The Singapore Free Press, 11 April 1957

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No 14.s;*it. Singapore, Thursday, April 11, 1957. Price 15 Cts.
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    Lock icon BANG GOES No. 3
    316 1 |New Red H-test |AND a warning S IIRITAIN S Ministry j E *<* of Defence and the E§ U.S. Atomic Energy I Commission both an- =j nounced today that: 2 Russia has carried out a new nuclear test its third m the past eight j days.
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    Lock icon IKE FLOUTING ANGLO-FRENCH FEELINGS
    549 1 IKE FLOUTING ANGLO-FRENCH FEELINGS US.- Egypt m dead-end talks on Suez Canal PRESIDENT EISENHOWER said today, m effect, that the United States still hopes to get a satisfactory agreement on the Suez Canal through direct negotiations with Egypt but he does not know how much longer such negotiations will be
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    Lock icon A Gaza mine kills 2
    29 1 A Gaza mine kills 2 TWO Indian soldiers of the IV Emergency Force were killed yesterday by a land mine on the demarcation line of the Gaza Strip Reuter
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    Lock icon Fastest sub...?
    80 1 BRITAIN may have the world's fastest submarine, the House of Commons was told today. Replying to a question on tlie submarine "Explorer 1 Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, Mr. Christopfler Seames said: "As there are no accepted .srandards for making and checking an underwater .■ipeed record we cannot
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    3 p.m. Sunday
    133 1 THE BOAC authorities m London have agreed to a request by the Singapore Merdeka delegation to delay take off of their flight B.A. 912 for 90 minutes so that theu can arrive m Singapore on time at 3 p.m. on Sunday. The plane leaves London tonight at
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    Rubber price
    33 1 May first frade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore this mornlnt a; i a cents a lb.. up threeeighths of a cent on yesterday's close. The Vmu was ady, quiet I
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    57 2 V?ronica (left) is puzzled why so many cameras are trained on her and her twin sister. Victoria. Both are seasoned travellers. They flew into 2 Singapore this week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Randal, on their third Far Eastern tour. Mr. Randall is with an American oil
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    ANY JOBS? OH YES! NOW PAY $5
    555 2 An employment agency m a dingy room Another deposit m 6 months HOW can there l>e so much joblessness among the young people of Singapore when employment agencies offer all manner of vacancies for stenographers, typists, junior salesmen and clerks, cooks, amahs? But
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    This vet is willing to serve
    150 2 A RETIRED veterinary surgeon with 30 years" experience m, Johore Government service. Mr. M. Birchee. is willing to start private practice m Singapore if there is sufficient backing. Mr. Birchee said he was astonished to read m the Free Press that there was no
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    Lock icon Nasser's Suez grab not legal
    33 2 The French National Assembly yesterday approved by 410 votes to 149 a bill declaring that Egyptian nationalisation of the universal Suez Canal Company had no legal effect. Reuter
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    45 2 picture. Film scriptwriter Weno Novak (left) and free-lance journalist Kurt Stoboy (right) who are travelling round the world m a jeep. The two German globetrotters have arrived m Penang after covering more than 60,000 miles since leaving Berlin m June last I year Free Press
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    Lock icon RED SPIES ARE GUILTY
    96 2 JACK SOBLE and hi.s wife yesterday pleaded guilty m New York to charges of conspiring with the Soviet Union to obtain United States defence documents and other material. Soble. 53, hi.s wife Mayra, 52, and Jacob Albam. 64, are charged with conspiring to transmit government secrets
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    Workers expect details any day now
    220 2 Workers expect details any day now U.K. PACT ON SINGAPORE CIVILIANS T'HE Services unions, representing about 40,000 War Department employees m Singapore, are anxiously waiting for details of an agreement on their future which the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, is reported to have reached with Service chiefs m
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      137 2 .^^Dv SAPPHIRE SERVICE oL.\^—^y the new direct air service to k^^ COLOMBO and EUROPE Starting Saturday April 20th. the SAPPHIRE SERVICE will C fkm^ be flown weekly from Singalg jv: pore to Colombo with direct pf JL 0 through connections via Bombay, p-.^jf Karachi, Bahrein, Cairo to Western PhWfd Europe.
