The Singapore Free Press, 9 March 1955

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No *****. Singapore, Wed., Mar. 9,1955, Price 15 CU.
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  • 235 1 TOWNSEND SPEAKS I Position was becoming I impossible for us i^HOVP Capt. Peter Townsend said m Brussels I I* last night that he cannot speak about the persistent rumour linking him with Princess Margaret because it involves more people than himself. But he came close to admitting that such a
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  • 102 1 U.P. Conditions for THE Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, said m the House of Commons yesterday he decided conditions for progress on the Formosa problem did not exist after he had talks m Burma and India and after ho nad learned of the attitude of Peking. "I had valuable talks
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  • 78 1 rpHE Queen has approved the I posthumous award of the Colonial Police Medal for galimtry to Special Constable Maarof bin Abdul Rahman, of the Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary, the London Oazette said last night. Maarof was killed m November while leading a counterattack against Communist terrorists m Pahang. Though
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  • 48 1 An Indian named Godindavellu was stabbed and killed m an affray m McKenzie Road, Singapore, early today. Another Indian received throat injuries but was not seriously injured. PICTURES SEIZED The police seized 38 obscene photographs from a motor uoat near the marine police station, Singapore, yesterday. REDS BLAMED
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  • 33 1 Mr. H. J. Anslinger, Federal Narcotics Commissioner, said Washington yesterday he "ad traced a very decided increase m narcotics addiction m JJje United States to Red AP Union boss says I'd rather quit...
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  • 105 1 COLOUR BAR DISPUTE FLARES UP AGAIN THE West Bromwich colour bar dispute flared up again yesterday with busmen refusing to work with an Indian conductor. Mr B Deeley local secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union— the most powerful m Britain— said he would resign rather than work with
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  • 87 1 Snow blocks all roads to London A BLIZZARD trapped hundreds of villages near London yesterday. The 20-hour snowstorm, worst for 15 years m southeast England began at midnight m the country of Kent. Police reported snowdrifts up to 12 feet deep m villages around the cathedral city of Canterbury. All
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  • 53 1 Crew held were Indonesians THE seven crew members taken ofl the Dutch iner Willem Ruys last week n a Slice raid were it was learned m Jakarta yeste A da Dollce cruiser chased the Un«^ Thursday, stoppe^hjr several miles o^^.%^^ harbour and arrested the ere* members on charges that arc
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  • 19 1 The Burme.se Minister for community centres will also see how the Boy* Town is run. WELFARE TOUR RUBBER DOWN
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  • 35 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened on an uncertain tone this morning, with first grade. March shipment, at 84 1 H cents a lb.. five-eighths of a cent below yesterday's cloae. 'Well fight next time 9
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  • 175 1 DULLES WARNS PEKING THE United States Secretary of State. Mr. Foster Dulles, said m Washington yesterday that open armed aggression by the Chinese Communists again would probably result m "general war m Asia." The United States, he added, would use "new and powerful weapons of precision" m any fighting that
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  • 270 1 ting civilian areas. He added: "The Allied nations have together plenty of power m th« i area." Mr. Dulles declined to say specifically whether the United States would ftght to help the Chinese Nationalists hold Quemoy and Matsu. The Secretary did not rerer to the British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony
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  • 5 1 Reuter Formosa truce not yet-Eden
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  • 238 2 THEY WERE BUSY Britain's Jift-boats w«-nt out 688 times last jrear the highest ever peacetime /igure.— Router. I MUDIE RUBBER PLAN HIT Trees not too old at 30 planter 11K. J. K. SWAIN E, A chairman of the Padang Senang Rubber Company, said m London yesterday that any scheme based
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  • 90 2 for "improved material' m its short economic life of 30 years. The 56-> ear-old trees on his company-s estate looked like they would be tapped profitably for at least another 10 years, he added. Any scheme based on the theory that rubber trees were too old at 30 benefited the
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  • 48 2 ■pHK Bunncge Premier, v Nu. i m Bangkok yejterday there was "no possibility" that his country would join the South-Wot Asia collective defence treaty. U Nu. who is on a goodwill visit to Siam. .said be would not discus* SEATO with Siamese leaders. A.P. Why Russia banned priest
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  • 64 2 RUSSIA informed the Unit- ed States yesterday that an American Catholic priest. Father Qeor^r.s Bissonnette was ordered to leave Moscow because the us. refused to let a Soviet clergyman remain In America. I The explanation was carried In a note delivered to th^ American embassy in Moscow and it was
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  • 39 2 GOING TO KENYA The First Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, the "Glorious Glosters" who won the UJS. presidential citation m Korea's bloody Imjim River battle, left yesterday for Kenya to Join the light against Man Mau terrorists.— UP Biggest ever
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  • 35 2 About 75,000.000 people nearly one-half the total population of the United States watched the television showing of Peter Pan on Monday night It was the largest audience for one network m television history. A. P.
