The Singapore Free Press, 29 January 1955

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  • 21 1 The Singapore Free Press i ingest Afternoon Sale m Malaya it U.S. Sine*por e Sal.. Jan. 29. 19:>5. Price If. its
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  • 346 1 APPLEYARD DISMISSES BENAUD FOR 15 pNGI \NDS pace attack of Ya Tyson and Statham failed trouble the Australians n the fourth Test was resumed at Adelaide this mornwith the Australian overs at 16f for four itton allowed the speed men three overs each and then D Wardle and App.yThe England
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  • 40 1 AUSTRALIA 175 for 5. Morris c Kvans b Tyson 25 McDonald c May h Appleyard 48 b Tyson 18 Harm c Edriek b i;.iiit*\ 25 Miller not out 36 Hdi nu I caught May, b Appleyard 15 F\lra> 7.
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  • 28 1 Japanese Premier, Mr. Ichiro a jna, confirmed last He had received a Soviet rnmenl Note expressing "JfOMtre for normal relations Japan. He said taTks ••on. U.P.
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  • 21 1 General S M one of the" first ndians to K0 to Sandhurst, J« appointed C-in-C. of 'dian Army.
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  • 51 1 Mighty in misera ble than Prime Minis- i 7, 1 Mr. R. G. Menzies. 1 television press conLondon last night had spent a few meUUCUO^ moments listening to the Adelaide commentary. Mr. Mcn/ie.s said. -Four down for 161 sounds mighty miserable, but It's not Inconsistent with a total of 300."—
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  • 333 1 TT \Tf II U.K. call for rease-fire But it is up to China JHE SOVIET Foreign Minister, Mr. Molotov.' promised last night that Russia would consider a British plea to work for a cease-fire along the Formosa Strait and to urge restraint on Red China Rut
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  • 79 1 We'll help Malaya says Menzies •PUT BITE INTO THE TREATIES' MR. R. G. MENZIES, the Australian Prime Minister, said m a television interview m London last night that Australia would accept military commitments m Malaya. He said he would know more details when he knew the precLse nature of the
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  • 89 1 C GOVERNOR-GENERAL Ghu- -T lam Mohammed said m Karachi last night there was -better hope than ever" for j the settlement of long standing Indo-Pakistan dispute On his return from a threeday visit to the Indian capital to attend Republic Day ceremonies, the Governor-General told
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  • 28 1 The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will pay an official visit to King Haakon of Norway m Oslo from June 24 to June 26.
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  • 56 1 Wahid will fly today to London THE paralysed Singapore policeman. Abdul Wahid bin Baba. is expected to be flown to London from Rome today, according to a cable received at the police headquarters. Abdul's plane which left Singapore on Wednesday, made an unscheduled stop m Rome because his condition had
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  • 30 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened on an uncertain tone this mining. wTth first grade. February shipment, at 104 i cents a lb.. 14 cents below yesterday's close.
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  • 146 1 A BELGIAN abbe, recently released after more than three years' imprisonment j m Communist China, said In Brussels last night, that at least 30 European and American missionaries were still m Chinese prisons. The Abbe Albert Sohier, who returned from Peking last Week, told
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  • 28 1 Siamese Police-General Phao Briyanond, will fly to Rangoon today from Bangkok for talks similar to those he had m Kuala Lumpur with commanders of security forces.
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  • 161 2 U.S. now more optimistic over Vietnam L-.s OFFICIALS have a growing confidence that there is I fMi chance of holding the line against Communism m South Vietnam. These officials said there is less reason for pessimism than there was a month ago but the battle for
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  • 83 2 They study effects of H-bomb 1 I Ln Britain to .^tudy Of the hyd: I m i> terday and led by civil del' industrial leadn to co-ordinate the services of industry and local government so as to be tain production m nts factories and organise relief. The to delegates saw
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  • 79 2 SIA M FEARS REFUGEES COVER REDS QIAM is becoming inkJ creasingly anxious about the situation on all her borders, especially m the north-east where thousands of refugees from liicJo-( hina are leued to be a rover for the activities of Laotian and Viet--111 iti Ii agitators. Siam u ill stress
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  • 158 2 (SENTENCING a rice merchant to one month's gaol yesterday. Mr. Howe Yoon (hong, a Singapore traffic magistrate, told him, "I am left with no other course." Seah Eng Choon, found guilty of having obtained a onving licence while under a disqualification order, had
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  • 15 2 Sweden and want to quit th Supervision Con In a A.P.
