The Singapore Free Press, 29 January 1954

Microfilm: NL2438
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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. No. *****, Singapore Fri., Jan. 29, 1954, Price 15 CU
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    RED SPY BOSS VANISHES
    358 1 Russian m a Tokyo mystery official of the Russian Diplomatic Mission m Tokyo, which has had no legal standing since Japan became a sovereign Power again m April, 1952, has disappeared under cloak-and-dagger circumstances. The Russians claim that Mr. Yuri Rastovorov, Second Secretary, is suffering from
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    Rivers threaten, wolves prowl, skaters die
    195 1 Rivers threaten, wolves prowl, skaters die WINTER STINGS HARD IN EUROPE QTOKIES of marauding wolves, ice-bound canal traffic, skating accidents, destruction of crops and power t uts flowed m from frost-bitten Europe last night. This was the "winter's tale' from some of Europe's capitals: PARIS: The frozen bodies of two
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    KOREA SESSION: THE 'NOES' MOUNT
    94 1 KOREA SESSION: THE 'NOES' MOUNT BRITAIN and France told the United Nations last night that it would be premature to reconvene the General Assembly on Feb. 9 to discuss the Korean question. They thus became the 15th and 16th countries to differ with India that the Assembly should be called
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    GIRL MOLESTED
    31 1 A 17-year old Singapore Chinese girl was mole.sted m a b.icklane m Seng Poh Road, Tions Bharu at noon yesterday by a Chinese who got away on a bicycle.
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    Identity parades for 9 suspects
    116 1 Free Press Staff Reporter V BLACK Morris Minor car seized by Singapore police yesterday m connection with the kidnapping of the millionMr. Lim Kok Gin has n sent to their laboratories t examination by the chief chemist The car is being scrutinised for paint and
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    Rubber price
    28 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened on a quiet tone this morning with first grade, February shipment at 54 2 cents a pound, one-eighth cent below yesterday's close.
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    Tenant fights with jewel robber
    176 1 Tenant fights with jewel robber Free Press Staff Reporter MINUTES after robbing a woman m a hou.se m TionK Bharu Road, Singapore, this morning, a man armed with a knife was tackled by the chief tenant of the hou.se, and arrested. The woman, Miss Lee Lee Kheng left her room
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    HEMINGWAY AFTER THE CRASH
    86 1 and two days of African peril American novelist, Mr. Ernest Hemingway, and his wife, Mary feared dead after their plane crashed near .Mure hi son Fills m north-west Uganda last Saturday were rescued two days later. They were on a jungle jaunt by truck, hunting car,
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    Couple defy beating
    69 1 A Singapore tailor and hl» Wife defied five armed robbers. who entered their house m Gulega Road la.st night The men knocked iind three forced their wav m when the door was opened. The others stood outside, one with a chanijkol. After beating the man the robber
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    FILM POSTERS DOWN
    18 1 Berliners yesterday tore down placards announcing performances of the film "Five Minutes Past Twelve," Reuter
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    MERLE HOME AGAIN
    20 1 M» l rte Oberon. returned to Now York, yesterday afte r making a picture m Spain. U.P.
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    RUSSIA CALLS FOR DISARM TALKS
    355 2 RUSSIA CALLS FOR DISARM TALKS Molotov urges place for Communist China rE Soviet Foreign Minister Mr. Molotov, proposed last night to the Big Four Foreign Ministers m Berlin the calling of a world conference this year on general reduction of armaments. Hi.s resolution worded as though it had already been
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    The Rock: More clashes
    78 2 BARCELONA students staged a demonstration yesterday m sympathy with students of Madrid Unversity, who have resumed their studies after three days of clashes with the police m Madrid. Police broke up small groups of students m Barcelona who were on their way to the faculty of
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    RAILWAY STRIKE THREAT
    45 2 An official of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainme n announced yesterday that a strike would begin on Sunday against the Long Island railway which daily carries thousands of people to work In Ne w York. The dispute is over-working hours and pay.
