The Singapore Free Press, 25 January 1955

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  • 21 1 The Singapore Free Press ar ,^i Afternoon Sale m Malaya „«r^ Turv. Jan. 25. 1955. Prke 15 tts V0 Stags*** lur
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  • 97 1 Many may be trapped N M ,!,,5i,... m the Zonguldak mine on ,i, Hl uk Sea coast of Turkey yes- v SIM about 40 underground Sers. M any '"ore may still be trapp,'il Estimates of the number of missing rom three to 150 but mine
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  • 23 1 of Cambodia a new cabinet r Leng Ngeth signation of .ment on rendum will 7 to gauge towards Reuter
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  • 20 1 len and two women mbed last night fcage ol the detrain which the Engtown of Sutton. Reuter
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  • 101 1 Burma hunt for train wrecking master mind BURMESE troops have begun a full sv ale assault into the jungle against a rebel army commanded by Bo Soe nicknamed "The Master Train wrecker' for his dynamite attacks on trains and stations. Supported by planes and artillery the troops are advancing on
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  • 91 1 I i has deported another Chinese national s of subversive activity according to an News Agency report from Jakarta. The agency said that the Minister of Justice. Mr. Djody Gondokusumo confirmed the deportation of Chu Chang Tung. No details were given. Meanwhile a Red China news
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  • 50 1 TITO 'S FORMER FRIENDS SENTENCED >> IWILAS and VladiDedijer, former Corners In Yugoslavia Igrade yesterday senile and half years nths' conditional lmne nt respectively for stile propaganda, entence means that w i» not go to prison commits another ta three years and jM not go to prison -commits an offence
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  • 22 1 Ho Thong Mm. South Wence Minister, ar- Manila last night H °gB Kong for thrle- with President Reuter
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  • 93 1 fIIWO police officers wt rr 1 convicted by a Kenya Supreme Court judge yesterday for assaulting Sir Henry Dalrymple-White at a Kikuyu guard post m a South Nyeri Reserve last month. The two men, former Chief Inspector Richard Crosby Kerry, 37, and Inspector Har-
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  • 474 1 IKE SEEKS U.S. ARMED AID FOR CHIANG PRESIDENT Elaenhower yesterday asked Congress for authority to use American armed forces, if necessary, to assure the security of Formosa and the Pescadores. He said that American armed forces would be necessary to help withdraw and redeploy the Chinese Nationalist forces now scattered
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  • 71 1 RED CHINA'S Premier and Foreign Minister, Mr. Chou F.n-lai yesterday warned the United States against intervention m her liberation of Formosa. 'The Government of the People's Republic of China has declared to the world that the Chinese people are determined to liberate their own territory
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  • 129 1 BRITAIN HAILS IKE'S PLAN OFFICIALS m London yesterciav welcomed President Eisenhower's call to end the fighting between the Communist and Nationalist Chinese. Pacification of this Far Eastern area is regarded by Britain as the first objective m ensuring world peace. Britain and New Zealand are expected to join the United
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  • 62 1 Three Japanese fishing boats operating m the East China Sea wen reported yesterday to have been warned by a Chinese 1 Communist gunboat M not to operate m waters where any islands are visible." The gunboat released the vessels with final instructions that
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  • 168 2 U.S. admiral tells inililur\ school ADMIRAL Robert Carney, chief of u.aS. Naval Operations, nid In Charleston. BouUl Carolina .-'day that Russia is developing lii v. weapnew uses "1 weapon, and constantly trengthening her armed forces. The threat from international Communism, he added, was as
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  • 11 2 REVOLT BY RED ARMY IS THE ONLY HOPE hgfhhfhf A .P.
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  • 172 2 rpilF NICARAGUAN President. Mr. Anastasio Somoza, A said m Managua yesterday he was .sending troops to the Costa Rican border to meet a very dangerous situation following the abolishing of the six-mile buffer zone between the two countries. He -said he had agreed reluctantly to abolishing
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  • 37 2 Crash!— and the two Cyril Whites met Mr. Cyril White of Leeds and Mr. Cyril White of Wetwang. 60 miles away, met for the first time 1 when their cars collided m thick fog near Driffield. Yorkshire.