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  • 84 2 Britain may join new defence pact T^HE British Forei-n fc the rec/ntly conclS Iraq defence pact ko Reporting that he had dk cussed the possibiiit-. aQ i/ r i mier Nuri A/ Baghdad, Mr. Eden .said- I hope before long to ci ye on this subject. Our aim lorm a
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  • 125 2 IJMTED STATES imports from Asia m Dm y were U*****,100,000 compared with US$l2O *****0 m November, the Commerce Department said' Washington yesterday. Exports to Asia m Dewn were U*****,400,000 com] with U*****.500-.000 In tS vious month, it added. Its imports from Malaya In December were U5514,600,000 against U5515,000,000 m Ni
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  • 87 2 JPHE French Government last •■> night won by 364 votes to 242 a vote m favour of the civil service budget whier. included an additional 9,600,000.000 francs (about $85,000,000) for pay increases. Mr. Faure. the Premier had told the Assembly that he wanted to make the vote one of support
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  • 91 3 NEW PROBE INTO TRIPLE SLAYINGS STAVE DOMINICI was In (i Marseilles yesterday ques--1 for two -and- a -half mi n the presence of his Gn ton Dominici m .v inquiry into the triple prummond murders. Gustave'j wife, Yvette, was then taken into the prison hospital where Gaston un.entence of death
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  • 158 3 PAKISTAN OFFICER SLAIN WHEN HE TRIED TO STOP QUARREL OVER 2 cents 4 FORMER Pakistani captain m the British Army A W as shot and killed yesterday m Manila, when he tried to stop a dispute between two Filipinos over a two and a half cent pinball fee, police said.
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  • 157 3 A. P. I married beneath me, says Lady Astor I ADY Nancy Astor. m a talk |J to wives of North Carolina legislators, criticised radio, advertising and comics as unattractive facets ol American life. As usual she also was at no oss for words on various other subjects. Some points
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  • 29 3 A.P. HARDING IN KOREA Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, arrived at Kimpo air base from Tokyo terday to inspect Cornmnnwealth troops m Korea.
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  • 22 3 U.P. IT'S OFFICIAL Premier Borg Olivier of -vKilta lormally resigned ypsl(>rday following the defeat 01 his party m the week-end tions.- U.P.