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  • THIS STRANGE WORLD
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      Wolf-call sent mayor up tree
      72 2 SIGNOR Eucilio Barardinelli, Mayor of the little North Italian town of Monteferrante, spent a night m a tree with wolves howling below. He was travelling home along a lonely road on his motor scooter when he noticed what he thought were two dogs running behind.
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      Ate his words
      50 2 MR. Orhan Eralp, of the Turkish Ministry 0 Foreign Affairs, attended President Eisenhower's sumptuous State dinner for President Bayar of Turkey m Washington, but was so busy interpreting he had "no time to eat: 1 "It vxls so interesting** he said, "that 1 did not mind:* A.P.
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      Unnoticed
      45 2 AT Wilmington, North Carolina, T.S., a constable tried to serve an eviction notice on some tenants m a three- room frame house, bat no one was at home. When he returned later the house was jtone. Neighbours had no idea what happened to it.
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      Liquidated
      31 2 JAMES C. PIDGEON, of Memphis, v Tennessee, U.S. got a divorce be rause his bride "drank excessively and threatened him with a knife during the one day they lived together."
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      Strictly business
      51 2 ART students at Eindhoven. Holland, are anjn*y because the Van Abbe Museum is to pay MS 105,000 for a painting by the Spanish born Communist artist, Pa bio Picasso. They don't object to his politics, and admire his work, but ure annoyed because competent Dutch artists have been
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    STRIKE IN PARIS
    25 2 The Socialist Force Ouvriere Trade Union yesterday called out their members m the Paris public transport services for a 24-hour strike today.
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    'PERSECUTION' OF NUNN MAY'S WIFE
    139 2 'PERSECUTION' OF NUNN MAY'S WIFE A FORMER mayor of Cambridge. England, called on Wednesday night for the dismissal of atom-scientist Alan Nunn May's wife from her post as Assistant Schools' Medical Officer for the country. His action drew an immediate storm of protest. The independent Daily Express termed it "a
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    U.S. MAY BUY MORE RUBBER GRADES
    157 2 UNITED States Government officials met m Washington yesterday to di.scu.ss industry proposals for changes m the natural rubber stockpile programme. The proposals, made by a sixmember of manufacturers and trade representatives call for some changes m the ultimate composition- -in grade -ox the nuturaj
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    EDEN: CUT THE CACKLE & GET TO BUSINESS
    233 2 EDEN: CUT THE CACKLE GET TO BUSINESS BRITAIN'S Foreign Minister, Mr. Anthony Eden asked the Berlin conference yesterday to break off useless debate on the question of five-power talks and get down to the immediate business of Germany and Austria. Mr. Eden, anxious as anyone else for a solution of
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    THE WARNING DRUM
    44 3 lnchj Os'ian >>ii Kechot. i Radin Mas kampong leader, with a mosque drum which will be used to call out the kampong folk m an eirergency at night. Below: Members of the patrol squad ffet rpadv to go out on rounds.
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    Strike-hit Karachi carries on
    69 3 Strike-hit Karachi carries on aLL services m Karachi's A strike affected port will be maintained, a port administration spokesman said m Karachi last night. There may be some delay m unloading but there is no need to divert shipping to other ports. he added. Troops were unloading ships and naval
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    QUAKE IN MEXICO
    17 3 The Government Seismological Observatory recorded an uthquake yesterday about 200 miles from Mexico City.
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    Commons 'given rosy picture'
    318 3 WOMEN'S COUNCIL AMAZED AIKMBERS of the Singapore Council of Women were k surprised at the "one-sided and ill-informed" answers ffiven to the House of Commons on Wednesday to questions on marriage and divorce laws m Malaya. The House of Commons was completely misled. The Minister oueht
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    Half Britain under ice— the sea too was frozen
    141 3 THE bi^ freeze tightened Its grip on Bri 4 ;iin yesterd Temperatures dropped i lower and London was to freezing point for nearly hours. Afternoon temp* terday wese 26 d< re< I ihrenheif It was much colder m other parts of
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    Hypnotic robbers are foiled
    465 3  -  SIT YIN FONG YOUTH PATROLS IN KAMPONG By g>OBBERS, supposedly using an hypnotic power called pukau m Malay, were terrorising people m the 200--house kampong of Kadin Mas m Singapore, until a strong-arm vigilance squad was formed. All-night patrols have been started and now there are
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    POPE BETTER
    19 3 Pope Pius XII who has been indisposed, was reported much better yesterday by the Vatican Press Office.