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  • 163 2 One more obstacle and then m RICHARD Lim, Johore Bah- I ru'.s bespectacled 17-year-old chess marvel, has high hopes of clashing with the Indonesian champion, Mr. B. Hutagalung, m the Dutch Club Invitation Tournament now nearing Its final stages. Richard has been impressed
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  • 133 2 rpiE report Ol the Rubber Producing Facilities Dis- posal Com mission to Congress, recommending the transfer of the bulk of the Government's synthetic rubber plants to private industry, was hailed yesterday by South-East Asian rubber producers. Mr H. C Bugbi c, pr(
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  • 28 2 Two Canadian Air Force planes crashed within 12 houn Ol each other m Manitoba and Alberts 011 Satuninv Ullincr all six men aboard. U.P.
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  • 72 2 KREMLIN MEDALS FOR 4 'DEVOTED' AMBASSADORS MR. Jacob Malik, the Soviet Ambassador to Britain, and three other Soviet Ambassadors, were decorated for long and devoted diplomatic service at a ceremony m the Kremlin yesterday. The others were Mr. Sergei Vinogrodov, Ambassador to France, Mr. Zarubin. Ambassador to the United States,
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  • 18 2 Italy's Premier Mario Scelba will visit the United States late m March. A. P.
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  • 79 2 'WHISKERS' IS SAVED FROM THE GALLOWS All CIII AL Onufn I k. "'white bearded Polish farmer and war hero was :eved yesterday two days re he was due to go to th? gallows for murdering a compatriot on their lonely h farm. Onufrsjcsyk, known locally as Mr. Whiskers," will instead
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  • 97 2 Veronique flies off with Greg pBBGOBY Peck and a vf pretty I French woman he has been escorting about Paris, boarded a Scandinavian Airlines plane last night bound for Copenhagen and over the Arctic to Los Angeles. The 38-year-old American actor has been holidaying m Paris after working 26 weeks
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  • 26 2 Western residents m Moscow saw and heard repeated Jet fighter flights over the capital last night. Such an aerial display is unusual. A.P.
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  • 73 3 E These four charm- E ins Chinese girls de- E cided that a stroll E through the park E E would do them good Eon New Year's Day. E i A Free Press camera- E man caught them m E high spirits at Bota-
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  • 61 3 FASCISTS TO CONTEST LAMBETH SiD MOSLEY.j I Britain's Fascist tit announced hi.s party will month's municiin London's n with a racial ti n programme. n candidates will lection to Lamcouncil, Mosley hrer J.OOO coloured peoWest Indians, live •rough. The :hree Union candian to conduct a earning the Consertiment for allowIndians
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  • 25 3 i Colman, elder 3i Jen miah Colman, tard magnate, is to Judith William- daughter of Sir Peveril WiiGovernor of Rhod< ia.— Reuter
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  • 17 3 v Shawcross. Blister and labour M.P.. m appendix opera Crowboroußh. Sussex. I IV R euter
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  • 80 3 Thrill-killers are gaoled for life TWO TEEN-AGE "thrill kil- j lers" were sentenced to life imprisonment m New York yesterday after being convicted of the torture-mur- j der of a 34-year-old man. The Kings County judge, Mr. Hyman Barshay. took into consideration the jury's re-, commendation of mercy m sentencing
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  • 24 3 Indonesia and Australia have agreed to raise their Legations m the respective capitals to Embassies, it was officially announced m Jakarta yesterday
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  • 145 3 ■•■.OLOGISTS. search-, early clvillsaUons, l ?d what is believed to s ite Of the oldest pre-, tge yet discovered. j before 0000 B.C. •v of Chicago said site was uncovered at 1 miles east of l n north-eastern Iraq. the Persian border wyedtion ol
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  • 149 3 30 HELD IN SWOOP OA LOMJLY VILLA DERSIAN securitj forces arretted about Si people yesterdaj after finding a cache of 12,000 grenades, some hidden m dumim walls, others m the cellar, at a lonely villa three miles north of Teheran. A woman caretaker at the
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  • 36 3 A million pounds (weight) of American butter arrived In the Yugoslav port oi Rijeka yesterday. It Ls part of American Red Cross aid for Yugoslavs who suffered In last v< floods. A.P.
