs, two British newspapers yesterday urged Britain to call off its nuclear
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  • 134 3 REBELS ATTACK PALACE AFTER an unsuccessful attack last night on the Cuban presidential palace m Havana, fighting has spread to many parts of the capital. The army chief, General Francisco Cabernilla, announced m Havana last night that the attack on the palace, carried out by what he called a group
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  • 58 3 WINNERS of last week's "Free Press Prize Quiz" contests are: Quiz 1: Miss Magdalene Chia c. o French Convent. Victoria Street. Singapore 7 Quiz 2: M. S. Yeo. X-32 Lorong Lihau, Singapore 12. Quiz 3: A. La tiff Hj. Ismail, c/o District Forest Office, Johore Bahru. Special
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  • 64 3 C CHORUS girls m American j night clubs are receiving as much as Ms6oo for a sixday week. The theatrical trade paper Variety explained today that salaries shot up because of an "acute shortage" of girls willing to work m night clubs. The reason:
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  • 61 3 The Malayan Federation's Minister for Works. Posts and Tele communications. Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, yesterday visited two Malayan teachers training colleges m England— one at Kirby. near Liverpool and the other at Brinsford Lodge. Wolverhampton. The Minister arrived here on Monday from Accra after
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  • 164 3 ITNION leaders of Briw tain's 200.000 shipyard workers last night prepared final plans for a national strike which will halt work on contracts worth millions of pounas. Their mood gave no hope that much can now be done to stop the country's booming shipyards falling
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  • 158 3 Continued U.S. aid for Asia PRESIDENT EISEN- I t HOWER today re- a affirmed his support for I'nited States eco- nomie developments I aid to needy Asian and African nations. He told a news eon- ierence m Washington I that he had no plans for any great change I m
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  • 216 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar. 14, 1957. Opinion Way out of impasse? STRIPPED of all verbiage and side issues, the crisis m Indonesia has now been reduced to a popular cry for an honest regime and for an end to dominance *of Java at the expense of the outer
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  • 123 4 CUMMINGS ALWAYS MAD COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN THE PROFESSIONS UNTIL HE MET SOCIALLY- TIE MEDICAL MM "And then, ha! ho! u.e found that we'd sewn up the scissors and a tourniquet inside Kirn. Tit ARCHITECT "And it was only when they v.ere laying the carpets that we discovered the main drains
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  • 213 4  -  Beachcomber b n J| J SHALL follow closely the fortunes of the new French political party, the Abstentionists. Their po- licy is to abstain from voting. Since nobody will vote for their candidates there will be no canvassing or speec hmaking. except when it is necessary to
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  • 646 4  -  ALAN BRIEN 4 NOW i 89 r by —It's a game far old men* he sums RECENTLY I rode on the most exclusive private underground railway m America. Built like a fairground "big dipper" it whizzes along a single-rail track between the Senate offices m
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    • 85 4 ye fi Df\i /Or AN ENTIRELY NEW method of application the relief has made Ephedrol the safest and most efficient OJ nasal antiseptic today. There is no longer any Cdtdwh need to use the old method using a spray Hay Fevev or nasal dropper Ephedrol's new method LyfOldS makes it
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  • 59 5 I "The Gay Pirouette" was show nat the Ambassadors m Paris last week. It is the latest creation to be presented by the leading Parisian hairdressers. Hair swept up high on the sides allows the hair to I fall m attractive waves. Here are five Paris mannequins
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  • 268 5 Women doubt it will be a success OPINIONS SPLIT ON SUPER MARKET ISSUE lif EN and women m Sin--1 gapore were split yesterday m their opinions on the question of establishing super markets m the Colony. The women m welcoming the suggestion were, however, pessimistic about its success. The men,
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  • 48 5 Russian troops and armoured cars took up strategic positions m Central Budapest today to reinforce Communist precautions against any new outbreak on Friday, the Hungary National Day. Hungarian Communist police continued wide-spread arrests of suspected rebels m an apparent attempt to cow the population. A.P.