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    PILOTS TOLD: HEED THAT BAN ON FIREWORKS
    109 3 f MYIL i r.:i pi] »tl .inri "IH- :U i urned m Loodon > fi r la I ilnst f-arryinaj xpl" Ivea and <>rhe r "dan ctou f 4< >fi m i rcraft Thi Ministry ol Civil ATlation m ;t itatem< nt flr^w
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    LIBERAL TOO
    29 3 President Eisenhower said .-if (ay m Washington that his Administration ll both liberal ;tnd conservative -liberal toward human beings and conservative m handling economic Affairs. A. P.
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      141 3 AVOSET^, real rich m&.^. *l whipped cretim &FjjTf!m Q How ,1 AVOSET us. d> fltll O* fIA Ans Wh 'P AVOSET nd fhvour wit^i %ui?ir Waf J_^_^ .md v.inilli |u-.t r. you would ordin.iry whipping cream. But notice the difference! AVOSET always whips whips quickly stays whipped for hours f
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      Opinion
      442 4 NO JURIES FK)H the past two days the Federal Legislative Council has not merely been debating the wisdom or folly of introducing trial by jury m the Malay States. It has m effect been ennaned m a searching examination of the moral and mental libre of the population. The
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    Bores are Such Hot Stuff
    753 4 BERNARD WICKSTEED The Fun-Finding-Out man who has found himself m hot water during the royal tour, goes seeking hotter water today WELLINGTON. O\E of the projects that has interested the Duke of Edinburgh m New Zealand Is that geothermal bore. And before we 140 any
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      28 4 VALUE QUALITY High Best ENGAGEMENT RINGS Choose a Ring you will be proud of all your life P. H. HENDRY Jewellers 78. North BrMfc Kd Singapore K. Lumpur
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    Tree exhales fumes of death
    537 5 Tree exhales fumes of death THE TALL TERROR OF THE JUNGLE- ree Press Staff Reporter I Hi: DARTS from a Sakai blowpipe that killed a Communist teror ist m the Federation this week were tipped ith one of the deadliest poisons known to man, Prince .!<>"" Loewenstein, urator of Anthropology
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    KIDNAPPERS? I HAVE NO FEAR, HE SAYS
    386 5 Millionaire tells of 4 men m a car Free Press Staff Reporter CIXGAPORE millionaire, Mr. Lee Khong Thar yesterday said he was "not afraid" of kidnappers, thoWh he thinks, they were after him last Monday. Fiftyish plump and jovial Mr. Lee, a member
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    SQUARE DANCE CLUB NAMES COMMITTEE
    69 5 At the annual meeting of the Y.W.C.A. Square Dance Club held this week, the following were elected office-bearers for the year: President: Mr. Chua Peng Eng, vice-president: Mr. V. Rajaratnam, hon. secretary: Mr Othman Nayah, hon. treasurer: Miss Chua Geok Kirn (re-elected*, committee: Miss Wendy
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    64 5 mill: Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, inspected a two-storey type of low -cost house designed by the mprovenunt Trust at Ko am Ayer Lune. Singapore jresUrfcy. Picture show* Sir John, the president of the City Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeke and the ADC to the Governor, M-( mdr.
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    New water plan: Who will pay?
