The Singapore Free Press, 5 March 1955

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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press Large* Afternoon Sale m Malaya s 111 98. Singapore. Sat.. Mar. 5. 1955. Price 15 Cts
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    WIDOW RE-WED
    106 1 crOTLAND Yard headquarters said In London yesterday that no new evidence has been >und to suggest that a British irmy sergeant whose body was •whumed m Germany, had been murdered. The Sergeant. Reginald Watr rg, 30. was found hanged m barracks at Duisberg m Nov. 1953. An inquest
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    UNION LEADERS TAKE FINAL DECISION TODAY
    128 1 Last-minute bid to stop strike I AST-MINUTE efforts are being made to avert the strike at the naval base threatened by members uf the Singapore Admiralty Local Staff Union. The union executive committee and the strike committee will meet at 2 p.m. today to
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    If only Russia played cricket
    40 1 The British Home Secretary. Major Gwllym Lloyd George, said at York last night that he ften wished Russia and China played cricket. It was Britain's Interest m >ort that kept her people naid. he added.
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    Lock icon MORE PAY PACT
    29 1 London's 12,000 Underground railway workers after long -iotiations yesterday won a per cent wage increase to them into line with •<'i\s on the overland system.- Reuter
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    Lock icon 3.000 homeless
    23 1 Fire .swept the town of Maubin. 46 miles from Rangoon, early yesterday and destroyed 3,000 homes. mo.st of them huts.- U.P.
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    RUBBER DOWN
    31 1 March first grade, fo.b. buyers, opened on the Singapore Rubber Market this morning at 85V 2 cents a lb., one'h of a cent below yesteras dose. The tone was
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    Lock icon The circus girls
    32 1 A group of 15 English variety artists arrived m New York yesterday on their way to join a circus for a 30-week tour of 180 American cities.- A. P.
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    Food aid for Reds
    27 1 President Eisenhower ye day oflVied Communist Albania food supplie i to help alleviate what hv called the current food shortage m that country
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    Lock icon SHE'S OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW
    40 1 MRS Fanny Cuokson of Montreal. 100 yesterday, said it was silly for women to clio-uLse their figures. "Style*. have channel but Iftfie hasn't. A woman should wear what ih« knows look-s well on her." A.P.
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    Lock icon SUN-AT LAST
    11 1 Thcr* 1 was sunshine m Lon don yesterday. A.P.
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    MALAYAN POLICE ACCUSED
    453 1 MALAYAN POLICE ACCUSED Ex-officer 'had to guit 9 CONDITIONS m the Malayan Police Force are* deplorable, a Labour Member of Parliament,! Mr. Victor Yates, has told the Secretary of State* for the Colonies, Mr. Alan Lennox-Hoyd. Mr. Yates says he will raise the matter m Parliament.? He wrote to Mr.
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    Lock icon Chiang beats invasion but by 40 junks
    50 1 Chiang beats invasion but by 40 junks ABOIT 40 hinese (ommunist motorised junks, under cover of heavy fog, tried to land on Na-tionalist-held Kaotang Island, near Matsu, and about 40 miles east rtf Foochow yesterday but were repulsed by shore batteries, the Nationalist Defence Ministry said at Taipeh yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon KENYA MURDER
    32 1 Lance Corporal Trevor Griffiths, 34, of the Royal Engineers, was murdered by Mau Mau terrorists m the Norok area of Kenya on Wednesday, it was announced m Nairobi yesterday- Reuter
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    Lock icon BURMA STARTS BIG DRIVE ON GUERILLAS
    101 1 BURMA STARTS BIG DRIVE ON GUERILLAS rHE Burmese Army has started a major offensivt against 4,000 Chinese Nationalist guerilla troops m the northern state of Kentung, say reliable sources. Ground forces, with air support, are said to be moving south from Monghast, 104 miles south-east of Kentuns, and converging on
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    Taximen fight
    21 1 Two taxi-drivers fought m Beach Road, Singapore, last night. One was hit on the face with a starting handle.
