The Singapore Free Press, 10 March 1955

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No 14tW. Singapore. Thurs.. Mar. 10, 1955. Price 15 Cts
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    Lock icon Sergeant accused of murder of his wife's first husband
    206 1 Sergeant accused of murder of his wife's first husband A BRITISH Army sergeant, Frederick Emmett-Dunne, was charged m London yesterday with the murder of Sergeant Reginal Watters, found hanged 16 months ago at Duisberg, West Germany. Watters was originally declared to hove committed suicide. Army authorities reopened the case a
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    Lock icon 'TEA PARTIES' WERE NOT IN TRADITION
    128 1 'TEA PARTIES' WERE NOT IN TRADITION fAI AY AN Communists had rsed the old British cusoi holding tea parties to U't causes which were ap- plausible and praisev >rthy but were m reality subve. Singapore Government therefore banned Com-ist-sponsored tea parties ned to spread Red indoctioii among students, the cretary
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    RUBBER UP
    30 1 March first grade, f.o.b. buy"ixned on the Singapore Rubber Market this morning cents a ib., one and a 1 r cents above yesterday's The tone was steady et.
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    THE HUNGRY JAP
    31 1 An armed Japanese strag'Harded and naked, dart[rom the jungle yesterday. ;itrhed some fried banana from her house then lied into the jungle, a nousewife told police m Guam.
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    Export ban soon
    22 1 Indian government will n °'tiy ban the export of wmkeys which are used mostly Polio research m the state*.
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    Lock icon MALAYAN REDS BID TO WIN CHINESE YOUTH
    212 1 He tells of infiltration m schools THE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, save details m London yesterday of "intensified attempts by the Malayan Communist party to penetrate schools and to use the students for its own ends." He
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    Apathy of citizens disturbs Minister
    86 1 Mr Henry Hopkinson. Minister of State for the Colonies said W the House of Commons yesterday he was disturbed that between 250,000 and 450,000 people m the Federation, qualified to do so, had not registered to vote In the forthcoming elections. But he stated every
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    PUBLIC BACKS MARGARET
    496 1 Wo exile if she marries 9 gIGNS mounted m London yesterday that it Princess Margaret decides to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend, British Air Attache m Belgium, British publicopinion will strongly support her. Any suggestion that she should go abroad into virtual exile like her uncle the
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    Lock icon British girl held in Russia
    81 1 WEST German Social Democratic Party officials said m Bonn yesterday that German prisoners returning from Russia had reported that an English girl. Mary Peters, was being held In a woman's prLson camp at Potma. She was .said to have been .sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
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    Did Townsend see Duke?
    138 1 GROUP Capt. Townsend dropped out of sight for hours m Brussels yes.terday, touching off speculation that he might be arranging a meeting with the the Duke of Edinburgh to discuss his reported romS ance with Princess Mar- garet. Townsend and Prince E Phillip were close friends
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    VARSITY BOSS HOPES FOR US GRANTS
    209 2 He's going on trip soon but not with a beggar 's bowl THE Carnegie Corporation has invited Sir Sydney Came, the vice-chancellor of the University of Malaya, to visit American universities. He will fly to San Francisco on April 5. After his visit to
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    300,000 acres of new rubber since war
    147 2 RUBBER estates m Malaya; had replanted some 300,--000 acres since the war, Mr. Henry Hopkinson, Minister of, State for" the Colonies, said m the House> of Commons yesterday. In a written reply to Mr. Reginald Sorensen. Labour. he said that over 50,000 acres
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    TED HEATH AND HIS BAND IN SINGAPORE
    98 2 TED HEATH, famous English band leader, arrived m Singapore by air from Colombo at 3.30 this morning. He was accompanied by twenty-one members of his band, including a girl vocalist. Mr. Heath who Is passing through on his way to Australia and New
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    Lock icon A drag but worth a look
    254 2 E IT'S a pity that it is not I possible to see After My Fashion" (Statje Club. REME Theatre) without r the first act. E From curtain rise to 2 curtain fall Act 1 is drag. E Don't blame the players E E They
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    Lock icon Woman of 69, 'wed9 50 years, wins breach of promise case
