The Singapore Free Press, 12 March 1958

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper si'i; M|iore. Wednesday, March J>, 1938. I'iue 15 Cts.
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    Lock icon Skelt: Query by M.P.
    72 1  -  JOHN PEYTON i I a conservative, gave \mo\ yesterday that [Ke would question the We! Secretary, Mr. m iinox-Boyd, in Writ' House of Comffti:: L-.hout tlie case Ef Mr. George Skelt Skeli was dismissHj month from posi as commerKi>.: s< cretary of the Hi!iu; re City
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    Lock icon BIG HUSH-HUSH ON NEWS OF GOVT. FORCES
    578 1 BIG HUSH-HUSH ON NEWS OF GOVT. FORCES No due to movements of Jakarta's lost legions': Army says three towns on Bengkalis cleared of rebels -Then silence —^t^am I—— Vaitex irantvn and children from HI 'not evacuees iT»HERE are at present 7CO Americans in the x Caltex Oil Company's main camp
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    RUBBER PRICE
    32 1 MARCH first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 77 5/8 cents a lb., up a quarter of a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was uncertain.
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    Sandys for Italy
    34 1 The British Defence Minister, Mr. Duncan Sandys will visit Italy from March 15 to 19 on the mvi, tation of the Italian Dofence Ministry, it was announced in Rome last night.
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    Lock icon Warships collide
    19 1 Two Turkish destroyers collided m Hampton roads near Norfolk, Virginia, yesterday, but neither was seriously damaged U.P.
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    STABBED MAN: FOUR HELD
    40 1 Singapore police hare de« talned four men In connection with Hip death of Harry Heng. a laboratory t assistant, who was itabbed whilo talking with hit nUTStJ fiancee in the compound ol j th< General Hospital.
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    Lock icon French ambushed
    27 1 Rebel guerlilai ambushed a French military column, killing nine French soldier* before being beaten bark with heavy losses, army sources said In Alglett Srestrrday. U.P.
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    Unarmed A-bomb is jettisoned, blows up home
    349 1 Unarmed A-bomb is jettisoned, blows up home i» i bomber aei identally jettiW uui unarmed nuW u weapon yesterW"- Strategic Air •mmand headquarw> at Omaha, NebX! i:) announced. i. command said was from 2 l force base in fl nb was jettisoned ea >1 of Florence W royed the wooden
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    100 TORY MPs SAY KEEP THE H-BOMB
    69 1 MORE THAN 100 Conservative Members of Parliament— including the Prime Ministers son, Mr. Maurice Macmillan, ana several former ministers last night tabled a House of Commons motion declaring agftinat Britain s unilateral rejection of the H-bomb. The resolution said It was "morally untenable
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      105 1 <-J I film l-^\ '"<■ sy/sw&smrl& NEVER NEEDS NEW BATTERIES! wtojjmfA Rctr.ict.ibli m.i^nificr :r i -"/^flnHi^ one c many -y&|^|M dories of the ActuLux The secret of ACCULUX S revolutionary new itor.ige battery it the newly invented Nickel Cadtum stoMgo cell. Unlike any other battery, it's non-corrosive holds .i charge
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    Lock icon P&O ESCAPE FREIGHT SLUMP
    311 2 THE P v U»« lum I I .i sd lar «'^i apt tl lh»' rlli I »>1 the <•» E i>i ssed lite <»i the frt'i^lit mti kit, it uas announced in •on E don. Sir William (raw E ford Clirrie, (hair- man and manaflng E
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    Lock icon Beat recession with tax cut call in U.S.
    281 2 V'EWS that unemployment A^ ha.s reached its highest total for 16 year-- nearly 5.200,000 has deepened the recession in the United States. Official Washington had been well prepared for it, but the impact, nevertheless, was considerable. Nearly every important political figure in
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    Lock icon Labour split solution forecast
    126 2 FURTHER talks took place at the House of Commons last night about the dispute between the Labour party leaders and the "Victory for Socialism" splinter group. Political circle said there would be further exchanges between the national executive of the Labour Party and the group. The
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    Lock icon Jap fall-out note
    32 2 Japan ha.s delivered a diplomatic note to Britain which is believed to be connected with the problem 01 atomic fall-OUt from H-bomb tests, the foreign office announced today. U.P.