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  • 70 2 45 perish in fleet caught in ice storm THE United States air force rescue planes bucked dan gerously through battering ice storms yesterday shepherding j to safety along Iceland's rocky j coast a fishing fleet ashrouded m the dread Arctic "black frost.'' The death toll m the fearsome Arctic Phenomenon,
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  • 20 2 President Eisenhower will fly to Augusta, Georgia, today for n weekend of golf and rest. A.P.
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  • 145 2 MALAYA IS WARNED OF SWITCH TO SYNTHETIC THE London financial economic weekly. The nomist, writes that production and consume of natural rubber may increase this year. Higher usage should absorb part of the increase In output and the surplus should not be burdensome. However, The Economist warns: "It may well
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  • 150 2 rriHE MAaNTHESTER Guar- dian said m an editorial yesterday that the rubber m•- mission, led by Sir Francis Mudie last October, had done Malaya a disservice. The purpose of the mission was to examine the prospects and competitive position of the rubber industry and make
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  • 44 3 *jrc destroyed two buildings ed four others m ft wholesale cloth»1 Philadelphia less blocks from Indepenesterday, cause of the fire could nri setefm|ned5 ete f m| ned immediately j >d estimato, placed damages 1 1 "tore than $750,000- U.P.
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  • 10 3 tag In id^ ri »g buildan atomic submarine
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  • 212 3 Police see glamour girls over mystery killing POLICE turned to New York glamour girls yesterday to help them solve the mystery strangling of millionaire Serge Rubinstein the man of many enemies. Virtually without clues, they hoped the beauties he squired to exclusive night clubs could throw light on who might
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  • 195 3 £1,000 OR RUINS WILL BE RUINED i PUBLIC lavatory has j A put tempers on edge imon* the 1,287 highland SK •*»>« ,ive m the Srt: £h village of MuthiH m Perthshire. 1 hr-, are trying to save u D v: 1.000 (S8,500) so they e u pay the local
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  • 133 3 HE SENTENCED 100 MEN TO DEATH IfENYA authorities yesterday announced the surrender of Alphone Nganga, a self-styled "Chief tee" oi the Mau Mau who admits passing the th sentence on about 100 terrorists for offences against the sect. Nganga who passed under the name "Chief Justice
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  • 76 3 BANDIT SET UP WOOD AS ROAD block AM ASK I D bandit blocked the highway and held up a bus m the middle of Sardinia, police said yesterday. A massive road -block of small trees, branches and bushes stopped the bus and out of the middle of I the bushes
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  • 71 3 THE 36-year-old Belgian aviatrix, Jacqueline Cousin, and i her 76-year-old father, left for Bali this morning after a twoday stop m Singapore. They were due to leave yesterday, but bad weather put them off. Father and daughter— she is the pilot, he is the navigator—
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  • 56 3 DYNAMITE SEIZED ABOARD GREEK SHIP MORE than 10,000 sticks of dynamite were among explosives, seized aboard the 100-ton Greek motor schooner St. George, which was apprehended by a Royal Navy destroyer while trying to land weapons on Cyprus on Tuesday night. Seven Cyprus villagers were arrested. All are members of
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  • 31 3 The Brazilian Supreme Court yesterday denied a writ halting the extradition of Count Jacques Beronville, condemned to die by French courts m 1946 as a Nazi collaborator.- A.P.
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  • 87 3 SHANTY TOWN IS PAINTED FOR PRINCESS WORKMEN are busy with paint brushes creating a technicolour .screen" to blot our Trinidad's shanty town' from the view of Prim Margaret during her visit The Royal party must pass the 30-acre block of ram- shackle hovels on its **\f to Government House at
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  • 219 3 lIITLERS FAVOURITE, Field Marshal Ferdinand 11 Schoerner, came home last night from Soviet imprisonment and coolly defied threats of West German leaders to prosecute him as a "mass murderer" of his own troops. A storm of public indignation, swept West Germany
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  • 147 3 A COLOURFUL NIGHT BY THE LOVELY JAP GIRLS AFTER a >low .start the Shochlku Oirll Revue Troupe from Japan put on a not: show which delighted a firstnight audience at Singapore's Majestic Theatre last night. The opening item 'Madame Butterfly", had little m common In places with the story of
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  • 21 3 Mau Mau terrorists have killed and wounded 3,162 people m Kenya since the outbreak of the emergency- U.P.