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    Lock icon BEVAN: STOP DRIFT TO ATOMIC WAR
    535 3 BEVAN STOP DRIFT TO ATOMIC WAR He urges conference of top statesmen MR. ANEURIN BEVAN, the British Labour Party's chief foreign affairs spokesman, yesterday called for an early meeting of the world's top statesmen to prevent a drift "towards the disaster of an atomic war." Mr. Bevan, who is visiting
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    Lock icon 'Pakistan in arms race'
    70 3 MR. Chester Bowles former American ambassador to India, said m Washington that American aid to Pakistan had had the effect of promoting an arms race with India rather than of building a common defence against Russia. Mr Bowles was testifying before a House of Repre- sentativrs
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    Lock icon The tiny tots steal show
    185 3 rTHHF tiny tots stole the 1 show at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night, when the Vernon Martinus production "On Stage" was presented. This is the first time such a bold experiment of combining ballet with plays has been tried out m Singapore. "The Dancintj
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    Lock icon TO HIS GOOD HEALTH
    85 3 TO HIS GOOD HEALTH SIR Winston Churchill has given the secret of his present good health at 81 after severe illness and a momentous life: "A lot of drinking, a lot of eating and eight or nine hours of sleep, most of it m the daytime. The former Prime Minister
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    Lock icon U.N. ENVOY ENDS KASHMIR TALKS
    55 3 Mr. Gunnar Jarring, United Nations special envoy investigating the Kashmir issue, had a last round of talks with Pakistani Premier H. S. Suhrawardy m Karachi yesterday. Mr. Jarring was later expected to leave for Geneva where he will complete the report he is to present
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, April 11, 1957. Opinion
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      The great difference
      209 4 UNDER pressuce of Britain and other Free World countries seeking to expand trade with Red China, Washington is reported to be evolving a "quid pro quo" plan which is calculated to cause frustration, if not angry impatience. Strongest argument put forward by the proChina trade nations has
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    WHERE MOSCOW'S CREED IS TAUGHT IN RHYME
    770 4  - WHERE MOSCOW'S CREED IS TAUGHT IN RHYME Douglas Rae j— By ¥>KOTHER plucks brother from the misery and horror that lies beyond a frontier. On one side, the rescuer— Alexander Nemeth; on the other, the rescued his brother Imre. And what does Alexander set out to do for Imre now
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    12 4 What's the point of using my brains, if every solution is wrong?'
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    BY THE WAY
    182 4  -  Beachcomber i r h ft LAST year I attempted to counter the influence of those terrible seaside post-cards, which are rotting the nation, by suggesting more cultured captions. I will have another try. Under the picture of a man with a flaming red nose, who is looking
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      57 4 L A*N COME Mademoiselle Monique Erard Beauty Expert of the A LANCUME School of PARIS l^f j^-^^Bfc c' n «»t W THE FEDERAL \^fl DISPENSARY LTD. Rifles Place, Singapore Branch til! 13th April. S.CS. Arcade Branch, Orchard Rd. from 15th April till 21st Mile Erard will adivsc you personally tnt
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    A TAXIMAN'S REFUSAL CAN COST HIS LICENCE
    419 5 A TAXIMAN'S REFUSAL CAN COST HIS LICENCE R.O.V. needs details to prosecute Complaints must be lodged |UXI DRIVERS who refuse fares stand the risk of being prosecuted and having their licences cancelled. A spokesman of the Registration of Vehicles m Singapore said members of the public who had been snubbed
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    WORK FOR A BANK
    269 5 WORK FOR A BANK Tracing the 'lost' Chinese relatives rHE Bank of China branch m Singapore has a new function it serves as a missing persons" bureau to trace Malayan Chinese relatives m China and vice versa. The manager of the bank Mr. S. C. Lu. today confirmed that his
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    41 5 Mr. Francis Saverias, who is with a leading Singapore firm of shipchandlers, has just returned home from Madras by Air India after visiting several South Asian shipping companies. He was on a business tour. iiinnmiii him i. mm illinium i. mm."