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  • 32 3 Triumph triumph The first British Triumph sports car to be sold east of the "Iron Curtain" was bought yesterday at the Leipzig Fair by the East German Minister, Horr Otto Grotwohl. Reuter
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  • 37 3 A BREAK FOR LUNCH WITH MOTHER Prince Ali plays truant from his new school PRINCE Ali Patrick, seven-year-old nephew of the Shah of Persia, yesterday ran away from the school he entered here m Gstaad, Switzerland on
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  • 132 3 Monday. The boy, who has been the centre of a dispute between his mother, Princess Christiane Pahlevi. and the Shah, scampered to his mother's hotel and had lunch there. He is expected to return to school today. Princess Christian?, widow of the Shah's brother, the late Prince Ali Reza. has
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  • 162 3 FORGET HIM, GIRL IS TOLD A 32-YEAR-OLD labourer, John Hollirk. wai <** sentenced to seven years' »aol m Kingston Surrrey, yesterday for the manslaughter or February 1, 1954. of the three-and-a-halt year-old daughter of the woman he was living with. Hollick and the woman, Margaret MorrTew. 23, a domestic servant,
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  • 83 3 NARRIMAN TO SEEK RELIGIOUS DIVORCE, TOO FORMER Queen Narriman of Egypt i- s checking into the possibility of obtaining an Islamic divorce from her second husband outside Egypt, an authoritative source said m Lausanne. Switzerland, yesterday. Narriman, former wife of exKing Farouk is married to Dr. Adham El Nakib, a
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  • 56 3 BRITISH CLOTHES -MADE IN JAPAN Japan opened an oxhibition of her textiles at the Japan Trad*' Centre In New York yesterday, featuring woollen goods styled m the Britush manner. Mr. Jlro Nito, executive 1 director of the centre, said most of the fabrics would sell at about 20 per cent
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  • 83 3 HIS TROUBLES WITH WIVES ON MONEY OVER PROONER Dick Haymes, who said he recently settled his child support debts with wife No. 2, Joanne Dru Ireland, now has settled his long alimony argument with wife No. 3, Norra Eddington Flynn Haymes. Both parties agreed not to disclose the amount. Haymes,
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  • 38 3 Fired, rehired Seventy-six members of the i crew of the British ship Queen of Bermuda, who had beei dismissed for staging a walkout strike m New York, were rehired and flown to Bermuda to rejoin their ship.- A.P.
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  • The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Mar. 9, 1955.
    • 286 4 Opinion 'PRIVATE' HOMES ANY scheme to ease the housing shortage in Singapore and the Federation is always welcome, for the need for accommodation is ever with us. And the plan of the Federal and Colonial Building Society to build 6,000 more homes is doubly welcome. It will need $60,000,000 to
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  • 751 4  -  FRED ZUSY by Egypt may lose fight for Arab neutrality bloc F [EGYPT'S young Prime J Minister, Col. Gamal Abde] Nasser, dispatched un envoy to Jordan recently to present stillyounger King Hussein with two gold-plated pistols. About the same time, Turkey's parliament voted a gift of three
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  • 214 4 IN the last war, when Britain and America were ready to launch the counter attack against the hostile fortes that had overrun Europe, three costly and hazardous seaborne invasions were necessary. The landing craft went in on the North African shores. They went in under gunfire
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  • 71 4 JUST before they began televising a Paris night-club show on the spot the other nicht, the producer stepped on to the floor and with supreme discretion said to the audience. "II there Is any gentleman who wishes to place himself outside the range of the camera, will he
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    • 39 4 i Charm and Choice 1 at I I SENA 'S I Here is the work of master- craftsmen, upholding in contem- porary manner the proud traditions of centuries. |H. SEN A I LIMITED HIGH CLASS JEWELLERS Singapore, Pcnang, Bangkok.
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    • 160 4 I Helena Rubinstein^^. MASKS iSU I I for Beauty Every skin needs the added loveliness and the fresh perfection that only a mask can bring. YOUTHIFVING HERBAL MASK SPECIAL PORK MASK -perfect beauty cocktail for tired, works deeply into the pores to lined skins. Beautifies instantly. free them from clogging
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  • 542 5 Ex-prisoner 's brutality story 'false I IRTLING allegatious ot brutality by warders towards prisoners in Outram Koad jail, were made in Singapore yesterday by a former inmate. The charges were promptly denied by the imissioner of Prisons, Major W. L. P. Sochon, who they were
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  • 194 5 TEACH DRAMA SAYS STORE PRODUCER \[k. Donald Moore, theatrical 'H producer, and publisher, ants the Singapore Education I partment to engage a drama pecialist to teach .school children. He said that by teaching thoni to appreciate plays, they could aW> learn how to think and write. They would also acquire
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  • 44 5 A USTRALIA'S Minister- designate to Bangkok, Mr. D. O. Hay, has arrived in Singapore by air from Saigon. He was a member of the Australian delegation to the SEATO conference. Mr. Hay will return to Bangkok in about a week.