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  • 240 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Jan 29, 1955. Opinion AWAY FROM IT ALL TODAY thousands of Singapore people will be heading for Bukit Timah, some hopeful of having a profitable day, all -or nearly all certain of having an enjoyable day. t^nd thoughout the day many more thousands here and
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  • 705 4 /j£zo anti-terrorist round-up ts m progress tn Kenya reports DUDLEY HAWKINS THOUSANDS of British troops, taking part m B big new anti-terrorist round-up, are hunting Mau Mau at altitudes m which the Battle of Britain was fought. Just below the green, 13.244--foot Satima peak of
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  • 391 4  -  Beacheamber By A COMPLAINT that "ballet is out of touch with the the lives of ordinary men and women" leads me to advertise the merits of my ballet "The Lodger's Kipper.'' It is a simple divertissement, the story of a lodger I who falls m love with
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    • 26 4 (mon*/ Classical ft Popular Programmes 5 ft 7 «HS Recorded 7 S Ooufele truck DWARD EU 6 CO LTD Ox a.. 4 ia.4 V».»pa.. fWw ;'.«4|
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    • 113 4 LACQUER SHEEN is the mmM^iS magic that grants your ivish «B"sfa ,^r^^ when you say "I unsh my hair |B^7?WC!^fo Wise women spray on a touch *mi w^^m^tmnilW of Steiner's Lacquer Sheen Mjjf.* -<^^W! l§m when they've dressed their hair J^^^M-mmmmijiW and will stay put all day unth- M^^^t^'^KwW^i out
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  • 164 5 Clerks' claims may go to arbitration /.,;lr. The Government has reject- Ed the claim back pay. contend ing that the Yong Award was applicable only to members oi the permanent service. Under the award, the Benham Scale for all clerks was revised and back dated to
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  • 77 5 near selecttTS (tern for 9irbr installed m ho rUy by Panld Airws je supplementary ne'a existing long- station at the tions Receiving Michael's Road. equipment makes it, j ground station individual aircraft pushing a button. activates a red, bell m the rock-; the aircraft,
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  • 72 5 S'PORE MAY HAVE YOUTH WEEK TOO r pilE SINGAPORK Youth Council may plan a Young Citizens Week. Mr. Eric Wee. president ol the Council said yesterday The Federation ha.s been having one since Wednesday. Mr. Wee said the Singapore Youth Council Executive Committee meeting m early February would discuss the
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  • 106 5 Officials of the Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship. Singapore, for this year are as follows President. Mr. Robert lav; vicepresident. Mr. Khoo Hin Wee; secretary, Mr. Kenney Tan; asst. secretary, Mr. Kho Kwang Mul; treasurer. Mf. Peter Joe Chia (re- 1 elected); asst. treasurer. Miss Gladys Tan. C
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  • 207 5 A SENIOR EXECUTIVE of an Italian pharmaceutical firm, who gave to the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis l Association a large quantity of anti-T.B. drugs last I year, arrived from Milan by air yesterday and said lie i would do his best to help if requests were
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  • 13 5 Provident 1* unci nary Registra--3 were approved at ore Legislative yesterday.
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  • 214 5 THE SINGAPORE Rural Board held one of its shortest meetings yesterday. Tea served soon after the meeting began was barely cool enough to drink when the meeting was over. Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha, one of the four unofficial^, who spoke on the
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  • 34 5 Lady MacGllllvray. wife of the J High Commi.s.s:oner. will give < away the prizes to winners of J the All-Malayan speech con- < :est at the Kuala Lumpur town j iall on Monday night.