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    Call for direct bus to town
    263 5 RODENTS of Queenstown, Tanjong Pagar, and Cantonment areas m Singapore are complaining of the l ii ck of direct transport facilities from their arras to the city. Several residents told the Free Press that they had now to take two buses and m some
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    Lock icon THAT SUBTLE SOVIET SOUL
    81 5 Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, told an agricultural conference m Gorky that the "capitalist, i that man who would slaughter his own father 1 for half a per cent interest" would never understand "the soul of Soviet Man," the Soviet news
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    Dress better campaign
    64 5 AUSTRALIA'S five best dressed men are to be awarded Oscars this year under a plan by the Federated Clothing manufacturers' Association. Its President, Mr. O Whitmont, said a nationwide search would be conducted to make Australian men more clothes conscious Women would be on the panel of
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    KERALA REDS EMPTY JAILS
    66 5 THE central prison Trivandrum, India has released 131 convicts, some of them serving life sentences, on orders of the new Communist Government m Kerala State. Nine of the prisoners were involved In a case m which a police Officer and three j constables were killed. Ei:4ht
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      206 6 a >I AMHI AKi; by Lee Falk and Phil Davis FREEZES. Ir^viß^P IC^NTHEAP/ ijll T^RXAIV by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAI\T by Leslie^harteris IT" /I GOT NEWS FOR "S I KAND ANOTHER THING. DONT Xl THOUGHT IT ALL OUT, JUST LIKE C^ £V£&yO#£/7'/Pt NOBODY THINK I'M DUMB'.IGOT TMAT-AUO I MOW
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      465 6 r>ORN today, you are highly adapJj table socially and make friends easily. You seem to be popular wherever you go. You have a good speaking voice and are an entertaining lecturer. You probably will do well m promotion advertising or sell- ing. You enjoy activity and are fond of travel
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      175 7 LONDON, April It. RUBBER N.. 1 RSS e.if. Previ Us T^ J European ports April 26 < buyers 27 buyers 26% sellers 27 >4 sellers M »y 26% buyers 27 buyers 26% sellers 27 sellers RUBBER No- 1 RSS Spot 27 buyers 27** buyers 27 >/4 sellers
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      New York prices
      122 7 Previous Today TIN Straits spots 99.25 nom. 98 87 nom. TIN futures Standard Contract April 97 50 buyers 97 00 buyers 99 00 sellers 98 50 sellers May 97.50 buyers 97 00 buyers 9900 sellers 96 37 sellers TONE: Barely steady. SALES: Nil* Straits Contract April 98
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      45 7 NEW YORK, April ItPrevious Today 30 Industrials 482 66 485 17 20 Railroads 145.46 147 38 40 Domestic Bonds 90 85 90.93 15 UUlitiea 7127 7136 65 8t«cks Composite Average* 169 84 170 89 Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Ib.
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      U.S. PEPPER
      56 7 Maliibar/LAmpong spot and awajting release 25, afloats 1 24 >«, April shipment Malabar 24\, Lampong 24 4- Sarawak spot 24».v. April shipment 23 1 May shipment 23, June ship ment 22 Muntok white, spo and auaiting release 34, afloat: 33 to 32. April shipment 31 sellers ex-dock- Above
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      114 7 COPRA Philippines c i.f- UK./ North European delivered weight per lone ton April /May COPRA, Strait* c.i-f- l\K-/North Earopean delivered weight per long ton April/May May /June COCONI'T OIL crude Straits ci.f- IK. /North European m bulk per long ton April /May.. COCONI'T OIL erode, Ceylon..
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    His invention means safety in the air
    354 7 His invention means safety in the air AN aircraft safety device, invented by a young Western Australian electrician, Mr. R. H. Orgill, was recently successfully demonstrated m Melbourne to representatives of British, American and Australian aircraft and instrument firms. Various mechanical failures which can occur m an aircraft were simulated
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    Lock icon ...May the 'best man' win
    92 7 ...May the 'best man' win Victor L. Duke, 18, faced 60 days m jail yesterday for running away with his friend's bride after serving as best man at the wedding. Duke pleaded guilty m the City Court yesterday at Memphis, Tennessee, to a charge of attempting to commit a felony,
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    The riddle of the bayonets
    96 7 WHAT is happening to the Bayonets of Burnham? For the sixth time m recent years the nine-inch bayonet belonging to the stone figure of a soldier on this Buckinghamshire, England, village war memorial has disappeared. And nobody knows why or who is responsible. "It's baffled
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    COAL MINER'S LONG SLEEP
    130 7 COAL MINER'S LONG SLEEP EVERY morning a €l«-a--week miner was called by his wife m time for work. James Walters, aged 38, of Nelson, Glamorgan. Wales, would answer. "1 am bad." or "111 go tomorrow." And back he would to sleep, Bargocd magistrates wore told. Walters pleaded guilty to neglecting
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    REBELS SIT TIGHT
    29 7 Mr. Alan Lennox Eoyd. the Colonial Secretary, said yesterday that no terrorists m Cyprus had taken advantage' of Britain's offer of safe conduct from the island.