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    Lock icon QUAKE SHAKES FORMOSA
    56 2 A STRONG earthquake shook Formosa yestor day but no damage was imported. The tremor rattled winnows and shook building* 101 About iwo minute*. Th»- Taiprh observatory said the centre of the quake was about 170 miles south-east of the city of Yllan on the islands ofT the
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    Lock icon CAR SLUMP IS CAUSE, ENVOY TELLS BRITAIN
    206 2 lytß. JOHN HAY WHITNEY, U.S. Ambassador to ifl Britain, said in Coventry last night that the slump in the motor-car industry in Detroit was a "prime reason" for the current American recession having gone as far as it had. Speaking at a dinner
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    Lock icon JAP TRAD ENVOY'S U.S. TALKS SUCCEED
    180 2 JAP TRAD ENVOY'S U.S. TALKS SUCCEED adviser Tg* b fwvea his, Slnn to thp tt« States to ir On J rade r *i Bis been "no Sin vVssl'nl/' Mr. Aikawa, who vati to Washington t» Nobusuke KishUh/pJ Minister, made the n ment to reportersaftS had completed the M nis official
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    Lock icon U.S. criticises 12- mile limit set by Indonesia
    269 3 THREAT TO FREE USE OF THE HIGH SEAS INDONESIA'S dcci--1 sion to draw a 12-mile sea limit round its entire archipelago was criticised at the 85-nation law of the sea conference in Geneva yesterday. Mr. Arthur Dean, delegate of the United States
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    Lock icon Palace flunkeys get back glamour garb
    136 3 Palace flunkeys get back glamour garb KE pre-war glamour of flunkeys in eye-dazzling uniforms has returned to Buck i ilha m Palace by Order of the Queen. v hi decided that the potmen and pages look too austere in their navy b:;; battledress which rePlaced their impressive tunics when the
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    AMOK WITH PARANG CUTS DOWN 10 PEOPLE
    100 3 AMOK WITH PARANG CUTS DOWN 10 PEOPLE AN Indonesian ran amok in a bazaar killed two Chinese boys and seriously injured three other other Chinese, says a report from Julau, Sarawak. Five other persons were slightly injured before thp parang-wielding amok was overpowered. In hospital A Chinese knocked down the
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    Lock icon New Bill will allow overseas Britons to adopt children
    156 3 New Bill will allow overseas Britons to adopt children A BILL to allow Briton living abroad and in certain ca.so.s foreigners to adopt, British children bopan its passage through Parliament last night with tiv 1 House of Lords giving it a second reading agreement in principle. At present the law
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      78 3 Mni B■ m Shirts j ll Hi Singlets Pants It you intend to get something A up-to-date with reasonable prices. please visit our retail department at:LI SENG MIN CO. LTD., 6 North Bridge Road, Singapore x? aZ -^T satisfaction GUARANTEED 2 of experience £ma Wi IN WATCHMAKING S| r E
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  • The Singapore Free Press Wednesday, March 12, 1958.