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    • 171 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis UJ~--frli U.KEP.N.AS, SEE IT, THEY'VE I I I;"^^^ I P^gl B^J "'"^V, f7- L LJ S H'ODEN YOUP PAINTINGS IN A i°J* n »N0 BUT THE M. JOf^ f RELAX. BOX WITH A TIME BOMB- SETJ L L JP T y*y? E PaFnTINGS-
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    • 707 6 I YOUR I LUCKY STAR DOBM lodav, \ou are one of E the original think* is of the world. You are not on. follow m the footstep others. You consider ancient problems m a new light and know how to present n, M ideas with draniatie E popular appeal. You
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 127 7 I ,m iisy Above prices quoted m pence. "22 ,A q CJ 51d. sellers 50',d. sellers EliiiMl ports teo. Pre Black l^mpong U* U& Luropean ports PI PPEB Black Sarawak Ut luropean ports l-CD. dbore prices Quoted m shillings and pence. c f £703 buyers £705 buyers
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    • 29 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 28. Previous Today Industrials 402.60 404. 08 Railroads 142.22 144.20 Domestic Ilonds 100.70 100.59 I tilii 62.33 61.88 (mi posit? Averages 148.74 149.58
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    • 99 7 Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per lb. NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Previous Today TIN Stralti 'pot and nearby §8.25 nom. 89.50 nom. IIN minrp Keb 88.00 bid 88.25 bid 88.37 asked 89.25 asked March 88.00 bid 88.25 bid 88.25 asked 89.25 asked \pril 88.00 bid 88.25
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    • 31 7 labar was quoted at 45 lampont, spot 45 cents per pound iry 44 March sellers ex-dock* 13 Sarawak Spot 44 and Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per lb.
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    • 112 7 Jan. 28. Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.i.f. CK/North European delivered weight per $207': sellers $2021* quoted COPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila. wed weight, per long ton unquoted unquoted rOPRA Strait* t.i.f. IK/North I uropean delivered weight per lon Feb. Mar £74', buyers £74 sellers |.'T4 sellers Mu.
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  • 154 7 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION EXPERTS ARE HERE MERICAN experts on education arrived re from Hong night for tall a leaders In Sm- and the Federation. are Dr. Harry C. executive secretary! the Methodist Commissi visual education, and Rev. w. Burton Martin, '•■v secretary of f AVKMCCO 'Radio, Audioial Education and Mass Icatlon
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  • 21 7 A cocktail party will be held at the Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, on Feb. 4, Ceylon's Independence Day.
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  • 56 7 The Singapore Pediatric Society will hold its annual meeting at Professor Monteiro's lecture theatre. Ward 3, Gen eral Hospital, at 8.15 p.m. on The meeting will end with a talk on the management of the crippled child by Prof. J A P Cameron, of the
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  • 175 7 END THE TAX ON AMATEUR SHOWS, PLEADS COUNCILLOR A SUGGESTION that all amateur drama? and theatrical shows should be exempt from entertainment duty m order to promote culture has been made to the Colonial Secretary. The suggestion has been made by Labour City Councillor Mr. Lee Choon Eng, m a
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  • 142 7 The talk with the tongue twisters THE Singapore Aquarists' Society held its first "fish talk," coloured appropriately with tongue-twisting vocabulary, at the British Council Hall, Stamford Road. The guest speaker was Mr. j M. W. F. Tweedie, Director of Raffles Museum, who spoke on the different species of Malayan aquarium
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  • 160 7 Every cycle MUST have a check A CAREFUL check on every bicycle la made before it r /jtered and licenced, the Singapore Registrar of Vehicle. Mr. B. C. J. Buckeridu'*, said yesterday. He said his department ran refuse to register any cycle round by his inspectors to be unfit for
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  • 152 7 A WOMAN travel agency executive m Singapore yesterday criticised the Colony Government's attitude towards the tourist trade. She is .Mrs. Boris Holland, director of Asia Travel Service. Mrs. Holland, who is attend- ing the Pacific Travel Association Annual Conference on behalf of her travel
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  • 13 7 The Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council meets at 8 p.m. on Monday.