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      123 7 Today's Radio Programme for Singapore 1.15 pm Lunch Tfme Concert; 1 30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Indies Only; 5.00 Calling All i Hospitals presented bv Maisie Conceicao; 6 00 Time Announcement and Programme Summary; 6 02 Children's Programme: 6 30 Radio Dance Club; 6.55 Announcements and Singapore Share Market
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      64 7 M-44-f44»44-f444»44>i SINGAPORE j jj HIGH TIDES? t TODAY: 9 11 pm. 1 TOMORROW: 9 00 a.m. o and 9.47 p.m. t SATURDAY 9.45 a.m. j; and 10.19 p.m. 1 <; SINDAY; 10.42 am. < 4 and 10..M p.m J[ MONDAY: 11 29 a.m. <, t and 11 23 p.m. jj
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      114 7 illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^ (Crash at 3*oo a.m. rw\HE shriek of a train whistle woke 33-year-old E E JL Mrs. Phyllis Hordern at 330 a.m. She jumped E out of bed as an engine crashed into the tiny liv- E ing-room of her railside cottage at Crowden, near E Glossop, Derbyshire England. E
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    Lock icon Aid the German way is urged
    183 8 Aid the German way is urged IF|R J. MAX BOND *J who recently returned from an educational aid mission to Afghanistan says the U. S. should use the "people -to people" approach employed by the West Germans m Africa rand Asia m development programmes. Dr Bond, who was the founder
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    35 8 Indian Prime Minister Nehru and j his daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, were among pro- minent Indians j who went to Delhi airport to welcome visiting Polish j Prime Minister Cyrankiewicz (left) and Mrs. Cyrankie- wicz.
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    Lock icon 39 FT. KITE
    41 8 A 39 feet long kite, painted as a United Nations flag, soared aloft m Yokkaichis historic annual kite flying contest m Japan. At the end of 2,400 feet of rope were 50 men to hold the kite A.P.
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    Lock icon 'US links with PI Reds' charge
    45 8 Mr. Robert Morris, counsel of the U.S. Senate Internal Security Sub-com-mittee, said that h e would begin an immediate check of charges that American citizens are the "brains" of a Communist campaign to gain control of the Philippines. U.P.
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    Lock icon A 'different road' for Red China?
    155 8 COMMUNIST CHINA would, like Yugoslavia, take a different road from Moscow if she gained recognition from the Western Powers and "became a member of the United Nations Th? "op?nion has* been privately advance* l by Yugoslav Communists m Belgrade, reports Associated Press. The Yugoslavs
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    44 8 Dr Luis E. cie Mora, Chairman of the Foreign Committee of the Peruvian Chamber of Representatives, said m Taipeh that he doubted "the rest of the world has any real idea of what a tremendous military force is on the island of Formosa." U.P.
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    37 8 In connection with Formo-sa-Chile trade talks now m progress m Taipeh, Nationalist Chinese sources said Nationalist China would like to sell sugar and increa.se its export of tea and, m return, buy nitrate and other ores. U.P.
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    26 8 Under the new Ru^soJapanese fishery agreement .signed m Tokyo, the Japanese salmon catch oil Siberia Is to be restricted to 120 000 tons this year. U.P.
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    16 8 A 26-hour forest fire burned out 9,804 acres of national timberland m Fukashima. Japan. A .P.
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    Lock icon Glimpses
    56 8 Ambassador Carlos P Ro* inulo said m Washington that he had no plans to run for Presidency oj the Philippines but would do so if there was "fl real need for somebody to carry on the traditions of the late Ramon Maysuysay. He added, "But I thivk President Garcia
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    18 8 The IngalLs-Taiwan Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation m Formosa has ordered 13,000 tons of steel plate from Japan.— U.P.
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    35 8 Japanese Premier Nobusuke Kishi told the Upper House Diet committee on foreign affairs that he was "determined' to settle outstanding Issues between Japan and South Korea before leaving for the United States m June.— Reuter
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    Lock icon Ruses to evade U.S. immigration laws
    137 8 AMERICAN State Department investigators operating A both m Hong Kong and the United States have met with "substantial success m exposing fraudulent applications," which has "probably served as a deterrent to other Chinese" who might try to enter the United States illegally. This Washington
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    Lock icon RI REDS USE YOUTHS FOR TERROR ACTS
    240 8 RI REDS USE YOUTHS FOR TERROR ACTS THE Indonesian Communist Party is using: squads of youths reminiscent of Mussolini's "Brown Shirt" ffangs for terroristic activities, reliable Jakarta sources said. These bands of armed thugs call themselves the ex-Tantara Peladjar or "student veterans of the revolution against the Netherlands." Although not
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    Lock icon Kishi may visit RI
    75 8 Prime Minister Nobusuke KLshi said he would like to visit Indonesia to study the reparations problem between Japan and Indonesia. He hoped to make this during a quick tour of South-East Asia prior \o his June 19 visit to Washington. Mr. Kishi told a press conference
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    Lock icon Red China-Poland trade up
    51 8 Red China's Vice Minister of Foreign Trade. Mr. Hsieh Hsueh-kung, said the volume of Communist China's trade with Poland has increased 47.1 per cent since 1951. He predicted, according to Peking Radio, that economic co-operation between them would continue to expand both m variety and volume,
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    Lock icon BETTER CHILD HEALTH IN ASIA
    35 8 A United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF.) report m Bangkok shows that I considerable progress towards better child hoalth and welfare was made during 1956 by Asian govern- I mcnts.- A.P.