    312 3 Woman of 69, 'wed 9 50 years, wins breach of promise case i-VF \R-OM> woman A uho sued a 73-year-old man for breach of promise awarded 4,000 (I images with costs m a london court yesterday. The couple went through form of marriage on i hristmas Eve nearly 50 reafl
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    Lock icon British jealousy to blame, he says
    151 3 British jealousy to blame, he says rriu President of the Hong! J Koii" Chinese Manufacturer," Union said yesterday that ignorance and jealousy' had led British businessmen to accuse the colony of export m:; falsely-labelled goods to Biitain. C L Hu said the union was "considering sending an exhibition of Hong
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    SHOW DELAYED
    27 3 A special performance of the Japane.se atom-bombing film 'Children of Hiroshima" for British Members of Parliament at the House of Commons was postponed last night-
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    Lock icon He wants Africans, Asians as peers
    193 3 VISCOUNT Samuel. a T Liberal Party leader, suggested yesterday that the Queen bestow seats m the House of Lords on distinguished Asians and Africans of the Commonwealth. Opening a debate on reform of Parliament's upper house, Viscount Samuel visibly .shook blue blooded peer.s by
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    Lock icon MURDER SCHOOL BOSS JAILED
    97 3 IM!E headmaster of what Mice called School for Murder and two of his proteges were m New York yesterday sent to prison for lons terms Rhiello Caccio. 31, a Brooklyn butcher and one of his •tua'Tits. Willard Hyder, 21, *Jte sentenced to 20 years to We
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    HOUSEWIVES ARE WINNING BATTLE FOR CHEAPER TEA
    177 3 HOUSEWIVES ARE WINNING BATTLE FOR CHEAPER TEA BRITAIN'S leading grocers admit that housewives are winning their battle to cut tea prices. They say that the housewives' refusal to buy high priced tea had forced decreases of seven to eight per cent throughout the country. But they warn that prices are
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    War at sea-by remote control
    121 3 War at sea -by remote control rpOMORROWS warships will JL be handied by remote control from rooms completely sealed off against atomic radiation and gas, a member of the Marine Engineers' institute said m London last night. Mr. R. H. Paddon-Row said radioactive full-out and lethal gases made it necessary
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    Lock icon SIAM PUTS SILVER THREADS IN NEW CURRENCY NOTES
    77 3 THE Siamese Finance Ministry has issued new one-baht currency notes with imbedded silver threads, and many people are paying more than the face value of 15 Malayan cents to get them. A Ministry spokesman denied a rumour that the threads were actually
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    Lock icon FORMER US ENVOY, 78 SUED FOR DIVORCE
    153 3 FORMER US ENVOY, 78 SUED FOR DIVORCE r|iHE Evening Star said fMI terdaf that Mn. Joseph Davies. wife oj the former U. S Ambassador to Russia has filed a .suit for divorce and that a final decree If expected next Wednesday Mrs. Davis, 67. ll the former Marjorie PoM who
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      132 3 IBiSCUJtS at their best /^^^W For nearly a hundred years, people m Britain have 1 regarded Romary's biscuits Britain's l>"» lh« fine jf 4kVILV-'^' flavour >t these biscuits is much too good to Xg| endanger SJE^JT 'x* 111- So all care is taken to make sure that Romary's *Jf jgfcy
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      Opinion No room at the poll
      293 4 Opinion No room at the poll WHEN it was pointed out to the Returning Officer, Mr. A. A. Williams, that there might not be enough polling places in the elections to the Sin- i gapore Legislative As- i sembly on April 2, he replied that he would be surprised if
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    THE NEW GERMAN
    958 4  -  CROSBY S. NOYES T^ T INI by TH E Western allies might do well to remove the blinders, brace themselves for a shock, and take a careful new look at Germany, 1955. The experience isn't soothing. On the other hand, it seems likely that the future of
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    52 4 picture. Smiling: their satisfaction that agreement has hern reached are the British Foreign Secretary. Mr. \nthony Eden, and the Federal German Chancellor. Dr. Konrad Adenauer, shaking hands at the end of the nine-nation conference m London last October. Watching them are Canada's Mr. L. Pearson (left) and Italy's Professor Martino
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      97 4 AVAIL YOURSELF of 20 yean of experience m estate development by CREDIT FONCIER MEYER CHAMBERS 3rd FLOOR, (Raffles Place) BINJAI PARK A HIGH CLASS RESIDENTIAL ESTATE AT 6J M.S. DUNL'ARN ROAD MANY LOTS IN THIS PARKLIKE ESTATE ARE IN ELEVATED SITUATION WATER ELECTRICITY ARE LAID ON AREAS: 11,000 to 30,000