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      Opinion Leisure is dreaded
      209 4 Opinion Leisure is dreaded (COMMUNISM'S advent to power in China, first marked by a series of bloody purges that liquidated millions of non-Reds, has seen an unending series of campaigns all to the accompaniment of ceaseless indoctrination. By these means the Peking leaders have sought to eliminate known or suspected
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    Lock icon Gold-savings craze starts a major crisis in India
    407 4 Gold-savings craze starts a major crisis in I nd ia TIIK preference by Indians to keep their I savings in gold Is causing a major crisis in internal resources for economic develop- I incut, according to financial commentators I in New Delhi. This national trait has always meant I that
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    BY THE WAY
    148 4  -  Beachcomber ddfdfdsfdsfds HOW much longer will the public tolerate the loss of man-hours caused by the pouring of glue through sieves? Even if there are foreign bodies such as stones or UtS of coal or balls of string in the glue, the glue will adhere to them
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    Lock icon URANIUM TOWN IN OUTBACK
    708 4  - URANIUM TOWN IN OUTBACK William Gasson Symbol of the vision aiul faith in a nation's fni§uu> i>» URANIUM production will soon be In full swing at a new town which has sprung up in the outback northwest of Queensland. Australia's first uranium town, it is known by the Christian names,
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      82 4 I PATEK PHILIPPE lll*' v»orl«l*s furt'inoftl I In- 2 111 si /'//;<» A Z ht' .'i Record* for ///>•• J usion imt i»f lln> 10 x 5 Vrist' i(inniii(i rlmnio- Z uu'li'is. 7 tnr I'alrl, 5 Vhilipiw. Oui nf iln- I l*t izriviimi n u ml ftish'i I i ut*
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      79 4 "...A COMEDY YOU MUST SEE! One of the funniest British films I have seen I this type of clever, last-moving British snow should a have almost universal appeal, and 1 think Malayan audiences will enjoy it thoroughly SUSAN BARRIE: Straits Times 28-2-58 B UPROARIOUS, ROLLICKING FARCE i ..chuckles come at
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    Another Asian flu epidemic nest winter?
    140 5 Another Asian flu epidemic nest winter? SI „m: epidemic of Asian flu is A by medical workers tiiiund the world next 1(( Australia one of the first countries to be hit h> any epidemic |l(II1 the East Is preparing alIT k|v i«. fight it. Production has started of an allpurpose
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    NOW WAR ON JAGA KRETA MENACE
    158 5 NOW WAR ON JAGA KRETA MENACE AN ill-out effort to sto] the increasing Jaga kreta menace »n Singapore car parks is being launched by thp Traffic Police >erlntendent, Mr Sardar Singh, yesterday he Free Press he having discussions divisional police irities on the possi- of posting policeat all main car
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    No rise in price of eggs
    210 5 yHE prices of eggs and 1 chicken^ in Singapore wil not go up although the price of poultry food was recently increased. A Ministry of Commerce and Industry spokesman told i the Free Press yesterday that the increase in poultry food was an annual
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    Malaya's envoy arrives in U.K.
    28 5 Tengku Ya'acob. the Malayan Federation s Hl»n Commissioner-designate to Britain, arrives in London by air today to take up his new post. Renter.
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    PART-TIME COURSE IN EDUCATION?
    59 5 ity of Malaya is understood to have ftp <i mi principle a 'Singapore Ministry ol Education to .start a part-time diploma course In m, 11 i Implemented it. win be possible for the recruli graduates straighi Into teaching seriiiin.., them to take the course sj pwi
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      47 6 Light into today's most exciting Cigarette I^rlt^r WITH PATENTED Wltf ;n Flavour Th< 1' i xciting flavour thai means m< taste. .more aroma 1 Ev< i L&M pack ever mad( lj carried this statement': "A bl< of premium Quality cigan tobaccos including s i" Crashproof, rc&uhw l>l
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      131 6 JKI F lIAWlii: b> Sjnßner Jordain THE EXPUO&ON- ueS AT TUB W WE WILL B6 A^OCE 1 J2f f °?^?L*??i ?ZJJ%??Z MEHCV Q* TAAJRAK USEPUL ALIVE OUIC^LV- 1 S' P^^fSJ2S, S?fi "2£tZl C jtf SO' NOW pTJ\ I W^^ ,^^M A^-<^^ fc 'i' VIOO/V b> Lee I alk and Phil
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      414 6 I f I (I A A^W**^ i m^ BORN today, you ai\ intellectual the I to "egghead-Ism." You arj I theories, have a fine bac knowledge and aim to Your major interest n, ans literature, music (1 j a thrust into some ith"? j wake a living. you will b.