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    Lock icon BULGANIN BREAKS TRADITION
    63 2 BULGANIN BREAKS TRADITION RUSSIAN new Pn-miiT, Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. lias said he will receive foreign envoys who wish to call on him formally, diplomatic circles m Moscow said last night. This is unusual m the Soviet Union. Marshal Stalin rarely received foreign diplomats and Mr. Georgi Malenkov pave interviews only
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    Lock icon Eden in Baghdad
    32 2 Sir Anthony Eden arrived m Baghdad by air from India yesterday for talks with the Iro.qi Premier, General Nun Al Said. He leaves today for Beirut and Rome- Reuter
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    Lock icon NOW THE BRITISH ARMY JOINS IN DEAR TEA BATTLE
    100 2 NOW THE BRITISH ARMY JOINS IN DEAR TEA BATTLE BRITAIN'S armed forces joined the campaign tgainst dear tea yesterday. London Catering Headquarter.- announced that the price m .services stores m Britain. Germany and Austria from next Monday will be out by 4d. a pound weight. Only certain special blends of
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    Lock icon 50 NO HOME RULE FOR WALES
    57 2 HPHE House of Commons yes- terday turned down the j idea of home rule for Wales. It rejected a private members bill introduced by a Welsh i Labour member, Mr. S. O. Davies. by 48 votes to 14 The small vote was due to
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    Lock icon SITUATION AT GAZA TENSE
    187 2 Arab youths cry for arms THE situation was tense m the Gaza strip yesterday on the Egyptian-Israeli frontier, despite official assurance that everything was under control. Arab refugees from Palestine demanded that all movement bans be suspended and that military government control be lifted. They asked
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    Jet fuel for China: U.S.
    38 2 is 'concerned 9 TIE U.S. State Department yesterday deplored as i matter of grave con^rn reports that a Finnish tanker is carrying to Communist china fuel that may be suitable for jet engines.
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    Lock icon Ike considering big military shake-up
    235 2 PRESIDENT EISENHOWER is considering bi« changes m the U.S. military high command the authoritative Army-Navy-Air Force journal reported m Washington yesterday. He is considering namin« Gen. Lawton Collins to be Supreme Allied Commander In Europe. Collins would replace Gen. Alfred Gruenther m the North Atlantic
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    SOLDIER SAYS GANGS GOT ARMS BY BOAT
    123 2 SOLDIER SAYS GANGS GOT ARMS BY BOAT AN Indonesian court again A heard yesterday a State witness, Willem Manoch, state under oath that arms, ammunition and supplies lor armed gangs had cpmo by small boats from Tandjon? Priok. Jakarta's port, or Jl means of speedboats off short This was at
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    Lock icon Envoy to Ceylon
    29 2 Mr. B N. Chakravarthy. until recently acting Indian Higi; Commissioner m Britain, na> been appointed High CommLssioner m Ceylon, said a New Delhi announcement yesterday. U.P.
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    U.K. RACING OFF AGAIN: 64 DAYS LOST NOW
    165 3 U.K. RACING OFF AGAIN 64 DAYS LOST NOW SNOW, ice and severe frosts have so far caused the cancellation of 64 racing pro--runmes m Britain during the ist five months. This is only four short of the cord of 68 days lost during the severe winter of 1946/47." The cancellation
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    Lock icon Sabotage probe on Ceylon warship
    40 3 Naval authorities and police at Colombo are investigating the possibility of sabotage Ceylon's "one-ship navy," the minesweeper V:\iya. An explosion caused extensive damage to the vessel as was returning from India several days ago.- U.P
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    Gift from churches
    33 3 A mobile anti-tuberculosis unit for use m South Korea waa presented yesterday to the Korean Consul General In New York, as a gift from the Protestant churches of America—A P.