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    City's 'most spacious' police court is most crowded
    447 5 AND IT MAY GET WORSE THE City Police courtroom is the most spacious m Singapore, but on Fridays and Saturdays, it is so packed with people appearing on minor charges brought by the City Council that there is not a square foot
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    Lock icon MR. MacD. LOOKS AT THE STRAYS
    33 5 picture. MR. MacDONALD sloops to take a close l«ok at some of the strays kept at th<- Singapore Canine Welfare Association's home m Thomson Road. Free Press
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    DEMOCRATS WANT 'LION' PARADE ON ELECTIONS
    109 5 i TAIN Democratic Party 'candidates have suggested parade of a lion float ugh the city and rural s to publicise the Singapore Legislative Assembly -ctions on April 2. They are convinced the parade would be a big boost for the party whose symbol is
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    Troops from Fiji praise Malayans
    140 5 IJ IA N soldiers returning T home from Malaya after ag the bandits spoke very v of the Malr.yan way oi and the people's hospitality, d Mr. Shankar Pratap, a Fiji Indian business man Ived m Singapore reMr, Pratap visited the BriMilitary Hospital yesterday aw
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    CANINE WELFARE ASSN. OPENS A NEW HOME
    180 5 THE Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. praised the work of the Singapore Canine Welfare Association when he opened the home tor stray dogs at the 5., 1 mile, Thomson Road. H" said the association had given contentment to dumb strays and also to
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    B.M.H. PATIENTS MAY HEAR BIG GAMES
    115 5 B.M.H. PATIENTS MAY HEAR BIG GAMES KFCORDED football commentaries and other im*nt events m Britain may soon be re-broadcast to patiin the British Military pital m Singapore. 'Some time this week, the Iti&h Red Cross and Singapore Tor h will carry out an cperiment to decide whether itart the scheme.
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    Public lecture
    34 5 Mr Qeorge Thomson, Public Relations Officer Singapore, will five a publir lecture on "What I think Of the individual and society" fct the British Council Hall, Stamford Road at C?iO p.m. tomorrow.
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    SHIP FOR BREAKER'S YARD
    63 5 THE 42-year-old Sarawak 1 Steamship vessel Angby, which has plied between Singapore and Sarawak port* for 30 years, has been sold and is to be broken up. The 78G-ton Angby damaged m a .storm m the Rejang River last December Her buyer.s are the Chiap Hua
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    New clubhouse
    27 5 Thp Singapore Civil Dofnioe Association will mark the opening of the new civil Defence clubhouse ;it Koi.xm Ayor Lane writh a dance on Saturday night
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      264 6 i fV^ 'L, J aaJ Til |m m I i [tj all 1 'I mT i j mJ m A MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris /i PONT KMOW "i SUPPOSE I V YOU '"BUT ONLY IP YOU cl
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      625 6 YOUR I LUCKY STAR E K OKN tt.das, \ision, If—^fa MJ originality and tl.« aWMtj to express youiMlf mi n v," c written as well as the spoken word are talenti w\mu > ou should learn to develop if j ou are to reach the success whuh is indicated by
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      U.K. closing prices
      217 7 LONDON. Mar. Previous Today Bl r.r.FR No. 1 RSS cif. European 24". buyers 25. b IMr U Mar.li 25', sellers 25\ sellt-r pi KBER No. 1 RSS ci.f. European 24 buyers 25 ibu norti April 25 sellers seller II BBER No. 1 RSS Spot 25' i buyers
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      26 7 NEW YORK. Mar. f». Previous Today 3« Industrials 409.13 404.90 It.iilroads 149.47 48.27 Domestic Bonds 100 09 100.0. U Stocks Composite Affrage 153.19
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      121 7 OI'KA Philippines cJJ. UK/North Kuropean delivered weight per long ton March April (i)i'R\ Philippines f.o.b. Manila delivered weight, per long ton OI'KA Straits c.i.f. UK/North I inopean delivered weight per long ton March April April May I 04 OKI T OIL Straits. cii. I uropean Continental
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      New York prices
      104 7 NEW YORK. Mar. I Previous Today li\ Straits spot and nearby 90.87 nom. 91.50 nom. TIN futures, March 90.00 bid 90 00 traded 91.00 asked April 89.75 bid 89.75 bid 90.00 asked 90.75 asked May 89.60 bid 89.50 bid 90 00 asked 90.00 asked TONE: Quiet. SALES:
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      U.S. PEPPER
      47 7 S M.ilnbar was quoted at 43 to cento per pound. Awaiting re1. i^e 43. Afloats 42 i. March 42. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per Ib. April 42. May 41 'j. Sarawak spot 42Vfc to 43 and Lampong Spot 43 cents sellers ex dock.