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  • 265 8 CONFESSIONS CAN AVERT AIR DISASTERS 'Careless workers must own up Am ii STIST engaged on secret work for thc R. I I declares that riUI equipment is being wrecked by c areless handling. Th, complainl come; from Mr. s. Patrick .mental officer al the Fi Aircrafl Establishment, wh ,>nr the
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  • 157 8 Painting a house puts up rent WILLIAM rtOWI b»^ li.nl his i< nt put up \g t week for the next m years because he painted his house red and grey instead <>f green .tod cream. Mr Rowe, a $6-I car-old railway foreman, his wife and 16-year old daughter live
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  • 122 8 CRIME m London was less m 1954 than m any year since the war, and more of the offenders were brought to justice. Figures issued by Scotland Yard showed this despite the Metropolitan Police being 4,200 men under establishment. The increase of radio patrol
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  • 142 8 The Thing (A BALLOON) drops in (AND IT'S BOB!) SOMETHING large and silver coloured appeared m the cloudy sky above the small Northamptonshire village of In-hester. The pear-shaped thing hecame recognisable as a balloon with a man m a basket hanging below. Down it came. Bags of ballast were flung
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  • 50 8 Officials of a Salvation Army hostels at Grimsby found £350 I In notes among the posseaSsion j of an inmate, apparently des- titute. who died there. LAn effort is being made to find m Aberdeen a sister ol I the man, 78-year-old Adam 1 Hall.
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  • 74 8 11 f II AT at first appear- TT ames looks like a set of books with a convenient carrying strap, is m fact a roomy handbag. Each book part of the ba& is m separate toned leather with hand tooled spines. This, together
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  • 165 8 A FOURTEEN-MONTH-OLD boy m need of an urgent brain operation was flown from Jersey to London Airport by a British European Airways "mercy" plane. The boy. Colin Guilbert. has cerebral pressure— the cause of his father's death 18 months ago. He wa.s taken to
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  • 340 8 PARENTS STILL CAN'T GET BACK BABY pOLICE called at a Belfast children's home when her parents visited four year old Elizabeth Browne the baby who was stolen from Dublin. Mr. and Mrs. Browne asked the matron Of the Bawnmore Home if they could take Eli- zabeth away. Acting on In-
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  • 263 8 A STORM over a new €4,000 I /tl building to be erected on the promenadi threatens to split the small Norfolk resort Ol Hunstanton into two part- i lei those lor turnstiles and those against This Clochmerle-hke controversy started at this month's council meeting,
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  • 73 8 'I COMMUTED PERFECT MURDER A MAN TELEPHONED Stockholm C.1.1), and said he murdered a waitress with a hatchet m 1929 I "is it true the police Lave closed the case? Am I really safe:" he asked. He was told: "You are perfectly safe." All Swedish murder cases are closed if
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  • 216 9 'Big-hearted mother is sent to prison SUE STOLE TO FAY DEBTS a [MOTHER of nine children dabbed her eyes with a s mall handkerchief as she stood m the dock at the Old Bailey on charges of false pretences and heard Detective-Sergeant 11. Colston describe her as ♦rather big-hearted." Xhe
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  • 123 9 THF captain of a collier was suspended becau he relied too much on radar. His ship, the 3.401-ton Horde, ran aground on The Gantocks, a group of rocks m the Firth of Clyde, during the night of September 15 last. A Ministry of
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  • 247 9 Judge begs woman: Clear my name A WHITE-PACED magistrate, arrfc d Into the witness-box pleaded m a m 'Fans' court with •nurderess to clear ol a suspicion that he given false evidence. as one of many! developments m the Marguerite Marty, 30, ed ol poisoning her cousin was m love
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  • 63 9 An Italian couple who flew 700 miles from their home town oi Milan to fulfil resi- denial qualifications. w< l married m Edinburgh. They were Signor Aurellol Magni, 61. a wealthy wool merchant, and Paula Chiaia. I 24. who had to obtain a spe-' 1
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  • 36 9 picture. This is •'waikiki," a beach suit m Swiss woven cotton pique, with design of blister flowers and "Cellophane" fringe. It was shown m London by Teddy Tinling, designer of sportswear. Popper