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      143 7 LONDON. March 11. Previous Today HN \\u\ > h > Z 22 :1 i buyers buyers p t a 23 sellers 23 sellers i -Hi 22 vs buyers 22 i buyers A| 23 sellers 23 sellers i i?<s snot 22.'i buyers 22% buyers |f Ni Ilv 23
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      New York prices
      94 7 NEW YORK. March 11. Previous Today iN g_ 0 9t3.00 norn 95.75 nom. fetra'ct March 93.87 buyers 94.25 buyers > Contract uarcn 95.87 sellers 95.37 sellers May 93.37 buyers 94.00 buyers 95.37 sellers 95.12 sellers 511 .,,u SALES: Nil. 1H Futures March 2642 buyers 26.70 paid 11
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      29 7 NEW YORK, March 11. Previous Today kustries 451.90 455.92 lilroa.ls 104.31 105.65 mestii Bonds 88 93 88 97 Eties 73.06 73.18 bcks Composite Uerages.. 152.96 154.21
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      U.S. PEPPER
      57 7 []j ba and awaiting se 24 S IM'j to 24, half March shipment unfd. Lampong spot and awaitrelease 24 afloats 23% to first hall March shipment 23%. Sarawak unquoted Muntok white spot 32%. awaiting release and afloats 32 I ,a, first half March shipment 32, belter:-ex-dock. I Above
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      103 7 LONDON, March U. Previous Today JA Philippines c.i.f. U-K./ rth European ports delivered «ht per long ton Mar./ Apr. $186' sellers $186 sellers KA, Straits c.M. I K./North ropean ports delivered £67 a buyers £67',. buyers UIH per long ton Mar./ Apr. £68 sellers £68 sellers
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    GOVERNMENT SPOTLIGHT ON S'PORE RURAL AREAS
    245 7 GOVERNMENT SPOTLIGHT ON S'PORE RURAL AREAS A GOVERNMENT publicity campaign is under way to focus more attention on Singapore rural areas. It is felt in Government circles that hitherto far too much stress had been laid on urban areas and that this at times has tended to cause problems of
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    Off to UK So study trading
    48 7 Off to UK So study trading FORMER employee off A a *apore trading firm. Mr. S. V. Sarma, who left for London yesterday to study market conditions in Britain. He said he intended to start his own business in the Colony on his return, in two years' time.
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    Boundary job like fitting a jigsaw puzzle'
    326 7 Boundary job like fitting a jigsaw puzzle' THE electoral delimitation committee which was entrusted with the task of defining constituencies for Legislative Assembly and rural and district council elections, has almost finished its work. A report to the Govern- ment is being drafted. The Free Press understands that constituency boundaries,
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    ACS 'Old Boys' officials
    86 7 ACS 'Old Boys' officials Office-bearers of the Ang-lo-Chinese School Old Boys' Association elected at the annual meeting, are: President, Mr. Cecil Wong: vice-presidents, Mr. Thio Chan Bee (ex-oflicio), Mr. Chan Jan Jee, and Mr. Tan Boon Chiang: secretary, Mr. Chan Siew Jiang: assistant secretary, Mr. Foo Kee Seng; treasurer. Mr.