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  • 36 5 Businessman Joe Felice bragged about his small and lightweight foreignbuilt station wagon. It was stolen In front of his home and recovered inside the country high school library where someone had carried It. A.P.
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  • 120 5 rACHERS m Sarawak will now have a provident fund of their own. The Sarawak Government has gazetted rules under the Education Ordinance, setting: up the fund and providing for its conduct. The rules, to operate retrospectively from Jan. 1, allow every teacher m the aided schools
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  • 280 5 —To take m 1,000 THE Deaf and Dumb Association of Singapore is planning to build a large modern Sign School to educate about 1,000 deaf persons to be found m the Colony. An Oral School to be built m Guillemard Road at a cost of
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  • 103 5 The newly formed Students and Youth Work Department of the Chinese V.M.C.A. is planning to organise a number of clubs for high school and primary class students. The organiser, Mr. X ft, Ling, told the Free Press that the general idea of the club programme was to
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  • 198 5 CIVICS COURSE DELAY DELAY m the appointment of a special officer is holding up the civics course programme worked out by the Information Services. The course is intended to associate the masses with the Government. The Director of Information Services. Mr. G. G. Thomson, said they were ready to start
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 726 6 iiii^aimiiiiiimuMi WM MBMBB ii l If/ J JlimWLn mKll U l yjf M AMIIt AKI by Lee Falk and Phil Davis 7 V+\j§jS£^jJ TWE INPIANS FLEE AT TWE I I WHOEVER VtW FOLKSARB. I aA< \7ttml ?22a strange appearance OF wwATEVEP coNTT?A^Of4y^ SJ?^c»J I mTllioS I ¥>ORN today, you have
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 172 7 LONDON. March 13- Previous Today RUBBER No. 1 RSS c.l.f. 26 buyers H% buyers European ports March 26 sellers 26\ sellers April 26\ buyers 26 S buyers 26 i sellers 26's sellers RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 26% buyers b "y ers 26 sellers 27 s sellers
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    • 125 7 NEW YORK. March 13. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per lb. Previous Today TIN Straits spot 99.00 norn 99 12 nom. TIN futures Standard Contract March 97 37 buyers 96 50 buyers 98 50 sellers 98 12 sellers April 96.62 buyers 96 00 buyers 98.00 sellers
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    • 38 7 NEW YORK, March R. Previous Today 30 Industrials 470 31 472 53 {•Railroads 141J0 142 92 40 Domestic Bonds JO.JJ J° 65 Storks Composite Averages 166.27 167.11 Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib.
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    • 47 7 Mala bar /Lampong spot 25, awaiting release and afloats 244, and March shipment 24%. Sarawak spot 25, Muntok white, spot and awaiting release 34, afloats 33 to 32 and March shipment 31, April shipment 30, sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per lb.
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    • 102 7 LONDON, March 13- Previou* Today COPRA Philippines c.U. UJK./ North European dYHvered wefcht per lorJTton Mar./ April $177 sellers $76 sellers COPRA. Straits cLf. U.K./North after $176 paid European delivered weight per £66 i buyers £67 nom. long ton Mar/April £67 sellers April/May £66Vk buyers £67
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  • 95 7 WHILE travelling to the gay Ger- man city of Munich, "Mira," a circus zebra gave birth to a son. Now. however, all is well and the young »ebra has been most aptly called "Arim, which translated from the German means "Happy Animal In j
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  • 184 7 A LONG service record that will almost certamA ly never be beaten is that of Gunner Parsons who was a British soldier for 68 years 216 days. His service is recalled because of a recent claim that a Naval petty officer who served over 50 years
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  • 174 7 DAISY was a black and white cow. Her life was blameless, as cows' lives go. Then one day she was taken to market at Guildford, Surrey. England. While bein^ unloaded from a lorry, she trotted into a cul-de-sac. Something outside her experience
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  • 61 7 The personal touch IN the Tudor-style vil- j lage of Oxted I Surrey, England, the 1,500 telephone sub- I scribers and the staff of the exchange have become so friendly that before, the exchange switches over to automatic next month the I subscribers have been invited to call m and
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 57 7 I SINGAPORE I HIGH TIDES; i TODAY: 10.26 pan. TOMORROW: 10.03 a.m. and 10.57 p.m. SATURDAY: 10.51 a.m. m and 11.29 p.m. B J SUNDAY: 11.37 a.m. I MONDAY; 0.01 a.m. and 12.24 p.m. g i TUESDAY: 0.33 a.m. 1 and 1.10 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 1.06 a.m. g and 1.58 p.m.