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  • 76 9 BOURNEMOUTH police believe that the writer ol a letter to the judge who heard the Boy Scout murder trial at Hampshire Assizes last month is maliciously trying to interfere with the pending appeal. They are trying to trace him. The letter was posted
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  • 327 9 HE TREATED WIFE AS NO ONE WOULD DARE TREAT A MAID ASA SERVING officer m the Army Captain Albert Dan Daniell was earning €840 to £900 a year. He allowed his wife only .€5 a week with which to keep house, feed six and clothe herself. Later the allowance was
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  • 144 9 MISS MILDRED KEEL, agi I hates the sea. That's wl Queen Mary which was to airman, Robert Blum, m Ne 1 Ed 16, loves her fiance, but hy she walked off the liner take her to her American »W York. Then a
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  • 135 9 The big city beats the girl from Ireland (CHRISTINA O'GRADY, 12--j year-old daughter of an Irish labourer, came to London with her elder sister six week ago to join the rest of the family Irom a little Tillage Ul County Cork. The next day -he went to a shop near
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  • 78 9 WHILE 28-year-old Raymond Morl c v, of Bickerton-road, Highgate, (London) was wriggling along a branch over Highgate Ponds to rescue a dog marooned on an ice Hoe at thc week-end his wallet was stolen by the man he j had asked to hold his
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  • 216 9 Limehouse Cinderella offered a home r piiE I hnehouse Cind< i 1 13-year-old J. K( fi only a fairy prim c to make the story i She had a party frock to wear to th< ball md to take her there. But after the ball, Instead of the fairy prince
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  • 33 9 Americans spend £21,000,000 a year on food but they eat it BO quickly that they spend 23.200.000 to cure their indigestion, reports Life magazine after a nation-wide s urI vey.
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  • 109 10 M\NV of you who hive read Robert Levis Stevenson's renting •'Treasure island will easilj reeegnlse tin* man m the picture ;»s being that ras callj one legged pirate, Long John Silver. Hell, here's jrotftf chance to colour bin and his p.irrot and Nriu a prize. There are
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  • 103 10 rpHERE were many i utrii 1 received by Aunty Wendy lor last week's colouring eont< t. The majority came from Singa] ore while there were om tin 1 Federation too. The standard of work wa.s good and the choice of colours inten ting. L.i ek'g winners (to
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  • 295 10 The little P-.rry works its way through the shallows, sometimes touching rb* flooded grass underntath, though never .stopping. Gradually they round the b><nds until Billy Goat points and cails our. 'There it ;s. That's Ivy Cottage I Sailot Sam skil- Under thc sailor's guidance, the putu
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  • 872 10  -  KATHLEEN HICKLEY FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO F~J lr .ii iiill im nil mill l mill ll 1 1 ii 1 1 ii m nm ii ii i j The time is seven hundred \firs ano. Marco Polo sets out from Venice on
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  • 282 11  - FANTASTIC pay cheques lure them to VEGAS HAROLD HEFFERNAN reports STRATOSPHERIC salary O oilers from a dozen frantically competing Las V( s .ambling resorts now operating, and from three more soon to open, hove touched off a minor crisis m the economic affairs of Hollywood s major studios. Too many
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  • 237 11 This was SOME CHASE for Joan C| EN 8 1 N O that the movies' good o1 d K.shioned chase sequence is as saleable today as it was m the Keystone comedy days, a studio has decided to incorate a unique one m Joan Crawford-Jeff Chandler film, "Female On The
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  • 228 11 THIS IS the year Esther Wil- j liams becomes an institu- tion as well as a movie star. In 1955, amphibious Esther j enters the second half of her i 10-year contract with her studio. •My first five years were de- j voted
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  • 174 11 It's 3.89 years for a star JJOW long can a star 11 expect to bask m the warming and rewarding glare of box-office supreThis is a not too vital question, asked and pondered over by statistical fans time and again, and now comes Motion Picture Herald to supply the answer.
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  • Article, Illustration
    31 11 Whether it be pursuing his favourite pastime, cooking, studying his script and music or listening to songs recorded by other artistes, popular Vie Damonc is an advocate of relaxation at home.