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    Lock icon MORE EXPLOSIONS ON DOOMED ISLAND
    192 3 VIOLENT lava explosions were ripping open the earth yesterday under the abandoned town of Kapoho on the eastern tip of the 1 Island of Hawaii, sealing its doom. The death blow to the evacuated community was seen shortly before mif 1 ight by: volcanologist George
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    Lock icon Doctor's enticement claim on in-laws fails
    418 3 Doctor's enticement claim on in-laws fails JUDGE CALLS HIM RUTHLESS' A T^nM l^ t r Sterd y re J ect^ the claim of a London physician that his mother-in-law had enticed his wife away from him Samuel c?£Ll^ hC 47 S0 lost his claim ni father-in-law. Mr. Rachel 35 m
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    Lock icon JAPAN TRADE MENACE SHOCKS SWEATER MAN
    186 3 'Our standard of living m danger' BRITISH manufacturer said m London yesterday, that Japanese competition threatened Britain's standard of living. Mr. Charles Oliver, chairman of the Lyle and Scott sweater ■manufacturing flrm, said that to describe Japanese competi(m as a menace was not enough,
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    ENTER THE PINK COLLAR WORKER
    55 3 ENTER THE PINK COLLAR WORKER LOKAINt: Faweett, a New York colour expert, told a conference of the Packaging Association of Canada that white as a colour for men's shirts is on the way out. "White is simply not flattering to the average man's complexion," she I said m Montreal. "Pink
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    HONG KONG SERGEANT BEAT BLAZE
    130 3 HONG KONG SERGEANT BEAT BLAZE A SKROEANT of the Royal Army Ordnance Oorni who put out a fire among blazing boxes of white phosphorous ammunition at a Bont Kong ammunition depot m May la,st year has been awarded the British Empire Modal, the London Gazette announced last night. He us
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 5, 1955. HELPING THE LAW
    236 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 5, 1955. HELPING THE LAW q^HE police have always said that given public co-operation the incidence of crime would drop greatly. They have the men, they have the equipment; what they lack is information and this can only come from the public, the party
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    The GIRL with the LIVE AIR
    1217 4  -  Brochromber AYSDUJDK warn TWO technical but none the less heartfelt compliments were paid to Princess Margaret the other day by American members of the Press party reporting her Caribbean tour One was an ace New York photographer. In the first two weeks of the
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    Indonesia seeks to run radio industry
    224 5 Indonesia seeks to run radio industry THE Indonesian Government thinks its radio industry can be "nationalised" m the same way as h e car-assembly industry, say reports from Jakarta. The Dutch company of Philips did not want to transfer its radio assembly plants to Indonesians. So now. the Indonesian Ministry
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    NOW TONY CAN WALK
    87 5 A CRIPPLED boy, Tony Boudeville. beamed happily ye.sterday when Mr*. Spenser Wilkinson. Director of the Red Cross m Penan?, showed him a ""walking chair." first of its kind m PenanThe chair t.ch will be k-nt to Tony until be is able to walk without assistance- was
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    Bank of Tokio seeking branch in Singapore—but there are 'difficulties'
    121 5 Bank of Tokio seeking branch in Singapore but there are 'difficulties THE Bank Of Tokio. bin m Japan and successor to the Yokohama Specie Bank, want: to open a branch m Singapore. Its representative, Mr. Yasuo Lshii has been m the Colony for three months, studying possibilities of establishing a
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      743 5 SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES CHIRCH OF INGLAND ROMAN CATHOLIC METHODIST 10 30 am Sunday School; 11 am. St. Andrew's Cathedral: 7 am. Cathedral of The Good Shepherd Straits Chinese Church: 9 a.m Worship Service 7.30 pm. M.Y.F. Holy Communion; 8 a.m Sung 1 'Victoria St.): Mass (Sermon In Sunday School; 9.40
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      293 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis Jf AIOUS l)( A &l(*l I r WAS i //£flf Tf£HA6£R<, \^\T > T i SB 10 MCh V KNfWvVHfN 1 WAS A l\ fc jHE Vv ,f MS > r r^^rr 1 f p^ightemec rv l f wo_>uC7 have t- a <e.