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    Children's day
    22 7 The Singapore Chinese Schools Federation will hold a mammoth rally of primary students on March 31 to commemorate Children's Day
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    BURMA TURNS TO SOCIAL DEFENCE
    190 7 COCIAL defence is a new feature of the expanding welfare programme of Burma, says 0 Ba Saw. Minister for Social Welfare now m Singapore to study the Colony's social services, methods and facilities. He said his Government's social defence policy WW essential, not only to.prevent
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    Big send-off for Malayans
    244 7 rpWENTY Singapore and E X Federation students E who have completed their 5 academic training m Mel- bourne were given a rousE ing farewell party at the E Melbourne International E Club recently. r.iiiiiimiiiiiimimmimiiimiiiimiimi Two of them arc seen above eating their favourite Malayan curry. The
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    6 ASSISTANT FILM DIRECTORS SAY THEY'RE UNDERPAID
    182 7 6 ASSISTANT FILM DIRECTORS SAY THEY'RE UNDERPAID SIX assistant directors of a Singapore film studio at Jalan Ampas say they are not getting adequate oav They told a local Malay weekly, Utusan Zaman they had written to their company, Malay Film Productions, three months ago but have not had a
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    NAILS ON NEXT DOOR LAWN COST HIM $1,325
    254 8 No more may the m break his neighbours Windows, throw nails ana barbed wire on, the drive to puncture his neighbours tyrei or scatter them on the lawn 'to chew up blfl nelgn.:V moi If h<" dvc*. a Judge warned him be
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    999 wires burn as women call
    49 8 Flames burnt through the telephone wires just as two trapped women were dialling 999 for help m their blazing flat at Beauchamp i lace, K< nsington. A passer-by saw 1 lames and gave the alarm. Two women were treated at hospital for shock.
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    GENTLEMAN JACK
    114 8 YOICKS. Tally Ho! It's Gentleman Jack himself. He's a pug m the pink, is heavyweight boxer Jack Gardner, who farms at East Langton, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. But just let him climb m the saddle, follow the call of hunting horn and he'll be poorer by £5,000. That's
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    SHE HEARS FROM RUSSIA AFTER 15 YEARS
    326 8 MRS. NORA MURRAY, Bri- tain's iirst Soviet war bride, has had a letter from her mother m Russia. Said 33-year-old Mr.s. Murray "It is like a voice from the dead. I am overwhelmed by this wonderful thing." At their last meeting, 15; yean
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    PUB OWNER TOLD CUSTOMERS THEY WEREN'T WANTED
    324 8 THE White Hart was a quiet country pub until ho; estates went up nearby. Then it was quiet no more. Licensee F:. Bates resented that He also resented the extra customers. So he Told them to go elsewhere because he did not wish
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    An old lady saves to pay back
    178 8 II7HEX Laralne Ivory, aged f» eight, pot a 10s. note from her uncle she was very, very sad. It came m a letter to her home m Norwood-gardens. Southwell. Notts, tucked inside a Christmas card from her uncle Philip, who lives at Neath.