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    22 11 Your SMALL ADS. tm BJM-japrW ***** Em*. 108 II ti is is a STRAITS TIMES Classifies i Advertisement s- >
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    42 12 m *aM <*J'*» *»M' 'M»'»»" *«**'»»ajMMa»M MMWM J Mv whole-hearted sympathy lo the Master of Foxhounds who complained ol a 'Pirate" pack poaching on his hunting grounds If you let one Pirate pack get away with it you'll get another, and another
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  • 259 12  -  DOROTHY ROE picture. reports AIRS. Nettie Rosenstein. i?1 famous m the United States for the "Little Black Dress," features it as one of the most important fashions for Spring m a New York faaShion preview. Mrs. Rosenstein, who has been turning out clothes for American
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  • 214 12 WOMAN'S work is nevei done Is tho oM Rffvtrif But it should be, according to the (v. eitt, *Ui time for leisure ana relaxation besides. The woman nominated America's Housewife No. 1 Mrs. Wanda Jennings, rurLs her three bedroomed ho se ln Missouri m two
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    108 13 teavini London is the motor vessel "Nortel/ 1 a Norwegian c «hip which has been chartered by Falkland Island I)e--i ies Government to assist the Royal research ship "John Biscoe" m her relief of British bases m the Antarctic On board the vessel are 13 scientists and others vbo are
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  • 315 13 'Admiralty speeches, like their ships, are out of date' a drink. "I take nothing back." he said." but I will mitigate one remark— substitute 'one of its lowest ebbs' for an ebb lower than ever before.' "I've just realised that during the Socialist government the Home Fleet was reduced to
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  • 442 13 SOMETIMES, when you have already passed an opportunity to make a free bid and have therefore limited the strength of your hand, you are able to take vigorous action later without fear of misleading your partner. In fact. If you have passed a* much as you might hold,
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  • 465 13  - Cairo from the river is unforgettable ALAN McGREGOR VOYAGE OF A THOUSAND SIGHIS says TK) RECAPTURE the at--1 mosphere of the prewar years, when the Nile voyage drew the crowned heads of Europe, is the aim of the owners of the s.s. Sudan, which has just left Cairo on the
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  • 220 13  -  WILLIAM HICKEY DR. EDITH SUMMERSKILL, that doughty champion of woman's equality, would have been furious if she had attended the lunch that I went to the other day. It was the annual lunch of the London Master Builders' Association, an extremely male organisation.
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    212 14 riu-N, I. oxers all li.i norld rutin:,, (.ive tl VtlglM divisions and the countries the> nimr from:- Marie i> Igata, <»»> Phriij Denarea, (c) liogan (KniBasse.** (<ii Nino Yaldes. Who is odd man out here: (a) Un Wei Lon. (b) Onjj (hew Be e (c) Tan Jin Eong,
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  • 14 14 Oeorgia defeated Japan 6-2 m free-style wre-stHn*? at Tiflis. MoM'd.v R.ulio reported.
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  • 33 14 Two YtlfOtlftf soccer clubs will play m Kio de Janlero. The Belgrade Club will play three games m Belem capital of the state of Para, against the local club Del Remo.
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  • 210 14 Free Press Boxing Reporter I OOK OUT for flying leather when the Army's K.O. J specialists start swinging! Two teams of such specimens will clash m the Anchor Cup final, provisionally arranged for Feb. 11, at the badminton hall. GHQ Signal Regiment are holder of
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  • 167 14 IJADIO Malaya will broadcast a commentary on today's North versus South rugby match at Jalan Besar Stadium. Everything points to a thrilling clash. North will be out to avenge last year's defeat when the South piled up a record score of 62-3. In the 23 game.s
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  • 270 14 ROYAL TAN GETS 11 Ib MORE Grand National weights out DOTAL TAN, last years Grand National winner now X owned by Prince Aly Khan, has been allotted top weight for this year s race at aAintree on Mar. 26. In the handicaps announced m London yesterday, Mr Dan Sheppard has
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  • 15 14 Rugby player; Perak state. I Who is he? I (Answer below.) I
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  • 288 14 THERE will be no speedway at Harringay m 1955. £10.000 worth of talent, which includes 34-year-old Split Waterman, is looking for a temporary home. An official said yesterday: "We aren't quitting the sport completely Due to a big drop m attendances and financial losses
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  • 319 14 Admission free to race course BREEDERS and owners of I racehorses who recently I felt so strongly that racing In I Britain was too dear for I small man that they went and I asked the Jockey Club to con- I trive to persuade the Gove:..- I ment to ease
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  • 46 14 To avoid over-spending special training for the 'Ih'. Cup challenge round, the minton Association of M lU f r will pick only eight !>!»*«* /J six week's intesive preparation o« defence of the trophy m June ia« time 16 players were chosen.