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  • 139 5 SATA begins new mobile clinic service On Mon<fay SATA inaugurates a new service designed to reach and help those suffering from tuberculosis and living in the remote parts of Singapore. Beginning on Monday and every succeeding Monday and Thursday, the following routine will be followed: 8.15 a.m.: Polony Pasir behind
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  • 21 5 Mr. R. M. Young, the Singapore Director of Education, will open Siglap secondary .school at 9 a.m. on Monday.
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  • 197 5 MR. A. J. Braga. the Labour I Front candidate for Katon Division, will still try to stop Government's ?r:int to the Family Planning Association if elected to tli'' .Singapore Legislative Assembly, He wai commenting on ft I recent joint, plea for tolerance j
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  • 148 5 Winston's lion is old-age rictim ROTA, Sir Winston Churchill's African lion, who has been causing anxiety at the Zoo recently, is suffering from old age. He is 18 years old a good age for a lion. Mr. Oliver Jones, the Society's veterinary surgeon. I said: "He has an excellent constitution,
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 312 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis s^rlsKmssa f^g^^S^ S^fflg^f s > «tNSINC£IWASABOYINTHf.\/ QF^^^SvV 1 MOUNTAIN- •M M COME TO MEET COLLEGE Of N\AG\ar ==^l ff Ul_ JJ -l T^- M \ri < *^a />l\S ON BALO TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs Bim'flV'^^ AUSTIN STIU_ SEEA\E7 PUWOUS. 7 \Jp~~'\\*~~J THE
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    • 715 6 YOUR LUCKY STAR I>ORN today, yours is a D vivid, dramatic inj I: magnetic personality. Voo E have the knaik of nukinfriends wherever >ou g*, E Fond of travel and adventure, E it is likely that you will do j E considerable wandering in j E your youth. Since you
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  • Hound the World Market Prices
    • 216 7 LONDON Mar. 8 Previous Today it ltnl X No- 1 K ss E»™>P«*n 2 7 buyers 24~ s buyers iU vianh 25 1. 8 sellers 25 sellers .•I I'.BKK No. 1 BSS c.i.f. European 24 buyers 24 buyer s 9"t* sc,' K eIICTS SelletS RI'BBEB No. 1
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    • 105 7 NEW YORK, Mar 8. Previous Today tin Straits spot and nearby 90.87 nom. 90 87 norn TIN futures, March 90.00 bid 90.70 asked 90.00 traded April 89.7 a bid 89 75 bid 90.30 asked 90 00 asked May 89.45 bid 89.60 bid 89.90 asked 90 00 asked
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    • 45 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 43 Vi cents per pound. Awaiting release 43. Afioats 42V4- March 42. April Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Tb. 41 V a May 41 Sarawak spot 43 and Lampong Spot 43 Ms cents sellers ex dock.
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    • 36 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 8. Previous Today 30 Industrials 416 84 409.13 2() Railroads 153.08 149 47 40 Domestic Bonds 100.10 100 49 J'l 65 25 W. 53 b4 Mocks Composite Average 156.11 153.19
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    • 114 7 Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.ii. UK/North luropean delivered weight per long ton March/April $182 sellers $181 sellers COPEA Philippines f.o.b. Manila •'•-mrrrfl wrighl. per long ton unquoted unquoted < OPRA Straits c.l.f. UK/North Europe*]] delivered weight per '"us ton March/April £67 buyers £65' a buyers £67
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  • 35 7 picture. MRS. KHOO smiles as she has her blood tested by a hospital attendant. Her husband is an interested onlooker. It is his turn next. Free Press
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  • 204 7 A CHINESE couple yesterday braved traditional superstitions to give their blood to the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service. They were Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Khoo. They made their decision after learning that only 1,929 Chinese gave blood last year while 5,139 Chinese received transfusions. Said Mr.