    178 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THOUGH the Singapore Government has refused to pay the cost of supplying the Colony with flouridated water, the City Council is determined to find some means of pushir^ ahead with the scheme. And when the Public Utilities Committee meets next
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    THE TRIAD IS NOW A TRINITY
    112 5 THE TRIAD IS NOW A TRINITY A>] thfl i>re- ne wuvf In Bingapo the f i number ol indlai i and Malaya v.ith the '11. ii .-err* at I ties, Aid -i spokesman tne Chinese (Secretariat yesterday. Fur the most part they ire local-born toughs bavin > connection whatever old
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    497 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR f><>KN TODAY m keen and pen, Dt Ur a and have the rift „t them m dranuUe T^ which draws a Zy. A Sa piuu g onist ai id;"<you can become an 4Use -sset. You have th, mix with many vani,* l of people. Although \ou notbe
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    IN LIGHTER VEIN
    60 6 She: "What's parcel?" He: "Guess: it's sometl for the one I love b< ■> the world." She: "Oh! been buy! self more cigars'.'" She (angrily): "You marry a rook." He (Idly): "No, i r< out long ago." Lodger: "Here*; breakfast to ask a [r Imi you lay
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      186 6 MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis YOU HAVE HYPNOTIZED THREE J I WAKE UP f CARMA. I *//j OH- I WAKE UP, liUh-I(* Uh L ,-x r 1 PEOPL£,BEAM. RELEASE r-fL I 'J \m BtAM.' BOTH J WHAT EBENEZERr^ I DQW^'.&^M. J jr^>. THEM ATOMCE/ r YES.
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    UP AND UP to help a couse
    46 7 UP AND UP to help a couse Actress Charlotte Austin mounts a ladder on an oldfashioned fife truck to call your attention to the fact that only people can stop fires. Charlotte will soon be seen m 20th. Century Fox' Cinemascope "How to marry a millionaire."
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    SO DEAR AFTER A GAME
    116 7 SO DEAR AFTER A GAME 4 MAJOR who came from Wales for the international Twickenham was followed at midnight by a suspicious ol iceman to his London hotel. challenged he produced rom under his coat a partly 'token "NO WAITING street ■n. vaa taking it to show the s at
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    Girl found dead
    30 7 Police are investigating the ath of an 18-year-oid girl, i Barnett, who was found ■ently m the gas-filled kitchen her home at Bank Chambers, ithroad, Hounslow, Middlesex.
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    Break blacks out a hospital
    45 7 Nurses brought candles into the wards at St. Clements Hospital. Bow, and publicans served early customers by oil lamps and candle light when an electricity breakdown blacked out a wide area of Bow and Poplar recently for nearly 45 minutes.
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    The volunteers
    25 7 In an effort to cut down undergraduate suicides, freshmen at Oriel College, Oxford, are being asked to take psychological tests. Thirty have volunteered.
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    PICTURES PUZZLE AT GIRLS' SCHOOL
    127 7 SEVEN HUNDRED pictures. found m a brown-paper parcel m the grounds of a girto school, were brin- rhecknd for fingerprints by Crawley (Bu«ex) police recently. p With the pictures wu B quantity of correspondence. The parcel was found under a bush by Mr. James Burgess,
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    The unrepentant capitalist
    78 7 VJIR ERNEST BENN, publisher < m d unrepentant capitadied recently, aged 78 himself he said: lam a sueto! capitalist. My income 10,000 a year. I challenge >ne to show that I am not entitled to it. Of politics: The highest form of the .science 01 double-crossing. Of
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    DETECTIVES QUIZ DANCE COUPLES
    444 7 DETECTIVES QUIZ DANCE COUPLES Between waltzes DENEATH mirrored chandeliers m the soft-lit Savoy ballroom at Coventry recently detectives on a nurder hunt mingled with couples practising the steps )f old-fashioned dances. At intervals between valetas j and gay. swinging waltzes plainclothes men questioned dancers who knew 43-year-old Mrs Penelope Mogano
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    The missing landlords
    85 7 Powers to deal with owners of slurr properties who vanish will be Included In the Housing (Repairs and Rents i Bill. Mr. Harola Maomillan. the Housing Minister, told the Commons recently Coloned M. Lipton (Boc., Brixton» had asked: Is the Mim.st.-i aware that action Is urgentlj required
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    An Island has Day of 'Openings'
    584 8  - An Island has Day of 'Openings' PETER de CRUZ Story by POR the 5,000 islanders of Pulau Tekong. about three and a half miles of!" Chan^i Point, last Sunday was a red letter day. That day marked a milestone m the development of the island. Despite heavy rain, people from
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    THIS IS THE 'BIG CITY'
    126 9 Kampong Sclabm seen from the jetty and (right) the Oi W a h Chin. School which I-. built of plank «md zinc. /c: Mr. John Laycock, accompanied by <imaster Inche Hamid bin Omar, walks through the guard of honour of vrhoolchildren after opening the school.