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  • 127 3 Katherinf, Hepburn, the Hollywood film star who has bt rything from a great actn to a temperamental snob, is to tour Australia for six months starting m May, playing Shakespearean comedy Miss Hepburn has been signed by the old Vie Trust for the roles of
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  • 65 3 Miss Carol Lee Ladd, daughter of film actor Alan Ladd. and actor Dick Anderson honeymooned at an undls- closed location yesterday following their lavish marriage I at the home of the bride's i parents at Hollywood. Ladd Rave away the 21-year- old bride at the star-studded
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  • 263 4 The Signapore Free Press TUESDAY, Jan. 25. 1955. The way to self-rule rjELF-RTJLE by evolu- tiotl, not revolution. I Mr. C. C. Tan's contention and he rightly condemns the terrorists for seeking to Rain political advancement by force. Many countries have gained independence by revolution but their circumstances were ver\
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  • 784 4 is it PEACE or PANDEMONIUM? A priest with a flair for politics. Fluent m English, he refuses to speak it to Britons and uses an interpreter (whose translations he corrects). His influence, already potent, may yet loom larger m the Near East. ||E CLAIMS he 11 not. 11 personally inti-Bri-ii.
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  • 103 4 WHAT will be the world's longest airstrip ten miles m all Is being built at a U.S. Air Force base "somewhere m California." The base is at present being used for rocket research and •flights'' of 1.500 miles an hour are everyday occurences. One of nine research and
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  • 47 5 Bishop on lour visits Tanglin picture 4 GBOUF photograph t ikes during the visit 0 lord Bishop Suffragan „f Willesden (Lohd< I (he Kt. Rev. Gerald Alex ison at thc Tanglin Church. Singapore. The Ri.shop is on a tour if tb.- Fst East service iinitv Free Press
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  • 156 5 IMRST prize m the lottery was a saloon car. It was delivered to the Joseph Leigh.v They then asked a judge to settle their dispute: who owned the car— husband or wife? But the judge told them: Settle it yourselves. This lottery wa 5 plainly
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  • 27 5 inds have kept many ng fishermen ashore durthe past week. Keep dust oif the oads, lunicipal carta water the •wn's main throughfares morning.
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  • 244 5 Music from Kenya upset the people in 'Penrith' mHE family m the house 1 called "Penrith" kept a timetable of the music coming from the house called Kenya next door. In 44 days there was 99i hours of it. Music from a piano. Music from a violin. Music from a
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  • 191 5 TRUST FURTHER EASES RULES FOR GETTING FLATS rpHE Singapore Improvement Trust has furthei relaxed its rules for allocating flats. They concern family and income. The former rule limiting an applicant's family income to $600 a month has been amended. Now the emphasis is on individual income. According to the new
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  • 26 5 A public meeting to celebrate the Indian Republic Day will be held m the Boonga Tanjong Hall. New World. Singapore, tomorrow at 5 p.m.
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  • 29 5 Johore police Lieutenants S R. Follows and R. Wells have been transferred to No. 2 Police Field Force. Perak, and No. 6 Police Field Force. Pahang. respectively.
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  • 547 5 PASSENGERS expected to arrive m the P and O liner. Carthage which is due Singapore on February 2 «n Britain are as follows: Mr and Mrs. G. R Atkinson and Mrs. P. M. Brodie; Mr and A. H Bennett; Miss N. L. ntlebank; Mrs. A. C.