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    'Shep' has gone: His co-pilot was death
    158 8 'Shep has gone: His co-pilot was death pAPTAIN RONALD SHEPHERD, first man to pilot the L Bedstead -Britain's vertical take-oil aircraft has d He knew be was dying. He knew it when he made historic flight last August at the age oi 58. Captain Shepherd— "Shep" to his friends— hart
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    RAF officer took job as pianist
    220 8 PILOT OFFICER GLYNDWR JONES. 27. was fond of music. He had graduated a^ a Bachelor of Music. Recently he was di.smi.ssed the Service, and one of the allegations proved against him at a court-martial was that he played the piano m a working men's
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    CRASH... SHATTER... CRASH
    88 8 CRASH SHATTER CRASH ALL this happened after a car driven by an African collided with one driven by a European m Johannesburg. The European was angry: the African hit him and ran; tram-driver, blocked by one of the cars, chased the African, threw a bitf spanner— and shattered the windscreen
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    The barred nurses get a welcome
    260 9 The barred nurses get a welcome TLCOME is waiting for six coloured nurses from Barbados who have been „d by 100 men and; n nurses from taking 'at a Swansea hospital. ,t three welcomes. They :,mEF centre of the 1 Welsh National School of i;MINGHAM. where 100 coloured nurses are
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    Lock icon FLAGS OUT FOR THESE LYONS
    26 9 picture. Cassington Village turns out m strength to give a good smd-oIT to the Americans they had grown to love.- Popper
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    THE ONLY WAY
    40 9 Aiiinie operators of 10 nations, meeting m Brussels, were told by a representative of Sabena. the Belgian line: "Fixed-wing planes are obsolete on short hauls. Lines which ignore the helicopter will rind themselves pushed out of business."
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    Dies at shoot
    40 9 Billy Powell. a sailor on leave, joined a fox shooting expedition near Rhayader, Radnorshire. A fox raced down a bank- Three shots were fired. Billy, 30, was wounded m the right shoulder. He died before reaching hospital.
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    This village WEEPS goodbye to 'Yanks'
    366 9 This village WEEPS goodbye to 'Yanks' BIG SEND-OFF FOR GOOD WILL' AMERICANS THE entire population of an English village turned out Deneain Sfby Sr with his wife, Kitty, and the Beven year-dd twins ryrella and Some villagers were m tears. Said one: "Jack is just wonderful. Why. he's the «"t
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    PILOT FACES DEATH TO FIND OUT WHY FRIEND DIED
    152 9 PILOT FACES DEATH TO FIND OUT WHY FRIEND DIED I|UGHT Ueit, John de 1 Milt Severne risked death m his It \.F. Venom twin-boom lighter to find out how Mi best Iriend cl ■«<]. His friends plane was burned out. destroying vital evidence of why it crashed. So Flight Lieut.
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    Village wins the battle of Longa
    43 9 Villagers €i Stow Longa, Huntingdonshire, have won their light against a county council proposal to .simplify the name of their village to "Stow They minted 0u t that England has five "Stows' but only one Stow Longa.
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    FASTER and SAFER
    527 10  - FASTER and SAFER Jennifer Jones A ten-year road plan, American style. The aim-more speed at less danger per mile. The sum involved-astronomical. by PRESIDENT Eisenhower has just put before Congress a gigantic tenyear road scheme designed to solve his country's traffic problems for the next 20-30 years. The cost 0
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    62 10 Probably because it bursts on a drab world like a shaft of sunlight. Britain's Charles Creed jives the name "Sun Valley" to this ultra-smart top coat m yellow wool, with the unique buttonback hem to show the black taffeta lining. The coat can be unbottoned to be worn as an
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    New market for U.K. cars
    301 10  -  HARRY C. DRAKE by IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1 which I am seeing at first hand with a party of thirty British motoring journalists who are touring the African continent, it is clear that there is a big future for British skill and enterprise There is
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    Betty's 'double' almost had her husband fooled
    889 11 SHE HAS DYED HER HAIR TO LOOK DIFFERENT t OOK ALIKES never k made anything resembling a dent m the Hollywood acting market, but it would appear today that the pattern is changing. Some 20 years back if an actress bore a resemblance
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    'Cheesecake' gets a girl nowhere
    188 11 'Cheesecake' gets a girl nowhere MVRILYN WATSON has been a mess of misses accent on the moss, she declares Bh< been "Miss Alhambra." Los Angeles County." runner-up for "Miss Amerl"Mlss Palm Springs." 41ss Pasadena" and "Miss r< It -flora. which la a sort ol contraction cooked up by the telegraph
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    81 11 picture. Today British televiewers will see Peter Ustinov's play A moment of truth." m which Ustinov himself plays the j part of an aged marshal, and the role of his daughter is portrayed by lovely Prague- born actress Jeanette Sterke. Although the play's back- E ground is an unnamed coun-
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    Show talk
    148 11  -  Michael Ruddy RUMOUR only -Doris Day ana her husband, Marty Ifelcher, may maka film oi The Weeping Prince which Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leifxh did on the stage. Dorll hopes to be m London within a month. I MET bouncy Betty Kutton shopping m Beverly Hill*. I'm getting
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    Bogey joins Hollywood's millionaires
    201 11 Bogey joins Hollywood's millionaires WITH the recent sale of his independent movie company, Santana Productions, to Columbia Studios for more than three million dollars, Humphrey Bogart joined the Millionaires Club ot Hollywood. ih plte the fabu! v ftlarl* him stari gi t. of earn v yu like tii( re are
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    139 12 THESE four models were among the hats shown by members of the Millinery Distributors' Association m their 1955 Spring collection m London. The display was m the nature of a Press preview The hats, left to right, are: "Coal Black .hammy" a mob-cap m black and white shepherds' plaid trimmed
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    She didn't want to be associated with her best-seller!