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    Lock icon It's That Man Again' widow dies
    53 7 Mrs. Jean Handiey, widow of Tommy Hundley the "1.T.M.A." comedian, died In hospital in London yesterday. She was 62. I.T.M.A. "It's That Man Again" was a zany weekly 8.8.C. programme which cheered millions of Englishspeaking people all over the world durine and after world
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      49 7 Singapore hich tides 4 TODAY: 1.12 p.m. TOMORROW: 3.83 a.m. and 5.4G p.m. o TRIDAY: 4.: i a m. and 8.10 p.m. SATURDAY: 6.00 a.m. (> and 0.12 p.m. SUNDAY: 7.53 a.m. and (l 9.52 p.m. <> MONDAY: 8.59 a.m. and 10.21 p.m. TUESDAY: 0.11 am (l and 10.43 p
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      115 7 any part o\ the world iZsOmplete zDoor to JJoor SAFE HANDLING ECURITY IN TRANSPORT C|BJ/» AD ADC OA6GAGE TRANSPORT AGENCY 'JIWWtrWRfc PACKING COMPANY LIMITED Enquire for details to J^w 8E Asia Insurance Bldf. Singapore JL T^JI/m-AA Tel: *****- 3 Lines l^^^/^lft Oversea Chinese Bank Bldg. P.O. Box 1002, Tel: 4347
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    SEARCH FOR A QUEEN OF FASHION
    879 8 SEARCH FOR A QUEEN OF FASHION dfdfdfdfdf CANDIDATES for the title of "Fashion Queen of 1958 have until Saturday of this week to submit their entries for the Fashion Fiesta at the Sea View Hotel ballroom on Saturday, March 29. Entries may be sent to Mrs. Nancy Lim, 700 Upper
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    2014 8  - SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT Adelaide Eastley BY,, his present establishment 27 jrean ago. He has made a practice o! offering got d.> irom a needle to a rattan elephant in his store, tlu tnecca of tourists, his name a byword among travellers. His agents have combed all of A^ia and the Orient
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    Pass the paints Mum, said V.C. girl —then died
    420 10 Pass the paints Mum, said V.C. girl then died Jennifer Craig, who was J awarded the Girl Guide V.C. for courage, sat up in bed and tried to paint a picture two hours before she died. The end came for Jennifer at her home, the Wellington Hotel, Seaford. Sussex. She
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    The slipped disc cats
    108 10 The slipped disc cats T*HE fireside cat is a sitent martyr to "slipped disc" the painful spinal disorder which causes so much human backa c h e veterinary surgeons have discovered. Dr. Anthony Kins and Dr. Richard Smith, who examined 100 cats in Bristol, England, found that 26 of them
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    CLUE TO WEALTH
    144 10 A£9-A WEEK factory worker has started a search for b fortune h< think:, hi., family i'it in Portsmout h. His only clue the words of a dying relative "Look for a little black book" Mr. Harry BurrldgP, ol Dormlngton Road, Port! mouth, England, ha dl covered That
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    JAP COPYCAT FIRMS SWITCH TO CANADA
    303 10 OIRLY John Kins won a big victory for British exporters six months ago by unmasking Japanese imitators of high-quality British goods. At least he thought he had. Now he finds that the Japanese are attacking from a new quarter the dollar market. It was
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    LONDON GOSSIP
    641 10  - LONDON GOSSIP WILLIAM HICKEY One inch Monument Dress up Strange CIR JACOB EPSTEIN has nearly finished his bust of Princess Margaret. ust The bust, which Sir Jacob began about two lweeks ago, was commissioned by the Universifw i College of North Staffordshire, of which Prince?, I Margaret is president. It
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    Point duty robot
    51 11 A young Iranian recently built this robot trailic policeman which mechanically perform* the duties of his human counterpart with whom it is seen Some in Teheran hail it as "a mechanical genius" —but quite a controversy has developed as to what useful purpose the robot tan serve.
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    IDING HIGH
    55 11 Ipwe wants to play y baaa with a moun- top on hestra, this oc/ transporta- Is i c loaical answer te problem. iy ling high, i: andsome with I 1 the ski lift an I mis ud the moun" to fi the rest of l wnd. I r,v
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    Stamp ueen'
    21 11 Stamp ueen' B Mn I" London K 1 Eve Murphy ■r' l^ 1 her knowW, 'ess, ■l <Cen here I "oiiniiiiiuiii.hu
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    A steel city is rising in Indian jungle
    341 12 A steel city is rising in Indian jungle 4 1 BHILAI, in Gent- ral inctut, a large tract >i jungle land ha.- been cleared and on it arc rising the shell s of three giant blast furnaces, and the roofs of a new stcd city. This Ifi part of Russia's
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    Lock icon PEKING CLEAN-UP NOW EXTENDED TO YOUNG REDS
    217 12 OEI) Chinese youths are giving Peking headaches. Propaganda blasts are being made^rging greater attention to the indoctrination of members of the young Communist League. The Peking magazine China Youth cited one government ministry (name not given) in which less than one-fourth of the
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    Lock icon Laos offer to Japan
    52 12 17ISITING Prince V Souvanna Phouma of Laos said in Tokyo that his government would welcome Japanese immigrants. He added that Laos would give them frt*»* land. However, he said, the Japanese Government would have to provide transportation for the migrants and assist in their settlement in
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    Lock icon GOVT. STAFF INSURANCE