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  • 199 5 mere-road, Slough, one stroke on the buttocks because he ran m front of a woman teacher's car. Then Mr. Attock, father of I two children, added "There i was no question of any exces- slve violence. "It was a normal blow meant
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  • 21 5 The Singapore Police Band will play at King George V Park from 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on Thursday.
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  • 142 5 MORE babies are being born at home m Britain since a £3 <$26> home confinement grant started 18 months ago. Now as many babies are born at home as m hospitals or maternity homes. That is the same percentage aa before the war
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    • 664 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR |>ORN today. you have literary talents as well as the so-called "artistn temperament that goes with the creative thinker. Your imagination and wit are sharp and your moods aie fluctuating. One moment you are on the heights the next m the depths of despair. You have a
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    • 189 7 LONDON, Jan. 24. Previous Today ...itKiK no I BSS c.i.l. European 29 buyers 30>* buyers 29 "h .sellers 30 2 sellers „'kiukNo TrSS cJ.f. European 29 buyers 30 t buyers ..IK No. I 2g t seUers 30 2 seHers RrBBERNo JKSs'spot 29 buyers 30 buyers n runt
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    • 112 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Previous Today M\ Strait! spot and nearby 86 87 nom. 88 CO nom. ]I\ fntorci Jan. 86.50 bid 87.50 bid 87.25 asked 87.75 asked Fcb 86.50 bid 87.50 bid 87.25 asked 87.75 asked March: 86.50 bid 87 50 bid 87.25 asked 87.75 asked
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    • 43 7 q P~' N is quoted at 44 pfr !K)und. Afloats 43. ary shipment 43. February j 42 1 4. March 422. Sarawak spot 43 and lampong spot 44 cents per pound sellers ex-dock. V)ove prices quoted m U.S. cents per lb.
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    • 31 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Previous Today 1 Industrials 395.90 396.00 K.«'!<»aiis 140.91 141.19 Domestic Bonds 100.67 100 71 1 lI li»»* 62.86 62.80 Mocks Composite Averages 147.18 147.32
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    • 115 7 C OPRA Philippines cj.f. UK/North I.uropoan delivered weight per ,ln» Jan /Feb $1&7 sellers $200 buyers <nih\ Philippines f.o.b. Manila, J202 sellers delivered weight, per lon* ton unquoted unquoted COPRA straits c.i.f. UK/North Furopean delivered weight per long ton Jan./Feb £72 K buyers £73 buj'ers £73
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  • 143 7 NOW THOSE CLASSES CA\ CARRY ON yHE Education Finance Board has agreed to give Singapore Council for Adult x Education an interim grant of $100,000 to enable it to continue holding classes. The executive committee of the Council had been told that the grant
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  • 52 7 Swami Kundrakudi Adigalar, Indian religious leader, now visiting the Federation, will speak at a public meeting at the Chettiar Chambers H til. Sentul at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Swami Adiagalar will speak m Tamil. The agent for the Government of India. Mr P. Madhavan Nair. will speak
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  • 271 7 WIDOW WINS HER FIGHT TO CLEAR HUSBAND WAR widow Mrs. Louisa Rose Devine won an 11--year fight to prove her soldier husband was not a deserter. And with her victory came a pension plus possibly more than $8,500 back pay. Ever since the day m September, 1943, when 29-year-old Private
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  • 43 7 A motor cyclist, Kong Beng L'ng, fractured his leg m a collision with a car m front of the Chung Ling High School. Kampong Bahru, Penang yesterday morning. Kong, a tinsmith, spent the rest of New Year's Day Ln hos-
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  • 19 7 Canada will start to design this spring a small experimental atomic power plant to produce electricity.