    357 12 ANNE EDWARDS and DRUSILLA BEYFUS meet the girl who says- THE girl from Ohio had one good idea— to write about her gay life on a shoestring with her sister Eileen m the New York of the thirties. "My Sister Eileen"
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      101 12 t£SBH *m la m. v -"^&fc t t^m scarcely wait t<) grow up and JOHN PHILIP /l face the world for themselves. GREGORY II Such 6On6deilo6 spirit air the of Pennng time came for weaning ami" the %f IX. t grat««ful satisfaction of their parents can easily be understood. \4
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      272 12 CLtJI ACROSS: 6. Shields partly cut (11). 1. Some burn it a different wav 7. Factory machinery luiked with for musical instruments (11)." a civet cat for a Royal line 8. Not dog nsh but water dogs (11). lie. ertheless (8). 11. Not a baptismal name (b). 9. Wh.it a
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    123 13 pictures). (Top): Messages marked on the roofs ask for the 1? people marooned by floods m these buildings at Narrowmine, New South Wales. Australia. About 30.000 square miles m the ntral and western areas of the state were recently under rater m the worst floods there for years. Nine people
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    They plot the death of Big Game under the sea
    332 13  - They plot the death of Big Game under the sea JOHN KING OVER A Ml(; OF BEER A I THE IM X— A FLEET will be hunting sharks off Brighton, off Worthing, and otner crowded Sussex beaches m Britain this Summer. Yes sharks. The ugly scavengers of the world's warm
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    Bridge Hand
    377 13 NorU-South vulnerable South dealer (Look at only the NorthSouth cards) |00d an your guesses? answer doesn't depend on 1 ou arc the seventh son r 'th son so much as whe- are alert to every clue ble to you m the bidding m& .und the fall of the
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    Lock icon SATURDAY'S U.K. SOCCER FIXTURES
    318 14 SATURDAY'S U.K. SOCCER FIXTURES rrnz following are U.K, football fixtures for Saturday: F. A UP sIXTII R(HM) Uurniiighuni Manchester C. Hu.ldrrsli.ld v Newcastle I. NolU C. v York Sund<*rluiid v Wolves I \(.l ISII II \(il E DIV. <>NI Arsenal v Aston Villa Burnely v Sheffield W. .ntlitT v <
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    60 14 pit- lure. Pte I). Jarvis (white rest) of 6th Battalian Royal Army Ordnance Corps misses with a right aimed at Pte J. lnsell's (4th R.A.O.C) stomach during the British Army's 1 •).>:> InterI'nit Team Boxing Championship. Jarvis won this bout M points, but 4th Bn beat fit li Bn for
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    42 14 picture. This picture of the International Football Congress in Vienna shows Henry Delaunay (France), minister Dr. Drimmel (Austria). Ebbe Schwartz (Denmark) president of the congress Gustav Sebes (Hungary) and George Graham (Scotland) at the opening session of the Congress Popper
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    SWINGING IT THE OLD WAY
    628 14  -  HENRY LONGHURST By AFTER 50 years of trial and error m the United States, 70 m England and a coujjle of hundred m Scotland, certain basic aspects of the golf swing seem to have been settled upon as unanimously desirable. All agree to keep their
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    68 14 THE Nurenborg Football Club of Germany will play a series of games m the United States m May against American all star teams and an English team. Sunderland. the German- American Football League has announced. The Nurenberg tram la replating the Kaiserlautern ream of Germany.