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      632 6 YOUR i LUCKY STAR I)OK\ today, you will find j ;A that the months «.f M a > j and Juii' appear to t»< U r I be*t working periods. IM.m v, j start new projects at that lirmand >ou will tind that >«»u make excellent progress, inu j have
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  • Round the world Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      221 7 LONDON, Mar. 4. Previous Today It I BBER No. 1 RSS ciJ. European 24 buyers 25 buyer ports March 25 sellers 25.. sellers i: l BBER No. 1 RSS cJI. European 24", buyers 25N buyers ports April 25^ sellers 25 sellers Xl itISER So. 1 RSS Spot
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      New York prices
      103 7 NEW YORK. Mar. 4. Previous Today TIN Straits spot and nearby 90.87 nom. 90.87 norn TIN futures March. 90.00 bid 90.12 bid 90.75 asked 90.75 asked April 89.62 bid 89.75 bid 90.37 asked 90.37 asked May 89.37 bid 89.50 bid 90.12 asked 90.12 asked TONE: Steady. SALES:
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      35 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 4. Previous Today no Industrials 418.33 419.68 ■!0 Railroads 153.56 153.52 to Domestic Bonds 100.10 100 13 IS M ili ties 65.36 65.52 64 Stocks Composite Average 156.59 156.92
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      U.S. PEPPER
      44 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 45 cents per pound. Awaiting release 44... Afloats 44 X to 44. March 44. Above prices quoted i n US. cents per Ib. April 43^. May 43 Sarawak spot 44 and lampong spot 45 cents sellers ex-dock
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      114 7 Mar. 4. f*revious Today COPRA Philippines c.ii. UK/North European delivered weight per long ton March/April $185 sellers *182 sellers OPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila delivered weight, per long ton unquoted unquoted (OPRA Straits cJX UK/North Furopean delivered weight per lonp ton March/ April £674 buyers £66\ buyers
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    DON'T JAIL A FATHER
    116 7 A FATHER of ten, Ang Low, 43 was sentenced to six months' jail yesterday by the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. F. A. Chua, for cheating. Ang begged the court not to send him to jail because his wife had just given birth. "She is still
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    10 SUPERVISORS END FIRST PART OF LEADER COURSE
    296 7 'VI SUPERVISORS from leading Singapore firms have now completed the first phase of the Training Within Industry course at the Colony's Labour Department. This was stated yesterday by Mr. F. G. Tyson, the Colony's Chief Employment Officer, who conducted the T.W.I, courses
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    Four fined for street billiards
    105 7 Four fined for street billiards MINIATURE billiards tables are appearing m five-foot ways and m lanes, Inspector X X Pi Hay told the Second Magistrates Court. Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. He said schoolboys were being tempted into spending their pocket money on thif form of amusement. Inspector Pillay was prosecuting four
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    Man remanded on sarongs charge
    32 7 A tentative charge of assisting m the disposal of 395 sarongs worth $2,784.75, suspected of being stolen property, was preferred against Ho Chwee Bok m Singapore yesterday.
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    Marked SlO gave 'bookie' away
    79 7 Marked SlO gave 'bookie' away A YOUNG fishmonger, Khoo Ah Poh, was fined $400 or two months' jail by the Ipoh Magistrate yesterday after he had pleaded guilty to bookmaking at the Perak Turf Club on D.'c. 11. A marked $10 bill was found on. him, together with $508 m
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    ME, BEGS OF TEN
    28 7 Ltd., by dishonestly inducing him to deliver 1,500 pairs of shoes and slippers worth $2,226.50 at an address at Boat Quay on Oct. 10.
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    Extortion bid alleged
    48 7 In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday Chong Sek Ling claimed trial threatening Chan Wai Chang with injury m order to extort $300 from him at an amusement park on Mar. 2. He was remanded m custody and the case was postponed to Mar. 11.
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    Japanese Consul to speak
    46 7 Mr. Ken Ninomlya. the Japanese Consul-General, will speak about Japan at the Arts Theatre of the University of Malaya, Cluny Road, Singapore, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. The lecture, arranged by the university's Geographical Society, will be supported by films about Japan.
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    Ride on raft for Margaret
    98 8 pMNCESS Margaret rides L a 34-foot long bamboo raft on her way to shoot the rapids on the Rio Grande River at Port Antonio, Jamaica. With her is Lady Foot, wife of Sir Hugh Foot, the Governor. At the prow, steering the raft with a
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    NOW MR. HUSTLER PLAYS HIS LAST TRUMP
    353 8 NOW MR. HUSTLER PLAYS HIS LAST TRUMP RICHARD Hustler, 70-year-old night-watchman, was not very keen on whist not nearly as keen, for instance, as Charles Lamb's friend, Sarah Battle. But he reckoned that during the five years of his court- ship to Miss Mary Thurston, 40- year-old housekeeper, she i
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    So Lady S. walks out of society play
    374 8 So Lady S. walks out of society play MR. JOHN LODFR. the Hollywood film star and son of a British general, called m to produce TW Lights Were Amber" as a successor to 'The Frog." has introduced a new leading lady after a mass walk-out by his London Society stars.