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    OH DEAR, WHY CAN'T MEN KEEP IN STEP WITH THE TUNES?
    1029 9  -  ARMADA MARSHALL i Bff need a new hero to go with my ankle-length chiffon and my six rows The current beau ideal is distinctly ungroomed either singing the Blues to a very untender guitar or chattering about being an
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    The bridge hand
    278 9 f rODAYS hand is from the Individual Championship played at Las Vegas This event wu»s won by Charles Goren. who donated the $1,500 defence bond first prize to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund a geneious gesture which made his Victory a highly popular one Alvin Roth, co-founder
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      68 9 /\f\r/%^l A1 MALAI \N PREMIERE TONIGHT at A pm. S««»on from Tomorrow *l 10 a m. 3 A X p m. |^v^ T.nf I gC E vm bb^ A lv 9 R«T #*f <np% mWm JhtcS AUDREY HENRY M I I Ik j^^ Jftw H X 'w^ S flb ML
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  • SPOTLIGHT ON THE SERVICES
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      DRUMMER
      59 10 With head erect, tenor drummer Cpl. T. Bibby, who is a B driver mechanic, excelled at the cc- B remony. All the m bandsmen are vo- lunteers. The pipers m W were formed into a unit six years ago v and now have their own uniform B white jacket
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      BEATING the Retreat
      428 10  - BEATING the Retreat TONY BAPTISTA BY THE Royal Air Force "Beat the Retreat" m an imposing floodlit ceremony m Singapore last week. More than 100 members of the R.A.F. brass and pipe bands, a contingent from 92 Anti- Aircraft Squadron and the station trumpetors participated. The Commander m Chief, F.E.A.F.,
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    BRILLIANT SCHOLAR SHOWS WINNING FORM ON THE TRACK
    492 11  - BRILLIANT SCHOLAR SHOWS WINNING FORM ON THE TRACK ALLAN LEWES by BRILLIANT SCHOLAR, handicapped to carry 7.07 m the Hunter Memorial Stakes on Saturday, looks the winner at Bukit Timah this morning. Brilliant Scholar, on the inside, appeared to be going much better than Conventional (Mawi) over three m 39
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    Singora does fastest 3f, can score on Saturday
    750 11 Singora does fastest 3f, can score on Saturday OINGORA, ridden by J. Jones, working alone on the second track at Bukit Timah this morning, showed that he is fit and a much improved horse by running three m 37 2/5, the fastest of the morning. Singora was not fully extended.
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    Lock icon SUNDERLAND DIRECTORS SUSPENDED
    140 11 SUNDERLAND DIRECTORS SUSPENDED ENGLAND'S soccer bosses yesterday fined First Division Sunderland j £5,000 for making unauthorised payments to players the heaviest fine j ever imposed m nearly 100 years of English league soccer. The Football Association ■ad Football League, after a joint inquiry into Sunderland's financial affairs, aLso barred two
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    Lock icon DRAWN MATCH
    28 11 Ireland and Wales played a scoreless draw at Windsor Park, Belfast, yesterday to share the "wooden spoon" m the Home Countries Internati™" 10 s^fcpr rhnmpionship. Reuter
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    Lock icon VILLA EDGE BIRMINGHAM
    125 11 ASTON VILLA, who will meet Manchester United for the F.A. Cup next month, beat Birmingham City 2-1 m their Div. One match on the City ground yesterday. Other results: Div. Three south: Aldershot 4 Northampton 0; Plymouth Argyll* 3 Newport 2: Swindon 1 Millwall 0. Div. Three
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    Lock icon Britain win Rugby Test
    64 11 BRITAIN beat France 29-14 m a Rugby League Test match at St. Helens last night and won the three-match series. Other results: Bradford Northern 9 Wakefield Trinity 23; Halifax 6 Warrington 7; Swinton 36 Whitehaven 0. Rusby Union: Bridgend 3 Cardiff 9; Cheltenham 0 Gloucester 11;
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    Lock icon United meet Real Madrid today in "Match of Year"
    168 11 United meet Real Madrid today in "Match of Year" T'HE "Soccer Match of the Year" will be played m Madrid today when Real Madrid, the holders, meet Manchester United, English champions, m the first leg of their European Soccer Cup semi-final. The vast Santiago Bernabeu stadium will be crammed with
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    253 12 PACT WILL BE MADE PUBLIC AFTER SIGNING TODAY Lim to broadcast to Singapore Departure from precedent 'pHE Anglo-Singapore agreement on internal self-government for this island, to be signed m London today, establishes the framework on which a new constitution will be drafted. j A departure from precedent m the new
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    104 12 Red state's 'phased' take-over MR. A. K. GOPALAN, leader of the Communist group m the Lower House of India's Central Parliament, said at Ahmedabad that he believed the Communist Government of Kerala State would adopt a programme of "phased" rather than "wholesale and simultaneous" nationalisation. The programme would depend on
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    'Vive La Reine'
    123 12 'Vive La Reine' QUEEN ELIZABETH probably doesn't realise it, but Paris yesterday was toasting her at more parties than the Crown has jewels. Starting late last night and continuing well into this morning, "Queen Parties" were m full swing all over the capital feting; the visiting monarch and her husband
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    FRENCH JET PLANS STOLEN
    41 12 Mr. Karl Egelnoff, a Swedish engineer, told police m Biarritz yesterday that plans for the French military Alouette jet helicopter and the Morane Saulnier jet aircraft were m his baggage stolen from a parked car m Biarritz.