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    Y.M.C.A. CRICKET XI v. BORNEO CO.
    65 14 The following V.M.C.A. cricketers are selected to play against Borneo Company on V M C.A. Ground. Balest Road on Saturday .it 2.15 p.ni R. Lyne (Ctpt), L B. Surraf ta (V.*Capt>. C. F: -rnando J. Raioo Teo Woon Teck, OBU Sharma Rajendra K. Mithai,
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    Singapore leads the world in boxing tax
    398 14 Singapore leads the world in boxing tax By A Special Correspondent UIIILE the standard of professional boxing m sit pore is low compared to other countries a 1 the Colony can claim to score a knockout i., respect :-ENTERTAINME\T TAX. KnO€koUt m °n e Nowhere m the world is it
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    94 14 r FHE Miami Beach Boxing Commission has ordered Kid Gavilan. former welterweight champion, and his trainer, Mundito Medina to appear before it tomorrow and threaten to suspend Gavilan if he does not show up. Chairman Flamen Adae ?aid the Commission wants the two men to
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    133 14 BERG MANN IS FAVOURITE yiENNESE born Richard roann, now a naturalise! lishman, is favourite to *l" English open table-tennis cUtf**" ship, which starts at Wembley March 29th. While there is no *£g*f£ the Far East, the Continent United States have strong ent^n who figure among theeiph- players for the men's
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    278 15  -  ARGOS THE LAST WORD— by Hongkong Bank 3; Telephone Board 0. PHANGE the name and change the luck they were saying yesterday at Jalan Besar Stadium when Hit' Hankers upset last season's triple champions. But there was more than luck to this triumph. Singapore
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    ALL THE RESULTS
    102 15 ALL yesterday Singapore Business House* F.A. League results H. K. Bank 3 T. Boarn F. 8c Neave 4 C Bank Shell 5 M.P.H. M. Bank 4 S. Darby S T. C. 2 P. Bukom 0 DIVISION TWO X P M 08. Motors S.C.S. 6 Stanva* 0 Ford
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    FAVOURITE WINS HURDLE STAKES
    109 15 SOLEIL, favourite at ;j to 2. won a thrilling race the two-mile Champion "JJdte Challenge Cup at Chel"nha m yesterday. Hidden by Freddie Winter. u<ur Bolei] beat the Irish challenger Stroller second favourite at 7 to 2. by a head with 50 to 1 outsider Cruachan
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    PRESSURE ON PEREZ
    319 15 Dai Dower and Yoshio Shirai both waiting DOXING promoter Jack Solomons said yesterday he hopes to match Dai Dower, 21 -year-old European and British flyweight champion, against world champion Pascual Perez of Argentina, m an open-air title bout at Cardiff this summer. Solomons plans to put the
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    HE'LL TIME OLYMPICS
    68 15 MR. Barry Wicking, assistant sales manager of a well-known brand of watches arrived m Singapore yesterday on his way to Berne. He will study the latest timing devices, m preparation for the 1956 Olympic Clames m Melbourne. Mr. Wicking, who flew m from Sydney said his firm
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    Sankey will captain Fed.