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  • 92 7 Court awards $2,210 to ankle-shy girl A GIRL factory worker was awarded $2,210 damages and costs for an injury which prevents her showing her right ankle m high-heeled shoes. She could no longer enjoy dancing, Liverpool county court was told. Mrs. Henrietta Brennand, 28, trod on a piece of waste
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  • 132 7 A JUDGE said this of the' Rev Leslie Civil Baber: j is not. and never was. I to hold Holy Office. He is j J sexual maniac and the Jiuickcr he is out of the Church the better" Baber, ecclesiastical sectary of the Ely
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  • 36 8 Sari gives Ludmilla a lesson FAMOUS German singer Sari Barabbes (right) gives instructions to ballerina Ludmiiia Tehpiina who has the leadiaf part m the new Powell-Pressbuger film "Oh, Kosalinna." Sari is Ludmilla's "voice" m the film.
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  • 216 8 Nothing new m broadcast T'HE two broadcasts by Mrs. Margaret Knight on "Morals Without Religion" contained nothing new, said Dr. Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York. The Archbishop was preaching at Clifton Parish Church, York. He said that the broadcasts and the controversy which followed them had shown
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  • 226 8 She safely delivers sister LMFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Shirley Court will always re--1 member the day she brought Linda, her new baby sister into the world. Shirley has always wanted to be a nurse. Her chance camp at five m the morning, m the absence of the real
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  • 79 8 Young British soldiers m Germany must be given more places where they can meet "decent German girls," six touring M.P.s have decided. Leader of the group, Mr. William Paling (Socialist, Oewsbury) said: "The extra facilities I would like to see include clubs where the boys can
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  • 151 8 WASHINGTON'S bi« set ret is out! Phone MX .'{(ilia and a voice answers, leatral latelligeace Agency.** Until tod.v the reiee only repeated the number you dialled. Security, you know. Mustn't blab on the hush-hush outfit which is America's M1..",. The veil of secrecy was
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  • 42 8 picture. Reconciled ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and his wife, exQueen Alexandra, arrive m London for a short visit before going to America, where the former monarch is to give a series of lecture. The couple were reconciled m Switzerland. Reuter
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  • 10 8 Wife, mother, cook, gardener, dietician and publisher
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  • 395 8 airs, nelly hartmann, a silver-haired, 40-year-A?1 old mother of three children, has become Switzerland's most successful career woman, earning £5 000 a year by telling people how she runs her home and looks after her family. .She has turned her rosecoloured hillside villa, overlooking Lake Zurich,
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  • 342 8 Divided loyally in the kitchen A COURT heard about the shared kitchen that led tc divided loyalties m a family. Mr. William Maylor, of Church Road. Northolt, said at Brentford County Court that he had to choose between his mother and his wife. He was defendant m a claim for
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  • 53 8 CEEING 30 passengers waiting m a bus with no driver aboard, a man got m the cab and blew the horn— "just to give the driver a toot," he told Yeovil magistrates. His "extraordinarily stupid behaviour" cost him a fine of £3 lor entering the
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  • 40 8 A sweepstake which has brought Merthyr Tydfil football club £90 ($760) a week will be restarted on Saturday after being stopped on police orders. In its new form the sweep wil pay £30 ($258) a week m tax.
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  • 412 9 STUBBORN MISS HUE MADE A MILLION She wouldn't sell „.> up. "P soared the oil '.hares of the amazing HJM Hue. age unknown. sell Pleaded her No nS. no. little M, Hue said firmly. "I S to WOP them for senc: h n e a did aS0 And the stubAnd
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  • 222 9 THE first time the football burst it was regarded as just one of those things. Three more burst on Christmas Day That was too much. Sutton Bridge Football Club decided to act Their ground is m a park near their Lincolnshire village.
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  • 68 9 ROLF Holubars. a 21-year-old German deserter from the French Foreign Legion. was refused permission to land from the 1.570-ton British steamer Balkton at Bristol. He was captured at Dien Bien Phu, released after three months and deserted after being sent to North Africa on leave. He
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  • 40 9 picture HEAVY snowfall recently changed Hampstead Heath, London, to a veritable Paradise-for the children. Here the delighted youngsters make their way to the slope's top. m readiness for another, they hope, smooth descent. Reuter
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  • 165 9 A CLUB v was m v*u trouble recently because could not resign. P. Murray is secrel l >l the Dagenham Naval l J Essex, m name only. has no clubhouse and no mi mi The committee and other ".signed last April beeol licensing difficulties Ujt Mu
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  • 141 9 THE growing tendency to malinger was condemned hva health officer at a conference of psychologists at Chester. Dr. A. C. Crawford, of Warrington, said that the practice is far more prevalent than most people think. It means loss of money, indicates complete lack
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  • 36 9 A white, blue, and fawn canary cock bird, believed to be the only one of its Wfd m the world, is on show at the National Exhibition of Cage Birds, at Olympia, London.