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    Love poems to a boy of 15 written by 40-year-old wife
    412 10 SHE SAYS: I HANG MY HEAD IN SHAME ASEVKNTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy admitted he tried to poison himself because he had lost the love of a married woman aged 42. Keith Austin Morris, it was at Frome, Somerset, magistrates' court, was
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    Peer's daughter wins decree
    69 10 THE adopted daughter of the late Lord and Lidy Leconfield. Mrs. Elizabeth Geraldine Bethell-Fox, of Ridge House, Bury Gate, Pulborough, Sussex t was granted a decree nisi m the Divorce Court against Major Paul Edwird BethellFox, of Duke-street, London, because of his adultery with a woman
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    Errand boy robbed
    29 10 A bag with £103 was .snatched from 16-year-old errand boy Frederick Walker as he was cycling on a Southampton bank recently. The thief escaped by car
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    THE 6 OZ EGG
    22 10 A hen has laid an egg ten inches round and weighing more than G oes. at Beeston. Notts
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    SCHOOLBOY LECTURES TO 200 EXPERTS
    300 10 SCHOOLBOY LECTURES TO 200 EXPERTS IjiOß ten minutes 13-year-old Mark Hassull held the attention of 200 grown-up .specialists at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House. He had made what Miss joce- lyn Toynbee, Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University, said was probably a unique discovery." It Ls small Roman mouk".
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    Frightened man turns back ocean airliner
    153 10 Frightened man turns back ocean airliner A FRIGHTENED man forced an airliner to turn back to New York when it was 300 miles over the Atlantic. The man. Joseph Bassis a 52-year-old Greek refugee was going home to see his family. Bassis leaped from his seat 50 minutes after a
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    Whale blown up
    45 10 A four-ton dead whale washed up on Langdon Beach. Wembury. near Plymouth, was disposed of recently—by a Naval demolition squad. In five hours' operations a squad from Devonport used more than 201 b. of plastic dynamite to blow the whale to pieces.
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    MARGARET LOCKWOOD CONQUERS
    223 10 TV MARGARET LOCK WOOD, first woman to take the chair m a TV panel came, not only scored a great personal triumph m "Down You Go"; she set a standard which TV's chairmen will find hard to heat Despite her long experience m front of cameras, Miss
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    Boy on skates killed
    20 10 Raymond Ralph, aged 12, roller skating m Dollis Hill-lane. Willesden, recently, was killed by a car.