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    MENZIES OFF TO JAPAN
    38 12 Australian Prime Minister Mr. Robert G. Menzies", arrives m Tokyo today for a seven-day visit as guest of the Japanese Government An elaborate programme. Including an a\dience and luncheon with Emperor Hirohito awaits him.
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    'Triumph for Lim' —Sydney paper
    240 12 P RAISING the Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, "quiet and business-like approach" of which, it say*, "succeeded where the flamboyant Marshall failed,' the Sydney Morning Herald today praised the London agreement. It said: "From a strictly Australian point of view continuing access to
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    160 12 A 100 HINDUS DROWN j Pilgrim boat goes down m India MORE than 100 Hindu pilgrims were drowned yesterday when two boats capsized m the Godavari River near Bhadrachalam m Andhra State. They were only 100 yards from safety. An official announcement m Bombay said that rescuers searched until evening
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    154 12 LOVE UPSETS EGYPT ROMANCE is the latest complication m the Israeli-Egyptian dispute. Egyptian officers are complaining privately that U.N. Emergency Force troops are falling under the spell of pretty Lsraeli girl soldiers across the Gaza demarcation line. The Egyptian officers say they have complained informally to General ELM. Burns, UNEF
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    52 12 A Japane.se Socialist Party mission of 10 led by the party secretary general. Mr. lnejiro Asanuma, left Tokyo last night by air for Peking. Mr. Asanuma said he will see Communist Chinese Government officials and informally discuss restoration of diplomatic relations between Japan and Communist
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      17 12 rOUR SEASON TICKET TO THE WORLD S MUSICAL CAPITAL! i IQQIliy (ICQOSTIC/IL I hs^/ °3^ closest approach
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  • THE SILENT WORLD
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      59 1 Columbia Pictures present the greatest true adventure of our time THE SILENT WORLD INCREDIBLE! olr«rs \m steel cages... plunging Info shark-timing waters! STARTLING! You find yourself riding afong th* otoan floor on torpedoshaped sta- scooters! SPECTACULARf Frogmen discover sunken ships t AMAZING! Killers of fhe deep battle giant sperm wholes!
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      Space Men of the Sea!
      1149 1 This top film has NO PLOT and NO STARS "THE Silent World," winner 1 of the 1956 Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival, is a haunting trueadventure film about the mysterious depths of the sea and B hardy band of Aqua-Lung divers with
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      BIGGEST BOX-OFFICE HIT
      132 1 THE film "The Silent World" has already become the biggest boxoffice hit m Europe. Be 'ore its general release, the film played four sets of first -run houses m Paris, and there it topped the biggest grosses Of Disney. Danny Kaye, Chaplin and Sacha Guitry. Two preview
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      FATHER of FREE DIVING
      779 2 FATHER of FREE DI VING His aim: Seeking ways to stay longer under the sea I JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU, 48, who produced the tnje-adven-lure colour film, "The Silenl World," is the foremost undersea explorer and co-inventor of the Aqua-Lunfc The film derives its title from the book, "The Silent World' by
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      CUDDLE FOR A TURTLE
      25 3 A skindiver from the Calypso comes across a turtle. ..one of the many fascinating scenes from the film "The Silent World".
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      Going down into the sea for a tow at 4. m.p.h.