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    A debutante sells papers on the kerb
    134 8 A debutante sells papers on the kerb JANE INGRAM. 19-year-old debutante, stood near Oxiord-circus m the heart of London nervously selling newspapers from a terbside pitch. She was nervous because. as she put it. "My parents have absolutely forDMden me to do it." So nervous, m fact, that she gave
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    79 8 Ql I i Juliana of Holland, wearinc winter boots and a fur coat, presents a new standard to the Van Houtz. Regiment. Prince Bernhard lends a hand Receiving the new standard is Regimental Commander, Lt.-Col. S. Da Costa. The ceremony took place at The Hague. The regiment, which supplied most
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    HE LIKES TO THROW HIS WEIGHT ABOUT
    236 8 Mr. Porter hammers it home r ONDONER Mr. Percy Porter longs for the wide, open spaces or at least a space so wide and open that a fellow can chuck a 161 b. brass ball 150 ft. Porter, who is 24 and list.
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    The butchers show wives how to save
    144 8 TWO HUNDRED Bristol housewives were told how to save when they shop. The men who showed them were the city's butcher*. On three counters, set up m a hall at a Townswomens Guild meeting, were every cut of beef, lamb, and pork which
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    Woman dies waiting for Id. bus cut
    252 9 TMVE THOUSAND old-age pensioners queued m a bitterly cold wind to get a penny fare concession permit. Six collapsed. And one of them, a 67-year-old woman, died. Many of the old folk waited for more than two hours outside Glasgow's City Chambers. They
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    Vertical climb
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    GUARDS GET NEW LUXURY BARRACKS
    103 9 GUARDS GET NEW LUXURY BARRACKS \THEN the home of the Household Cavalry, Combermere Barracks, Windsor is rebuilt and it is expected to be finished early next year the barrack room* will each hold eight men instead of 18 as m the present buildings. The new buildings will accommodate 850 men,
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    47 9 photo. CKI'MPLKD storage tanks m beds of foam are all that remain after a fire that broke out at the Shell refinery at Shell Haven. Essex, recently. The fire followed an explosion early m the morning. 'mi iii 1 1 1. iii! r l m ii Reuter
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    'BUY BRITISH'
    28 9 Mr. James Duncan, chairman of the Dollar-Sterling Trade Council, Is to write to 2,000 Canadian companies asking them to buy more of their imports from Britain.
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    IS £2,200 ENOUGH IN MAYFAIR?
    254 9 It wasn't for this couple AN income of £2,200 a year was not enough for Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Whiteside, a divorce judge said. They had a house m Mayfair with rent and rates at £700 to £800 a year. They had two servants, Mrs.
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    Earl loses home
    66 9 Fire wrecked Melguntl TTouse the home of the Earl and Counter of Minto. near Ilawick, Roxburghshire^ I I t The Avro VuH an. the E world's first delta wing bomber, is here se<n making a vertical climb. Powered hy four Bristol Olympus jet I rnffines, it will
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    Store moves to speed up the traffic
    88 9 Store moves to speed up the traffic VI R. BOYD CARPENTER, 11 Minister of Transport, has approved a $1,000,000 rebuilding .scheme which will rid London of onr of its worst traffic bottle necks. It involves the reconstruction of part of Barker's departmental store m Kensington High-street. The work will take
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    LAST WEEK'S WINNERS
    76 10 r pilF winners of last week's colouring contest were: (1) Miss N. Kamachi (14) I orm 1-A, St. George's Girls* School, Mat Mister Koad, I'enang. (2) Miss Saa.vah (11), 6. Barrack "A", Sg. Best Police Station, Koala Lumpur. (3) Master Lav Cheng Chang (7) 31-r». Lim Liak
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    Ramasamy meets the Queen
    692 10 Ramasamy meets the Queen AHFDUIFDS A GRASSHOPPER named lloppit meets Ramasamy and makes him small by maeic. then he takes the little boy to see his friends the bees. (NOW READ ON.) RAMASAMY followed Hoppit up the passage and he noticed the walls covered with hundreds of little cells, but
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    Colour this for prizes
    77 10 GET out your paints, crayons or chalks and colour this delightful picture there are four prizes of $5 to be won— two for boys and two for girls. When you have finished fill m the coupon and send your effort to Aunty Wendy, co The Free
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      97 10 INTERNATIONAL ELECTRIC CO., Authorised dealer for Philips Radios 642, Geylang Road. Spore (14) Tel: ***** BX 745 A H I i^H 10 Valves ;jjpk I I^H 10" loudspeaker vtfyj 1 13 Valve functions $490.00 1 (ASH LESS 10 r We have pleasure to announce the establfehment of our new branch
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      617 10 Humnmi m iiiiiimiiiimiiiiiimih. Rupert and the Butterflies 2\ Rupert 2nd Algy g«c ov«r th« ing me anything." grumble* wide bruUcap* bur can «< noth.ng Horace, yawning. "I've over- pt r ihis year md I m only halt jwike to e»pUm the bchavK>ur of the Anyway. butterrl»e> don't butterflie*. As ;b«y
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    What do you see in a face?