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    They Catch Fish With Music
    530 11  - They Catch Fish With Music ANKARA. BLACK SEA dolphins are the latest victims of the cold war. Victims too, sometimes, are the Turkish fishermen who go too near Soviet boats and are greeted with bursts of machine-gun fire. Some rash Turks have been taken prisoner and nothing < re has
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    Bridge Talk
    439 11 IN MI. DEFENCE and competitive bidding, the matter ii vulnera•l ureat importance. The known rule— that, it is worth a point penalty to save an oppogame—is not entirely accurate. A worth 500 if the opponents vulnerable. Hence, with equal vulnerability both or neither vulnerable) em our bi(lciin«_i so
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    Happy Hollywood family
    189 11 dolphin, for each measures six to eight feet m length. For such a catch, every man of those fifty fishers would receive as much for his day's work a.s a high-grade Turkish civil .servant would receive m six months. The dolphin is an age-old .symbol of agility
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      RECLAIM SPACE FROM DRAINS
      195 12 f WHOLE-HEARTEDLY concur with what "Tanglin Toff 91 has to say about the Singapore traffic hugging the centre of the road to avoid pedestrians who have been driven from their rightful place, the five-foot-way, by people who are putting it to other uses. i lit mentions
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      Kallang airport at it again
      136 12 Kallang airport at it again IVE GOT A GROUSE m fact I feel like screaming! it's about the barrier on Mount button Road. I don't mind being held up at this barrier for a piano to land or take off it usually takes throe minutes. But my biood boils when
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      PLAY THE GAME
      86 12 Letters must be short IT is hitih time Singapore sportsmen overseas learnt to take success like gentlemen and defeat like men Recently our swimmers and boxers m Australia gave excuses for their defeat. To excuse themselves, they only accuse themselves of belittling the i victors' laurels Come
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      STREET SONGS OF S'PORE
      73 12 STREET SONGS OF S'PORE NOT a grouse, just something that may interest your readers. Yesterday, along New Bridge Road. I passed a trishawrider cheerfully singing "Baa Baa Black Sheep." Reminds me of the pre-war days when half the ricksha pullers of Malaya made the "Isle of Capri" their theme song.
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      Any grouse?
      32 12 HAVE you a grouse? Have you a bright idea? Have you seen anything strange or unusual? Then write to the PRESSMAN and tell others about it m his POSTBAG— briefly.
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      Classical case of scientific muddle
      208 12 f HEARD from students of St. Anthony's Boys* School, 1 Singapore, that it is short of teachers. LiUlt year a teacher who was taking: science and Latin was transferred to St. Joseph's Institution and not replaced. But fortunately the boys were allowed to take the
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      34 12 pic- pital. THE RECENTLY elected French President, M. Rene Coty visited several Paris hospitals accompanied by his wife. Here they are seen making: friends with one of the babies m the Lariboisiere Hospital. A.P.
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      50 12 GNEOW ONG of Penanff pines for his five cats and a puppy because he cannot take them to the Greenlane Welfare Home to which he has been sent. He asked a Penang court to let him tike his pets. His request was refused. Gneow, 69, was on<v a Government clerk.
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      46 12 MR. WILLIAM F. CLARKE, (right), engineer m c-harße and Chief inspector of the boiler division of New York City's I)*' partmenl of Housing and BalldingS, hands a days assignment to Mr. l. lUwiuijj of Indonesia, who is Sfl i Technical Cooperation visit to the United States.
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      Can a meter lie?
      86 12 Can a meter lie? FAXIMETERB. it m ■•cannot be tampered yith am Inclined to luubt that after an experience last week M the flag went down, but |2 lore we hud gone 50 yards i l" North Bridge Road 20 went up again. By the t i] bad got to
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      EVASIVE
      47 12 THE Federation Government Is to spend 59.675 on legal costs involved In fighting tax evasion cases. Presumably the money goes to lawyers. I hope it is not impertinent to ask what the legal department Is doing. Cannot it conduct these proceedings MYSTIFIED. Johore Bahru. Taxed costs.