      96 4 Going down into the sea for a tow at 4. m.p.h. by scooters at 4 miles an hour, the skindivers of the Calypso were able to carry out many underwater missions witli ease and rapidity. The picture on the right shows a scooter being lowered from the ship with the
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      Film extra was friendly, jealous and a camera hog
      539 5 Film extra was friendly, jealous and a camera hog MILLIONS of brilliantly coloured tropical fish became film extras m "The Silent World." But there was one fish, a grouper, who was a definite personality, attached himself to the under- water explorers, became a camera hog:, and showed such diverse reactions
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      LOOKING INTO A SUNKEN SHIP
      86 5 LOOKING INTO A SUNKEN SHIP EXPLORING th c wreck of a ship sunk m the Red Sea after a bombing attack m 1941 is just one of the many thrilling scenes m the film "The Silent World." Above the skindiver, gracefully gliding through the water, is seen approaching the wreck.
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      Simone is unseen star
      261 5 A SVELTE blonde Parisienne. Simon*' Cousteau, Captain Cousteau's wife, is the unseen star of the "The Silent World." She was the only woman on board the Calypso, during its 42,000 miles of film-making adventure. She dived with the fourteen-man team of AquaLungers, yet movie-goers will not
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      FIRST FILM—IT WAS BIGGEST HIT OF YEAR
      575 6 FIRST FILM— IT WAS BIGGEST HIT OF YEAR TD be credited aa codirector of one's first professional film and to have it be the year's biggest box-office hit m Europe— is the enviable lot of 23-year-old Parisian Louis Malle. The film, of course, is "The Silent World." Malle's success story
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      His shops run an their awn while he dives
      248 6 rkNE of the veteran free v divers m "The Silent World" is the owner of a shoe-store chain named Jean Delmas He lets the shops run themselves while he sails with Cousteau's research ship, Calypso, as ship's carpenter and diving-equip-ment chief.
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      FILM 'EXECUTIONER'
      203 6 YOUNG Georges Alepee took on one of the largest tasks ever given by a producer when he accepted the job as editor of the film "The Silent World." When he took the assignment. Cousteau handed him 19 miles of 35 millimetre Eastmancolor shot on the five-month expedition to
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      He got drunk on water
      83 7 He got drunk on water WHIM; making "The Silent World." skindiver Albert Falco got drunk on miter. Ho was seized by the dread "depth narcosis" l\l feet beneath the surface of tho Rod Sea. Also called "raptures of the deep." depth narcosis hits divers at great depths and tempts them
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      Albert dived 247 ft.
      884 7 GHde through wreck like a Hsn HERCULEAN free diver from Marseilles, Albert Falco, is the leading diver of Calypso Occanographic Expeditions and has roamed the depths from Spain to the far Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Despite his wrestler's build, Falco is incredibly agile He can
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      SCOOTER RACED GIANT TURTLE
      96 7 (\NE of history's most unusual races takes j place m "The Silent World." It's a race between a giant sea turtle and a four-knot, hand-field underwater scooter, i and tvas caught by the undersea cameras of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle. The unrehearsed race came about
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      71 1 CAPITOL TODAY at 'iZl^r X Columbia Pictures present a true k adventure of indescribable awe and thrills jV^k H^T I t^K^m I^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bly < k o^yswCv BfißK-^' ■Hit" < academy BK^3K SILENT Jk > Jk P^k Jok Ml I IP% :jlu«8i« picTum 3 viS l^i^mSSFSpF a -ears Fes' v* This is
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      207 2 SLAJC/ f lAy xAAtf LJI \AJ I^aVT m I I I I fh. ,i M > r THE SILENCE of the r^^l' '^XV Remington Noiseless Typewriter gives you the ejuie t you i'II'TiI 'm o^*^^^^^^^ 1^ i^4^ need for office effkitney— the tranquillity so vitiii te> QSf^XS^^^^^^^'»^^^ uf executive decision.
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      177 5 If you have been dreaming of a perfect vacation a vacation to a place, exciting and different a place removed, where no strain of every day life can ever haunt you, let us help you make that dream come true. Let us help you find a SILENT WORLD all your
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      171 6 THE SIIcNT WORLD T^fSR, TELEFUNKEN/y/-^i/' WORLD FAMOUS GERMAN MAKE *f/ V'-'^Mi' tJll T6LEFUNKFN D2667WK Hi-F, .1 TELEFONKEN D776WK Mi-FI |||.v'S \\^v//X f\B jH f \fVWfr\^ A Vv v :.V,',v-y-\^«l|f 6 volve AC Moms Light SLA 7 volv*. Tropicalized model. lßlv'''.y!v,' /^'''<flH 'S->'/ .S3 111 coloor.d French wolnut cobinct W^ AC
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      83 8 [the silent worldJ I I I jl IBh^^^R? THE SUBMARINER Regulation equipment to the Navies of several great Nations. water. Yet accurate and reliable timing is essential for proper many divers have endangered their lives and a number of them JT ftffitS fgßf/fr 'wf \^mXe^*- SSr mß^^V^^B Sfi^fc^^S -> i
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  • Race Form Free Press extra Special
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      10 1 Race Form Free Press extra Special Thursday. April 11, 1957.