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  • 265 7 THAT EJECTION STORY? IT'S A LIE SAYS MR. LIM ELY exchanges between opposing candidates are the air as Singapore M n day draw.s near In tho pay a Lebar division, Progressive Party's Mr. Koon Teck complained untmthful accusations had been made against him by a rival. Mr Lim said a
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    • 9 7 W* i i A n\ (J u_'s jj WASSIAMULL'S
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    • 124 7 but Doctor, why does 'Disprin' relieve pain so quickly? SEE—IT DISSOLVES! Disprin tablets really dissolve, lnstead Thlf it Disprin This is not! of nwrcly breaking up like most pain remedies C% Because Disprin dissolves, it is more if II J I 7/ rapidly absorbed by your body, and \Jmlirmmlj Am^^Ji
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  • 107 8 MR. KOIZUMI watches closely (top left) II any false move in a contest between Takami^M Matsuo. a Japanese university student, audll Hee Hiong of Singapore. (Top Right): Three pupils of the Singap^B Judo Club listen intently as Mr. Koizumi spefl to them on the ancient Japanese
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  • 366 9  -  ROGER YUE Story by \t*k is no barrier to a man learning ju-jitsu, if he has the interest of ihe sport at heart. This is said by one of the worlds greatest exponents of the ancient Japanese art of self-defence, 70-year-old
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  • 51 9 L esson in three stages I K °koml shows (left) how to apply ntcli lock with the hand! I on Nk Jiak Choon. W liis OWn back (top) by clamping thr loefc on Mr. Koi/iimi. 11 lu i )il Nf goes up and over as Mr Kotevml nips inl in
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  • 129 10 His 'mouse' may float in outer space A "SATELLITE" weigh- Ing 501b. is being designed by an American scientist, Professor Frederick Singer, who plans to launch it 190 miles Into outer space. Technical name of Professor Singer's project Is a minimum orbital unmanned gati Ilite ot the Earth Mouse for
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  • 89 10 /CENTRAL heating for main V> streets is being planned by Madrid's city government. Although Jew visitors accustomed to really cold weather can appreciate the need for this, Spaniards feel the cold of their brief winter much more than north Europeans and the idea is
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  • 180 10 MR. ARISTOTLE ONASSIS, the Greekborn shipping millionaire, is to lose a world record he has claimed during the past year as owner and operator of the largest oil tanker afloat. The 45.000-ton Tina Onassis, BUT FRENCH WILL BUILD THEM IN THEIR YARDS r.amecl after his wife, is
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  • 53 10 TV) celebrate the 400 th. A birthday of the ancient sea canal connecting the river Scheldt and the sea. a new bridge five miles below Brussels is to be built. The effect: Brussels (six hours steaming inland from Antwerp) will again become a port
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  • 273 11 rpHE ex-pilot cutter Active, built in 1883, sails from Ramsgate for Venice soon with a jazz band as her crew. Three young men and three girls plan to use the Active to take tourists on trips from Venice. In six months they
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  • 239 11  - DID THIS NYMPH START THE CALYPSO? William Hickey EVERYBODY seems to be Calypso-happy t h c I days. A well-known composer of these, itrange songs, "Lord Kitchener" by name* has sent, Lcn Button a record Of a Calypso which celebrates the Test victory. The lasl verse runs: "They have no
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  • 602 11 HAL BOYLE tells about "the last of the minstrels" 1/KANKIE LAINE, who 1 recently in Australia added another chapter to his is mazing success, has long baffled the experts. Even his own mother wouldn't term him handsome. He has a figure that resembles a barrel. Hi
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  • 73 11 1 1 all Paris i.s being charmed by an exhibition of The Mo.st Beautiful Birds in the World Vi.sitor.s are kindly requested to be careful what they say in front of the parrot cages. Officials explain that after each bird .show in Pari.s. I parrot owner.s havr
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  • Article, Illustration
    278 12 ANNE EDWARDS and DRUSILLA BEYFUS see the sights that spelU. A Londoner called Lily hits the jackpot T THERE'S been such a pother from Paris this fashion season, such a rumpus from Rone. So it's good to announce today that the bt'.stselling dress of the lot name from London.