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  • 195 9 IUIE Government plans a wholesale attack, backed with penalties, on television interference. Under new regulations housewives will have to fit suppressors to all home electrical appliances. Vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines, and electric sewing machines, food mixers, and any gadget using an electric motor will
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  • 313 9 Antiques gang strip empty mansions A DARING gang of specialists are stripping London*! empty mansions of antique furniture and fittings worth tens of thousands of pounds. And they are shipping the loot secretly to America. The specialists always work m daylight, dressed as plumbers, painters, furniture removers, or builders' merchants.
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  • Article, Illustration
    31 10 "The boys cue having one of these underwater /urn .shou's." (A preview of the film m Underwater WOk recently held m Hollywood and was viewed underwater by film critics wearing aqua-lungs
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  • 408 10  - Italians get HEADACHES learning to speak ENGLISH! JOHN WREN by i earning English is J the latest vogue m Italy. English is being taught by television as well as by radio. But and it is a big "but" the irregular pronunciation and spelling is driving many an Italian .student Lo
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  • 163 10 He 's "tops in the big league" A reader has sent a cutting from an American newspaper. It is a birthday tribute Can you guess, who II being congratulated. It reads: "You're the tops ln the big league, a fellow who can pitch catch, and pole em into the bleachers
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  • 6 10 picture. still atractinfn Reuter
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  • 179 10 if QVER quitt a large area of France the Brittany peninsular and western France almost half the population never goes to a cinema from one year's end to the other. This emerges from the latest study of the entertainments habits of 42 million Frenchmen, and it
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  • 244 10  - The oil will get there safer PIPE BY HPHE United States Army and Air Force are rushing completion of a 400-mile fuel pipeline extending across France from Donges, near St. Nazaire, to an eastern terminus near Metz. The pipeline, the most expensive single item of U.S. military construction m France,
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  • 612 11  - Mickey's got a whale of a story to film Michael Ruddy by MICKEY ROONEY will again try his hand as a director. I've bought a story, called 'The Composition' about a 12--year-old boy kept m after school to write a composition. When his teacher reads what he's written, she informs
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  • 259 11 Even a sweater doesn 't give John ideas ANYONE m the fan camp of he-mannish John Wayne knows he is not much lor any sort of 1 -dovoy tactics m his pictures but his est, The Sea Chase," 1 rks an amazing exion. In this one, the tall, ■cry star
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  • Article, Illustration
    52 11 Men an nen (and women are glad of it) m any country and photographers were quicke k to perch luscious young; IMra Paget on a handy file cabinet m front of a local map of thc Mexican countryside to get this picture when the star was on location for her
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  • 193 11 MAYBE the movie i ntors will eventually caU a halt on the hem, murder and asted brands of realis,Jt torture now overflow, ring even the most i hardened customv but there's no sign iuiy such thing m icnt Saturday/ a
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  • 502 12  - She doesn't care tor the life of a Premier's wife CARL HART MAN h IMIE wife of fr;ei(c's Premier is hiuhlv regarded as an official nostra bul privately she has some strong and interesting feelings on the duties that uo with her position. Here's a dose up of attractive, capable
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  • 244 12 SABLES, mink and ermine... These compose the workaday world of a bright-eyed little Frenchwoman, the widow of the last of the famous Revillon fur family. Two hundred years ago, four French brothers Theodore. Paul, Leon and Anatole Revillon founded a modest fur business m Paris which