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      HOME RECORD OF A HORSE IS OF LITTLE VALUE TO PUNTERS
      1847 1  - HOME RECORD OF A HORSE IS OF LITTLE VALUE TO PUNTERS ALLAN LEWIS Says WASTAGE among our thoroughbreds m Malaya is about 30 per cent annually. To overcome this, new importations must be regular, and at every meeting new horses are entered. However, this current meeting at Singapore is exceptional,
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      They need 5 months to come to hand
      339 1 enlarged legs and joints because of the continual standIng After a voyage of from two to five weeks, a horse should have at least one months rest to get over the strain of the trip During this month the swollen joints will
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        262 1 Give Your Memory a Holiday with th c Omega Seamastcr C a I c n d a r Jsg J T*e handiest plate fo. calendar h obviously the dial erf ,«ur watch. etpeclalli when che to he full r HMMk Omega. For th*i you wear a hl K h- fc
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      Guide For S'pore Races
      3030 2 FOLLOWING are the horses entered for the Singapore Turf Club April Meeting. L CLASS ONE ADELAIDE STAR SCRATCHED: 23-3-57 X.L.. 8-4 Hrn Thr Gold Cup Cl 1. Track good ELEVENTH: (12 .started) 16-3-57 X.L.. •-10 lm. (Sawyer) Cl. 1 Div. 1; Ist Jamrs Aitch 8-9; 2nd.
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      TIPPING YOU OFF...
      109 2 DON'T double up m an effort to re- coup. EE REMEMBER, if you fancy a horse =j enough to include it m doubles— back it singly. IN a field of 13 or more runners, it is not usually profitable to bet each way, S5 especially m handicaps.
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        CLASS ONE RACE FORM
        4648 3 HIGH SOCKS NEW HORSE HONEYPOT LANE SCRATCHED: 23-3-57 K.L., 8-12 6F Cl. 1 Div. 3. Track good. EIGHTH: (Nine started) 20-3-51 X.L.. 8-4 6P (Paterson) Cl. 1 Div. 2; Ut. Hopsasa 9-8; 2nd. Amusement II 8-13; 3rd Brilliant Light tf-8 1-2-2. 1-15 4/5 Track heavy. HOPSASA
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      How they fare in Class 3
      1017 4 ADJUTANT NEW HORSE ALL THINGS NICE NEW HORSE ALU ALL NEW HORSE ARTINA NEW HORSE BAJAN SIXTH: (I 3 started) 16-2-57 i Spore 8-10 7F (Bougoure) Cl. 3 Div. 1; Ist. Triple Crown 8-6; 2nd. Holiday Flight 9-0; 3rd. Grand Rapids 8-4. Ml-U. 1-26.
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      YOUR FORM GUIDE IN CLASS 3
      4501 5 YOUR FORM GUIDE IN CLASS 3 COLZA TWELFTH: (14 Started) 13-2-57 spore tt-5 6F (Franklin) Cl. 3 Div. 2 Ist. Peanut Kid 8-1 carr. 9-2; 2nd. Rio 9-0; 3rd. Nufenen 7-9 carr. 7-6. 1-1-I J. 1-15 1/5. Track good. THIRTKKMH: (U started) 9-2-57 Spore 8-6 6F (Donnelly) Cl. 3 Div.
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      Class Three Horses
      1792 6 SOUND BARRIER EIGHTH: (13 started) 16-2-57 6'porr 8-9 7F (Patersont Cl. 3 Dlv I; Ist Triple Crown 9-6; 2n<d. Holii Flight 9-0; 3rd. Grand I 4 J-11-H. 1-26. 2/V Track »rv good. 1 .1 ill started) 9-2-57 Spore 8-10 lm (Patersoni d. 3 Div. 1; Ist Wlntp
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      CLASS 4 HORSES RACE RECORD
      5236 7 CALCULATION SCRATCHED: 16-2-57 Spore 7-7 Cl. 3 9F Very Good. NINTH: (Ten started) 9-2-57 Spore 7-10 lm. (Chadwick) Cl. 3 Div. 2; Ist. Triple Crown 8-9; 2nd Oular II 8-7; 3rd. Dark Prince 7-11. li-J-2. 1-47 1/5. Track heavy. SEVENTH: (Eight started) 29-12-56 Pervang 7-13
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