    607 11 W hat do you see in a face? DAVID LEWIN'S SPOTLIGHT finds the star answer A MAN with my kind of face nas to be refill," said Mcl Ferrer. •It is very flattering to hear that women find it •arresting'— but when I look at it is gives me the
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    ENTER LUDMILLA in PANTALOONS
    243 11 IT IS that split-second moment when the set is ready, the lights are ready, the cameras are ready, the ballerina is dressed to act, and everything is poised for the director's word: ACTION! ludmilla Tcherina m blue lace night-robe and matching pantaloons— prepares for a scene
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    REAR-ADMIRAL IS BACK ON MIDWAY
    45 11 CMNDR. John Ford photographed the Battle of Miclv/av from the island 12 year* ago and was wounded. Now he has returned to direct the comedy, "Mister Roberts," from the same island. He.; now ft rear admiral m the reserve, incidentally.
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    Chinese star in Hong Kong story
    94 11 Chinese star in Hong Kong story VETERAN Chinese character actor Richard Loo has joined the ca.st of "Soldier of Fortune,' currently before the cameras. The suspense tale has a Hongkong background. C^ENE TIERNEY and HumpI hrey Bogart have been named to take the starring roles m "The Left Hand Of
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    SHOW TALK
    260 11 THK Uteft 00 he and Dick H.4>n. .sport- ing a full Edwardian beard and moust week d a luxury flat an Wil.shire Boulevard and left Kita'.s daughters at I.aJce Tahoe on the mow-crest. hiie she films "Joseph and Hi* Brethren." Moreover, both registered to vote m Nevada, uith
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      95 11 HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES fimt s/tou/d twt be ttjit/ictd/ BROKCHITIS THROAT LINIMENT prickly" heat for I DTI ON the relirf of LV I I V H Ml S(l I,AK f»r RHKI MATISM tfc w I.IMHM.II Ml KAI.«.I\ MINOR SKIN ST^NKs's IRRITAHONS BRI ISKS Wnttl HFAT SORKNRSS of and MISCLF.S SKIN ttUFTHHUI AVA
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    379 12 Princess Margaret favours that crinoline effect AFYEURRIWQ of the sunny isles visited by Scotland's favourite daughter, Scots-born Princess Margaret, were conjured up for me at a display of fashions the other day. Compere of the show was an actress and radio personality who set off my line of thought by
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    COCKTAILS FOR TWO BUT WHICH TWO?
    113 12 HAVE YOU noticed how you can chart the progress of a love affair by simply watchincr how the lovers behave at parties? FIRST STAGE: They arrive independently, catch each ether's eye across a crowded room, and leave together. SECOND STAGE: They arrive together, talk
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      260 12 ACROSS vide hostelries (4). I A backward port begins this 4 Rouse from sleep with a Lancaclimate (8). shlre holiday m the midst (6). 7As old one she had glamour! |> A handy tree? (4). (5). 6 Comparative state of a nursery 8 Girl with a number m her heart
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    The Cruel Seas Don't Panic Mr. Monsarrat (jnr.)
    729 13  -  Anne Sharpiey iiiiiiiii MBtM" IF your baby is destined to be a globe-trotter with parents from two different continents living m a third how do you bring him up? Easy, says an elegant 35-year-old South African mother whose husband is English, whose
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    481 13 IV HEN partners overcall has been doubled, you are often orn between the wish to rescue and the danger that your rescue will only put you Into hotter ater. It Ls important to keep m Tiind that for an overcall at the two level, partner should have a
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      87 13 CUTTING costs lAHtse Cutlery per do/. Spoons $19/50 Spoons $18 50 YOUR CHANCE TO SAVE ON THESE ns 9/5 2^ ns COMMONSENSE HOME ITEMS IN g*» 8/50 ||/S| E. P. N. S. AND STERLING SILVER EPN s S(>|)p Turp n SnvTr" Butter 'DisheHn case \l j f It r<im v|
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    Boxing booms in Bangkok
    546 14 By LITTLK NENE lUST across the Malayan border. Bangkok city with a population of 884,000 is the Mecca for boxing m the Far East, and probably one of the most flourishing rltie. In the wortd tor ****°»gEm boxIns i withered on Bangkok week auo: STADIUMS: BfngkA^
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    SULLIVAN IS AFTER OLSON
    146 14 SULLIVAN IS AFTER OLSON MR. Georue Dlngley, manager of Johnny Sullivan. British middleweight champion said alter talks with American interests yesterday that the prospect of a world title ftght with Carl Olson, the holder, seemed bright. The first step, he said, would be to arrange a contest with either Joe
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    105 14 THE first Congress of the Union of European Football Association opened m Vienna yesterday with the draw for the 1955 F.I. FA. youth tournament. The tournament, to be held In several Italian towns at Easter, will be played m the lollowing fivp groups: Group one: France, Romania.