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    42 12 picture The pertly pretty style of Regency days returns with "T^ady Patricia." LattteesJ effect to the underbrim is given by dainty net lace while on top i* a lar«e eabachon of white and Navy satin. The chin ttran i« aUa >.. ■asisw Reuter
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  • 223 12 GLASSES for GLAMOUR •THE old saying about 1 men not -making passes, et?., suffered a body blow with Marilyn Monroe's appearance as the astigmatic heroine of "How To Marry A Millionaire Many American girls as a result are now wearing spectacles of plain glass just to attract attention! A whole
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  • 265 13 4 MAJOR Hollywood ftlm company recently suffered a severe shock. It offered a ftlm contract to a personable blonde, with a guarantee that she would be rred" m her first picture. considering the proa full five minut bs Baby Lake politely said: "No. thank
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  • 122 13 The Masters' paintings were his reward fVNE show now on m Paris is really worth the fare from any country to see. it La a magnificent collection f'f paintings by van Gogh. Cezanne, Guillaumin, Plssarro and other great artists all shown m public for the first time. When these painters
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  • 495 13 North-South vulnerable West dealer A Q WEST AJ9B4 3 4 Q 2 9AKIO 64 <? 3 OAOKQ J 7 6 2 4109* X 6 5 4 SOUTH 9Q9 8 7 5 0 10 5 4 4JB 7 3 2 The bidding: ■IST NO»TH CAST SOUTH 1 Dbl. Redbl.
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  • 582 13  - His chateau brought him a load of problems SAM WHITE Rasputin plot survivor plans to live m the caretaker's lodge says IN a three-room mews A flat- and there is nothing "smart" about a Parisian mews flat I found Prince Felix YoussoupofT. He is 68 now; as a young officer
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    44 13 picture rieo slx-year-oW Alsatian, soon to start guard duties at the RAI Station Norton. Sheffield, is a tough customer, f-isi off the mark and when an "intruder" knocks over his rnard soon catches his man. Here he is being put through his paces. Popper
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    • 107 14 World's top A PERFECT TEAM horsemen thrill U.S. seing overlofjldfj ground at all, and passage, a stylish, high-stepping trot. Beat men The 33-year-old Mrs. Hartel has scored great success m her field In the 1952 Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, she outperformed 24 men to-win second place m the dressage
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    • 220 14 FERRARI driven by two Argentinians, Enrique Diaz Saenz Valient re and Jose Iban.v won the "City ol Buenos Aires 1,000 kilometres" inter- 1 national .>p<>rt.- car race, It was the first ♦vent counting toward- tin 1955 world sports <'ar championship. A disappointing entry of 25 faced
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    • 62 14 RAYMUNDO DEYRO I nded PellcUlmo Ampon'i 16-yeai reign t the Philippines when mighty mite n» ■be final i Manila's Meiropoli i hamplon hip t, I, I tThs n d thai tin Ampon now ol the ro who had entlj for tlie from No 2 p rung m
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    • 134 14 TURPiN TO FIGHT CHAMPION U'OR his first tight since la.st May. Randolph Turpin's opponent will be Ray Schmitt, the cruiser-weight champion nl Luxemburg. They will meet over 10 rounds at the Icedrome, Birmingham, on February 15. Schmitt, who is 25, one year younger than Turpin. has not fought m Britain.
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    • 67 14 Mike Hawthorn, the 25 yearold racing driver, has signed up to drive British Jaguar sports cars throughout the coming >n, He replaces Stirling Moss, who has gone over to the Ocr man Mercede team. In Grand i )rix race he will drive the new Vanwall .Special II
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    • 594 14 Doctors suggest new dress for Rugby PIN back your ears, you husky Rugby forwards. Yes, throw away your scrum caps and pin them back with sweat bands. This is one of the Rugby dress reforms advocated m this week's British Medical Journal— reforms which bring the English Rugby
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    • 15 14 Mr. Lob Hoot Yeang has been re-elected president of the Penang Ctuneoe Football Association.