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  • Article, Illustration
    9 8 THE WOMEN WERE DRESSED JUST LIKE THE MEN
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  • 787 8 Ruthless f t0i1... ON the pretext of "equality" women 1 under Soviet rule are being systematically "m- 5 tegrated" into heavy S industry with labour which ruthlessly over- taxes their physical capacities. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiiiif? AN evaluation of refugee reports and statistics recently published m the
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  • 268 9 for women" m Soviet-controlled industries of the satellites is another way of saying that women by the thousands are required to perform heavy manual tasks m excess of their physical capacities. In the photograph below women are carrying heavy steel cables at the state-operated steel works
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  • Article, Illustration
    202 9 Hungary China Rumania U/HAT are the reasons for the disastrous exploitation of female labour by Communist countries? First of all, men are needed for the so-called "People's Army" which Moscow wants to be set up as soon as possible hence, women must take their place. Secondly, some
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 48 9 CREDIT FONCIER D EXTREME ORIENT. MEYER CHAMBERS TEL: *****-9. BUILDING LOTS I FRANKEL ESTATE ii from 4£oo to 15,000 sq. ft. $1.00 to $1.25 per sq. ft. BINJAI PARK 1 II II NEAR SWISS CLUB ROAD, from 12,000 to 28,000 sq. ft. $0.70 to $1.20 per sq. ft.
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  • 1850 10  - The clue of a shadow on the wall Pel ham Groom I w pinMn^^w^f^ Another Latiff story by... i '...Nothing de-finite-at least it wasn't until this morning-and then I saw the shadow of a man and a rope on the wall/ 4t pVER since Mummy died I've been frightened." Miss
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  • 222 12 Burma the only nation to have friendly ties ISRAELIS have rid themselves of the notion Hkil Israel could live m close friendship with the nations of Asm, says a United Press report from Tel Aviv. From press and from public lecture platforms one often heard the theory
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  • 26 12 SINO -JAP TIES Prominent Japanese and Chinese Nationalists are I organising a committee for I further promoting econoi mic and cultural ties between their countries. Reuter
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  • 234 12 Ancient relics are lost If ED Chmese scientists are bemoaning the loss of valuable I archaelogical finds l which, they say, have I been eaten by unknowI ing peasants. Curio shops m i KwaJigsi Province have I been selling the I tee t h of 500,000--year old apes as "dragon
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  • 94 12 The Portuguese cruiser j Bartolomeu Dias has left Lisbon on an extended cruise to South Africa and Portuguese India. U.P. Miss Yau Wan Shan (right), a noted water colour artist of Hong Kong. j who held a series of exhibitions of her paintings m the United States.
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  • 135 12 S. Korea hits at India 1 1 THE Republic of Korea has condemned the Indian Government for refusing visas to South Korean delegates to the forthcoming Asian Region Conference of the International Confederation of Trade Unions. J The conference is sche- duled to start late this month. A spokesman of
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  • Glimpses
    • 111 12 Indian civil service lesson for RI New York Times, describing Indonesia as "the major area of instability m SouthEast Asia" said President Sukarno's authority and that of the central Javanesedominated government has been sharply challenged at several important points. The paper said one major reason for this situation was the
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    • 29 12 President Sukarno's 'guided democracy is obviously not the answer. New forms of representative self-government must be worked out if freedom is to blossom and grow m the archipelago.' Reuter
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    • 30 12 Five Japanese women bus!--ness leaders will tour South-East Asia this month. The group will be headed by Mrs. Chiyosru" Fujimura, president of the Hechima Cologne Co.. a cosmetic company. A.P.