    60 12 ABOUT 150.000 Nationalist Chinese Government employees will be eligible for the civil service Insurance scheme from next July They will contribute 2.4 per rent, ol their tnonl lily salaries and will become entitled to sickness, disability and old age benefits. The government will pay a eont.ribut.ion of
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    Lock icon Japan offers aid grant to Laos
    49 12 Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishl lg reported to have ottered an out rlßlit. grant of about uss:< ,000.000 to visiting Prince Souvanna Phouma Prime Minister ot Laos, for the development and con -truct io n of waterworks and seweraM »v»tpm in Ham Reuter
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    Lock icon JAPANESE TO FORM NUCLEAR COMBINE
    126 12 JAPANESE TO FORM NUCLEAR COMBINE A SPOKESMAN for the Mitsubishi Shoji Trading Company said in Tokyo that 25 companies of the Mitsubishi industrial group in Japan will Jointly establish a company In April for the development and manufacture of atomic re- actors and other machinery related to nuclear energy, The
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    Lock icon Reds move naval units to Fukien
    121 12 Reds move naval units to Fukien r rHE Chinese communists recenth I 1 their naval forces along the China ltlitf m ing Formosa, Nationalist Chinese i?i.., tU «?B Liv Hoh-tou said in Taipei, ai Adl W Admiral Liv, speaking for the Defenc vl *aid the communist air force r< i
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  • Glimpses
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      31 12 The Japanese Film Producers Association in Tokyo has selected the oho Motiot Pie t ure Company's film "Snow Country as Japan's entry in the Cannes International Film Festival in May.- Reuter
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      20 12 King Phumiphol and Queen Sirikit of Siam arc now on their first orticial tour of the northern province 5. Reuter
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      39 12 An eight-man Japanese mission has left Manila to try to contact two Javanese soldiers reported to be hiding on Lubang Island, off the south- western coast of Luzon 13 I/ears after the end of the second world war.- Reuter
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      35 12 Three members o! India's rebel Naga movement have appealed in Rangoon against Burma's refusal to give them political asylum. They demand that the government should serve them with official notices denying them political asylum U.P.
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      29 12 The Peking New China News Agency says that since 1949 "over 'half a million former Illiterates" in Shanghai have been taught to read and write in special after-work-classes.- U.P.
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      45 12 The provincial government of Fukien has decided to restore or expand 15 (/old mining enterprises this year besides organising the people of "36 goldproducing counties torgold washing" the Peking New China News Agency reported. Gold mining is also carried on in Kioanatung and Sinkiang, U.P.
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      35 12 Japanese Prime MuiS NobUMiK' K. that tin- tiny iMM Takeshima lyinr Japan Sea. now i'CCDM by South Korea. "evidently" Japiii^W ritory. He cautioned J« ever, against any "JfH force" to regair land for Japan. U.P.
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      15 12 Peking has announced 28.400,000 peasantsj attending literacy <•*■ in i 4 provinces mm Peking art. Reuter
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      247 13 Ilelightfully corny that he must be authenic, Gordon Terry is slaying hillbilly fans his "country style." It's great entertainand sounds so cosy without the soundo atmosphere that often mars such gems. ;l 45 entitled County Rake, one side is deE to a sour-note, ■hint:, hot-rhythm m- the other
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      176 13 Four aces ORCHESTRAL What is it in the Viennese Waltz that i creates such an impact upon ear and heart? We have heard them so often, in so many varied guises, and yet still the old magic prevails. Now a maestro com- poser and conductor, Robert Stolz, has achieved a
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      485 13 THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO IMPROVISE gRAHMS, instead of giving free rein to his fancy in extravagant displays of "unethical" musical trends like contemporaries Wagner and Liszt, adheres strictly to musical forms completely free of alien elements. modern jazz, for he experimented for years during his climb to the There's
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      160 13 Pick o£ the 78 r.p.m. discs CAL MINEO Sings as 11 he had :i perpetual SON throat, yet his records should prove extremely popular In Malaya. He has a breezy charm that captivates his listener;, and B soft sincerity to make his si w number! equally enthralling Recommended
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      84 13 Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D Major (K385) "HafTner", and the No. 31 in D Major (K297) "Paris" »u c -.P layed b y ihe R °yai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham The "IfafTner" work has a strong vigorous minuet and an ex- hilerating conclusion which
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    43 14 The former British light-heavyweight champion Ron Barton, who was seriously injured in a car crash at Denham, celebrated his 25th. birthday at the Mount Vernon Hospital. Rickmansworth Road, Northwood, Middlesex. Barton here induces in a spot of handicraft at the hospital.