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  • 123 15 picture. ABOVE: First trick (Hudson) winning the fifth race (Class 2, Div. 3— sf. straight) from I.indos (J. Do*, nelly) and Canterbury Bell (Povall) at Ipoh on Saturday. Fourth is Crown Link (McCloud), fifth Prince Ross (extreme left. Billy Bagby, and sixth Gondolino (Mortimer), on the
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  • 821 15 U'iTH the vital fourth Test due to begin m Adeliade on Friday the M.C.C.'s victory over South Australia al the same ground is a boost to England's chances of clinching the Ashes. 'CC completed a splendid double over South yesterday
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  • 190 15 S. AUSTRALIA— Ist. Inns. 185 M.C.C.-lst Inns. Edrk-h b Gregg 14 Gravenev c Favell b Gregg 21 Wilson lbw. Wilson 22 Wardle c I^angley b Gregg 7 Cowdrey b Wilson 64 ompton C Favell b Wilson 182 May b Horsnell 114 Bedser c UUsgtej b Horsnell 0 Andrew not
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  • 167 15 PERAK.S H. A. Mokhtur and Tajul Amur created a bi^ upse: erday when they defeated S. M. Omar and Shaari Abdullah of 8 to enter the doubles .semifinal of the fourth All-Malaya Malays badminton championships played at the Perak Turf Club courts, Ipoh. Mokhtar and
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  • 71 15 Chlharu Igaya of Japan registered the fastest time In the slalom event m the Victor Constant trophy race at Stowe, Vermont, but Martin Strolz of Austria won the combined award m the two-day meet. Igaya, Dartmouth's national sla- lorn champ, defeated Strolz by eight -tenths of
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  • 132 16 T!HE Japan Track and Field Federation is determined to win at least one gold medal m the Olympic Games at Melbourne next year after a dismal Showing at Helsinki m 1952 Tin Federation yesterday appointed Mikio Oda, former aVOrlrj record holder m the bop-step-and-JnmPi as
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  • 116 16 'TMIF.RE was anxiety m Brl bane yesterday when Australia's last bowler Ray Lindwall injured hia rlghl lev while batting for Queensland Queensland were 133 for six when Lindwall went m to bal Before he had cored he strained a calf iniiM'li when attempting to drive fast
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  • 110 16 tree tress sports Reporter Colony schoolboys have been invited by the Singapore Hockey Association to join the current coaching course m preparation for the Pakistan Olympic team's visit. The six schoolboys have joined the 29 senior players already undergoing training at the Singapore Recreation Club. They
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  • 20 16 Paignton beat Guys Hospital 8 6 m a Rußby Union match p!a-ed ai PaiL-nton. Devon veste:
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  • 36 16 Ray Rico of tiie Philliplnes will Mima pore by air .shortly to tight m Bangkok. He has signed to meet tlie No. 2 Siamese welterweight Nai Sam t! on February 20.
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  • 32 16 Belangor Rangers, holders of the P AS. Poppy Day Cup. will meet l BeJangor Indian Invitation XI for the 'Republic Day trophy on the Railway ground on Wednesday
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  • 131 16 IX)NY TRABFRT. often a shaky .starter m Australian tennis tournaments, had a narrow escape yesterday m the second round ol the Australian National Championships at Adelaide. Alter a had Start i ilnst big Australian left bander Neale Fraser, thc American Anally won 1-G, 3-6, 6 4. C-4.
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  • 120 16 At last! Stoke win marathon tie A GOAL m the la^t minute of extra time gave Stoke < lt> a 3-2 win over Bury yd tenia y to end a marathon third r Mind Football AsSQClati— Cup tie after nine hours TZ minutes of play. This is a record for
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  • 381 16 rpWO finals m the All-Malaya Malays tennis cham- pionships were decided yesterday m Kuala Lumpur. Shaharin Osman of Singapore won the junior singles and 1 Perak combination took the veterans doubles title. The ties were played on the Sultan Suleiman courts. H. Khamis and I.
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