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    • 30 12 9 President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China will be presented with a set of "Go" a Chinese-Japa-nese combined game of chess and chequers by Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. A.P.
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    • 38 12 A Czechoslovak Government delegation, led by Premier Viliam Siroky, is now on a tour of Communist China, North Viet- nam, North Korea and Outer Mongolia. Reuter. Yugoslavia and North Vietnam have agreed to establish diplomatic rela- tions.- A.P.
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    • 21 12 A joint United States-Japa-nese atomic industrial exposition will be held m Tokyo on May 12 and Osaka on May 24. Reuter
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    • 27 12 THE PINGTUNG. A 3,000TON FREIGHTER LOADED WITH FORMOSAPRODUCED ASPHALT AND TEXTILES, IS TO MAKE A SOUTH-EAST ASIA TRIAL RUN. CALLING AT BANGKOK, SAIGON, SINGAPORE AND PENANG. A.P.
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    • 18 12 In Hong Kong. 120 plans covering 2.266 buildings were approved during the October December period of 1956. U.P.
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    • 42 12 The Asian Peoples Xnti- 1 Communist League liaison office has announced m Seoul that South Korea j will send a cultural mis- sion to Formosa, the Phi- lippines, Siam, South Vietnam and Hong Kong on a goodwill tour this month. I Reuter
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  • 335 12 Better to keep out of the UN? RECOGNITION by the United States is far more important U) Communist China than admission to the United Nations, writes United Press staff correspondent Wendell Merick. Some Western diplomats as a matter of fact are not at all convinced that Peking wants membership m
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  • 709 13  - THAT LATIN LOVER LOOK FOR MEN EILEEN ASCROFT r,by HERE is fashion news to startle the menfolk. The Continental Look is replacing the Edwardian Line. Smart males will now resemble Latin lovers, m short, square-cut jackets, Italian-stripe suiting*, lean trousers, and sharply pointed suede shoes. My authority fo r thi
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  • Article, Illustration
    338 13 The bidding: ftouth test North Emm I 0 2 Pmi 3^ 3« 4* 4* Pa« Pass S 0 All P»m» TF you' were a/ked to rate tha royalty m a bridge deck, no doubt you'd select the king as the most powerful but only If you failed to
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 335 13 iiiMMMiiiniiniii MMMMMMNM n mil m MM 1 1 11 ml .milium iiiiiii ti£ I THE DAILY CROSSWORD CLIES ACROSS ■■T— •kmWm MMM m^m 9 R.I. P. for a short one (7). 7 Rag date run due for this M c W$ M M i( Garish when taking a letter I
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  • 1258 14 THE ONE QUESTION LOUIS WON'T ANSWER 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1^ I HAROLD MAYES 1 reveals
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  • 293 14  - Kesavan Soon picks Colony soccer player FRANCIS ROZARIO MY FAVOURITE SPORTSMAN I MOID •MMtll(lllllllllll«l«M»M*lttll)IM>t)liaillllMIMMtt<IIIIM><Mlt>tllltlUI)IIIIIIIMtMII«ll>lllll>«lll«l>lll>MIIIIIIUMI>IM«ttMIMM«UlMHUHII<«»M By Singapore sports stars have their favourites the same as any spectator. The Free Press spotlights their idols m this unique series beginning today. A OINGAPORE Olympic -sprinter Kesavan Soon names a footballer as the sportsman
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  • 232 14 TCHIRO 0(.IMI RA, the hold er, had a tough match before reaching the last 16 of the men's singles m the World Championships m Stockholm j yesterday. Ogimura beat J. Vogrinc of Yugoslavia IT-SI, 21-23, 21-19. 21-14, 22-20. Vogrinc led at one stage by two games and
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  • RACING
    • 141 15 SPECTATORS HAD TO DUCK WORLD professional lawn tennis champion Pancho Gonzales went on the warpath yesterday and had spectators ducking for cover. The 28-year-old maestro was playing Australian Ken Rosewall m Boston when a heckler annoyed him. Gonzales took a ball, sighted the heckler, and smashed a