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  • 8 14 SOLUTION: W. Breakioell, wing threequarter.
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  • 60 14 THE fight for the vacant Empire lightweight title between Britain's Joe Lucy and South Africa's Jannie Van Rensburg arj ranged for tonight has been postponed until Feb- ruary 12. This is due to rain I which has waterlogged the Rand open air stadium I m Johannesburg,
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  • 90 14 DRAW for the First Round proper of the English Rugby League challenge Cup In Oldham v Wigan, Bramley v. Halifax. Rochdale Hornets v. Wakefield Trinity. Workington Town v. Winners of a qualifying round. Leigh v. Doncaster, Hull Kingston Rovers v. York, Swinton v. Hull. Leeds v.
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  • 156 14 I/" HAN Mobammad. a late choice far the Pakistan Test team to meet India today, has refused to. play. In a statement to the press last night Khan Mohammed said he m shocked at the treatment" he had received and could not therefore take
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  • 152 15 Arsenal plan to upset the Wolves today Of two powerful clubs, Wolverhampton s, League champions and Cup favourites. al thrice winners In -six finals, is the most r of today's fourth round Football Associa--111 J 16S full at tun I reach the last of an original clubs. will be eenns
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  • 114 15 Penang name 21 hockey men for training PENANG Hockey Association has .selected 21 players for training for the match against the Pakistan hockey team on Feb. 15. The probable team will have two trial games against a Taiping XI on Feb. 5 and Krian Rovers on Feb. 12. Training AXX
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  • 43 15 France's 15-year-old ice star. Alain Giletti. last night won the 1955 European championship m the men's figure skating on Budapest's open-air ice rink. Great Britain's triple world champions. Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy, won the 1955 dancing pairs title.
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  • 445 15 YOUNG ENGLAND COULD SHOCK SENIORS DESMOND HACKETI VOIWG England v. Old ngland used to be a luxury, a cosy eurtainllv<r on the eve of the up Final. r what Young Engid to the Soccer SigItaly, this date beurgent and highly must. these Italians eldera and drew [hem m the two
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  • 204 15 HUTTON'S DAY IN THE TEST r pilK England bowlers did well on the opening day of the Test yesterday at Adelaide, to hold Australia to 161 runs. Alert fielding and steady deliveries claimed four wickets on a batsman's pitch. All four dismissals were from catches. The Australians batted cautiously, more
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  • 166 15 Australia hoisted the hundred m tne minutes under three hours. England could congratulate themselves on some accurate bowling and keen fielding. Tyson and Statham were brought on to test Harvey who sparred at them without getting a fatal touch. One ball from Tyson struck Burke on
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  • 113 15 Poh Lim v. Wong sell-out T*HE eagerly awaited I Wong Peng Soon-Ong Poh Lim singles clash has 'proved a major draw m I the week-end's Thomas Cup badminton trial iwhich takes place at the I Perak Turf Club on I Saturday and Sunday. All seats for Sunday's session when Wong
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  • 147 15 TONY TRABERT and Vie Seixas won Uie Australian national doubles championship yes'-erday. and 1 Trabert immediately announced his aim to score I slain of the world's major tennis titles. "I'm after them all. both singles and doit)les,' the 0.8. Davis Cup ace said. referring to
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  • 28 15 IfkUewd aipioil Olson will me.- Ralph I I n ent i onqueror of I m a 10 round title fight at the Ch idlum 16
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  • 14 15 have been received [oi the Singapore A BA. boxing championship* on Fcbiu.uy
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  • 107 15 'WORLD TITLE' BOUT CLAIM BY PROMOTER FIGHT promoter Benny Ford has announced that Raton i Macias of Mexico City and i Mario D'Agata of Italy have i been signed for a 15 round bout m San Francisco on March 9 for the bantamweight j championship of the world. France's Robert
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  • 35 15 The Dynamo soccer team of Zagreb defeated the National Sport ing Club of Epypt 3-1 m keenly disputed panic played before 25.000 at the National Stadium Cairo. Half time score wa.s 1-1.- A.P.
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