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    ARGONAUTS BEAT AMICABLE A.A.
    34 14 ARGONAUTS beat Amicable A.A. 1-0 m a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday, Rahim Omar scoring from a William Tan corner kick. Tien Chong missed a penalty for Amicable.
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    A.A.A. HAILS MORE-TRACKS PLAN
    276 14 THE annual report of the Amateur Athletic Association haiLs a recent .statement by the Minister of Education as "tht most encouracing information athletics ru.s had for some years. He Ls prepared, said the Minister, to make |T*BU to develop playing fields, and to consider running trades
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    A DARING SOCCER PLAN-3 3,4
    601 14  - A DARING SOCCER PLAN-3 3, 4 Danny Blanchflower By the Ireland and Tottenham Hotspur riyht-half expound* a new theory jor Soccer strategists. POOL heads keep some men out of trouble, but with most it's cold feet that get them into it. It is my sincere opinion that fear has too
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    ROOM FOR THE ROAMER
    44 14 ROOM FOR THE ROAMER Is this the answer to the No Man's Land problem: Danny Blanchflower says this formation suggests a more even distribution of strength. It certainly fills m the mid-field ?ap. But what a Soccer revolution. ..three backs, three half-backs, four forwards!
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    ENGLAND v. AUSTRALIA IN K.L.
    115 14 QELANGOR Club's cricket »5 season starts this weekend with two matches on the Kuala Lumpur padang. Tomorrow they meet the Selangor Sikh Union. On Sunday they will play an Australia versus England game.*" The club's teams are: TODAY: A Pye. J. Kirby, E. Brown. R.
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    Shepherdson not ready to lead
    207 15 Shepherdson not ready to lead r E NTRE-HALF Mike I shcpherdson was again ned at centre-forward yesterday's Federation practice game m preparation for tomorrow's second hockey "Test" against stan. shepherdson scored two of :V goals, and gave an mproved performance, but needs time to become a 1 fl.dged centre-forward. „u
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    New Zealand cricket side
    127 15 THE TEAM to represent New ad against England m the current tour at Dunedin, on Mar. 11, will be: o K a bone (Auckland, capt), Chappie (Canterbury), B. .Otago), J. R. Reid (Wel- H MiicGibbon (CanterH B. Cave (Cent. Dist.) A. ir (Otago), R. W. Blair
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    123 15 LWCH Singapore competitor at the Olympic J Games m Melbourne, will pay $24 a day for accommodation. I The organising committee for the games j announced this yesterday, saying that all com- iK'titors and oiiicials staying at the Olympic village will have to pay
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    JAP LEADS IN U.S. SKI MEET
    98 15 THIHARU IGAYA of Japan and Egil Stigum of Norway— both Dartmouth college students— led 46-man field down a fast downhill course of Stark uuntain (Vermont) yesterday to give Dartmouth am in the four-event national collegiate ski cham- The 23-year-oid Igaya, an mpic racer m
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    M-C.C. NAME 12 v. NEW ZELAND
    60 15 MCC arrived m Christ'•nurch, New Zealand by fr <mi Sydney for their four tour of New Zealand. r^ are hopes of fine •t for the MCC's opentch, which begins today Canterbury. m <from): Len Hutton. Oraveney, Feter May, c£nnr Co^ drey Re X Simpson,
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    38 15 St. Thomas's hospital, the holder*, beat St. Bartholomews 6—3 In their Rugby Union Hospitals Cup second round, second rcpiay, at Richmond yesterday St. Thomas's meet London Hospital m the semi-fina) next. Wednesday, March 9 Reuter
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    EVERYTHING BUT THE WATER BUCKET!