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    • 209 15 U.S. WOMEN TROUNCE INDIA TEAM 7-0 •j til N HIIII lIIHIMMIIMtMMI ÜBER CUP THE United State* x beat India 7-0 m I the semi-final of the Über Cup emblema- tic of the world's team i championship m wo--1 men's badminton last night at Eastbourne (Sussex). United States now 1 meet
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    • 257 15 Free Press Sports Reporter T*HE schedule of games the Ceylon Cricket Association will play while on tour m the Federation and Singapore was discussed and drawn up yesterday. The Ceylon Commissioner m Malaya, Mr. M. Saravanamuthu and the President of Malayan Cricket AssoI ciation,
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    • 27 15 British Rugby Union results: Royal Air Force 9 Civil Service 17 (played at Chiswick); The Army 8 Territorial Army 3 (Played at Cardiff). Reuter
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    • 747 15  - BARAKAT DOES WELL IN FINAL GALLOPS Allan Lewis Rain makes conditions ideal at Kuala Lumpur lOOK-OUT TODAY'S k RACK WORK ROWERS during the night look all the sting out of the tracks at Kuala Lumpur making conditions ideal for galloping this morning. Yet there was little activity. Barakat was one
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    • 118 15 SIGLAP v. SAINTS IN YOUTH FOOTBALL F.P. Soccer E Reporter r QJIGLAP Secondary 5 O School will meet E E St. Andrew's School on E E Saturday at the E E Clerical Union Ground Ein in the semi-finals of E the Singapore Amateur j E Football Association E E Youth
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    • 95 15 COLIN SAWYER, a young rider from Perth, West Australia, I is m Malaya to ride for Yong Thau Yin's stable. Sawyer was here m 1952-53 for about one year, riding for Penang trainer Jimmy Martin. He rode a few winners. Since then he has
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    • 66 15 "pill Scottish FootbaJl League 1 beat the English League 3-2 m an international soccer match at Ibrox Stadium (Glasgow) yesterday. Other results:— LEAGUE ONE Aston Villa 4 Cardiff 1 Sunderland 1 West Brom 4 Portsmouth 2 Luton Town 2 Tottenham 1 Arsenal 3 LEAGUE THREE SOUTHERN
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    • 102 15 PHILIPPINES won the special tennis tie with Italy by three matches to nil, scoring a doubles match victory last night m Manila. The Raymundo Deyro and FelicLsimo Ampon pairing defeated Italy's Nicola Pietrangeli and Gian Maggi 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Deyro, m a last minute
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  • 294 16 Ike's message to Nasser on Gaza move ISRAEL ATTACK UNLIKELY Tiro ADVICE TO EGYPT AT President Eisenhower's request, the U.S Ambassador m Cairo, Mr. Raymond Hare, late last night made a surprise call on President Gamal Nasser for a one-hour meeting: to explain the U. S. ".view on the Gaza
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  • 89 16 A 22-YEAR-OLD blonde mounted on a horse, rode around London's busy Piccadilly Circus yesterday nude but for the briefest of panties. The girl, Geraldine Haigh, also wore a long wig to cover some of her other charms. Her ride was a protest against Britain's high tax on
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  • 159 16 Plan for Colony warehouse j f FHE Government of India j X will soon open a warehouse m Singapore to push up its export trade m or.der to earn more foreign "exchange. This was announced by the chairman of the StateTrading corporation of India, Mr. K. B.
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  • 47 16 20 Words $6 (minimum). TO KAMALA DEVI and R K. A. Krlshnan of Gomali Estate. Johore, a daughter, Ramasundari, on 6.3.57, at Se#amat Hospital. Both well. MADHAVAN: To Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Madhavan of Batu Caves, a son, at Bungsar Hospital, K.L. on March 13.
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  • 50 16 20 Words $0 (minimum). HALLILEY REUTENS: The engagement is announced between Paul Trevor Halliley, only son of the late Commander A. K. McC. Halliley, D.5.0., Royal Navy, and of Mrs. Halliley, of Bexhill-on-sea, England, and Vivienne Marie Reutens, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Reutens, of Penang.
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