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  • 260 12 THE SNIP THA T CHANGED A STAR WHAT turned Miss Pat Roc from a fussy dresser, no smarter than the next starlet, into a woman of exceptional elegance? Once upon a time Miss Roc epitomised Dior's criticism of the way the English dress: 'English women are very beautiful*' he said
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    • 45 12 IWt cmi Phone Your SMALL ADS. <o Singapore 2800 Ext- I»S Jsft^Hftyfix*' L j s^i'''*''" m ''\i-^^ oSBoBBBB6BBBBoBW^^^BBS^MH^^OBBB^BB^wpg^ x&x« .-i^x gSs^ j '>x%-x-x-.-x- '■'^i^^K^^v^^'^^r?^^^.-^^ l^'-'- v"- -■"ißßßB^BßßHß^cs>S*^%s^BHB6BffßS'«'^?y '••'■•••x*x-! j !v'-.'''M i X-x-''.-. i^ >u &:£S^gBQBoH^W^*- iißskSaV' -S This is a STRAITS TIMES Classified Advertisement Service.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 262 12 CLUBS ACROSS: by boat (6). I The forest ranger has become 2 Soft interruption in the raid urbanised? <8». makes it quick (.5). 4 Employed dues In a confused 3 Former i y lts wa ys and means of manner «4,. departures (3). 8 Little demon boglns to Impress 5
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    • 109 12 TARGET HOW oianj i 1 word* of row letters I S I or mure van I rpo mukt rum the let I et, in J Ifl »h e si|Q;irr on tht riKln Id making I I m each w.o rd OR, the letter. In each of I J the small
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  • 1098 13  -  ROBERT GLENTON by Forget the cash-it's the grand manner that counts when the Briton goes abroad these days 11/ HO arc they talking >\ bout in Montr 0 in Estoril? In [le? In Rome? phey are talking of the test people they have known... the
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  • 388 13 Both sides vulnerable dealer NORTH t 4 CAB 6 5 4 0K Q 8 ♦J9 6 4 ST EAST 4;io9♦ X 8 7 6 2 SKQJIO3 v 10 7 4 3 **KlO 5 3 ♦J 7 2 SOUTH 'I D 3 Ww bidding: Pass 19 p^, JJ 3
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  • 164 13 They caught TWO 'mermaids' BLOW me down. You might have thought that growing sisal for roue-makers out in Tanganyika was a fairly dull business. Not at all. Sir Eldred Hitchcock, chief of Bird and CO.. reports that 'abnormal weather" there has brought forth "unusual and Interesting creatures from the sea."
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  • 107 13 DO you collect railway stations? Do y«u dream of having your own cosy little waiting rooms, platform, ticket-office and whatnot? If so. Trance caters for you handsomely. This week there Is a choice of seven complete railway stations up for auction at Versailles. Starting prices are set
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  • 239 14 fiAl buildkk Earn Ft-rrun \m countlni on i I**** Vi>rsl v ,i the model that won the Spanish Grand i'nx U> win the International Dally Express Trophy it Silverstmw on Maj 7 It has the iERM enflna M the car Mike
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  • 59 14 picture. Wolverhampton Wanderers, favourites for the English F.A. Cup, tightened their grip on the League Div. 1 championship by beating Manchester United 4 2 at Old Trafford. Picture shows Johnny Hancocks (left). Wolves' right winger, scoring from a centre by Leslie Smith, on
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  • 448 14  - THE LIGHTS BRIGHTEN WEMBLEY TRIAL GEORGE WHITING writes from London 11/ HEN the watts «o u|» W at Wembley and »t will not be loiir nowget ready for floodlight football of kind that will make our present share of illumination on London soccer grounds look like dim-out. Before the end
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  • 133 14 CEREMBAN Town Councillor^ Will give the Pakistan hookey team a lunch at Seremban tomorrow. The team will arrive from Malacca today and will be entertained to lunch and dinner by the Seremban Town Councillor, Mr A. s. Davood. Tomorrow night the Negri Sembilan Sikh Union will