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    557 14  - Now look what I've done for London! DESMOND HACKETT By E \il K kj hammer me clown with a big Hajj{ vana and pass me a E midnight-blue dinner jacE ket. They tell me I am E responsible for the Joe r Erskine v. Brian London 5 British and Empire
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    348 14 TWO impressive winning streaks will be on the 1 line when heavyweight contenders Eddie Machen and Zora Folley fight at San Francisco. The 12 round heavyweight bout, originally due to be held on March 19. has been postponed because Machen pulled a shoulder muscle in training,
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    333 14  - FIVE STORE BOXERS FOR TOKYO ROY LAZAROO Hv -Thati S.A.B.A. J me oniy uoxor who will defend hie Dunstord. lightweight champio c M Austin will get through again witho n" f tS, has a good chance of bein.. includoH l c li]]^ Oflicials from SABA will late, in i j
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    31 14 Denmark completed a 7-2 victory over EngE land in the European E Zone final of the Thomas Cup bariminj£ ton competition last E night in Copenhagen. Tllllllllllllllillllllllllllllliiiiinii
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    79 14 Fuk more tnan six months, the M.C.C. and the Australian Board of Control have been trying to settle the itinerary for the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1958-59. They still have not agreed. The point at issue concerns the period between December 31 and January 30. Th€
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    43 14 Ten-mile cyd trial today G l cSLgi wn w *1 'Win makfhbffijß fiSie ll t.^! i:ve Chani M 4!l' rrlde "fl Burdess, John Rogers i| Carlin. Bill Bur-oyr.e,'i|H (winner of the lastW events) and Norman wH Changi: Geofl c.reeH Booth and Phil LondonH
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    27 14 In Christchurch, m i Zealand, Paris ChambeiM of New Zealand broke world track record t'orß women's 440 yards run a time oi 56.1 sec. H
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      192 14 CLUES ACROSS P^.v ITI ritinSM 1 Has a postscript (5) 3 Oolfer'a n '"gjjj 4 A two-way one in Dartmoor? 4 Ali Baba opem^ 7> 5 Little Winnie v 8 Go quietly after the PaUUs (8) :r.fi* (5) 6 What a loi :ii 9 Same mail, etr, this w;iy (7)
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    321 15 liDDIE CHOONG, Malayan holder of the All-England badminton 1 title, will retire from international badminton at the end of the irrent season, he told an interviewer in London yesterday. Choong, who is to defend his All England title at Wembley from arch 19
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    128 15 20-1 outsider wins Hurdle Challenge Cup ■aXDALORE, a 20 to one W chance, yesterday won ■c Champion Hurdk' ChalVro Cup, emblematic of Be hurdiing championship I Britain, which was run ■er two miles on the openX day of tlit- National pi Festival at CheltenThr seven-year-old, ownby Mrs. J. Wright and
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    35 15 S»!»Jta In last night's gjwn Football matches team One; Chelsea 1 Wanderers Uagw Thr«« southern: entford 2 Reading l. SdSS ?S m Northern: I( .pity 0 Gateshead V Mftli 1 Carlisle Unit- Reuter
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    30 15 Charles Humez, French holder of the European middleweight boxing title, last night outpointed the German champion, Gust a v Scholz, in a 10-round nontitle bout in Paris.- Reuter
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    70 15 1 Robinaon, reserve |)rr fW Mapperley pa ;f n thi Nottingham i league, was cho!l J« forward for the IQ€ WCtuw injuries had loft the selcctrs With I problem. Robinson confounded everybody against St. Michaels Fellowship by .scoring ten times in a 16-0 victory! No fOftlkeeper can
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    50 15 ILji Cc defenders fall back and goalkeeper. Arumugam is seen gathering the ball L ik up ;i Marines aUatk in yesterday's Div. 1 Sing:apore Amateur Football league matctl at Jahin Besar stadium. Kok Seng (left) covers the llit ulul. llashim (second from right) covers a Marine attacker. Marines won 3-1
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    21 15 Police goalkeeper Arumugam makes a neat dive just in time to tap the ball round the goalpost.