    83 15 THE first event <•• Ix organised m aid of Ihe Malayan JJwkef Federation Olympic Fund will be Sunday*! farewell match of the r;iki.sl}il) XI v!io !ii«-«-i tIM MH.F. Piesideuls XI ;it Malaya Command Stadium, Kuala Lumpur. Philip Bankey will skipper the Piesidenf 's XI which is:
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    163 15 MAY 10 bM been set as the <la»< on winch Rocky Ifareiano, the Ameriran world heavyweight boxing champion, will defend his title against Don Cockell Britain In San Francisco, promoter Mr. James Murray said, yesterday When the contract for the fight was signed last month it
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    440 15 Mont Tremblant withdraws from National WEIGHTS OUT TX)RTY TWO final acceptors a for the Grand National, the world's toughest steeplechase, io be run at Aintree, Liverpool, on March 26. were published yesterday m London. All the leading fancies have accepted The only surprise withdrawal Is MLs s Dorothy Paget's Mont
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    TURPIN v. BUXTON
    53 15 H iP.dolph Turpin, v. ho holds the British Empire lu-ht -he.ivyvkfiuht kx>xing champiocship. and Alrx Buxltri Hie British rhampion are U> M^ht for fcrfh titlfK at HarrinfHV ANM UAdfltt. oti April M On the same programme .Joe Lucy will defend his British liKhtweight title it'.un t Pl«nk
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    Lock icon HEARS OUT OF THE CUP
    103 16 HEARS OUT OF THE CUP S( OTIIsII (IP, SF.VK.NTII ROUND REPLAY: Viriliri'ii I II far U. Aberdorn n<»u m«*t < lydr m semifinal at t.ustrr Road. Kdinburgh on March Hi. ITtOliW II UM I div. I. Hollun Preston 1 Wesl Brom. 1 < hrlsca 4 DIVISION 11. Ipswich I Notts
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    CHAMROEN WEIGHS-IN
    71 16 CHAMROEN WEIGHS-IN RATAN MACIAS < Mexico' end Chamroen Songkitrat (Siami both scaled 8 stone 54 U>. at the weigh-in for their 12 round San Francisco bout. The bout wil] start at 7 p.m. f Singapore time 1030 am today*. The fighters were unable to exchange thp customary words over tin
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      BIRTHS
      64 16 20 Words $ti minimum KERR: To Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kerr. on B'h March, at Kuala Lumpur, a son. HILLS: To Dorothy, wife of S. F. Hills on March 7th, at B.itu Gajah, a daughter. (Susan Prances*, both well. PALMER: On March 9th. at Kuala Lumpur. to Jean
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      53 16 20 Words $h (minimum) MCNAB: Francis A. R. Brother of Mrs. Rex Duncan, Kual.i Lumpur, suddenly at Penang on Bth Much. THEN: Then Matthew, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Then Choon Seng, died peace! ully today at T.T.S.H. Cortege leaving T.T.S.H for Sacred Heart Church 5 p.m. and
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    Misty Jadi gallops like a winner
    845 16 CYNOSURE THE FASTEST OUT Free Press Course Correspondent MISTY JADI, Bracelet Boy, Ever Glory and Park ll— all bright prospects for the Spring Meeting at Bukit Timah wound up their preparation m fine style on the training track this morning. Misty Jadi with Mawi
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    49 16 picture. A mighty leap by Yang Huat of Singapore Telephone BoirH proves fruitless, as Hongkong Bank fullback Johan deft) blocks his shot. On the right is Van Huizen of Hongkong Bink who won this Business Houses Div^ 1 league tie 3-0 yesteria? See page 15. Free Press
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    OXFORD ROW FULL COURSE
    96 16 /\XFORD University's boat crew y rowed a trial over the lull Boat Rare course of four mikfl 374 yards from Putney to Mortlake m 19 minutes 26 seconds yesterday. In unfavourable conditions they handled the craft well m rough water and their time was good enough
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    DROBNY IN S-FINALS
    36 16 Wimbledon champion Jarsolav Drobny of Egypt yesterday defeated America's Sid Schwarts m three straight seta and qualified for the semi finals of Egypt's international tennis championships. The score were 10-8. 6-1, 6-1 6-4.
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    RUGBY CUP DRAWN
    25 16 Hospitals Cup Semi-Final:- Guys Hospital 3, St. Mary* Hospital 3. Replay provisionally fixed for March 12. Other match: Exeter 6. Bath 0.
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    Scots XV is same v. England
    192 16 Scots XV is same v. England OCOTLAND have made no change* from the team which beat Ireland and will field the same XV against Enul.uid m the Calcutta Cup match at Twickenham on Saturday. March 19. The side h: R. W. Chlshobn (Melrose); A. r. Smith (Cambridge University) M. K.Elgie
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    New Orient champ after world title
    209 16 LIITOSHI MISAKO, a fast puncher, aims to campaign 11 for the world crown now that he has the Orient flyweight title Shortly after winning a tough 12-round decision over Tanny Campo of the Philippines, the Jap told reporters: "I would like to work my
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    NEGRI TEAM v. PAKISTAN
    43 16 Negri Sembilan hockey selectors have named the folio i play Pakistan at Seremban today: Pe*er Van Huizen: Alan Koelmoyer. M. Lewis; Qovindanjoo, Cboni Kok Henu: (Capt.), Joginder Sii Ahmad Haroun. S. Devindr.in. Noordin Chenor, M. T. Remain Sheik Ali.
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