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  • 19 14 The Kelantan Amateur Uhleti Asswhtinn will h«»li| 'f cross country champlOßMhip meet at Pasir Mas on March 25,
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  • 20 14 Nanyang Siang Pan Singapore^ basketball champions M combined Bent on? cm bx points to Hat the KaJ Cliitm.se Srhool
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  • 60 14 N. B I). F.touri, Rhodr.shm who plays for the London club. Blackheath wm yesterday chosen to till tho vacani fullback position in tho England Rugby union side to pi*»y Scotland at Twickenham on March u> Bfltcourt 1 1 Cambridge b>it tiled '<> i,'iin a blue. n<*
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  • 209 14 AN amazing attack 00 Henry Cotton and "thifl rebel buttness" WM made by Mr. Harry Clapper, chairman ol the Northern iectlon of tiie pci.A. at the anDUal meeting Of tho Yorkshire UiUon j oi Profeaetonal OHollert, at Moortown, Leeda« Mr Crappei said Cotton
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  • 48 14 Aiidp dc Kersgleter (Belgium) knocked oul Billy Dlaway (Liver* pool i .'.Pii b left Iwxik in Ihe I hird "'iiiui of hard-hitting bout at I Llvei p«K)i Phe Belgian 'is down f«n eight ii the? ,<('» nd round. lie floored Klluway iji luui just before tiie bell.
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  • 60 14 A HEAVY snowfall yesterday caused the postponement of the opening day's programme of the National Hunt Festival of steeplechasing and hurdling at Cheltenham. The programme which should havo been run yesterday which included the champion Hurdle Challenge Cup, has been postponed until today. The C l' >l<J
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  • 283 15 Follow this advice from Pakistan -DE SOUZA I VIEW of the Federation hockey side paripating In next year's Olympics every opportunity should be taken from now to build up a ally worthwhile team and improve the standard the game. Thus said Mr. H. M. De Souza, President of the Ma-
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  • 35 15 picture. Nazzareno Gianeiil, the Kuropean flyweight champion, who last night lost his title to British champion Dai Dower of Wales. The Italian is here seen training at a London gymnasium Paul Popper
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  • 278 15 ME Football Association are driving us hoarse cheering their good deeds. Last week they were giving eoinl fV; eta the Cu P Final P air and 'now they are v c nsider calling off their watchdogs who re- on chaps playing football on the
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  • 99 15 /\FFICE bearers of the Indian Recreation Club for the current year elected at their general meeting held at the SAPA Club on Sunday were as follows:--Patron: N. V. Vengadasalam; President: A. P. Rajah; Vice-presi- dents: S. A. Shariff, S. P. Samy; Secretary: p. Appavoo; Asst. Secre- tary:
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  • 196 15 BIRMINGHAM TO HAVE TEST MATCHES Addition to the five traditional grounds j^DGBASTON (Birmingham), the Warwickshire county cricket ground, Ls to have Test matches played there from 1957 onwards. This waa decided when the Board of Control for Test matches met at Lords yesterday. Lords (MCC and Middlesex), Oval (Surrey) Old
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  • 151 15 ANOTHER TITLE FOR DOWER F|AI DOWER, British and Empire flyweight champion, was an easy winner against Nazzareno Giannelli (Italy), over 15 rounds for the Italian's European title last night. The little Italian did not win a single round, though he shared the honours in four of them second, fourth, teath,
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  • 49 15 RON BARTON, the most promising British light-heavy, weight for many years, beat Don Ellis, a coloured American living in Germany. The referee stopped the fight in the seventh of a ten round contest. Barton outclassed Ellis with I lesson in cool calculated boxing and crisp punching.