    266 15 Novices finals Free Press Boxing Reporter VLfOVV, these novices certainly love slinging the fT leather around! The pace at last night's finals of the Singapore A.B.A. Novices Tournament was terrific. For sheer all-out acti a bunch of hard hitting r j Singapore Badminton Hali i
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    RESULTS
    162 15 Hywt-i K hl: V. Kasavuii (QSBC) beat ij\c N. Rubins (RAF) on points. Bantam: SAC D. McGuire (RAF) I'U' i'amal liaba (Army) on points. Feather: Hussein Abu Hassan (Police) beat L/Cpl W. ftflUcr i RAOC) on points. UgMvalgfct: T. Robson <RAF) beal pu- Bald (Army) on k.o. 2nd round
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    MILE RECORD BID TONIGHT
    42 15 Wes Santee will make another try to set a new world indoor mile track record m the Knights of Columbus games tonight m Madison Square garden. Denmark^ Gunnar Nielsen holds the record at 4 mm. 3 6 sec.
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    TITLE PLANS
    31 15 A plan is being developed for welterweight champion Johnny Saxton of New York to d< fend his title against Boston's Tony DeMarco m the Boston garden on April 1.
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    521 15 Police switch factics and beat Chinese Police 2: Chinese THE Police caused no surprise when they beat Chinese Athletic by two clear goals at Jalan Besar stadium last nißht. Main reason was their ability to last the fast Dace set m the first half. C A looked better In the
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    RAD NAMES HIS PRICE: $2,000
    165 15 THE boxing bombshell from Tonga. Kitione Lave, may explode his mitts at the expanse i»l Fijian Isimeii Itarirodro on April t. According to a letter received by Promoter V-nr Iron IUIJf P.K. (iaiulau. second m command <»f the WL Fiji Infantry Regiment m Johore. Kadrodro
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    Poona is out to repeat win
    190 15 *VUE $300,000 (Malayan) added San Juan CapLstrano grass cour.sc at Santa Anita park, has drawn entrie.s from 13 candidates, including an array of foreign contender*. The San Juan today will have a gro.ss value of $347,700 if all the entrie.s .start, and the winner
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    ROYAL WORLINGTON NAPPED
    467 16 Mont Clare is another good bet Free Press Course Correspondent ROYAL WOKLLNtfTON II is napped to make it three m a row m Race Five at Penang today. This Denturius four-year-old is much on the upgrade and I think he is too good for any Class 4
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    BIRTHS
    45 16 20 Words $6 (minimum) LAIDLAW— To Eileen and Bill at j Grace Hospital Ottawa, on March 2nd. a daughter. Diane. CAREY: To Gwyneth Ellis, (nee Pritchard>. wife of James Carey, at Bungsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur on March 3rd 1955, a son David j Hunter.
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    81 16 20 Words $t> minimum YEO GUNN: Lawrence Kirn San, youngest son of the late Mr. and! Mrs. Yeo Cheng Hai of Singapore,' to Chit Eow. elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gunn Lay Tor of Penang on 3.3.55. HU-CHING: In Hongkong En-; gagement is announced between Dr j Hu
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    213 16 TRESPASSER PKLAMPOK EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER ""rZTTI STRF\M lONO nIKMM SONG STREAM BONO COLORADO II STREAM ~SOM. Colorado II Ileremai Hercmai ItW t Heremai Rai ,o MOWN BOOTI FIREBIRD FIREBIRD BROWN BOOTY BROWN Bonn stronr and Free Two Diamonds Brown Booty Firebird Firebird Firebird Brown
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    12 16 BARTLEY boat Beattv 3-0 m their inter-school soccer match yesterday.
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    World table-tennis meet in Tokyo
    157 16 JAPAN will make a bid for the 23rd world table tennis championships to be held m Tokyo m May next year. Formal application will be made by the Japanese delegation to the International Table Tennis Federation which will meet at Utrecht, where this year's pruirrmionshiDs
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    CANADA AND SOVIET MEET FOR TITLE
    89 16 CANADA AND SOVIET MEET FOR TITLE HTHE clash between the Soviet x Union, holders of the title, and Canada m Krefeld. Germany, tomorrow will decide the 1955 world ice hockey championship. The two teams last night emerged with maximum points from their first seven games of the series m which
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