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      THROWING LIGHT ON DARK PLACES
      106 12 "I- HERE has been |TMi waste of 1 current m the City of S'po.e since the power sta'ion at P.'sir Panjang was opened. Why don i the City Council put up street lamps In lonely and d.trk places like TowneT Road? Recently there were n
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    Slim, Silken and Feminine
    377 13  -  DOROTHY ROE THE NEW SPRING FASHIONS IN NEW YORK ARE by NEW YORK. rfHE XEW L° OK m Ame can spring fashions is silken and feminine. was evident as New designers opened a led week of spring showings for 150 visiting fashion revealing what men will
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    97 13 Pho to. 54-year-old Marlene Dietrich, whose revealing gown caused a sensation recently at th c Sahara Hotel m Las Vegas, ISA. goes to the other extreme on her arrival m New York. She wore a black leather coverall under a white leather coat. But even this could not
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    A NEW GARMENT
    267 13 i^LAIRE McCARDELL, perenv/ nial advocate of casual comfort m women's fashions, adds another term to the U.S. fashion vocabulary. The author of such descriptions as "Leotard:' "Diaper Swim Suit" and "The Tent comes up now with "Nightshirt Sleeper" a versatile garment designed for plane travellers. Unbelted, the
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    113 13 PAGE FOR WOMEN •ii n. Ihu ye ir aii n I tin it- .h n hen hanging m the iSkirt.s ar- DO one Inch shorto than tho ol lust n, though the MifT i»nct i. Imperceptible In many collecUom The shortlived tnn .i T of knee length skirts I and
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    ARCHIE MOORE STARVED FOR THREE DAYS
    601 14  -  JACK CUDDY 'Now set me Marciano' From 4K( lI IK .MOORh, who starved himself into his most impressive victory on Wednesday ni^ht, declared yesterday: "I want a shot at Rocky .Marciano's heavy weight title as soon as possible. I can eat plenty while training
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    His other fight also settled
    96 14 MARITAL difficulties between light heavy weight champion Archie Moore and his wife were settled amicably on Wednesday less than five hours before he stepped into the rtef for his title bout with Joey Maxim. Moore*! attorney, Frank Iv Solomon, said he met with Mrs. Moore's
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    K.L. fight for Lim Kee Chan
    89 14 SINGAPORE'S Lim Kee Char, will fight Thep Vithool Of Thailand m a Chinese New Year boxing promotion next Friday m Kuala Lumpur. The bout us being billed a.s an eliminator for the Malayan featherweight title. The winner will meet Jagir Blnfti for thr title.
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    INDIAN SOCCER
    62 14 A sorcer match between the Rowil Air Force (Changi> and Indian Youngsters Sports will be played r.t Jalan Besar Stadium on Sunday at 5.15 p.m. for the Kanagasundram Cup m commemoration of India Republic Day. Mr. M. Gopala Menon, representative of the Government of India In Malaya will
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    The winners meet G.H.Q.
    68 14 photo. vahliw f b^ the Uh Batt:ilion M»l»9 RcfftaMßl m thfl Federation final of the erimnli i i k Si. <»nipetition against Malay Regiment Depot, on the HQ Malaya Bround m Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. The Depot fullbacks. Norizan and Tungku Hakim, are st»e« covering an
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    BROADSIDE TO BEAT BEST BET THIS TIME Gambar out
    1483 15  - BROADSIDE TO BEAT BEST BET THIS TIME Gambar out ALLAN LEWIS By i»K()ADSIDE second to Best Bet over one mile at the 'Tenanff Christmas-New Year meeting, and Best Bet, rho also took the Commissioner General's Cup at the lame meeting, will meet m the main race at Kuala I nnipur
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    Scratchings
    17 15 IjH)LLO\VING horses will not start tomorrow: Honolulu, Red Dust, Moulin Rouge, (iambar Melayu, Airmark and Snapdragon
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    Golden Dolphin best
    436 15 DEN DOLPHIN should be the iy'i best bet m the Cl. I. Div. over six furlongs, ran three m 36 yesterday, with r Gesture which with his reform he has won his last tarts is quite enough to tmpktM being promoted a class only 2 lb. less.
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    NO CARRUTHERS FIGHT
    182 16 NO CARRUTHERS FIGHT Songkitrat disappointed JIMMY CAKKITHERS, Australian holder "of the world bantamweight boxing championship, will not defend hi title against Siam's Chamrern Songkitrat m Bangkok m May after all. Carruthers has got to back to hospital on Sunday for further treatment for tape worm. The cnamplon's trainer. Bill MeConnell
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    Knock Hard top weight in 'National
    334 16 KNOCK HARD was assigned a .--ad of 173 Ib. yesterday to carry m the March 27 Grand National steeplechase an impost aU but impossible to carry to victory over Aintree's ki lint? course. Shoud Mrs. M. H. Keigh's Irish hunter win under that much
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    Skipper out
    52 16 pHULAM AHMED. India's off gpfantr and captain of the team which beat the Commonwealth m the fourth Test recently, will not play m the filth Test, due to begin at Lucknow tomorrow. He i.s not m a position to leave Hyderabad because of his wife's Illness, he said
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    Bataan kayoed by Jap champ
    42 16 ORIENTAL featherweight champion Shigeji Kaneko of Japan knocked out Larry Bataan of the Philippines m the fifth round of a return bout m Tokyo last niffht. Kaneko took the title from Bataan at Osaka on December 6.