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    304 15 MARINES WAIT FOR THE GOALS TO COME... And defeat almost came instead Marines 3; Police 1 VJARINKS made a mistake yesterday they i? 1 waited for the goals to come to them. ji ctniltl have proved a fatal policy. As it was Police were in the lead until the stith
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    166 15 FINAL SCORES: Combined Universities 110 and 310 for six, Australians 289 and 51 for one. THE unbeaten Australian cricketers, who wound up their tour of South Africa by drawing with Combined Universities in Cape Town yesterday, won 11 of the 19 first class games,
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    58 15 ARTHUR STEWART, lust year's South African amateur Rolf champion, broke the course record with j a flve-under-par 68 to lead after the first round it) the South African Open championship yesterday at i Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. Another South African amateur, Vemon B'uthin. shared second place
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    29 15 Hogan Bassey < Nigeria), world featherweight boxing champion, and Ricarrlo Moreno (Mexico) have signed contracts for a title fight in Los Angeles on April 1.- Reuter
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    293 16 Fly to Washington? Mr. K. is not afraid JJOVIET leader Nlkita Khrushchev declared in an interview published in Warsaw last night that he and Prime Minister Bulganin were not all aid of flying to Washington for a summit conference. He said the Soviet Union favoured a meeting oi foreign ministers
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    51 16 A BLACK-HAIRED, 18- beauty Is expected to replace Queen Soraya as tiio wile ol the Shah Of Persia, claimed the Italian magazine "Gentt" today, She Ifl Mn. i Man hit daughter of the Chieftain of the Mamirr tribe, accordIng to Oento's Tehf 1:111 rnr. respondent.
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    72 16 New Red surprises and soonhe says HITHERTO hard-drink-ing Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev toyed with one glass of champagne throughout a twohour reception held at the Danish Embassy in Moscow last night. As he refused to discuss summit talks, Western reporters asked if more Soviet scientific achievements were planned soon. Mr.
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    35 16 A U^nrV\ !imio l!r lfl pl:ms yesterday for a "self-con-•t ES* r °P fi m g^ n iK, te J ftlms and trashy movies'" delinquency lca< J v i »uvfin«l« Reuter
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    79 16 Jill Parsons from Bristol, England, and her fiance Mr. Ken Jones show Princess Lalla Fatim.i Zahara of Morocco the bridal gown which has gained them a fortnight's honeymoon in Morocco after their wedding in July. Jill, who designed the gown, is wearing it after being declared winner of a national
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    123 16 ■THE UNITED STATES mission to the United Nations has not been informed of the Soviet attitude towards any proposed resumption Of disarmament talks in the U.N., a Statement issued by the United States delegation .said yes(e rd ay. i 1 It
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    76 16 300 students nabbed after Paris riot More than 1.000 demons trating students shouting "Down with Fascism" fought with police in the student quarter in Paris last night. The students wore demonstrating against rival extreme ri-ht wing movements. Police charged, swinging their batons, to disperse them as they marched down a
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    108 16  - CHINA AS BRITAIN'S FRIEND CHO BY night. brOadc^ H Mr. Wilson the n,, Labour Party'?*! spokesman on affairs, was hls wcem uvo-jiou lU view with Mr choal lai, Chinese PrimeuJ and l-ore^g He told me," said Mr vi son. 'that it Britain NattoSii proper place in fhete nty Council and
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