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  • 111 15 Tin clipped one second <>fT the record established by Cany bridge In 1987, Ye terday in thetf Ant oui ing on the tideway, Oxford did ;i record 4 minutes io seconds for the first mile from Putm y Jlridijr They plan to row full course
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  • 169 15 2 Malayan delegates for the I.B.F THE world tour by Ooi Teik Hock and Ong Poh Lim last year cost $13,111 the Badminton Association of Malaya says in its annual report. Donations to the Tour Fund i totalled $5,199 while an exhibition in Singapore netted $2,862. To cover expenses the
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  • 60 15 The Trvonto Police Amateur Athletic Association has derided to explore the pOMlblllty of bringing three of the world's t-op milrrs for the annual polirc jjames on July 25. 'Hh* AMOciatlon said pMtcrds^ X would RpproßCO iJiit.i.ii Cbrtfl ChmtAWfty, lhe U B West BMItM and CftOlidA'l Rich P^ffUtOD Bbotlt
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  • 89 15 7 -WICKET TRIUMPH FOR M.C.C. 'THE M.cc opened their New Zealand tour by defeating Canterbury by seven wickets in their three-day match which ended just after lunch yesterday. Canterbury, 138 for live overnight, were all out in their .second Innings for 296 and the MC.C. not the 45 run.s needed
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  • 56 15 JtflSS Atsuko Nambu, fastest woman sprinter in the Orient, and three other Japanese athletes left by Northwest Airlines from Tokyo to compete in the Philippine track and field championships in Manila over the weekend. Mis.s Nambu won the 100 metres dash event In the second Asian
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  • 228 16 Free Press Course Correspondent %|AN ABOUT TOWN galloped like a tup-flight sprinter on the training track at liukit Timah this morning. With Davy Jones astride, this handsome Denturius four-year-old strode out in faultless manner in a solid workout with Bliss Fire, covering half
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  • 20 16 Grlm.sby Town beat Carlisle United 2-0 in their rearragned English league Div. 3 Nonh match at Grimsby yesterday.
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  • 83 16 OFFICIALS of the Malayan Waterski Association for the year were elected at the Annual General Meeting at Shell Theatrette as follows: President: Mr. Oei Tjong Ie (re-elected). vice president: Mr. H. G. Knapp. SecretaryMr. W. Pfister, Asst. Secretary: Miss M. Miller. Treasurer: Mr. B. Blakebrough, Committee; Messrs:
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  • 85 16 I>ATON MACIAS of Mexico, is a 2-1 on favourite to beat Chamroen Songkitrat of Siam, in their San Francisco fight tonight. The winner will be recognised by the National Boxing Association of America as world bantamweight champion, though the fight will take place over 12 rounds
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  • 184 16 rpANNY CAMPO of the Philip--1 pines is a 3-2 favourite to beat Hitoshi Misako in a 12--round bout for Campos Orient flyweight boxing title in Tokyo tonight. The bushy-haired Filipino is a veteran operator in Japanese rings. Misako is a newcomer who
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  • 81 16 pORMER world middleweight champion Randolph Turpln last night knocked out Spanish heavyweight champion Jose Oontale in 2 minutes 20 seconds of the seventh round of their tenround bout. It was Turpin's first apearance in a London ring in 12 months. The fight, before 18,000 in Earls Court,
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  • 28 16 DELEGATED Singapore Recreation Club Started their new season in the S.A.F.A Div 2A with a 3 2 defeat by 8.0.D C A on the padariK yesterday.
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  • 109 16 'THE 10-round boxing match scho- i flulrd for next Tuesday between Sugar Ray Robluson and Johnny i Lombaido. middlewelghts, has been postponed until March 29. Robinsons handlers In New York asked for a change in date, saying the former welterwel R ht and middleweight champion needed
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  • 155 16 'World's strongest' challenges 9 Russians A (AN AIM AN wrestler who claims to be the world's strongest man proposes to prove it in a challenge match against Russian weight lifting specialists. Doug Hepburn, formerly of Vancouver, yesterday issued a challenge to the nine strongest men in Russia. Each of the
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  • 129 16 TTALIAN Count Giorgio De Stefani, who played in 66 Davis Cup matches in a 13--year period, said yesterday he thinks Italy has a good chance of winning the European Zone competition for the Davis Cup tennis tournament this year. The only dangerous countries in the
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