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    GOLFER OF YEAR
    32 16 TOE CARR, the Irish polfer who won the British amateur golf championship last May, has been voted Golfer of the Year" for 1953 by the Association of British Golfwriters.
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    SPY BOSS VANISHES
    201 16 (Continued from Page 1) service and one of its secret units rould now l>«- holding the Russian. The Japanese Foreipn Office said Mr. Rastovorov would bo given plum if he asked. A member Of the Russian Mission told KyodO he did not believe 'p<>litica] motives" were involved
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    Tennis veteran in semi-finals
    145 16 JOHN Bromwich, former Australian Davis Cup player, yesterday reached the semi-finals of the Australian lawn tennis singles championship, an event he first won m 1939. Other semi-finalists all Aus-tr.-.ians—are Mervyn Rose, Rex Hartwig and Ken Rosewall Bromwich, who is 35 and one of the few prewar
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    Pirie not for U.S.
    116 16 A BRITISH paiM( A come to the >Jd tain's flounderiim ,thi/i and saved Gordon p M r noing to America Distance runner 1',,,,. accepted a salesman, n a paint firm p| Us lM mobile and beginning March 1 vull i time he needs to train and
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    PEP-UP PILLS TESTED ON U.K. SPORTSMEN
    175 16 SMALL brown tablets which seem to boost human endurance are being tested on 100 leading British athletes. The trials, which have been m progress for two months, are being carried out by a wellknown Harley Street doctor who is a former champion halfmiler. "Results
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    International rugby match is called off
    77 16 THE Rugby Union international match between Wales and Scotland due to be played at Swansea tomorrow has been postponed owing to severe weather conditions. It was found yesterday that frost had penetrated the straw covering of the playing area. Rugby Union officials said last
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    RUGBY BROADCAST
    48 16 Tho BBC. will broadcast commentaries on tomorrows Encland v All Blacks rugby match from 945 p.m. to 11.35 p.m. (Malayan t ime > on the following; wavelengths: 9.45 11.35 p.m.. 12.095 me/l (24.80 metres); 9.45—11.35 p.m. 9.51 mc/s (31.35 metres): 10.40—11.35 p.m. 9.41 mc/s (31.88 metresi.— Reuter
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      9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday. Jan. 29, 1954.
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      Came on a holiday ...stayed 41 years
      1449 1  -  Allan L ewis Htubo Killvtl sai/s tftunl-hfiv lift ii'HKN MR. RUBE BlL- LETT leaves Malaya next month he severs a 41 -year connection with Malayan racing. His departure leaves Neal Hobbs, Van Breukelen, H. Sleigh, Milton Sullivan and Lt.-Col. T. L. Fox as
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      HORSES CLASS ONE
      10438 2 FOLLOWING arc the horses entered for the Sclangor Turf Club's Jan. Feb. Gold Cup Meeting. HORSES CLASS 1. lOELAIDC STAB st'Bvn hi i» t-y 1 r.u f. M I. I Ml, l' Ml CI c ..i r. toml \\(i\. I cdi 25-11-5J Spot. K-3 tih iWhl U'v
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      'Old trainers never die'
      905 8 (Continued from Fige 1) Fenn, George Lewis. BUI Redfern, George Magill, Snowy Marland and though not a trainer at the time of his death George Redfern. Bertie Kirwan and Phil Logue are still alive m Australia. For many years Jack Duval trained exclusively for the late
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